Author | Lightnews

syd

@sydastry.com

440 followers 350 following 540 posts

im here to post | 27 | they/them music, games, screaming into the void never been curious in my life audio guy @art.thief.games listen to my album too much ? https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/sydastry/too-much-

distrokid.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

syd @sydastry.com · Mar 20

IT’S HERE

My album too much ? Is out NOW everywhere

Tysm to @angelmsg.bsky.social without whom this album would never exist, nor would any music from me post 2020.

Screenshot from Spotify of sydastry’s new album too much ?

A picture of Syd tucking their hair behind their ear to the right of the frame

3 7 15

syd @sydastry.com · 13h

internalized too much of this weird attitude !

1 2

syd @sydastry.com · 13h

Tbh i think this is what led to me churning out my first album as quickly as possible before i had time to even think about it. It’s like, in order to get to a place where i now feel comfortable being seen trying, i had to witness no one getting mad at me for asking them to listen

1 3

Reposted by syd

Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 13h

i'm trying to find a way to have fun and challenge myself with music again. but it's hard because of how much the attitude that you're basically a burden on someone else for making art you want other people to fucking listen to exists. sorry man, i think that sucks!

1 1 11

syd @sydastry.com · 1d

I don’t care if Hayley Williams at the Rico Nasty show happened to u it should have happened 2 me instead

1 5

Reposted by syd

onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

everybody transgender

120 1.1K 7.2K

Reposted by syd

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

3.2K 19K 87K

Reposted by syd

onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died

130 3.5K 18K

syd @sydastry.com · 2d

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

syd @sydastry.com · 3d

But you didn't say "lindsay ellis is a liberal" you said it is obvious she likes hamilton *because* she's a liberal. which implies a sense of overfamiliarity with her and her reasoning when she has never said anything of the sort to my knowledge, and you're providing no evidence of her doing so

1 2

syd @sydastry.com · 3d

Anyone saying I liked Hadestown because I'm a socialist would be reaching, presumptive, and reductive at best. I would think it's a little weird for someone to draw that conclusion when there's plenty of real reasons to like that musical.

1 1

syd @sydastry.com · 3d

Saying she likes hamilton because she's a liberal would be like saying i like hadestown because i'm a socialist. Like, sure, there's a bit about unionizing the workers of hell in there, but really I like Hadestown because it's extremely well-written and I love the myth.

1 1

syd @sydastry.com · 3d

I am explaining to you that it isn't, because unlike your claim, there is textual evidence to support that she likes Hamilton for the same reasons she likes other, similar musicals; she has a pattern of liking musicals that are corny, overly dramatic, and popularly maligned.

1 1

syd @sydastry.com · 3d

Because you aren't simply stating her politics, you're implying that her defense of the musical is *because* of her politics as if that is an obvious conclusion to draw.

1 1

syd @sydastry.com · 3d

i am here to discuss why lindsay ellis is publicly defending hamilton within the context of the other musicals she has defended.

1 1

syd @sydastry.com · 3d

then a whole lot of academic work is parasocial if you think that finding a shared quality of several works someone has chosen to highlight and publicly defend is such lmfao

1 2

syd @sydastry.com · 3d

frankly i dont care. again, im not here to discuss lindsay's politics. i don't have a vested interest in the politics of a mid-sized youtuber who i don't personally know.

1 1

syd @sydastry.com · 3d

and to be clear, i'm not asserting that lindsay is necessarily a liberal here, either. i haven't seen a video from her in years, idk what goes on in that woman's life these days, and i'm not gonna claim to know where she stands right now. it's just not very important to me.

1 2

syd @sydastry.com · 3d

like, sure, lindsay is a liberal, but i think it's insane to deduce that oh, it's clearly because of some sort of political agreement she has with the thing when, again, the medium dictates that more likely than not, esp if we're talking broadway, any musical you like is gonna be libbed up.

1 2

syd @sydastry.com · 3d

What's more parasocial, using common sense to make an educated guess about something being within the realms of someone's taste based on things they've publicly stated in their work are within their taste, or asserting w no connecting evidence that someone likes something bc of their politics?

2 3

syd @sydastry.com · 3d

do you know how to fucking read? that's not a statement i made at any point.

Reposted by syd

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 5d

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University

Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

www.ru.nl

26 810 2K

syd @sydastry.com · 4d

Webster dictionary entry for “by and large” defining it as “on the whole : in general”

syd @sydastry.com · 4d

Respectfully if you look at someone’s taste in musicals for their politics it’s always gonna seem libbed up bc by and large, the whole medium is. Even musicals that try to push past liberal paradigms have pitfalls thanks to the formulas and tropes of the whole thing

3 42

syd @sydastry.com · 4d

Based on having actually engaged with her work im pretty sure it’s actually because she’s a musical theatre nerd whose taste involves the corniest musicals in existence (cats and phantom to name 2)

1 52

syd @sydastry.com · 5d

wait no-