A Compelling Resonance
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Quietly animist continuum kink…
Ace-ish consensuality.
Gen Y on Boon Wurrung Country. Pronouns by negotiation.
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I’mMm sorry, this *is* main. bsky.app/profile/how-a-wave-works.bsky.social/post/3mbq5cu2pik2a
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https://how-a-wave-works.dreamwidth.org
Quietly animist continuum kink…
Ace-ish consensuality.
Gen Y on Boon Wurrung Country. Pronouns by negotiation.
~
I’mMm sorry, this *is* main. bsky.app/profile/how-a-wave-works.bsky.social/post/3mbq5cu2pik2a
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https://how-a-wave-works.dreamwidth.org
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Detail of John Henry Harvey’s ‘How strata are contorted’
c.1900–c.1920
State Library Victoria (H92.171/231)
handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/134323
Banner:
Mines Dept Vic, ‘Anticlinal fold in upper silurian strata, South Morang’ (detail)
March 1891!
SLV (H83.96/17)
handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/25278
Detail of John Henry Harvey’s ‘How strata are contorted’
c.1900–c.1920
State Library Victoria (H92.171/231)
handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/134323
Banner:
Mines Dept Vic, ‘Anticlinal fold in upper silurian strata, South Morang’ (detail)
March 1891!
SLV (H83.96/17)
handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/25278
Aw, Dean gives real decent interview. Increasingly chuffed for her. #Hottest100
January 24, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Aw, Dean gives real decent interview. Increasingly chuffed for her. #Hottest100
2025 was indeed the year of 12-8, and this one of the most original and skilled with it. #Hottest100
January 24, 2026 at 9:23 AM
2025 was indeed the year of 12-8, and this one of the most original and skilled with it. #Hottest100
I’m so sorry but it’s ‘Heads We’re Dancing’*, groove, key, tempo and all.
(Still a beautiful song, though).
*Kate Bush’s track about cosying up unknowingly on the D‐floor with Hitler.
#Hottest100
(Still a beautiful song, though).
*Kate Bush’s track about cosying up unknowingly on the D‐floor with Hitler.
#Hottest100
January 24, 2026 at 9:10 AM
I’m so sorry but it’s ‘Heads We’re Dancing’*, groove, key, tempo and all.
(Still a beautiful song, though).
*Kate Bush’s track about cosying up unknowingly on the D‐floor with Hitler.
#Hottest100
(Still a beautiful song, though).
*Kate Bush’s track about cosying up unknowingly on the D‐floor with Hitler.
#Hottest100
No shade on B.P.M. or Ball Park Music’s music, per se, but ‘Please Don’t Move to Melbourne’ landing SO high feels like a bit of an indictment on so‐called Australia’s choking out of true, local, youth‐targetted, rural b’cast culture these decades by way of One Vaguely Edgy Option E’where #Hottest100
January 24, 2026 at 8:32 AM
No shade on B.P.M. or Ball Park Music’s music, per se, but ‘Please Don’t Move to Melbourne’ landing SO high feels like a bit of an indictment on so‐called Australia’s choking out of true, local, youth‐targetted, rural b’cast culture these decades by way of One Vaguely Edgy Option E’where #Hottest100
Must say, I love the softer sophisticurrents of 3MP’s #Hottest100 of 1994, on the ABC this afternoon.
(All the Olivia Dean, etc).
(All the Olivia Dean, etc).
January 24, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Must say, I love the softer sophisticurrents of 3MP’s #Hottest100 of 1994, on the ABC this afternoon.
(All the Olivia Dean, etc).
(All the Olivia Dean, etc).
I MISSED TYLER, THE CREATOR? (BEING IN THE COUNTDOWN, BEING IN THE YEAR’S RELEASES?) #hottest100
January 24, 2026 at 8:14 AM
I MISSED TYLER, THE CREATOR? (BEING IN THE COUNTDOWN, BEING IN THE YEAR’S RELEASES?) #hottest100
I say this as an only‐ever incidental listener to it, & it’s not that I’d be short on critical analysis to eagerly offer, but Roan’s subway is a track about which, were it not for that phasing afflicting the fill before its “She(’s) got a( )way” refrain, I might have NO major complaints. #hottest100
January 24, 2026 at 8:09 AM
I say this as an only‐ever incidental listener to it, & it’s not that I’d be short on critical analysis to eagerly offer, but Roan’s subway is a track about which, were it not for that phasing afflicting the fill before its “She(’s) got a( )way” refrain, I might have NO major complaints. #hottest100
#hottest100 proposal:
A full hunderd tracks that are not institutional novelty covers.
Concurrent countdown of a limited number of the likes of ’Versions, interspersed at politely predictable one‐ to two‐ hour intervals. (90 minutes?). Or their own little sub–twenty‐min segment.
