Bard spotting on Bluesky 04 September 2024

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The heart-stopping adrenaline-mainlining jolt of feet hitting the floor that follows 1.2 seconds after the TTY begins hammering out a message

Judith Butlerian Jihad (@xanindigo.bsky.social):

thinking about forgotten computer sounds we no longer hear:

• the grinding noise of a defragmenting hard drive

• the BZWOMM of the monitor degauss button

• the squeal of an ejecting floppy drive

• the crackle of static as you switch off a CRT monitor

• the horrifying shriek of a dot matrix printer

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The local AM radio tower's signal rectifying through the bad weld on this government issued desk's legs, turning the drawer into a crystal radio that softly wokka-wokkas sports and traffic when opened and empty

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The strangely voicelike soughing and fluttering of the kitestring as the kite flies so, so high that we can't see it any longer, just one long quivering cotton cord vanishing into the sky, held to earth by 40 pounds of sheer wonder

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

The flyback whine of the Indiglo backlight on the miraculously palm-sized portable computer as we hide under a sheet, reading an epub