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s.a. liva

@spit.imprecision.art
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composer, poet, archivist, intermedia artist, low theorist, tough customer. living on coast salish land with my heart in many places. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ tldr.nettime.org/@spit, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 29/09/2026
disappointed that semantic croissant has nothing to do with pastries
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 16/09/2026
sad to miss #ff2026 in person but given that the conference landed between some personal travel and being at a residency for most of october it didn't feel on the table for me
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 14/09/2026
i really like how much python i'm getting to write at work right now
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Imprecision @imprecision.art · 05/08/2026
dusting off the newsletter to share info on my forthcoming album out this fall on Sawyer Spaces (@sawyereditions.bsky.social), my Unpoetry at the Frye performance on September 17 with Tom Scully and Noelle K. Chun, a residency, and recent installation work
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plans afoot, no uhaul, just garlic
updates on my forthcoming album, a live show, a residency, and recent installations.
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 30/07/2026
felt the itch for some falafel but trying to make do with what i have around the house. turned some leftover moong dal tadka into fritters, wrapped them in lavash with lettuce, pickles, and feta, and noshing away with satisfaction
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 30/07/2026
my next trip to chicago gains another layer of reality
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 27/07/2026
since i recently officially migrated an old account i suppose that this is an #introduction - #introductions post. here, you can call me spit. my pronouns are she/her. if you know me from elsewhere, you can call me as you know me from there. i'm not new to fedi but i decided to create a new […]
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 27/07/2026
i should have posted more during #teardown2026 but my installation went well, i met some cool folks, and i burned myself while trying to connect a recycled vape battery to an ultrasonic piezo driver board. a pretty positive experience ☺️
a view of the installation of a device in my piece flagday, moin red on a clear acrylic shelf on a window. the devices is clear PET and black glitter PLAanother view of a similar device, but from behind (through the window). this one is printed in pink PLA and makes the paisley design on the back apparent
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 22/07/2026
in classic form, i'm patching and reflashing firmware 36 hours before an event
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Imprecision @imprecision.art · 15/07/2026
my piece "flagday (a particular kind of perceptiveness)" is in the installation track at #teardown2026 from July 24-26, 2026 at Jupiter NEXT in Portland, OR. i'll have of extra score booklets available for sale. thanks to @crowdsupply.bsky.social for hosting! www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/por...
a wall-mounted blue device in a gallery hosting my installation "flagday", with artist text and instructions on the wall. the device and the One are on a wall-mounted acrylic shelf. a flyer for teardown 2026 with pictures of disassembled electronics. text reads "hack, discover, and share hardware / july 24-26, 2026 • portland, or, usa"
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stupid pony @solidarity.pizza · 07/07/2026
breaking my melancholic posting fast to sound the tocsins about the publication of the new issue of WRITING BADLY since no one has seemed to post about it on here writingbadly.substack.com/p/issue-two-...
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Issue two - now on sale
Plus a peak inside
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stupid pony @solidarity.pizza · 17/06/2026
dj freermasonry does it again. "operation: bloomsday" complete. #ulysses
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 10/06/2026
NUCMC is no more, and thus we say goodbye to yet another collective effort i invested several years of my career to: loc.gov/aba
loc.gov
Cataloging and Acquisitions (Library of Congress)
Home page of the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access (ABA) Directorate of the Library of Congress. Access information about subject headings, classification, cataloging policy, cataloging products, cooperative cataloging, and authority records.
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 08/06/2026
it's once again the season for pride deadlift party, which means i'm raising funds to support Seattle/Washington state queer orgs and initiatives. please donate / help spread the word. givebutter.com/seattle-pride-deadli…
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Seattle Pride Deadlift Party 2026
We Spot Our Own: On and Off the Platform
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Karl Baron @kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026
Is your CyberPart “Dog-savvy”??
