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🗿 Building The Monolith: Composable Rendering Systems for a 13-Scene WebGL Epic
https://tympanus.net/codrops/2025/11/29/building-the-monolith-composable-rendering-systems-for-a-13-scene-webgl-epic/
🗿 Building The Monolith: Composable Rendering Systems for a 13-Scene WebGL Epic
https://tympanus.net/codrops/2025/11/29/building-the-monolith-composable-rendering-systems-for-a-13-scene-webgl-epic/
Three Scene Heroes
Join Alaisdair, Carlo and Adam to talk movies...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #AusPods
Good Morning at this #silentsunday .
Don't have a lot to say right now. I just fixed some configuration and am now back to my coffee ;)
Enjoy your day friends.
#photography #fog
Monumental 🪦
纪念 🪦
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
VARON: I don't know.
MAJA: Give me one minute and I'll come with you.
[Scene: The Public Records computer. An OPERATOR is listening to some music at his desk, with his feet up.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/265 B7B2
Protests intensified in Minnesota after federal immigration agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse who worked in the Minneapolis Veterans Health Care System, on Saturday.
Democracy Now!'s John Hamilton reports from the scene of Pretti's killing, where protesters clashed with federal agents.
“We’ve seen everything from people that are unconscious, that have fainted, tear-gassed, bruised, bloody noses, can’t breathe,”
said Melissa, a local resident.
#ThursDeath this week is the excellent new LP 'Necrotic Terror' by Chicago's SWINGING MACE (it's just one guy, Brian Higgins, who is also the guitarist for Gored Embrace). It's not on Bandcamp, but it's on YouTube and Qobuz, both links below.
The article below reminds me of a play that I crewed on:
In the play the Earth is taken over by space aliens who eat people. Earth people don't like this. The aliens try to fix things by hiring a PR firm to improve their public image. But the PR firm turns out to be a front for Earth-people resistance. And it went from there.
So here we have a couple of brothers - who have so much hubris that they are effectively space aliens in relation to the rest of us - who do bad things…
Another loft pottery find; the back says 'Hand painted', 'Made in Japan' but nothing else; as far as I can find out there were a bunch of Japanese studios doing imagined desert scenes from 1920-1950s. I can't find an exact match, but there are loads of similar ones depending on the painters mood I guess.
Ohhh, I have seen things, my furry friends, you would not even believe!
Spaceships—yes! Big ones! On fire! Right by the shoulder of Orion, wherever that is.
And shiny beams—glittery, sparkly—twinkling in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate!
Ah, all those beautiful moments… they will go away, *poof!* Like, um, tears in the rain.
It is time… time for Grover to take a little nap now. Goodbye!
Courtesy of @…, this week’s #ThursdayFiveList theme is #RainyDayMusic:
1. Corey Glover, “April Rain”—
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
The Seldom Scene:
🎵 Last of the Steam-Powered Trains
#TheSeldomScene
https://theseldomscene.bandcamp.com/track/last-of-the-steam-powered-trains
https://open.spotify.com/track/0TDJWvYbsz1jaGJswCsq9Z
Partly bright and sunny, but fully cold and with generous amounts of wind. “Brisk” doesn’t even begin to do it justice. Still, I am a freak and love this weather. It felt good to be out moving. #TeamShorts of course.
Walked briefly twice to bring my HR down a bit and then stopped to mug at this beautiful Great Blue Heron looking for their lunch. 🐟
Moody Urbanity - Literally 📄
情绪化城市 - 字面上 📄
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400,expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
According to Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison:
ICE is blocking MN investigators from the crime scene. The MN National Guard is on the way to force ICE to let investigators in.
(NB: Still trying to find a confirmed source for this; I have no further info yet)
UPDATE: Source for this is somebody at the scene who heard Ellison say it in conversation. Source is likely reliable person, but may have incomplete info. This is a big game of telephone right now, so don’t treat this as authoritative in any way.
😵💫🥸 was für ein Film 💀
„Destination Inmer Space“
#schlefaz
For the end of the day, I want to share this photo with you. It's a location that I wanted to visit since ... long -- until I finally went there a couple of times.
The first time, I wasn't able to really see the potantial of the location until I went there again, with more patience. Just walking around, not trying to stress myself, changing lenses a couple of times, ...
