Yes, and I personally also, as someone who both writes for a living, sings for money, and makes "content"...it's SO IMPORTANT to have a hobby you have not and will not monetize or professionalize. It's so important to do something for joy alone.
Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat
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broke-down neuroqueer survivor in recovery Yeah, I’m gonna fucking make it awkward they/he/she
Today in stalking out to my car in order to get a hair tie (to make the hair stop touching me before I Make Choices involving clippers), despite it being *moist* out, with all the synesthetic disgustingness of that word
Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente.bsky.social · 5d agoWhy must I choose between looking hot in a way that is currently Very Gender and buzzing it back so it will stop being Like This about touching me
Out here sending a friend the all-but stick figure sketch I did to try to explain a concept for a tattoo I've been trying to get put together for years now, and I am extremely proud of how well I think it gets the idea across
Art museum staff: do you have ANY IDEA what an all-hands-on-deck, everybody out of the building NOW level emergency the climate control malfunction in the beginning of The Thomas Crown Affair would have been?
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 12h agosometimes there is absolutely nothing more fun than understanding works of art through people's varied professional perspectives
The problem with having An System For That instead of a timely diagnosis is that An Multidecadal System of spit, baling twine, and white-knuckled terror turns out not to be load-bearing under maximum stress testing, whoopsies
Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente.bsky.social · 9h agoBootstrapping routines back onto an inadequately medicated AuDHD chaos gremlin brain does in fact sometimes look like texting my Accountability Adult that I have taken my meds so that I stamp it as "done" on the mental task stack ...I say "stack" like there's any real organization to it, but yanno
Bootstrapping routines back onto an inadequately medicated AuDHD chaos gremlin brain does in fact sometimes look like texting my Accountability Adult that I have taken my meds so that I stamp it as "done" on the mental task stack ...I say "stack" like there's any real organization to it, but yanno
Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
a wooly man without a face@jojororo.bsky.social · yesterday
Today everyone — EVERYONE — should take a moment and read Ray Bradbury's four-page short story from 1950.
Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · yesterdayToday is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
And no, I do not live in NYC (though I grew up adjacent in NJ), but I understand "neighbor" exactly as broadly as Mister Rogers and his primary sources meant it
Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat@aniente.bsky.social · 2d agoYeah man, it's called "we live in a society and It's Good, Actually, when our neighbors get to eat, because it's a basic human right"
Yeah man, it's called "we live in a society and It's Good, Actually, when our neighbors get to eat, because it's a basic human right"
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
The dopest thing I have learned today, so far, is that people (presumably for a class, but maybe not??) used Genius to transcribe, group annotate, and discuss the preface and first two chapters of the 2004 translation of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth as if they were rap lyrics:
Frantz Fanon – The Wretched Of The Earth ( Chapter I)
On Violence / National liberation, national reawakening, restoration of the nation to the people or Commonwealth, whatever the name
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“Assume that is a given fact, okay?” “No.” is an exchange we should all be practicing
obviously it’s delightful watching a woman with both facts and morality on her side hand an increasingly sweaty and desperate male attorney his ass, but honestly this is a Teachable Moment™️ for all of in not granting the bad-faith premise of a question
Just tried to look up the Ordovician jawless fish with the funny face and these are the things I searched for and got nothing because it was spelled SO wrong: -sacombabsis -sacombibabsis -sacobibastis The correct answer was: -sacabambaspis
Is it time for the Pachelbel Rant? It might be time for the Pachelbel Rant www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdxk...
Pachelbel Rant
YouTube video by RobPRocks
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aggressive deaccessioner is aggressive@kayloulee.bsky.social · 6d agoPerhaps we would if someone would write us music where we get to sing more than 3 notes Looking at YOU, Georg Friedrich Handel, and your Messiah, it may be pretty but the alto part is Boring
"I spent my lamp and cleft my head. Deep-wounded mind, I wasn't doing anything with it anyway."
Richard Siken – Birds Hover the Trampled Field
I saw them hiding in the yellow field, crouching low / in the vanished dark. I followed them pretending / they were me because they were. I wanted to explain / myself to myself in
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I've always loved Creative Commons. I hung out with Lisa Rein, Matt Haughey and Aaron Swartz while they coded up the site, and my first novelwas the first professionally published text ever released under a CC license, just weeks after CC itself launched: creativecommons.org 1/
*standing up on the plane* And another thing - can somebody hand me the tuning fork, thank you. Troparion, Tone 4: "Thy nativity, O Theotokos" and I'm gonna preemptively tell the tenors to cool it - sopranos, you are already flat
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · last wk.*standing up on the plane* ok you Protestant fucks prepare to get scared because I’m about to tell you what’s real. Hail Holy Queen our light our sweetness and our hopes. To Thee to we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to Thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Tu
There is a lot that the social internet is Not Great for. But watching people be earnestly enthusiastic about stuff, even stuff I would otherwise not particularly care about, is great. I am here in no small part to watch people geek out about stuff they love.
Seanan McGuire@seananmcguire.bsky.social · 7d ago*standing up on the plane* okay so the first thing you need to understand is that Bonnie Zacherle had been trying for YEARS to get a green light to begin producing My Little Pony, and kept being stopped by a combination of sexism and adult men willfully refusing to thing of little girls as people--
Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.
Having never interacted with JCO, she’s like Punxsutawney Phil to me. I’ll forget she exists for months, and then suddenly the whole internet will be yelling, “Bad takes! Three more weeks of bad takes!”
That day when I was looking through a 14th-century romance. First impression: That's not a very good stag, is it... Closer look: OMG LOOOOOL #medievalmanuscripts
Somewhere, the shade of John Cage is quietly pleased
Ann Leckie@annleckie.com · 6d agoAnything and everything can be music.
556) Giftbot. Feeling low? Most of the time Giftbot is nowhere to be found but now and then, when it senses you need it most, it shows up with a little present for you. Could be a book it thinks you might enjoy, could be a pretty rock it found, anything. #SmallRobotsRemastered
Today in "I had no idea I would even want to until I learned that I'm not allowed to because someone else fucked it up (heh) for the rest of us"
jordan@jordantyranny.bsky.social · last wk.The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.
for my brother Chris it was a TV commercial where a double boiler was described as "two pots in one!", which would always cause him to rend his garments and yell "no!!! it isn't!!!!! it is ONE POT IN TWO!!!!!", something I still laugh about at least once a week even though it was like 18 years ago