Ashanti Mills
@dakotacityrag.bsky.social
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Hey you! You attending MAGFest? You play an instrument and/or like to sing? You like Vocaloid music? If you answered yes to those questions, come join us at the Vocaloid Jam Session on Saturday at 3PM! It's gonna be a ton of fun, I promise!
Get a preview of what we'll be playing at projectvls.com!
Get a preview of what we'll be playing at projectvls.com!
December 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Hey you! You attending MAGFest? You play an instrument and/or like to sing? You like Vocaloid music? If you answered yes to those questions, come join us at the Vocaloid Jam Session on Saturday at 3PM! It's gonna be a ton of fun, I promise!
Get a preview of what we'll be playing at projectvls.com!
Get a preview of what we'll be playing at projectvls.com!
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No Library Wrapped from us — we don’t track what you read.
DCPL protects your privacy because it’s the law and the librarian way. 📚🔒
DCPL protects your privacy because it’s the law and the librarian way. 📚🔒
December 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
No Library Wrapped from us — we don’t track what you read.
DCPL protects your privacy because it’s the law and the librarian way. 📚🔒
DCPL protects your privacy because it’s the law and the librarian way. 📚🔒
The left, so the hat can flow with his quills while he runs!
December 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The left, so the hat can flow with his quills while he runs!
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The point of writing crap is not that you should barf out anything.
It's that you should be aware as you are writing it what the flaws are, and you need to get through it the first time, because the act of doing so informs you what is wrong.
It's that you should be aware as you are writing it what the flaws are, and you need to get through it the first time, because the act of doing so informs you what is wrong.
December 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
The point of writing crap is not that you should barf out anything.
It's that you should be aware as you are writing it what the flaws are, and you need to get through it the first time, because the act of doing so informs you what is wrong.
It's that you should be aware as you are writing it what the flaws are, and you need to get through it the first time, because the act of doing so informs you what is wrong.
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The entire time I was writing it I was like "oh my god this sucks, I suck, this is terrible" and I was making a list of all the ways it sucked.
That was NECESSARY to the fixing of the goddamn thing.
That was NECESSARY to the fixing of the goddamn thing.
December 24, 2025 at 3:57 AM
The entire time I was writing it I was like "oh my god this sucks, I suck, this is terrible" and I was making a list of all the ways it sucked.
That was NECESSARY to the fixing of the goddamn thing.
That was NECESSARY to the fixing of the goddamn thing.
also i’m watching emmet otter’s jugband christmas and this 100% applies to the riverbottom nightmarr band lmao
their flow is so wack and borderline cringe (as someone who thinks plenty of muppet music is genuinely sublime) but they do rock so fkn hard
their flow is so wack and borderline cringe (as someone who thinks plenty of muppet music is genuinely sublime) but they do rock so fkn hard
December 24, 2025 at 4:32 AM
also i’m watching emmet otter’s jugband christmas and this 100% applies to the riverbottom nightmarr band lmao
their flow is so wack and borderline cringe (as someone who thinks plenty of muppet music is genuinely sublime) but they do rock so fkn hard
their flow is so wack and borderline cringe (as someone who thinks plenty of muppet music is genuinely sublime) but they do rock so fkn hard
anything by Boston oh my god
and i love them so much, but the gulf between their vocals and instrumentals is insane (and consistent, afaict)
and i love them so much, but the gulf between their vocals and instrumentals is insane (and consistent, afaict)
December 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
anything by Boston oh my god
and i love them so much, but the gulf between their vocals and instrumentals is insane (and consistent, afaict)
and i love them so much, but the gulf between their vocals and instrumentals is insane (and consistent, afaict)
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Like when people say they are incompetent, at what exactly? They are succeeding at doing exactly what they wanted to do.
December 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Like when people say they are incompetent, at what exactly? They are succeeding at doing exactly what they wanted to do.
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Everyone sat around talking about how these people were incredibly stupid and then they managed to successfully implement large swathes of the plan that they all told us they were going to execute and you really have to wonder who is the stupid in this equation
December 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Everyone sat around talking about how these people were incredibly stupid and then they managed to successfully implement large swathes of the plan that they all told us they were going to execute and you really have to wonder who is the stupid in this equation
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The work that scholars and researchers actually do is the work that people *think* AI is doing. You read all sorts of things. You make connections. You notice where the holes are — what *hasn’t* been observed, questioned, investigated. You synthesize it into something that has never existed before.
