@brian_gettler@mas.toThis band comes in at the top of the list of music I'd like to hear in a dive bar. I also wouldn't be at all surprised to find the band members nursing a beer (or four) inside when I walk in the door.
Supersuckers, "Roadworn and Weary" (1997)
https://youtu.be/HP-nRS5Pklk…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgIt's good that bigger mainstreamer people such as John Oliver are also talking about the "AI slop" era and phenomenon. I do think he was a bit too charitable though.
AI slop is not just bad visuals, it's the esthetic of modern fascism.
https://youtu.be/TWpg1RmzAbc?si=IJOnB4
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu#WordWeavers 22/5: If you could magically write a new genre really well, which genre would you choose?
You mean like multi-classing in D&D or do you mean switch genre entirely? I think I'll stick to fantasy, thank you very much. I love my genre, so if I could just get a few levels in "fantasy writing", that'd be great, thank you 🙂
@fgraver@hcommons.socialShit. I am. How the hell did that happen?!?
https://youtu.be/O0E4kweWyhs?si=nSV_6tUWtQzW7NAe
(I was only 20 when this song first came out. It seemed like science fiction back then.)
@pre@boing.world
There's a woman I know who, when she was pregnant, was very keen to hear the opinions of crystal diviners and homeopath medics on what sex her new baby would be but wouldn't let the ultrasound-scan technician that actually knows tells her because Spoilers.
On that note, I'm happy to watch #doctorWho #badWolf #tv
@stefan@gardenstate.socialI have not played Remtach. This review is really interesting describing this as a team fighting game with soccer as more of a theme. And for the moment to moment game play that sounds great.
But it is funny that in another way that's just soccer. TBH this game is way more soccer then FIFA is where you control a whole team.
Personally I don't love these multiplayer games. I could like this with a single player mode and imagine doing a whole career!
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 076 - LXXVI
Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?
Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods, and to compounds strange?
Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth, and where they did proceed?
O! know sweet love I always write of you,
And you and love are still my argument;…
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu#WordWeavers 22/5: If you could magically write a new genre really well, which genre would you choose?
You mean like multi-classing in D&D or do you mean switch genre entirely? I think I'll stick to fantasy, thank you very much. I love my genre, so if I could just get a few levels in "fantasy writing", that'd be great, thank you 🙂
@Simone21@mastodon.social#Sting 1986, when I was young:
****
In Europe and America
There's a growing feeling of hysteria
Conditioned to respond to all the threats
In the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets
Mr. Khrushchev said, "We will bury you"
I don't subscribe to this point of view
It would be such an ignorant thing to do
If the Russians love their children …
@tgpo@social.linux.pizzaI love the #movie #SuperTroopers! I saw it in theaters when it was released. It is still funny today.
Today I started watching the sequel.
Now, I'm only 45 minutes into it, but just you wait. 'cause once the jokes start, it's gonna be awesome!
@wfryer@mastodon.cloud“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”
John€ 15€:12€ NRSV€€
https://bible.com/bible/2016/jhn.15.12.NRSV
Abide in My Love - Pray As You Go
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterI do love the 'Nanas with all my heart, but god help us all they went to Stock Aitken & Waterman with Venus and said "do for this what you did for Dead Or Alive".
And SAW did what they were asked to, and thus the SAW Doom Years began. #TOTP
@emd@cosocial.caI'm really torn. I love me my @…, great people, great model, love to support and use.
Buuuuut, I'd also love to use my own domain so I can truly own my own social. However I’m concerned about a single user instance not seeing all my current interactions.
Any advice from you self-hosters? I'm trying out
@TobiasFrech@ijug.socialRemember Alphaville's song Forever Young?
If you have 8 more minutes here's what I recently found. I hope it gives you as much joy listening to it as it does for me.
https://youtu.be/tejB6cG7bBg?feature=shared
@jake4480@c.imYou know it's coming, but you just never know. I was lucky to see Brian solo once, it was a magical show. RIP to this legend. I don't even know how to start with how much I love the Beach Boys. I've talked about it many times on here, how I really got into them in my teens, my parents had tapes (I wrote about my love for Wild Honey here:
@roland@devdilettante.comThis ain't no party, this ain't no disco
This ain't no fooling around
This ain't no mudd club, or C.B.G.B.
I ain't got time for that now <-- Life during wartime #ForEvah https://youtu.be/bBr0FJsDk1g
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeGotta love when optimizations and unit tests result in you catching what you thought was a regression, but turned out to be a long-standing corner case bug you've been chasing forever.
