Out today. Loud Ambient 2. Physical copies going first: theblackdog.bandcamp.com/album/loud-a...

The first video I've published in nearly 15 years. My skill has never progressed. Happy official 20th anniversary Youtube Poop.

Democratic voters: “Please, just oppose Republicans. That’s all we want. Stop the fascism.” Democratic politicians: “What if we make you upload your government ID to read websites?” Worse than worthless.

The FTC has sent a warning to PayPal, Stripe, Visa, and Mastercard over debanking lawful businesses. ︀︀ ︀︀Lawful adult businesses have been financially targeted for years under the guise of "reputation risk." ︀︀ ︀︀If that is finally getting scrutiny, that’s good news. www.xbiz.com/news/297090/...

Just a reminder that they still intend to do this, dont let the backlash die down, keep cancelling your subscription.

The European Parliament is voting THURSDAY 26th at 11:00 on Chat Control. The Commission, Council, multiple tech giants, the Conservatives (EPP), and several MEPs from S&D and Renew stand united in favouring indiscriminate mass surveillance. Tell them NO: fightchatcontrol.eu

OS level age verification is a Meta lobbying project Pass it on

Amon Tobin - Foley Room (Album Review) youtu.be/TksSzLY7sJ4

"engagement is low on Bsky" for the millionth time. Then engage. SHARE posts. TALK to people. Do literally ANYTHING but "Like and Go". Bsky is not dead, it's just free of Algorithms and that means YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING if you want engagement!

Macula Dog - Orange 2 (Album Review) [Patreon Request] youtu.be/KqE8x0OD7Pc

Undiagnosed ADHD is bad, but I think the most damaging part of it is spending an entire childhood feeling like a Bad Kid no matter how hard you try not to be. You can't pay attention (you want to), you don't try hard enough (you want to), and you waste your time on useless stuff (you don't want to).

This is important if you don't want visa or MasterCard to tell you how to spend your money.

I know calling reps is very nerve racking. You're not sure what's the right thing to say, and tbh having a script thrown at me makes things just as nerve racking. I called today, and I figured I'd write up a transcript of how my call went down. Hopefully it helps demystify the process

its bandcamp friday relatedly, buy my friends album renere.bandcamp.com/album/dreamd...

got another Patreon text post to coincide with Bandcamp Friday, actually kind of mirrors my feelings on the one I just posted yesterday but this is a nice little laid-back and loungey progressive house project that gives me some early Spunkshine vibes: www.patreon.com/posts/152403...

Today is Bandcamp Friday.

got a new Patreon text post for a synthwave-adjacent artist who's shown some pretty clear improvements in sound and a much wider variety of influences, fans of OPN's Tranquilizer from last year might want to give a shot: www.patreon.com/posts/152312...

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Catalog In Brief: New Order youtu.be/_9MVydwHg6g

patreon people get a thing early www.patreon.com/posts/151997...

so remember around this time last year when I tried to start up doing "Catalog In Brief" videos for artists without tying them to reviews of new albums, but only got to do the one on Rod Modell? I might finally have another one of those coming up real soon and it's a pretty big name, stay tuned

you should keep drying up their user revenue source in the middle of trying to take the company public

I posted about this on YT a while back, but my actual main project atm is a dumb little cartoon thing loosely inspired by Classic Internet Culture™ Here's a tiny clip that makes complete sense both with and without context, just to prove it exists.

Paging @256pi.bsky.social that we have a new Spunkshine album and it fucking RULES spunkshine.bandcamp.com/album/siege-...

Amon Tobin - Chaos Theory (Album Review) youtu.be/B0EX4Lo4-Yk

Reminder: under no circumstance should you give discord your ID. It is gonna -suck- trying to set up alternatives, and this whole fiasco is going to damage communities, but you CANNOT give them your info

Hello, we have a new EP and Album up on Pre-Sale theblackdog.bandcamp.com/album/loud-a... and theblackdog.bandcamp.com/album/loud-a...

Ganon Gets Famous (Another oldie, requested by 256Pi)

The article doesnt actually mention them "distancing" themselves from Palantir, only that prompts to give your ID to Persona were "a test, which has concluded" Continue to cancel Nitro and migrate elsewhere

NEw album renere.bandcamp.com/album/dreamd...

Youve gotta bother the shit out if your representatives about the issue of online ID laws, its not a discord only problem nor is it limited to nsfw content Please get involved

Guys, dont immediately jump ship. Complain on Discords forums. Spam their emails. Make noise. We'll never tackle the overlying problem if we just keep jumping ship. Discord is easy to bully out of doing shit. We've made them stop doing NFT shit. We can stop them taking ID's. :)

Goddam it I just woke up man.

I have less than a week to come up with over $5,300 or else I'm likely facing eviction, after being scammed by a fraudulent job for months that drained what little I had. I've been unemployed since Aug 2024 and am struggling to keep it together at all since then. Please help... #mutualaid

Sweguno - No Right Or Wrong Way Forward (Album Review) [Patreon Request] youtu.be/-djrHjYRIu0

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection

It is Bandcamp Friday.

The Knife - Silent Shout (Album Review) [Patreon Request] youtu.be/LtOh6iPiqBY

Did I do it right bsky.app/profile/256p...

Adobe appears to have reversed course on this. Animate is safe, at least for the immediate future. www.reddit.com/r/adobeanima...

istg, youtube better not be sunsetting the page showing videos from subscribed channels in upload order. first they hid the button to go to that page in a less intuitive place, now they covered up nearly the whole page with a new "Most Relevant" section to make it look identical to the home page

as a former flash animator it feels necessary to underline how much this is Utter Disgusting Cruel Bullshit that will seriously impact tens of thousands of already struggling artists

just spent 3 straight days writing, recording and editing a 53-minute video before realizing it had absolutely no business being that long and I was unhappy enough with the result to feel the need to at least start over from near-scratch if not just scrap the whole thing, whoops

well I was close, I guess Twigs' lack of pop success felt less music industry-coded to me but she has been around longer and did a throwback-y thing so that makes sense. anyway, meh to these categories bsky.app/profile/256p...

got fucked over w/ a job that turned out to be a huge scam after over a year unemployed, & now I'm 3 months behind on everything and facing certain ruin. probable eviction on the 1st, power cut on the 29th, out of meds... I need a break. www.paypal.com/paypalme/smi... account.venmo.com/u/scjreal

Don't be a fan of politicians. Don't. Do. Not. Be ready to turn on them if they even think of stepping out of line. You know how corporations aren't our friend? Well, voters aren't THEIR friends. We are angry, feral, and tired. Oh you "wrote" a book that's cute where's my fucking health care

stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.