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I love how I only know my GPU drivers are out of date by my games crashing and acting weird. Oh look, BF6 is suddenly a neon disco game, better check the AMD website

Saw that the text was in iambic pentameter and thought of ways to develop that rhythm in the music. I'm literally a genius

Not to bust early but I think this piece I'm working on might be a banger

The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

i think its good that bluesky is boring and you dont want to scroll through it too much because you're not supposed to waste your day away scrolling on social media when you could be using the computer to play & draw & learn before the corporations destroy the rest of the internet. tick tock

crying during two composition lessons in one day, call that a folie à deux

it's Friday, I'm in love

“The would-be doll is encouraged to see herself not as a person with inherent worth but a collection of assets – lips, tits, hair, wits, followers, “designer vagina” – that make her marketable. Her self-worth becomes tied to how well she cultivates these assets to serve the interests of capital.”

I'm in.

Trans women are truly the source of everything good and beautiful in this world

Rewatching Brooklyn Nine-Nine and holy crap, Andre Braugher was a generational talent

New StatsCan report reveals that trans people in Canada are poorer than the general population, a disparity that is most stark for trans women.

Once you understand third-sexing as a core part of patriarchal society, enabling cis men to consume sexual commodities without risking their own position in the gender heirarchy, this stuff clicks into place.

love how we could be building green infrastructure and high speed rail but instead we get GPU warehouses for the plagiarism and lying machine

aside from everything that's terrible, I had a great conversation with some Master's students in my program yesterday about masking and I think the kids might be all right

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

dawg why does every reading session result in me questioning my life choices

on the mouse

me: gosh I wish there was some way to make this direct modulation from G to D-flat less jarring

the humble transposition by third:

They don't let you eat bùn before 9am anymore because of woke

Honourable mention to Moon for just being a massive hunk of beef, goated tank subclass

Oh you can cast Guiding Bolt for free three times? That's cool, I have every druid spell plus Haste and better spell slot recovery than Wizards

Just wrote a 3-minute piece of music about trans puppygirls, life is great actually

I feel a certain intense kinship with the spiders that live in cranberry bogs

What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture

I love how the occupants killed everyone on earth because they heard Bach once. mood

YouTube video by Patricia Wallinga The Sisters

IT'S STARTING!!! Join us!!!

yes, absolutely!

I see this cycle play out time and time again, and it breaks my heart. We deserve better than to treat each other like this.