Maine Pianist
@mainepianist.bsky.social
Former Musician
Former Academic
Former Letter Carrier
[He/Him]
Former Academic
Former Letter Carrier
[He/Him]
I mean, yes - I mostly know music publishing, which has mostly been consolidated into three large conglomerates. But it's quickly gone from "Will the book even be decently fact checked and copy-edited?" to "Is this book a piece of slop churned out by an algorithm with no human involvement?"
November 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I mean, yes - I mostly know music publishing, which has mostly been consolidated into three large conglomerates. But it's quickly gone from "Will the book even be decently fact checked and copy-edited?" to "Is this book a piece of slop churned out by an algorithm with no human involvement?"
Of course—They own the wires!
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Of course—They own the wires!
Wait... TRANSLATED??
Because "Of Man's first disobedience..." is incomprehensible?
Shit like this is why I stick to the good publishers for classics: Penguin Classics, Oxford World Classics, Routledge Classics, Vintage, Library of America, sometimes Cambridge or Princeton... [Good Luck!]
Because "Of Man's first disobedience..." is incomprehensible?
Shit like this is why I stick to the good publishers for classics: Penguin Classics, Oxford World Classics, Routledge Classics, Vintage, Library of America, sometimes Cambridge or Princeton... [Good Luck!]
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Wait... TRANSLATED??
Because "Of Man's first disobedience..." is incomprehensible?
Shit like this is why I stick to the good publishers for classics: Penguin Classics, Oxford World Classics, Routledge Classics, Vintage, Library of America, sometimes Cambridge or Princeton... [Good Luck!]
Because "Of Man's first disobedience..." is incomprehensible?
Shit like this is why I stick to the good publishers for classics: Penguin Classics, Oxford World Classics, Routledge Classics, Vintage, Library of America, sometimes Cambridge or Princeton... [Good Luck!]
banning all LED bulbs and replacing them with incandescents?
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
banning all LED bulbs and replacing them with incandescents?
Be grateful he had to rest, and could not create what was planned for that day...
November 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Be grateful he had to rest, and could not create what was planned for that day...
She's resigning on the first business day after her pension kicks in!
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
She's resigning on the first business day after her pension kicks in!
The fact that Grok was trained on a data set that allows it to make all these nazi references, let alone in such a smarmy voice, is horrible enough, even without all the Elon shit! We'll have to invent new curses just to match the insanity. To paraphrase the old German: "Dog's butt in Elon's nose!"
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The fact that Grok was trained on a data set that allows it to make all these nazi references, let alone in such a smarmy voice, is horrible enough, even without all the Elon shit! We'll have to invent new curses just to match the insanity. To paraphrase the old German: "Dog's butt in Elon's nose!"
[Voice in the back of my head]: Are we sure they won't grab him?
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
[Voice in the back of my head]: Are we sure they won't grab him?
It's your loss, dude!
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 AM
It's your loss, dude!
"You call this going? You call this on?"
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"You call this going? You call this on?"
I thought his wife was a lion?
November 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I thought his wife was a lion?
No ice skates??
(I imagine him skating quite gracefully...)
(I imagine him skating quite gracefully...)
November 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
No ice skates??
(I imagine him skating quite gracefully...)
(I imagine him skating quite gracefully...)
"rubber!"
(feeling really saucy:) "aids!"
(feeling really saucy:) "aids!"
November 15, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"rubber!"
(feeling really saucy:) "aids!"
(feeling really saucy:) "aids!"
Now is the winter that we diss "content"...
November 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Now is the winter that we diss "content"...
I long for the good old days, when "nostalgia" literally meant soldiers dropping like flies if they weren't allowed to go home on leave!
November 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I long for the good old days, when "nostalgia" literally meant soldiers dropping like flies if they weren't allowed to go home on leave!
It is a physical law that Ed Miliband will become more and more evenly distributed over time, leading eventually to the Ed Miliband death of the universe.
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
It is a physical law that Ed Miliband will become more and more evenly distributed over time, leading eventually to the Ed Miliband death of the universe.
Word is he hasn't been conscious in months!
November 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Word is he hasn't been conscious in months!
Too bad no one can ask him about it now!
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Too bad no one can ask him about it now!