The nihilistic dehumanization some folks in DIY/indie music are displaying in response to a guy's neck exploding in front of 100s of impressionable college kids is...I've been ashamed of this subculture before, but never like this. You are being brittle, tiny-souled ghouls.

It doesn't matter what his stances were today. Mocking Charlie Kirk's extrajudicial execution before the body's cold is callous dehumanization. If you treasure human life like I do but can't see that, you're playing into the hands of our worst opponents, and you've lost your way.

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Трумп — хуйло!

Don't worry, being an antimonarchist is going to be just as fun as being an antifascist.

In 2025 we fight *monarchism*, a political philosophy that says those with power deserve it because they have it (social Darwinism) or because God ordained it (divine right of kings). It threatens the rights we've enjoyed for centuries, and it's winning (Putin, Trump, Bibi, Kim.)

These two tyrants want the same thing: a world where might makes right, power is hyper-concentrated at the top, and bloated nation-states carve up the globe into amoral mini-empires locked into ceaseless squabbles that impoverish most but enrich an unaccountable elite.

A classic authoritarian move: oblique provocation designed to justify itself retroactively. Prob obvious, but we need to scream this, do something responsible about it, and stop rolling our eyes like it's a tacky shirt. Red alert territory. www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...

Reverb viola hip hop beats, cartoon cha-cha-cha on MIDI orchestra xylophones, infinite harmonically linear vi-IV-I-V loops, etc.: we underestimate how drastically the childish musical aesthetics of NPR shows and liberal podcasts undermine their credibility.

Remember when you were a scared teen and thought that being cruel in public to people below you in status was the same thing as being funny? Some people grow past that, some don't, and those two groups are the nuclei of a new political divide that cuts across left and right.

How's Q doing?

There's room for all kinds of friends on European trains. 🇪🇺

tonight in Brooklyn

Thank you, Mark Lipsitz. crmatheny.net/board/2025/0...

Happy Independence Day. Take nothing for granted. Empire looms eternally.

I listened to a ton of Christian rock as a kid. It was bad when it combined a superficial rebel cool kid with closed-minded conformist values. That fakeness was audible. Much current DIY/"punk" music has the opposite problem: beautiful anticonformist values w/bland aesthetics.

Some shows have been added. Some venues have changed. Some require detective work. Some do not: emperorx.net/tour

Davenport 35 hours from now with my childhood hero Kleenex Girl Wonder and my adulthood hero Another Michael dice.fm/event/q2y7ey...

truth

Indianapolis 11 hours from now very correct

Surprise

Aus praktischen und politischen Gründen ist "...soliden Deutschkenntnissen..." mein liebstes Kompliment als Künstler! Biiiiiitte weiterleiten an die Ausländerbehörde, dann kann ich endlich europäisches Wahlrecht bekommen und meinen süßen aber verlorenen AfD-Nachbarn hart ärgern. 🇪🇺 :)

Principle to live by for studios with cats: beverages must in all cases be placed BELOW electronics.

Tankies

In times like these I like to focus on timeless truths, such as that based on vids coming out of the U.S. this week it looks like most American cops are still divorced jiggly sacks of asthmatic ham.

Heroes are real.

The Guardian wrote a piece about my adopted home sprawl, ask me anything. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Just lodged a very serious complaint with @timheidecker.bsky.social and the Office Hours boys for working like pagans on this, the holy day of Himmelfahrt. Side quest complete.

NO, German ad copy team, NO.

Emperor X and the Unified Field (a full band playing a new album) on mischief night at Kantine am Berghain in Berlin, with friends we can't announce yet. Tix here: emperorx.net/tix

I know there are 10,001 worse things happening, but chaotic Trumpist punctuation and capitalization habits are infecting official state comms. It's subtle, but I think it points to a much larger social problem: the glorification of illiteracy as if it were wisdom.

The CECOT logo looks a lot like the ISIS logo, and I can't unsee it. crmatheny.net/board/2025/0...

DJ Vance

eh!

Our opponents con people by pretending to love the law. But in truth they scorn law, worshipping power for its own sake. They are nihilists. If we beat them it will be because we learned to use their worship of power and their nihilism against them. Not online; in real space.

Крим – це Україна.

I'm posting. You're posting. We're all posting. That's fine. Post away. But do other stuff too -- ideally stuff you can't post about.

The current U.S. administration acts as if the meanest option is always the smartest option. That's a strategic weakness, and it's how we're gonna beat them in the end.

The undignified, overwrought music on mainstream podcasts is a big barrier to anyone taking them seriously. "Democracy is dying!!!" [cue goofy late era LCD Soundsystem with a cello]

"Easter Truce." Absolute sickos.

NIMBY but it's for concentration camps.

1- There is no moral difference between a dead civilian Gazan and a dead civilian Ukrainian. 2- Israel's war on Gaza differs from Russia's war on Ukraine in important strategic and historical ways. 3- Those who admit 2 often deny 1, and vice versa. That's bad. 4- You're not 5.

Yesterday, a Russian ballistic missile strike targeted a dense part of Sumy's city center as churchgoers gathered there to worship. The airstrike robbed 34 Ukrainian civilians of their lives, including this gifted artist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8OU...

Using a war crime to suck up to the boss.

"Anarchist Twitter." Discuss.

Guillotine d'Excel!

V curious what y'all think about this statement. Even more curious what y'all think AFTER reading these too, not just the RT: - Macdonald, I. (1989). Group Rights. drive.google.com/file/d/1Crpd... - Nozick, R. (1973). Distributive justice. dimparato.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... - Anything else?

I approve. (My hottest take in a very literal sense.) www.dw.com/en/german-po...