Austin Lemmons
@musicdad.bsky.social
Music teacher (steel pans, jazz band, percussion, band), dad, husband (he/him)
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Hey there’s just a few days left in the year and I would love if you helped me get over a big milestone on signups to get my writing in your inbox by signing up today. It’s free, fun, and you get something every couple weeks: dansinker.com/follow/
December 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Hey there’s just a few days left in the year and I would love if you helped me get over a big milestone on signups to get my writing in your inbox by signing up today. It’s free, fun, and you get something every couple weeks: dansinker.com/follow/
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Happy solstice to all you round-earthers out there.
December 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Happy solstice to all you round-earthers out there.
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"prompt theft" is funny as hell like oh no somebody did the same google search as me. grow up
December 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
"prompt theft" is funny as hell like oh no somebody did the same google search as me. grow up
I cannot WAIT for this to happen and for reality to bite these AI bros in the ass
So, one thing the AI boosters downplay is that LLMs and image generators are very very expensive to run. Right now, venture capital is lavishly subsidizing those costs but eventually people are going to have to start paying the actual price of these products and I predict usage will crater
December 20, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I cannot WAIT for this to happen and for reality to bite these AI bros in the ass
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rich people will still vaccinate their kids. Poor people, however...
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Under RFK Jr., U.S. plans to stop recommending most vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:16 PM
rich people will still vaccinate their kids. Poor people, however...
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But let’s talk about how to responsibly use genAI cuz it’s not going anywhere. Ppl have to accept that lack of clean air and potable water is the cost of progress.
PEOPLE MAG ON MUSK VS. MEMPHIS: “Resident says she can’t open windows anymore because of rotten smell from living near Elon’s data center in BOXTOWN…”
No community input. Just vague promises of jobs and investment. @MemphisChamber @mayorpaulyoung
people.com/resident-liv...
No community input. Just vague promises of jobs and investment. @MemphisChamber @mayorpaulyoung
people.com/resident-liv...
December 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
But let’s talk about how to responsibly use genAI cuz it’s not going anywhere. Ppl have to accept that lack of clean air and potable water is the cost of progress.
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manifesting:
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🕯 ai bubble 🕯
🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯
🕯 for all involved 🕯
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🕯 ai bubble 🕯
🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯
🕯 for all involved 🕯
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December 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
manifesting:
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🕯 🕯
🕯 ai bubble 🕯
🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯
🕯 for all involved 🕯
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🕯 ai bubble 🕯
🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯
🕯 for all involved 🕯
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The problem, as always, is the guns.
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The problem, as always, is the guns.
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Gonna need this true crime docuseries ASAP
December 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Gonna need this true crime docuseries ASAP
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Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
“I wonder why my back and neck don’t feel great today” he thought, as he sat with his head in the middle of the chair back and his tailbone an inch or two from the front edge of the chair, knees bent with his feet on the ottoman and the weight of his sleeping child on his belly
November 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
“I wonder why my back and neck don’t feel great today” he thought, as he sat with his head in the middle of the chair back and his tailbone an inch or two from the front edge of the chair, knees bent with his feet on the ottoman and the weight of his sleeping child on his belly
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Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next
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While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.
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Daylight Saving Time is increasingly hard to notice when my digital devices are like, "What? Nothing happened. We know what time it is."
And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"
And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"
November 5, 2023 at 2:04 PM
Daylight Saving Time is increasingly hard to notice when my digital devices are like, "What? Nothing happened. We know what time it is."
And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"
And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"
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Very cool milestone, surely this will be what he’s remembered for, not anything else
Drake becomes the first artist in history to score 15 Diamond-certified singles in the US.
October 26, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Very cool milestone, surely this will be what he’s remembered for, not anything else
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you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
August 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
Same here, but with K-12 public ed.
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Same here, but with K-12 public ed.
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But also AI is not going to make you a better participant in civic life or a more conscientious and self-aware person and those are part of high school too so 🤷♀️
October 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
But also AI is not going to make you a better participant in civic life or a more conscientious and self-aware person and those are part of high school too so 🤷♀️
CSN’s Blackbird
Without saying Hurt, fav Cover Song?
October 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
CSN’s Blackbird
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Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.”
My latest in @thenation
My latest in @thenation
The Supreme Court Just Gave the OK to Racial Profiling
The court’s ruling allowing ICE to resume its indiscriminate round-ups of LA’s Latino residents can only be described as one thing.
www.thenation.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.”
My latest in @thenation
My latest in @thenation
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This is just the stage in a pyramid scheme where you get invited to somebody's house and they ask you to pay them money for them to teach you how to sell the same product they've been selling
They really are totally out of ideas lol
September 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
This is just the stage in a pyramid scheme where you get invited to somebody's house and they ask you to pay them money for them to teach you how to sell the same product they've been selling
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There is no war in Ba Sing Se
“There is no Constitutional Crisis" is exactly what someone would say if they created a Constitutional crisis.
September 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
There is no war in Ba Sing Se
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Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok
August 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok