Everyone wants to be conventionally attractive because most people agree conventionally attractive people shouldn't have responsibilities. It's kind of like how dogecoin works

Smack your children or they will join a global billionaire nonce network

The foundational US/UK misunderstanding is that Americans use “middle class” as a euphemism for poor/working class, while the UK use it to mean “comfortably off but chronically anxious about it.” Took me at least 2 election cycles in the US to figure it out.

Imagine Bowling For The Soup Dragons

This is from the '60s, so it does have a drum kit, but I wanna see it better recognised as a country classic. #CountryRockSundays

Went up for karaoke tonight, twice, and it felt like a bomb because the crowd is just that close knit. Hoped to pick camp classics and best myself second time, but I'm just out of practice and unfamiliar with the venue...

The problem with country music for the past couple decades, musically speaking, is it's become a dumping ground for multiple genres (MOR/adult contemporary, butt rock lite, twangy folk, 10 years out-of-date hip-hop, actual country music) that don't, or shouldn't, have anything to do with one another

Is Sister Act actually gay? I never got that that from the films, but of course a song about being 'fabulous, baby' would count.

Last Tango in Paris

Not fair for someone to do one of my late mother's favourite songs for karaoke.

When I was in grade school an older kid on the bus was telling me about how dirty 2 Live Crew was. He told me "they have a song that goes Let's take a walk in the park, let's have some sex in the dark" and to this day I hope it's true

just went across the street to visit my parents and my dad was asleep in the living room with the mets on, and my mom was asleep in the spare room with the yankees on. it's officially baseball season, folks

The Winter Olympics has A LOT of spinning.

Hi I'm an AI generated doctor and 5 out of 4 people your age suffer from "taco leg" click this link for more info

Popular art instruction even pre-internet has always been about relatively fast results, cutting out the “boring” fundamentals as much as possible or repackaging them as “one weird trick” We need to embrace boredom, repetition, and delayed gratification in hobbies.

Really think that @arrowvideo.bsky.social should do an 'Arrow Archive' a la The Criterion Closet. Just want to see which celebrities get excited for the likes of The Last Starfighter, Remo Williams, Lifeforce and Black Moon Rising so we can make them our friends. And Waterworld.

Why is "Block people on grounds of your own self-aware inane preferences!" such a popular thing to advocate for? I see the block tool as about limiting the future reach of people who by rights earn exclusion from future discussion. Mute is for the 'no thanks' people, and block for the toxic people.

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Everyone in the tribe touches the mind of the Divine except for Matt, who has to make sure none of us run off a cliff.

Google! Find me "narcan for weed". What's the matter, Google? Do as I say!

If Greta Gerwig’s movie career doesn’t work out she can open a store that sells hairpieces for mean dogs. It can be called Greta Gerwig’s Grrrr Wigs

The price points of the pint glasses were structured in such a way that getting too many made more sense than getting just barely enough so if you know of any bars in Philly that would be interested in hosting some educational pint glasses, get at me. This is my living room rn 😅

I think a "good year" or "bad year" in music literally *only* makes sense in terms of big hit songs because if we are looking in terms of all music anywhere there literally can't be a bad year. There's always good music being made somewhere

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Musician tip: It’s okay to nicely tell a friend you don’t like a demo or part of song they sent you. Polite honesty is helpful. That way when you say it is good they know you are being truthful

I looked up recently what the success rate for LLMs tuned for doing accounting is because that’s an ideal use case and it was like below 70% which is super unacceptable, like if your accountant fucked up that much you’d go to prison.

Happy birthday to Smokey Robinson. Also remembering Bobby Rogers. Both were born in the same Detroit hospital on this day in 1940, but they didn't meet until 1955 when they formed The Five Chimes, who later became The Miracles

Coincidentally, it's also Dave Wakeling's birthday today, so here's The Beat's version of Tears of a Clown youtu.be/q1OVYFNUZT8

I need opinions on which era godzilla is the best/coolest/most iconic.

2001 R&B listens, thread:

Listened to The Id by Macy Gray the other day. Modern good vibes soul with Beatles-y orchestration and a lot of humour. Really liked the opener Relating to a Psychopath, and Sexual Revolution. Less so the second half maybe but that might be the late night listen talking. Will be putting it on again.

This is entirely true on so many levels I don't think I could possibly detail it exhaustively, but you really can't oppose trans people's human rights and still have freedom of expression and bodily autonomy, the idea that people are entitled to self determination goes right out the window....

To oppose trans people's rights and freedoms you break so many social contracts. We keep saying that trans rights are human rights, but conversely, human rights are trans rights, because the second you decide some people don't deserve the same rights and freedoms as others? You start to lose it all.

I think the new Lana Del Rey song is pretty bad, but the fact that most of the discourse about it is "is she actually a swamp tradwife boiling deer heads in the pot or does she not mean this literally" is making me despair for the intellectual capacity of audiences now

service tops only want one thing

JUST IN! 'Strange Little Girls' by Tori Amos Expanded edition of the songwriter’s concept/covers album. www.normanrecords.com/records/2132...

I put my pants on from the top down like no one else

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Always loved the helicopter in Doctor Who that is literally GOD-AWFUL.

Stanley Kubrick directed several masterpieces of cinema living in a large mansion.

Well, that's a fascinating prospect 🤔

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Why did they never go back to the moon ? Kubrick didn’t want to make a sequel.

I have created an AI Agent “Past Tom” to come up with cool sounding projects and another AI Agent “Future Tom” to regret not doing them thus maximising my own time sitting on the sofa scrolling

So, Wikipedia really bigs-up the quality and lyricism of Cannibal Ox's 2001 alt-rap album The Cold Vein. I'm shocked since, while I'm only halfway through it, I don't agree at all so far. I think it's trite and one note. Am I gonna get myself in trouble here?

Far too many interviews with artists about how they wrote their songs are just about how they wrote the lyrics. I want to know why you chose that rhythm, that chord, that timbre! At least talk to me about lyrical *structure*.

...and another. This copy of One is a bit too warn for me to sell. Give it a comment. Comment - yeahYEAH! Again, a wheel thingy will find it a home tomorrow.

This copy of Stand by REM has a few too many marks for me to sell, but still has some love to give. Want to give it a home? Comment - I Miss REM A random wheel thingy will choose it a new home tomorrow at some time 🌞