Tl;dr implemented an AVX512F version of the inner loop for the eye pattern, which had previously only supported AVX2 and AVX2-FMA.
It promptly failed the unit test despite being a straightforward vector stretch of the AVX2 version (with some small changes because a few instructions I used from …
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaSorry if I fucked up your day too, but I fucking love you all! After looking at this GIF, I’m over it!
Autism is real as hell, and autism is fucking awesome. Fuck the haters, fuck anyone who’s “anti-autism,” and fuck domestic violence against autistic people.
I exist, I’m proud, and I’m not going anywhere. Autism power, always fucking rad!
Mistakes happen, and I gotta work on myself, lmao! You do you, and I’ll do me. Cool? Cool.
@alsutton@snapp.socialI think someone has a lot of spare time, money, and energy.
#AI #LLM
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7fNYj0EXxM
@shoppingtonz@mastodon.socialit's weird being so far away from mastodon/the fediverse for so long...I think it may take me days to get even a feel what it felt before...
I love the changes though, not really protocol wide changes that you feel as a user but you do come back to Mastodon after a while and you consider the latest changes as nice tweaks
@sharan@metalhead.clubThis is a story of how Bad Religion made me start listening to punk rock, and became one of my favorite bands:
https://arnel.bearblog.dev/how-i-started-believing-in-bad-religion/
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialTo dig slightly deeper here, I think that there's a feedback loop between "fall in love/wait for your perfect match (and by the way girls the only career you should aspire to is the literally unattainable 'princess'" Disney stuff and this "my characters are complex I'm so sophisticated; they suffer but it's not intolerable and their lives are good enough despite the imperfections" crap that gets praised as so evocative of the human condition. In fact, I think it merely evokes the condition of its authors & fans who were poisoned by the Disney in their youth and who have remained bad as relationships ever since, though this is not exactly their fault. In any case, their white middle-aged wisdom-shaped-but-quite bitter and intricately-constructed-so-it's-hard-to-see-the-really-untrue-character-facets work ends up keeping their audience within the "romance is luck" cult by way of reassuring them that a middling romance with lots of doubt and complications is "just life" even though the author doesn't actually have any broader perspective on what life is than anyone else.
This has turned into a bit of a rant, but I think I'll just add that reading Mama by Nikkya Hargrove just before Dream State helped immensely to see how the distant & awkward parent-child relationships of the latter are not a product of human nature but instead of white western culture & capitalism.
(The defeatism about climate change is a whole nother dimension of wrong about Dream State, by that's a separate rant.)
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialMy single favorite photo of No Kings Los Angeles. I often park here near City Hall Main.
The LA Mall is often hailed as an example of City government failure. I like to think this photo represents Los Angelenos unity & love.
When you attack one of us, you attack all of us. One City. #NoKings
@siggib@infosec.exchangeJust came here to say I'm a huge believer in the message behind the song "All you need is love"
@roelgrif@mstdn.social"There's one way to end this war. You say to Vladimir Putin:
If you don't stop this war, and we agree to the ceasefire terms I dictate, we are bringing Ukraine into NATO within 30 days. Which part of that sentence don't you understand? Do you want to mess with me? Test me.
That's how you end this war."
https://
@idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.placeÖoo is a novel puzzle platformer where you can't jump, but you can bomb yourself around. Love the aesthetic and demo takes 15 min and has some great puzzles. It's from the developer of the much-lauded ElecHead.
Also has the funniest implementation of Clear Save Data I've ever seen.
https://store…
@nebucatnetzer@social.linux.pizzaI’m currently playing Jedi Outcast on the #NintendoSwitch
I played it when I was around 15 I think so about 20 years ago.
It is still a lot of fun and I love the fact that there is no auto healing but you have to hunt for medi packs.
However I could do with a bit more auto aim.
My controller skills are still very poor.
@paulwermer@sfba.social“Family values do not stop south of the Rio Grande,” he told the crowd. “Why do you think they are here? It’s because they love their family. You and I would do the same thing if we were in their position.”
Guess who said that? Answer below
https://ww…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social“Family values do not stop south of the Rio Grande,” he told the crowd. “Why do you think they are here? It’s because they love their family. You and I would do the same thing if we were in their position.”
Guess who said that? Answer below
https://ww…
@Xavier@infosec.exchange
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotA. I wonder what language the French pres. uses to whisper to the Italian pres?
