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winteraid.bsky.social
Sad song singer, general online person. aka schlafshane. 🇮🇪 in California. winteraid.com. music, technology, policy.
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Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

submitted 55 days ago • 185 comments

🔥 Cozy up to a digital fireplace with Sierra On-Line's "A Computer Christmas" (1986). 🎄💾 This vintage software's Yule Log vibe reminds us why preserving digital works matters. 🎁 See the whole card. ➡️ archive.org/details/sier... Preservation #Christmas #vanishingculture

submitted 62 days ago • 26 comments

Brilliant critique of Say Nothing (both book and show) by Jack Sheehan for @thebaffler.com. thebaffler.com/latest/codes...

submitted 65 days ago • 13 comments

A good cause!

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

me in my 20s: it’s saturday night! time to go get drunk and party!!! me in my 40s: ah, saturday night. time to enjoy an evening with my family and perhaps enjoy a drink or two me in my 8470s: huh. i think i might be god me in my 98580s: yep i’m god for sure

submitted 72 days ago • 130 comments

this earthquake is really coming too soon after the last one

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

always a highlight of this time of year, to be devoured alongside wine and mince pies

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Touching to have Spotify celebrate the 1-year anniversary of my layoff by demonstrating that they could not, in fact, still do Wrapped just as well without me.

submitted 82 days ago • 44 comments

not sure i will ever be able to get my head around these numbers. 34M streams in 2024. doesn't feel real.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

It’s so interesting to see these urgent exhortations to reestablish decorum. I have not seen evidence of a “coarsening” of American society. If anything, the opposite: I’ve seen thousands of individuals asserting their humanity and protesting the indignity of the system UHC profits from.

submitted 81 days ago • 261 comments

"It’s not that Trump is some kind of digital genius... He talks this way everywhere. It’s always locker room talk with Trump. It just turns out that, by 2024, someone had invented locker rooms that fit millions of people, but that simulate for listeners the same low-consequence intimacy."

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

The Irish election count is the best election count. Just loads of paper empties on a table and sorted into piles in front of everyone.

submitted 87 days ago • 3 comments

Happy Thanksgiving

submitted 88 days ago • 49 comments

🚗Beep beep, get in! We're going on a journey through the incredible history, stories and culture of Ireland. 📚 Follow us as we share some of the 12 million items we safeguard in our collections. 📷Ring of Kerry, ca. 1960. Catalogue no.: TIL603

submitted 102 days ago • 8 comments

Bluesky is built to make social more like the Web again, so we will never suppress links. Link to your writing, your art, your personal site — this is the social internet, designed from the ground up to be open and interoperable.

submitted 105 days ago • 287 comments

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) asked her Instagram followers who split their ballot between her & Trump or Trump & another Dem to explain why they did it. The responses are v interesting (summary in ALT text). (📸 Screenshot: AOC on Instagram)

submitted 105 days ago • 64 comments

Just one of the different brands of scammy nonsense you have to be aware of if you want to be a musician on the Internet Can't even count how many times someone has pretended to own my songs

submitted 408 days ago • 0 comments

It's a cold morning in San Francisco and I'm listening to this album my friend made which is just the most glorious embrace of grief open.spotify.com/album/14ssRg...

submitted 408 days ago • 0 comments