s.a. liva

declaring gender bankruptcy

i've spent the first few days of my residency doing research into a bit of vallejo, ca history regarding how mare island was named. in the process i've ended up working a lot with the documentos para la historia de california, held by the bancroft library. as it turns out, all of the records […]

i'm really excited for the new chuck roth album which should be coming out at the end of the month: https://chuckroth.bandcamp.com/album/texture-songs

at war with ITSM

disappointed that semantic croissant has nothing to do with pastries

sad to miss #ff2026 in person but given that the conference landed between some personal travel and being at a residency for most of october it didn't feel on the table for me

i really like how much python i'm getting to write at work right now

dusting off the newsletter to share info on my forthcoming album out this fall on Sawyer Spaces (@sawyereditions.bsky.social), my Unpoetry at the Frye performance on September 17 with Tom Scully and Noelle K. Chun, a residency, and recent installation work

felt the itch for some falafel but trying to make do with what i have around the house. turned some leftover moong dal tadka into fritters, wrapped them in lavash with lettuce, pickles, and feta, and noshing away with satisfaction

my next trip to chicago gains another layer of reality

since i recently officially migrated an old account i suppose that this is an #introduction - #introductions post. here, you can call me spit. my pronouns are she/her. if you know me from elsewhere, you can call me as you know me from there. i'm not new to fedi but i decided to create a new […]

i should have posted more during #teardown2026 but my installation went well, i met some cool folks, and i burned myself while trying to connect a recycled vape battery to an ultrasonic piezo driver board. a pretty positive experience ☺️

in classic form, i'm patching and reflashing firmware 36 hours before an event

my piece "flagday (a particular kind of perceptiveness)" is in the installation track at #teardown2026 from July 24-26, 2026 at Jupiter NEXT in Portland, OR. i'll have of extra score booklets available for sale. thanks to @crowdsupply.bsky.social for hosting! www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/por...

breaking my melancholic posting fast to sound the tocsins about the publication of the new issue of WRITING BADLY since no one has seemed to post about it on here writingbadly.substack.com/p/issue-two-...

dj freermasonry does it again. "operation: bloomsday" complete. #ulysses

NUCMC is no more, and thus we say goodbye to yet another collective effort i invested several years of my career to: https://loc.gov/aba/

it's once again the season for pride deadlift party, which means i'm raising funds to support Seattle/Washington state queer orgs and initiatives. please donate / help spread the word. https://givebutter.com/seattle-pride-deadlift-party-2026-7z4jfa/send-poods-1/mariadolores

Is your CyberPart “Dog-savvy”??

also, something striking is that for all the issues around document pipelines and getting in updates from source data - it seems like we haven't been thinking about applying records/info management/DAM principles consistently and it feels like a MASSIVE gap in professional training and knowledge

after ~2 weeks in chicago visiting my girlfriend~~~ i am back doing "real" work things a couple of days before i head home. back in my old grad school stomping grounds for the Archivists in the Loop symposium: https://bentley-historical-library.github.io/archivists-in-the-loop/

this is just to say that my participation in Ground Hum this year was an absolute delight. Seattle's festival for installation art, dance, and experimental electronic music is absolutely lovely, and it was a great opportunity for me to up my installation game :) https://groundhum.net

lately: played a noise show in a generator organ/7 string violin duo with a friend, still working on my LoRa art project for a february group gallery show, writing monophonic ringtones for said project, getting rid of lots of old clothes, trying to read moby-dick by the end of the month

working with my girlfriend's godfather on as my domain expert on 3d printing for an art project that needs to be done by the end of the month has been absolutely amazing.

i think the mixes for my live album are more or less done!

strong recommend for kleber mendonça filho's latest, THE SECRET AGENT. a true archival thriller to say the least.

i've decided to get into meshtastic as a way to handle emergency comms with people who aren't super into tech. wish me luck

working on this live album is kind of exhausting because i'm always on the verge of it being a "catalog" of live works as they are with minimal editing (e.g. for length) and effectively full re-compositions

This is unreal. The 2026 code4lib conference has been cancelled unilaterally by Carnegie Mellon University because the Department of Education raised issues with the diversity scholarships: > An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including […]

reaper's phase aligner is black magic

that time of year where i start to work on things like upgrading rails versions in long suffering applications

oh and i saw agriculture, rhododendron, and victory over the sun on sunday and god damn it if rhododendron doesn't go hard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQcqm2eUwvk

i went to the bouldering gym today for the first time in a while. terribly out of practice - only sent a single, lowlevel route. but back at it again

ecayed: gemini://gemini.estradiol.cloud/~rumblestrips/fragments/ecayed.gmi

Obsessed with this cover of HTRK by Kali Malone and Stephen O'Malley. The original 50 seconds pushed to almost 6 minutes. Pushing, churning, rising, burning #thisismyjam https://htrk.bandcamp.com/track/siren-song-kali-malone-and-stephen-omalley

there are things i feel like i need to fully commit to but don't feel like doing/can't imagine doing while being fully employed (e.g. reading reza negarestani's cyclonopedia)

« To restore is not to conserve, again. There is no refuge in restoration. Conservation is always new. It comes from the place we stopped while we were on the run. » stefano harney and fred moten, _the undercommons: fugitive planning and black study_ (new york: minor compositions, 2013)

an (un)idle afternoon tracked by the k&d sessions™️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVLwjJ5gHmc

> SuperCollider's powerful audio synthesis engine scsynth running in the browser as an AudioWorklet. https://sonic-pi.net/supersonic/demo.html

out of gas and out of time

created my fingertips tracing / i don’t remember the language / translate them / look gather testify verify preserve there / either i could look for the kinds of stories but these murky waters become documentation or time travel / yet to the now and look the moment of intention: the stories

tbh i never really understood rocky horror

1) validity prevails, once again, despite the endless call to narrate 2) high desert scatters under your feet, large gusts erasing inbound footsteps 3) sixteen again: buckling parquet is cold comfort for when we hit the smooth parts

did some things to update my website because of some upcoming announcements 😶‍🌫️ imprecision.art