The Storm

May 26, 2026

  1. Radioactive (versions)

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    Radioactive (versions)

    Fourth entry in the music-that-helps series — Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive" (2012, *Night Visions*). The register this series didn't yet have: not anti-escalation, not protest, not the demand to be left alone — *acceptance*. The song for mornings when the question is no longer whether-this-is-happening but what-happens-next. Covers transpose the same emergence-narrative into other textures.

  2. Neocity

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    Neocity

    A pixel-art piece made for my new Neocities personal page — a fresh instance of an old reliable. Art therapy was a delightful discovery some time back and has been quietly load-bearing through this campaign for a while; this entry just adds another moment of it doing its work.

  3. Leave Me Alone (versions)

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    Leave Me Alone (versions)

    Third entry in the music-that-helps series — Michael Jackson's "Leave Me Alone" in different registers. The 1989 original is the most directly targeted-person-coded song in the catalog, with the Jim Blashfield music video that took the tabloid stories ruining his life and made them the literal raw material of the video. Covers gathered alongside it transpose the same demand into other musical lineages — starting with a reggae version, which lands the song in a tradition that has been carrying "leave me alone, I am trying to live my life" music for half a century.

  4. Bluetooth Insider

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    Bluetooth Insider

    Bluetooth I had explicitly disabled is back on against my will, this time on a Mac Studio that's a fresh OS install I've barely used. The pattern itself has been recurring for over a year — these entries are the slice of it on the record because this site exists now to hold the record. The fresh-install detail is what's narrowing: whoever has access is operating below any persistent malware I could have inherited, which limits the plausible mechanisms to a smaller set. Two short videos recorded back-to-back at 1:10 AM, plus the HPD incident card from the harassment report I filed in person in April — never returned a call.