Madlolz
@eightbitaria.bsky.social
She/her. Classically trained singer. Ludomusicologist. JRPG Queen. Art history enthusiast. Not great with social media. Support your local businesses. Views expressed on this account are my own.
https://linktr.ee/8bit_aria
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Me in 2000 playing Majoras Mask: Nintendo is so weird and surreal. Don't the adults in Termina realise the world is going to end? Why do I, a literal child, have to save them?!
Me in 2026: *Takes a long drag on a cigarette*
Me in 2026: *Takes a long drag on a cigarette*
February 16, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Me in 2000 playing Majoras Mask: Nintendo is so weird and surreal. Don't the adults in Termina realise the world is going to end? Why do I, a literal child, have to save them?!
Me in 2026: *Takes a long drag on a cigarette*
Me in 2026: *Takes a long drag on a cigarette*
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I think often of the Rossettis’s beloved pet wombat, who once seized upon the distraction provided by Algernon Swinburne reciting a poem by Walt Whitman during a dinner party to eat the entire box of cigars meant to smoke during dessert
February 13, 2026 at 8:16 PM
I think often of the Rossettis’s beloved pet wombat, who once seized upon the distraction provided by Algernon Swinburne reciting a poem by Walt Whitman during a dinner party to eat the entire box of cigars meant to smoke during dessert
Do you ever just. Accidentally take your morning medications before bed. Medications that should be taken in the morning for a reason. So you end up wide awake all night and begin begging for sweet death a 4:00am.
Yup. Truly the cherry on top of a garbage heap of a week.
Yup. Truly the cherry on top of a garbage heap of a week.
February 13, 2026 at 9:08 AM
Do you ever just. Accidentally take your morning medications before bed. Medications that should be taken in the morning for a reason. So you end up wide awake all night and begin begging for sweet death a 4:00am.
Yup. Truly the cherry on top of a garbage heap of a week.
Yup. Truly the cherry on top of a garbage heap of a week.
There's a moment where this becomes a little too Wagnerian. But overall, this is a MUCH better ending to the opera, I think.
(For reference: I strongly dislike much of Turnadot. I find Calif and "Nessum Dorma" intolerable, so I appreciate the efforts here to make both less terrible)
(For reference: I strongly dislike much of Turnadot. I find Calif and "Nessum Dorma" intolerable, so I appreciate the efforts here to make both less terrible)
Opera friends (hi @pwallinga.bsky.social) I am loving this annotated score for Christopher Tin's recently commissioned ending to Turandot.
It'll feature at the Olympics on Friday in the men's free skate as well, so prep now! :p
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwKE...
It'll feature at the Olympics on Friday in the men's free skate as well, so prep now! :p
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwKE...
Turandot: Christopher Tin Finale - Score Video with Composer Annotations
YouTube video by Christopher Tin
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:23 AM
There's a moment where this becomes a little too Wagnerian. But overall, this is a MUCH better ending to the opera, I think.
(For reference: I strongly dislike much of Turnadot. I find Calif and "Nessum Dorma" intolerable, so I appreciate the efforts here to make both less terrible)
(For reference: I strongly dislike much of Turnadot. I find Calif and "Nessum Dorma" intolerable, so I appreciate the efforts here to make both less terrible)
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The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 AM
The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante
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Pokemon 30th Anniversary Super Bowl ad featuring Lady Gaga, Trevor Noah, Jisoo, Charles Leclerc, Lamine Yamal, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, and Young Miko.
February 9, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Pokemon 30th Anniversary Super Bowl ad featuring Lady Gaga, Trevor Noah, Jisoo, Charles Leclerc, Lamine Yamal, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, and Young Miko.
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This, right here, is the point.
This is art.
And this is *everything* genAI is trying to take from you.
This is everything capitalism is trying to kill in you.
This is art.
And this is *everything* genAI is trying to take from you.
This is everything capitalism is trying to kill in you.
I think one of the best things about Bad Bunny’s performance is that it was so *specific*. It so clearly had a point of view coming from real lived experience and actual emotion, actual heart, not cynical calculation. Just beautiful.
February 9, 2026 at 1:41 AM
This, right here, is the point.
This is art.
And this is *everything* genAI is trying to take from you.
This is everything capitalism is trying to kill in you.
This is art.
And this is *everything* genAI is trying to take from you.
This is everything capitalism is trying to kill in you.
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I am counting watching the half time show towards my hours this week because I'll need to talk about it in my class. Will be fun to reference when I start the 1950s and TV at the end of this week and beginning of next.
February 9, 2026 at 1:40 AM
I am counting watching the half time show towards my hours this week because I'll need to talk about it in my class. Will be fun to reference when I start the 1950s and TV at the end of this week and beginning of next.
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@grundrza.bsky.social is also great on the chilling effect this censorship in Florida is having on classes. The haphazard and random nature of who gets targeted is designed to make everyone terrified.
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
@grundrza.bsky.social is also great on the chilling effect this censorship in Florida is having on classes. The haphazard and random nature of who gets targeted is designed to make everyone terrified.
