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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 23h

democrats will throw you under the bus and then get mad at you for not being on the bus

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 15/10/2026

hell yeah, congratulations!!

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 14/10/2026

when the Roman practice spread to Germanic lands, they used local gods with similar profiles. thus: Sun → Sunday Moon → Monday Mars (war) → Tyr → Tuesday Mercury (magic) → Odin/Wodnaz → Wednesday Jupiter (storms) → Thor → Thursday Venus → Frigg → Friday Saturn → Saturday

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 14/10/2026

the seven days of the week in Latin were named after the seven "travelers" (planetes), visible celestial lights (associated with gods) that noticeably changed position relative to the stars: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn Latin-derived languages maintain most of these roots

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 14/10/2026

I was honestly kinda disappointed by the latest "Otherwords." like, you're really gonna tell us the planets are named after gods… and English days of the week are named after gods… and so are the days of the week in Romance languages… but not draw any lines between the three?!

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 12/10/2026

finally watching SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN, on the recommendation of @dresdencodak.com weird to think I was very close to Lain's age at the time it first aired in 1998

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 11/10/2026

watched HALLOWEEN for the first time tonight, and my prevailing thought was: high school babysitters, in 1978? that's my mom. Jamie Lee Curtis is just a few years older than my mom

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 10/10/2026

and I have to wonder what was going through the minds of both performers and audience in Berlin in 1944 as they sang and heard "may heaven forgive you"

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 10/10/2026

so back in college, I went digging for the music used in this Disney animated film, and I still have in my possession what was then (maybe still now) considered the definitive recording of MARTHA by the Chor und Orchester der Staatsoper, Berlin in 1944

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 10/10/2026

"May heaven forgive you"

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 10/10/2026

this is the context for when we, the audience, are told not to be too hard on Tetti Tatti, because he didn't understand the "miracle," and because Willie is in Heaven now anyway, singing with a hundred voices and what is Willie singing? "Mag der Himmel euch vergeben," from Flotow's opera MARTHA

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 10/10/2026

I must note, Willie is Black-coded he is literally dark-skinned when we first meet him, he is singing "Short'nin' Bread" (he's discovered with the help of his well-meaning seagull friend "Whitey") he has the enthusiasm and support of the hired working-class sailors, but not Professor Tetti Tatti

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 10/10/2026

hell, why not: WILLIE THE OPERATIC WHALE is about a whale who can sing in fact, he can sing in three voices simultaneously: tenor, baritone, and bass a "miracle" that the head of the Metropolitan Opera insists is theft (this whale must have swallowed three opera singers!) and punishes with death

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 10/10/2026

I'm reconfiguring my music library and Flotow's MARTHA is next in the queue and I'm tempted to pop off on WILLIE THE OPERATIC WHALE again

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 10/10/2026

thinking of THE SWAN PRINCESS in part b/c I watched a video of one of the songs with very obviously computer-generated subtitles most egregiously "Derek and Odette" rendered as "dairy candle debt" but also amused by "love" being so unintelligible it leaned onto the choir with "my idea of LORD"

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 10/10/2026

I don't remember if we stuck around to watch the decidedly-less-appealing sequel, but I'll never forget that moment of shared excitement and disappointment, a silly little burst of unexpected camaraderie cutting through any sibling tension there may have been at the time

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 10/10/2026

gasp! THE SWAN PRINCESS was a big hit with us! something for everyone! we were on the edge of our seats waiting for the full title "place yer bets!" "it's gotta be!" "hold on, we won't know until…" the scrawl reached its sparkling revelation: THE SWAN PRINCESS… **3** a collective, laughing groan

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 10/10/2026

recalling a fond childhood memory: my brothers and I were flipping through TV channels for something we could agree on to watch. it was the turn of the hour, so we had a shot of catching something from the start, when we stumbled upon a black screen, just beginning a familiar slow golden scrawl

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 09/10/2026

red sky at night, frankly everyone's delight

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 08/10/2026

even more this re: Annie Andrews

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 04/10/2026

movies watched this week include COOL WORLD and AMERICAN PSYCHO fun fact: both feature a David Bowie song over the end credits

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 01/10/2026

d'y'ever notice how, when Ryuko is first revealed to be wearing Senketsu, the soundtrack plays a tiny bit of "Blumenkranz"? one of my favorite rewatch discoveries

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Jellybox Studio @jellybox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

UMBERT ACTUALLY! EP 8!!! Why are Queer cartoon characters censored?! #UmbertActually #UnionYaoi #MistermanGuyfella #Jellybox #IndieAnimation

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 30/09/2026

phlebotomist had to draw from the back of my hand for the first time today the double-whammy of feminizing HRT: you require more blood tests, but your veins become harder to locate I used to bleed so well

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 29/09/2026

woke up to a note reading FAST BLOOD stuck to my tablet (a reminder to myself not to eat anything until after I've had labs drawn)

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 28/09/2026

and yet: suffered a few more kernel panics today, with one fairly catastrophic. I'm back to using the external drive, and so shall it be for the foreseeable future

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That’s queer, too.

