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250 posts!
Clearly I lurk much more than I post. Been on this hellsite over 15 years...
Text of tweet under the cut because it is loooong.
But... Stochastic Parrots.
this is one of my favorite reddit posts of all time
God forbid Chippy do anything
You absolutely must unmute this video.
For listening later.
The band, the music, the dance.
puts on sound 📣🎶🎵
Ok, I NEED you to understand just how insane even ATTEMPTING this was for them.
1. Playing an instrument is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Don’t think I’m stepping on any toes saying that.
2. Dancing is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Still not controversial.
3. YOU AVOID, AT ALL COSTS, MOVING YOUR BODY WHILE PLAYING A WIND INSTRUMENT. To make the correct, pleasant sounds, you need to be in the correct form. And that form involves your ENTIRE body, even your legs when sitting down.
4. “oh, but I’ve seen marching bands before and-” MARCHING BANDS HAVE ENTIRE SCIENTIFIC FIELDS DEDICATED TO FIGURING OUT HOW TO MARCH WITH MINIMUM BREAKING OF PROPER FORM. A marching band tries to be as smooth as possible while moving, so as not to jar their instrument, mouth, neck, arms, torso, or anything else.These ladies and gentlemen are BOUNCING and still playing properly, what the FU-!
5. AND ANOTHER THING! Wind instruments and dancing BOTH make demands on your breathing, so the fact that they are dancing (making you breath faster for extra oxygen) AND playing wind instruments (making you effectively hold your breath) AT THE SAME TIME is HUGE. Their lungs must be MASSIVE.
All of that also; the song is Sing, sing, sing (with a swing). If you wanna listen to some of THE SPICIEST big band ever recorded. Its a big hard song and this band does it expertly.
To listen when speakers available
Kelly Link, 21st April 2026
Discworld: Wyrd Sisters Director: Jean Flynn | Studio: Cosgrove Hall | UK, 1997
It genuinely upsets me that there are people who call this animation and voice acting bad, there’s so much heart and soul on display in just this clip alone
At first glance: ‘lol this is going to be one of those hilariously cheap animations’
30 seconds in: ‘…Oh my god this is fantastic’
“WHO DARES TO INVOKE WXRTHLTL-JWLPKLZ?” “Where were you when the vowels were bein’ handed out, behind the door??”
To watch when I have sound available...
minimalist pencil sketches of cats by Shou Xin (手訫)
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Digital files from my "Good News" zine
This work is about the joy and freedom that come with deconverting from an oppressive religion. I hope you enjoy!
Debates about belief/religion are not welcome. If you disagree, just keep scrolling :)
I remember back in my compulsory education they taught us to use the keyboard like this but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single person type like this ever.
this is probably a good post to have a poll huh.
Were you...
Taught how to touch type. Does touch type *(or similar position).
Taught how to touch type. Doesn't touch type.
Not touch how to touch type. Does touch type *(or similar position).
Not touch how to touch type. Doesn't touch type.
the *(Or similar position)s is for people that follow the general format except for maybe one finger or a few keys. (I.e you follow this formatting aside from the pinky finger keys, use any finger for spacebar, etc etc).
Can you play an instrument? (Any skill level)
Yes (which one? 👀)
No
Nuance (up to interpretation)
I’m just curious how many people at some point in their lives have played/learned to play an instrument of any kind.
I included a nuance button bc I know there might be some folks who might be like “well I played the recorder in grade school but idk if that counts” — count it if you want or hit nuance if you’re unsure! 😊
To be clear, if you studied an instrument to any level of proficiency, even if you’re out of practice now, please select yes!
Reblog with your instrument, if you wish 🙏🏼 Or just for more accurate results
Boosting again! I’ve been enjoying reading everyone’s responses so far, it brings me joy to see music has reached so many lives!! 😊🫶🏼
I'm not quite instruments Georg, but... 6ish instruments fluently, another dozen of so to an intermediate level?
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My machine sewn shirt tutorial is FINALLY FINISHED! Written tutorial on the blog, video tutorial on youtube. Both probably more detailed than necessary.
I'll post more shirt pictures later, right now I need to go work on other stuff to give my brain a rest from all the shirts.
I've already had several people tell me they've made shirts based on this and that the instructions were easy to follow, which is very exciting to hear!!
Happy 1 year anniversary to the most time & labour intensive tutorial I've ever made! (It's my longest video, and the written version is split between 4 blog posts, so it was a huge amount of work.)
I have no way of knowing how many shirts it's caused to exist, but it seems to be quite a few! I've gotten a lot of nice comments from people saying they made shirts and found it very easy to follow, as well as a number of people saying it helped solve problems they'd had on previous shirt attempts.
I haven't made any new shirts this year, so I ought to do some soon.
Yayyy more shirts! more shirts are still happening!
The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.
Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.
So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.
Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.
oh shit
As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.
Y'all know what to do Tumblr.
Thinking about that one Wendy Carlos video where she's boymoding and has the big fake glued on sideburns and the suit, but with beautifully shaped eyebrows and that t-girl voice, and shes completely and utterly unconvincing trying to pass as a man, but also shes just so excitedly infodumping about moog synthesizers and batting her eyelashes its hard not to fall in love with her.
This was one of Wendy's last television appearances for a very long time. She came out publicly nine years later in an interview with Playboy magazine and talked about how miserable she was at this point in her life. She'd released Switched-On Bach as Walter Carlos in October of 1968, less than a year after she'd begun HRT, when the physical changes were becoming more noticeable. Wendy had been living as a woman in her private and social life, but the public appearances and interviews she had to do in the wake of its commercial success and critical acclaim were a source of profound anxiety and dysphoria. Wendy used to cry in her hotel room as she applied the press-on sideburns, put on a wig to hide her long hair, and used an eyeliner to fake a five-o' clock shadow before going on television shows (and before her meeting with Stanley Kubrick to compose the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange); few people bothered to hide their speculation and open disgust.
Over the next decade, she continued with the treatments and was able to afford gender affirming surgeries but released two more albums as “Walter”—fears for her safety and pressure from her record label made it unthinkable to do otherwise. That’s ten years of both public and creative isolation in a field she pioneered:
The fact that I couldn’t perform publicly stifled me. I lost a decade as an artist.I was unable to communicate with other musicians. There was no feedback. I would have loved to have gone onstage playing electronic-music concerts, as well as writing for more conventional media, such as the orchestra.
This is Wendy Carlos almost twenty years later. She was always beautiful, but right here? She’s fucking luminous.
It's really hard to get ahold of these days, but if you can find a copy of Secrets of Synthesis, I highly recommend it. We go over it a little bit in this episode of the radio show from 2019, but YouTube flagged it before it even went live, so it's just on dublab.
Turns out, she kind of hates modular synthesizers, the thing she's most well known for.
she’s still with us and she maintains her own website, for those who didn’t know
And here’s a quote from her I always think about.
i hope this reaches the target audience:
hold on for one more night, one more day. appreciate all the little things keeping you connected to the world. tell yourself the end can wait one more day. see how you feel tomorrow. see if you can keep going a while longer.
I love otter
has anyone figured out how to turn off the thing where you love your pet so much it slides inexorably into grief-borrowing