Furry artists! @MothMonarch in particular!
Who do you use for pin making?
You load a half-tonne of coal
what do you get?
A little more doggo
and deeper in dept.
Oh master don't you call me cause I can't gooooo...
I looooost
my bawl
because you didn't throw (it)...
(to be sung to the sound of '16 tonnes)
"you wouldn't download a" trivia (cw: sketchy business practices)
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dutch-rights-group-fined-for-not-paying-royalties
Hollywood-funded anti-piracy association Brein, the people who made the "you wouldn't download a car" ad, tried to stiff Melchior Rietveldt, the musician who composed the music for it, out of the vast bulk of his royalties. They told him the ad would only be shown at a local film festival, then stuck the ad on a bunch of DVDs and acted like they had full right to.
So, like, if you're ever wondering if anti-piracy capitalists hate piracy? The answer is "no". They'll steal and lie seven days a week and twice on Sundays. They just hate seeing people enjoy media without paying them.
you know what's really nice? sincerity. im tired of being in other places and having everything anyone says be couched behind a brand or a veil of ironic joking. i really appreciate that about mastodon's culture - the capacity for people here to just be sincere with each other. i hope the new folks can feel that as well
Copied from BirdSite
People are converting Bird/Lime scooters into personal vehicles for $32. 🛴
1. Steal a Bird off the street (easy)
2. Buy a $32 kit on eBay
3. Rip out Bird's board, replace with yours
4. Profit
https://scootertalk.org/viewtopic.php?p=1643&fbclid=IwAR0-b9xJKny5r5adXwc6gocfXbqZ9scA1fpgX5t8L7f7afbT9RZU33Exqnk#p1643 https://twitter.com/nickabouzeid/status/1070036774871650304/photo/1
To any kids out there who just failed some finals for whatever reason — maybe you’re working to pay bills or you joined too many extracurricular clubs — don’t give up. You are not your test scores. Don’t compare yourself to anyone else. You’ll do all right, just enjoy your winter break. Almost there.
brb listening to vaporwave
"At a time of political reaction and restoration, when cultural innovation has stalled and
even gone backwards, when “power . . . operates predictively as much as retrospectively”
(Eshun 2003: 289), one function of hauntology is to keep insisting that there are futures
beyond postmodernity’s terminal time. When the present has given up on the future, we
must listen for the relics of the future in the unactivated potentials of the past. " -- Mark Fisher
Mixie trash
- she / her -