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Robin Oak

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He/they Making worlds with words and fighting with my brain. Expect art and book things I enjoy, incl. some spicy stuff, the odd bit of politics. 🔞, plus swears a lot. STORIES: https://robinoak.itch.io/ BLOG https://akornboi.wordpress.com

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Robin Oak @robinjoak.bsky.social · 23d

Who's this for?

I think probably autistic creatives who struggle with shame, people who struggle defining a single cohesive vision of their creative work, people who're horny and have been told to feel bad about it.

Robin Oak @robinjoak.bsky.social · 24d

Tying Myself in Knots is out!

It's about shame, autism, self-expression and acceptable art. It's personal and not what I usually write, but I think it's good.

I hope people 'get' it, or at least, enjoy it!

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#Autism #Shame #SelfExpression #Writing #LyricEssay

Tying Myself In Knots

Consider each of these fragments connected like knots in a web, like kinbaku. – Masking feels like cutting part of myself off. It feels like taking an elastic band, or a piece of string and w…

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Robin Oak @robinjoak.bsky.social · 1h

So I'm kinda familiar with overstimulation in terms of sensory stimuli; too much noise, light etc, how does it work with organising your documents and information?

Robin Oak @robinjoak.bsky.social · 1h

That's how I usually start, too, but I get off track, too easily. Some of the tangents are irresistable; this might be a discipline thing more than anything 😅

Robin Oak @robinjoak.bsky.social · 1h

I was always disheartened by it, thinking it meant I'd never be serious about writing, and recently I saw a video of George RR Martin talking about the same thing, so that was vindicating! Apparently outlines suck all the fun out of it for him, which surprised me given the length of his books.

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Robin Oak @robinjoak.bsky.social · 1h

Even if we don't get there, it'll be fun to try!

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 1h

Yes.

“Everyday we wake up
and collectively make
a world together; but
which one of us, left to
our own devices, would
ever decide they wanted
to make a world like this
one?”

— David Graeber, “Bullshit Jobs: A Theory”

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Robin Oak @robinjoak.bsky.social · 1h

You're truly not alone in this one. I am an ardent believer in science as a way to advance humanity until I encounter a govt. Form online and then I long for fire and cave paintings 😅

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Eve Harms, Gourd Respecter @eveharms.com · 2h

This absolutely rules

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 4h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 4h

You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?

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Wage Dispute @wagedispute.bsky.social · 5h

Are you doing your bit to fight back against the puritanical christo-corporate sanitisation and reckless profiteering of the once open internet?

Here's to future where the internet is weird and threatening to corporations again.

Self portrait, August 2021.
Full series elsewhere!

Self portrait photo of a model sitting on a dining table with a stack of pancakes, wearing a dress and black lingerie with sneakers and a bucket hat.

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Robin Oak @robinjoak.bsky.social · 4h

I want to be described as "weird and threatening to corporations" SO badly lmao

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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 6h

We were also at a point where lots of new tech was being created to make things easier for artists, and suddenly that's all being wiped away in favor of an anti-artist AI fad.

"Oh, artists don't need tech that works, because ChatGPT will lie to you and say that it can do things it can't! Eat sh*t!"

Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 11h

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 5h

Some film from around South Wales

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Robin Oak @robinjoak.bsky.social · 5h

Love these; so atmospheric - they really spark story ideas about the expressionless white-faced queen of the deep wood.

James "of Bright" Davidson @jamesdavidson.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you so much. This was from 2023. Jenn made her costume out of old curtains. We were super lucky to score an extra foggy morning up the mountain that day. Didn't even plan it!

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James "of Bright" Davidson @jamesdavidson.bsky.social · 2d

Do you like ghost stories?

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Robin Oak @robinjoak.bsky.social · 5h

What puts you off outlining? It seems to suck the fun out of it, for me. I like finding out what's going to happen as I'm going along XD

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Robin Oak @robinjoak.bsky.social · 5h

When I'm on my death bed, I'm still going to be trying to convince myself that I should give outlining a go lol I've tried over and over and I just can't seem to get on with it, but I also can't seem to get much *finished* by just writing. I'll write LOADS, but it never seems to end right.