Aris
@aug4dim5.bsky.social
Music student / flutist / aspiring music theorist / cat dad / AuDHD AroAce / Bartók enthusiast / frog lover / trans masc
My cat found many spaces to hide in last night. On top of a very high shelf, and in a box under my friends’s bed.
October 2, 2026 at 2:12 PM
My cat found many spaces to hide in last night. On top of a very high shelf, and in a box under my friends’s bed.
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Editors of the Chronicle quite enthusiastic about the Trumpian project of destroying American higher ed
October 2, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Editors of the Chronicle quite enthusiastic about the Trumpian project of destroying American higher ed
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I’ve seen some people making comments about not caring about the Kennedy Center, or even wanting it gone, and if you’re not local, maybe sit this one out. It may be an abstraction to you, but to me it’s where I want to take my kids someday to see the symphony, the ballet, touring shows, etc
September 18, 2026 at 6:56 PM
I’ve seen some people making comments about not caring about the Kennedy Center, or even wanting it gone, and if you’re not local, maybe sit this one out. It may be an abstraction to you, but to me it’s where I want to take my kids someday to see the symphony, the ballet, touring shows, etc
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“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.”
You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.
You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.
September 2, 2026 at 4:04 AM
“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.”
You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.
You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.
Recording for the concerto competition this week, but now is when my flute has decided to not be fully sealing!
Let’s hope my repair tech can fix it before Friday but I have low hopes. Might have to pull out due to instrument 🫠
Let’s hope my repair tech can fix it before Friday but I have low hopes. Might have to pull out due to instrument 🫠
August 30, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Recording for the concerto competition this week, but now is when my flute has decided to not be fully sealing!
Let’s hope my repair tech can fix it before Friday but I have low hopes. Might have to pull out due to instrument 🫠
Let’s hope my repair tech can fix it before Friday but I have low hopes. Might have to pull out due to instrument 🫠
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You can just ban socially toxic technologies! They were socially banned like twelve years ago with Google Glasses, we can do it again in more formal ways with this latest attempt to push the Pervert's Delight™ onto society. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Push for import ban on 'pervert' smart glasses amid privacy concerns
Support is growing for a ban on the import of so-called “smart glasses”, amid an influx of low-cost devices that are being used to film Australians without their consent.
www.abc.net.au
August 27, 2026 at 2:15 AM
You can just ban socially toxic technologies! They were socially banned like twelve years ago with Google Glasses, we can do it again in more formal ways with this latest attempt to push the Pervert's Delight™ onto society. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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I don’t put up with simpering AI apologists. No “but there are use cases”, no “I only use it because xyz”, no “I haaaaave to because otherwise my emails sound mean.”
Sorry if that hurts your feelings! You know what hurt my feelings? When tech companies stole my thoughts, words, and literal voice—
Sorry if that hurts your feelings! You know what hurt my feelings? When tech companies stole my thoughts, words, and literal voice—
August 20, 2026 at 10:00 PM
I don’t put up with simpering AI apologists. No “but there are use cases”, no “I only use it because xyz”, no “I haaaaave to because otherwise my emails sound mean.”
Sorry if that hurts your feelings! You know what hurt my feelings? When tech companies stole my thoughts, words, and literal voice—
Sorry if that hurts your feelings! You know what hurt my feelings? When tech companies stole my thoughts, words, and literal voice—
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He was disabled.
Please don’t lose this aspect. The way racism and ableism combined here is pernicious, specific, and very much why they came at him specifically.
Please don’t lose this aspect. The way racism and ableism combined here is pernicious, specific, and very much why they came at him specifically.
So the allegation of plagiarism in his PhD was investigated and dismissed. It turns out he did run all those marathons. So tell me, precisely, all you online sleuths — what exactly did Jason Arday do wrong?
(Apart from being the wrong class and colour of course)
(Apart from being the wrong class and colour of course)
August 17, 2026 at 9:57 AM
He was disabled.
Please don’t lose this aspect. The way racism and ableism combined here is pernicious, specific, and very much why they came at him specifically.
Please don’t lose this aspect. The way racism and ableism combined here is pernicious, specific, and very much why they came at him specifically.
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A lot of people don't know this, but when you brush a cat, you are legally required to show them the wad of cat hair that came off of them and tell them "this is enough for another whole cat"
August 16, 2026 at 10:51 PM
A lot of people don't know this, but when you brush a cat, you are legally required to show them the wad of cat hair that came off of them and tell them "this is enough for another whole cat"
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The doctor who claimed that vaccines cause autism lost his medical license for faking for the study. But his lies and the damage he did to public health persist long after his paper was pulled. This is why science communication is so difficult; all it takes is one grifter.
August 14, 2026 at 8:03 PM
The doctor who claimed that vaccines cause autism lost his medical license for faking for the study. But his lies and the damage he did to public health persist long after his paper was pulled. This is why science communication is so difficult; all it takes is one grifter.
