the future is goofy af. and google can't even learn from itself. (this was my screenshot from moments ago)

Why don't you all give it a RT for tomorrow at 5 pacific, 8 eastern on twitch.tv/deadblossomjesse. Featuring @jessefarrar.com @osullyville.bsky.social, Nick Wiger of Doughboys fame, and a mystery guest. I just finished putting the last question on the board. I'm proud of this one I reckon

it's on me, not you, but bragging about what search engine you use instead of google is just as annoying to me as google. none of them quite do it for me. "back in the day" I used metacrawler, I didn't have to think because it searched all of the others, and I scoffed at google's arrival.

lol this reminds me of when I was in highschool and the homework I submitted was 1 written page and then a bunch of datafile garbage on other pages and I pretended the "printer screwed up" to buy myself another day

this is saturday - these shows are always a delight, full of funny people being complete pain in the asses to each other so you can giggle it up at home

warmer weather always has me thinking about hobbies and little tinkery interests and has sent me down a rabbit hole of little cool/weird indie skirmish game books and stuff. If anyone has recs for some that I can use stuff I have w/o buying a bunch of extra stuff, I'll take recs.

This world is brutal, and only moreso every day. And maybe we are entering an age of evil. But the sun still shines warm and bright, and trees still have leaves. There is still a beautiful person you are going to meet, and there are slumbers at the end of long days deeper than sea-trenches.

I like how the right claims the left control all media and are backed by George Soros when the reality is that an Indigenous film crew pranked a bunch of white supremacists and the backlash was so intense from anti-free speech anti-comedy censors that they killed the show

one thing about doing my biggest run of gigs/touring back in 2006-2008 is that I mostly have a few fading memories and blurry af youtube clips other people posted from shows. Here's me playing a show at a castle in Italy w/ an arrow pointing to the smeared pixels that are me

me to partner when she comes in and snaps the door shut, leaving the bugs and heat outside

as someone who had one foot in this industry, it was always echoes of this kind of stuff that kept me from putting both feet in. When you think "maybe it's better now", something is around every corner waiting to remind you it's safer for people who do stuff like this than it is for your friends

I think the world's worst people, like those that do horrible things and resist every attempt at diplomatic kindness and plea for compassion, should be so terrified of you that they develop irrational fears of being haunted by you should you meet your demise, compelling them to help you thrive

This is my really advanced technique for clearing your desktop that I started doing several years ago. I know some of you have like thousands of things on your desktop. Just make a folder like this, label it well, put everything in there. It looks clean and things load faster. You're welcome.

(Paul Rust "New No-Nos" voice) when webstores send you an email saying "hey saw you looking" after you window shop at them, the website should have to stand outside wearing a sign saying it stalks and bothers people. Hey website, you're a little creep! (1/2)

they're always saying this

I always joked that my midlife crisis would be "getting a real + boring job" after a life of arts and weird hobbies. I think instead I'll become one of those guys that half-understands everything just enough to have conversations that leave people wondering why I know that and say I'm "kinda cool"

tfw i'm tired but you say something interesting

sometimes you just gotta get a little weird on a friday night (just repatched some things and giving it a test drive) youtu.be/x8uXtlwP61U

new experience unlocked: having a coughing fit while sitting down to work and completely forgetting about the live microphone running into an insane fx chain and scaring myself nearly to the grave

thanks everyone who bought the "GIFTS" EP or sent nice notes about it. Here's a secret, the "planets" in the front and back art were made with an orb and a photo of tree bark I took with my phone. If you've not checked out the EP yet, it's over at theremover.bandcamp.com/album/gifts

nostalgia can be a corrupting drug that is used by bad actors to hijack your mind for political gain. on the other hand, the local taco bell had dim hanging lamp lighting and felt like a family restaurant in the 80s and they had menu items they are too cowardly to have today

combing through project notes I wrote and barely remember from 2-3 years ago and they really feel like all those memos you find in video games, subject line and all

(fyi - my things are not connected to this, sharing because I just learned of it, it's cool and worth reading about + supporting)