December 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The work that scholars and researchers actually do is the work that people *think* AI is doing. You read all sorts of things. You make connections. You notice where the holes are — what *hasn’t* been observed, questioned, investigated. You synthesize it into something that has never existed before.
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Published a book about Scottish music publishers 1880-1951:- A Social History of Amateur Music-Making and Scottish National Identity (Routledge, 2025); and a couple of articles.
Academics: what's the best bit of knowledge you created this year?
I co-authored a new model of the Irish Neolithic, effectively rewriting social structure and the role of large funerary monuments for the creation of community identities
I co-authored a new model of the Irish Neolithic, effectively rewriting social structure and the role of large funerary monuments for the creation of community identities
What historians (and other scholars do) is create knowledge. We should use that phrase more and talk about what it means. I think we don't, and it's part of why AI enthusiasts are confused when we don't readily agree that our work can be replicated/replaced by their products.
December 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Published a book about Scottish music publishers 1880-1951:- A Social History of Amateur Music-Making and Scottish National Identity (Routledge, 2025); and a couple of articles.
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Less pettily, there's just so much in this amazing world to wonder about that it seems so sad to abdicate doing that.
My personal 2c on the AI in academia discourse is that if I discover you have used AI to replace your reading or writing, you are going on a literal list.
I am that petty. I don't want to deal with people who don't actually understand their areas.
I am that petty. I don't want to deal with people who don't actually understand their areas.
December 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Less pettily, there's just so much in this amazing world to wonder about that it seems so sad to abdicate doing that.
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Generative AI placeholders could never come up with something like this unhinged banger that never got changed in N64's California Speed
December 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Generative AI placeholders could never come up with something like this unhinged banger that never got changed in N64's California Speed
where are the other sonic fans who think this movie is ass. i only see negative reviews from people who think very little of the idea of a sonic the hedgehog movie
The 'Sonic The Hedgehog 3' movie was released 1 year ago today in theatres.
December 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
where are the other sonic fans who think this movie is ass. i only see negative reviews from people who think very little of the idea of a sonic the hedgehog movie
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NiGHTS shows up in 'Sonic Adventure 2' as an iconic building in Radical Highway. This also appears in the 'Sonic Generations' 3DS and 'Sonic Racing CrossWorlds' versions of the stage!
December 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
NiGHTS shows up in 'Sonic Adventure 2' as an iconic building in Radical Highway. This also appears in the 'Sonic Generations' 3DS and 'Sonic Racing CrossWorlds' versions of the stage!
was discussing a short story with some friends last night, about a future where ai are treated as “digital people” and someone raised: is there a level at which ai could advance such that you’d accept it as a person, or otherwise sentient?
December 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
was discussing a short story with some friends last night, about a future where ai are treated as “digital people” and someone raised: is there a level at which ai could advance such that you’d accept it as a person, or otherwise sentient?
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This is the fursona reveal concert btw
Up next in the XP Stage lineup is Anton Corazza! @antoncorazza.bsky.social is a composer, rapper, and aerophonist on game OSTs including TMNT: Shredder's Revenge, UNBEATABLE, Demon Turf, and more. Anton has long been a participant in the VGM communities, performing a range of genres. Don't miss it!
December 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
This is the fursona reveal concert btw
the thing that fucks me up most about ai use is when people have expertise in one area of a collaborative medium and use ai for the rest. asking for help is hard and so is the risk of being let down, but if we don’t keep trying with each other, what do we have left?
December 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
the thing that fucks me up most about ai use is when people have expertise in one area of a collaborative medium and use ai for the rest. asking for help is hard and so is the risk of being let down, but if we don’t keep trying with each other, what do we have left?