Ah well, and of course the conditions were great for such a photo.
RJ sports writer Adam Hill’s 5 favorite stories of 2025 https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/adam-hill/rj-sports-writer-adam-hills-5-favorite-stories-of-2025-3600536/
moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 31 nodes and 98 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
I just can't seem to get this scene out of my head this last few days. No particular reason.
https://youtu.be/f2Lc_1aNdZA?si=8d3ljTJGS9VgQ8xK&t=71
Dutch answer to the removal of the boards at #Margraten US military cemetery, honoring black US soldiers who died while liberating the Netherlands in WWII. This grave injustice went counterproductive for the US government, as shown.
Courtesy to Dutch TV show ‘Even tot hier’ BNNVARA
#willyfjamesjr
Surely ... Surely there is a better way to phrase this?
#CalgaryFlames #EdmontonOilers #Shitpost
Most of you will instantly recognize the 10-second slide whistle loop Steven Stapleton sampled from “The Oimels” for a Nurse With Wound song, but this album isn’t goofy like that. Dark and soulful, it represents a piece of the expanding European free jazz scene in 1970. And it’s in my top 10 albums released by the venerable ECM label. Don’t sleep on this!
Taylor Swift Songs Sung in the Style of The Velvet Underground by Father John Misty | Open Culture https://www.openculture.com/2015/09/taylor-swift-songs-sung-in-the-style-of-the-velvet-underground-by-father-jo…
Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
AVON: So. Those little monsters give us a breather.
TARRANT: Not that it'll do us much good without bracelets to get us up to the Liberator.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/535 B7B4
the next croony fellow on the way to the crime scene #Minneapolis . The citizens of the #usa deserve and should request judges and attorneys, not #special-envoys from the
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Christoph Willibald Gluck, The Mozartists, Ann Hallenberg & Ian Page:
🎵 Paride ed Elena, Wq. 39, Act I Scene 2: O del mio dolce ardor (Paride)
#ChristophWillibaldGluck
https://open.spotify.com/track/7lk3vNnRvAZgEj65OxTxE9
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
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the scene is now (always was, always will be) tucked into the vibey corner stage at the francis kite club, keeping the far east side bountiful in boho folk-jazz, including my languid fave, "marigold" #nyc
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Broken Social Scene:
🎵 Love and Mathematics
#BrokenSocialScene
https://brokensocialscene.bandcamp.com/track/love-and-mathematics
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Wu1flk1hzp3n4yau4Dq81
On the Side II 🆓
在边缘 II 🆓
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Reconstruction of the cold-blooded execution of Alex Pretti by ICE in Minneapolis:
"..while Mr. Pretti is on his knees and restrained, the agent standing directly above him appears to fire one shot at Mr. Pretti at close range. He immediately fires three additional shots."
https://www.
It's a bit frosty outside!
But we're thinking about a small cycling loop ...
#frost #photography #winter
Minnesota official says DHS 'blocked' state bureau from investigating scene of latest shooting
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5705051-alex-pretti-federal-shooting-investigation/
LoD-Structured 3D Gaussian Splatting for Streaming Video Reconstruction
Xinhui Liu, Can Wang, Lei Liu, Zhenghao Chen, Wei Jiang, Wei Wang, Dong Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18475 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.18475 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.18475
arXiv:2601.18475v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Free-Viewpoint Video (FVV) reconstruction enables photorealistic and interactive 3D scene visualization; however, real-time streaming is often bottlenecked by sparse-view inputs, prohibitive training costs, and bandwidth constraints. While recent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has advanced FVV due to its superior rendering speed, Streaming Free-Viewpoint Video (SFVV) introduces additional demands for rapid optimization, high-fidelity reconstruction under sparse constraints, and minimal storage footprints. To bridge this gap, we propose StreamLoD-GS, an LoD-based Gaussian Splatting framework designed specifically for SFVV. Our approach integrates three core innovations: 1) an Anchor- and Octree-based LoD-structured 3DGS with a hierarchical Gaussian dropout technique to ensure efficient and stable optimization while maintaining high-quality rendering; 2) a GMM-based motion partitioning mechanism that separates dynamic and static content, refining dynamic regions while preserving background stability; and 3) a quantized residual refinement framework that significantly reduces storage requirements without compromising visual fidelity. Extensive experiments demonstrate that StreamLoD-GS achieves competitive or state-of-the-art performance in terms of quality, efficiency, and storage.
