Howie Bing
@howiebing.bsky.social
Wannabe hermit. Autistic. Agender. Interested in a lot of things. Too many things. All the things. Can usually be found down some rabbit hole.
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An actually pretty good cover of "Take On Me" by a Norwegian prog/metal band (the video is a "making of" sort of thing, with the actual song coming in at about 11:05):
youtu.be/Te2MR6j5Qhg
youtu.be/Te2MR6j5Qhg
Norwegian Prog/Metal Band LEPROUS Covers "Take On Me" On The Spot
YouTube video by Musora
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August 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
An actually pretty good cover of "Take On Me" by a Norwegian prog/metal band (the video is a "making of" sort of thing, with the actual song coming in at about 11:05):
youtu.be/Te2MR6j5Qhg
youtu.be/Te2MR6j5Qhg
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It happened again yesterday: I informed someone they were Canadian who didn’t know they were Canadian. This has now happened about 10 times for me. Americans, take note: if your parent was a Canadian citizen born in Canada, you are a Canadian citizen. And there’s a law working its way through…
July 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It happened again yesterday: I informed someone they were Canadian who didn’t know they were Canadian. This has now happened about 10 times for me. Americans, take note: if your parent was a Canadian citizen born in Canada, you are a Canadian citizen. And there’s a law working its way through…
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ABSOLUTELY true. this is a great post and an issue i have talked on time and again. these tests, especially for adults who have learned to mask, is usually very poorly worded
Neurodivergent screening tests will be like "do you struggle with wearing socks" and ND people will be like "nope does not describe me, for you see I have a System" and folks that is what the question is getting at
(Bringing my biggest post over here from Twitter)
(Bringing my biggest post over here from Twitter)
July 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
ABSOLUTELY true. this is a great post and an issue i have talked on time and again. these tests, especially for adults who have learned to mask, is usually very poorly worded
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hi, it’s me, your friendly indie bookseller and audiobook narrator. libro.fm costs the same as an Audible subscription. an audiobook on Audible is the same audiobook on Libro. but a portion of your purchase supports the indie bookstore of your choice! you can even see our recommendations!
For audiobooks, libro.fm gets you out of the Bezosphere as well.
October 26, 2024 at 1:26 PM
hi, it’s me, your friendly indie bookseller and audiobook narrator. libro.fm costs the same as an Audible subscription. an audiobook on Audible is the same audiobook on Libro. but a portion of your purchase supports the indie bookstore of your choice! you can even see our recommendations!
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Feed recommendation: Quiet Posters
Shows posts by ppl you follow who don't post a lot
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Shows posts by ppl you follow who don't post a lot
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October 20, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Feed recommendation: Quiet Posters
Shows posts by ppl you follow who don't post a lot
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Shows posts by ppl you follow who don't post a lot
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Hi new Bluesky users. Semi-annual reminder to follow my favorite part of this website: the Gift Links feed.
It shows any free link to an otherwise paywalled article that’s shared by anyone on Bluesky. It has legit changed how I read the news.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
It shows any free link to an otherwise paywalled article that’s shared by anyone on Bluesky. It has legit changed how I read the news.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 20, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Hi new Bluesky users. Semi-annual reminder to follow my favorite part of this website: the Gift Links feed.
It shows any free link to an otherwise paywalled article that’s shared by anyone on Bluesky. It has legit changed how I read the news.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
It shows any free link to an otherwise paywalled article that’s shared by anyone on Bluesky. It has legit changed how I read the news.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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When there's a sudden influx of new followers and you haven't got any new art ready
October 18, 2024 at 10:46 PM
When there's a sudden influx of new followers and you haven't got any new art ready
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The thing that Trump understands intuitively that a lot of people don't is that favors are relational, not transactional. If you do favors for someone, no matter how much you might think in terms of "now you owe me", you've established a dynamic where you do favors for them.
I’ve been hearing about how Trump is “transactional” for years.
No. He’s exploitative, not transactional. It doesn’t matter to Trump what you have done for him, it only matters what he wants from you *right now*. He doesn’t give a shit about reciprocity or even paying bills.
