So I had a crack at this recording malarkey, and this one came out less unfinished first: http://collinvanuden.bandcamp.com/track/chrysalis
my pronunciation of 'schism' is correct, don't even @ me
around the year 1500, medieval painter hieronymus bosch drew a person with sheet music written on their butt being tortured in hell.
600 years later, a tumblr user decided to transcribe and play the song. now, you can hear it too.
So I tried to create a cute bubble bath cactus planter a couple years ago but then it grew a grotesque face, extra appendages, and a penis and then it grew ruby slippers and the penis blossomed and now I don't know what to tell my kids and nobody wants to tour my garden anymore.
#data on #languages spoken at home, and I am removing rows with an 0-count. So many Indigenous languages. The "oh" moment was when I realised those rows exist because in prev censuses, there *were* people who spoke those languages.
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BREAKING: A negative Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) has just been declared, increasing the likelihood of above-average rain over large areas of Australia in the coming months. This is the first time we have seen back-to-back negative IOD years since reliable records began in 1960.
Really excited for the Lord of the Rings prequel series to finally answer all my big backstory questions, like "why was meat originally taken off the menu?"
personally a little creeped out by the #UnfoldTheUniverse hashtag. you don't know what eldritch horrors are trapped in those folds NASA, stick to taking pictures please
I am delighted to announce the publication of my first gamebook in over 36 years! Publication date is September 1st, followed by our Fighting Fantasy Fest on September 3rd. Beware the terrifying Shriekers and may your STAMINA never fail!
Next week I'm back in the cravat (and deeply offending my scottish ancestors with my rubbish accent) for 'Journey To The Southern Cross Part 2: What Lies Beneath'.
If you can be in Ballarat or catch the stream, I highly recommend you check it out!
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My favourite thing is when people stick trackers on animals and one does literally nothing interesting and sits in 1 place 99% of the time and the researchers are like oh yeah that weird datapoint is Lazy Geoff, he doesn't ever do anything for reasons we don't entirely understand
How change the date has been absorbed into national discourse as a means to uphold the colony – a thread
Underpinning this thread will be chapter 6 of Critical Media Studies: an Introduction and others – I will ensure to note my sources
This may get muddled sorry /1
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
First line of Neuromancer, and I've just read that some younger readers - with no experience of analogue TVs displaying static, and grew up with digital TV - interpret that line to mean blue.
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Doing a plug for this exellent Australian produced D & D supplement, bringing folk horror and folklore into the realm of Dungeons and Dragons. The author has really done his research into folklore, film and literature.
Me: "Yeah, Zoom and Google both suppress swear words, because they're made by Americans, and Americans are fucking prudes"
[ seconds pass ]
Zoom live transcription: "…and Americans have fun parades"