America, I believe, is the only country letting politicians pick their voters. And that's after we let oligarchs pick our politicians. It's fascinating to see the party in power panic and dilute their power for a couple of votes. Safe seats are in jeopardy and they're making them MORE competitive.

My wife is a short black goth. I refer to her as my "Little BoOoOoOo Thang" 👻

If everything is brat, nothing is brat

Christmas music in the waiting room: a funky, easygoing groove where the verse if half the lords prayers and loosely rapping about Christmas activities. The chorus is just "Hehhhh yehhhhh ehhhht Christmas Heeeeehhhh yeehhhhh at Christmas" Anyway, I feel like I work too hard on lyrics sometimes

For #BandcampFriday our new song "No Peace" is part of an incredible #Deathrock compilation: Way of the Bat Volume 1 $16 gets you 69 songs! AND ALL the money goes to #Palestinian Children's Relief Fund & #Gaza Soup Kitchen 🍉🇵🇸❤️💚🤍🖤🦇🖤 #Palestine #Goth #Postpunk #GothicRock #PositivePunk

Sitting in an empty store. A bunch of holiday plans are canceled due to illness. Nobody is answering calls. This feels like the prologue to a plague movie.

Christians make terrible movies. Here's a free one: Jesus returns to America, speaks out against capitalism, genocide in Gaza. And then when he's inevitably arrested, he's a brown foreigner with no ID, and they deport him to a Salvadorian death camp.

Friday, Nov 21st WitchHands, Redwing Blackbird, and Part Weapon take to the historic Lion's Lair stage in Denver 21+, $10, 9pm 2202 E. COLFAX AVE DENVER, CO #goth #deathrock #postpunk #witchhands #gothsky 🧙‍♀️🤘 🦇🖤🦇🖤🦇

The way these rightwing ghouls casually say the phrase "underage girls" is so disturbing. Motherfucker, you mean "children -no homo" All of that is baaaaaaaaad

I just read the Kissenger book on diplomacy. *delays peace talks and bombs Cambodia*

So, while cold front of Canadian fury has its way with the US Midwest, it's pushed all the warm air here and it's close to 60 at 4am. Unusual for Colorado where it snowed almost every Halloween of my youth. But also, the coldest November for the rest of my life. Live like the world is dying.

I feel dumber every time I have to hear Trump speak. I think I figured out what the fuck is wrong with his followers.

Wednesday, November 12th! All Ages Goth Night with Academy Order and WitchHands at Vultures in Colorado Springs, CO 🦇🖤🦇🖤🦇 Followed by DJ AO spinning dance tunes #goth #deathrock #WitchHands #gothsky

Random trivia: apparently Carnies had a battle-cry "HEY, RUBE!"

Me in Middle Earth, trying to blend in: "I'm uh, Bumblegrimdorukith, son of Arro-Auramentes the bald. I hail from... the mountains you've never heard of, and uh... just call me Ryan. I don't really answer to that other name, whatever I said."

Me in the tour van with @witchhands.bsky.social: "You know, there's nobody I'd rather be doing this with. Because you're the only ones who know our songs."

As a 90s kid, I think this needs more Yin-Yang

It's reasonable to assume that God is evil by design or inaction given the way the world is. Add esoteric conspiracy theories on top of that and you're probably gonna get Gnosticism. As opposed to the much simpler (but less comforting explanation) that nothing is in control and shit just happens.

Went to the pumpkin patch and was given a discount for my "great costume" #gothlife

I love when Guillermo Del Toro comes out with a new movie and all the monsterfuckers are thirsty on main for his analog fx abominations. (That sounds sarcastic, but it's genuine)

Guitar markets be like: "This is a battered, one pickup, beginners model guitar from 1962. It's as hard to play as it is ugly. $4k. No lowball offers. I know what I've got." "This is a carefully recreated version of that shitty guitar by a master builder at a name brand. $5.5k with a certificate."

We're playing near and far for the rest of the year and we'd love to see you Oct: 24 - Ft. Collins, CO 29 - Wichita, KS 31 - Louisville, KY Nov: 12 - Colorado Springs, CO 24 - Denver, CO 🦇🖤🦇 #goth #deathrock #gothicrock #postpunk #positivepunk #gothnight #gothsky

What I expect a German metalhead to be like: "I LIKE BEER ÜNT BEER!!!! 🤘🤘🤘" German metalhead in reality: "Ja, you see this Paganini riff is better with HM-2 chainsaw sounding pedal. But not as good as with Bach, because he is more mathical. And German, also."

"Hey, remember when you would just hear a thing from a guy and carry that around with you, believing their bullshit was part of the fabric of reality? Now with AI assisted search engines, that's ALL YOU HAVE ACCESS TO! *Now with vastly more intensive energy and fresh water consumption!*"

Friday, October. 24th! We're hitting a Goth Night in Fort Collins (CO) We're playing some unreleased material, dusting off some old faves, and then dancing the night away! www.theatriumfortcollins.com 🦇🖤🦇 #goth #deathrock #gothicrock #gothsky #postpunk #positivepunk #gothnight

Ah, I've reached the abandoned bookmark in an old book I picked up randomly. You gave up at page 31? Well I'm at page 36. And yeah. Kind of a waste of paper and premise.

