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The blog post Adam Neely links, "Blues tonality" by Ethan Hein - ethanhein.com/wp/2014/blues-to - goes into a lot of detail on patterns in blues and blues-influenced music, specifically refuting a lot of ungrounded assertions that it's the same harmonic theory as the one taught for 18th century European classical music

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With just a dry drumloop and a bunch of fx + modulations, you can create whole songs in @bitwig@twitter.com. Dont be shy to go to the extremes! 👍 #modular #daw #music

re: LB: the stolen nft man blocked me seconds after I posted "welcome to the Finding Out phase of Fucking Around" looooool

Sonic Fanart | Furry Art | EC 

In our headcanon, Nicole is a malakh who inhabits Sally's PDA by the same name. Because the FFs have no frame of reference for computing power, she was able to disguise herself as a sentient AI all the same.

nfts, crypto-bullshit 

if you ever wonder why even small artists' TOS's are so long, it's because of this dumb shit happening

every year people come up with a new way to misuse commissions for horrible purposes

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For #IWD, Lambda Films released a short of a poem I wrote titled "The Body"
racism
sexism
& what we can consider colonial gender collide here in this work during the rise of #MeToo, but notice who gets publicity in these discussions and who does not

vimeo.com/520855782

GR, police brutality in a week 

These things happened this week (it's still Thursday):

-Sunday: Cops beating civilians without real reason in park (previous toots)(Athens)

-Monday: Cops attempting on midnight to evacuate the occupied Dean's offices in Aristotle University (the students had occupied them since 22/2 in protest of new special university police forces that the gonverment wants to establish), they fail (Thessaloniki)
(1/?)

Work, mh? 

My natural empathy response and my Adult Professional Mask keep colliding and I'm not actually sure what comes out.
It's like "yes, let's stay on this subject but in a small talk way"

I don't really like words when people say something heavy. Empathy is hard, sympathy is easy. I'm a hand squeezer, usually.
Especially at things where there's nothing to say. I, personally, hate "thank you for sharing this with me."

Adult Professional is kinda bitchy and cold.

Remember to treat the successful artist who thinks NFTs will make them rich differently from the marginalized artist who hopes that NFTs will finally get them out of an abusive situation.

(General observation; not a subtoot.)

anti-Asian violence, podcast plug 

The "Worst Year Ever" podcast's 10 March 2021 episode is an interview with Christopher Wong about the rise in hate crimes against Asian folk. If you're not familiar with the history and present of anti-Asian violence in the USA, maybe give it a listen. iheart.com/podcast/1119-worst-

On identity politics 

Neurodivergents and the Disability Rights Movement: "Nothing About Us Without Us"

So-called professionals: "help! We're being attacked by their aggressive identity politics!!"

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Ableist rhetoric 

Everything I find that claims to look "critically" at neurodiversity (all written by NTs of course) sounds like this:

"While it is understandable that some self-advocates feel offended by the pro-cure rhetoric of some parent and professional organizational, the latter are also justified in criticizing the aggressive identity politics advanced by the radical activists of the autistic movement, who appropriate the right to speak in the name of every person diagnosed with autism"

O'Reilly has a diversity and inclusion scholarship program offering one year free access to their online learning platform.

If you are a member of an underrepresented minority in tech and want to apply, the details are here.

oreilly.com/diversity/scholars

outfit selfie, ec 

I haven’t worn this dress since it got cold, and it feels so nice to put it on again. Fits better, too!

Turns out, playing in D minor is easy, you just gotta let go of the open strings.

fun fact: art doesn't need incentives to be created. art is a cultural process that has existed long before capitalism. if we want to support artists, we need to find ways to allow them to live with dignity while they practise their craft

Gender stuff 

You know, even I didn't think I was enby before Val figured it out for me. Which is a little embarrassing since Val had always talked about how otherkin stuff can also get tangled up with gender.

Well...I am at least partially a kitsune, and a good portion of that got tied up with gender, and that is on top of being at least almost entirely girl, so...yeah, we forgot to look at the otherkin axis. -Julayla

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