Genuinely based op-ed. I wish this kind of thing were more common to hear from cis women with a platform.

In class: got a decent understanding of 17th-19th c. formal practices, and I honestly feel pretty unequipped to talk about it re: text/poetry

In lessons and elsewhere: I practically foamed at the mouth to talk about form, it's one of my favorite things. almost nobody cared, gg

there are many candidates for the epitaph on the end of history's headstone, but right now "we raised our kids to be better people than us; unfortunately, they were" feels pretty apt

Cis people trying to shit on trans people for anything to do with sex is wild because we're literally like that because we have a healthier mindset around it compared to you. Usually by trying to make whatever sick burn you try to make about it you'll ultimately end up proving it to everybody too.

Yes hi hello I make things

You need to remember the damage of bans like this isn't just the overt bigotry of the act itself, but a sustained effort to create a tapestry of lies/laws/myths all working together to paint the image that a trans person excelling or even just existing healthily in society is somehow unnatural.

I genuinely fear these people who live lives that could be predicted by a Markov generator

this speaks to me

Finally, *somebody* is going after the HD Stock Photography and Videography of Young Children Playing Outside accounts! I was worried it was just the furries and queers on the chopping block. Phew!

honestly you were gaming out of your mind with this one, this hits

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No book is going to turn kids into someone else. But books will regularly show kids other people like them and show those kids they're not alone. And they'll show kids other types of people who also exist. There is a large proportion of the population who are terrified of this.

I feel like I've never been able to give Ambient 4 a fair shot since I first heard it in 2014. I want to like it - maybe it deserves a ninth chance?

special advanced orc (for timothy)

I got a third of the way through, and it was enough of a downer that I put it down. I really should finish it, it was good, just heavy.

Every once in a while I see something artistic or athletic that makes me feel privileged to have merely witnessed it. This was one of them - she was having a blast and it was obvious that she loved what she was doing, and damn good at it.

The last time I had the privilege of voting for somebody who reflected my progressive politics back at me in a general election was, well, fucking never, and I refuse to just take whatever liberal who is more than happy to throw anybody under the bus the Grown Ups decide us trans people deserve.

Insofar as I am incapable of personally running for President of the United States of America, what, am I supposed to just accept whatever shitty candidate ahead of the primaries and pledge my vote to the second worst Dem you've ever heard of for the sake of solidarity?

Fair point... In that case, 5 minutes tops.

I guess it confuses me that people would rather pay $360 a year for the privilege of not paying $200 for FL once and you don't even get the pleasure of exciting your brain folds a couple hours a week. The extent of joy from a Suno gacha pull is like, 30 minutes tops if you're easily amused.

On top of that, no academic musician ever took a serious interest in whatever tinkering I was doing, despite many attempts over the years to show them. Best I ever got was "Cool I guess, but we don't really do that here." I did it largely because it just made me happy to make strange things.

I paid $0 for the first 6 years I used Reaper, after which I got sufficiently annoyed by the nag screens to pay (gasp) $60. I learned production software entirely as a hobby, completely separately from any other musical study I was doing and on top of part time and eventually full time work.

The temporary homestay I'm currently staying in has Harry Potter 4-7 on the cutesy show-bookshelf and I honestly feel icky that I hadn't even been able to consent to this before booking

*set to the Helleluja of Händel's Messiah*

> CIS 144
Ah great, there's that many of em?

I don't have a response to this because I'd be in over my head with the moral philosophy but one time I went to a concert where the guy who wrote one of the Haikyuu OPs sang very passionately about MLK Jr's dream for everyone including the Japanese and the cringe possessed my body like a damn wraith

One day, if the dreams of genAI founders come true, the very concept of applying yourself because it feels good to shape the world around you will be anachronistic. I really resent that, but I have no idea how to counter it.

The idea of doing things because they are meaningful or require acquired skill is actively hostile to a huge number of people who are like "I don't wanna", so things like Suno and ChatGPT are the answer to their prayers.

I feel generally cynical about all this, in that I believe a huge chunk of the population has really been yearning for a release from the need to have skills or do labor that involves judgement of any kind for a long time.

Personally, I find the general argument of "doing music is what makes music culturally valuable, not the end product" compelling, and the observation that the industry of AI music generation is attempting to kill that very thing is worth amplifying because of the far reaching social implications.