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sever the umbilical cord connecting you to reality↵emerge from its womb into what is outside↵behold what you’ve only known as muffled sounds

To get data in and out of fairyland, find some pixies and make them listen to a modem’s chirps. They have a perfect memory for bird sounds.

A house made only of sound: floor boards creaking, a door closing, the hum of a fridge↵Close your eyes and you’ll even hear the mice

Your brain makes an awful slurping, then grinding/ticking sound. It seems to have reconfigured itself into gears. Think about an oil change.

you wake up in a hospital bed↵> look left↵occasional sloshing, tentacles probe under your curtain↵> look right↵a sound like a boiling kettle

“Lovecraftian bubblewrap uses child’s heads for bubbles. Popping them proves irresistible, the sound is extra juicy. [Every ‘pop’ a kid!]”

@kas@enotty.dk aura akua sound a lot like a sentence from toki pona.

a flip book that plays sound by way of differently textured pages

@dracoblue@dracoblue.net Sorry, but what tweet are you referring to? I have no idea what sounds great… We need a way to reference tweets!

karaoke in dead languages: sing along to the ruin of other races, rendered toothless by time, in sounds your throat can barely produce

fall into sleep: colourful dreams surround you↵but you fall further into black tar↵fall further: a deep violet pulse↵further: no more sound

We would have to write a new plugin for that. Which sounds fun… Do you have a have a receiver we can play with?

The flames are clearly eating him, but the tear isn’t widening. The only sounds he makes are the crackle and whine of a burning log.

Markovian writing, in which you try to sound like a Markov chain while still making sense on another level.

During a rainstorm, one can find shelter under a tame skyjelly. The rain makes a very particular sound on them, like it makes on mushrooms.

Most kinds of golem I could come up with have been anticipated by Miéville though: Earth, water, paper, sound, light, even time.

@allgebrah “it sounded great in my head!” “it’s not how you english though!”

Sound waves converged on the violin’s strings and forced the player’s bow and hands. Nobody had ever played a human so skilfully before.

That ear splitting wail from a badly set up microphone hooked to a sound system? That is the sound of a life, all lived over a few seconds.

song idea: Little Fluffy Clouds, but set in Hell↵nothing remains but the rhythm, and souls scratch feebly on the inner surface of the sound

hybrid record players and cutters - press “cut” and it’ll cut off a ring making a very particular sound like biting into chocolate slowly

American parenting is killing marriage
This article sounds very true, although I would not go as far as generalizing it for all Americans.

Mothers must devote themselves to their children above anyone or anything else, but many wives would be offended if their husbands said, “You’re pretty great, but my love for you will never hold a candle to the love I have for John Junior.”

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@ve4ernik sounds promising to me. Trying to imagine paralel nervous system array and how it may be of use

The Hero
I am in love with the HTC Hero. I do not have one… yet, still, when thinking on a mobile device I would love to have, the Hero is what comes to mind. And what better song to keep my hopes alive than “Holding out for a Hero”, by Bonnie Tyler? So, here it goes!

Edited: Song removed. Did not wanted to get sued for hosting a sound track which copyright might forbid wide audience availability.

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A moment in time
Not much is happening lately. At least, not much worth of mentioning. Christmas is coming (yes, Christmas, I do not need to be “politically” correct by calling it “holidays”) and I tend to get a little bit sad just around this time. I know it might sound weird, but I can’t help it.

Time is flying by lately and I do not know whether that’s good or bad. It should be bad all the time, since time is one of the few things that never returns, it can’t be rewinded. But while at work, it … ⌘ Read more