always funny to me how older UK punk had bands that sound to me now just like kinda corny bar rock but had super scary fascist fanbases that rioted regularly whereas US punk had a lot of bands called "The Piss" that sound like one uninterrupted scream that are just some UCLA students goofing off

"Lynchian art pop" is definitely a descriptor i'm going to adopt to describe my music with now. this is the value of having other people write about your music

hi, cis folks in NY state! was today a protest day for you? feel recharged? want to take 5-10 minutes & do another achievable thing? the 2 biggest private hospitals in NYC ended trans youth care in violation of state & city law as an act of overcompliance to trump. tap into the thread to help. ⬇️

attn: Pittsburgh folks

Saint Elizabeth got a mention here! thanks so much to @etherdiver.bsky.social for writing it up

attn: Pittsburgh folks

soul coughing: ahead of their time imo www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRqP...

EMERGENCY please share widely!! we're a trans couple who have had really bad luck with housing the last couple years and need to find a place by April 1st, it would be a true miracle if we can just find a place. WE ARE WILLING TO PAY!! spinnylights.net/hyper_alert/

i've said this before, but music discourse is and has always been the most toxic form of online art discourse for me - more toxic than film, comics, videogames, etc. it's both the most insular and territorial while also sitting on top of this condescending supposed great font of inherited wisdom

i get annoyed re: discussions of Gen Z (or millennial) art & lack of novelty cuz there is a lot of newer art that is indisputably important but because it's buried in insularity & meme culture & because there's little to no cultural infrastructure anymore the narrative has formed that it means less

these are interesting thoughts i figured i'd share, tho not sure i agree: for me "genre" is something that serves a specific purpose for the music industry (e.g. to market to specific demographics), & because said industry has no use for 99.99% of music anymore it's hard to think in those terms now

hey, would you look at that. the sentiment seems to be in the air lately ellaguro.bandcamp.com/track/go-fuc...

Tired of finding new ways to phrase "working for the new york times makes you at least a collaborator if not an active participant in a genocidal project"

hey, btw completely unrelated: here are 5 indie games that literally just came out this past month that together cost about the same as 1 brand new AAA game, and you will probably have much more fun with Oeuf store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/... Lucid Blocks store.steampowered.com/app/3495730/...

Everyone who works for the NYT — including my many friends — should be incredibly embarrassed by this statement. The depths to which the NYT will go to back its agenda of challenging trans people's right to exist is horrifying, ongoing, and has caused very real and specific harms to trans people.

"Every good game I've ever seen has eventually found its audience!"

Friday is the day for Other People's Music. Today brings idiosyncratic pop in strange varieties, noise rock, guitar ambient & electric primitive bops. Find everything here: www.etherdiver.com/2026/03/27/o... #musicsky

Saint Elizabeth got a mention here! thanks so much to @etherdiver.bsky.social for writing it up

this is a bad way to make bathrooms safer because it's a great way to incentivize me to bring a gun into bathrooms

you are genuinely way more likely to glimpse at the future of music from looking at you and your friend's Bandcamp collections than you are from listening to anyone who works at an AI music company or has any kind of stake in an AI music company

a mid tier Guided By Voices song is better than what like 95% of songwriters who write for big major label acts (i.e. the people using Suno now) are capable of writing. there's never been a dearth of creativity: but there is dearth of actually creative people being broadly successful and celebrated.

i truly believe all of this is going to initiate a major wave of counter-culture as people increasingly turn to violently rejecting engaging with any mainstream culture that smells of AI, bizarre and fascist body standards, and just the general trappings of wealth, and all that represents.

my experience with the social media age has just been witnessing people failing to conceptualize that two ideas can be true at once over and over. there is a always rabid demand for one thing to be true to the exclusion of something else, and it never stops, and there is never any slowing it down.

tbh i've always been a bit annoyed by Americans on here in particular going on for ages about how the US is uniquely evil and unredeemable. it's not like most of us have ever had much control over where these things have gone. that's kinda been the whole problem to begin with.

