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Dawn Vespero

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Music lover, persistent dabbler in all other forms of art, and maintainer of Coil fan site The Black Sun Lodge. (https://publish.obsidian.md/theblacksunlodge/Home) I also have a blog over at https://dawnvespero.neocities.org 🇩🇪🏳️‍⚧️

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Dawn Vespero @dawnvespero.bsky.social · Sep 2

#DieErstenLetztenGletscher, eine #Kurzgeschichte von Rebellion und Realität im 21. Jahrhundert, ist jetzt durch #story.one verfügbar: www.thalia.de/shop/home/ar...

Das Cover der Kurzgeschichte "Die Ersten Letzten Gletscher". Das Bild zeigt eine rote Mohnblume vor vertrocknetem Gras, getrennt durch ein stählernes Gitter. Von der anderen Seite des Bildes verläuft ein Block orangener Farbe zur Mitte hin.

Dawn Vespero @dawnvespero.bsky.social · Sep 2

"Anything that makes life more efficient inherently makes it less human." An idea that I feel will stick with me. A balancing act, like everything in life.

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#automation #liveable #human

The 99PI Anniversary Special: 15 for 15 - 99% Invisible

This year marks the 15th anniversary of 99% Invisible! If our little design podcast were a person, it would be old enough to have a provisional driver’s license in some states or celebrate a quinceañe...

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Dawn Vespero @dawnvespero.bsky.social · Sep 2

#DieErstenLetztenGletscher, a #shortstory of rebellion and reality in the 21st century is now available from #story.one: www.thalia.de/shop/home/ar...

The cover for the short story "Die Ersten Letzten Gletscher". The image shows a red poppy in front of dried out grasses, divided by a metal fence. From the opposite side of the image, a soft orange gradient is intruding.

Dawn Vespero @dawnvespero.bsky.social · Sep 2

#DieErstenLetztenGletscher, eine #Kurzgeschichte von Rebellion und Realität im 21. Jahrhundert, ist jetzt durch #story.one verfügbar: www.thalia.de/shop/home/ar...

Dawn Vespero @dawnvespero.bsky.social · Aug 22

... I'm starting to think learning Japanese is a power I shouldn't have been allowed to have. Maybe I just shouldn't be allowed to have my own social media accounts.

Dawn Vespero @dawnvespero.bsky.social · Aug 22

Introducing #ATLUS 's newest smash hit #RPG: #ShinTegamiSensei ! Follow the riveting story of Purotaru-kun as he navigates the difficulties of dealing with his Letter Writing class' substitute teacher! Collect all 333 colored inks, and recruit your classmates to fight the most persistent typos!

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John Semley @johnsemley3000.bsky.social · Jul 29

it's important to remember that MAGA/QAnon are not coherent political movements or ideologies, but rather just a loose ecosystem of people trying to drive clicks, and revenue, by whatever desperate means--a grift, in other words.

Batman or halo @milesklee.bsky.social · Jul 29

Shocker: new study finds that MAGA and QAnon-adjacent influencers seem to have stopped pushing a misinformed panic over human trafficking, largely abandoning an issue that no longer drives the online engagement it once did.

Conspiracist MAGA Influencers Are Posting a Lot Less About Human Trafficking These Days

MAGA conspiracists and QAnon-adjacent influencers have largely moved on from stoking a panic about human trafficking that peaked in 2023.

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Lirhya 🎃 Gamma Freak @lirhyapetitpain.com · Jul 30

There's a reason people don't want you to experience negative emotions through fiction and the reason is fascism, because then you'll realize how unfair your own condition is and you'll start questionning the World and ipso facto the system.
It's always about control, never about protecting

Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · Jul 29

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

[quoting a tweet from isabelunraveled in which she rails against depressing books that get branded as “great writing”]

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · Jul 22

R.I.P. Ozzy Osbourne

buff.ly/Eg1fCOX

Ozzy Osbourne at the final Black Sabbath gig

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Sierra @carlossierraoz.bsky.social · May 2

Happy birthday old friend
www.stereogum.com/2306423/nin-...

Nine Inch Nails' 'With Teeth' Turns 20

In 2020, Nine Inch Nails were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, an inclusion that would have seemed unthinkable at one point but by then seemed well overdue. It was a sign of the Rock Hall f...

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Dawn Vespero @dawnvespero.bsky.social · Apr 23

www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/k...

Warum so viele Hotels gebaut werden anstelle von Wohnungen

Deutschlandweit werden viel zu wenig Wohnungen gebaut, gleichzeitig entstehen neue Hotels. Der Grund liegt in Profitstreben - nicht nur von Investoren, sondern auch von Städten. Von Juri Sonnenholzner...