A full hunderd tracks that are not institutional novelty covers.
Concurrent countdown of a limited number of the likes of ’Versions, interspersed at politely predictable one‐ to two‐ hour intervals. (90 minutes?). Or their own little sub–twenty‐min segment.
January 24, 2026 at 5:15 AM
#hottest100 proposal:
A full hunderd tracks that are not institutional novelty covers.
Concurrent countdown of a limited number of the likes of ’Versions, interspersed at politely predictable one‐ to two‐ hour intervals. (90 minutes?). Or their own little sub–twenty‐min segment.
A full hunderd tracks that are not institutional novelty covers.
Concurrent countdown of a limited number of the likes of ’Versions, interspersed at politely predictable one‐ to two‐ hour intervals. (90 minutes?). Or their own little sub–twenty‐min segment.
“[W]e mght say, with [Ingeborg] Bachmann, that we are not becoming extinct but that we are being murdered, even though selectively. With this twist, with this break in the sense of our end, death is no longer projected onto the end of time but enters the present time,
January 24, 2026 at 5:05 AM
“[W]e mght say, with [Ingeborg] Bachmann, that we are not becoming extinct but that we are being murdered, even though selectively. With this twist, with this break in the sense of our end, death is no longer projected onto the end of time but enters the present time,
“[H]uman action, both individual and collective, was not equal to the complexity it was generating and within which it would have to take place[…] a problem of scale that has placed us at the juncture of a painful contradiction: we are small and vulnerable, but we have inordinate power.”
January 24, 2026 at 4:59 AM
“[H]uman action, both individual and collective, was not equal to the complexity it was generating and within which it would have to take place[…] a problem of scale that has placed us at the juncture of a painful contradiction: we are small and vulnerable, but we have inordinate power.”
It’s been pointed out I’ve only #hottest100‐posted about Women in Music and the honorary, Chatfield’s boyfriend, which does track with the sort of mediocre blokebands whose music typically makes Triple J & what an unforgettable* piece of radio this particular ABC countdown is, facts not unrelated.
January 24, 2026 at 3:16 AM
It’s been pointed out I’ve only #hottest100‐posted about Women in Music and the honorary, Chatfield’s boyfriend, which does track with the sort of mediocre blokebands whose music typically makes Triple J & what an unforgettable* piece of radio this particular ABC countdown is, facts not unrelated.
Look, yes, look, textually, “Leave me alone, bitch” is far more congruent with the overall song. But only the tamed “Leave me alone, babe” hits the textural ideal. #hottest100
January 24, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Look, yes, look, textually, “Leave me alone, bitch” is far more congruent with the overall song. But only the tamed “Leave me alone, babe” hits the textural ideal. #hottest100
It’s the song that reminds me of the women’s self-defence manual I found dumped outside a milkbar one time, with a ’70s photograph of the author and a rockstar in combat that makes everyone go “Wait, is that… That seems a bit like Stevie Nicks?” And it is, except in this case it isn’t. #hottest100
January 24, 2026 at 2:49 AM
It’s the song that reminds me of the women’s self-defence manual I found dumped outside a milkbar one time, with a ’70s photograph of the author and a rockstar in combat that makes everyone go “Wait, is that… That seems a bit like Stevie Nicks?” And it is, except in this case it isn’t. #hottest100
Goodnews with Wet Leg: dogs all in from the sunshine; this hundest one hot dread can be declared done. #hottest100
January 24, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Goodnews with Wet Leg: dogs all in from the sunshine; this hundest one hot dread can be declared done. #hottest100
That airy growl emating from somewhere under Keli Holiday had us worried for a chorus there that we’d lost our nice unimpeded FM stereo reception #hottest100
January 24, 2026 at 1:33 AM
That airy growl emating from somewhere under Keli Holiday had us worried for a chorus there that we’d lost our nice unimpeded FM stereo reception #hottest100
“I’ve felt the room expand around me. This is what one body can do for another: manifest a freedom that is shared […] Freedom doesn’t mean being unburdened by the past. It means continuing into the future, dreaming all the time.”
⸻ Laing, Everybody (New York: W. W. Norton & Company 2021), pg 309.
⸻ Laing, Everybody (New York: W. W. Norton & Company 2021), pg 309.
January 24, 2026 at 1:14 AM
“I’ve felt the room expand around me. This is what one body can do for another: manifest a freedom that is shared […] Freedom doesn’t mean being unburdened by the past. It means continuing into the future, dreaming all the time.”
⸻ Laing, Everybody (New York: W. W. Norton & Company 2021), pg 309.
⸻ Laing, Everybody (New York: W. W. Norton & Company 2021), pg 309.
