Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 02/06/2026Goose was right - this website is deeply transphobic at management level and I'm either going to have a break until my NorthSky invite comes through or pack up. There are other means to keep in touch, but otherwise, play from your fucking heart. 030
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 01/06/2026and possibly a politicised element coming out of multiracial struggle in the early 80s, maybe. Bit before even my time, so I'm not certain though. 010
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 01/06/2026I think it goes back to the 80s again - it seems to have come most from early anarcho-punk communities from what I can tell; I think there's an element of just looking cool/ disreputable, an element of deliberate disregard for social standards around personal grooming (they're always ratty AF locks) 110
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 01/06/2026There's an enduring popularity of it in the grind and crust scene here and I'm not quite sure why. John from Napalm Death, for example, and they're super right on, so I'm sure they know what cultural appropriation. It's been like this since the 80s - Jeff Carcass, Phil ENT etc. 110
Reposted by Alanna 🏴Bill Hicks Quotes @billhicksquotes.bsky.social · 01/06/2026PLAY FROM YOUR FUCKING HEEEAAAARTT!! 011
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 01/06/2026I said I would say if I saw you discoursing. There's no point in arguing with them. :) 220
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 01/06/2026*slow clapping* GJ moderation team, got another one, eh? Fuck you. 070
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 01/06/2026I went to state school, too. One of the most remarkable things about Britain is that the above is just the baseline. The rich are delighted to pay more for the deluxe, even more extensive horrorshow. 020
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 01/06/2026Schools are places of torture for non-conforming kids, designed to force compliance until obedience and passivity is learned. 120
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 01/06/2026... to answer back and would cry, so he could intimidate the rest of my form. Mr Burry, who encouraged violence in every PE session towards anyone he deemed a wimp or a wet. This is before we get into the other children. 120
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 01/06/2026Mr Perryman, who would lead the class in taking the piss out of clothes I had chosen for myself. Mrs Clifton, who mocked me for being effete at every opportunity despite never teaching me. Mr Stoneman, who would pick on me because I was too scared... 120
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 01/06/2026Mr MacLeod, who kicked the crap out of my mate Surbjit and screamed racist abuse at him while he cowered in fright on the geog classroom floor. Mrs West, who found me kicking a ball inside and battered me to the point that my mother, no stranger to handing out violence, complained to the school. 120
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 01/06/2026Eating pussy. (pretty sure this is gay when a woman does it too) 020
Reposted by Alanna 🏴Ruby, pretty ape machine @anontranshoe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026among the things I need to take care of this month are getting the electric bill in my name and covering any back payments that are due (a few hundo), signing up to get internet service installed here so we can all get online again ($100), and covering water and garbage for the month ($130) 141
Reposted by Alanna 🏴Ruby, pretty ape machine @anontranshoe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026I refuse to charge rent or require payment from them, since the goal is to help them rebuild their lives and that's harder if you're struggling to pay bills, but this means I have to cover hundreds of dollars in bills and rent myself; anything folks can contribute helps, even small donations! 182
Reposted by Alanna 🏴Ruby, pretty ape machine @anontranshoe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Hi, it's the gays' month now and that means you should send gays money to help them survive! I'm currently housing 3 otherwise houseless trans folks outta my own pocket and can use help covering the bills cshapp: Razorgrrl paypal.me/razorgrrlrec...paypal.mePay Razorgrrl Records using PayPal.MeGo to paypal.me/RazorgrrlRecords and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries. 22725
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 01/06/2026No, it's the opposite of what's happening with a rit, which is a gradual slowing of tempo. Here we need to slow the tempo with (in Reaper) a pair of tempo change markers and adjusting the curve between them. 110
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 01/06/2026Yanno, it strikes me that one can do things like this in Sibelius and MuseScore and it will play it back, so I think this should be possible in a DAW by using the score editor view. You need it in DAW, right? 120
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 01/06/2026I'd imagine it's very different if your account goes beyond a few hundred people - the sheer volume of interaction that garners feels as if it would be unmanageable. 120
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 01/06/2026Ah, rits! Who doesn't love a rit? You can notate it easily enough, but DAWs hate it, yeah - it's harder for them than irrational times, annoyingly. 120
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 01/06/2026We got so many new blocks the other day! I even got put on lists. 120
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 01/06/2026They go to such trouble in sci-fi with energy shields and stuff, but in the real world, you'd just make spaceships out of material impervious to laser damage, such as my facial hair. 030
Reposted by Alanna 🏴𓆩🩸Ruby Bloodthirst Rockatansky🩸𓆪 @rubyrockatansky.bsky.social · 31/05/2026it's been a while since I've promoted my own music, so if you haven't already, give my tunes a go, will ya? $5 to own an hour of conceptual prog metal, but it's set for unlimited free plays anyway and I'm happy to give out download codes 🧛♀️🚀 rubyrockatansky.bandcamp.com/album/the-va...rubyrockatansky.bandcamp.comThe Vampires of Vulcan (Seven Sisters Saga Vol. 2), by Ruby Rockatansky13 track album 11711
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 31/05/2026Just finished. New worms were promised and they were delivered. Also I am never using a compound sentence again. 040
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 31/05/2026Maybe electing the guy with a Nazi tattoo is bipartisanship? 010
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 31/05/2026Not sure what response was expected from the person not once but twice invading my mentions to cape for Euan Blair but the block button seems insufficient to the occasion. 010
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 31/05/2026It's guitar harmonics. Hold your fretting finger over the string just touching it. 120
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 31/05/2026Yeah, but he has does have nice eyes. Well. Eye, depending on when we're talking. See, even though he doesn't identify as elven,bhe is not exempt from anti-elven hatred. 010
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 31/05/2026Corum, while decidedly of the fae and long-lived persuasion did seem to have other concerns, with the whole regular amputation deal, so maybe Elric was just avoiding err... let's call it "aggressively reductive stereotyping"? You know, elf and safety. *runs* 110
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 31/05/2026I have done this. Not the Hoovering, that's obviously not happening. 110
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 31/05/2026If Wes Streeting can advocate for drilling in the North Sea, can I, as a Northern C, advocate for drilling into Wes Streeting? 010
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 31/05/2026Thing is, try that with any human analyst or DS and we (should) immediately interrogate *exactly* what you meant by that. Like you said the other day, most of all engineering job is turning a very bad spec into something workable. 010
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 31/05/2026... semantic side sorted, some bugger's going to need to be flattening the background out into nice neat tables for it for ages yet. 040
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 31/05/2026I have a friend who's an integrator and he swears by it, and as someone who uses a lot of integrated prod DBs, yeah, that tracks - it's the exact multiple opaque column duplication slop Stonebreaker refers to. This is why I am not currently worried about it come for my job - even if they get the... 140
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 31/05/2026This is my exact experience with trying to use it in data. Few different warehouses, private data - even if I feed it sanitised information about what is in what table and column and how I want the joins, the prompt rapidly expands beyond both the machine's ability to parse it and any time saving. 150
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 31/05/2026I'm halfway through and I keep having to pause to avoid splintering my teeth. 130
Reposted by Alanna 🏴VOID VOID VOID @burnyourbones.bsky.social · 30/05/2026this is devastating and its horrific that it's by no means a rare one-off aberration. horrific abandonment and complete refusal of any accountability is the norm rather than the exception in our public services and so many people are being forced into appalling situations of desperation 081
Alanna 🏴 @alannablack.com · 30/05/2026I always have a sneaking suspicion this is actually me, but never more so than reading the thread this came from. All those words, all lined up and shiny, look. I can't even claim age, I believe we errr... turned 29 around the same time. 010