B. How does Meloni manage to dress like a 12 year old girl and somehow not seem ridiculous?
C. Feel the stomach acid the Japanese delegate is experiencing 😬
D. How is it that Starmer manages to look *exactly* as awkward at these meetings as Theresa May did?
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioThe more time goes on, the more conflicted I get about #AI. (or, more specifically, generative AI. I like causal AI a fair bit)
On one hand, I hate so much about it:
the needless environmental and electronic parts waste, the impact on labor, the monopolistic nature of main organizations driving it, the endless conversations about AGI and other absurdly utopian (or dystopian) futures, the widespread theft of IP and human work, the devaluation of labor and craft… so much of it is not okay at all.
On the other hand, I kinda get it?
I like to test software for myself, so I've been dipping my toes into some popular AI tools over the past couple of years. I have a paid subscription to ChatGPT (which I don’t feel great about, I know), and I have found genuine utility in it.
More so, I feel so conflicted when I talk to people I respect and who I think are very smart and creative and they tell me how in love they are with all of these AI tools, about the complex workflows they build, about their experiments with agentic AI and integrations... These people seem so excited, so alive, so joyous about the things that this technology allows them to do. They often wouldn't have had the skills / knowledge / financial capital to do some of those things with human efforts alone. And now I see them coding their own tools, doing complex data analysis, trying creative experiments with graphics / text / video...
And I feel like a total jerk going "BUT ACTUALLY THIS IS UNETHICAL AND INEFFICIENT AND YOU SHOULD STOP IT BECAUSE AI SUCKS".
The technology behind all these gen AI models does have real utility, and it has kicked off a lot of creativity from people who wouldn't have dabbled in those kinds of projects otherwise.
So I don't know how to feel. Because I can't let go of the guilt and the real problems and the awareness of how much empty hype there is.
#technology #artificialintelligence #genAI #ChatGPT
@Jyoti@mas.toI love food, I love sex, I love MUSIC but there's a special thrill about discovering that you love an author's work that you have never read before.
You look at all the books they've written that you're gonna binge and it's like.... mmmmmm... like a whole stack of the sexiest pancakes in your bed.
@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.worldGrandma, I love having you come over but I wish you would stop talking about your sexuality.
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comGot to love Aliexpress:
"Hi andy user,
Your package has been collected by our shipping partner. It is getting closer to you every minute!"
They always call me "andy user" and I have no idea how that could have happened. They of course have my full name and even if they're trying to appear friendly why lower case it and put "user" in?
@nelson@tech.lgbtCalamus 25 The prairie-grass dividing
Whitman's celebration of simple men, of men from "inland America", of those who are unimpressed by Presidents and Governors. It's a romantic sentiment but in 2025 also feels a little naïve or condescending.
But as always I'm here for the gay stuff. Which starts explicitly enough
[I] Demand the most copious and close companionship of men
Well OK then! Me too. Maybe you could read that in a non-sexual way but then Whitman gets lusty
[I demand] Those with a never-quell'd audacity—those with sweet and lusty flesh, clear of taint, choice and chary of its love-power
My goodness, is that hot! At least to start, it's a shame he tames it seeking out men "chary of love-power". At least he recognizes their love power! I'll take the taint, thank you.
@randombaywatch@mastodon.social#AngieHarmon
Baywatch Nights 1x06 - 976 Ways to Say I Love You
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Sweet Mixture:
🎵 House of Fun and Love
#SweetMixture
https://sweetmixture.bandcamp.com/album/i-love-you-house-of-fun-and-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/1iP49EBHCt7YWHuFVePs6m
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itugh I hate them both https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3lrhcu2tnmx23
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Woodkid:
🎵 I Love You
#NowPlaying #Woodkid
https://annereburn.bandcamp.com/track/i-love-you-woodkid-piano-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/0z39yzkwMNXYX2LYtEOpFW
@roland@devdilettante.comI am no better and neither are you
We are the same, whatever we do
You love me, you hate me, you know me and then
You can't figure out the bag I'm in <-- #SlyAndTheFamilyStoneForEvah :-) https://yout…
@brentsleeper@sfba.socialI love you, #Wordle. I’ve always loved you.