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 26/09/2026

anyway, I'm happy my computer is working, happy to have a clean install, happy to have the external drive as a failsafe in case the internal one decides to pull the rug out from under me again

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 26/09/2026

update: I installed and (mostly) configured my programs on the external boot drive today, so then I decided to shut down, unplug, and try one more time to get the internal drive working, just for fun folks… it worked

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Over The Garden Wall: Ain't That Just The Way

Alt: animated gif of Greg in "Over the Garden Wall" saying "ain't that just the way"

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 26/09/2026

kinda nice having a clean slate, despite the hassle

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 26/09/2026

so the internal drive is some kinda fried, but I got an external drive to boot from today. got the OS installed and my backed-up files transferred (all safe). still work to do setting up programs and preferences, but my computer is a computer again, crisis averted

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 25/09/2026

that "best tv shows" list almost totally excludes animation and all-ages programming (the one exception I notice at a glance is BOJACK HORSEMAN) no AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER, no SCAVENGERS REIGN, nothing unserious conversation also as always fuck the new york times

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Laser 🏳️‍⚧️ @lasertheboy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For 10 years, being a singer was my job. Then I went on gender-affirming Testosterone and lost my voice. Now I’m training it back up — please enjoy this video where both of me are singing together. 💚 youtu.be/xJ9txYOHAXc?...

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Panic in Two Voices

YouTube video by The Doubleclicks

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 24/09/2026

my Bible recall kicked in before I thought this one through "dogs licking the king's blood, that was… Ahab, right? … ohhhhhh"

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 23/09/2026

suddenly realizing Bova on SPACE CASES may have been so humorless, not just because of all the "Uranus" jokes, but also because of a lifetime of "Bova deez nuts" jokes

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 23/09/2026

nice, congrats! I successfully crashed my computer without installing anything new

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 23/09/2026

"on the plus side, we're here. we know this now."

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 23/09/2026

oh, my computer *crashed* crashed. like, have-to-erase-the-hard-drive-and-reinstall-from-scratch crashed fortunately, I have automatic backups!! gonna be a busy day recovering, but no files should be lost

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 23/09/2026

[3 con't]…that any comment read on the show must be fulfilled (as long as it doesn't interfere with RTFEDD) 4) as punishment for the violation, all sports racers had to dress up their vacuums and send pictures because "we're all in this together, right?"

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 23/09/2026

wait a tick, 9-18 isn't lost media, not entirely! it just isn't on the YouTube playlist! I watched my copy of the video, and can clarify that: 1) it was "something from the comments" day 2) a commenter requested a happy week 3) ze tried to divert to serious issues, but the LOA informed him…

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 23/09/2026

well completely different pitch I'm as yet unconvinced bsky.app/profile/cart...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

ICE are currently chasing and kidnapping immigrants in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a town that is at this point probably most famous for being the starting point for Ishmael’s journey in the great American novel Moby-Dick, which portrays a multiracial crew including many immigrants, working together

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 23/09/2026

9-21: last day of Happy Week before Ride the Fire Eagle Danger Day (i.e. news recap day). on some science of happiness, and choice 9-22: call to collaborate on a music video for an extended remix of ray's "whip somebody's ass"

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 23/09/2026

20 years ago was Happy Week! 9-18: lost media, but—the League of Awesomeness declared it Happy Week: ze could only talk about happy things. folks started dressing up their vacuum cleaners 9-19: ray had a little viral song, and folks started remixing it 9-20: bust your cycle!

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 21/09/2026

whole chapter, title and all, fits in one post

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 21/09/2026

Chapter 122: Midnight Aloft—Thunder and Lightning (The Main-top-sail yard.—Tashtego passing new lashings around it.) "Um, um, um. Stop that thunder! Plenty too much thunder up here. What's the use of thunder? Um, um, um. We don't want thunder; we want rum; give us a glass of rum. Um, um, um!"

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Mike Dawson @mikedawson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you would like to read a fairly lengthy diary comic on this topic (and others), you’re in luck, I just wrote and published one today! www.instagram.com/p/Ddh8ig-nAk...

A panel from a comic strip about Queen’s performance from Live Aid and how it served to launder their tarnished reputation for having played Sun City

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Lorelei @alorelei.com · 20/09/2026

The Muppet Show once did this great bit where they had Kermit sing and dance to "Happy Feet" the gag was, we only ever got the standard torso-up view of Kermit, we never saw his feet they later doubled down, including the song on a soundtrack album www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-OP...

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The Muppet Show - 209: Madeline Kahn - “Happy Feet” (1977)

YouTube video by The Muppet Show Vault

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