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Bike courier | former games producer & QA at demiurge studios. origami nerd. Icon by @hoshizoralone.bsky.social, banner by http://instagram.com/jamjarastronaut

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froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · Sep 5

Taking this opportunity to give my long-winded recommendation for Jamie Paige's Constant Companions (Deluxe). My advice would be to just listen to the first few tracks - but if you need more convincing, read on 🧵https://jamiepaige.bandcamp.com/album/constant-companions-deluxe-edition

COUNTING WORMS MOSH CALL @hyenablood.yeen.world · Sep 3

REMINDER THAT THIS FRIDAY IS BANDCAMP FRIDAY (THE DAY WHERE BANDCAMP DOESN'T TAKE A CUT AND 100% OF SALES GO TO MUSICIANS)

SET ASIDE SOME MONEY TO SUPPORT YOUR FAVORITE MUSICIANS OR EVEN SOME NEW ONES

🐺🎸🎹🎶✨

froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · 1d

They call us pokemon black and white

A Mega Absol and its trainer; a woman with long wavy dark brown hair and blue eyes, wearing leather "biker" jacket, black skinny jeans with a dark grey buckle and zigzag marks, and dark heeled boots. Prism tower is in the background

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 8d

Only a couple more days

Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 11d

Windows 10 support ends on October 14 and there's a link floating around with instructions to enroll for an additional year of security updates, but I'm not linking to that chatgpt article so here's what you do.

Settings
Update & Security
Windows Update
Initiate Enrollment

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froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · 9d

Meanwhile, the TV in the waiting room blares about Kendall Jenner's beauty operations, with sound bites specifically mentioning a machine by name. A banner stands alongside, extolling the virtues of that same machine. I calm myself with a reminder: my session is with a different machine & purpose

froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · 9d

I have the same feeling every time I do a session of laser hair removal. I am here because my stubble defeats any sort of foundation application. Another woman is here because it was a gift from her boyfriend. I pray that it's a conversation that she started, but it's hard to remain optimistic

froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · 10d

The unnecessary red circle:

The user I'm replying to has a "she/they" pronouns tab (if you're using the very common pronouns bot)

froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · 13d

Fine, a like from a (now blocked) AI bro still counts. Top of mind for play it loud is This Hell by Rina Sawayama www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekau...

Rina Sawayama - This Hell (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by RinaSawayamaVEVO

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froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · Sep 21

I'm not one to kiss and tell. So instead I'm just repeating things in my head over and over

froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · Sep 14

first base is when you kiss her balls. a foul is when you bite her balls. a bunt is when you let her balls kiss you

froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · Sep 12

Related, looking for a "youtube to mp3" conversion site that:

1. Isn't slower than dial-up, and
2. Doesn't have 37 pieces of pay-per-click bullshit

I'll give you my life savings. Please.

jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · Sep 12

the next tech thing after AI should be making it so you can save video as easily as you can save images and gifs i hate this shit

ℕ𝔼𝕌ℝ𝕆ℙ𝕆𝕊𝕊𝕌𝕄 @neuropossum.bsky.social · Sep 12

For a super long time, any video I downloaded off of bsky would have no sound and would crash my video player because of some fucked up encoding error, and then mine went back to normal around the time that everyone started reporting errors. Try an alchemic ritual or s/t

froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · Sep 6

Oops I forgot to leave room for the link on that one youtu.be/FMX98ROVRCE?...

LISA - DREAM feat. Kentaro Sakaguchi (Official Short Film MV)

YouTube video by LLOUD Official

youtu.be

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · Sep 6

if my entire argument for banning trans women in sports was that cis men are pretending to be trans women to win against cis women

and I tried to make a documentary about it but could not find any cis men willing to do the thing i said cis men do

i would simply never show my face in public again

A whole gaggle of conservative bigots made a movie about men who pretend to be trans women just to win at sports. It's called Lady_Ballers (look they're not clever people). It's a work of fiction.
BUT GET THIS:
It's a work of fiction only because they wanted it to be a documentary, BUT COULD NOT FIND ANY MEN WILLING TO GO ON HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY JUST TO WIN AT A FUCKING SPORT.

“The premise of Lady Ballers originated as a potential documentary in which men would pretend to be transgender and attempt to integrate women's sports, but The Daily Wire changed the concept to a fictional comedy after failing to find any men who would agree to undergo the necessary requirements for trans women to participate on women's teams.”

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froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · Sep 5

4. Tough one, I don't have anything for the people I'd rather forget - but Dreams by LISA reminds me a lot of my friend that passed away in his 20s in mid 2020. One of the final memories I have of him was when he sung along to Blackpink's DDU-DDU-DU walking by the dance stage at pax east 2020

froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · Sep 5

3. Another one that feels like a cheat, Hot Summer by f(x), ahead of their time like always. This one is also on my "Hot" playlist (of songs that have "hot" in the title)

youtu.be/z-rftpZ7kCY?...

f(x) 에프엑스 'Hot Summer' MV

YouTube video by SMTOWN

youtu.be

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froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · Sep 5

2. 365 ft. Shygirl. Song that got me hooked on UK Garage

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oslp...

Charli xcx - 365 featuring shygirl (official audio)

YouTube video by Charli xcx

www.youtube.com

froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · Sep 5

1. Not sure if it counts but Colors by Utada Hikaru. I used to watch this music video on my netbook on the bus to school. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv7O...

宇多田ヒカル - COLORS

YouTube video by HikaruUtadaVEVO

www.youtube.com

froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · Sep 5

and I feel like I appreciated them more having listened to the original before the new ones were out. Again it's available to stream many places so you can try before you buy.

froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · Sep 5

"(Deluxe Edition)? Should I listen to the non-deluxe first?"

Actually, maybe? Unlike other deluxe editions the new songs are placed strategically within the album so that it still flows. A few of the songs have a ton of leitmotifs or samples from the older songs (7/8)

froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · Sep 5

FAQ

"But I don't even like vocaloid!"
Vocaloid is one of those instruments that's strongly associated with a particular genre, this album is proof that it can grow beyond that genre. Please try it. (6/7)

froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's that good, so good that I've been sorely tempted to tag every single one of my followers and following and bug them to listen, and I'm making it my pinned. If you listen to no other recommendation I ever give, make it this one. (5/7)

froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · Sep 5

But also every song fucking slaps (even if some of them slap in more of a sensitive way than an intensive dance vibe). The only reason I haven't listened to this album all the way through in the past few weeks is because I listened to it multiple times a day for a month before that. (4/?)

froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · Sep 5

sound desperate, or even swear like a sailor (with purpose). It's also one of those albums that is made to listen to all at once, in order, and it's pretty good when it loops too. The overarching themes are simple but timeless, and the personal importance to the artist is clear (🏳️‍⚧️🤔❓) - (3/?)

froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · Sep 5

Constant companions is a vocaloid/vocal synth album, but with emotion and soul, and duets with a human singer, and amen breaks and leitmotifs. It is irrefutable proof that with the right tuning a vocal synth can sound just as human as any singer; you can make them falter, or lose their breath,(cont)

froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · Sep 5

COUNTING WORMS MOSH CALL @hyenablood.yeen.world · Sep 3

froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · Sep 5

Stealing this

red 🎃 @prettypinkpansy.bsky.social · Sep 5

1 like 1 song

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froawins🏳️‍⚧️(she/her) @froah.bsky.social · Sep 5

I've been training my cat to know it's breakfast time when my alarm goes off, so she doesn't bug me if I'm still asleep. If I'm up before my alarm, I just set a short timer so she still hears the food sound when it's food time