Nothing else in my life might feel in order, but I’m really glad to have been able to get out to these shows this year.

The weirdest part about the POTUS’ absurd move to deploy 200 Oregon National Guard personnel to Portland to assist federal LE in defending federal properties from small and kinda boring protests has been watching social media shitposters regurgitating the same jokes and comments over and over again.

It’s been a minute since I bashed out a synth loop arrangement in one sitting to the point where I felt like it was pretty much done. This was fun.

Finally got around to plugging my Pawn shop special rebuild into my recently acquired JC-120. Here’s what it sounds like with my Harby Big Muff clone & Red Panda Particle granular delay.

Been doodling in guitar a lot lately…

It is complete! I took a single humbucker strat and made it into a triple humbucker Strat with some strange resonant qualities.

Guitar project almost complete. I have the Lil’ Screamin Demon in the middle position, now. I want to pick up a decent wire stripper and then get to my soldering. I also have the interior of the guitar body lined with copper foil tape, grounded to itself.

RIP, legends.

Guitar project coming along. The only gaps before wiring everything are errors in equipment purchases.

Більше такого, будь ласка!

I‘m not sure what phase of capitalism this particular marketing strategy for a $1500 inflatable gorilla sofa is… but I’m into the part where it now actually feels like we’re living in a sci-fi dystopia.

Bands I’ve seen this week: 1. Die Krupps 2. My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult 3. Ministry 4. Bobby Joe Ebola & The Children McNuggets Unless something unforeseen happens and I see another band today, that will probably close out the list for this week.

Drove 3 hours to Seattle. Caught Ministry-Thrill Kill-Die Krupps for 4 hours. Drove 3 hours home. The show was definitely worth the drive.

Today, I’m experiencing social anxiety from all of the people who want me to vote for them for school board positions. Wild! (I’m not voting for school board. I feel comfortable outsourcing this decision to my neighbors, actually.)

My 4 year old: “I don’t like stuff from the 90s. I only like things that are cool.” It begins.

Picked up a Boss RC-1 Loop station the other month and just now getting a chance to sit down and play around with it.

If the FBI knocks on my door, the joke’s on them. I’m probably at work. Good luck finding me at work, too. I’m constantly in motion. They gotta either call, email me, or text. And even then, I won’t get it until the end of my shift. In general, it’s a pain in the ass to try and contact me, ngl.

Pope says popey things and media be like, “this is news.” 🙄

One of the giants of IR, Joseph Nye, has died.As @dandrezner.bsky.social correctly noted,its a rather cruel irony that Nye died as the importance of his greatest contribution to IR, concept of soft power, is about to be field tested about US by Trump Admin. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/joseph-nye...

One strange thing being a mass transit operator for 2 years now has instilled in me is a deep affinity for the local bureau of transportation. I just pulled up to an intersection earlier behind a PBOT vehicle and thought to myself “Fuck yeah! PBOT! I love those guys!”

Won’t somebody with any degree of authority and notoriety just come out and say the obvious, already? These are dumb fucking talks! They’re not grounded in the recent history of the conflict, nor in the interests of either party to the war for reasons obvious to anyone who’s been paying attention.

Two years ago today, three anarchists were killed in battle near Bakhmut: Cooper Andrews, Finbar Cafferkey, and Dmitry Petrov. In this eulogy, we explore the life of Dmitry Petrov, which doubles as a snapshot of two decades of struggle in the post-Soviet world. crimethinc.com/petrov 🏴🏴🏴

Kinda hilarious watching everyone finally learn just how much of a narcissistic piece of shit Newsom is. Wild that folks ever lent him their approval based on their rosy perceptions of California and its politics.

Reimagining “material support” to include non-material expressions of support is… interesting.

My first Foreign Policy essay is out - it examines the role of violence in Russia's military, which both creates docility in the face of meatgrinder tactics, and encourages increased violence towards fellow soldiers and Ukrainian prisoners of war and civilians. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/09/r...

I’m trying to imagine someone telling 19 year old me standing in the tear gas clouds of Quebec at the FTAA protests in 2001 that one day, America was just gonna end the post-Bretton Woods trade order on a lark… …And honestly, I would have just assumed that they were delusional. But here we are.

It’s imperative that we understand that longing for the return to what was already an atrocity is not freeing us. We can fight for the world we want instead of begging for the previous (also) oppressive arrangement.

Oddly, this won’t impact the lives of Portlanders one bit.

united24media.com/war-in-ukrai... 🇺🇦 #Ukraine #Canada #war #news #warrior #volunteer #Drone #Lancet #world

Took today off work as a mental health break (I have two contractual days a year to mark off work w/ no time loss, used one). Slept in until 1pm. Been binging the last half of season 2 of Star Trek: Picard. Today has been fucking great!

This is an online petition I would sign.

Leviathan Wakes

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 On March 31, Radio Svoboda published previously unseen footage from the mass shootings in Bucha, offering new evidence of Russian military involvement in the killings of civilians in the Ukrainian city. united24media.com/latest-news/... #Ukraine #Russia #RussianWarCrimes

Excellent, thoughtful piece by @jjjcameron.bsky.social on @warontherocks.bsky.social. warontherocks.com/2025/03/euro...

Being a public transit operator really illuminates how much folks can have opinions about the project your labor is applied to without ever actually considering the labor inputs to that project.

Der Historiker Timothy Snyder verlässt die USA, ebenso seine Frau, die Historikerin Marci Shore, und auch ihr Kollege Jason Stanley. Die drei forschten und lehrten bisher an der renommierten Yale-Universität im US-Bundesstaat Connecticut. (2/2) www.derstandard.de/story/300000...

Trump has no concept of the nation or of its security. This is not an insult to his intelligence. These are just not cognitive categories for him. He can’t care about national security because it’s not a thing in his world.

Well… this will be a fun read! 😂

I enjoy how my Bluesky feed is primarily trilingual (English, German, Ukrainian). And how the app asks me which language I’m typing in when I switch (English and German… my smattering by of Slavic language understanding is too crude for me to attempt to write much in Ukrainian).

😂

Ok… but… how do you get accidentally added to one of these Natsec signal groups? Asking for a friend.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

“[Mark Lemley] wasn’t bowing out because of the merits of the case. Instead, he’d ‘fired’ Meta because of what he characterized as the company and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness’.”

My latest for @thestudyofwar.bsky.social is out today, examining Russia's continued efforts to deport Ukrainian children. Especially salient given this new UN OHCHR report detailing the impacts of over 3 years of war and occupation on the lives of Ukrainian children. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

In case you needed to hear it today: Fuck Erdoğan!

“capitalism has made it this way, old-fashioned fascism will take it away” - the song that starts playing on a loop in my head when I read this article.