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i just want to inform everybody that the "insert deltarune music into a random song" has broken into real life
i was at two jam sessions over the weekend and between both days there were like 10 don't forgets and 5 megalovanias quoted in the solos
i was at two jam sessions over the weekend and between both days there were like 10 don't forgets and 5 megalovanias quoted in the solos
August 3, 2025 at 3:11 AM
i just want to inform everybody that the "insert deltarune music into a random song" has broken into real life
i was at two jam sessions over the weekend and between both days there were like 10 don't forgets and 5 megalovanias quoted in the solos
i was at two jam sessions over the weekend and between both days there were like 10 don't forgets and 5 megalovanias quoted in the solos
I didn’t know you were a visual artist! These are wonderful!
Finally time for sketches of my Kalos favorites; most of these are among my favorite designs from the whole series! Had already sketched most of these for something or another at some point in the past, but the last three generations will be mostly untrodden territory!
August 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I didn’t know you were a visual artist! These are wonderful!
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see also: Superman
Woody Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma. He died in Queens. He understood (and celebrated) both places as American, and as American in ways that resonated with each other.
That understanding wasn't unusual in those days. (It wasn't universal, but it wasn't unusual.) It's almost dead now.
That understanding wasn't unusual in those days. (It wasn't universal, but it wasn't unusual.) It's almost dead now.
July 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
see also: Superman
honestly i’m impressed that culture shifts of the last 20 years—increased social justice awareness, right wing backlash, increased surveillance of the specific words people use—has brought us to a point where a new slur drops and my response is “good, we need that”
This is the correct term
"SLOPPER" I'm losing my mind
July 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
honestly i’m impressed that culture shifts of the last 20 years—increased social justice awareness, right wing backlash, increased surveillance of the specific words people use—has brought us to a point where a new slur drops and my response is “good, we need that”
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Lovely arrangement of one of my favorite Kirby pieces. Show Jonathan some love
This week's piano highlight is the pyramid theme from Kirby's Dream Land 3, Sand Canyon 3!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPhP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPhP...
Kirby's Dream Land 3 - Sand Canyon 3 (Piano Stream Highlight)
YouTube video by Jonathan Aldrich
www.youtube.com
July 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Lovely arrangement of one of my favorite Kirby pieces. Show Jonathan some love
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HI BLUESKY
TOMORROW WERE DOING A MUTUAL AID AUCTION
AUCTIONING OFF JER RECORDS, INCLUDING SOLD OUT VARIANTS TO RAISE MONEY FOR FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES, AN ORG CURRENTLY FILING A LAWSUIT / ORGANIZING AGAINST THE EVERGLADES DETENTION CENTER AND TO PROTECT THE EVERGLADES! JOIN US 7/27 @ 4PM EST
TOMORROW WERE DOING A MUTUAL AID AUCTION
AUCTIONING OFF JER RECORDS, INCLUDING SOLD OUT VARIANTS TO RAISE MONEY FOR FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES, AN ORG CURRENTLY FILING A LAWSUIT / ORGANIZING AGAINST THE EVERGLADES DETENTION CENTER AND TO PROTECT THE EVERGLADES! JOIN US 7/27 @ 4PM EST
July 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
HI BLUESKY
TOMORROW WERE DOING A MUTUAL AID AUCTION
AUCTIONING OFF JER RECORDS, INCLUDING SOLD OUT VARIANTS TO RAISE MONEY FOR FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES, AN ORG CURRENTLY FILING A LAWSUIT / ORGANIZING AGAINST THE EVERGLADES DETENTION CENTER AND TO PROTECT THE EVERGLADES! JOIN US 7/27 @ 4PM EST
TOMORROW WERE DOING A MUTUAL AID AUCTION
AUCTIONING OFF JER RECORDS, INCLUDING SOLD OUT VARIANTS TO RAISE MONEY FOR FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES, AN ORG CURRENTLY FILING A LAWSUIT / ORGANIZING AGAINST THE EVERGLADES DETENTION CENTER AND TO PROTECT THE EVERGLADES! JOIN US 7/27 @ 4PM EST
one of my fav parts of superman was when i thought they were teasing a new obscure cgi monster character and it was just an established human character who had been given a really mean nickname by someone who doesn’t like her lol
July 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
one of my fav parts of superman was when i thought they were teasing a new obscure cgi monster character and it was just an established human character who had been given a really mean nickname by someone who doesn’t like her lol