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Madlolz @eightbitaria.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Cool bug alert: I saw a grizzled mantis today, was heckin cool

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Madlolz @eightbitaria.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh shit Mike Flanagan developed the Carrie series? I'm in, crazy long monologues and all

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Ryan Thompson @bardicknowledge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Electrical engineering and computer engineering, "although there are significant differences between them, we have concluded that there are enough similarities in the issues to which they give rise to justify a common treatment." That's the level of understanding about music studies this paper has.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Lots of things are bad right now but apples are *good*. What's your favorite variety? Mine is Ever Crisp. www.scientificamerican.com/article/appl...

scientificamerican.com

Apples Have Never Tasted So Delicious. Here’s Why

Apple experts divide time into “before Honeycrisp” and “after Honeycrisp,” and apples have never tasted so good

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Ryan Thompson @bardicknowledge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Everyone, the NACVGM 2027 CFP is live! Join us this Spring for my favorite academic conference. Please submit proposals for papers, posters, and concert performances here: nacvgm.org/proposals/

nacvgm.org

Proposals – North American Conference on Video game Music

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still!

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Madlolz @eightbitaria.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Primetime. Wowowow. The lighting was gorgeous. The timbres on the soundtrack were also stunning - sat in my seat just like wow, these sounds give me joy.

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Madlolz @eightbitaria.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Need to make it through one more miserable weekend before going home and to Retrogamecon~~~

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Galileo Chini - "Icarus" (1907)

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

nobody can get mortgages anymore so they're bundling and speculating on song catalogs also at the exact moment musical LABOR is demonetized music as ASSET is the way people extract value out of music

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Madlolz @eightbitaria.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I s2g every time I listen I listen to Lully, I think to myself, "This fucking slaps, I should listen to Lully more often." Every. Time.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Kiara Pendragon ∍⧽⧼∊ Godslayer 🏳️‍🌈 @aapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They fired so many artists over this too. People who helped make the game iconic were tossed out on the street because the Slop Faucet could do it "decent enough". If you still play Fortnite, you're funding the hyper-acceleration of AI replacing Artists in Gaming

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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 16/09/2026

A friend found one of my business cards from 13 years ago

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Madlolz @eightbitaria.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

By some miracle I got a ticket to the Clair Obscur concert tour. My dissertation will love it.

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Liam Robertson @liamrobertson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm not totally sold on the art design in the new Ocarina of Time but there's some truth to this. The lack of vocabulary people seem to have for describing its style is a shame. I think we should generally refrain from insulting any human made art design as "AI" especially.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sorry but this is incredible. Basically "We think our users are too slow on the uptake to realize we're reading everything they prompt" yessssss

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Pizza is one of the greatest inventions in the history of humanity

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ourlostarcade.bsky.social @ourlostarcade.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Untitled, Goose Game. Not coin-operated, but too good to not share.

A carnival style rolling ball game featuring a goose that players threw balls into to score points.

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/240446302_rare-british-1940s-1950s-goose-roll-a-ball-game-tilburg-north-brabant/

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Madlolz @eightbitaria.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This day 25 years ago is still one of my strongest core memories. It was confusing. And horrifying. And I did not wholly understand then what people were saying and how that would impact others. Remembering and mourning the world of before is a strange weight to bear.

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Madlolz @eightbitaria.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Any tips on teaching my undergrads how to read? Because most of them are not engaging with any assigned readings and I truly wonder if they do not know how. And I'm talking like. Less than 10 pages, materials designed for undergrads specifically.

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Madlolz @eightbitaria.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

..... oh no is this dissertation research? 🥲

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Italian Giallo director: I have a new idea for a movie! Me: Does it have an awesome name? Director: Lick the Blood from Satan's Grave! Me: Is it about a guy in gloves killing people? Director: Si

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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Husband is playing FFV and has finally gotten to the final battle. The spritework on bosses like exdeath and Kefka is so od extravagant in ways modern ff games have failed to recapture. Even safer sephiroth is a let down.

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Madlolz @eightbitaria.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The opening of the Zelda Direct is incredible. Starting with acoustic music? And the visual/aural progression of the texture? Absolute Cinema. Anyhow music is so important to this series. It warms my cold heart that Nintendo recognizes that.

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Madlolz @eightbitaria.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Coyote vs. ACME was so worth it. Really strong core themes and genuinely silly. The thing I didn't like? Shockingly, the soundtrack. There were some excellent moments, and as expected, lots of appropriate mickey-mousing, but at times the orchestral underscore just felt... generic.

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Madlolz @eightbitaria.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If I had a nickel for everytime I knew someone in the cast of an opera assigned for class, I would have two nickels.

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Madlolz @eightbitaria.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I love regional-isms--I could have been linguist in a other life. And I mean... yeah, this tracks. mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

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Madlolz @eightbitaria.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

No one was going to tell me FFVII Revelation release date dropped today???????

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Madlolz @eightbitaria.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Do other colleges of music generally hold a yearly sales meeting masquerading as a faculty recital that everyone in said college of music is expected to attend?

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dr worldwide™️ @imanimosley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

a great thread about the looming threat to music higher educatiom

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🌑 @fell.energy · 01/09/2026

i want games made by people who get to keep their jobs

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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 18/08/2026

patient is the night 🐸🍂🎃🫖

art of a silhouette of the beast from over the garden wall, a man that looks as if he is made of branches has bright white round eyes. he sits in a skeletal tree with crows perched on other branches. the background is a deep pumpkin orange colour with the moon sitting behind the beast and the tree. golden yellow stars are dotted around. a teal green border frames the image with a lighter green text that reads “patient is the night”

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

No undergrad should be using an LLM and it's absurdly irresponsible to suggest otherwise.

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dankettercello @danielketter.com · 30/08/2026

LLM use is not a substitute in academic research for critical engagement with and synthesis of primary and secondary source materials

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 29/08/2026

The Internet Archive isn't just a place to find things. You can: 🔖 Save something before it disappears. 🔎 Discover something you didn't know existed. ✍️ Contribute to a collection. 🤝 Connect with people doing preservation. SAVE. DISCOVER. CONTRIBUTE. CONNECT. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/r... 🧵

Poster reading "Save something before it disappears," with the tagline "tools you can use," on a graph-paper background. A yellow line drawing resembling interlocking shapes runs along the top-left corner and bottom edge.

Poster reading "Discover something you didn't know existed," with the tagline "tools you can use," on a graph-paper background. A blue line drawing resembling interlocking shapes runs along the top-left corner and bottom edge.

Poster reading "Improve or contribute to a collection," with the tagline "tools you can use," on a graph-paper background. A red line drawing resembling interlocking shapes runs along the top-left corner and bottom edge.

Poster reading "Connect with people doing the work of preservation," with the tagline "tools you can use," on a graph-paper background. An olive-green line drawing resembling interlocking shapes runs along the top-left corner and bottom edge.

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Madlolz @eightbitaria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Definitely a bumpy first week of classes (shout out to my surprise cavity filling) but man, what a difference it is to teach majors. Three student interactions that blew my mind: 1. A student thanked me for meeting with them about finding ways to help them succeed in the course.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When Amadeus first transferred from London to Broadway in 1980 the Broadway production starred Tim Curry as Mozart and Ian McKellen as Salieri and I would like to go back in time and watch that.

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together

photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy

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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing

Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I don't know if Dolly Parton was the greatest songwriter of all time but I do know that Dolly Parton writing "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You" on the same day is the greatest day any songwriter has ever had.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Madlolz @eightbitaria.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I survived my first day of teaching this semester please clap

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