Man it really sucks we’re all stuck on this dumb show. A false stupid reality is being forced on so many ways of life.

Isn’t genre arguably really just an over reliance on iconography?

www.donnymccaslin.com/blackstar-sy... fuck fuckfuck FUCK I wish I could go to this fuck

You know Icarus? Didn’t actually fly too close to the sun at all. It’s just really hard to fly with wax wings in the first place. He wasn’t being dumb, he was just trying something that was really hard to do. Because he had to.

music.apple.com/us/album/lul... Some incredible dark astral sax work here

I think I figured it out. People find AI compelling when it writes a poem for them to give to a family member or draws a melting Batman for them because it’s intellectual cuckery. I mean, it shouldn’t be, but it is.

theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/act-ii... THIS IS NOT A DRILL

UPDATE: The likely cause was not protein but some tea I’d made from a packet I found in the cupboard that boasted of being a ‘caffeine free superfood’ equivalent to Matcha but also listed on another part of the packet thar it ‘may contain lead’ so hooray. I’d like some new intestines

Oscar on set (honoring Wrightson)

I’m blaming the protein pastry I tried this morning, I feel like I am the discomfort being experienced within my own digestive tract. Just a horrible russian doll of meta discomfort, punctuated by-wait, actually you don’t want to know that part. Damn this is unpleasant and challenging

It’s been a minute since I posted anything but *gestures vaguely at the present state of things* also I am tired and probably sick, my stomach thinks it’s in a Sam Peckinpah movie where somebody has a bad time with their guts. But I did move some things around a bit also

I wonder how many people claim they ‘know’ people but really just mean ‘personally aware those kinds of people do exist in some form.’ They don’t KNOW them, and they certainly don’t understand them, otherwise they wouldn’t be supporting harm towards people like them.

music.apple.com/us/album/daw... Every soul worth their salt has one goth band they pick as their favorite. This my goth band, there aren’t many like it, but this one’s mine.

swanboy.com I just want to say how I appreciate the decision to not give the Mudvayne guy his own voicemail panel, there’s a lot of implied comedy to that if you actually remember Mudvayne @bransonreese.bsky.social

We might be on the brink of building a new cultural equivalent to the Berlin Wall, but this time I think the people building it are doing it to themselves

You know how you know it’s a good day? You accidentally trick yourself into thinking it’s Friday

‘weightless and free in the infinite sky’ damn Kirby Air Riders OST, I didn’t realize you were all William Blake like that

I’m listening to the Kirby Air Riders soundtrack and holy shit Floria Fields, you’re totally right, Electric Light Orchestra HAS to be part of Kirby’s Creation Myth, he grew up in that UFO

I think some of us (me included) have something that makes them look at things they want to try but are scared to try, and then let themselves feel shame because that they can’t come up with reasons why not doing is a good idea.

youtube.com/shorts/grq0Y... the new @procreate.com update has some very good QOL features for organizing and building brushes, even if you don’t plan on using them right away, very good to know they’re there when you might want to use them

Corey Booker Text Message: THIS WILL BE THE SHORTEST TEXT YOU SEE ALL DAY (proceeds to be multiple paragraphs bereft of information but still asking for money) I wish I had enough money that I could pay people to ask other people to give me money and not even make any attempt to justify it

If you find old to do lists you forgot about, and you’ve taken care of more things on there since you last looked at them…just go ahead and check off those tasks, even if the list is out of date or unlikely to be looked at again. You still get the satisfaction seeing the list more completed

Fallhaula is upon us, cometh Rakenarok

In some ways, Star Trek TNG was about a really aggressive yet polite talk show host in charge of a spaceship that allowed him to find new people and discuss things with them

No one: My brain: YOU’VE SEEN THIS BEFORE

Dance like nobody’s watching, but also dance like someone really cool who appreciates you might also be watching, respectfully.

The search for appropriate background music during video editing that won’t put me to sleep but also won’t interfere with the audio track and I need to trim and enhance

thequietus.com/opinion-and-... This is the stuff

It was a good day today.

I need to figure out how to use Bluesky a little more effectively than I do. Haven’t really dabbled in the lists and such as yet, everything’s a jumble, I’d like to curate it better into discrete zones…any recommendations?

Call me hypersensitive but I just don’t function well underneath a growing cloud of dread.

Beginning to understand when it’s not a grifting technique to strip the faithful of their financial security, the Rapture also acts as a psy-op where being denied its exodus makes believers REALLY anti immigrant and anti minority and that much more wanting a theocratic rule here on Earth.

I’m feeling some soft depression today, but I also got some new tech, a Keydial Mini from Huion, which should be quite helpful on some future things. The keypad feel is pleasing. The dial click is milder than I expected but in practice I’m sure it’s exactly correct. Hooray for consumer tech

Feeling a fair amount of despair this morning. Not sure what to do, reality feels like it’s getting an endless number of firmware updates aggressively reducing my ability to have some measure of a compatible existence as I’d prefer to live it. And yet here we are, you know?

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to bluesky

Work on your cool stuff now. The biggest lie most people accept is somehow there will be MORE time in the future.

music.apple.com/us/album/tee... IThe first time I tried listening to this it sounded like a beltsander attacking a hair dryer and not much more than that, but now this sounds really good. Years from now, there will be reassessments on the prolific Null OSTs and how great so many of them are.

Happy birthday to OUTSIDE, a Bowie album about which I wrote 800 words for my college paper. My opinion's the same: a rolling, tumbling, frustrating marvel, all that's brightest and dullest of Bowie. I should scan the review. In the meantime: humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2020/05/21/r...

It’s the night where suddenly I’m thinking about Elves and Dwarves as Shelves and Drawers and Tolkein suddenly sounds so contrived

Having some late night ambitions, provided I read aloud enough Disney Princess stories first

Man, I am so concerned how AI is already making people even less literate. We’re rapidly approaching a day where anyone who’s read a book over a hundred pages in length is basically Alan Moore.

I am so tired. There are things more exhausting than spending more than 24 hours being promised a callback by IT, but I can’t think of them right now. All I want to do is my fucking job, and I can’t, because the mandatory upgrade wasn’t ready despite the security deadlines demanding it.

Someone, anyone, help me understand how to be productive on personal projects when technical difficulties prevent doing my regular day job. I’ve been waiting on a call from IT since early this morning, there’s literally nothing work related I can do in the meantime, but

Youtube trying to sell their Premium subscription model by saying they have ‘rare covers’ of my favorite music? You mean…shitty versions of songs that will pay the artists even less? So I pay Youtube, and the artists make even less money if I pay YouTube? THIS is the sale point?

T R O N AGNES

Waiting, waiting, waiting politely.

1) Take day off from work to handle the hopefully final big steps regarding legal matters where there’s a lot of variables so it’s gonna take serious day time. 2) Pass out 3) Set up new remote workstation 4) Get stuck on hold with IT, sitting at work desk on day off, because I am very smart.

I…guess everything is maybe done. 37 months to the day

music.apple.com/us/album/tho... Ryuichi Sakamoto could make a song do absolutely anything he wanted it to do.