#Wordle1456 3/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
@denmanrooke@social.coopThis animation from the 2000s randomly or (shall I say magically) found it's way from the abyss of my memory... and so I sang it to my daughter and she loved it.
https://youtu.be/au3-hk-pXsM?si=1S5kAU47mVdGuHeY
@dingsextrem@mas.to
@Duckbill4994@social.linux.pizzaIt is only when you start searching the web for tips and tricks that your really know that program ;-)
As in:
"I love this stuff, I cannot get enough of it, I need MORE! even though I just finished every line of the manual"
Or is that just my ADHD?
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@…
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
New racoon
You knew just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for
Someone I really could care for
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished reading Dream State by Eric Puchner, and it kind of pissed me off. I think I can see exactly why it might be popular with a certain WASPy liberal "literati" type that probably includes a lot of influential reviewers, but to me, it's points about love & life, despite being much more complex, ring just about as hollow (and harmful) as a Disney movie.
I've got a lot of quibbles, but I think most galling to me was a throwaway line near the beginning about why platonic relationships get so much less glory in media than romantic ones, when so much of the plot proceeds to revolve around a stale agency-free romantic attraction model that's certainly more complex on its face than a Disney romance but which is ultimately just as misleading.
Go read Loveless or really any YA #OwnVoices romance (especially queer) and you'll be learning more & better lessons about the human condition.
@detondev@social.linux.pizzait really is generally safer to assume a male christian singer-songwriter is closeted gay than otherwise. it really is fundamentally lyrically androphilic despite the surrounding style. it really is mostly love songs about falling to your knees and pleasing jesus if you know what i mean wink wink
@jake4480@c.imIf you're in the mood for something weird and fast, I have some strange Chinese punk for you. 悶煮悶MENGZHUMENG are from Chengdu, China and have released three short, bizarro 'social reintegration' demos (so far) this year, and I love all of them. Herky jerky, fun, you'd probably call this 'egg punk' for sure. I mean, just listen to it. 🇨🇳 🍳 😂
Social reintegration DEMO#1:
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.org
@samir@functional.computer@… @… I love this. ^_^
This is the same GitHub where any commit on any fork is accessible in the forked repository, right?
I wonder if you can brick someone else's repo by forking, without even opening a PR…
@avalon@jazztodon.comYesterday and Karma — Osamu Kitajima and Minnie Ripperton
https://youtube.com/watch?v=J-AVx-qrxeI&si=qduD8LViKHBIS8C0
@petaqui@masto.esIf you love #PersonalGrowth I really recommend you checking this app
💚 Confyday | Life Optimization App https://confyday.com/app
@sharan@metalhead.clubThis is me (playing bass) with my first band ever called Rapa Nui. This was officially our first gig, although the first one happened a few months before this one, in Sarajevo, in front of the then-demolished Youth House.
Back then, I hated melodic punk, feeling the buzz from bands like Motorhead and different extreme metal and grindcore artists.
However, in 2016, I rediscovered an old favorite.
This is a story of how Bad Religion made me start listening to punk rock, an…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
VILA: Because you can't like someone without them liking you back. And I like you, Kerril, more than anyone. Anyone I've ever known.
KERRIL: The difference is, I love you.
VILA: Kerril.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/592
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Poppy Daniels:
🎵 I've Never Been In Love Before
#PoppyDaniels
https://open.spotify.com/track/4yJmPTp4zOmQaQuODK22Dl
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post
@flbact@social.anoxinon.deDie #Linke war mit einem Paukenschlag im Bundestag gelandet. Aber das ist ein Instrument, das du zu spielen wissen musst. Der #Parteitag in #Chemnitz zeigt: Sie können es nicht.
@alethenorio@fosstodon.orgI absolutely love coding in Go. When I started about 8 or so years ago, it had simple ideas and concepts but somewhere along the way it seems people lost track of what made it good.
I've rarely wanted to reach for something like a mock library and every time I did I could get away with something simpler yet some people insist on using mock libraries. No, you don't need a mocking library.
@nelson@tech.lgbtCalamus 20 I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing
What a heartaching poem of loneliness and the need for the love of another! Just wonderful. I understand now why this poem is so popular, particularly as a gay poem. It is full of meaning and is quite clear about it.
I wondered how it could utter joyous leaves, standing alone there, without its friend, its lover near—for I knew I could not
There's a more cerebral interpretation of this work, particularly if you understand "leaves" to mean "pages in my poetry book Leaves of Grass". Whitman talking about his own poetic inspiration from lovers.