No. He’s exploitative, not transactional. It doesn’t matter to Trump what you have done for him, it only matters what he wants from you *right now*. He doesn’t give a shit about reciprocity or even paying bills.
October 7, 2024 at 6:33 PM
The thing that Trump understands intuitively that a lot of people don't is that favors are relational, not transactional. If you do favors for someone, no matter how much you might think in terms of "now you owe me", you've established a dynamic where you do favors for them.
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To reiterate a post from the Other Site, for most of the last four thousand+ years, the vast majority of people living in cities got takeout. Many apartments lacked kitchens due to space and fire risk. Cooking yourself 7 fresh, varied meals a week is a VERY recent expectation.
Someone replied to me bringing up fast food by asking if I knew cooking exists and it’s a joke and totally fine but I want everyone to know that if you’re in a place in life where it’s cheaper to get food that way or if you’ve just worked two shifts, the idea of “cooking” holds no inherent nobility
October 9, 2024 at 9:39 PM
To reiterate a post from the Other Site, for most of the last four thousand+ years, the vast majority of people living in cities got takeout. Many apartments lacked kitchens due to space and fire risk. Cooking yourself 7 fresh, varied meals a week is a VERY recent expectation.
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Oh my GOD. Went for coffee with an old publishing mate and he told me the tale of his latest mugging. Brace for this.
(To note, my mate is a 75yo man, short, obviously quite posh, and deaf in one ear. He gets mugged a lot. It rarely works out for the muggers, for reasons that will become obvious.)
(To note, my mate is a 75yo man, short, obviously quite posh, and deaf in one ear. He gets mugged a lot. It rarely works out for the muggers, for reasons that will become obvious.)
January 31, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Oh my GOD. Went for coffee with an old publishing mate and he told me the tale of his latest mugging. Brace for this.
(To note, my mate is a 75yo man, short, obviously quite posh, and deaf in one ear. He gets mugged a lot. It rarely works out for the muggers, for reasons that will become obvious.)
(To note, my mate is a 75yo man, short, obviously quite posh, and deaf in one ear. He gets mugged a lot. It rarely works out for the muggers, for reasons that will become obvious.)
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More Gang-gang Cockatoos.
August 13, 2023 at 3:47 AM
More Gang-gang Cockatoos.
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"Matthew/Paul (stripes)" oil on drywall & wood, 14x27", 2005/6 #art I was thinking about Pompeii, infrastructure and leaving your mark.
August 7, 2023 at 2:32 AM
"Matthew/Paul (stripes)" oil on drywall & wood, 14x27", 2005/6 #art I was thinking about Pompeii, infrastructure and leaving your mark.
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For the "small world" series: "Turnip Moth", pencil crayon on paper, 10x14", 2023 #art #SciArt #invertebrates
August 5, 2023 at 6:30 PM
For the "small world" series: "Turnip Moth", pencil crayon on paper, 10x14", 2023 #art #SciArt #invertebrates
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"Serving the taxpayer", pencil on paper, 12x14", 2021 (private collection) #art #SciArt
August 5, 2023 at 10:59 AM
"Serving the taxpayer", pencil on paper, 12x14", 2021 (private collection) #art #SciArt
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Next week in Oregon: How to toast your own toast.
Oregon just legalized self-service gas stations for the first time in 72 years, and this is a real infographic making the rounds.
August 5, 2023 at 12:51 AM
Next week in Oregon: How to toast your own toast.
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I also do #SciArt #anatomy #embroidery. I usually work from antique anatomical engravings, often adding poetic text or other aspects. This piece, she breathed (2018) is from an engraving in Vesalius’ Fabrica and has a poem stitched between the bronchi. #SciArtPortfolioWeek
August 3, 2023 at 11:16 PM
I also do #SciArt #anatomy #embroidery. I usually work from antique anatomical engravings, often adding poetic text or other aspects. This piece, she breathed (2018) is from an engraving in Vesalius’ Fabrica and has a poem stitched between the bronchi. #SciArtPortfolioWeek
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The Promenade (oil/acrylic on canvas) 2019
August 4, 2023 at 8:48 AM
The Promenade (oil/acrylic on canvas) 2019
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One of my many pet peeves is Americans’ cultural inability to hear ANYTHING positive said in ANY context about things and people they’ve decided they hate. It’s so childish. Like, “oh, you said something not negative about this thing I hate? WHY DON’T YOU JUST MARRY IT?”
