Crucial Track for 14 December 2025: "Face to Face" by Ruel Whee, a delightfully catchy song about a parasocial relationship! #crucialtracks #music #ruel View entry: https://app.crucialtracks.org/profile/cygnoir/20251214

🖋️ The reminder for our next Analog Tools Meetup (https://cygnoir.net/analog-tools-meetups) has been emailed! 🖋️📓🗂️ If you’re not on this list and would like to join us, let @jessekelber or me know.

🤔 Musing on social media platforms, as usual. Why would we want to know people without friction or pauses or clarification? Bonds should withstand messiness. I enjoy clicking into the deep-dive that is your life. Don’t summarize yourself for me.

🤖 After a slow start, I'm absolutely loving the Murderbot Diaries. Anyone else who loved the books, do you think I should watch the show?

Two new issues of Community Tracks have been released! For your listening (and reading) pleasure... compiled from songs shared on Crucial Tracks. Listen along as you read posts from some of our featured community members. Enjoy! https://app.crucialtracks.org/community-tracks/2025-11-23 […]

Crucial Track for 26 November 2025: "Extraordinary Machine" by Fiona Apple This came on today, courtesy of my favorites mix. I forgot how much I loved it. #crucialtracks #music #fionaapple View entry: https://app.crucialtracks.org/profile/cygnoir/20251126

🏃 brb, running through a field of wildflowers, app subscriptions lapsing in my wake, every single “are you sure?” boosting my velocity

🖋️ If you are feeling bereft in the wake of the small-minded nastiness in the world, might I suggest getting your fingers all splotchy with fountain pen ink?

Something in my brain is so soothed by this level of ink matching. 💜 https://mastodon.social/@penaddict/115588048502006261

Crucial Track for 19 November 2025: "you should see me in a crown" by Billie Eilish Today's prompt: What's your favorite song to sing in the car? #crucialtracks #music #billieeilish View entry: https://app.crucialtracks.org/profile/cygnoir/20251119

Crucial Track for 18 November 2025: "Heat Waves" by Glass Animals Today's prompt: Share a song that feels like it was written specifically for you. I'm trying not to overthink these prompts. (Me, not overthink something, ha.) #crucialtracks #music #glassanimals View entry […]

Crucial Track for 17 November 2025: "Weak" by Stephanie Dosen Today's prompt: What's a song you only listen to when you're completely alone? #crucialtracks #music #stephaniedosen View entry: https://app.crucialtracks.org/profile/cygnoir/20251117

📚 Halp, I got sucked into an Elizabeth Gilbert memoir! (Not "Eat Pray Love", which I have never read.)

O hi, it's me, loving on some music in my weird little way! Thank you, Crucial Tracks, for bringing so much sonic joy to my life. https://www.crucialtracks.org/crucial-tracks-010-halsted/

🍅 Here come the tomatoes! !a wooden box half-filled with a mixture of vibrant red heirloom tomatoes and burgundy cherry tomatoes (https://cdn.some.pics/cygnoir/68b4b6c705fb0.jpg)

🥰 Never underestimate the power of a good chat and a good cry with a good friend.

Crucial Track for 30 July 2025: "Dancing On Volcanoes" by Gwenno "Are we all here because of trauma? / Did we all lose something somewhere?" #crucialtracks #music #gwenno View entry: https://app.crucialtracks.org/profile/cygnoir/20250730

Pulpy, shame-studded preteen moments captured exquisitely in another terrific piece by @keenan. https://social.lol/@keenan/114944741779564861

Crucial Track for 28 July 2025: "Crush" by Indigo De Souza This song makes me chair dance! Bounce bounce. #crucialtracks #music #indigodesouza View entry: https://app.crucialtracks.org/profile/cygnoir/20250728

I've struggled to articulate my thoughts about my name and identity in the past, but @keenan made the conversation really worthwhile and fun for me. I recommend them both as a podcast co-host and as a friend! https://social.lol/@keenan/114930888515426694

hee hee hee I’m excited too! https://social.lol/@keenan/114927756083433967

Crucial Track for 27 July 2025: "Under the Water" by Nation of Language This song smushes a bunch of decades together in a delicious time salad. #crucialtracks #music #nationoflanguage View entry: https://app.crucialtracks.org/profile/cygnoir/20250727

😶‍🌫️ Your last post: 2015. I keep your feed in my RSS reader. You won't post again; you can't. And I won't delete this last tenuous connection to our friendship.

🌱 It is not weird to breathe on plants every once in a while just to give them a little snack.

💓 As an Official Adult™️ I am here to tell you that you can, instead of working on your day off, take a three-hour nap and make dinner at bedtime and feel confusedhappysillysad. You’re not wrong or bad or a mess. You’re a person and I love you.

😬 If you find yourself yelling “no YOU take a minute for YOURself” at your watch, you might be a little stressed out.

🥰 FunkyPlaid and I shared a bunch of laughs with the person who helped me order a new pair of glasses today. They thanked us for brightening their hectic day with our silly banter. I was reminded of all the times someone was that for me, that little moment of connection and joy that got me […]

🙃 It is surprisingly easy to excuse my own subpar behavior with “I’m just doing my best” and surprisingly difficult to excuse anyone else’s with “they’re just doing their best.”

🙅 Listen, I’m loving your exuberant “Free” piles by the side of the road, neighbors, but you will not trick me into welcoming your cursed objects into my home.

Two months ago, we said we were going to do it, and we did it. Introducing Friendship Material, a podcast that @keenan and I made about becoming friends. https://social.lol/@keenan/114768322787005273

🙃 Today I was denied a COVID booster at my doctor’s office due to the new CDC guidelines. Good luck out there.

📊 “Your TootPersonality™ results are in! You scored highest in the following metrics: Self-Denigrating Shitposting; Favorite Music; Unabashed Earnestness; Jokes So Inside That Only One Other Person Gets Them; Mediocre Filtered Photos; Emoji Abuse 🤭“

This thread was incredibly moving to read because it captures some of why I've been online so long and so deeply. I believe we can still have this internet, but it takes intention and commitment and hope. It takes patience and kindness and humility. It takes seeing people as individuals and […]

🏃 brb, running through a field of wildflowers, app subscriptions lapsing in my wake, every single “are you sure?” boosting my velocity

📝 There is a whole world beyond thinking about ourselves as units of production. Do not spend one second more on refining your productivity system. You are a being with an existence infinitely more meaningful than your to-do list.

🙃 All someone is saying when they say "we don't talk about politics here" is that they enjoy the safety and comfort their privilege affords them. They are actively choosing not to care about anyone without that same safety and comfort. It's a choice.

🐶 Never underestimate the power of sitting in the sun, next to the river, listening to the waves and watching dogs being dogs.

🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Transgender Day of Visibility! Here are some resources on how to be an ally, today and every day. https://www.hrc.org/resources/be-an-ally-support-trans-equality

📝 My anxiety levels are off the charts. So every time I prep documents for a meeting, appointment, or some other nonsense, I leave a sticky note on them to my future self, reminding her to breathe. It felt cheesy when I started doing it, but now I look forward to the tiny pep talks.

Ciao, Fediverse! 👋🏻 Time for an updated #introduction. I'm a fiction writer, public librarian, and online diarist. If you guessed that I am a mildly pedantic, vaguely recursive thinker who appreciates a tidy structure while also dabbling in the chaotic arts, well, cite your sources. I post […]

🥰 Thanks to omg.lol for providing such a welcoming place for me today. I have 27 years (!) of online writing that I still have to figure out what to do with, but I'm glad to be here.

You don't get to decide https://cygnoir.weblog.lol/2025/01/you-dont-get-to-decide