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Dawn Vespero @dawnvespero.bsky.social · Apr 23

Album of the Week:
"Black Antlers" by Coil
album.link/i/1802022541

For obvious reasons, I don't yet have a physical copy of this album to show off, but I'm glad it's finally getting its due rerelease!

🎵💿 #music #nowplaying #albumoftheweek #coilMusic #BlackAntlers

Dawn Vespero @dawnvespero.bsky.social · Apr 1

Album of the Week:
"The New Backwards" by Coil
album.link/i/1624902181

Finally, there's photographic proof
of me listening to Coil. Underground cool kid status achieved. Pan be praised!

🎵💿 #music #nowplaying #albumoftheweek #coilmusic #thenewbackwards

Dawn Vespero @dawnvespero.bsky.social · Mar 29

The songs that were good before are still good. Over The Shoulder especially is still great. I just don't see any reason to ever put this on over my copy of Twitch.

Dawn Vespero @dawnvespero.bsky.social · Mar 29

Gotta say, I find the new #Ministry album to be pretty pointless. The rerecordings are so similar as to be near indistinguishable at times. I really would have hoped for a more thorough reworking so these songs would be properly in line with the band's modern style.

#music #thesquirellyyears

Dawn Vespero @dawnvespero.bsky.social · Mar 26

For anyone interested in exploring Coil's discography, Bandcamp just published a very nice article on this topic:
daily.bandcamp.com/lists/coil-a...

#music #coilmusic #peterchristopherson #johnbalance

Dark Dreams and Bright Nightmares: The Mortal’s Guide to Coil

Where to begin with one of the most sinister, subversive bands in the history of heavy music.

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Dawn Vespero @dawnvespero.bsky.social · Mar 10

Album of the Week:
"OK COMPUTER (OKNOTOK 1997-2017)" by Radiohead
album.link/i/1239489060

This troubled world shall not know peace until Thom Yorke is tried at the Hague for keeping "Lift" from the public.

🎵💿 #music #nowplaying #albumoftheweek #radiohead #okcomputer

Dawn Vespero @dawnvespero.bsky.social · Mar 6

Welp, guess this is it, folks. Anyone developing a FOSS version of Discord?

www.pcgamer.com/software/pla...

Brace yourself for Discord to get worse: Reports swirl that the company is in talks with bankers about opening itself up to shareholders

Late capitalism, but make it quirky.

www.pcgamer.com

Dawn Vespero @dawnvespero.bsky.social · Mar 6

Unlike my last publication, this is a single, contiguous story, so if you've read it, I'd be interested to know your opinion on this change.

Dawn Vespero @dawnvespero.bsky.social · Mar 6

Good news for my German-speaking audience! I've had a new short story by the name "Marinetti's Hände" published in print. You can find it at www.thalia.de/shop/home/ar... or in your store of choice under ISBN 978-3-7115-8143-3.

"Marinettis Hände. Life is a Story - story.one" online kaufen

Kaufen Sie “Marinettis Hände. Life is a Story - story.one” von Dawn Vespero als Gebundene Ausgabe. ✓ Kostenloser Versand ✓ Click & Collect ✓ Jetzt kaufen

www.thalia.de

Dawn Vespero @dawnvespero.bsky.social · Feb 20

On every day, my goal is to give "Fiona Apple at the '97 VMAs" and immediately get kicked in the head.

Dawn Vespero @dawnvespero.bsky.social · Feb 17

Remember: Entrenched #nationalism is a great operational convenience to any government. However much you fuck up people's lives, you get to turn around and say "yOu ShOuLd Be ThAnKfUl YoU gEt To LiVe In SuCh A gReAt CoUnTrY"

Dawn Vespero @dawnvespero.bsky.social · Feb 17

#RandomThought: Has any other country celebrated founding anniversaries like the U.S.? There was no German centennial celebrations in 1971, but the #USBicentennial was so huge an event they had to plan it six years in advance.

Dawn Vespero @dawnvespero.bsky.social · Feb 17

Album of the Week:
"Broken" by Nine Inch Nails
music.apple.com/de/album/bro...

Crippling anxiety-coded. This record doesn't get to spin up when things are going well.

🎵💿 #music #nowplaying #albumoftheweek #nineinchnails #ninbroken

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Dawn Vespero @dawnvespero.bsky.social · Feb 15

Full, disclosure, I have no experience with video production, so this is very much a pipe dream. But it's been gnawing at me for a while, so I just wanted to kinda throw out a line and see what catches.

Dawn Vespero @dawnvespero.bsky.social · Feb 15

Been toying with an idea for a while: A video series exploring stories told through albums. I'm thinking things like The Downward Spiral, maybe prog-rock like The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. How many people would be interested in that?

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