doe @exiliaex@masto.anarch.cc

hey uhhhhh how do you find new music?

@dx

i dont have much saved, myself, yet. but im workin on it!

ive got a big download of TheAnarchistLibrary and ive made remakes of a few different popular hrt resources (https://anarch.cc/diy-hrt-resources) to save them for posterity

the other side of this is: RUN YOUR OWN WEBSITES!!! HELP YOUR FRIENDS RUN THEIRS!!

SAVE YOUR FAVORITE WEBSITES

keep copies of them! they're not going to last forever! and the tools we've collectively made to archive them are under attack! it's up to you!

@gyro god i wish he was talking about teaching children to write and make art that sounds so much better

i watched a really weird video about "initiations" the other day. some dutch pagan was talking about how we need initiations, how it's something missing in modern society. how the power of initiations, the way the world seems totally different after an initiation comes from *you* having been changed with the knowledge. and that there's a kind of magic in that.

all of that was relatively agreeable. and then they went "and kids these days look up to influencers and influencers are just kids in the bodies of adults and they're just Good Consumers and we need to teach boys how to be Dangerous Men, we need to teach boys how to be Producers and not Consumers"

and honestly i really should've seen it coming.

something i never see people talk about for fresh instances on masto is the work that goes into pathmaking.

when your instance is fresh it doesn't know any other instances - someone has to do the work to go "find" the posts for the first time to bring them back home.

the best way i've found, which i have spent so many hours doing, is going through whatever follow lists i can, seeing who in there has a semi-active account and following it, just so i could have more selection to choose from moving forward

@eris @mia and after a test it's apparently my Volume Control add on that breaks it??? weird.

@eris @mia huh, good thinking - i just tested with add ons off and that fixed it. i only have a couple, i wonder which one was blocking it.

@mia @eris but for some reason private browsing windows fixes the problem

oh hm, but private windowing fixes it. hmmmmm

and it doesn't seem to be a function of *my* masto instance, because the problem still occurs when i'm on others' instances

audio on masto videos almost never work for me on browser (but do work on my phone app) and idk why

centering my mind on becomings today.

my own becomings—the intermingling of others' becomings with my own (and of course my becomings intermingling with theirs).

"...there are as many sexes as there are terms in symbiosis, as many differences as elements contributing to a process of contagion. We know that many beings pass between a man and a woman; they come from different worlds, are borne on the wind, form rhizomes around roots; they cannot be understood in terms of production, only in terms of becoming."