Seeing "trans kids given deadline to segregate themselves" and "trans women banned from yet another part of society" headlines *every single day* while everyone you know and every organization stays breathtakingly silent takes such a damn toll on your heart.

your average 19yo old queer zoomer who makes furry fanart and listens to breakbeat music is almost certainly more politically radical on average in basically every way at this point than very online Bernie irony left accounts from 2018 ever were

“Since the IOC began allowing the participation of transgender athletes in 2004, only one openly transgender woman has competed at the Olympics, a weightlifter from New Zealand who did not make it past her opening round of competition at the Tokyo Games.” One.

have you seen that law in Idaho, the one in Ohio, the one in Kansas? do you understand what we're facing? did you see that article about internal migrations of transgender people in this country? an estimate on the order of hundreds of thousands of souls? whose fault is that?

it is outright terrifying to watch up close — Sulzberger's fixation has had a *tangible effect on the life of every single trans person in this country,* his stooges are repeatedly cited in courtrooms, and I have the sense that most cis people are just ignoring this, hand-waving it.

the NYT is pro trans genocide and anyone who works for them is at the very least okay with that, if not actively in support of that

In case you needed any more proof that the institutional transphobia and pro-genocide ideology reaches up to the executives of the NYT, here is their PR account issuing yet another blatantly false fact check.

today in random people's albums that came up in my youtube recs www.youtube.com/watch?v=H438...

your average 19yo old queer zoomer who makes furry fanart and listens to breakbeat music is almost certainly more politically radical on average in basically every way at this point than very online Bernie irony left accounts from 2018 ever were

the speedrunning community was as toxic and as much of a boys club (if not more) as many others not too long ago, and the transition to it being a more queer-positive and inclusive event wasn't inevitable. GDQ's shift has been really meaningful and it's a lesson for what a lot of other spaces can be

this is like, literally the exact kind of thing that kicked off the revolutionary war. i'm trying to find a way to be goofy and say i'm exaggerating but taxing shipments in order to pay for expensive foreign wars was literally the flashpoint lol

i don't know how to feel now that more normies are finally catching up to understanding this. i guess validating - would have been a lot more comforting a few years ago? but mostly tbh i'm just tired of thinking about it.

okay i'm going to do this - with ONE important caveat: i stick primarily to the most esoteric stuff i own. that means i'm going to avoid games by friends unless i have something interesting to say about them. also: me only playing the demo, or only playing for 10 minutes still counts as "played"

even as a 38 year old trans woman, part of me thinks that the war on trans people is at some level truly about a war on the young. both directly (trans kids) and indirectly (higher gender fluidity and rates of acceptance for trans people for younger people)

here's a couple tips for our friend Will so he doesn't go down the Chris Crawford path: 1) you can't "solve" interactivity. it's a toolset, not a problem to be solved 2) there is a great deal we don't understand about the human mind. so please don't pretend you're presenting us The Objective Reality

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

we should create a culture where there are enough new & interesting things happening that it would seem absurd to read children's/YA books as an adult

started watching the Chris Fleming HBO special and no other comedian makes things that feel more uncomfortably targeted at me specifically. the first three minutes or so of this bit still haunt me to this very day www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugm_...

cool tip: i even wrote a song on my new album called "just kids on the internet" informed by an older era of the internet and if you glance over yonder at the lyrics on the bandcamp page you may observe it doesn't paint a particularly rosy portrait ellaguro.bandcamp.com/track/just-k...

hey - finally something on this subject i agree with

I've been working on this piece for a few months, and I won't lie it's hurt to go from hearing the suffering inflicted by this transphobic theocracy to seeing progressives sing its praises. The bishops' ban is the most extensive trans healthcare ban in the country. It deserves way more attention.

thinking about how it took about 10 years for me to go from "golly gee i sure hope someone important notices me" to "the cosmic hellfire will rain down on you and there is nothing you can do to stop it" re: my own art

[looks at the news] anyway,

this tbh might surpass Joanne Klan and/or JKKK Rowling on the fash nickname front. good work!

want a list of specifics for what mamdani—who campaigned on not only protecting trans people’s right to access essential healthcare but *expanding* it—could be doing, that you could highlight when reaching out? check the article. then reach out to mayor mamdani. 🧵 📧: www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...