My tumblr moot makes music!?

Jun. 11th, 2025 05:44 pm
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Cool indie art I stumbled upon: Music

I'm trying to actively engage more with independent artists. So how cool do you think it feels to poke around a tumblr mutual's page and find out they make music!? What a cool feeling!

They're going on a music hiatus right now but they have a few things on Bandcamp I'm eager to check out. Happy to share! :)

I'd describe this album as an experimental synth RPG adventure with upbeat hero tracks, mysterious pixel dungeons, and energetic boss battles.
My fav tracks: Waves and Waves and Waves and Waves + Door 1 - Diamond Castle, Illusion Hallway
Artist: Zilxos
Bandcamp
| Spotify
Album: Hypa Max
Year: 2024



Monday

Jun. 9th, 2025 11:33 am
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No finished projects to report on over the weekend. I did some crocheting on a big blanket in groovy 70s oranges, yellows, and browns though.

One of my coworkers dropped an Edward Gorey puzzle off at my desk on Friday so I started that on Saturday. Here's Sven, sitting in the box and judging my work. :)

Grundo's Cafe code?

Jun. 6th, 2025 02:13 pm
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Would anybody happen to have a Grundo's Cafe code they'd be willing to share?

Proof of life

Jun. 5th, 2025 12:41 pm
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Just checking in for proof of life. I did indeed get COVID from my husband but thankfully we both had pretty mild cases. Yesterday I ran a fever and slept most of the day. Today I'm a bit more chipper :)
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Happy Thursday! I'm leaving this housesit tomorrow-- I have the weekend free for sightseeing and then I need to make my way over to Evanston, Illinois for my next (short) sit. Today is a lot of cleaning, packing, and trying to eat whatever's left in the fridge!

For now, here's some links for y'all:


The Quantum Bang multi-fandom fix-it big bang is live and stories are being posted now! (h/t [personal profile] starwatcher)

June's theme at [community profile] fancake is female relationships (of all kinds). Come make recs!

[personal profile] unfitforsociety posted some Batman (Batfamily) fanfic recs. More links! )

reading wednesday

Jun. 4th, 2025 02:11 pm
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2025 Reading Log | 35/200 yearly goal (+2 from last update)

I've gotten sucked into a fanfic-reading frenzy (Naruto, of all things) so my book-reading has been sparse these past few weeks. However, I did read two books since my last Reading Wednesday post!

First, I decided to read the Oz books (including the post-Baum books by Ruth Plumly Thompson) as a kind of reading project thing, and I of course started with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

I've read it before, but the last time was (I'm pretty sure) back in 2007 when I got my first ereader and put a bunch of public domain books on it.

It's a charming book, and I especially liked the intro from Baum in the beginning that spells out the aim of the book: to be a modern fairy tale for kids that isn't focused on morality lessons. And it does that!

Chatter about Wonderful Wizard of Oz, including spoilers )

Besides that, I also read a novella by KL Noone called The Pooka's Share. It's a m/m urban fantasy romance between a paranormal police officer and a pookah (Celtic shape-changing spirit) with surprise (to me, because I hadn't read the summary) BDSM elements. A cute story! Perhaps spent a bit too much time on the worldbuilding when this is just a one-off and short to boot, but overall good.

pre-prep for goal making

May. 30th, 2025 10:56 pm
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Did a videochat with a favorite person for a few hours. It was refreshing as it always is when I talk to her.  And we've decided to do a weekly virtual meetup so we can exercise creative muscles on a regular basis.

I have gotten to a point I feel very nervous about establishing goals. I'm so used to my neurodivergent brain letting me down, that I've developed an aversion to it. And subsequently I've swam in a shame hole for what feels like forever. 

So, hopefully these creative meetups will help.  We're gonna try to establish goals together and little by little figure out what's realistic and what deserves priority.

I suppose I'm writing this here as an extra enforcer of accountability. So let me sort of blurt out some stuff swimming in my head.

This list will continue to be under construction post posting.
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CDs

May. 30th, 2025 10:26 am
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I usually prefer to buy things secondhand but I do like to get new CDs. This Dungeon Earth / Remove Your Skin Please by Chat Pile came in the mail a few days ago. This morning I ordered the 10th Anniversary Edition of Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens. I did get Carrie & Lowell on vinyl when it first came out but a few years ago I decided CDs are the format for me so I'm excited to get a CD copy :)

Boo

May. 29th, 2025 01:43 pm
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I just noticed that my car doesn't play enhanced CDs. Ugh.
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Link: joanwestenberg.com (2025)

The web isn't dying. It's becoming infrastructure.

Just like newspapers didn't disappear when the telegraph arrived—they just became less central to how information moved through society. The human-facing web will persist, but the economic and structural center of gravity is shifting toward systems designed for machine consumption.

This new infrastructure web won't be as colorful or engaging as the human web. It will be more like plumbing—essential, efficient, and largely invisible. Success will depend on reliability, speed, and interoperability rather than creativity, engagement, and virality.

We're moving from an internet designed to capture human attention to an internet designed to feed machine intelligence. The companies that recognize this shift early and position themselves accordingly will build the foundational infrastructure of the AI economy.

What’s at stake now is the kind of infrastructure web we build—one that supports human flourishing or one that prioritizes machine efficiency above all else. The telegraph era of journalism wasn't necessarily better or worse than the penny press era, but it was fundamentally different.

The same will be true of the infrastructure web. It won't be better or worse than the human web that preceded it. But it will be optimized for entirely different purposes, serving entirely different users, operating according to entirely different economic principles.

And most of it will be invisible to the humans whose world it increasingly shapes.


This is definitely already happening-- I just got an email from a professional blogger about writing for Google's AI search, and to structure your blog so AI can more easily read it. You basically have to, if you want to be seen (and maybe make a few bucks off ad revenue).

There's another angle where you could instead move to write for Pinterest search (which is just another kind of AI), or you could pivot to video (Youtube = Google), but for me...I think I'm just take a step back. My little for-profit blog makes about $100/month and hasn't moved beyond that despite a year plus of work, so I don't feel like it's worth the anxiety to worry about what Google's doing or try to change my writing to give AI more access. I do still enjoy writing for that blog, though, so I'm gonna keep going, but I'm just gonna do my own thing.

Anyway, if you're interested in an internet that isn't written for robots, check out the IndieWeb instead!

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