More music!
I'm halfway through the album _Refactor_ by @fluffy@queer.party and I'm very much digging it – in large part because it's perfect for my short attention span. Every track has a very different flavour, and they're all good! Have a listen at http://music.sockpuppet.us/album/refactor and then just buy the thing, 'kay?
Favourite track thus far: "Sliced by a Mandolin"
We're so quick to frame crabs as cruel for pulling each other down when they try to escape buckets, yet we too rarely focus on the person who put them in the bucket in the first place.
The same goes for the idea of mantises eating the heads of their mates (apparently an artifact of lab conditions) and of the "alpha wolf" idea (wolves were forced into the company of unfamiliar wolves), among other facets of "common knowledge."
How many assumptions about human behavior follow this pattern?
nsfw art, robots, peen
Kauko transfers from one body to another for the first time. Art by @Libra_Labs@twitter.com #commission #robotsnstuff #nsfw
FA: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/25925314/
WZL: https://www.weasyl.com/~kauko/submissions/1584781/download-in-progress-by-libra-11 https://mastodon.social/media/72aQyhEEQNIg3YSVrVs
Brilliant music—
Tonight's jam is a piano masterpiece by Shnabubula, though I'm only through the second of eight short (4~6 minute) pieces as I write this. It's got less of the complex stuff (read: tasty discordant messes) and more of the richly envisioned harmonious landscape angle. Admittedly, I can't help but imagine half of it in his more chippy sound palette, but it's also nice to get a brief break from the synths. (Makes it all the sweeter when I get back to them.)
https://twitter.com/PeterNHess/status/947612630499422214
<<can someone who knows about cybersecurity please help me?>> https://mastodon.social/media/M_8mD5wryOhWOjLY2O8
Habari gani, fam? Happy New Year! Here is my post for the final day of Kwanzaa -- Imani, or Faith:
https://t.co/e4hISlaCbx
Habari gani, fam? Sorry about missing yesterday's post -- well, sort of. I wrote it and put it up but forgot to mention it here. Also, day 6!
Nia (Purpose): https://jakebe.com/2017/12/30/kwanzaa-day-5-nia-purpose/
Kuumba (Creativity): https://jakebe.com/2017/12/31/kwanzaa-day-6-kuumba-creativity/
TW: Sexual assault
Convention-goers, please take a moment to read — I wrote a blog post going public about a date-rape drugging incident that happened at BronyCon this year.
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/788985/the-elephant-in-the-equine-room
confused by 6502 assembly? here are some helpful tips for beginners
CPY: mails you a copy of the program
TAX: fills out your 1040EZ
CLD: decreases CPU temperature
ROR: makes a lion noise
BRK: makes a dog noise
ASL: initiates AOL chat protocol
LSR: activates laser
TXS: enter Texas
TSX: leave Texas
LDY: turns you into a lady
LDA: turns you into a lad (misspelled for historical reasons)
BVS: pronounced "Beavis"
happy programming! 😋
Habari gani, brothers and sisters? Day four of Kwanzaa is all about Ujamaa, or Cooperative Economics. I like to think of it as Black Empowered Socialism. :)
https://jakebe.com/2017/12/29/kwanzaa-day-4-ujamaa-cooperative-economics/
Ah! Nevermind, found the "problem". Restored default Segoe UI ugliness to Windows, everything works fine now.
Really, Microsoft? This is how badly you need your bullshit branding to stick?
Day 3 of Kwanzaa focuses on Ujima, or Collective Work and Responsibility: https://jakebe.com/2017/12/28/kwanzaa-day-3-ujima-collective-work-and-responsibility/
I've got to share this album by one of my favourite composers: https://shnabubula.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-diaspora
Come for the really synthy videogamey prog rock, stay for the tonality-twisting alien landscape. No, seriously, it starts accessible and then gently gets weirder, so you can always stop if it gets too out-there. (The last track almost stopped me, but not quite – it doesn't push the obscure microtonal tunings enough to make me nope out.)
At least look at the pretty cover art. Oooh, pretty.
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