Manuela Malasaña

Dogpit Jam 13 is nigh! Make a game based on the theme "chimera" and submit it by the deadline! Details and sign-up here https://itch.io/jam/chimera-jam #dogpitjam

there are several anecdotes about Senesino being a terrible actor. my favorite is that he once heard Farinelli sing a mournful aria with such skill and beauty he immediately ran over to embrace him, before remembering that he was playing the wicked king whose torture was the cause of the sad aria

Reflecting on all the times in my career as a software engineer I have been told that, yes, things were a bit unfair to me as a woman, but that I was being a trailblazer, I was the one discovering and establishing the path that would enable others to follow.

But you go back to the 70s and you see the same number of women programmers, being fed that exact same line
And in the 80s
and the 90s
and so on to today. The "trailblazer" narrative is a lie told by managers to make themselves feel better

RE: @Xibanya@mastodon.xyz

so okay why am i preparing to fork like 200 euros over to some library in milan?

i read that a composer, Constantino Dall'Argine, premiered a Barber of Seville that used Sterbini's libretto (the libretto created for Rossini's Barber of Seville) so ofc i wanted to see the score. in all my searching i found nearly identical phrasing of this claim, which is a dead giveaway of some fact deriving from just a single source,