Hairy Larry @hairylarry@mastodon.social

ok where should I start hosting audio streams (story readings etc.) instead of YouTube

I should set up proper podcast hosting somehow

#askmastodon #podcasting

Craftswoman #oc #conceptart #illustration #comics #scifi #fantasy

the way I _had_ been doing things, until real life interrupted me, was simply to stream through YouTube, supply background images to my audio by various simple means, and then make up playlists for the resulting videos

it was a simple system but crude, and I want to eliminate using YouTube

if nothing else I want a better place to stream through. Ustream.tv, maybe? what do people prefer around here?

#askmastodon #streaming

@hairylarry I don't know but I kind of got fed up with the text I suggested before so I began writing this one instead to a melody I had lying around. would you like to continue with this?

it's supposed to be addressing a school boy/girl instilling hope and confidence to go their own way

William S. Burroughs Teaches a Free Course on Creative Reading and Writing (1979) https://goo.gl/yxVFym https://t.co/Y70f2kdZNX

Fuck you, Mr. #Zuckerberg!!!!!!!

Goodbye, #Facebook; hello, #Instagram!!!!!

oh, here is my toy computer mouse!! :3
i left it over here.
*hugs mouse* 🖱💕
*picks up in mouth and carries back to cybre.space*

@hairylarry @cypnk @amphetamine
Where there are humans, there are cats and rodents. Classic co-evolution. Now I'd like to see a study correlating cat ownership with how risk-taking a society is. Did toxoplasmosis drive human exploration, cause wars and mass migrations, spreading itself and its hosts around the world?

@hairylarry
@cypnk @amphetamine
Seriously, toxoplasmosis affects the brains of rodents so that they are less risk-averse and are attracted to the smell of cats. Many cat owners also have toxoplasmosis, and it's been shown that it also makes the human hosts more careless. I haven't heard of a study about whether it makes them like cats more, but I bet it does.

@hairylarry
Yes -- "harnessing power" is literally leashing it -- "unleashing" is letting it run free!

@hairylarry Oh thanks! And thank you for previous invites and compliments.
I just do this for fun but I have been nudged to start a Patreon by some friends (so I'm looking into it but haven't yet).

I think you best know what works for the site so if anything caught your eye that fits, go ahead. :)

@hairylarry @cypnk @amphetamine Or are cats, rodents and humans all just being manipulated by toxoplasma?

@hairylarry @amphetamine Wow! That’s a deep philosophical rabbit hole that I didn’t even remotely consider. I guess in a way, we have selected for each other’s most beneficial traits

Humans have bread cats that are aesthetically pleasing, affectionate, and take care of rodents

Cats have bread humans who survived longer thanks to their affection and psychological sense of wellbeing and protection from disease-carrying rodents

There’s probably no other species besides dogs that we assign human attributes more often to than cats. Arguably, cats probably get that distinction more often because they’re perceived as being aloof or independent (at least when compared to dogs)

I wonder what that says about us. Are cats really more similar to humans or is it the particular combination of behavior and physiology that appeals to us

@amphetamine Did we specifically breed features that appeal to us or were they already appealing and we only enhanced that appeal

I wonder whether ancient people felt the same way we do about cats

The reason police keep doing this shit isn't magic. Most white people just don't care. Yes, even the 'woke' ones.

Sure, they'll 'take a stand' when the cameras come out, but what about the work to dismantle the culture that enables cops to keep doing illegal shit?

What about sustained voting pushes to out vote bigots? What about confronting racism in your family? What about being a buffer between us a fucked up cops?

Where is the WORK outside of photo ops & interviews?

Pitch: Ken Penders echidna comics but they're drawn more like real echidnas

"You put your tongue
in the ear of the night,
expecting rejec-
tion but finding, instead

A sudden connection
that left you surprised,
and that gave you elec-
trical throughts in your head.

Emboldened by this,
you attempted a kiss
on the brow of a mys-
tery passing you by;

and thus were afforded
a simple reward
in the shape of a chord
from a street-corner choir.

what if there was a secret internet about dogs called the bark web