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🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Skeleten:
🎵 Deep Scene
#NowPlaying #Skeleten
https://skeleten.bandcamp.com/album/deep-scene-axel-boman-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6TET0I0j6OrNMHWl4PlkDi
Early winter this years #coldswim season. Water at about 4,5°C while the air was about -3°C. Swam for about 4min #Uckermark
Hundreds at scene of ICE shooting chanting name of the victim
Hundreds of protesters have packed the intersection near where the shooting took place and are chanting the name Alex Pretti
https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426
Après Bouddhisme la loi du silence, voici “Ceci n’est pas une religion”, un seul en scène du réel initié par le Live Magazine, Élodie Emery propose un spectacle où le journalisme d’investigation devient matière première, un récit vivant et une expérience partagée.
https://www.wolu…
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
DAYNA: Zen, put up the radiation flare shields.
ZEN: Confirmed. Radiation flare shields in position. Neutron blasters cleared for firing. [Cally appears]
https://blake.torpidity.n…
My contribution to #footpathFriday , just fresh from the press ;-)
I went to the local hill / mountain today to escape the fog / clouds. Well and also to see whether the fog would create some nice mood to capture along the way that I'm walking rather often.
And indeed it was a very pleasant experience to walk into the fog and breaking through it to see some blue sky.
Behind The Scene
Melbourne, Australia. Living within it, breathes a scene that is vibrant, pulsating, and welcoming. Made up of Melbourne's best and loveliest musicians...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/behind-the-scene/…
Series D, Episode 02 - Power
VILA: Well, there's always rodents of one sort or another.
TARRANT: I'm a growing lad, Vila. Rats are not the answer to my diet-
DAYNA: [Makes a gesture to cut them off] Yes, but Orac, can you get a fix on him?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/27<…
My hip pain, what I’m pretty sure was bursitis, disappeared after several days of rest. 🙌 I waited another couple of days and felt pretty good about trying it out.
So, we begin again. Again.
Stopped at the halfway point to take a few pictures and let my HR come down a bit. Felt good early and sluggish late. What I expect, for a while anyway.
#Running
moviegalaxies: Moviegalaxies, movies 410-466 (2018)
Social graphs for over 700 movies from the moviegalaxies.com website. Each node represents a character in a movie and each edge is a same-scene appearance between two characters in that movie. The weight gives the number of same-scene appearances. Networks are extracted from movie scripts automatically.
This network has 27 nodes and 58 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
40 agents present at the scene. Eyewitnesses say 5 shots fired at one observer.
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Dojo Cuts:
🎵 The Scene
#NowPlaying #DojoCuts
https://dojocuts.bandcamp.com/track/the-scene-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/20NBXSsUmxaFJ7hR9fxdXs
Series C, Episode 13 - Terminal
ZEN: Emergence from matter belt in thirty-nine point zero one seconds.
TARRANT: Any damage yet?
ZEN: Hull sensors appear temporarily impaired. All other systems continue on full function.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/313/139 B7B2
'Herbst (Typisch)' #FotoVorschlag ' Autumn (typical)
Well okay, I was struggling to decide between a couple of my #autumn #hiking photos but well, this is and stays my all-time-bes…
…und dabei #schlefaz 🎄
Pepper-Sprayed While Pinned Down: A Searing Scene Provokes Outrage - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/minneapolis-man-pepper-sprayed-pinned-video.html
Representative of the Lambda Theta Phi social fraternity
#photo
Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
AVON: You CANNOT reject a direct command.
BLAKE: Justify that rejection, please.
ZEN: Your command reduces to an order to self-destruct. This runs counter to Prime Directive.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/146 B7B4
Minnesota's brief asserts that federal agents left the scene several hrs after the shooting,
“allowing the perimeter to collapse and potentially spoiling evidence,”
a “sharp departure from normal best practices” that may’ve “directly led to the destruction of evidence.”
https://
Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
JENNA: It could be an injured pilot.
AVON: It could be a trap.
