tinser

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Enby guy (he/they) with lots of poems, stories, and art to share.
Excels at drinking liquids. Owner of too many t-shirts.
Has an MFA in poetry, but can't write a sonnet.

Doing #NaNoWriMo for the month of...#November

#poet #writer #writing #BadWriter #BadPoet

An Analog Mind (poetry/art)https://analogmind.org/
Poets Not Dead (personal blog)https://poets.notdead.org/
Currrently Reading!https://analogmind.org/currently-reading/
tinserNov 1, 2023
"Writing a story is like playing out your dreams while you are awake. It’s not about being inspired by your dreams, but about consciously manipulating the unconscious and creating your own dream"

-Haruki Murakami

https://www.harukimurakami.com/resource_category/q_and_a/a-conversation-with-haruki-murakami-about-sputnik-sweetheart

#NaNoWriMo #inspiration #writing #Story #DreamingWhileAwake
tinserNov 1, 2023
#NaNoWriMo Progress Report for Nov 3nd, or 'What I Write About When I Write About Writing'

Novel: 0 (today) / 3998 (total)
Stream of Consciousness Side Project (handwritten): Abt 3000 (today) / abt 7000 (total)

(Week)Daily Poem ✅✅✅
(Week)Daily Autowriting ✅✅✅

#writing #novel #ProgressReport #RanOutOfTimeForEverything #ButThatHappens #Friday
tinserNov 1, 2023
Oh dear, oh no, it's #NanNoWriMo time, here I go!
tinserSep 19, 2023
creohn 💥Aug 20, 2023
Show threadtinserSep 15, 2023
#ConcertMemories I got the chance to see Florence + The Machine in 2012, in a downtown amphitheater that happened to be right beside a rail line. For the encore, the band came out to play other songs that I don't remember, but ended on 'The Dog Days Are Over'. The crowd was electric, lots of clapping along with the song, as might be expected. During the calm-before-the-storm moment near the end, where only drums & a tambourine play before the final chorus, a train just happened to pass by. Instead of trying to continuing the song over the din, the band kept the lull going - only drums and Florence with her tambourine who kept the audience clapping along - as the train chugged by at its low velocity, city speeds, for like at least a minute or two if not longer. When it passed, the brief silence in the song settled over the crowd, with the train fading into the background, and then she belted out:

"Run Fast For Your Mother Run Fast For Your Father
Run For Your Children For Your Sisters And Brothers
Leave All Your Love And Your Loathing Behind
You Can't Carry It With You If You Are To Survive!"

as the music thunders out behind her.

It remains one of my most treasured memories of a live music performance.
Show threadtinserSep 15, 2023
Late to the party (because COVID really destroyed the supply lines of me connecting to musicians that I love), but I'm finally just getting around to Dance Fever, this week. I love Florence + The Machine, so there's more for me to unpack with more words that will come later, but I'm just stunned by this album. It's so mature, present, and real. And this song, 'Free', & its music video in particular, have been in my brain in particular, all week.
tinserSep 15, 2023
Is this how it is?
Is this how it's always been?
To exist in the face of suffering and death
And somehow still keep singing?
Oh, like Christ up on a cross
Who died for us, who died for what?
Oh, don't you wanna call it off?
But there is nothing else that I know how to do
But to open up my arms and give it all to you

Florence + The Machine, "Free"

https://piped.video/watch?v=ui8kUKuLBaU
Piped

An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

tinserSep 12, 2023
Miguel Afonso CaetanoSep 12, 2023

#Copyright #Books #eBooks #Libraries #DigitalLibraries: "Today, the Internet Archive has submitted its appeal [PDF] in Hachette v. Internet Archive. As we stated when the decision was handed down in March, we believe the lower court made errors in facts and law, so we are fighting on in the face of great challenges. We know this won’t be easy, but it’s a necessary fight if we want library collections to survive in the digital age."

https://blog.archive.org/2023/09/11/internet-archive-files-appeal-in-publishers-lawsuit-against-libraries/

Internet Archive Files Appeal in Publishers’ Lawsuit Against Libraries | Internet Archive Blogs

tinserSep 11, 2023
One of my favorite things about writing on retro videogames is that research inevitably leads to weird, unknown ports, especially of the homebrew variety. I've been putting together an article about Metal Gear, the MSX original, and I discovered it got an Amiga port in 2017, thanks to a decompilation project I didn't even know about.

It's a pretty close port, outside of running at a higher frame rate and with some unique versions of the compositions. But what kills me is the portraits that the dev added. They are just the most Amiga things I've ever seen, and I love it.

#VideoGames #RetroGames #MetalGear
tinserSep 6, 2023
I think about this particular #CalvinAndHobbes strip often. "Verbing weirds language" is a phrase that just lives in my head.

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 25, 1993 | GoComics.com

Calvin: I like to verb words. Hobbes: What? Calvin: I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember when "access" was a thing? Now it's something you do. It got verbed. Verbing weirds language. Hobbes: Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding.

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