Humanity is a failed alien terraforming op: Usually newly uplifted civilizations, with very little intervention after the initial seeding, reliably consume all the surface fuel and turn the place into a nice cool desert, and what’s left can be psionically reprogrammed

alien thoughts encoded in the growth of ice crystals, every evening a brief instant of awareness, every morning oblivion

and human and alien alike, photography’s stolen souls are bound up in servers and wires around the world, keeping a titanic containment grid humming around The Deterrent

airships in alien skies collecting moisture directly from the clouds, skyspiders at the heart of vast condenser nets

the shambling revenant of old money / the monstrous chimera of new money / the eldrich and ungraspable nature of financialized money, an alien invader from outside, whose gifts become leaves in the sunlight. Do not eat in their house.

“SPEAK LOUDER” Asked the Aliens from Planet UMMO | Mysterious Universe https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/02/speak-louder-asked-the-aliens-from-planet-ummo/

Band name of the day: a politics for alienation

Band name of the day: alien fire (from the mercy seat)

Alien Aesthetics | Bruce Sterling | TEDxDeakinUniversity - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkHtSBzYGWQ

Alien Capital – Vast Abrupt https://vastabrupt.com/2018/07/11/alien-capital/

Occasionally the simulators get wistful about when they still did client work because when those wanted last-minute-changes, at least their motives weren’t completely alien

when the aliens are lonely, that’s a thirst contact

unicode 2040 features (3):↵- MIDI ligatures that play notes as you read them↵- unicode block characters (shy, aggressive, deceitful, …)↵- unicode block [alien script reconstructed from fossil graffiti]

Provided one can catch up, generation ships are an anthropologist’s treasure trove: Some are past societies preserved in amber, others are, for lack of a better word, highly fermented, have been invaded by aliens or entered some weird new symbiosis with stowaway mushrooms

Band name of the day: the alien world of objects

The secret history of Marxist alien hunters | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5384/the-secret-history-of-marxist-alien-hunters

At the planet’s core sleeps an alien exploration vessel, stranded in this orbit billions of years ago when there was only a dust disk around a star that had just ignited

William Gibson’s Alien 3 Is Becoming a Comic Book https://io9.gizmodo.com/dark-horse-is-turning-william-gibsons-alien-3-script-in-1827548457

A gentle kind of first contact: The aliens arrive in orbit, pledge to answer one question per year and not more. Grand and important committees form to choose the best questions, still sometimes the answers are useless, yet other times they decide wars before they’re fought

countercomplex: Counteracting alienation with technological arts and crafts http://viznut.fi/texts-en/counteracting_tech_alienation.html

If You’ve Met Aliens While on DMT, These Scientists Would Like to Hear From You - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjpjxm/dmt-aliens-study-johns-hopkins

Why We Believe in Aliens - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcGaolLxhpQ

13 Reasons to Believe Aliens Are Real http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/13-reasons-to-believe-aliens-are-real.html

In the 1950s everybody cool was a little alienated. What changed? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/in-the-1950s-everybody-cool-was-a-little-alienated-what-changed

Bad idea of the day: An RPG whose stats are traits like alienation, shadow integration, neurosis

Lurking in an orbit hidden between our satellites, the alien quietly watches, extremely interested yet content to never exchange a word with us

Vrillon: the alien voice hoax that became a legend | The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/vrillon-hacking-alien-voice-seventies-extra-terrestrial-hoax-unexplained-mysteries-a8069926.html

Watch This Doc on Alien Gangsters and the ‘Biggest Story Never Told’ - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43nzng/roger-leir-alien-implant-ufo-abduction

How America’s National Parks Became Hotbeds of Paranormal Activity - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gyjvdx/missing-persons-national-parks-paranormal-bigfoot-aliens

Why UFO Conspiracists Have So Many Opinions About ‘Angel Hair’ - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/alien-impact-or-spiders-taking-over

Alienation Is Killing Americans and Japanese - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus http://nautil.us/blog/-alienation-is-killing-americans-and-japanese

trying to fit in, the alien becomes a cloud, but its churning and occasional rainbow flashes betray it

Few are up to it, those who become good at it are often foundlings who’ve grown up among aliens, or have worn the bodies of both species

@skingrapher@skingrapher.com Cannot predict now

↬~↭: “rocks against your belly, always, new substance coming from above tickling your surface, first alien and cold, soon dissolving in you”

aliens arrive in thumb-sized spaceships and battle it out with the ants while we watch, bemused

A dying neon light flickers in the sky, the air fills with alien scents of decomposing physics, graffiti appears on the insides of eggshells

Real humans died out long ago. We are simulacra inserted by alien exosociologists and then forgotten

A linguist on Arrival’s alien language ⌘ http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/11/22/a_linguist_on_arrival_s_alien_language.html

stranded in your escape capsule, you learn the language of the stars and let alien constellations sing you into sleep

us: “it’s infiltrating us! aaaaAAA”↵alien: “ow these are dimensions of pain I didn’t know existed, how the hell do you cope, aaaAAAA”

setting: the alien is an infectious space fungus that can grow human-shaped fruiting bodies, but we shape it as much as it shapes us

The alien fleet is still parsecs away but their gods have already arrived, ancient sagas rewrite themselves to accommodate new protagonists

: the giddy mix of transgression, relief and alienation/derealization of being someone else

@allgebrah@www.synkretie.net Loved the low-res and alien story!

During contact with the aliens, we find out that their god is real, really did create the universe, and we’re just some sort of byproduct

The aliens called and uh, we used those monoliths wrong, they were meant to have all sorts of arms and not be glowing cargo cult bricks

“These pyramids didn’t build themselves”↵Actually they did, they’re asleep right now, or did you expect the aliens to be carbon based

wakes up from cryosleep what year is it↵”still 2017 but we figured you might want to see the aliens before they depart again”

The psychonauts warned us, but too late. When the aliens did invade, they came from inner space, occupied our brains, burst from our eyes