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The singer from 3 Doors Down died. Posted on the band's Threads page:
February 7, 2026 at 8:35 PM
The singer from 3 Doors Down died. Posted on the band's Threads page:
Everybody on the club gettin' tipsy? More like me in the club gettin' eepy
February 7, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Everybody on the club gettin' tipsy? More like me in the club gettin' eepy
Was on a mild high from administering a pen a paper exam with no major issues (no blatant cheating!)... and then my uni sent an email saying they officially support "responsible" use of AI 🙃 good, great, so glad that's settled and yet I still have 10 AI related academic dishonesty hearings to do
February 3, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Was on a mild high from administering a pen a paper exam with no major issues (no blatant cheating!)... and then my uni sent an email saying they officially support "responsible" use of AI 🙃 good, great, so glad that's settled and yet I still have 10 AI related academic dishonesty hearings to do
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ten years ago today no one clapped
February 2, 2026 at 12:57 PM
ten years ago today no one clapped
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How are you supposed to explain to people how this entire social, political, and economic reality is entirely downstream from anime getting banned on some dipshit's forum 25ish years ago
So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.
January 31, 2026 at 4:19 AM
How are you supposed to explain to people how this entire social, political, and economic reality is entirely downstream from anime getting banned on some dipshit's forum 25ish years ago
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Totally unsurprising that rich and powerful men acted like Epstein having the most basic grasp of music theory made him a genius. Knowing that Beethoven’s 5th doesn’t start in the downbeat and being able to remember 2 scale degrees is not a sign of superior intelligence!
January 31, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Totally unsurprising that rich and powerful men acted like Epstein having the most basic grasp of music theory made him a genius. Knowing that Beethoven’s 5th doesn’t start in the downbeat and being able to remember 2 scale degrees is not a sign of superior intelligence!
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If your PhD program is not teaching every one of your students how to write book reviews, abstracts, and journal articles, you are committing educational malpractice. These skills should not be outsourced, nor should they be the purview of a special few favored advisees
I would like to take a moment to remind my colleagues that it s not the job of book reviews editors to train your PhD students in academic niceties such as punctuation, sentence structure, or reading the damn instructions.
January 31, 2026 at 8:31 PM
If your PhD program is not teaching every one of your students how to write book reviews, abstracts, and journal articles, you are committing educational malpractice. These skills should not be outsourced, nor should they be the purview of a special few favored advisees
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catherine o’hara deserves the same reverence folks extended to robin williams.
January 30, 2026 at 6:57 PM
catherine o’hara deserves the same reverence folks extended to robin williams.
Reading High Fidelity for a class this semester and oh man the protagonist is cringe. Then I cringed even more when I read I am the same age as him. Anyway the book is really well written and the music references are hella cool.
January 27, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Reading High Fidelity for a class this semester and oh man the protagonist is cringe. Then I cringed even more when I read I am the same age as him. Anyway the book is really well written and the music references are hella cool.
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The Strong is honored to announce the acquisition of the Curt Vendel Atari Collection. Curt was a pioneer in video game preservation. The collection contains retail material, schematics, documentation, prototypes, and more.
www.museumofplay.org/press-releas...
www.museumofplay.org/press-releas...
January 27, 2026 at 4:06 PM
The Strong is honored to announce the acquisition of the Curt Vendel Atari Collection. Curt was a pioneer in video game preservation. The collection contains retail material, schematics, documentation, prototypes, and more.
www.museumofplay.org/press-releas...
www.museumofplay.org/press-releas...
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I've had a promotional VHS for the test animation that became Batman: The Animated Series for a long time, I bought it on eBay in like...1999? The version they put as a bonus on the DVD said they lost the audio but uh, here it is. You're welcome Bruce Timm.
January 27, 2026 at 1:30 AM
I've had a promotional VHS for the test animation that became Batman: The Animated Series for a long time, I bought it on eBay in like...1999? The version they put as a bonus on the DVD said they lost the audio but uh, here it is. You're welcome Bruce Timm.
Did not expect The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay to have a mad scene with a man. I am all for it. 10/10 I was shook.
January 24, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Did not expect The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay to have a mad scene with a man. I am all for it. 10/10 I was shook.
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So psyched that horror musical Sinners got 16 Oscar nominations that it made me want to tell you all about me watching Sinners on a plane where they kept all the blood, Michael B Jordan’s sex scene, lynching references, but removed all the cunnilingus moments. Really sums up the culture
January 22, 2026 at 11:34 PM
So psyched that horror musical Sinners got 16 Oscar nominations that it made me want to tell you all about me watching Sinners on a plane where they kept all the blood, Michael B Jordan’s sex scene, lynching references, but removed all the cunnilingus moments. Really sums up the culture
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all of Classical Music Bluesky yesterday and today:
January 20, 2026 at 7:50 PM
all of Classical Music Bluesky yesterday and today:
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Bluesky is owned by musicology now, I don’t make the rules
January 20, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Bluesky is owned by musicology now, I don’t make the rules