#Scotland #Politics Belated congratulations to Iris Duane (Glasgow) & Q Manivannan (Edinburgh/Lothians E.) of the #trans #nonbinary communities, elected to Pàrlamaid na h-Alba (Scottish parliament) 8/May/2026. High irony: vile #transphobe #JKRowling is now represented at #Holyrood by Dr Manivannan.

Thinking// Being endorsed in the primaries by Trump doesn't necessarily mean that you're a loathsome scumbag-- but if you aren't, it was an oversight on Trump's part.

Congratulations! Last night Bluesky's own @debhaalandnm.bsky.social , a Pueblo woman, won the Democratic primary for governor of New Mexico. When she's elected this autumn, Deb will become the first Indigenous woman governor of a US state &only the 2nd Native American person to hold that office!

I'll say this for the Supreme Court they're making it easier for me to convince people of the necessity and urgency of court reform

Release The Epstein Files NOW!😡

Woims. Priceless!

#music 🎶 Looking at// rare #vinyl ($2k), #Bowie, "The Man Who Sold the World" (which is an incredible album, by the way), UK release 8 April 1971, wt "Dress Cover"; sought-after edition on account of two misprints ("Tonny Visconti" on disc label, "Mick Woodmansley" on back cover), see discogs.com

#News// Usual #British #politics// #Trade minister says rejoining #EU wouldn't "magically solve" #UK 's dire economic woes--but "our long-term future lies with Europe"--but #Labour gov. won't be pursuing rejoining, amidst calls for unpopular PM #Starmer 's ouster. www.reuters.com/world/uk/bri...

News// In #Italy 4 foreign slave labourers die, 1 injured, in fiery attack by "gang-masters" in money dispute. Rather than paying them the pittance [€45/ 8 hr's work] they were promised, they were doused in petrol &set alight in locked car. #slavery #migrants #labour www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Broken news/"We misinterpret the facts so you don't have to" #Trump [renowned for being a stable genius who keeps acing that nonexistent mental acuity test, "man-woman-television"] calls #Netanyahu [looniest leader since #PolPot] "crazy" in phone chat about the #war www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Just watched// Have 90 minutes to kill? Want to go down an exquisite rabbit hole? " #Wisconsin Town Ruled By A Pseudo-Catholic #Cult" is an exhaustively researched and well-told tale of 1950s paranoia, mysticism &grift which has survived to this very day. youtu.be/_Vxu2WWl9Nc?...

Listening to// #music #Renaissance #Ukulele #instruments The #BaritoneUkulele: it's a new sound to us, &perhaps new to you, too. Usually tuned D3-G3-B3-E4 (non-reentrant), it is not uncommon to replace D3 with D4 string ( #reentrant #tuning). Czech musician Ondrej Sarek. youtu.be/BwMtqIhRJ3c?...

Watched// " #Looksmaxxing and the Rise of Male-to-Male Transsexuals" A provocative video essay by Alexander Avila #Gender #normativity, #fascism, late #capitalism, #desire, #nihilism, #aesthetics &the illusion of #selfhood "Just take the black pill-- you know you want to." youtu.be/uox4OMC50-4?...

Watched, also// #ReeseWaters guts #KenPaxton, esp'ly elucidating his philandering."Paxton and Christian influencer mistress secret new $2million love nest revealed." $2million love nest, on a Texas attorney general's salary? 2nd most corrupt man in the US Length: 40 minutes youtu.be/Ud6fVZf4Ahw?...

Watching// We've been shying away from #politics lately by design, but this is just too insane. #KyleKulinski takes apart #KenPaxton piece by loathsome piece. Length: 20 minutes "So, the GOP is such a death cult that they decided to elect a demon from hell..." youtu.be/b_60HVtXqa4?...

Listening to// #music #baroque #voice 🎶 Realisation for Voice & Piano of #WilliamCroft 's "A Hymn on Divine Music" by #BenjaminBritten (1949) vocalist: Iestyn Davies piano: Joseph Middleton music.youtube.com/watch?v=mtuI...

Thinking// Critiquing #music is a difficult endeavour, especially in the space of 300 characters. That's like only 5 haiku, or 1.5 limericks.

