The Dictator's Handbook points out that it's vastly cheaper and easier to make the 20 closest supporters of a strongman wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice than it is to raise the living standards for the poor, and the benefits (to the strongman) are immediate and obvious.

Demon in the Gears: Industrial folk in F double harmonic major and 117 bpm. Hey, support Indie music, k? unelectable.bandcamp.com/track/demon-... #Music #Industrial #ElectronicMusic

Demon in the Gears: Industrial folk in F double harmonic major and 117 bpm. Hey, support Indie music, k? unelectable.bandcamp.com/track/demon-... #Music #Industrial #ElectronicMusic

PSA: Bluesky's new auto-tagging moderation stuff is a disaster. Disable it. Go into Settings on the Bluesky site and enable adult content and set everything to Warn at most, which makes posts opt-in. Hide just vanishes posts. Then go into Advanced/Bluesky Mod Service and do the same on everything.

Safe, protected bike-lanes are: Better for business Better for emissions Better for air quality Better for space Better for public health Better for noise Better for equity Better for affordability Better for public costs Better for safety for EVERYONE Better for oil independence Better.

Embrace ebullient, funky pop/rock and classic b-movie film score-style kosmische! Mid '00s-style indie rock and New Age-leaning chamber music! Nutso soundscape! All await you in this week's Other People's Music: www.etherdiver.com/2026/05/29/o... #musicsky #rock #pop #kosmische #soundscape #NewAge

Almost all the time, for me to enjoy a story, the lead character must both change and be changed by the situation. It's why I find "Devil Wears Prada" and "Sicario" to be 'meh'. In both stories, you could remove the protagonist and NOTHING would change. (cont)

Justification: Industrial folk, E Phrygian, 96 bpm. I sing on this one. Support Indie music! Click through, listen, share,engage :) unelectable.bandcamp.com/track/justif... #Music #Industrial #ElectronicMusic

Hey, another reminder that if you support Israel’s occupation and genocide, a) fuck off and b) unfollow me.

Articulated: Industrial Folk in G flat Lydian, 118 bpm. Trying to thread the needle between pretty and noise. When you find something you like, be the fan you would want to have. unelectable.bandcamp.com/track/articu... #Music #Industrial #ElectronicMusic

"Public" bath houses (limited to the 'right' sort of people of course) were another common form of relaxation and gathering for the nobility. Individual baths could be reserved and made private to eliminate the need for face shields. #Art #ConceptArt #SciFi #Blender #WorldBuilding

Artists, it looks like Adobe might be doing very questionable things at the moment by auto-enrolling you into a more expensive AI-heavy "pro" plan (potentially even charging you for opting out after the fact, which I should hope is illegal). Be vigilant 🧵 see further posts below

Of course, everything could be purchased remotely, but if the rich did that, when would they gossip? #Art #ConceptArt #SciFi #Blender #WorldBuilding

i feel this in my bones. I walk around all day feeling like my entire life is built on sand.

Articulated: Industrial Folk in G flat Lydian, 118 bpm. Trying to thread the needle between pretty and noise. When you find something you like, be the fan you would want to have. unelectable.bandcamp.com/track/articu... #Music #Industrial #ElectronicMusic

Digital Signals: Industrial folk, A minor and 77 bpm. Support Indie music, click through, listen, share and engage :) Be the fan you'd want to have. unelectable.bandcamp.com/track/digita... #Music #Industrial #ElectronicMusic

Driver: Industrial folk, B flat minor, 103 bpm. Do the thing. Support quirky, indie stuff, even if it's not mine. Be in the habit of doing more than giving a glance and moving on. unelectable.bandcamp.com/track/driver #Music #Industrial #ElectronicMusic

It's my balloon day and I wish to make the humble request of artwork sharing 🙏 I feel extremely blessed to have made so many trips around the sun whilst painting pictures for my living. What a life, always profoundly grateful that it is mine ❤️✨

Driver: Industrial folk, B flat minor, 103 bpm. Do the thing. Support quirky, indie stuff, even if it's not mine. Be in the habit of doing more than giving a glance and moving on. unelectable.bandcamp.com/track/driver #Music #Industrial #ElectronicMusic

This now applies to the internet. Actually visiting a website and browsing the pages instead of reading Google AI search results is the new going out for an envelope.

Abrasive Existence: Industrial Folk with a lot of noise. D# Phrygian mode 110 bpm. Support Indie Music! Click through, listen, share and engage :) unelectable.bandcamp.com/track/abrasi... #Music #Industrial #Noise #ElectronicMusic

Teaching myself modular synthesis via the Cardinal VST - it’s a lot like geometry nodes for Blender, and I’m starting the same way, by recreating other plugins I use.

Ok y'all, on this lovely day of burning plantation a quick thread about an incredibly important and very deliberately-erased part of this region's history that ain't fascist lost cause lies. Let's talk about the widespread anti-confederate resistance in the South...

