Shrub Dryad
@shrubdryad.bsky.social
Enthusiast, writer/artist/musician, mom, occasional YouTuber and streamer. she/her
Wellbeing for all!
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Wellbeing for all!
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Shrub Dryad
@shrubdryad.bsky.social
· Oct 1
The Devil Went Down to Broadway: A Musical Essay
YouTube video by Shrub Dryad
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The coolest thing I've ever made was a music video where I sang a filk of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" over footage from Sweeney Todd, Little Shop of Horrors, and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. All three stories have the same message: you can't make a deal with the devil, because he cheats.
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Imagine they're looking at each other passing in the other lane
December 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Imagine they're looking at each other passing in the other lane
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Phenomenal quote from Judy Garland here
December 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Phenomenal quote from Judy Garland here
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An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
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when you LOVE God but HATE the moon
December 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
when you LOVE God but HATE the moon
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
December 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
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"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
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Actually does help tbh
PRO TIP
If you have YouTubers you like and follow and watch their videos a lot
leave innane/positive comments on their videos. The algo is all fucked up for YT creators and a lot of videos get sent to the void for whatever reason.
I hate doing it, but I've been trying to do it.
If you have YouTubers you like and follow and watch their videos a lot
leave innane/positive comments on their videos. The algo is all fucked up for YT creators and a lot of videos get sent to the void for whatever reason.
I hate doing it, but I've been trying to do it.
December 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Actually does help tbh
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I guess I came real close to getting verified and therefore frozen in time as "Ryan North? But he died 30 years ago... this very night!" and it's hard to look at that alternate timeline and not think it's... better
December 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I guess I came real close to getting verified and therefore frozen in time as "Ryan North? But he died 30 years ago... this very night!" and it's hard to look at that alternate timeline and not think it's... better
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This 1998 Tove Jansson piece about the kind of mail she gets is uncomfortably familiar.
(From The Woman Who Borrowed Memories, NYR Books)
(From The Woman Who Borrowed Memories, NYR Books)
December 2, 2025 at 4:08 AM
This 1998 Tove Jansson piece about the kind of mail she gets is uncomfortably familiar.
(From The Woman Who Borrowed Memories, NYR Books)
(From The Woman Who Borrowed Memories, NYR Books)
I would kill for her. I would kill her. Either way what bliss
drawing of my d&d character. usually her giant hat is down for over the top of her head, but i wanted to draw her face so please accept this unreasonable hat position
December 2, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I would kill for her. I would kill her. Either way what bliss
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I named my fists Hercule and Poirot because they’re about to be covered in someone’s little grey cells.
…also because I prefer to sit in an armchair and let my burly sidekick actually do the physical work.
…also because I prefer to sit in an armchair and let my burly sidekick actually do the physical work.
I named my fists Pride and Prejudice, because it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of two fists must be in want of whupping ass
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
December 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I named my fists Hercule and Poirot because they’re about to be covered in someone’s little grey cells.
…also because I prefer to sit in an armchair and let my burly sidekick actually do the physical work.
…also because I prefer to sit in an armchair and let my burly sidekick actually do the physical work.
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One thing I learned from my short stint in local politics is that literally everyone who plays video games plays city builders
I’ve played a lot of simcity but I didn’t know you could go pro
November 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
One thing I learned from my short stint in local politics is that literally everyone who plays video games plays city builders
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oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes
November 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes
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reading a couple pop science/pop psych books for an upcoming video and these things have way fewer citations than the average post-hbomberguy video essay. lots of "many people are saying this". who though who is saying it "a study found" what was the name of the study
November 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
reading a couple pop science/pop psych books for an upcoming video and these things have way fewer citations than the average post-hbomberguy video essay. lots of "many people are saying this". who though who is saying it "a study found" what was the name of the study
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This is such a compassionate & thoughtful thread. I quit teaching—something I genuinely love doing—in 2022 for several burnout-inducing reasons, but the constantly compounding nightmare I see former colleagues enduring is so much worse.
I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is such a compassionate & thoughtful thread. I quit teaching—something I genuinely love doing—in 2022 for several burnout-inducing reasons, but the constantly compounding nightmare I see former colleagues enduring is so much worse.
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the mechs are not popular
November 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
the mechs are not popular
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Spellcheck tried to change 'drives to gigs' to 'drives gigs'. Yes, thank you, I am a Victorian cabbie and that's what I meant. It's a ha'penny to Baker Street, to a gentleman like yerself.
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Spellcheck tried to change 'drives to gigs' to 'drives gigs'. Yes, thank you, I am a Victorian cabbie and that's what I meant. It's a ha'penny to Baker Street, to a gentleman like yerself.
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good thread about dudes whose grift is “we’re visionaries!” when they’re really clown-grade hustlers
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
good thread about dudes whose grift is “we’re visionaries!” when they’re really clown-grade hustlers
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yo, Cameo is doing a Black Friday 20% off sale, and it's coming out of their cut, which is cool of them, so now would be the perfect time to order a Cameo from me if you'd like one, sale ends December 2nd www.cameo.com/prozd
SungWon Cho - Personalized videos on Cameo
SungWon Cho on Cameo! Cameo lets you request a personalized video message for any occasion.
www.cameo.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:49 PM
yo, Cameo is doing a Black Friday 20% off sale, and it's coming out of their cut, which is cool of them, so now would be the perfect time to order a Cameo from me if you'd like one, sale ends December 2nd www.cameo.com/prozd
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Weird Al
Randy Rainbow
Novelty cover bands
Local coffee shop acts
My friends
Weird Al
Randy Rainbow
Novelty cover bands
Local coffee shop acts
My friends
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
The String Cheese Incident
The String Cheese Incident
The String Cheese Incident
Phish
The String Cheese Incident
The String Cheese Incident
The String Cheese Incident
The String Cheese Incident
Phish
The String Cheese Incident
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to:
Kendrick Lamar
Freezepop
Lucky boys confusion
They might be giants
Postal service/death cab for cutie
Kendrick Lamar
Freezepop
Lucky boys confusion
They might be giants
Postal service/death cab for cutie
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Weird Al
Randy Rainbow
Novelty cover bands
Local coffee shop acts
My friends
Weird Al
Randy Rainbow
Novelty cover bands
Local coffee shop acts
My friends
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"oh, you research literature? you must get to read all the time, how fun!"
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"oh, you research literature? you must get to read all the time, how fun!"
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*
*me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*