“That‘s what I learned about performing, that it was real, and I had the ability to make people feel on a deep level […] I was the toreador mesmerizing this bull and I could turn around and walk away, turning my back on this huge animal […]”
⸻ Nina Simone, with an emphasis on the word “feel”,
⸻ Nina Simone, with an emphasis on the word “feel”,
January 24, 2026 at 1:07 AM
“That‘s what I learned about performing, that it was real, and I had the ability to make people feel on a deep level […] I was the toreador mesmerizing this bull and I could turn around and walk away, turning my back on this huge animal […]”
⸻ Nina Simone, with an emphasis on the word “feel”,
⸻ Nina Simone, with an emphasis on the word “feel”,
“[Wilhelm] Reich developed a kind of touch to break down his patients’ [character] armour, the traumatic history that exists in every human body, and I think [Nina] Simone did the same thing with song.”
⸻ O. Laing, Everybody: a book about freedom (New York: W. W. Norton & Company 2021), pp 299–300.
⸻ O. Laing, Everybody: a book about freedom (New York: W. W. Norton & Company 2021), pp 299–300.
January 24, 2026 at 12:55 AM
“[Wilhelm] Reich developed a kind of touch to break down his patients’ [character] armour, the traumatic history that exists in every human body, and I think [Nina] Simone did the same thing with song.”
⸻ O. Laing, Everybody: a book about freedom (New York: W. W. Norton & Company 2021), pp 299–300.
⸻ O. Laing, Everybody: a book about freedom (New York: W. W. Norton & Company 2021), pp 299–300.
“Like literature, sex is a space of imaginative play […] And like illness, sex is a descent into what Edward St Aubyn once described as ‘the darkness of the pre-verbal realm’.”
⸻ Olivia Laing, Everybody: a book about freedom (New York: W. W. Norton & Company 2021), pg. 140.
⸻ Olivia Laing, Everybody: a book about freedom (New York: W. W. Norton & Company 2021), pg. 140.
January 24, 2026 at 12:38 AM
“Like literature, sex is a space of imaginative play […] And like illness, sex is a descent into what Edward St Aubyn once described as ‘the darkness of the pre-verbal realm’.”
⸻ Olivia Laing, Everybody: a book about freedom (New York: W. W. Norton & Company 2021), pg. 140.
⸻ Olivia Laing, Everybody: a book about freedom (New York: W. W. Norton & Company 2021), pg. 140.
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but seriously
a) it's time to unsubscribe from game pass
b) it's time for us digital artists to start working with linux developers, etc so we can convert our workflows for real & save each other from the sinking ship that is microsoft windows.
a) it's time to unsubscribe from game pass
b) it's time for us digital artists to start working with linux developers, etc so we can convert our workflows for real & save each other from the sinking ship that is microsoft windows.
January 20, 2026 at 7:47 AM
but seriously
a) it's time to unsubscribe from game pass
b) it's time for us digital artists to start working with linux developers, etc so we can convert our workflows for real & save each other from the sinking ship that is microsoft windows.
a) it's time to unsubscribe from game pass
b) it's time for us digital artists to start working with linux developers, etc so we can convert our workflows for real & save each other from the sinking ship that is microsoft windows.
“I sat on a bench, with no other goal than to rise from it as intact as possible […]”
⸻ Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud, The most secret memory of men (London: Harvill Secker 2024), pg. 44.
⸻ Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud, The most secret memory of men (London: Harvill Secker 2024), pg. 44.
January 15, 2026 at 10:26 PM
“I sat on a bench, with no other goal than to rise from it as intact as possible […]”
⸻ Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud, The most secret memory of men (London: Harvill Secker 2024), pg. 44.
⸻ Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud, The most secret memory of men (London: Harvill Secker 2024), pg. 44.
“[…] then, long after the sun had risen and my playlist had ended (though the silence that follows Pène is a poetic testament to Pène),”
⸻ Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud, The most secret memory of men (London: Harvill Secker 2024), pp 33–34.
⸻ Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud, The most secret memory of men (London: Harvill Secker 2024), pp 33–34.
January 15, 2026 at 10:19 PM
“[…] then, long after the sun had risen and my playlist had ended (though the silence that follows Pène is a poetic testament to Pène),”
⸻ Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud, The most secret memory of men (London: Harvill Secker 2024), pp 33–34.
⸻ Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud, The most secret memory of men (London: Harvill Secker 2024), pp 33–34.
“No one has done this for them. The bubbles have organised themselves.
[…]
[…]
January 14, 2026 at 4:12 AM
“No one has done this for them. The bubbles have organised themselves.
[…]
[…]
Motivational poster in tiny dynamic print, down one corner of the celestial calendar calculator display upon my phone:
“Tomorrow will be 1m 4s shorter”.
“Tomorrow will be 1m 4s shorter”.
January 8, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Motivational poster in tiny dynamic print, down one corner of the celestial calendar calculator display upon my phone:
“Tomorrow will be 1m 4s shorter”.
“Tomorrow will be 1m 4s shorter”.