I'm like, "Alright, sent friends funny and cute memes to get them through the day. Time to settle in for bed and resume my Ed Gein book..."

Why I never became a pill popper: "That's my estrogen, that's a mild laxative, and that's a psych med that could kill me if I quit cold turkey. The doctor said the dose would boil a normal brain in its skull!"

Owning a business, you learn about aspects of government that you never imagined. We just completed the yearly ritual of the backflow test. As far as I can tell, it involves summoning an autistic contractor with a clipboard to go to the most steampunk part of the plumbing to spray water everywhere.

It's this or lay down and die.

I just saw a Gen Z lesbian with a full sleeve of red, white, and blue constitution, fire works, statue of liberty, patriot tattoos. I'm so unsettled

Before germ theory, doctors got suit cuffs to be able to roll up their sleeves and shove hands into wounds and body cavities at a moment's notice. (Presumably washing after) They wore black to emulate priestly authority and hide blood. Now we have useless fancylad jacket cuff buttons.

@tysoncole.bsky.social made a weirdly relatable comic

Waiting for Amazon to buy rights to the other implied stories in Tolkien, so they can capture the toddler audience with the adventures of Bill the Pony. I imagine it'll turn into a My Little Pony ripoff with 100% more Tom Bombadil and his silly songs. Whatever it takes to raise JRRT from the grave.

My family once rented tapes of Deliverance and Pulp Fiction to watch in one sitting. I don't *think* anyone was expecting so much hillbilly ass riding in one evening. *squints at dad*

As a listener, I hate singles. I'm going to forget your album and possibly be tired of the best songs by the time it drops. As a musician, I hate singles because it's extra work, promotions, and possibly annoyance to people for one song. Just let me marinate in music a while, listen to the flow...

Imagine seeing me scowling as I pass you in my shitty hatchback. Mohawk, piercings, weird punk jacket. The windows are rattling from the stock speakers and inside the car. And I'm just chilling to Souvlaki Spacestation by Slowdive for the 8th time this week. youtu.be/WPApiFhKFsg?...

As an American, Tim Horton's is shrouded in mystery and spoken of in hushed tones. Fur traders were guided by the smell of burnt coffee across the tundra. It glowed from within in the dim sunlight, as if it had always stood there, waiting to close the arteries of it's first victim. And it propagated

I'm pretty sure I usually look like a large, scary goth dude with a scowl. I made a big, comically pouty face and thumbs down at a cybertruck driver trying to find parking. I'm pretty sure my 😢👎 caused him to go all the way to the furthest end of the lot to not have to see me again.

People are mocking Charlie Kirk's wife seemingly having moved on to head his "empire" in a week. But really, it's either two power hungry people without a shred of decency married, or he really added value to her life by getting out of the way. I suppose those aren't mutually exclusive possibilities

Living in America is like: -1HP ... -1HP ... -1HP ... -1HP ... -1HP ... -1HP ... "That'll be $50" -1HP ... -1HP ... -1HP ... -1HP ... -1HP ... -1HP ... -1HP ... -1HP ... "That'll be $66.46"

*turn on BBC* "...These down syndrome creators are hurt, offended, and don't know what to do about the deepfakes. Deepfakes that attempt to profit on their image and disability through crowdfunding, sexualization, influencer scams..." Okay... I'm not gonna worry about global warming anymore.

How weird would it be to be a vampire artist and watching your work fall into the public domain?

A bunch of these AI incel bros thinking of a "digital actress" as a virgin is absolutely stupid and insane. But it makes slightly more sense with their premise that their dicks could fundamentally change something about a person. But, you know, incels don't actually like women 🤷

Wow, there's finally a Davey Havok album that doesn't make me want to destroy my stereo. And all it took was him doing an impression of Peter Murphy doing an impression of David Bowie. Good job, AFI

Watching #StarTrek, thinking how picky Starfleet must be if they need a few thousand people out of hundreds of planets with billions of people each. "You represent the intellectual elite of your world. But you're in a red uniform, so you're going to stand in front of this bridge officer." *Zzzzap*

Look, I think it's great you're an animated, spooky, scary skeleton. I'm just saying, consider shoes. Bones and linoleum don't mix.

The funny thing about the men's room at legacy band shows is it's either young guys that drank a lot or prostate problems

I feel like the handful of times poetry was touched on in school would have been 100% better if they'd addressed rhythm and meter instead of just saying "not all poetry has to rhyme!"

Daily occurrence: Just rang up a broke, genderqueer person's order. Couldn't infer their pronouns or tell what their genitals were. They were genuinely happy and pleasant. It's weird how many people's heads would explode in rage at this.