So since I got my finger blowed up, I can't really play piano, and I have been taking on psychic damage ever since.

However it seems like I might be able to play an accordion, since my blowed up finger is on my left hand and accordion seems like it has much less "ballistic" hits to the finger.

But I can't make heads or tails about what in the fuck kind of accordion to try: I play mostly moody emo Chopin sadgirl tunes, and I love piazzola, so I was reading about bandoneons, but it turns out that you can't actually get one (like literally it seems like they were only mass manufactured pre WWII and now only for like $10k custom made) and the key layout means you can like only play tango on them. And then since its a folk instrument there are like one million other kinds of accordion and I can't tell how much each is specialized for a specific kind of music.

Is there anyone on here I reach who plays #accordion and can help me out knowing what kinda button bag to play? I would be a beginner accordionist but I have been playing piano my whole life and am looking for a long term romance I mean replacement, so I don't need the like "there are 5 notes on this one and you can't go wrong" kind. I would love to be able to play sea shanties and folk punk tunes, but if its also possible to play some Chopin or Debussy arrangements on the thing that would be extremely emotionally valuable to me.

Happy No Kings or Tyrants day to all who celebrate.

Posters below free to use featuring the Portland Frog as Rosie the Ribbiter.
1. Grayscale, 2. for coloring in, and 3. in color.

For 11x17” paper.

#noKings #protest #activism #resistance #art #usa

We need a solution to process international payments that isn't an American fintech company or cryptocurrency and is privacy-respectful like yesterday.

Please 🙏

Edit: By privacy-respectful, I don't mean anonymous. I mean a solution that practices data minimization, and does not share and monetize the data it collects.

If people want to be able to change anything about our society and the ways we are governed, transparency about what the powerful are doing is necessary, if not sufficient.

Talking about transparency – what it can mean, where it’s thwarted and what *that* means – is the point of Sunshine Week.

https://fair.org/home/arlene-martinez-on-sunshine-week/

Happy Spring! 🌼

The awakening of Blodeuwedd, of Welsh mythology. She was created from the flowers of broom, meadowsweet, and oak, to marry the hero Lleu Llaw Gyffes. It's a story of magic and betrayel...

Art by Elisabeth Alba
watercolor and acryla gouache
Prints at http://albaillustration.etsy.com

I always wonder... how will The Onion keep up with reality's decent into absurdity?

And then this...

https://theonion.com/fda-approves-lettuce-that-can-be-remotely-detonated-in-event-of-recall/