kasran, fourier transfemme @typhlosion@awoo.space

First: some people will complain that "it's not sea shanties, it's just Wellerman!" and "Wellerman isn't even a sea shanty!". If you meet those, I recommend smiling, nodding, and then ignoring the fuck out of those people. Shanties are a folk genre experiencing a revival - not only is it music that organically evolved, but is actively adapted and adopted by a new generation of singers and fans. There is no one true definition of a sea shanty!

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Apparently TikTok made sea shanties a thing now. Awesome! Because I'm a sea shanty nerd, I decided to make an "explainer". If you're new to sea shanties, or just want some recs, follow the thread!

#seashanty #seashanties #wellerman

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one time i wrote what was basically a short essay on reddit about a spacechem custom puzzle in researchnet

the puzzle was called Precious Oxygen and it was about turning gold and silver into oxygen atoms

i wrote about how it's a really interesting way to tell a story just from a puzzle with inputs and outputs, like it immediately brings to mind a "my kingdom for a horse" idea where the shiny metals you get for winning at capitalism have lost all their subjective value in favour of struggling to survive

and what was even more interesting to me is that: it doesn't work. there is a way to solve the puzzle without any waste but it's extremely slow and clearly not what was intended. the way you're supposed to solve it with a decent score involves creating waste atoms, which means that the solution will eventually fail. it'll fail after the verification check is over, but if you left it running, it would eventually crash

the idea that this realization that none of it matters anymore if you can't secure your continued existence came too late was really fascinating to me and has parallels with, y'know. earth.

the creator of the puzzle saw the thread and said "i'm not going to say that any of this is invalid, it's really interesting, but i will say that i just wanted the pun in the title"

my kids convinced me to make a mashup of Go and Tetris in #tic80 this morning; welcome to a completely normal weekend here in my house

My trans magical boy comic Transformed! is NOW LIVE ON KICKSTARTER!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mousbones/transformed-volume-1
#transgender #mastoart #queer

Pixel Racoon! @Violet

if you use a slang term for bird genitals is that a cloaquialism

i am holly

when you instance hop 3 times to keep yelling at people