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August 1, 2023 at 2:50 AM
One of my many pet peeves is Americans’ cultural inability to hear ANYTHING positive said in ANY context about things and people they’ve decided they hate. It’s so childish. Like, “oh, you said something not negative about this thing I hate? WHY DON’T YOU JUST MARRY IT?”
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have not properly introduced myself...I am a conservation biologist with ~30 years experience in NE Asia & the Arctic. I am currently Regional Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Temperate Asia region, which includes China, Mongolia, Russia, Afghanistan, & Central Asia. Pic from 2008.🧪🦉
July 31, 2023 at 11:46 PM
have not properly introduced myself...I am a conservation biologist with ~30 years experience in NE Asia & the Arctic. I am currently Regional Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Temperate Asia region, which includes China, Mongolia, Russia, Afghanistan, & Central Asia. Pic from 2008.🧪🦉
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My cartoon for this weekend’s Guardian books.
p.s. my latest book cartoons collection is Revenge of the Librarians: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
p.s. my latest book cartoons collection is Revenge of the Librarians: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
July 30, 2023 at 9:03 AM
My cartoon for this weekend’s Guardian books.
p.s. my latest book cartoons collection is Revenge of the Librarians: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
p.s. my latest book cartoons collection is Revenge of the Librarians: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
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It's not my fault. The post box made me do it. I just gave it the eyes, it already had the mouth!
It was obvious sentience was just around the corner!
It was obvious sentience was just around the corner!
July 29, 2023 at 6:20 PM
It's not my fault. The post box made me do it. I just gave it the eyes, it already had the mouth!
It was obvious sentience was just around the corner!
It was obvious sentience was just around the corner!
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one of my favorite bird pics, with one of my favorite species. A northern raven with a duck egg over the tundra near Kotzebue, Alaska, in June 2018. 🦉
July 28, 2023 at 2:43 PM
one of my favorite bird pics, with one of my favorite species. A northern raven with a duck egg over the tundra near Kotzebue, Alaska, in June 2018. 🦉
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Sigh, some people still seem to be bumping up against the paywall for this piece despite my understanding that it would be free to read for 24 hours.
Look, if anyone with Long COVID or ME/CFS needs to read it and cannot, email [email protected] and I'll personally send you a copy.
Look, if anyone with Long COVID or ME/CFS needs to read it and cannot, email [email protected] and I'll personally send you a copy.
Fatigue Can Shatter a Person
Everyday tiredness is nothing like the depleting symptom that people with long COVID and ME/CFS experience.
www.theatlantic.com
July 27, 2023 at 3:57 PM
Sigh, some people still seem to be bumping up against the paywall for this piece despite my understanding that it would be free to read for 24 hours.
Look, if anyone with Long COVID or ME/CFS needs to read it and cannot, email [email protected] and I'll personally send you a copy.
Look, if anyone with Long COVID or ME/CFS needs to read it and cannot, email [email protected] and I'll personally send you a copy.
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At the beginning of the after times there was a toilet paper "shortage". The land was rife with accusations of hoarding. Fears of people buying bulk to resell for a profit. But that's not what really happened.
Just like the "no one wanted to work anymore" thing, you were lied to.
Just like the "no one wanted to work anymore" thing, you were lied to.
July 27, 2023 at 6:41 PM
At the beginning of the after times there was a toilet paper "shortage". The land was rife with accusations of hoarding. Fears of people buying bulk to resell for a profit. But that's not what really happened.
Just like the "no one wanted to work anymore" thing, you were lied to.
Just like the "no one wanted to work anymore" thing, you were lied to.