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Ice Trance
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Fuck it, I’m doing everything and nothing baby.
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nvm I found it lol I thought that wire went to the touchpad
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Hey, weird question, why are my Sony XM3 headphones missing a mic inside the headset?
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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At least the twitch-style fullscreen chat is more usable than what we had before? Still sour about the engagement buttons being removed from embeds since like 2018 though.
Same ASMR Bakery video as above, but with extra controls in fullscreen! (such wow!)
October 15, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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I've already been having youtube on 80% zoom since they bulked up the UI a whole ass decade ago, how the fuck did they managed to make it even larger still
October 2025 YouTube UI update with the progress and controls bar tripled in size and the hover background highlight extending beyond the frame box limits. Using as an example video, a throwback to a 2020 tweet. May 2015 YouTube UI update during A/B testing when they introduced the transparent controls bar. Example video, "AK x LYNX ft. Veela - Virtual Paradise" on the xKito Music channel. July 2016 YouTube UI update implemented in a private window. You can see the generic recommendations getting very inappropriate, but oh god forbid any actual youtuber say anything advertiser-unfriendly. Example video, "TEST VIDEO" on the 2007 Simon Yapp channel. April 2020 YouTube UI update when they introduced video chapters. Nice feature for once, only good change this entire decade. Example video, "ASMR Hypnotic Triggers 2 Hr (No Talking)" on the ASMR Bakery channel.
October 15, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Full transparency for how different platforms pay their musicians according to my humble sample over the past five years. Make of this data and ranking what you will.
Spreadsheet. Headers: retailer, plays, total dollars earned, dollars per play, amount of times and percentage less than Tidal. Tidal 16, 0.21$, 0.0137$. Apple 449, 2.6$, 0.00579$, 2.3x, 42.25%. SoundCloud 40, 0.16$, 0.0041$, 3.3x, 30.22%. Amazon 41, 0.13$, 0.0032$, 4.2x, 23.5%. VIBE 2, 0.00628$, 0.0031$, 4.3x, 22.9%. Deezer 31, 0.051$, 0.00165$, 8.2x, 12%. Melon 3, 0.0045$, 0.00151$, 9x, 11%. Spotify 202, 0.3$, 0.0015$, 9.1x, 10.9%. Kanjian 2, 0.0028$, 0.0014$, 9.7x, 10.2%. YouTube 435, 0.52$, 0.0012$, 11.2x, 8.8%. Kugou 2, 0.0018$, 0.0009$, 15.2x, 6.5%. QQMusic 16, 0.012$, 0.00077$, 17.6x, 5.6%. NetEase 685, 0.17$, 0.00024$, 55x, 1.8%. Tencent 20, 0.0034$, 0.00017$, 79x, 1.2%. Zing MP3 27, 0.0042$, 0.00015$, 87x, 1.1%. Boomplay 3, 0.00039$, 0.00013$, 105x, 0.94%. Saavn 6, 0.00046$, 7.7E-05$, 178x, 0.55%. Resso 6, 0.00002$, 3.3E-06$, 4113x, 0.02%. TikTok 35801, 0.024$, 6.7E-07$, 20316x, 0.0049%. Instagram 2230, 0.0014$, 6.4E-07$, 21232x, 0.0047%. Facebook 2207, 0.00005$, 2.2E-08$, 605186x, 0.0001%.
August 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Hey Melon, just wanted to say, lova ya for giving my music out in flac format! Whoever’s listening to me from Korea, enjoy, I hope this is a nice platform to use!
Store listing for my album Lost Signals on a South Korean platform called Melon. I can’t read any of the text but there’s a FLAC download available so I’m happy with them. Also it counts my EDM publishing tag as POP so that’s fun.
August 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Windows Problem Reporting popup saying ‘Windows Problem Reporting is not responding.’
June 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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RIP #Skype, we might’ve ignored you for a decade but you’ll always be in our memories
Email that reads: "Dear Skype user, Skype free services will be retired on May 5, 2025. You are receiving this email to inform you of how to manage any data - including chats and contacts - you may have in Skype."
May 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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This year we're about AuDHD, disability, queerness, abuse, and discrimination. How many meanings can I squeeze into each word? Accompanied by a more detailed behind the scenes over on Patreon and something in an upcoming post.

