New album coming from SUN SUN! #Toronto #hiphop producer with Above Top Secret and Witch Prophet. Great list of guest features, especially excited to hear the DijahSB collab.
https://sunsunbeats.bandcamp.com/album/no-friends-in-toronto #music
I haven’t been using Mastodon lately. What’s new?
By the way, these guys are a powerful trio with awesome music. Subjectively weird video, the cinematography is great.
The Pleiades star cluster in Taurus, about 444 light-years away. 90-minute exposure from my driveway in Albuquerque’s North Valley.
I’ve been enjoying this playlist while I smoke fine cigars. You may not like cigars, however I think you’ll love this playlist ❤️
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7iubuDMGPz7APuo6Vn1zXs?si=CtZAFTEDR1qg-e3LcA5svA
This is one of the best artists I’ve heard in a decade.
This song is so good, I watch til the end please.
@flsounds nice! never heard of this group before. Listening to their other stuff right now.
Started listening to this gem again…
My #1 album of 2022 is "Extreme" by Molly Nilsson. Her tenth album, it came out all the way back in January 2021 and I've been listening to it constantly ever since. A lo-fi electronic pop record for the ages. Probably my favourite current songwriter.
Love You Down - INOJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q96o9AvJO0M
Whelp I'm going straight to some middle school favorites.
Some Are Lakes - Land Of Talk
Guys, this is one of my favorite songs of all time. The artist is really cool to. I asked her to post tabs for this and she did and posted a video tutorial too. Have a Happy New Years Everyone!! I may post songs tonight since I’m not going out.
Open Book - Cake
This is my life, at least with women anyway.
Regular anxiety:
Everyone hates you
My anxiety:
Everyone hates you and here are the many reasons they hate you:
1. That time you said that thing
2. That time you did that thing
3. That time you forgot about that thing
4. All of the above
Haven’t posted in a few days. So here’s a blanket update for Christmas. A musical quilt if you well. Really it’s just a playlist. But I hope you guys like it anyways. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, good three day weekend hopefully for y’all!!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5glTA4CmFVALwFOKNX58nm?si=Mejbqw-ZSj2mkeYx-1q9yg
Seen in the wild: “All a #PhD tells me is you were at least able to cram study and pass tests.”
I can’t even.
Do people really think this? Obviously this guy does, but in general? An honest question, not a rhetorical one.
I’ve spent a significant chunk of my life in the company of people with #doctorates—including two grandparents, so I understood from childhood that getting a PhD was quite different from any other kind of degree. Most people I know haven’t, but everyone who was part of my life through my long and winding #academic career has a pretty good idea what I did to become #Doctor Dvorkin. For anyone who doesn’t know, I’m always happy to give a quick sketch.
Among people who don’t have family or friends who have done it, and have never thought seriously about doing it themselves … is that the perception, that grad school is just a more intense version of elementary school through college? More tests, more cramming, more regurgitation, and then you get some shiny new letters after your name?
If that’s the case, I guess I can’t blame them, exactly. Like I’ve said before, most people have no idea how most of the things I’ve done for a living in my life actually work. The #military, #medicine, #science: all quite mysterious except for what people think they know from movies and TV, which is often worse than complete ignorance. So I guess it’s shouldn’t be a surprise if #academia is on that list.
But I would really like to know how widespread this view is. Maybe I can do something with that.
I should probably do a proper introductory toot, seeing that more and more people are making the move from the avian to the proboscid side of the internet...
So, #hello 👋
I'm a zoologist and a science communicator, from Poland, based in Oxford, UK. Currently, I split my time between #academia (Senior Lect at #Brunel Uni London) and public engagement (at #Oxford University), I also do freelance #scicomm in both Polish and English.
Oh, and I wrote a #book (non-fiction, about animals, not for kids unless you're happy to do your own explanations of awkward sex stuff): https://geni.us/modernbestiary
What I like:
- #animal facts and factoids
- #cycling as the main mode of transport
- #HigherEd teaching
What I dislike:
- pictures of fake animals posing as the real deal
- lack of public transport infrastructure
- scary movies
Pic © 2022 Greg Blatchford yewneek.com
I woke this morning to go to the gym and just slept in listening to this. Couldn’t have picked a better way to start the day if I tried. This album was Leonard’s last and although it may be myth. I believe he passed shortly after making this album. Here is the title track and my favorite off the album.
“You Want It Darker” by Leonard Cohen.
I greatly dislike how Mastodon users never like/favorite posts “because it doesn’t do anything for the algorithm.” I’ll see posts with hundreds of reblogs/retoots and not a single favorite. I never ‘like’ content for any algorithm, I ‘like’ it so the OP knows I enjoyed the post. It’s still a meaningful way to support content even if it doesn’t feed the algorithm.
Anyways, I hope Mastodon becomes a better experience, since a certain egomaniac billionaire has killed the bird app.
…Here to keep up with the times, meet creatives, and share music…
I’m a creative layman who loves music. I live in the Florida Panhandle and work retail.