Auferre 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@auferre.bsky.social
Huge nerd. Sings and codes, not necessarily in that order. Not big on own pronouns, happy to respect yours.
Leave my trans brothers and sisters alone.
Leave my trans brothers and sisters alone.
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It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.
December 23, 2025 at 4:20 AM
It was the Dunning of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.
I'd never seen this, and I'm laughing so hard tears are rolling down my face.
December 23, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I'd never seen this, and I'm laughing so hard tears are rolling down my face.
Taking blood thinners in late middle age is a continual source of excitement.
Oh look, a three inch diameter multicolor bruise I have no memory of acquiring that makes it look like I was hit with a baseball bat. Fun.
Oh look, a three inch diameter multicolor bruise I have no memory of acquiring that makes it look like I was hit with a baseball bat. Fun.
December 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Taking blood thinners in late middle age is a continual source of excitement.
Oh look, a three inch diameter multicolor bruise I have no memory of acquiring that makes it look like I was hit with a baseball bat. Fun.
Oh look, a three inch diameter multicolor bruise I have no memory of acquiring that makes it look like I was hit with a baseball bat. Fun.
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On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.
December 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
On the first night of winter, St. Nautilus flies through the air, pelting good children with candy and dousing the naughty ones in ink.
One of the few positives to come out of the last 300 years of Russian history is that it's hard to beat мат for invective.
A colloquial Russian equivalent to “mind your own business” is тебя не ебут, ты не подмахивай. It means “you’re not getting fucked, so don’t wiggle your ass.”
December 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
One of the few positives to come out of the last 300 years of Russian history is that it's hard to beat мат for invective.
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Like this post, hang around for the book I'm writing: New Opera and the Ethics of Care
Proulx's comment about opera having to have sad endings is indicative of her lack of knowledge about the genre but it's also suggestive of how non-minoritized audiences especially want opera to be non-stop trauma porn, to the detriment of the genre and its makers.
Brokeback Mountain — which Annie Proulx specifically disavowed in the Paris Review on account of the number of people with too powerful a “fantasy life” who wrote to her to say they wished its leads had gotten a happy ending. Which would have “mangled” the story (hell of a word choice, Proulx!)
December 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Like this post, hang around for the book I'm writing: New Opera and the Ethics of Care
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AGMA Statement on the Proposed Renaming of the Kennedy Center: www.musicalartists.org/agma-stateme...
December 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
AGMA Statement on the Proposed Renaming of the Kennedy Center: www.musicalartists.org/agma-stateme...
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BODIES ARE PANTS
(my predictive text finally recognizes that as a complete sentence)
(my predictive text finally recognizes that as a complete sentence)
December 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
BODIES ARE PANTS
(my predictive text finally recognizes that as a complete sentence)
(my predictive text finally recognizes that as a complete sentence)
Reading a great book (Learn Faster, Perform Better, by Molly Gebrian) on the neuroscience and cognitive psychology of practicing. It's the intersection of several subjects I find fascinating, with a lot of practical applications for performing musicians.
...aaaand off to rehearsal again
...aaaand off to rehearsal again
December 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Reading a great book (Learn Faster, Perform Better, by Molly Gebrian) on the neuroscience and cognitive psychology of practicing. It's the intersection of several subjects I find fascinating, with a lot of practical applications for performing musicians.
...aaaand off to rehearsal again
...aaaand off to rehearsal again
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The issue is not that we don't talk to each other. It's that some people think that "talking" means getting to debate your existence, and that's abusive and controlling.
CNN has a show with a similar line. That the problem with this country is we just aren’t talking to each other.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
It’s the kind of diagnosis that a toddler would land on.
December 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The issue is not that we don't talk to each other. It's that some people think that "talking" means getting to debate your existence, and that's abusive and controlling.
I won't be donating to @propublica.org until they fix this.
(And preferably fire the management people responsible for it.)
(And preferably fire the management people responsible for it.)
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I won't be donating to @propublica.org until they fix this.
(And preferably fire the management people responsible for it.)
(And preferably fire the management people responsible for it.)
I see we're doing Pivot to Video discourse again.
As someone who spent far too much time in 2020 and 2021 recording, re-recording, swearing about recordings, re-re-recording, hating the sight (and sound) of myself in recordings, and editing recordings of myself and other people...
No.
As someone who spent far too much time in 2020 and 2021 recording, re-recording, swearing about recordings, re-re-recording, hating the sight (and sound) of myself in recordings, and editing recordings of myself and other people...
No.
December 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I see we're doing Pivot to Video discourse again.
As someone who spent far too much time in 2020 and 2021 recording, re-recording, swearing about recordings, re-re-recording, hating the sight (and sound) of myself in recordings, and editing recordings of myself and other people...
No.
As someone who spent far too much time in 2020 and 2021 recording, re-recording, swearing about recordings, re-re-recording, hating the sight (and sound) of myself in recordings, and editing recordings of myself and other people...
No.
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I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.
December 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.
Very excited to discover that I can now get shin splints just from walking every morning.
December 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Very excited to discover that I can now get shin splints just from walking every morning.
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I keep saying fucks are like ova.
You're born with so many and then when they're gone they're gone.
You're born with so many and then when they're gone they're gone.