In case anyone was wondering, I have the best cat in the world
August 7, 2026 at 4:08 AM
In case anyone was wondering, I have the best cat in the world
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Don't forget that Audible is owned by Amazon and you should use @libro.fm instead, which allows you to support an indie bookstore in the process
Buy audiobooks & support local bookstores
Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores.
libro.fm
July 31, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Don't forget that Audible is owned by Amazon and you should use @libro.fm instead, which allows you to support an indie bookstore in the process
And like, it’s fine and I’ll just keep checking back once it’s closer to September, but still. Sigh.
It can’t be that hard to set a specific date for things, right? Right?
If someone who knows the inner workings of grad application timelines wants to explain a good reason for the lack of specificity, I’m all ears at this point
If someone who knows the inner workings of grad application timelines wants to explain a good reason for the lack of specificity, I’m all ears at this point
July 30, 2026 at 6:40 PM
And like, it’s fine and I’ll just keep checking back once it’s closer to September, but still. Sigh.
Yeah.
Every time I read the news I start to wonder why I learned to read.
July 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Yeah.
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Interaction I’m tired of goes as follows
Person 1: We should not normalize women feeling like they need to use fillers and injections to feel good about themselves
Person 2 (has Botox): Wowwwww so now we’re telling women what to do with their bodies? I thought you liked feminism
Person 1: We should not normalize women feeling like they need to use fillers and injections to feel good about themselves
Person 2 (has Botox): Wowwwww so now we’re telling women what to do with their bodies? I thought you liked feminism
"You can erase all of the traits of your foremothers, and you can still be just short of the ideal," writes @lindsayfickas.bsky.social for paid subscribers today. www.the-pom.com/p/i-am-sick-...
I am Sick and Tired of Calling Natural Aging "Brave"
This era is going to be marked by the rise of the medspa.
www.the-pom.com
July 30, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Interaction I’m tired of goes as follows
Person 1: We should not normalize women feeling like they need to use fillers and injections to feel good about themselves
Person 2 (has Botox): Wowwwww so now we’re telling women what to do with their bodies? I thought you liked feminism
Person 1: We should not normalize women feeling like they need to use fillers and injections to feel good about themselves
Person 2 (has Botox): Wowwwww so now we’re telling women what to do with their bodies? I thought you liked feminism
Grad school applications are… rapidly approaching, and yet half the schools I’m applying to do not say when their applications open. Not being able to put the dates in my planner is killing me perhaps
July 30, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Grad school applications are… rapidly approaching, and yet half the schools I’m applying to do not say when their applications open. Not being able to put the dates in my planner is killing me perhaps
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I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.
July 29, 2026 at 10:38 PM
I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.
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If you destroy books, especially rare books, you are bad.
July 29, 2026 at 9:51 PM
If you destroy books, especially rare books, you are bad.
we should charge the C-suite with fraud and theft if they take a tax credit meant to keep people employed and then cut staff anyway.
Pixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.
July 30, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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Let’s be clear: what these bastards are doing to these books isn’t digitizing. Digitizing is about preservation and access to the original material. They’re gutting and destroying to make Soylent Green.
Don’t let them get away with pretending to do this for humanitarian reasons.
Don’t let them get away with pretending to do this for humanitarian reasons.
July 30, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Let’s be clear: what these bastards are doing to these books isn’t digitizing. Digitizing is about preservation and access to the original material. They’re gutting and destroying to make Soylent Green.
Don’t let them get away with pretending to do this for humanitarian reasons.
Don’t let them get away with pretending to do this for humanitarian reasons.
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Please stop arguing about the historical accuracy of an adaptation of a book that has a cyclops and a couple of witches and some giants. I’m begging you.
July 22, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Please stop arguing about the historical accuracy of an adaptation of a book that has a cyclops and a couple of witches and some giants. I’m begging you.
Screaming into the VOID.
March 17, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Screaming into the VOID.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
February 24, 2026 at 12:01 AM
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Me when I was gonna go to bed early tn but it’s 11:20pm and I’m not finished homework yet
AHHHHHHHH (this is my fault. I could’ve gotten up earlier today and done it then)
AHHHHHHHH (this is my fault. I could’ve gotten up earlier today and done it then)
February 11, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Me when I was gonna go to bed early tn but it’s 11:20pm and I’m not finished homework yet
AHHHHHHHH (this is my fault. I could’ve gotten up earlier today and done it then)
AHHHHHHHH (this is my fault. I could’ve gotten up earlier today and done it then)
Fell on my face on the ice and got a chunk out of my lip and now I can’t practice flute because it’s right where my flute goes. Fuckkkkkk
Also I just started a 28 day practice book :///
Also I just started a 28 day practice book :///
December 30, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Fell on my face on the ice and got a chunk out of my lip and now I can’t practice flute because it’s right where my flute goes. Fuckkkkkk
Also I just started a 28 day practice book :///
Also I just started a 28 day practice book :///