#fashion #genderbending #popculture #drag Following a train of thought// Men in wedding dresses. It was an '80s & early '90s thing. Pictured: frontman Sparky Phillips on the cover of In Sickness and in Health (1986); John Candy as "Eldona Valkenheiser" in the film Nothing But Trouble (1991)

Thinking // Some tracks by Welsh #psychobilly band, Demented Are Go (1982 to present), could also be categorised as "folk psychobilly", appropriating folksy-country working-class tunes and providing them with alt lyrics. They are also absolutely brilliant at repurposing classic rock-n-roll tunes. 🎶

Listening to// 🎶 #music #psychobilly #metalbilly #HorrorRock "Be Bop a Lula" (1986) Demented Are Go LP: In Sickness and in Health The "Adult" warning refers to sexualised lyrics music.youtube.com/watch?v=GhUo...

Listening to// 🎶 #music #psychobilly #metalbilly #HorrorRock "Bodies in the Basement" Demented Are Go LP: Welcome Back to Insanity Hall (2012) Composer-Lyricist M.Phillips (Official Music Video) ? music.youtube.com/watch?v=RcCm...

Listening to// 🎶 #music #psychobilly #metalbilly #HorrorRock "Hot Rod Vampires" (single, 2005) Demented Are Go Lyricists-Composers: S.Standen, L.Taylor Question always occurs: Is this the "true psychobilly sound"? The "nudity" label refers to the cover artwork. music.youtube.com/watch?v=eS-z...

#music #alternative #IndiePop #hiphop #esoteric #Martian Listening to// Hush Hush (Apollos eclipse) 2026 Latest single by #JesusTheApollo (Stefano Ark) We love this track. Reviewed at Mesmerized www.mesmerized.io/jesus-the-ap... youtu.be/dD4f_tyIwug?...

Listening to// #music #alternative #hiphop #Manchester Another aspect of Jesus the Apollo. From the Autumn Symphonies (2025) 6 pieces Very impressed by this EP. open.spotify.com/track/7qAr6c...

Listening to// #HipHop #Film #Alternative #Experimental #video A poet/musician with a unique style &sound. Engaging, mesmerising, disorientating. A feeling of *in media res*, as if we are given a brief glimpse of something that's been going on for a long time, and will continue on &on afterwards.

Check out the official music video for ‘THE VILLAIN!’ by me, JESUS THE APOLLO 🌙🌞🎶 Music Video by KAFKA #MusicVideos #Music #Punk #Rock #HipHop #Film #Alternative

Watching// House on Haunted Hill (1999), director #WilliamMalone. 📽️ A stylish horror-comedy, great Art Deco sets by production designer David F. Klassen. Cinematography: Rick Bota. Special makeup effects by Dick Smith, SFX by Greg Nicotero. Sound by Vince Garcia, sound editor Dane Davis. #cinema

#music #ExperimentalMusic #ambient ? Just beginning to discover #GregorKieseritzky 's work. Not everybody's cup of T, but there's beauty here. Suggest you turn volume down at first & assess yr comfort level. Link takes you out of Bsky, so open in a new tab. www.gregorkieseritzky.de/musick/unliv...

No internet for the last two days. A router problem ultimately solved by a five minute call to customer service and turning off a buggy VPN update. (Don't assume a problem is bigger or smaller than feared or hoped). So now we're catching up on following back (because we ALWAYS fol⇄low back).

Random thoughts on tyranny. The love the sordid classes felt for Nero, which he never lost, kept him in power far longer than had he not had it, or had he lost it along the way; because the elites of Rome feared insurrection and riot in the streets more than they feared a murderous emperor.

#tornado Non-stop air raid sirens here for the last 45 minutes, and now a new alarm we've never heard before.... and it sure isn't an all-clear signal.

#timewarp Notice anything strange about the date?

#music #Nekromantix #psychobilly #guitar #bassSlapping Here's bass guitarist #MarkMichell listening (for the first time, apparently) to the 2002 studio recording of #HauntedCathouse; he breaks down the song's complex sounds &rhythms. youtu.be/yuzybAcRwPk?...

