Notices by Dr Alice Violett (alicemcalicepants@ohai.social), page 2

I'm in this photo and I don't like it.

Never quite sure if I finally got the hang of social situations in my mid-20s, or if I just aged out of being stuck in places with people who were too immature/cliquey to make the quiet weirdo feel wanted and included.

Maybe it's just extraordinarily good luck that I've repeatedly found myself among people who 'get' and value me, and avoided assholes over the past decade or so 🤷♀️

Came across this recently, and reminded of it just now when I had to remind myself I can just say 'sorry for the delay getting to this' without adding 'I had lots of meetings/was swamped/etc'. #trauma #ptsd

Previous boost: a compliment I got on my PhD work a lot back in the day was that it was very "human" 😁

But srsly, I doubt AI would get the same results I did from my sources because it would just count up words like "lonely" and "spoiled", whereas I looked into the surrounding context, eg 'I suppose I was lonely' suggests people didn't remember feeling lonely, but later imposed the judgement that they must have been because they didn't have siblings.

#TuneTuesday #LocalBands @HauntedOwlbear @Kitty

The Mono Polys - Bluebird
https://songwhip.com/themonopolys/bluebird

A local post-punk band who were around about ten years ago that I got quite into. Unfortunately, their story had a sad end.

@BigGayShaun also helps avoid misunderstandings such as Doctor Whore Watch (DoctorWhoRewatch) and Su's anal bum party (SusanAlbumParty) 😁

#ThursdayFiveList #TheBlue @neurothing

Softcult - Perfect Blue
https://youtu.be/jTZD-dRqOzE?si=G-WBmb5fqIx_QRoX

Heavenward - Be My Blues
https://youtu.be/Evp70dkaE0M?si=uf9Q_ZKnchE0Bu3P

Nothing - Blue Mecca
https://youtu.be/hpGQkvcYTYA?si=9y0BkC0-GS7kyC5G

Placebo - Post Blue
https://youtu.be/6vlm4JsBsPE?si=Ilof1_O0HIIB2T7i

The Rasmus - Blue
https://youtu.be/cD6w_bryXSQ?si=f1DZCDt4pP5g-Jeb

#TuneTuesday #MagicSongs @Kitty Steven Battelle - Magic Carpet Ride
https://youtu.be/bLL1lPlhroA

#ThursdayFiveList #TheShadows @neurothing

Teenage Wrist - Digital Self (🎶 I'm just a shadow of my digital self 🎶)
https://youtu.be/NmdxO78GP0c

Joy Division - Shadowplay
https://youtu.be/yPt3-lB5Lsc

Ride - Shadows Behind The Sun
https://youtu.be/D74uGxU9QoY

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Little Shadow
https://youtu.be/VnxLp0JlT_Q

The Rasmus - In The Shadows
https://youtu.be/7gwO8-oqwFw

#TuneTuesday #BangersAndFiller @Kitty @derthomas Least favourite song from my favourite album.

I *think* Better Nature by Silversun Pickups is my favourite album, and my least favourite song on it is The Wild Kind.

It's not bad by any means, but not on the transcendental level of most of the other songs, and it feels a bit tacked-on - the album could naturally end on the penultimate track (Ragamuffin) IMO.

https://youtu.be/KS-AGyTBjYc

#TuneTuesday #TheCircleOfLife Young Guns - Everything Ends

🎶 I had a conversation with a dying man
He said 'son, make sure you live while you still can' 🎶

https://youtu.be/2Ymo_sgtUxo

@Kitty @pgs

#JukeboxFridayNight #EarWorm #SongsThatGetStuckInYourHead

Europe - The Final Countdown
https://youtu.be/9jK-NcRmVcw

#ThursdayFiveList #TheSky @neurothing

Something Corporate - Watch The Sky (I have a tattoo of some of the words 😁)
https://youtu.be/pDiOHF0Q12A

No Devotion - A Sky Deep and Clear
https://youtu.be/3uVQIoTyqnU

Wolf Alice - Sky Musings
https://youtu.be/n0TKZECgoN0

Andy Bell - Skywalker
https://youtu.be/54icAzH384o

Placebo - Happy Birthday in the Sky
https://youtu.be/sRYLFVOY1RI

#TuneTuesday #TravellingTunes another theme where there are any number of Andrew McMahon ITW/Jack's Mannequin/Something Corporate songs I could choose 😄

Andrew McMahon in the Wildnerness - Ohio
https://youtu.be/0qKASreVxpc

🎶 Station wagon tyres flying
Katie's counting crows
Through the tears in her blue eyes
State lines and capitals
Go rushing by as I'm trying to find a station on the radio
Everything's gonna be better on the west coast
Better than the mess we left back home
In Ohio 🎶

#ThursdayFiveList #TheEyes @neurothing ooh, this was hard to narrow down!

AFI - Pink Eyes
https://youtu.be/Kt6Y_2juvrI

Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye
https://youtu.be/z-mxBDuRaZ8

Ride - Close My Eyes
https://youtu.be/sJ58MOnQTm8

No Devotion - Eyeshadow
https://youtu.be/jVwqBnma75A

Far - Job's Eyes
https://youtu.be/ORRNkurg-cw

Loafing around. #cats #catstodon #CatsOfMastodon

My pick for #TuneTuesday #BigRockEnding is If U C Jordan by Something Corporate. The school uniform makes Andrew look even younger than he was 😄

https://youtu.be/DPPX6dZT0Vw

#JukeboxFridayNight #GamesWePlay Butcher Babies - Controller

🎶 Play, just push play
Play on this game
Play on this
Run, don't walk and try to keep up
Play, just push play
You want this game
So play this
Run, don't walk and try to keep up 🎶

https://youtu.be/VATDD3uWAwk

#JukeboxFridayNight #GamesWePlay Skunk Anansie - This Is Not A Game
https://youtu.be/6lVnNRQ7X18