My music is going back on streaming services again, if that’s a way you still engage with the sonic arts. Just search “Traiken.” Right now both Broken Angels and Heartless Angels should be available in all the usual places.

I heard a fairy tale that there are human beings who go entire days without experiencing existential terror I mean could you even imagine

If you haven't been masking, give it a try. What do you have to lose? Just wear one in crowds and on planes, trains, and buses. Find a style that fits, so you don't futz with it. You don't have to get sick all the time.

🎯🧵by Prof @michael-hoerger.bsky.social on XTwitter: "'Lockdown' was and is an anti-public health term. If nobody locked your door, it was not a lockdown, despite some using that term, sometimes even as 'official' language. It was shelter in place, which was..." threadreaderapp.com/thread/20836...

I think most people see this & think, That was terrible back in ’21 & ‘22 when anti-vaxxers wouldn’t follow the science & spurned masks, etc. But a much smaller group knows COVID is still here causing dangerous long term health issues & that you should still mask indoors. Which group are you in?

Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 4d ago

What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.

If you believe this, and I hope you do, there is nothing stopping you from continuing to protect your vulnerable neighbors by wearing masks in crowded and indoor spaces, especially necessary spaces like healthcare facilities, grocery stores, and public transportation. Absolutely nothing.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 3d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

ME: So as I understand it, our immortal souls incarnate on Earth as some kind of misery safari? MOUNTAINTOP MONK: *serene wind noises*

medieval old-timey skeleton with a full Elizabethan collar of little bones

REALTOR: The previous owner was a dental hygienist. Some nights, you can still see her spectral image in the bathroom mirror, damned to floss for all eternity.

This is why Ewoks stay winning.

The Old Hack@the-old-hack.bsky.social · 2w ago

@bretdevereaux.bsky.social

There’s a new biker gang in town that rides around terrorizing musicians when they’re mixing and trying to focus on the low end

There must've been an ooze spill. Y'know, from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, there's that giant dandelion. That must be what happened in my neighbor's yard, 'cause that's the only reason an entire lawn crew is out there with dissonant droning engines EVERY FUCKING DAY

I know there are probably a lot of these now, but I just heard a song that referenced swiping right. I don’t think you should be saying that in a song. You should be saying something about your loins or your blood.

This website is always trying to make me learn who "Will Stancil" is and I refuse! I will never surrender!

Tomfoolery is a minced oath for Tomfuckery

In the olden days you'd have a jester whose whole job was to cheer you up and I don't see this addressed in the modern mental health literature enough.

If you're a #GameDev and need a dark, industrial soundtrack, I don't know why you haven't contacted me already other than the fact that I haven't made a post with that hashtag until now so, hey

i'm scheduled to be the uk prime minister for the week of oct 12, does anyone want to swap shifts

A slow, twee, minor remake of Yakety Sax.

Hi! Tavisha had a hospital stay two weeks ago and now she has to do a number of $$ tests—so I made a bunch of new autograph prints! You can get them at etsy.com/shop/RikkiSi.... If prints aren’t your thing and you’d still like to help, we have a PayPal link here: www.tavicat.com/donate. Thanks!

I did some digging in this and thread below on places you might encounter Taylor Farms in addition to lettuce -- they sell onions and cilantro to restaurants so don't order dishes with those raw. The other big one is unlabelled grocery store deli fruit and veggie snacks, or cold sandwiches.

Lev Mirov@thelionmachine.bsky.social · 3w ago

Here's the most comprehensive list of their products they sell to the food service industry I could find. taylorfarmsfoodservice.com/products/

When a protagonist is having a dark night of the soul, I’m the one who goes around putting up huge billboards of their ex that convey immense success. I don’t like doing it, don’t feel good about its effect on people, but it pays well and sometimes they let me take the big faces home

Just ordered a new elastomeric with organic gas p100s, you should probably do the same if you're in the path of wildfire smoke, or will be, which at this point could be just about anyone.

Fascist governments have no interest in safety regulations, in keeping with their corporate-friendly and hostile-to-people ethos. Hence why you never see adequate guardrails in a galaxy far, far away.

Area 51 is closed off because it’s haunted by the aliens who crashed in Roswell and normal Ouija boards don’t work on them

When COVID-19 cases fall, protections often disappear before transmission does. That is how one wave quietly becomes the next. Breaking the cycle means keeping measures like masking, testing, and cleaner indoor air in place a little longer, until spread is truly under control. (...)

Rolling up on Dracula with one of those metal boba straws to find out which of us wants it more.