#escapril #escapril2025 #escapril2025day30
Escapril 2025 day 30 Wilted Pot Prompts: how to exist / tomorrow / exit sign / the cycle The verses are scattered across the page, allowing multiple reading orders. The most intuitive is as follows: order breeze need more in less all for you i can't me it'll be fun sun too loud latent cycle decades late body in the way make art a phase haven't touched daylight in days blink lost a year weeping statue? wilted pot sit pretty on a shelf if no one sees you, might be safe smile avert your gaze for who erased
April 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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For completeness’ sake here’s my entry for the very first #escapril, a little excerpt from something I’d been working on at the time.

#escapril2019 #escapril2019day13
Escapril 2019 day 13 Celestial bodies In the system of the wildly spinning Gamma Cassiopeiae, in an eccentric orbit that luckily matches the brightness fluctuations of the star, there lie two dwarf planets orbiting each other. One, a barren world populated only by highly active rocks rolling down mountains almost taller than the planet itself, constantly raising just to fall back on themselves. The other, a smaller tomb world, dead flat, dead shaded, dead frozen, dead drifting, lifelessly carried by her companion, thrown around space, never touched while the other one collects or slingshots away any debris they stumble upon. A quiet, unhindered world, entirely dead, yet reassuringly peaceful. Here, on this sombre rock, two creatures were dragging their mushy limbs across the dusty surface, muttering incoherently to each other as if they had just travelled several dozen light years in an instant. What they were unaware of is that, in fact, they had just travelled precisely five hundred and forty seven and a half light years over the course of a thousand seventy three years, a hundred and ninety three days, ten hours and forty eight minutes, placing their journey at an average speed of a hundred and fifty two thousand eight hundred and ninety four point one five four kilometres per second. Except they didn’t, they barely gained a little orbital velocity and haven’t aged a femtosecond, which is exactly why they were so utterly confused. Well, one of them was. The other one was more concerned about having a terrible headache and not feeling his insides in the right place.
April 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Hoping this one resonates with anyone going through autistic burnout. And it's only taken six years to get my first poem going. God it's taken such a wanky turn, but I kinda like it? It's kinda fun? Definitely hit PEAK teenage angst on some lines xD

#escapril #escapril2024 #escapril2024day1
escapril Day 1 Change of state "I used to like this little life" you used to dance in the rain at dawn finding solace in each and every droplet trying to befriend you, each flash of lightning keeping you safe people would not understand, and it's alright, you were rather relieved to not be the one having to keep a distance from those who'd say you weren't human enough for them the lost souls never judged anyway, and they always happened in your way, anyway but the clouds have cleared up your once roses and rainbows now overtaken by a scorching sun sucking away at your days and it's left you feeling nothing but defeated and withered and frail and it feels like nothing you do can undo it anymore when all you wanted to do was see the world evolve for as long as time itself survives and you with it but how would you see any of it when your very eyelids now weigh as much as the planet you used to stand on, and you're no goddess that others used to take you for yet still demand just as much of you thought being noncorporeal would make life easy not once stopping to ask how to live without a body how much a ball of energy can use up before disappearing in its entirety but of course they never took you seriously, and why would now be any different anyway?
April 1, 2024 at 5:00 AM
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Wait what could there have possibly been in a private playlist of random unwatched ASMR videos that made youtube remove it for child safety??
Screenshot of email from youtube reading "We wanted to let you know that our team reviewed your content, and we think it violates our child safety policy. We know that you may not have realised that this was a violation of our policies, so we're not applying a strike to your channel. However, we have removed the following content from YouTube: Playlist: ASMR Later"
March 5, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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8am #HourlyComicDay #HourlyComicsDay #HourlyComicDay2024
08:00, "I always forget how long it takes to draw these with a broken mouse" I say sitting at my usual more sensible desk this time, VR headset dropped behind me. My eyelashas are on fleek, I’m as tired as ever, my hair is still taller than me, and my nails and Klingon beard have grown beyond the scene boundaries since the 2021 comics.
February 1, 2024 at 6:52 AM
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You’re damn right we’re finally doing this again and this time it’s over here!
3am #HourlyComicDay #HourlyComicsDay #HourlyComicDay2024
03:00, me sitting at my desk with a billion monitors in front of me and consoles from the TOS Enterprise bridge visible behind me. Speech bubble reads "how come everything is so overwhelming all the time."
February 1, 2024 at 6:43 AM