GAN: It's not a very good one, then. We're suspicious of it already.
AVON: The test is not whether you are suspicious but whether you are caught.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/65
Some City Some Nature IV 🏙️
一些城一些自然 IV🏙️
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400 (6x6)
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
VILA: Nervous? I'm not nervous. Just... poised for action, that's all.
AVON: You've got an army of five, Blake. Five and HIM! Do you still think you can take over the ship?
BLAKE: If you do your bit.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/229<…
'Eisige Zeiten' #FotoVorschlag 'icy times'
Oh I have a couple of frosty photos, but this might be one of my best. I spent quite a while there to capture the cold feeling.
Packed in multiple layers, I really spent quite a while around that spot in order to really see the right motives.
It just reminds me that I could post more of my winter photos! :)
…
Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
TARRANT: [O.O.V.] Get it! [Before anyone can do so, an energy blast flares up around the bracelet.]
VILA: Who did that?
DORAN: [Staring at the bracelet] Um....
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/542 B7B5
Oh! Look, we are getting Christmas visitors!
I asked if they aren't a bit late. But the Grey answered that a wizard is never late. He is also not too early. Wizards arrive just in time.
Well, let's see.
#Lego
Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
TARRANT: You're offering to let her go. That's not the same thing.
AVON: What are you talking about?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/510 B7B4
My #silentsunday... Do you know that? You're lazy but you also know that you want some physical activity?
The weather wasn't motivating either. But I finally did one of my standard loops. It was indeed silent as there were almost no people out today.
No more than an occasional "hi". Besides that, no talking, nothing but a fox 🦊 in the distance on a field.
Moody Urbanity - Old & New 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 🔆
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Gift Article:
How the Shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti Unfolded
-- a Video Tmeline
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/24/us/minneapolis-shooting-alex-p…
Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
DAYNA: I didn't know Helots were originally from Earth.
VILA: Everyone came from Earth originally. That's a well-known fact.
SOOLIN: It's a well-known opinion, actually.
TARRANT: Most well known facts are.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/403/96<…
Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
DAYNA: Of course we do.
VILA: Old friend.
VILA: Oh, uh, [Atlan grabs the front of his tunic] way back.
DAYNA: We were students of the doctor once.
ATLAN: Studying what?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/343 B7B5
A federal judge has ordered federal officials to preserve the evidence related to the Saturday shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents.
The judge's order was filed late Saturday after Hennepin County and Minnesota officials filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Minnesota seeking to prevent the destruction of evidence.
The temporary restraining order bars federal agencies from destroying or tampering with any evidence connected to the shooting.
Defendants include …
Moody Urbanity - Past II 📴
情绪化城市 - 过去 II 📴
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Hey friends. Also a photo from my hike last Sunday. I came to this hut and tried a counter light. In summer there are usually quite a few people as you can buy some drinks there.
Now.. I had some time to play around with some perspectives. I just liked the silence in the photo. Especially as all others just quickly passed the spot without a lot of notice.
#photography
Uh #mountainMonday again?! where have the past days gone??
Anyways - this photo is from a quick Hike from early January. There was a bit more snow than right now. and as you can see the weather was grey and not too inviting.
But, the good side of it was that I was almost alone! :-D
When I came back the same route, I saw a chamois crossing from left to right. Unfortunately…
Nice, I wanted to write about that topic. And there.. Someone wrote about it already.
That's the reason why I never recorded myself walnut walking into the scene.
Even though it looks really cool,it really disturbs my hiking experience and totally turns into filming.
https://blog.lauram…
Some City Some Nature III 🏙️
一些城一些自然 III 🏙️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Photos of a
Border Patrol agent
💥squirting pepper spray in the face of a man who was being pinned down by fellow officers
searingly captured why the ongoing immigration operation has been met with furious resistance
on the streets of Minneapolis.
Images of the episode drew millions of views online,
made the front page of The Minnesota Star Tribune and
elicited blistering condemnation from local officials
Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
AVON: The magnetic barrier must have triggered automatically. The freighter was impervious to it, therefore its fuselage must've been demagnetized. Ours hasn't. If it hadn't been for the force wall, we would be a cloud of agitated atoms.