December 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I keep saying fucks are like ova.
You're born with so many and then when they're gone they're gone.
You're born with so many and then when they're gone they're gone.
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🎶Noooo ooooone shoots like Gaston,
Mines his youth like Gaston,
And goes stomping around in reboots like Gaston
As a filmmaking trend it's EXHAAAAAAAASPERAAAAAAAAATING
Why do we need more Gaston?🎶
Mines his youth like Gaston,
And goes stomping around in reboots like Gaston
As a filmmaking trend it's EXHAAAAAAAASPERAAAAAAAAATING
Why do we need more Gaston?🎶
I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him
Disney Developing Live-Action ‘Gaston’ Movie From Writer Dave Callaham And Producer Michelle Rejwan
Disney is in early development on a new live-action pic centered on the Beauty and the Beast character Gaston.
deadline.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM
🎶Noooo ooooone shoots like Gaston,
Mines his youth like Gaston,
And goes stomping around in reboots like Gaston
As a filmmaking trend it's EXHAAAAAAAASPERAAAAAAAAATING
Why do we need more Gaston?🎶
Mines his youth like Gaston,
And goes stomping around in reboots like Gaston
As a filmmaking trend it's EXHAAAAAAAASPERAAAAAAAAATING
Why do we need more Gaston?🎶
I've never been happy with "cozy" and "romantasy" as descriptors, but I've been enjoying a lot of books marketed that way this past year.
(On the other hand, I haven't been able to read anything even vaguely dystopian in the last few years. Far too close to reality.)
(On the other hand, I haven't been able to read anything even vaguely dystopian in the last few years. Far too close to reality.)
December 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I've never been happy with "cozy" and "romantasy" as descriptors, but I've been enjoying a lot of books marketed that way this past year.
(On the other hand, I haven't been able to read anything even vaguely dystopian in the last few years. Far too close to reality.)
(On the other hand, I haven't been able to read anything even vaguely dystopian in the last few years. Far too close to reality.)
Rapidly nearing the bottom of this flowchart.
![Comic. Doing a task using a company or organization’s website: [flowchart] Go to website, try to log in → Did it work? → Yes → Try to do your task. → Did it work? Yes → Nice! Done! If logging in did not work → Spend hours troubleshooting account / login. If that works, go to Try to do your task. If no → Give up and call customer service. If spending hours troubleshooting doesn’t work, also give up and call customer service. After calling customer service: Hold message: “Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website? Just go to w-w-w dot…” → Throw phone and laptop into the sea.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiewqnkcrrc4tgla7j5skyz2djf3mrrvre3577c4xcgzurvq33bw4y@jpeg)
December 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Rapidly nearing the bottom of this flowchart.
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Hanukkah sameach, loves.
God I love this poem. It is gorgeous and angry and life-affirming. a perfect reflection after a weekend of protests.
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not the gods who teach us all that comes
from dirt returns to it holy—
the holiest word i know is no.
no more money for the endless
throat of money. no more
syllogisms that permission
endless suffering. no more.
and on the eighth day of a holiday
meant to represent a people
fighting occupation my teachers
who stretch a drop of oil into a week
of light take each other's arms
across eight bridges of this settler colony
singing prayers older than any country
as the chevron burns in the distance.
o stilted vernacular of life—
o pedagogs of the godly pausing—
what mycelia spreads its speaking
limbs beneath the floors of our cities.
the only holy land i know
is where life is. in the story
i was taught alongside my first
language it takes god six days
to make the terrible world
and on seventh day he rested
and on the eighth we blocked traffic.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gemibcrbznvsjnysicxvww6p/bafkreigfas4hcs7davfywim2hba76nnz3edhnlqimpgsden4hnsztrscce@jpeg)
December 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Hanukkah sameach, loves.
Hanukkah is an excuse to make as many latkes as I can eat without bursting.
The first line of my toddler’s favorite book about Hanukkah is “Hanukkah is smelling cookies baking in the oven” and NO IT IS NOT
December 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Hanukkah is an excuse to make as many latkes as I can eat without bursting.
Me this morning.
(except a lot less cute)
(except a lot less cute)
This is Pancho. He’s mad because he asked for five more minutes and then you woke him up five minutes later. Unforgivable. 12/10 (IG: panchothediva)
December 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Me this morning.
(except a lot less cute)
(except a lot less cute)
Having spent an hour this morning reading A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience by @stephanieburgis.bsky.social, I can report that it is an excellent way to distract oneself from wanting to set fire to the last year.
(Plus I immediately bought the sequel and pre-ordered the third one.)
(Plus I immediately bought the sequel and pre-ordered the third one.)
December 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Having spent an hour this morning reading A Marriage of Undead Inconvenience by @stephanieburgis.bsky.social, I can report that it is an excellent way to distract oneself from wanting to set fire to the last year.
(Plus I immediately bought the sequel and pre-ordered the third one.)
(Plus I immediately bought the sequel and pre-ordered the third one.)
I do not have the spoons to deal with The Horrors this morning.
December 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I do not have the spoons to deal with The Horrors this morning.
One of my favorite things on this app is watching some of my favorite writers be silly at each other.
December 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
One of my favorite things on this app is watching some of my favorite writers be silly at each other.