A slide

WWDC
CyberPartExtension
Makes a part "Dog-savvy"
• Keeps track of CyberItem the part displays
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 08/06/2026
[chronic illness] pain 2.5 / fatigue 6. i don't know if this is coming from barreling through the last few weeks or the two back to back gym days after. i've been mostly taking it easy otherwise since i've been home, and while today was the first nominal day back really at work i had to take a […]
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 04/06/2026
also, something striking is that for all the issues around document pipelines and getting in updates from source data - it seems like we haven't been thinking about applying records/info management/DAM principles consistently and it feels like a MASSIVE gap in professional training and knowledge
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 04/06/2026
back to thinking about how archival context is underspecified from a computation and formal perspective. if i cared less about my sanity and life i'd consider going back for a research degree in this
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 04/06/2026
after ~2 weeks in chicago visiting my girlfriend~~~ i am back doing "real" work things a couple of days before i head home. back in my old grad school stomping grounds for the Archivists in the Loop symposium: bentley-historical-library.github.i…
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Archivists in the Loop
Archivists in the Loop: A symposium on archival reference services in the generative AI moment
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 09/03/2026
this is just to say that my participation in Ground Hum this year was an absolute delight. Seattle's festival for installation art, dance, and experimental electronic music is absolutely lovely, and it was a great opportunity for me to up my installation game :) groundhum.net
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Ground Hum
Ground Hum is a winter celebration of experimental music, art and dance at Washington Hall in Seattle, WA.
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 18/01/2026
lately: played a noise show in a generator organ/7 string violin duo with a friend, still working on my LoRa art project for a february group gallery show, writing monophonic ringtones for said project, getting rid of lots of old clothes, trying to read moby-dick by the end of the month
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 08/01/2026
working with my girlfriend's godfather on as my domain expert on 3d printing for an art project that needs to be done by the end of the month has been absolutely amazing.
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 28/12/2025
[ph (pets); mh] dealing with a sick kitty is no fun. my little guy has struvite crystals in his urine, and peeing in the house kind of got bad at the beginning of the week. it seems like the prescription food has helped but he's still recovering. it is psychologically exhausting to have to […]
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 21/12/2025
i think the mixes for my live album are more or less done!
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 12/12/2025
strong recommend for kleber mendonça filho's latest, THE SECRET AGENT. a true archival thriller to say the least.
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 08/12/2025
i've decided to get into meshtastic as a way to handle emergency comms with people who aren't super into tech. wish me luck
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 06/12/2025
working on this live album is kind of exhausting because i'm always on the verge of it being a "catalog" of live works as they are with minimal editing (e.g. for length) and effectively full re-compositions
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ink @ink.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025
This is unreal. The 2026 code4lib conference has been cancelled unilaterally by Carnegie Mellon University because the Department of Education raised issues with the diversity scholarships: > An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including […]
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 04/12/2025
reaper's phase aligner is black magic
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 25/11/2025
that time of year where i start to work on things like upgrading rails versions in long suffering applications
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 20/11/2025
declaring gender bankruptcy
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 19/11/2025
oh and i saw agriculture, rhododendron, and victory over the sun on sunday and god damn it if rhododendron doesn't go hard www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQcqm2eUwvk
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 19/11/2025
i went to the bouldering gym today for the first time in a while. terribly out of practice - only sent a single, lowlevel route. but back at it again
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 16/11/2025
[mh-] amidst a depressive spiral triggered by something i'd typically let roll off me and feeling very self-conscious about it. but i'm cleaning out my closet finally
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 13/11/2025
ecayed: gemini://gemini.estradiol.cloud/~rumblestrips/fragments/ecayed.gmi
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Kevin Driscoll 📳੯‧̀͡⬮ @kdriscoll.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025
Obsessed with this cover of HTRK by Kali Malone and Stephen O'Malley. The original 50 seconds pushed to almost 6 minutes. Pushing, churning, rising, burning #thisismyjam htrk.bandcamp.com/track/siren-song-…
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 04/11/2025
there are things i feel like i need to fully commit to but don't feel like doing/can't imagine doing while being fully employed (e.g. reading reza negarestani's cyclonopedia)
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stupid pony @solidarity.pizza · 29/10/2025
