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Avi Miller @avimiller.bsky.social · 2h

I feel like you almost look like a DJ spinning records in the version without the card

Avi Miller @avimiller.bsky.social · 2h

So to say that I took a bit of a Tzadik detour this week may be a bit of an understatement. Around one third of the records on here were Tzadik releases, with half of those alone just being John Zorn Piano Trio albums.

Here are 25 albums that I listened to over the past week:

A 5 by 5 grid of album covers featuring the following releases:

Row 1: Suite for Piano by John Zorn (featuring Brian Marsella, Jorge Roeder, & Ches Smith), Arrival by In Camera, Symphonica by Ruins, Maiden Voyage by Herbie Hancock, & Ballades by John Zorn (featuring Brian Marsella, Jorge Roeder, & Ches Smith).

Row 2: Backlash by Freddie Hubbard, Orcutt Shelley Miller by Orcutt Shelley Miller, Electric Ordo Virtutum by Hildegurls, The Bold Idea of Being Satisfied by Thosar, & Of Ghosts and Goblins by Ikue Mori.

Row 3: Utsuho by À Qui Avec Gabriel, The Last Waltz (40th Anniversary, 4 CD version) by The Band, Avant l’orage by Genticorum, Y'a ben du changement by La Bottine Souriante, & Psycho-Acoustic by Tetsu Inoue.

Row 4: Samenai reimu to mawaru cylinder by Be-Sho, Marisa by Marisa, Patchouli Blue by Bohren & Der Club of Gore, Reisen by Sula Bassana, & Danse La Flandre by Marieke En Bart Et Het Reuzekoor.

Row 5: Impromptus by John Zorn (featuring Brian Marsella, Jorge Roeder, & Ches Smith), Sinnohvation by Insaneintherainmusic, Harvest by Neil Young, Fællesskab by Afsky, & Nocturnes by John Zorn (featuring Brian Marsella, Jorge Roeder, & Ches Smith).

Avi Miller @avimiller.bsky.social · 3h

So I uhhh, I may have extracted the Serge out of the photo (I also made a version with no card)

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Joe Driller Killer @shakewell.cryptoanarchy.network · 5h

I really hope the Bill & Ted run of Waiting for Godot does well enough that someone decides to make a movie version starring them. Both because Beckett is my favorite playwright and that would be sick as fuck, but also because as a theatre kid, I would take sick satisfaction in mainstream reactions.

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koyorin @koyorin.bsky.social · 6h

alia // comm for wyndhym!

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Avi Miller @avimiller.bsky.social · 11h

Brain meme

Small brain: Doing the 'dles

Big brain: Doing the dolls

Galaxy brain: The dolls doing you

Avi Miller @avimiller.bsky.social · 11h

Ok, so this is not at all comprehensive but here are eight artists:

- Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Ikue Mori
- Talking Heads
- Boris
- Laurie Spiegel
- Agalloch
- Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-la-la Band
- Wayne Shorter

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Avi Miller @avimiller.bsky.social · 13h

Only 8 artists?! I might have to think for a while on that one.

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Ceteee but Blue @ceteee.bsky.social · 2d

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Lenna 💛🩸 @lenna.gay · 2d

Made it even easier to see if you have this and access it if you do! Copy this into either your web browser or File Explorer address bar. It will take you right to that screenshot (or if it takes you to the main Settings window, you don't have that screen yet.)

ms-settings:privacy-systemaimodels

Nash @radiodeadair.com · 2d

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation.

"Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies.

Text and image generation
Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 2d

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2d

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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Avi Miller @avimiller.bsky.social · 1d

That is such a good photo to be fair

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greyishwight @greyishwight.bsky.social · 2d

greyishtober challenge day sixteen! 💛🖤🦇💀
more than half way through now!

vampire girl today!

#greyishtober25 #oc #art #sketch #rkgk

a drawing of a petite vampire girl with platinum blonde hair standing in the middle of the tortured souls of her previous victims.

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jordynne, final girl @sick1y.bsky.social · 2d

happy birthday to one of my most used reaction images

screenshot of a deviantart comment from "BigJB21" that reads "god i wish that were me" and is dated October 16, 2012

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Elizabeth Smith @instantsunrise.bsky.social · 3d

Changes caused by HRT pretty much stop after two years.

Coincidentally, we only had the funding to study the changes caused by HRT for two years.

I’m pretty sure there’s no correlation between these two things though, right?

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Avi Miller @avimiller.bsky.social · 2d

Stop making sense, stop making sense

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Avi Miller @avimiller.bsky.social · 3d

When no one else is there for me, I know that I can count on diphenhydramine to be there.

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Avi Miller @avimiller.bsky.social · 3d

This right here. This is one of the greatest substances known to humankind.

A hot pink pill sitting upon a grey cloth backdrop.

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IanCSamson @iancsamson.bsky.social · 3d

2025-10 - Rule 63 of Brian from Quest 64! Everyone's favorite N64 RPG! I've fond memories of renting this out. And of Leila back there. And of the turn-based loop of enemy-attacks and you dodge that feels like proto-proto Undertale. Would honestly be interested in a remake!