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On a spinning rock flying through space. Programmer. Musician. Parent. Trans. Autistic. Monotropic. ADHD. https://mastodon.social/@kathryndeplume

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Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · Feb 17

Share your joy, people.

Share your sadness too, but don’t think that you can’t talk about the good stuff when there’s bad stuff going on.

Share your triviality too. It doesn’t detract from the serious stuff.

It *all* matters. We’re all just humans doing human things. Keep doing it.

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Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · 2h

Programming is a funny beast. Just did a quick job to generate a complex report from a large CSV, which took 2 hours.

It was only 13 lines of code which'd take less than a minute to type but it took 1hr 59m to determine precisely what 13 lines of code to write to produce the desired result.

Crazy.

Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · 23h

Sam “lets maybe build a dyson sphere around the solar system” Altman is such a fucking idiot I can’t even.

Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · 23h

Also what horse shit, which is on brand from Altman I suppose. They never made ChatGPT “pretty restrictive” for the benefit of people with "mental health issues”. They did it because they wanted a “clean” product to mass market without it being attacked for being lewd. But now, since Grok.. 🤷‍♀️

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Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · 1d

Imagine if it changed depending on the time of day you’re playing it 😆

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Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · 1d

Dude just spends his time here shouting things he heard in the pub at The Guardian post bot. His other opinions are exactly what you’d expect, too 😅

Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · 1d

25 years ago I’d have been all over it, but now? uhhh that knowledge is dust 😅

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Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · 1d

Yeah really lol.. I blinked and here we are 🙃

Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · 1d

Excuse me while I have a crisis, I just realised that gig I went to was 10 years ago 😱 wtf does it go..

Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · 1d

(I posted another but deleted it lol.. it was better audio but I prefer the performance in the first one 😆)

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Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · 1d

On the Chris Thile / Punch Brothers end, I saw this live and it was beautiful.. and tragic.. and haunting..

Punch Brothers - Another New World [Live From the Vault]

YouTube video by Songkick

www.youtube.com

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Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · 1d

Feeds my soul 🫠

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Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · 1d

These are all from the Goat Rodeo Sessions by Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile. I adores it.

Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · 1d

And one with vocals, if you’re into that kinda thing 😆

Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · 1d

And one with vocals, if you’re into that kinda thing 😆

Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · 1d

Check the other one I just posted if you haven’t seen it, Attaboy from the Goat Rodeo sessions 😅

Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · 1d

I fall in musical love with every musician in this room every time I watch it 🫠

Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · 1d

And if you want something a little more contemporary, try this.

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Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · 1d

Still technically a cover 😅🫠

Yo-Yo Ma - Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, Prélude (Official Video)

YouTube video by YoYoMaVEVO

youtu.be

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Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · 1d

Oh Yo-Yo Ma you really know how to turn a girl into a puddle 🫠

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Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · 1d

The best covers give birth to a new version 😆

Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · 1d

(That and I saw Andrew Bird last year and I only have to think of it and I get goosebumps all over again 😅)

Kathryn de Tomb 🏳️‍⚧️🫶 [Free Łink!] @kathryndeplume.com · 1d

Saw these guys a few years ago in London and it was one of the most incredible things I’ve seen live.. the venue was so good and at one point they put aside the mic and played to us accoustically.. I think of it often 🫠