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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 7h

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 12h

today was my first time hearing any of Raven Chacon’s visual scores performed live and everybody delivered. so cool to get a whole day of chances to practice this kind of attentiveness.

visual score for Raven Chacon’s piece Compass, installed on a full gallery wall. four circles arranged as compass points and connected by arced arrows. each circle has three squares with icons representing different pitch relationships, duration, timbre, and sequence. the whole
thing is bracketed by angled lines.

guide to the icons that appear in the score

text reads:

Pitch
Induce feedback, resolving and settling on a stable, constant tone
Pluck a 3-note unison
Pluck a 3-octave (same pitch class) chord

Progression
I - Any starting pitch class
III - Any pitch class between I and V
V - Any pitch appoximately a 5th interval from the starting pitch class

Rhythm/Tone
Use the volume knob to effect feedback oscillation.
This may also affect pitch
Rhythmically switch the toggle switch between all possible settings
Very slowly press or depress the wah pedal over the course of the prompt

Transition
Right-hand or left-hand hammer-on any 3 notes, one at a time, letting each sustain before tapping the next
Left-hand prepare pre-bend and pluck string while prepering another pre-bend to be played next
Right-hand slide 3 fingers along 3 strings (over the fret board) to produce harmonic glissandos

Wall text continues:

For overly amplified electric guitar, distortion options, and wah pedal or tone controls.
To be performed (or prepared) in an outdoors open space or field or desert.
Slowly turn up the volume of the amplifier.
Starting with the first prompt circle (Pitch), choose a note/chord type. Sound the tone(s) and sustain them, constantly shaking the guitar if necessary.
Next choose if this tone is to be I, Ill, or V of a harmonic progression.
Next choose a rhythmic/tone-altering technique and perform it while still sustaining the tone.
When the tone is no longer sustainable, choose a transitional gesture and
perform it to restart the cycle of prompts.
To choose the next note type and relative harmonic position where the note will occur, pay attention to the direction that the wind is blowing.
This will decide for you to choose the option that is clockwise or counterclockwise to the first choices. Perform the new pitch(es) in their appropriate positions.
To choose the next rhythmic/tone technique, look at the shadows of your surroundings. They will point to the next action. Activate this technique to alter the rhythm/tone.
To choose the next transitional gesture, look for other life, mobile or immobile, and witness how they move. They will teach you and you can use this technique to begin the cycle again.
Continue for as long as you desire, then slowly turn down the volume of the amplifier.
Then turn it off.

more wall text:

Raven Chacon
Diné; born 1977 at Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation
Compass, 2021
Score
Courtesy the artist

Compass... explores this idea of reading the pulses and paces of the world around us. There are things happening in nature, and then there is music. And somehow, we can read these things, we can be a part of them and then respond, and the aligning of the musician with the rest of the world is what creates the music.
-Raven Chacon

Central to Raven Chacon's multivalent work is site and setting:
"I think of my compositions as a long-time study of... the dynamics of the musicians in a context: who they are, where they are geographically, the specific site in which they are performing, and the history of that site and its surrounding geography." These contextual dynamics, and their presence in his work as a composer and musician, are fundamental to how we see, hear, and read Chacon's works. Compass is a composition for a solo performer on an overly amplified guitar, to be played outdoors. As presented on the wall, Compass is a graphic picture that functions as a fixed position that grounds the artworks it hangs alongside.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 6

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 12h

Telescope octopus (genus Amphitretus) are gelatinous, transparent and almost colourless octopuses with unique tubular eyes. It is thought that these eyes help give them excellent peripheral vision.

They are also quite small, with a mantle length of 9 cm.

#OCTOtober

🐙🎥Schmidt Ocean

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therealWokeKong @donkeykonga.bsky.social · 14h

American “entrepreneurs”: “I’m on that grindset baby, rise and grind! I even work in my sleep now! My AI for cats will change the world!”

Chinese public works employees: “we just built a train that travels at 300 mph and it runs on algae”

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 19h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Dr. Kim Hannula @stressrelated.bsky.social · 17h

USGS gage on Vallecito Creek near the Vallecito campground. As of 11:45 am mountain time, the discharge was 6130 cfs. For comparison, typical spring runoff gets up to 500 cfs.

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Vallecito Creek Near Bayfield, Co.

Discover water data collected at monitoring location USGS-09352900, located in Colorado and find additional nearby monitoring locations.

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Sabocat @beedut.bsky.social · 19h

Marsupial ASMR
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Opossum eating broccoli

YouTube video by Amphibiansunrise

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Everett Ruess Fan Club @everettruessfans.bsky.social · 18h

put velcro on new seat cushion cover, cleaned and lubricated casters, drilled holes in the fenders to seat them higher - lotsa work on my partner's wheelchair today

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 4d

Deloitte Australia retracts ChatGPT report, refunds government

vibe compliance

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HJV... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251007-del... - podcast

time: 3 min 28 sec

office worker with white shirt and glasses, dozing on his laptop keyboard

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Everett Ruess Fan Club @everettruessfans.bsky.social · 22h

going to be thinking about this post for a while

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 1d

ME: *last night* I'm really enjoying these harpsichord pieces by John Bull. I should look into his life. I'll bet he wasn't a spy for Queen Elizabeth who had to flee England after the Archbishop of Canterbury declared him "the horniest man alive."

