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[comiques]

Hey look i made a 5 second animated gif!

[stallio]

@dailydot did prince fans a huge service by finding the original font containing prince’s love symbol and converting it to TTF so it can be installed on modern computers

to use it in CSS, call it “Prince Plain”

[coocoolah-deactivated20190601]

I have never been able to understand people with consistent lives – people who, for example, grow up in a liberal Catholic household and stay that way; or who in junior high school are already laying down a record on which to run for president one day. Imagine having no discarded personalities, no vestigial selves, no visible ruptures with yourself, no gulf of self-forgetfulness, nothing that requires explanation, no alien version of yourself that requires humor and accommodation. What kind of life is that?

Michael Warner, “Tongues Untied” in Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children (216)

[bonjour700]

[guardianspiritofthewaters]

what is this from ?????

[hippity-hoppity-brigade]

ADHD Gothic

You have instructions written down. You don’t need them, but you check them anyway. Somehow they’re different from what you remember. Have they changed since you tucked the paper in your pocket? 

You realize that you’ve lost your train of thought. You can’t remember what you were thinking before. There is only your present thought, now a loop of panic at your lost memory. 

You stop in the middle of a room. Why are you here? Which room did you come from? You leave the room and remember what you were going to do. You walk back into the room. Why are you here? 

You bring up an inside joke with a friend. They look at you blankly. They do not remember this joke. But you were there when I made it, you argue. They were not. They are not the friend you are thinking of. You realize it was your other friend, from work instead of high school, with blond hair instead of brown, tall instead of short. You do not know how these two friends are so similar in your mind. 

You refer to every experience as happening “the other day.” Was it three years ago or yesterday? You try to remember context clues. Time is not real. 

Someone asks you for an important piece of information. You have not thought about it since you saved it on your computer, labelled very clearly. You search through your files. It is not there. You find it days later by accident, labelled with a cryptic set of codes. You don’t know why you would label it this way. No one else uses this computer but you. 

You are running late. You are always running late. 

You have lost something. You check everywhere. You check everywhere again. Someone tells you to think of when you last had it. You don’t tell them that is the problem. 

You reach the end of the page. You can’t remember what you just read. 

[guardianspiritofthewaters]

is this what adhd is like ??? ive never related to adhd before but this almost precisely describes my life, especially the thing of obsessive filing / labeling of information that i know i will forget (aka all information) ....... this warrants some more research

[thebsdboys]

[catgirlconspiracy]

I remember seeing that post about worst format for entering your phone number… This one is actually the worst.

[guardianspiritofthewaters]

but what about the 10000-item dropdown menu

[weloveshortvideos]

[leha314-deactivated20190122]

Omg

[coolhandofagirl]

what can’t she do

[whereshadowsmakeshadows-deactiv]

Last night I had a dream where they remade the movie spinal tap but it was about ambient music and the scene where he’s like it goes to 11 he said “it goes to -1”

[dailyjackiechan]

dont forget him

[voulair]

[parishiltonsextape380]

[5oil]

[pussysista-deactivated20170521]

[thehmn]

The past is rarely as we imagine it.

[clickbecause]

[quinndolyns-deactivated20220403]

anyone who claims to actually enjoy theremin music is lying to you

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

i find them cool on a conceptual level cuz u dont have to even touch the instrument to play it but like…. it doesnt sound that great. at best its used as part of an arrangement. or heavily edited in a song w/ a lot of other elements

[transhumanisticpanspermia]

theoretically the mechanism of a theremin shouldn’t be limited to the default signal generator… you should be able to hook up the theremin apparatus to an arbitrary signal generator, or a sample array.

unfortunately people who work with them are too married to the tone that’s produced from the native variable LRC signal generator, and it’s stunted the growth of the instrument.

but, like… you could easily design a signal generator that made every theremin note sound like, idk, a trumpet. (whether that was accomplished via a clever circuit or via a sample would depend on your patience for staring at waveforms and making clever circuits.) except it would have infinite microtones, and you’d be playing it like you play a theremin.

the “sensing” portion of the theremin just relies on the variable capacitance formed between you and the antennae. you can hook an LRC circuit with a variable C up to anything.

the sound shouldn’t be what people know the theremin for, because it’s arbitrary. unfortunately, it is.

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

that’s fascinating i had no idea.

[guardianspiritofthewaters]

that actually would be a little more removed than a regular theremin tho because the sound of a regular theremin isnt an arbitrary oscillator thats hooked up to the capacitance sensor, the capacitance sensor is producing a varying radio frequency oscillation that gets played against a constant frequency and the difference tone between the two is directly the audio. plus lots of theremins have CV out and theres plenty of people on youtube playing different synths with them. i worked with a professor who did these big crazy sound installations with like giant copper coils hooked up like theremin antennae and then just the most elaborate analog patches and it would make all these wild sounds in response to people just walking through the room