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Kazarelth
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I like making bleep bloop music with an assortment of instruments, and I also like reading, writing and sometimes video games.

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Fun cross country checkout at the local flight school has now turned into 3 hours at Malacca cuz the plane won't start.
A tiny 2 seater airplane at the parking ramp for GA aircraft against a vibrant blue sky.
November 30, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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This finally turned up in the mail too! Can't wait to dig in.
March 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Look what came in the mail from @blaft.bsky.social !!!
The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF
February 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Inhaled @gautambhatia88.bsky.social 's THE SENTENCE over the course of one night and one flight. SF, Anarchist politics AND Law???? Incredible combination and also super well written! (Currently only on the Amazon India store but with some very ez h4x after buying, can be ported over to the Kobo!)
January 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Uhhhh I don't think this is a good suggestion, Steam.
Five Hearts Under One Roof - since you recently played Slay the Princess
January 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Some nice arts and crafts going on with a friend.
January 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Book of the year: BABEL.

This book just made me angrier and angrier. You can actually feel Rebecca’s anger seep through the pages and the writing.

11/10 masterpiece.

#Books #BookSky
December 31, 2024 at 5:45 AM
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CHAIN-GANG ALL STARS - What if the US prison system became a for-profit gladiator reality TV show?
On every chapter I read I kept thinking to myself: “this can’t get worse or more brutal, can it?” and it did. All the way til the end. Incredible writing.

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December 31, 2024 at 5:45 AM
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Continuing in the theme of war, sadness, and general dark humour, SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDA sees a half-Tamil half-Sinhala, all gay and dead journalist has 7 days to find out who killed him before his soul is wiped out in the height of the Sri Lankan civil war. VV funny, vv sad.

#Books #BookSky
December 31, 2024 at 5:45 AM
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THE SYMPATHIZER - The end of the Vietnam War, and US immigration through the eyes of a North Vietnamese spy.
At the risk of cliche, I really think it’s like Catch-22 of the Vietnam War.
Horrified me, made me angry, made me sad, and I was laughing the whole time.

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December 31, 2024 at 5:45 AM
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I have much to say about NEUROMANCER - so much of the 80s just pours through with all the sleaze and the White Man in the Orient vibes the whole time. It's difficult to read again in the current era.

It's still very much a book FOR this era too. I just wish it was better.

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December 31, 2024 at 5:45 AM
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INTERPRETER OF MALADIES -
I can’t believe I slept on this book and Jhumpa Lahiri for so long.

Just lovely writing, and so wonderful in its simplicity and slice of life. I just felt refreshed reading all of the stories. She really has a gift.

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December 31, 2024 at 5:45 AM
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DEAR SENTHURAN was a visceral book - I’ve never read a memoir like this. I received a lot of wisdom, but I also realised I would not like Akwaeke if we met IRL. It was a different version of FRESHWATER which I didn't like so much.

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December 31, 2024 at 5:45 AM
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And fittingly enough, I ended the year with the last book of the Stormlight Archive era 1 - WIND AND TRUTH, which was probably as long as all three of the books above combined.

The word epic gets thrown around a lot in fantasy, but nobody does epic fantasy quite like Sanderson.

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December 31, 2024 at 5:45 AM
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There was a LOT of Brando Sando this year - with the first three books of the year being a re-read of the Mistborn series because 1. it had been a WHILE and 2. I wanted to start strong.

The plot coming together in book 3 is just so satisfying.
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December 31, 2024 at 5:45 AM
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Okayyy let's do this - I sent a bunch of instagram stories so this should be an ez copy-paste job..

I read close to my usual target of 2 books per month. Not too much variation - something I want to change for next year.

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December 31, 2024 at 5:45 AM
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Kicking my ass up despite the hangover for this badge (and tomorrow's badge as well) ty Garmin
December 31, 2024 at 2:36 AM
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Well I made my delayed target to finish 100 pages by end of the year. Just 80 more pages to go by maybe Feb 2025 to hit the target for first draft? Send help.
Manuscript target of 100 pages met within the deadline of 31 Dec 2024
December 30, 2024 at 5:29 AM
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I met this cool toad on the way up to my apartment
A picture of a road looking chill on stairs
December 28, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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Honestly this has stopped about 80% of crap on the discover feed. Especially to stop US politics (I am not from the USA). But some stuff still leaks through because people post screenshots/pics
December 26, 2024 at 11:22 PM
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Actually, @pambots.bsky.social makes a pretty decent point. I just ran through the images I alt-texted recently and it's....... pretty good actually? A cursory review of the generated text would handle most of the mislabeling. (also alt-texted by ChatGPT lol)
A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation in a dark-themed interface. The user’s query is shown at the top: “Can you create an alt-text along with the highlighted paragraphs and provide some context?” Below, ChatGPT provides a detailed alt-text for an image of a Kobo e-reader displaying a book excerpt from A Southern Music, highlighting two passages in purple and green, accompanied by handwritten punctuation marks (“???” and “!!”). ChatGPT also explains the broader context of the excerpt, focusing on differences in Karnatik and Hindustani music. Context: This screenshot illustrates ChatGPT responding to a user request for alt-text generation and contextual explanation. It highlights ChatGPT’s ability to parse visual content, summarize key details, and provide a concise, descriptive narrative accessible to screen readers.
December 25, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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The @subvert.fm zine is here all the way to Singapore! It's always good to hold something physical - especially when it's something new and exciting for the future.
December 25, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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Our boy TM Krishna dropping some spicy takes on the linkage (or lack of) between Hindustani and Karnatik classical. And also the whole presumed notion of "purity" (ie non Muslim, and later on only upper caste music making) Karnatik music. I wonder how the kutcheri community is doing with this 🥵🔥
A page from the book "A Southern Music" by TM Krishna, a karnatik vocalist. He claims here that Hindustani and Karnatik music are not continuations/not directly related in the way that most people think. The quotes highlighted are "Though their seeds can be traced to ancient music systems, Karnatik and Hindustani music are not a continuation of a common body of music practised in ancient times", and "furthermore must acknowledge that it is quite possible that the musical link we seem to take for granted and seek does not in actual fact exist" A continuation of the text with two more highlights. I'll just copy paste the entire bit here for context. "A notion held by many Karnatik musicians and scholars is that theirs is the older tradition and resembles the ancient music much more than Hindustani music does, because the south was not directly influenced by the Mughals. Karnatik musicians will claim that Karnatik music has retained in its aesthetics an ‘Indianness’. This viewpoint harks to a non-Islamic musical authenticity. I am afraid I just cannot subscribe to it. How much of an influence Islamic cultural traditions and Mughal rule had on the development of music in the south is not yet clear. But it cannot be doubted that they did influence the music. Gopalanayaka who is said to have been part of the court of Alauddin Khilji (1296–1316), is considered one of the founders of the chaturdandi tradition practised in the Tanjavur courts in the seventeenth century. Scholars from the south, such as Pandarika Vitthala (sixteenth century), travelled to other courts in the north"
December 25, 2024 at 6:44 AM
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A game everyone should play at least once in their lifetime. *Updated my journal*
December 24, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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Some general #OPZ shenanigans in the wild.

#electronicmusic #wild
December 23, 2024 at 3:28 PM