Rejecting the LLM sentence version was the right call. Use LLMs to nuke tedious tasks. Use LLMs to analyse your work. Use LLMs to explore an idea-space. But never trick yourself into thinking LLM output beats your text or, worse, IS your text. Type until your fingers bleed.

Song of the summer just dropped several weeks early. It's "Gray Glow" by Anthony Calonico, who is in a band called Total Blue that I am apparently supposed to know about already. But who cares this jaaaaaaaam music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/track/gray-g...

Kyiv. Beirut. Right now. Fellow insulated Westerner, whatever you're complaining about, whatever you're sad about, whatever you're worried about, imagine on top of it that this was what Thursday looked like. Enjoy your Thursday. But don't look away.

Superbus competition is getting lit.

New E.X song: "Superbus" from Unified Field (out 6/26) Listen/order: lnk.to/superbus_emp... NEW ASCII TEXT BUS RACE GAME: SUPERBUS! (out now) Play: bar-none.tv/superbus

This bus, it is super. A kind of "super bus," if you will.

My Horse shall outlive my children, and my children's children. For lo, He shall be called Horse Matheny, Bringer of Sun and Plenty, & to say His reign, compared to a mortal's life, shall be as the size of a grain of barley compared to the volume of Jupiter, would not begin to convey Its magnitude.

Pes Patron would absolutely obliterate Cheburashka in the octagon.

I save every penny I can but with things the way they are I'm starting to wonder if I'm ever going to be able to buy a horse.

See you soon with a full band, North America! crmatheny.net/board/2026/0...

"Praise Jesus! Hail Reagan!" is out everywhere including a video we shot in DC last week with Maxwell Wood and Carly Hoskins. New album Unified Field out in June on @barnonerecords. Pre-order here: lnk.to/praisejesush...

PRAISE JESUS! HAIL REAGAN! ALWAYS CONCEAL YOUR ATM PIN. lnk.to/praisejesush...

Everybody's doing it. crmatheny.net/board/2026/0...

New month, new power pop song about war and complacency and flashlight piss. 2026 delivers! Pre-save to hear it this Wed. 4 Feb. here: bar-none.tv/blyat

BRIAN SELLA + EMPEROR X = !!! (TIX LINK IN PROFILE)

subarctic ops stand by

This is a great example of the incoherence of nationalist sovereignty arguments against internationalism. "Screw internationalism! All nations for themselves! All nations that believe this should get together in an alliance of united nationalist nations! Let's call it the UN!"

Possibilities: 1- It's real, Europe fights back, we get intra-NATO war & it collapses, Russia invades Baltics. 2- It's real, Europe under-reacts looking weak, Russia invades Baltics. 3- This is fake & meant to distract from something else. Anyone see alternatives? x.com/atrupar/stat...

Knowing about important developments is good. We pinpoint where we are in unfolding historical processes and can then navigate well. Freaking out about the so-called news is bad. We panic about unfolding historical processes and lose mental bandwidth needed to navigate at all.

Blog blog blog bloggity blog blog I blog again, I blog again bloggity bloggity blog. crmatheny.net/board/2026/0...

This is the opposite of justice. We should have unseated Maduro/PSUV, but legally, and with clear humanist intent. On the bright side, if Trumpo-Chavism is the endgame, my Maduro-curious leftist colleagues and our Vichy GOP foes both shed moral credibility like snakes molt skin.

Brieskow holds! Stay warm and strong, friends.

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.

LOCALS ADDED: King Blue Heron + Times New Wrestlers will join @emperorx.bsky.social 9/27 at @bottlerocketpgh.bsky.social!! TICKETS: app.opendate.io/e/emperor-x-...

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...