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It's okay, I've 'disabled new Acrobat'. Which always sounds quite violent.
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Dr Alice Violett
@alicemcalicepants@ohai.social
mastodon 4.7.2Worrier princess. Very into books, alternative music, board games, cats, and the Oxford comma. Web editor, erstwhile historian, book blogger, and chronically undermotivated short story writer. Ideologically opposed to "a quick call". Own views etc.
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Disappointed to discover a PhD studentship titled 'cultivating fungal literacy in gardens' isn't about teaching mushrooms to read.
God save me from people trying to "help" unasked. I have a system and you're messing with it, dammit!
Atypical week = I don't know what day it is any more. Blursday.
Hearing that the 'smart' fridges on a fancy Cambridge research campus aren't opening this morning, and the workers are on the edge of revolt because they can't access the milk.
Me, last night: I'm exhausted after this week. Let's get lots of sleep.
My body: lol no.
https://mas.to/@oblique_strategies/117329913884659748
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@lproven@social.vivaldi.net 🎵 your own, personal, Jesus 🎵
Dirt Universe
#MondayRandom10 VLC, 8,101 tracks...
- Stabbing Westward - ACF
- Hot Water Music - Never Going Back
- Radiohead - There There (The Boney King of Nowhere)
- Tegan and Sara - Shock To Your System
- Deftones - Pittura Infamante
- Ride - Vapour Trail
- Parastatic - Assembly (Feat. Late Girl)
- Sum 41 - Motivation
- Circa Survive - I Felt Free
- The Twilight Sad - I/m Not Here [Missing Face]
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You'd never guess the sticker preceded me choosing today for this particular review (it was meant to represent Emotional Madness).
Went to Saaaaarfend for the day with le boyfriend, got the train to the end of the pier, had lunch, then walked back, and acquired three books (me) and a board game (him).
July round-up is here! See what I read last month, and what I hope to read this month: https://www.draliceviolett.com/what-i-read-in-july-2026/
(Publishing a blog post on a Sunday night probably isn't very "strategic", but ehhh.) #bookstodon #BookMastodon
(Who's running #ThursdayFiveList today? I have a theme idea if nothing's been organised)
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@muz4now@mastodon.world 50-100 (keeps me sane while working!), mostly post-punk but also general alternative, punk, new wave, shoegaze, dream pop, post-hardcore... I generally choose what albums to listen to based on what's stuck/randomly come into my head, or what's new that I would like to stick in my head 😁
Alright, which of yehs turned up the brightness of the moon?
#MondayRandom10 VLC, 7,990 tracks. Really good this week 
- Jack's Mannequin - Annie Use Your Telescope
- Blaqk Audio - Curious Friends
- Converge & Chelsea Wolfe - Coil
- HIM - In the Arms of Rain
- Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box
- Joy Division - Exercise One [John Peel Show 31 Jan 79]
- Steve Forrest - If I Had It All
- Sleater-Kinney - Turn It On
- Nation of Language - Whatever You Want
- Wolf Alice - St Purple & Green
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I want to go out this evening! I do! I just wish I could magically get presentable and teleport there. Bed so comfy and Alice so eepy 🫠
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@lordsplodge@brettspiel.space @grayson@thepage.house @iain@ohai.social @jcl@tabletop.social my friend and I often meet in the pub for games. Lighting/colour is usually fine (with the exception of Quirkle). But recently, the pub started putting on live music partway through our usual session, so we try to get thinkier games/ones she still needs a bit of help with out of the way before that!
Late entry for #ThursdayFiveList #LetsGoRetro as it came out on Friday and they finally put a video up this morning...
The Mirror Trap - Cdr
https://musiccloud.io/E_5uS1_B
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@lordsplodge@brettspiel.space Dorf Romantik, he's only seen it played in videos but he likes the look/sound of it 😊
#JukeboxFridayNight #AWiderWorld some Belarusian post-punk.
