there’s nothing more practical than a good theory

i've felt like Alyosha Karamazov, i've felt like Ivan Karamazov, now i finally get Dmitri

i am a reverse Samson - i feel stronger after getting a haircut

a tribute to the master

i think parrots can smile. not with their beaks obv but with their eyes

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the dizzying feeling of having world's knowledge at my fingertips 😵‍💫

i downloaded five books from you know where, and i’m overwhelmed by gratitude to those who make them available

not mine, he doesn't say hello at all :)

problems worthy of attack
prove their worth by fighting back!

- Piet Hein

a fresh batch:

colophon
clerestory
ashlar
dromond
anfractuous
demesne
loutish

changing clefs is like introducing frameshift mutations but the information is preserved

i wonder why parrots talk as if they're on the other end of the first Bell telephone

also, wo war ich.. ach ja, meine Geschichte beginnt in der fernen Zukunft, wo man Flugautos hat und jeder Mensch einen persönlichen KI-Hauslehrer hat, der ihm alles beibringt, was seine Neugier erweckt

(bitte korrigiert ihr mich, wenn ihr in diesem Thread irgendeine Fehler findet)

(eigentlich das einzige Ziel dieses Threads ist ganz eigennützig - um mein Deutsch zu üben)

(um ehrlich zu sein, habe ich keine Ahnung, worin diese Geschichte gehen wird, aber wir finden es zusammen heraus)

hiermit beginne ich eine Serie von Posts, in denen erzähle ich euch eine unglaubliche Geschichte. macht’s euch bequem am Kamin und seid bereit, mich anzuhören

is there a scihub but for music scores? (promise i’ll never use it)
imslp is great but doesn’t have more recent scores

i’ll tell you more about it when we meet!

i'm constitutionally incapable of telling jokes with a straight face. kudos to those who can

(can you dm me your email?)

thank you Neil!! i’ll send it to you in a bit

hey! that's amusing :)

i thought most of my mutuals knew about my cashew account, now you do too!

i wrote an essay on the AI-human relationship in music composition - would really appreciate it if one of you could read it and give me some feedback before i publish it!

amused and delighted by my parrot's ability to maintain a long eye contact while carrying an enigmatic guise

i'm rather surprised she didn't follow you before, the industrial chromepunk technoshaman that you are (as aptly coined by Visa)

just like we tend to anthropomorphize the world around us, to animals, the world is animated - they see all that moves as alive, and a potential source of threat or opportunity

sometimes you craft excellent tweets sbg

exactly! though sometimes mannerisms appear independent from physical appearance which makes them no less striking

v true!!