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Photographer and videographer specializing in live theatre. I also photograph events and headshots. Founder of https://starbellystudios.com. Book lover, musician, and audio engineer-ish. A new album I've been working on with some friends is coming soon.
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Good to know—and try to remember. Never know what situation you’re going to find yourself in:

Same, Murderbot. Same.

And as exciting as it is for @bookshop-org.bsky.social to now be selling ebooks, it does nothing to solve the closed ebook ecosystem mindset. It just offers another closed ecosystem. 2/2

Here’s hoping for platform-agnostic, DRM-free ebooks. Eventually. 1/

CARTOON OF THE DAY

If only captains of industry, elected officials, and…well, everybody read good sci-fi (or a history book at least) more people would have recognized the danger. 2/2

Many random non-sci-fi people in my life have brought up Butler’s “Parable…” books as being scarily prescient re today’s world situation. Having read them ages ago, and having recognized the parallel to modern events from the books, I’ve been barking about the American slide to fascism for years. 1/

Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

Bandcamp lets us keep 85% of revenue. That is the best rate of anybody out there. Over a period of about 15 years, I have taken home ~$3000. Every album is "pay what you want", so you all rock. If you bought an album for $5 then you gave me more than streaming the whole album ~300 times.

Random photo of my guitar, because he pretty.

On this day in 1981, Rush released their eighth studio album, the masterpiece Moving Pictures. It remains the band's best-selling album and today is considered one of the greatest albums ever made. Let's learn more about it! 🧵1/16

At long last! We came up with a name, so I guess we have to put the album out. February 27th on most streaming platforms (not Spotify or Amazon), and on @bandcamp.com

Will the real Anonymous account please stand up?

Rats. Back to the search for a band name. Our last choice was taken.

LGBTQIA minors make up 40% of the endangered minor runaway population. They are 120% more likely to be unhoused. They are also uniquely at risk for exploitation and trafficking. This is breathtakingly evil.

To all of the fitness people trying to get me to take an ice bath: just stop.

Holy fuck. There is nothing republicans love more than outing CIA officers.

This is why I will not be releasing our album on Spotify. Or Amazon, but that’s primarily because Amazon.

Somehow, Palpatine returned.* [*No irony]

I had an ad show up on Insta for CPAC. I mean, wtf? I thought the ad algo was supposed to target my interests? Anyway, I reported in for “possible violence”.

Cheesy poofs for breakfast? Don’t mind if I do.

We finally settled on a band name for this album we’ve been working on for ages, though I shall wait to unveil it. The masters are done, and now it’s time to start album art.

Who would have thought that coming up with band names could be so hard?

After a bit of a shite week due to unexpected tummy turmoil from bad prescribed drug interactions, Saturday is looking up. That said, a trip to mom’s is overdue, so a chill day is unlikely.

If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.

"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution." Ursula K. Le Guin / The Dispossessed