WIKIPEDIA:

In 1586 he received his degree from Oxford, and he became a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal that same year. In 1591, following the death of John Blitheman, he became organist at the Chapel Royal; in 1592 he received his doctorate from Oxford, and in 1596 he became the first professor of music at Gresham College on the recommendation of Queen Elizabeth, who admired him. There is some evidence that she sent Bull on espionage missions: his eighteen-month trip to the continent in 1601–02, ostensibly for health reasons, has never been satisfactorily explained, and his whereabouts there, apart from a visit to Brussels, then in the Spanish Netherlands, remain a mystery.[4][5] On the death of Elizabeth, he entered into the service of King James, establishing a reputation as a skilled composer, keyboard performer and improviser.

Just after publishing seven keyboard pieces in Parthenia, Bull left England for good, secretly and with great haste in October 1613. His salary at the Chapel Royal was paid in lieu to Edmund Hooper.[7] Bull was fleeing the wrath of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, and King James himself; the charge this time was adultery. William Trumbull, the English envoy in the Low Countries, after first attempting to cover for him – but later fearing for his own position if he continued to do so – wrote to the King in early 1614:

Bull did not leave your Majesties service for any wrong done unto him, or for matter of religion, under which fained pretext he now sought to wrong the reputation of your Majesties justice, but did in that dishonest matter steal out of England through the guilt of a corrupt conscience, to escape the punishment, which notoriously he had deserved, and was designed to have been inflicted on him by the hand of justice, for his incontinence, fornication, adultery, and other grievious crimes.

The Archbishop of Canterbury had said of him the previous year: "the man hath more music than honesty and is as famous for marring of virginity as he is for fingering of organs and virginals."

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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 23h

Learn how to make custom procedural creatures in Dwarf Fortress to make your fortresses even more spooky. Tutorial by DPh Kraken.

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Random creatures with Lua | DF Modding Tutorial

Learn how Dwarf Fortress generates procedural creatures using Lua, and how to customize your own. This is a tutorial by DPh Kraken (https://www.patreon.com/c/DPhKraken) for experienced modders. 0:00…

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 1d

“individuals participating in a public expression activity in this area are subject to discipline and/or arrest” is a delillo-level dystopian sentence

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1d

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

An easel sign reads, “UCLA
ATTENTION
No events are permitted in this area today. Per Policy 852, this location is NOT designated for public expression activities.
Individuals participating in an event or a public expression activity in this area are subject to discipline and/or arrest.
Scan for policy information.”

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 1d

Glad to see the Tabletop Games series at @uofmpress.bsky.social take off with @jreylee.bsky.social's book on Catan.

Clear, unambiguous writing on abstraction and gaming with regard to colonial themes.

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Everett Ruess Fan Club @everettruessfans.bsky.social · 1d

the moon going to sleep at dawn

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greg2hats @cyberbadboy.com · 1d

I wish that breast milk were a fetish thing but for me the sense memory is standing in front of the bottle warmer after my 1000th night of interrupted sleep with the lowest level of cognition you can have while also conscious. Standing there with the neuronal activity of a crab waiting for it

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Montresor’s Groucho Puppet @winteron.bsky.social · 2d

Day 9: Lutoslawski, Funeral Music, “Prologue”

enough tritones for ya?

Lutosławski: Funeral Music (in memory of Béla Bartók) for string orchestra: Prologue

YouTube video by Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra - Topic

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Everett Ruess Fan Club @everettruessfans.bsky.social · 1d

seven eyed mask from terminal dogma spotted in the wild

closeup of the 7 eyed lilith mask from NGE as beadwork badge on a jacket

beadwork on pink jacket: tell me about first contact

WHESS HARMAN

Born 1990 in ince Pupert, BC, Canada

POTLATCH PUNK, 2018

Jackets with seed beads, shell buttons

My series, Potlatch Punk, begin in 201 4 shortly afte r
graduating university and has been evolving as it
continues. Originally, the series consisted of only
embellished jackets, but in 2021, I began making blankets
similar to the ones that are made for regalia in my home
community. These works are not regalia in the sense that
they are not intended for ceremony, but are a way of
borrowing the format to denote the important acts of joy
and resistance that play a significant role in forming and
maintaining my cultural and political identities

The "bahtlat" or "potlatch" is a traditional governance
system used by many Indigenous peoples west of The
Rocky Mountains, including my own. They are hosted by
individual clans and are held to make important decisions,
commemorate arrivals, departures and death, as well as to
formally pass on specific roles/names within the
community. Guests from other clans and nations are
invited to witness, and generous gifts are given for this
service. Potlatches are also a way to redistribute wealth;
some potlatches are held explicitly as acts of gratitude or

communal care. When blankets (and songs, dances and
other artwork) are made for potlatches, they are typically
commissioned from artists outside of the hosting clan. I try to
thread these principles throughout my projects

This jacket speaks to the need I sometimes have in urban
spaces, and especially when
am travelling, to be recognized
if not as a member of my admittedly obscure home
community, at least as someone from the distinct tradition of
potlatching nations. As a nation with only just over 2500
registered members, creating a record that proves our
presence for future generations wherever possible has
always felt important in my work

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Jennifer Sensiba, Desert Bloom RV Adventures @desertbloomrv.com · 2d

IM NOT,,,,,,,,,ILL LITORATE,,,,,,,,JUST OPD HAMDS CAMT TOUGH KEYS GOOD,,,,,,,,,NOT YELLING ALL CAPS KEYBOARD IS BROKEN

ZIRI SEMD THE FACE BOOK POST

-Sent from my Sony DEH-1022h Bluetooth Stereo

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james @james.claims · 2d

maycontaintracesofnutsdonotoperateheavymachinerymayincreasesuicidalideationorcausesuddendeathnotrecommendedforpregnantwomensevenoutoffivedentistsagreemayleadtothesecondcomingofchrist

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 2d

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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