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hamster.dance
Electronic-impressionist musician, software worker, parent of two rambunctious children. Also on Mastodon: @[email protected] https://hamster.dance/
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Seen this going around but I’m Reposting it with the full alt text bc everyone deserves to read this glorious reply from Boy George

I hate having to do this but I've launched a GFM. My beloved cat Emily needs expensive surgery to remove malignant tumors and simultaneously my (vital) car needs expensive work done. I'm in the hole. Any help - even sharing this around - would be much appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/help-cure-...

Bumping this for June! I am still actively looking for work. Hoping to clear $1500 to cover rent/expenses by the end of the month 🙏

It's good to know that a chunk of the public disapproves of how "mass deportation" is being done now, but genuinely what else did they expect it to look like last year? "I don't think they should be grabbing random moms and dads off the street" What else could those words have meant??

Some rando messaged me via Matrix. I was suspicious because they wrote like a playwright inexpertly rendering a North of England dialect in the text right down to omittin' the g from infinitives & gerunds like this. Chatted about world events for a bit and then asked if I had crypto investments

The Lord of the Rings films are older than ICE. The Matrix is older than ICE. Legally Blonde is older than ICE. We're not talking about a venerable American institution. We're talking about post-9/11 Patriot Act overreach. Claw that power back. Destroy ICE.

Noon MDT is 2pm EDT

THIS IS AMAZING! Researchers have made a SIGNIFICANT breakthrough in the quest for an HIV cure. By developing a method that enables the delivery of an mRNA-based therapy to make the virus VISIBLE WITHIN white blood cells, this approach paves the way to FULLY CLEAR the virus from the body. 🧪🧵⬇️

a kid with lesbian parents will have to call one mom "mother" and the 2nd mom "earthbound"

me: hey facebook, can i post some audio to my musician page facebook: u can upload video 😄 me: it's literally just 56 seconds of audio. i can convert it to any format fb: u can ✨ imagine with ai ✨

Honestly what is the deal with major text-centric social platforms allowing video posts but not audio? Mastodon has had audio posts for like ten years. Tumblr had it fifteen years ago. I go online to talk about weird sounds I recorded but I can't post them unless I make a video?

Composing is just asking “is this anything” whenever you write a new note

I mostly use a standalone softsynth that a lot of people wouldn't even consider to be a DAW, let alone a "serious" one

Belgium has no right to exist

Unbelievably horrified by this attack in Boulder. We don’t know the full story of the attacker, but no matter what it is, let me be clear: Senseless, antisemitic attacks do not help Palestinians, Jews, or Israelis. Committing terror attacks against people standing for hostages is disgusting.

my friend loaned me this and I spent a few hours perusing it, and it’s great. photography books from before AIDS always make me feel extremely emotional, and the work is incredibly gorgeous. extremely good project. a handful of favorites (although really it should be viewed as a complete book!)

Unreleased album stands at a runtime of 38'14" and I'm planning to record one more track that could bring it to ~42 minutes. More importantly, when I listen through it I feel good about it; it takes me on an emotional journey and I want to let other people in on that

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

I haven't found horror this personally compelling in a while. Something about "i've been trying to sell my own homemade Gatorade, It's creamy and filling but apparently nobody wants it" speaks to me as someone who makes niche music 😅

Very funny to me how we have the word *verboten* as a loan word in English. To indicate when something is *so* forbidden that it's forbidden in German as well

we've launched! star is spearheading this project & i'm helping out 💕 if you have spare income & would like to be a patron of the arts, please consider supporting the rising star patronage project, benefitting marginalized composers in the games industry.

then perish

Several days ago I left the family car with a mechanic for some urgent maintenance work and walked 3km back to the house. Most of the route is a two-lane countryside highway without sidewalks; not especially pedestrian-friendly but great views. I took a rideshare in the rain when I went back

New Worrystone album of ambient / quiet electronic industrial, out today 💚💀💜 myworrystone.bandcamp.com/album/lemnis...

Still true Always looking for more artists to work in close collab with

White House spokesperson demanding that Nike explain the slogan "Just do it"

Audacity is looking for audio engineer (C++) to join our team. Please share with any developers you know who might fit the bill. Salaries are discussed at the outset of the hiring process. Apply here: www.mu.se/careers/audi...

One of those "bought it before we knew he was a nazi" bumper stickers but on a Ford instead of a Tesla

"As It Was" by Harry Styles kinda fucks me up in an embarrassing way because it followed my second child being born and our move to new state while various aspects of our lives were put on hold by the pandemic. He's not singing about my life but also it's really true. Nothing is the same as it was

I think my arbitrary dividing lines for eras of internet history so far would be like: Telnet (1975), Mosaic (1993), YouTube (2005), Arab Spring (2011)

take this, all of you, and eat it