
The book is great! It’s just part of an unfinished series and so I know realistically this is where it ends and it’s sad, so I’ve been putting it off for a year now but I am inching closer to the end!
Hal appreciates the thought. He’s doing great! He’s got two brothers now: Hal & Hamlet (Blino for short) and he’s very protective of them. He’s also running for mayor! Please vote for him in the upcoming election.
Rick: Great on land, fairly fast, kind of heavy–
KV: PUT HIM ON THE PAPER STAR!
Road Trip: STOP DOING THAT
So we’ll see how that all goes yet again in this episode! Will KV finally get Rick to soar to new heights? Or will the consequences of his actions take hold?
Kirby Air Riders ~ Episode #55!
Inspired by this piece by hal (@HAL09999) — shared on X under the title “silicium” and associated with Si-Operator (2023).
The work was one of the key visual prompts behind the boundary-output animations now used on the SUBSTRATE / Process Zine entry page: that sparse white field, particulate bloom, unstable orbital motion, and the sense of a signal trying to cohere without ever fully resolving into an object.
What held me was its ambiguity.
It doesn’t read like illustration so much as instrumentation:
a trace,
a disturbance,
a density event,
something recorded rather than invented.
The accompanying note — “This is an altered recording of a server room” — also felt important. That framing shifts the image away from pure abstraction and toward transformed capture: infrastructure made ghostly, computation rendered as atmosphere, machinery translated into residue.
I’m sharing this here as a source / influence acknowledgment, since it directly helped crystallise the motion language for the entry threshold.
Attribution:
hal / @HAL09999
“silicium”
associated text: Si-Operator (2023)
noted by the artist as “an altered recording of a server room”
Source in its original context: https://x.com/HAL09999/status/2027856701928427539
Today’s government mandated femslash couple of the day is

Hal and Bazeema!
Rick sure is addicted to trying to fly when he’s a ground-based like mammal. We’re still gonna try as much as possible to do these flying challenges because KV is very stubborn. Anyway did you know Wind Waker is this really cool Zelda game for the Gamecube?!
Kirby Air Riders ~ Episode #54
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With volatility intensifying and geopolitical tensions clouding sentiment, investors are once again staring at screens with more questions than answers. Should one start nibbling at beaten-down stocks? Or is this a time to simply step back and wait?
Dipan Mehta, Director, Elixir…
Courage, cash crunch and caution: Dipan Mehta on navigating a market in turmoil
Well look at that. The thumbnail for today’s video is oddly prophetic as KV had no idea the amiibo news that was going to drop today.
Anyway, Rick rip-roars onward! …too bad KV keeps wanting to do the gliding challenges which are not great for Rick, XD
Kirby Air Riders ~ Episode #53!


Watched Euphoria for the first time two weeks ago. Hal and Cal could have been family for sure.
Also rest in peace Eric Dane 💔
Rick, Rick, Rick, that’s the name you’ve all heard!
Rick, Rick, Rick, he oft hangs out with a bird!
Now that he’s here, he’s gonna show you his sheer–
Rick, Rick, Rickin’ Rip Roar!
He’s gonna go, on a Road Trip!
That’s right it’s RIck, on a Road Trip!
Kirby Air Riders ~ Episode #51 Go!
Episode 50! …how long is this Let’s Play?! As long as KV wants it to be! Off to do some more city sight-seeing in Skyah so we can keep checking those checklist items off! Maybe we’ll even form the machine of true destruction… or not.
Kirby Air Riders ~ Episode #50!