I've released a concept EP. Out now for @bandcamp.com Friday. It is called "GIFTS" and it is a set of 8 short lo-fi/ambient themes that borrow elements from one another, with scifi vibes both pretty & strange. If you might be into that, you can buy it here: theremover.bandcamp.com/album/gifts

The future is now: falling asleep to a podcast about "fastening bolt 3XRE9 from Fhksioefjc Corp" while the planet burns

pov: a sound wakes you 2 hours early, you decide to check your phone and this is the first thing you see. you know what's coming. @storesthepodcast.bsky.social

Me in the Criterion Closet @criterion.bsky.social

Pretty sure I’ve seen this X-files episode

One of the best things I've learned since 2020, is that it's really fun and healthy to just make things that are FUNNY, or serious things that are intentionally played for laughs. I learned new skills, made more music and art than ever before, all because it is more fun to laugh than meet standards.

We've got to clear out all these goblins. I'll let you know when we've gotten the last of them.

Doug Ford buying a jet for like 30 mil while thousands of people don't have a doctor, environmental protections are disappearing and teachers are being canned... no real joke to make here when the thing is already the best satire of what weird power hungry right wing losers are like

Narrator: it was not, in fact, the end of dinkety-dink-dink

Oh, you're back.

There are fresh nightmares from the past 24 hours. But that should not be a sign to stop giving -- least of all when music efforts were translating into real results on the ground. So I'm putting out this call again. What we need is more international support, including media.

Letting you pause cutscenes is the greatest and most underrated innovation in video games in the last 20 years. I've said this before. I never thought about HOW pausing works before though.

Living where I live, I am accustomed to having the worst right wing representation (we can change this), but seeing all the worst takes from libs & cons alike because my MP left one right wing party for another is exhausting. The TEENIEST joy comes from watching her supporters implode, but it stinks

"Ah, you say you want clean air, and yet... you breathe dirty air... hmmm, most curious!"

The world is better with trans folks in it. I'm sorry it's so continually - and disappointingly - been so unkind to you. Those who perpetuate anger, hatred or violence towards you and your loved ones are now and forever my enemies.

Avi's father just passed, days after Avi won NDP leadership. In his speech, Avi said his dad had told him, of his dreams of a better world, "not in my lifetime, maybe in yours." Incredible Stephen Lewis lived just long enough to see Avi take that first step in refusing to say that to his own kid:

To my incredible trans pals (and those I haven't had the pleasure of meeting yet): You deserve the world. You are seen, you matter, and your rights are worth fighting for. I will be side by side with you every step of the way. Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️

If you get this, my disp to you should be 70 or higher. use Angry and Happy to raise and lower my disp.

I was reminded of this tonight. I thought this was SOOO funny 10-20 years ago or whatever it was.

I'm no star trek scholar, but It's so funny that his example of non-political / non-social issue is a violent war between civilizations and collectives with like 60 years of stories detailing their political conflicts

I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you

Sometimes you can look at a Rothko and think "this is how I feel today", and half your friends will think you're insane, and the other half will go "Yeah, totally" and think you mean something entirely different. Communal experience of art is joyous and infuriating at the same time.

April Fools, as a concept, never really lands because it is so rare that we see the platonic ideal of a “prank” instilled in us from sitcoms and cartoons and stuff. Nobody has ever watched fake pregnancy or product announcements on a tv show and went “haha that’s funny!”

I don’t have anything profound to say about it all, but there was some good energy around the federal NDP leadership race and I look forward to seeing the right wing PM and the right wing wannabe have to actually defend the horrid things they support in coming months

with apologies to a couple folks, a pet peeve: when someone tells you to check out their podcast, but the first or only link they give you is to Spotify, a weird closed eco system. Make a lil page, link to everything incl. spotify if you want.

Look, I just think if AI-bros are going to generate images and use them as finished art in projects, that we should treat them with at least the same scorn any overworked employee or volunteer faced for using clip art/word art in their 20 minute event flyer in the early 00s.