Hey, do you have a cat? Do you know how sometimes cats put their paw on your hand, but if you put your hand on their paw back, they'll pull their paw out from under your hand and put their paw on top of your hand again? Do you have a video of this happening? I miss my cat, I miss her doing this, and I can't easily find videos of it or a name for this activity. #cats #CatsOfMastodon
Hey, folks! It's #bandcampFriday !
I haven't put out anything new in ages. It's been challenging lately, what with everything and just having energies directed elsewhere. But as someone else pointed out (which prompted me to decide to post), the little touches in between really help to sustain artists through those gaps.
I tend to write glitchy electronica, with occasional diversions into ambient or experimental fringes.
As always, all of my releases are PWYC and $0 is a completely valid contribution. Mostly it makes me happy that people listen.
If you're interested, my most recent release is the three-track EP, "Dissolution," released in 2023, is here:
good morning this guillotine bike trailer is really doing it for me
doing witchcraft (cutting bits of aloe off the plant i keep in my kitchen and applying its soothing juice to cuts)
what're y'all doing for kirksgiving this year?
Im convinced more and more that Covid did a number on people's brains.
how your email finds me
Noted TERF Kathleen Stock has written a piece in The Times calling out "Gen-Z females" for daring to be ambulatory wheelchair users.
And I need yous to understand that this is what TERFs are. This is what they've always been. They are not left-wing, or feminist. Sure, they pretended to be, when it was convenient for them, but now they've won their big victory, they're letting their masks slip, and showing clearly their misogyny, ageism, ableism, racism, anti-Semitism, and every other "ism" in the book.
Yous all know that the anti-trans "LGB Alliance" is headquartered in Tufton Street, right? Same address as all the other shady right-wing orgs with uncertain funding sources.
Yous all saw the Amnesty report before said organisation was legally threatened into a grovelling apology, showing that "gender critical" orgs are funded by American right-wing money?
"Left-wing" and "feminist" arguments against trans rights have always been a false-flag operation to divide and conquer, and undermine progressivism more generally. Trans people have known that for many years, but a lot of cis people haven't heard us or believed us.
It's time to start hearing us.
new speedrun challenge: use all of the copilot free tokens as fast as possible all at once. every single one of you should open visual studio code and use all of copilots free tokens as quickly as you can. our servers can totally handle every single one of you spending all of your free tokens.
i'm real tired of this bullshit. amazon has made it impossible to see if i actually have prime active?
i am *almost certain* i canceled this YEARS ago. but i just recently ordered something and it said I saved on shipping with my prime membership.
so i go to the part of the website where i'm supposed to be able to check that and it just.
doesn't work.
what the fuck is this shit.
"if i don't make the efficient deadly drone someone else will"
"its just about efficiency and physics!"
oh so cute you helped them figure out how to make drones that can carry a lot of munitions a really long distance great job you fucking rube
fuck darpa and fuck youtubers doing their "challenges"
a comic by Smooth Dunk
https://bsky.app/profile/smoothdunk2.bsky.social/post/3mseieqolt22q
I think the lesbians can legally go to war with Elon Musk now because he harmed our moon
behold:
This has really been on my mind. Cause in a way it's blindingly obvious. You read that and you go "yeah we knew that". But it really drives the point home.
People didn't choose AI. Companies didn't choose AI. Governments didn't choose AI. A small number of people, controlling a small number of entities, controlling unfathomable amounts of money, chose AI. Went all in. And the sheer capitalist force of that made it inevitable, made it an undeniable reality. Made companies and governments and individuals fall in line.
I hope we, as a species, can claw our way back from this. From people with no democratic mandate having this much power. If so this will be studied in the history books. Probably not in my lifetime.
https://graceblakeley.substack.com/p/data-centres-and-democracy
New blog-post: "When online commenters 'detect' my art as AI"
→ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1164/when-online-commenters-detect-my-art-as-ai