Which well enough. But I'm more interested in Whitman's expressed need for "manly love". Which is clearly on his mind constantly:
my own dear friends ... I believe lately I think of little else than of them
Also Whitman's own eroticization of nature and himself. Here speaking of the tree,
its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.comOooh I love the special command that tells you what's slow to compile! https://mastodon.social/@nicklockwood/114618134583698966
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org
@fortune@social.linux.pizza"Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin."
-- Michael O'Donohugh
@idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.placeÖoo is a novel puzzle platformer where you can't jump, but you can bomb yourself around. Love the aesthetic and demo takes 15 min and has some great puzzles. It's from the developer of the much-lauded ElecHead.
Also has the funniest implementation of Clear Save Data I've ever seen.
https://store…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social @brian_gettler@mas.toSome music for today's protests in the US. Stay safe everyone. Don't forget to dance as needed.
Laura Jane Grace, "Baby, I'm an Anarchist" (live, 2021)
https://youtu.be/7-nj4QhjJpc
@selea@social.linux.pizzaSo the nicest firewall and router vendor have since long had a presence of Fediverse - and it looks like they just launched a Peertube-instance too!
I love it!
@…
Thank you @…
@laimis@mstdn.socialI went to check out leaflet.js after seeing it mentioned as one of the options for interactive map features. And after opening the homepage, I now must use it and support it: https://leafletjs.com/
I love the last paragraph in the pop up:
"If you support the actions of the Russian government…
@ginevra@hachyderm.ioJust started playing #NorcoGame. It's a beautiful opening.
I love the simplicity of the way the choices are presented. I don't know yet how much they matter; whether I can only choose one; or should I choose and read them all? (Don't tell me yet, if you've played)
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeDon't you love when you're trying to pwn something and stumble across a different bug than the one you were trying to find?
Some years ago I was trying to XSS a webapp and was confronted with a SQL error.
Turns out it *was* XSS-able, but you had to SQL-escape your javascript first.
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu#PennedPossibilities 695 — Do you enjoy the process of worldbuilding?
I love when it comes together, I do. My world is large, and I love to see how the pieces all fit, but most of all, I love discovering that through my characters. It is they who show me these things. They are my guides.
@nelson@tech.lgbtCalamus 30 A promise and gift to California
Well they can't all be winners. A tedious poem of Western fantasy. Appropriately aspirational for 1860 but not a particularly interesting nor unique sentiment. Also an unkept promise: Whitman never reached the west coast.
Looking for my gay reading, all I have is this:
I and robust love belong among you
I do like Whitman's lustiness, in this case his "robust love". We know a thing or two about that in California.
@roland@devdilettante.comWave your flags and waive your fate
The freedom you claim is the one you hate
The victory you seek will never come
Brutal views through brutal eyes
See no future, hear no lies
Speak no truth to me or the people I love
When I grow up I want to be
All the things you've never been
And your opinion will count for none <-- #StyleCouncilForevah
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
VILA: Because you can't like someone without them liking you back. And I like you, Kerril, more than anyone. Anyone I've ever known.
KERRIL: The difference is, I love you.
VILA: Kerril.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/592
@darkrat@chaosfurs.social@… I love the bashorg bot. Any chance of getting the final voting score in there? Do you have that info?
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaonce again love whenever i come across an overly specific meme, like what real friend of the creator is getting ribbed here
@stefan@gardenstate.socialThanks to everyone who stared my #tvmarks github repo. I really appreciate it.
If you have yet to start or have questions I would love to get you excited back tracking tv!
https://github.com/stefanhayden/tvmark…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Aretha Franklin:
🎵 Baby I Love You
#ArethaFranklin
https://theflyingrobindj.bandcamp.com/track/aretha-franklin-baby-i-love-you-t-f-r-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Ec3KS7Pjli1SqtBJgPxeN
@mesirii@chaos.social@… as you have gemini diffusion access, does it support structured generation and extraction? I would love to see it resculpt an input text into a extracted list of entities and relationships :) (Still waiting for my access)
@caroldib@mastodon.socialLet me love the part of you
that doubts whether it can be loved.
You’re not a puzzle I wish to solve;
You’re the Universe I long to get lost in.
And in your vastness, find myself home.
.
🖼️ Hilma af Klint. The Swan, No 24, Group IX ✨
@chrislowles@mastodon.socialThis just gave me insight into what some Beatles fans probably think of remasters of their discography, I love the new mixes but the OG ones just have the sauce yknow https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nFsYahcXDlyaTAQrexVjCisAzI32hx-P4
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu#WritersCoffeeClub June 4: Do you consider writing work? Would you consider writing your life's work?
