Snow falls between notes of a lone bugle calling — muted by cloud chords. A murder of missiles flies past crooning crows on dead wood.

Silver bugle

A tanka series

Summer grasses— All that remains of soldiers' dreams. Basho, 1689.

I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. — Siegfried Sassoon, British Officer and Poet, June 15, 1917

A Soldier's Declaration -- 1917 & 2026

War Erasure

From the backlog: I wish to see a taxpayer name on every bomb and tank, so the world would know — directly whom to thank.

Wasted Blood: From War, Poetry

A collection of poems by Josh Datko.

And I’m still pre-coffee, so I should add thank you to all those who are interested! View quoted note →

If you want the physical copy of wasted blood, and want to pay in bitcoin, you can send me a cashu QR code in the mail. I made the physical copy available only via the post as a contrast of experience to the digital one. The physical one, I bleed on. It’s not meant to be a fast process.

Wasted Blood: From War, Poetry

A collection of poems by Josh Datko.

Wasted Blood: From War, Poetry

A collection of poems by Josh Datko.

War dreams of itself. I wish I didn’t write a book so relevant.

Wasted Blood: From War, Poetry

A collection of poems by Josh Datko.

My antiwar poetry collection is now digitally available as pay-what-you-want! If you want to pay in sats you can boost bitpunk .fm the podcast!

Wasted Blood: From War, Poetry

A collection of poems by Josh Datko.

I performed a live stichomancy reading today. It’s at the 49 minute mark. Legally, I must say I am not a licensed stichomancer.

Poetry on Tape 20.2.26

With 100% more stichomancy

I dabble in stichomancy.

On Stichomancy

Divination by verse

I have not found a nicer community than on Substack. Nostr, for what it is, is great. And yes, Substack is a giant tech community. But there are many people there discussing literature, from the classics, to modern novels, to poetry. If you want to get back into reading hard books that will challenge you, this is the place. You can start with mine:

How do you play a bugle call for a military funeral in a book?

When the ink bleeds

unique physical media

This one photo is a collection of The Bloody Sonnets in various media. On the left is the 1952 edition with its Soviet introduction, claiming the imperialists want war. The other book is the 2018 English version by John Minahane, which keeps them as English sonnets. Then there is some pamphlets from the two-woman play produced last year by the Bratislava based theatre D.P.O.H. And now in 2026, we have a new cassette. 😊 While you are waiting for the book, I still have the translations posted. This one is my favorite and you can see me use a scythe:

The Bloody Sonnets #16

Adaptation of Krvavé sonety.

12 CVEs found in OpenSSL by an AI tool. Damn. OpenSSL is some of the most audited code, and there was some nasty zero days found. I wonder if they turn this onto bitcoin core what will they find.

AISLE

What AI Security Research Looks Like When It Works

What a year of finding zero-days in OpenSSL, curl, and the Linux kernel taught us about AI-driven security research done right.

Bitpunk.fm 3.1 is now available!

They exist. 🥳 I talked with @No Good Kid this morning and we are happy with them! The books are in Europe, I have the red cassettes, soon they will meet and I will get them shipped out. Thank you for all those that preordered! In the spirit of keeping things analog, I am only accepting orders via post, which is still available. A digital version, including audio, will be made available once the analog ones have been enjoyed. I will be in the EU in March and can send some maybe with Paketa when I get there.

Welcome, Wasted Blood

Cover Reveal

I am writing a series on Substack about WW1. This post deals with the myth of dying with honor in war.

Men's Achilles' Heel

An essay with poems on war, honor, and the modern man

I’m now on Bandcamp!

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