VILA: I wish I was a cloud of agitated atoms!
https://
Some City Some Nature V 🏙️
一些城一些自然 V 🏙️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
DORAN: Hah, hah! [They embrace. Chesil turns and checks out the corridor Tarrant and Vila had come from; Tarrant hurries back to Vila and Doran. The three men confer for a moment.]
DORAN: [To Chesil] Where's the computer room? [Chesil hurries back, and starts off down one arm of the T, beckoning the others to follow. They do so, and she leads them there. The door is closed, and Vila steps forward to see if he can open it. As he does so, Avon'…
Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
TARRANT: Extent of damage, Orac? [pause, no response] Orac?
[Crew room. Tarrant enters and looks at Orac beneath the beam.]
[Shot of Zukan's ship in space, approaching another space ship.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/412/270 B7B4
Moody Urbanity - Old & New II 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 II 🔆
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
A this photo from yesterday's location scouting could fit for #thickTrunkTuesday , right?
It's been quite a time since I went to a new location with the clear intent of location scouting. - It took me a while until I was able to "see" something as I was so much in walking/hiking-mode.
But it was a good experience to do it again.
Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: [To Jenna] Put Zen on constant scan. I want to know immediately if those Federation ships come into this system.
JENNA: Of course. [goes to teleport controls]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/263 B7B3
Photo in the fog that I took last week. I had hoped for more frost but - well. At least there was quite some #fog!
This spot is really interesting. I have there been only a few times now but it looks so very different each time I'm there.
#photography
Some photos from today's hike in the mountains. To escape the fog.
It was very very icy at the bottom. And I was super happy to have my micro spikes.
The way up was pretty calm. Right the #silentsunday I had desired. At the summit there were a bit too many people and I didn't see proper motives. So I just enjoyed the view and the really warm temperature.
On the wa…
Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
TARRANT: I expect so. Just pray that there isn't a backup system. Ladies first.
DAYNA: You're so gallant. [She leads the way into the main laboratory and finds Forbus person in a wheelchair. His head is encased in a wired up frame and he wears a neck brace. He is holding a control switch]
https://
Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
ZEN: Planet visual is now available. [Horizon appears on main screen]
JENNA: Still holding course, Standard by Two.
BLAKE: Freighter's speed?
ZEN: Time Distort Six.
BLAKE: Freighter's planetfall?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/69
Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
TARRANT: If he's still inside the ship then he's probably safe. Oh you're very clever Servalan; why can't you work it out? Sand slides. Sand higher than the windows.
SERVALAN: Are you serious?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/409/245 B7B3
Series C, Episode 13 - Terminal
ZEN: The information you require has been stored via a coded route, and retrieval is not possible without the correct security command sequence.
CALLY: And that sequence is known only to Avon, I imagine.
ZEN: Confirmed.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/313/100
Just a hut under a tree in the mist ...
I saw this when I was walking back from a location scouting. When I was back at the car, I turned around - already ready to drive away when I noticed this gnarly tree in the field.
The fog was just light enough to create an interesting mood I think.
#photography
Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
AVON: As soon as I get this linked into our communications set-up, we should be able to read every message that the Federation puts out.
JENNA: Any sign of the interceptors?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/106/131 B7B4
#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
DAYNA: Do you want us to wait?
TARRANT: No. I'll find you. [exits]
VILA: Don't forget Orac. [Avon exits]
CALLY: No need. I'll operate the teleport.
DAYNA: Aren't you coming with us?
Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
AVON: What makes you think that?
SERVALAN: I was hiding over there. I heard every word.
AVON: I see. Go on. [Hands the glass to Servalan]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/351 B7B6
Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
AVON: Cally. [Grasps her by the arms]
TARRANT: [Enters] Is this the time or the place? That thing has warped your reason, Avon. It's even warped your notorious instinct for looking after number one. We are in danger, can't you understand that?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/3…
Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
JENNA: What do you mean? [pause] Gan?
GAN: I killed a security guard. They said it was murder. But he had a gun. I was unarmed. You see, he killed my woman.
JENNA: That must have been terrible.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/298 B7B5
#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
AVON: Space Commander Travis.
BLAKE: Travis!
JENNA: Do you know him?
BLAKE: I thought he was dead. I was sure I'd killed him.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/106/…