Work, as in something that requires effort, that I take seriously - yes.
Money is beside the point.
Writing is what I do, what I love, and what I want. Is that "life's work"? I don't know, that's for someone else to decide once I'm gone.
@nelson@tech.lgbtCalamus 19 Mind you the timid models of the rest, the majority?
A declaration of intellectual independence and a celebration of brotherly love. Honestly this poem feels a little clumsy to me, I can see why Whitman struck the awkward introducing lines in later editions.
As always, looking for the gay content:
Yet comes one, a Manhattanese, and ever at parting, kisses me lightly on the lips with robust love.
And I, in the public room, or on the crossing of the street, or on the ship's deck, kiss him in return
We observe that salute of American comrades
But I can't in all honestly read this use of "kissing" as erotic. Here the public kissing and the "salute of comrades" makes me think it's more of a fraternal kiss.
Which doesn't exclude a romantic kiss as well, or an erotic one. What's so vital about Calamus is how Whitman blends masculine sexual love with the love of comrades. I think both meanings are latent in every poem.
@stefan@gardenstate.socialIf you are from #NewJersey and want to write up a pitch for your Democrat primary candidate I would love to boost it.
@Jyoti@mas.toWatching #LisaFrankenstein, which is a far stranger, funnier and moving film than I expected, and this pearlier comes on:
https://youtu.be/0XhmxgjJiAU
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaif i could make love with a grammatical error, it'd be a comma splice. like why's that shit even considered one in the first place, have you ever felt the ebb and flow and oh-so-zippy tempo of modern day american conversation, mr writerman?
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaHey everyone!
What do you think about Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg heading to Gaza with the Freedom Flotilla to deliver humanitarian aid and challenge the blockade?
I’m honestly mixed on it, and I would love to hear your thoughts.
#GretaThunberg #GretaTintinEleonoraErnmanThunberg
@randombaywatch@mastodon.social @avalon@jazztodon.com @tgpo@social.linux.pizza @stefan@gardenstate.socialLove appeals from bots I ban after 5 seconds appealing like "I've always followed your rules"
bro. you're pretending to be a roofing company from texas? go away.
#Mastodon #mastoadmin
@caroldib@mastodon.socialLet me love the part of you
that doubts whether it can be loved.
You’re not a puzzle I wish to solve;
You’re the Universe I long to get lost in.
And in your vastness, find myself home.
.
🖼️ Hilma af Klint. The Swan, No 24, Group IX ✨
@randombaywatch@mastodon.socialRyan got corned beef
#GregAlanWilliams #DavidHasselhoff #AngieHarmon
Baywatch Nights 1x06 - 976 Ways to Say I Love You
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu#PennedPossibilities 682 — MC POV: Tell us about one of your bad habits.
MC: “Old habits die hard, bad habits can get you killed. One thing I'm getting constant flack for from my brother is pushing people away when I need them. Hell, I suppose he'd love that I bring that up as a bad habit, but I try to protect people from the fallout from my meltdowns, that's all. Anywa…
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu#PennedPossibilities 682 — MC POV: Tell us about one of your bad habits.
MC: “Old habits die hard, bad habits can get you killed. One thing I'm getting constant flack for from my brother is pushing people away when I need them. Hell, I suppose he'd love that I bring that up as a bad habit, but I try to protect people from the fallout from my meltdowns, that's all. Anywa…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Joan Armatrading:
🎵 (I Love It When You) Call Me Names
#JoanArmatrading
https://open.spotify.com/track/29SoUqgayuU5Ei79dkTQiT
@nelson@tech.lgbtCalamus 16 Who is now reading this?
A funny little poem, omitted in later editions. On the surface it's a challenge to the reader and a chance for Whitman to establish himself as self-aware. Claiming his own flaws.
But the text drips with some latent queer meaning
as if I do not secretly love strangers!
(O tenderly, a long time, and never avow it ;)
A secret love that you can never avow? Hello! At least it's tenderly and a long time.
This seems as good a time as any to link Whitman's Boys, a good recent piece considering Whitman as a queer man and what that means to us in current times. It's a nice overview of some queer theory and is even-handed.
@nemorosa@mastodon.nuI am sorry if I appear distant and cold, I am going through a lot right now.
Love you all, though.
