🐦‍🔥 Martin 💫

The more an artist engages with instagram, the less time they're spending being an artist.

...

To all artists (aspiring or otherwise):

👀 Take a DEEP breath and read that once again 👆

(caveat: your form of art happens to be insta posts/stories)

If your answer to every unexplained mystery/crime/scandal is to hide behind a pseudonymous account and cry "all experts I didn't approve are wrong it's a conspiracy trust me bro", don't be surprised if everyone serious with skin in the game dismisses you as an oafish nutjob triggered by uncertainty

Assumed it was pronounced "BIST-ih-bull"

Google reveals it's "bye-STAY-bull"

Good to know 💡

(in case you ever feel like using the word 'bistable' in conversation 🥂)

UPDATE:

It's a real word!

Imagine that 🌠

(might be a case of one of those words you noticed in text 10+ years ago and forgot existed until today)

How BISTABLE are we feeling today? 🤔

"bistable" ???

"mnemogenic" ???

Unclear to 👤 if these are genuine arcane terms or AI-hallucinated neologisms 👀

( haven't googled em yet! )

[perplexity gonna perplex 🌀]

Sharable image with the following text: Whatever YOU call it.. IM or PM or DM Don't send me one!

DM vs PM - when did PM become DM?

🙌 Calling all #90sKids 🎈

Remember when DMs were called PMs?

(you might also recall IMs)

Most zoomers don't...

This sociotechnocultural-driven semantic shift tracks *closely* with the rapid ascendance of 📱 + social apps 📈

Will the prefix to 'DM' still be "D" 10 years from now...?

(stay tuned 🔮)

Every time we try to do an art it makes us appreciate artists more.

The more an artist engages with instagram, the less time they're spending being an artist.

...

To all artists (aspiring or otherwise):

👀 Take a DEEP breath and read that once again 👆

(caveat: your form of art happens to be insta posts/stories)

🎻 Classical music never fully falls from favor...

Its ethos simply transmigrates to a more contemporary genre 👻

3 notable cases:

💾 Synthpop

🤘 Metal

🪐 Trance

Simply the first that came to mind—the classical influence varies between subgenres (many unexpected surprises)

[Baroque is timeless 💡]

3 seemingly diametrically-opposed rock subgenres ripe for reevaluation:

1️⃣ College rock (it's more than just REM)

2️⃣ Faith rock (CCM is too general/exclusionary)

3️⃣ 'Big music' (think cavernous resonant reverb of stadium-filling—or aspiring—groups like U2)

Many startling overlooked gems out there 💎

Photo of Ed Yong during his 2024 XOXO talk in front of several rules: -not arguing with strangers online -do not become a pundit -cultivate readers, not fans -no savior complex -acknowledge and uplift community -act the part even if you don't feel it -use power well From Matthew Lyon's blog post: https://lyonheart.us/xoxo-2024/

Life is short. Do something offline today. @edyong209.bsky.social's rules from his 2024 XOXO talk continue to be good guidance (Photo by Matthew Lyon):

Very timely in several ways

Peep my banner Briana 😄

(I've had this one for around a month)

1) Know what you mean

2) Hits close to home

3) Happens to the best of us

DM if you're open to chatting with someone who might have some overlapping interests + who experienced something relatively similar 3 months earlier 📨

I was mostly the opposite until high school and from time to time still find myself working on evening it out 😮‍💨

manifesto of a doer

Sharable image with the following text: Whatever YOU call it.. IM or PM or DM Don't send me one!

DM vs PM - when did PM become DM?

🙌 Calling all #90sKids 🎈

Remember when DMs were called PMs?

(you might also recall IMs)

Most zoomers don't...

This sociotechnocultural-driven semantic shift tracks *closely* with the rapid ascendance of 📱 + social apps 📈

Will the prefix to 'DM' still be "D" 10 years from now...?

(stay tuned 🔮)

Stay mindful about who the influencers are in your life

photo of smartphone screen displaying Amazon and Temu logos

Is Temu shaping up to be the new Amazon—or is that just a wild pipe dream?

📦 🔜 🟧

‼️ 👀 ❓

📦 🔜 🟧

One of the reasons I grok German is that forming compound words come naturally to me

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Despite everything, many are resisting the temptation of a doomer mindset.

🔥💗⚡
🌀🧘🕊️
🐢🦡🦅

Bold, Resilient, Freethinking Changemakers keep their 👀 on the 🛣️, INSTINCTIVELY tune out outrage bait, are IMMUNE to obstacles, and UNFLAPPABLE in the midst of a formulaic 24/7 fearmongering-fueled timeline 🎯

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Despite everything, many are resisting the temptation of a doomer mindset.

🔥💗⚡
🌀🧘🕊️
🐢🦡🦅

Bold, Resilient, Freethinking Changemakers keep their 👀 on the 🛣️, INSTINCTIVELY tune out outrage bait, are IMMUNE to obstacles, and UNFLAPPABLE in the midst of a formulaic 24/7 fearmongering-fueled timeline 🎯

screenshot of Kanye speaking with a CC quote that reads "Everything in the world is exactly the same."

gif of Evelyn (main character from the film Everything Everywhere All At Once) rapidly flashing between her multitude of identities

🦋 BUTTERFLY effect

🛜 NETWORK effect

🌊 RIPPLE effect

[ ✨ "we live in a society" 🤝 "says a lot about society" 🤝 "this is how society heals" ✨ ]

(note to self: you're not done yet, blockhead 🙂‍↕️🫴📋)

"square photo of a sharply winding road (driver view) with no traffic lined with greenery to the left and sparse trees and golden hills up ahead in the distance" Stylized text over this photo (in blue, white, and red respectfully): 💙 IF YOUR WAY IS CLEAR 🤍 GO AHEAD ❤️ ONE DAY YOU WILL WIN Intended semantic connotation: "keep moving, turn that corner (in your daily *and* lifetime adventure 🛣️) (incidentally, the photo looks like an album cover... time to refresh your creative drive, bud 💟)

🧬 LIFE HACK 👨‍💻

Didja know u can say "hi" to ANYONE who inspires u and they may treasure it...?

(‼️)

[don't just take my word for it 🙅‍♂️]

🚮 talk is cheap

🟢 the go-ahead is CLEAR

🫵 ONLY YOU can do it

MAKE TIME to DM da homie in your GC who acknowledges your existence

👤🫸🕉️🫷👤

(they won't forget 🐘)

Shoot baby teeth · Shoot · Song · 2025

GUYS mother mary zheng of survivor 48 fame is an artist on spotify and JUST REALEASED A SONG LIKE 10 MINUTES AGO! you heard it here first, guys #Survivor #Survivor48 open.spotify.com/track/54tZRc...

mary zheng

no vote? no problem!! #Survivor48

mary zheng CAPTION: psych!

psych! reaction meme unlocked #Survivor48

🙋‍♂️ Hi yall!

I finally overcame inertia 🙂‍↕️

Not new to bsky (I still 💛 berduck 🦆), but until now this character had not made the leap.

Starting ✨fresh✨ here and ready to refocus my online self-expression previously shared on the nihilistic self-reinforcing black hole of disinfortainment fka tw*tter 🌞