Molchat Doma - Удалил Твой Номер / Udalil Tvoy Nomer
https://youtu.be/GuDyBYYfxSg
Molchat Doma - Udalil Tvoy Nomer / Удалил Твой Номер - Молчат Дома (Official Lyrics Video) ENG subs
Migraine hangover, want to do all the things because I'm no longer in pain, but also want to do very little because I feel kinda washed-out 🙃
Halestorm - Dirty Work [Official Audio]
#BandcampFriday haul
Basement - Beside Myself
Boy Harsher - Get Mean
Emma Ruth Rundle - These Killing Times
Onelinedrawing - Rainbow Machine
Slow Magic - Emotion Engine
Basement - Beside Myself
Boy Harsher - Get Mean
Emma Ruth Rundle - These Killing Times
Onelinedrawing - Rainbow Machine
Slow Magic - Emotion EngineIt always takes me a moment to remember Kylie could mean Minogue or Jenner. To my 90s-child mind, there can only be one.
#JukeboxFridayNight #waiting AFI - Endlessly, She Said
https://youtu.be/_-h_khKeJB0
Appropriate, as I've got 20 days to wait until I *finally* see them live.
#AlternateFridayMusic #bleak my 2026 in a nutshell...
Health - Ordinary Loss
https://musiccloud.io/J7F6OUjD
🎵 All there is is bad news
I know we'll be gone soon
Is it just another lie
Or is this real life?
All that's lеft is sadness
I know that I'm nothing
I just wanted one morе night
I'm still afraid to die 🎵
#MondayRandom10 VLC, 8,101 tracks. Really pulled it out of the bag this week
- AFI - Above the Bridge
- Brutus - Django
- Halestorm - I Miss The Misery
- Health - Isn't Everyone (Health, Nine Inch Nails)
- Hot Water Music - Show Your Face
- Finch - Letters to You
- HIM - Lose You Tonight
- Jack Off Jill - Cumdumpster
- Volbeat - 16 Dollars
- Softcult - One Of A Million
#FortnightFridayMusic #breakup not just the best break-up song of all time, but the best song of all time imo.
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
https://youtu.be/zuuObGsB0No
#JukeboxFridayNight #History Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Enola Gay
https://youtu.be/d5XJ2GiR6Bo
#JukeboxFridayNight #Royalty double points for band name, yes? 😁
Drab Majesty - The Heiress
https://youtu.be/KpSJckcW2mY
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It doesn't help that ALL THE ALBUMS are out tomorrow (which is #BandcampFriday) and I'm only working in the morning, and I kind of want to fast-forward to that.
#TheSundayStarter Spell - Dark Inertia
https://musiccloud.io/OGSnU
Trying some new-to-me music this morning and this is the first thing that's really grabbed me. Thanks, whoever was tooting about them the other day!
#BandcampFriday haul. I am, once again, supporting the arts. Not spending frivolously. SUPPORTING THE ARTS.
Soft Palms - In Echo
Spell - Wretched Heart
Twin Tribes - Pendulum
Mouth Ulcers - Silent Pictures (EP)
She's Green - Swallowtail (EP)
Today's my stop on the Ghost Notes blog tour! Read my review of this big-hearted and thought-provoking addition to the Skelfs series: https://www.draliceviolett.com/blog-tour-ghost-notes/ #bookstodon #BookMastodon
#TuneTuesday #CondimentSongs HIM - Salt In Our Wounds
https://musiccloud.io/fxsBVWAr
No no, salt is for chips! Not wounds!
(An also-ran was Piss and Vinegar by Alkaline Trio, so it could be worse 😁)
#JukeboxFridayNight #Waiting Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Waiting for the Man
https://youtu.be/k5bQ9BL5NTc
#BandcampFriday haul:
The Mirror Trap - All That Remains is a Ghost
Chelsea Wolfe - The Dark (finally buying these after streaming them for weeks!)
Soft Vein - All We've Known of Heaven
Actors - Our Love Will Live Forever
Blackwater Holylight - Silence/Motion
Twin Tribes - Ceremony
(Gonna see how much I return to Chat Pile and maybe buy it next time!)
Dirty Slapstick
#JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist
The temptation to just post the songs behind my tattoos again is real. But no!
Going with AFI - Bleed Black, because it's the first song of theirs I remember hearing, leading to 22 years (and counting) of appreciation, and absolute chills when I finally got to hear it live last month (how has it been four weeks already?!).
https://youtu.be/J1TQCNmMq0Y
Bleed Black