Deeper Into The Unknown: Industrial Folk, E Phrygian mode, 140 bpm, but closer to ambient than dance music. Support Indie Music! Click through, listen, share, engage :) unelectable.bandcamp.com/track/deeper... #Music #Industrial #Ambient #ElectronicMusic

The school had a large study hall, where nearly 400 students could routinely be found preparing for exams, or at least quietly socializing. Now, it was the middle of the night, and the room stood empty. #ConceptArt #Art #Blender #SciFi #WorldBuilding

Also just a crystalline example of how the AI industry completely normalizes execs telling outrageous lies and exaggerations to get what they want

Trap 000D: Industrial folk in D minor, 90 bpm. Please support Indie Music! Click through, listen, share, engage :) unelectable.bandcamp.com/track/trap-0... #Music #Industrial #ElectronicMusic

Gate Song: Industrial folk in D# Phrygian mode and 77 bpm. Heavy like a starship. Please support Indie music :) Click through, listen, share, engage! unelectable.bandcamp.com/track/gate-s... #Music #Industrial #ElectronicMusic

Can you imagine a future you want comprised of things that aren’t a copy of a time when you felt happy? I think ‘new and better’ has to be more important than ‘a return to something that made me happy’.

introduce yourself with 10 bands / musicians you've seen live NiN Tool KMFDM Pigface Front 242 Run The Jewels Gary Numan Bjork Rage Against The Machine GWAR

BY OR ABOUT. Like both are reprehensible but they are trying to stop trans and no-binary people from existing in public in any and all topics regardless of whether they are related to identity

Gate Song: Industrial folk in D# Phrygian mode and 77 bpm. Heavy like a starship. Please support Indie music :) Click through, listen, share, engage! unelectable.bandcamp.com/track/gate-s... #Music #Industrial #ElectronicMusic

D# Phrygian mode is rapidly becoming one of my favourite keys (ok, it's a mode, but...you know) for writing stuff that sounds like it could crawl out of the sewer and beat someone to death with a pipe.

For everyone who keeps saying "Trump is on the way out" - Please note that the candidates he endorsed did REALLY WELL in yesterday's primary, and the few GOP folks that opposed him have done REALLY poorly.

Something So Vast: An ambient, "pretty" track in F Lydian mode, so you know it's dreamy :) 126 bpm. Support Indie music :) Click through, listen, share and engage! unelectable.bandcamp.com/track/someth... #Music #Ambient #ElectronicMusic

Two boys roaming the halls after Lights Out, neither wearing their face shields - Oh, if they were caught, the scandal to their families would be immense - which was, of course, what made it so exhilarating. #Art #ConceptArt #SciFi #Blender #WorldBuilding

Outside the Spectrum: Industrial folk in F# Phrygian mode and 100 bpm. Support Indie Music! Click through, listen, share and engage :) unelectable.bandcamp.com/track/outsid... #Music #Industrial #ElectronicMusic

As much as I am excited to play my instruments, I'm feeling INCREDIBLY interested in making some simple oscillators, noise boxes, sequencers and FX processors....I have GAS - Gear Assembly Syndrome.

Blockage: Heavy Industrial Folk, E Phrygian mode, 111 bpm. Keep supporting Indie Music! Click through, like, share, engage :) unelectable.bandcamp.com/track/blockage #Music #Industrial #ElectronicMusic

If you *HAVE* to watch something: Torrent it, and then don't talk about it online. Don't give it a boost.

Wiped Clean: Industrial folk, A minor and 93 bpm....feels like such a 'basic' key, but I think the track works :) Support Indie Music! Click through, listen, share, engage! unelectable.bandcamp.com/track/wiped-... #Music #Industrial #ElectronicMusic

My friend came over and helped me build my first reverse avalanche oscillator - It doesn't quite work, turns out I missed buying a 1K resistor and using a 10K didn't work...but I learned a lot, and feel bunches less intimidated by the entire process.

Hasbro have apparently hired a notorious union-busting firm in response to the Magic the Gathering Arena teams attempt at unionisation - Reddit mods have deleted the post If you haven't please sign the unions petition actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcl...

New Vision: Industrial folk, E Phrygian mode and 102 bpm. Support indie music! Click through, listen, share and engage :) unelectable.bandcamp.com/track/new-vi... #Music #Industrial #ElectronicMusic

It is *incredibly* bad policy for governments to make their people depend on corporate gambles for the basics of life. NEVER give taxpayer money to corps on the promise that "they'll back it back, bigger!" in the future. Governments should invest in people, not private corporations.

I still love ‘Look Mum, No Computer’.

Which sucks bc boy is it OBVIOUS that everyone needs to start blowing off steam regularly. I think a lot of what we see both online and in real life has at least a partial root in everyone being extremely pent up and on edge 24/7. We used to party and dance and sweat that away 😩

If you see this post a goth woman. #Arksky

It seems to me that there are at least 2 kinds of "gentrification", both made worse by our Capitalist hellscape, but maybe worth teasing apart? (cont)

Bereavement: Industrial folk, G Phrygian mode and 64 bpm. Heavy. Please support indie music! Click through, listen, share, engage :) We can't let the rich be the only ones who reach people. unelectable.bandcamp.com/track/bereav... #Music #Industrial #ElectronicMusic