#music #psychobilly #Nekromantix This is what we wr looking for~a performance of #HauntedCathouse with fairly good sound to prove that the final part of the song as 1st recorded in 2002 was not (mostly) the result of studio effects; they really did/do play that fast live. youtu.be/L7hB9AmZN0k?...

A source (Vice mag) tells us “Someone Built a Fake Wikipedia Where Every Article Is an AI Hallucination”. Correct. Search for “halupedia” but definitely an experience to be avoided. 1st, its terminally lame &pomo. 2nd, we don’t believe the concepts/writing are AI (it’s not like how LLMs hallucinate)

Earlier we were mentioning YTube's music platform (//music.youtube.com) &that it has a gagillion songs that can listened to &shared on SM without copyright infringement. The problem is that its algorithm can't alwaysdifferenciate between music &other Ytube videos &also adds podcasts into the mix.

As you know, Bluesky was down earlier (the sky is falling!) which led to the stuff below in Constant Reader's private scrapbook ⇩

Listening// Batmobile, "Frenzy" (1985) LP Batmobile #music #psychobilly, music.youtube.com/watch?v=nQcV...

Why QCF Can't Defend The Met Gala This Time, and why I sure as heck can’t either⸻ and why we, you and I, should never defend it again, at least not until the last bill(trill)ionaire is heli-dropped naked into the jungles of Monster Island. Just watch the darn 38m video. youtu.be/wYxq0ZSV9W4?...

... and a little marshmallow will lead them. Another conservative understanding a national threat youtube.com/shorts/helVk...

Listening to// #Nekromantix, the band that put the psycho back in #psychobilly "Haunted Cathouse" (2002) LP Return Of The Loving Dead. This song would still be great had it just ended the way it began: but at 3:48 it goes insane. Sheer genius, brilliant virtuosity. youtu.be/DFor89Ule0s?...

// "When half of the country consists of a bunch of inbred savage barbarians shitting their pants and smearing it on the walls, other countries know that it's only a matter of time before we elect a different psychopath ... worse than Donald #Trump." -- The Humanist Report youtu.be/06tCgTF9uoI?...

I don't know anymore. I really don't. But whilst you're here, I might just as well show you this. #cinema #movies 📽️ #suspense #horror #mime youtu.be/ru0HUKY3nfM?...

What a rubbish 24hrs. We got nothing done. Net was down last night. 1st time I started typing this post today, there was a power outage. 2nd time, the Net went down again. 3rd time, the power went out again. 4th time, I was called away and got signed out of here. This is the 5th time. I'm waiting.

I'm getting fed up with rarely seeing Bluesky listed on webpages as a place to share media with. Look at the capture below of a web page offering all those possibilities of sharing with a single click. Bluesky isn't there. Why not?

Watching/ #indiefilm #horrorpunk #Gothabilly #Gothcore Zombina and the Skeletones "Cemetery World" (the song, the film, the legend) LP: The Call of Zombina Released, October 2024 youtu.be/85CsPVnd8Eo?...

Listening to/ #music #HorrorPunk #Gothabilly Full song, this time. "[All I Wanna Do Is] Decompose (with You)" Zombina and the Skeletones LP: "In Sinistereo" Released October 2025 Earlier we wondered if the band was still performing. Being undead, of course they are! youtu.be/wQmnxZvo_iU?...

Reading/ NYT: Wrongly detained, speaking only an obscure language, #BorderPatrol agents left a #blind, ill #refugee in a carpark at night in Buffalo in February without a coat & shod in jail slippers. He died lost, alone & in agony. The coroner: "It's #homicide." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Listening to/ #music #Gothabilly #HorrorPunk #RocknRoll #lo-fi ? "Spring Heeled Jack" Zombina And The Skeletones Monsters On 45 (2006 compilation CD) Previous release? : unknown Horror trappings aside, this is/was a straight-up good British band, solid talent all round. youtu.be/UsKuAi-sX3I?...

Listening to/ #music #HorrorPunk "All I wanna to do is Decompose with You" On the compilation LP "Horror Punk's Not Dead, vol 2" Zombina and the Skeletones Released 28 April 2023 by We Are Horror Records wearehorrorrecords.com open.spotify.com/track/6LLYvI...