« To restore is not to conserve, again. There is no refuge in restoration. Conservation is always new. It comes from the place we stopped while we were on the run. » stefano harney and fred moten, _the undercommons: fugitive planning and black study_ (new york: minor compositions, 2013)
Credit can be restored, restructured, rehabilitated, but debt forgiven is always unjust, always unforgiven. Restored credit is restored justice and restorative justice is always the renewed reign of credit, a reign of terror, a hail of obligations to be met, measured, meted, endured Justice is only possible where debt never obliges, never demands, never equals credit, payment, payback. Justice is possible only where it is never asked, in the refuge of bad debt, in the fugitive public of strangers not communities, of undercommons not neighbourhoods, among those who have been there all along from somewhere. To seek justice through restoration is to return debt to the balance sheet and the balance sheet never balances. It plunges toward risk, volatil-ity, uncertainty, more credit chasing more debt, more debt shackled to credit. To restore is not to conserve, again. There is no refuge in restoration. Conservation is always new. It comes from the place we stopped while we were on the run. It's made from the people who took us in. It's the space they say is wrong, the practice they say needs fixing, the homeless aneconomics of visiting.Fugitive publics do not need to be restored. They need to be con-served, which is to say moved, hidden, restarted with the same joke, the same story, always elsewhere than where the long arm of the creditor seeks them, conserved from restoration, beyond justice, beyond law, in bad country, in bad debt. They are planned when they are least expected, planned when they don't follow the process, planned when they escape policy, evade governance, forget themselves, remember themselves, have no need of being forgiven. They are not wrong though they are not, finally communities; they are debtors at distance, bad debtors, forgotten but never forgiven. Give credit where credit is due, and render unto bad debtors only debt, only that mutuality that tells you what you can't do. You can't pay me back, give me credit, get free of me, and I can't let you go when you're gone. If you want to do something, forget this debt, and remember it later.
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 28/10/2025
an (un)idle afternoon tracked by the k&d sessions™️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVLwjJ5gHmc
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Chris Lowis @chrislowis.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025
> SuperCollider's powerful audio synthesis engine scsynth running in the browser as an AudioWorklet. sonic-pi.net/supersonic/demo.html
sonic-pi.net
SuperSonic - SuperCollider's Synthesis Engine in the Browser
SuperCollider's powerful scsynth audio synthesis engine running in the browser as an AudioWorklet. Zero installation.
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 26/10/2025
out of gas and out of time
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stupid pony @solidarity.pizza · 25/10/2025
created my fingertips tracing / i don’t remember the language / translate them / look gather testify verify preserve there / either i could look for the kinds of stories but these murky waters become documentation or time travel / yet to the now and look the moment of intention: the stories
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 25/10/2025
tbh i never really understood rocky horror
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 25/10/2025
1) validity prevails, once again, despite the endless call to narrate 2) high desert scatters under your feet, large gusts erasing inbound footsteps 3) sixteen again: buckling parquet is cold comfort for when we hit the smooth parts
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Imprecision @imprecision.art · 25/10/2025
did some things to update my website because of some upcoming announcements 😶‍🌫️ imprecision.art
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stupid pony @solidarity.pizza · 24/10/2025
kathy acker interviews the spice girls: « I tell them that I’ve never been good at balancing sexual love and work. ‘Of course you can. … I can still go out and . . . flirting is natural.’ I’m listening to Mel B, but all I can think, at the moment, is how beautiful she is. »
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All Together Now – 3:AM Magazine
I can't keep up with these Girls. My generation, spoon-fed Marx and Hegel, thought we could change the world by altering what was out there - the political and economic configurations, all that seemed...
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 24/10/2025
[chronic illness] pain 5, fatigue 2-3. i can't think clearly. i slept okay, not great, not terribly. all of my joints are searing. a taste of melancholy and frustration is rolling around in my mouth and my bed feels lonely even though there is someone in the other room. #sickfile
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 24/10/2025
hoarse halves of wood-sorrel and pillowed pale lillies twelve glossy petals scattering mad-reckless
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 24/10/2025
my tender index finger traces the edge of the postcard and i breathe a spell into the fibers before i place a stamp on it. i walk out my front door, gently placing one foot after another, feeling the pauses between our overlapping syllables.
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s.a. liva @spit.imprecision.art · 23/10/2025
proletarios hartos de serio, "preguntas para el paro nacional del 2025 en ecuador" (= "questions for the 2025 national strike in ecuador"): > ¿Hasta cuándo vamos a vivir con miedo a morirnos de hambre, a balazos o de depresión? ¿Hasta cuándo vamos a trabajar para pagar y pagar para vivir? […]
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