America's goal is for everyone to grow up thinking they're bad so that they feel the need to work their lives away as penance and keep other people in check by angrily talking about them behind their back

"Does he even know what Beer for My Horses is about?..." Uh yes i DO which is why this was such a shocking and informative memory, I didn't know the words at the time and it was still BIZARRE, if you thought that sounded like a fond memory instead of a distressing fever dream idk how to help you

I rarely gatekeep, but I definitely notice when people try to sneak through the door even though it's wide open

People who've shown me their worst side expecting me to be aligned with their toxicity love pretending that the mistakes I make are worse than their intentional power games

I need to know if gaslighting existed before the eponymous movie or if ppl have just been getting their ideas from that film's cultural impact

I actually love being corrected when I've made a mistake. People who hate their mistakes being acknowledged find this baffling

When did you first notice that the world was on fire? The Jungle was the hardest book I'd ever had to read, both because it was for class and because it was so utterly bleak. I was taught that as bad as things were, they were "better now". Unfortunately, history often both rhymes AND repeats itself.

Sometimes you just gotta sleep for an alarming amount of time and have a series of disturbing dreams before you can lock in

Being neurodivergent is having people think that pure coincidences are secret hidden messages and clear direct messages are purely coincidental and I think it's usually bc they straight up want me to turn out to be someone more acceptable to hate

Reckon was one of the later songs written for the album, but I think it pulls the whole thing together into a thesis statement for the era. The past is never forgotten, only kicked down the line. No one wants to be the one to uncover it first; seems we'll all need it do it at once. Start again?

There's a certain type of question that seems simple but is in fact steeped in so many layers of context and meaning and unfamiliar concepts that it feels as impossible to answer in one sentence or one conversation as a question like "How do you drive a car". But that's equally as hard to explain

I have to assume that when someone says "you should choose your battles" they're basically saying that they know they're wrong but they're not going to admit it and they would prefer if you battled someone else instead of them

"Dreams don't always come true you know 😒" They never do! Not quite- I know this well. In fact, very few things in my life have gone remotely as expected. Chasing a dream isn't about reaching a specific milestone; it's about taking step after step towards becoming who you already know you can be.

How are we supposed to get by??: An Easter Egg Journey Through the Atlas & Oracle Discography. From day 1 of writing our debut album Jubilee, there's been a focus on musical exploration and moral discipline. Every line a story, every song a spell, every album a journey. Part 1: "Forgettable"

"If people are laughing at you, you must be doing something wrong" you fool. you ahistorical ignoramus. go read a fucking book

I think one of my problems is that I'll say things and assume that people will understand what I'm saying or ask questions if they don't, when in reality a lot of people will just pretend and then make assumptions

Weird hot take, there need to be more massive and unexplained sources of wonder in video games. The first time I saw a dragon in breath of the wild I literally dropped my jaw and stared. Later I found out that there's a min-maxed strategy for harvesting their parts, and the magic was gone.

Hi. Stop doomscrolling. You need energy for even more challenging things tomorrow. Charge your phone away from your bed. Max loves you. You still deserve time to rest and recover.

Men need to stop giving women special treatment. Don't let them "stay at home with the kids" or have all the fun cooking delicious meals. Elect them into office and give them the nuclear launch codes so us guys can stop worrying our pretty little heads

The neurodivergent experience sometimes feels like watching or experiencing someone doing something bad, being told it's normal, no one standing up for you so you assume it must be normal, then the first time you do it someone steps in and calls you a maniac

"It feels weird promoting art during--" It shouldn't. Make art for the times you're living in, ABOUT the times you're living in, and promoting it stops being about seeking attention and starts being about community, perspective, and healing. Art has purpose. It's not weird if it's necessary.

"If you don't overwork and contort yourself, there are things you'll never be able to get!!" The lesson I was supposed to learn: overwork! contort! The lesson I actually learned: my reality will inevitably be the area of intersection between my goals and my capabilities, so I only want what aligns

There's a certain type of arguer who will come to the table with both 0 information and 0 ability for comparative analysis. Their entire goal seems to be to take the facts you've laid out and use them as toys. There is little regard for being correct- unfamiliar facts are dismissed with no context.

Any jungle fans out there? I played with a new genre with this one, and am so pumped for y'all to hear it! Lost is out March 25th with Ünity Club Records links.astralocale.co... Cover art by Sam Poncé instagram.com/samwic...

"Men don't realize that women are people" I'm not sure if all men have realized that Men are people– Guys will do horrible shit & lie to your face abt why they did it and you'll just go around thinking it was normal behavior until you realize a decade later that he Hated and Maybe Wanted To Kill you

I just know that someone got really excited to screenshot and send this to someone to say "he doesn't even know that the 'real emo consists of' snippet is a meme" until they read this caption. Props to the ones who sent it before getting to this part

RIP to young me you would have had a very mixed feelings about how many of the people who bullied you for playing video games are now hopelessly addicted to them

At least a full 40% of my musical philosophy and perhaps my personality as a whole is primarily informed by a member of the Butthole Surfers telling an interviewer that their music makes some people angry, being asked where they get angry, and replying "between the ears"

Y’all know how much I love ska! Mixing that with punchy drums, a synth, and even some drum breaks makes Funked Up what it is. I had a blast mixing these styles together and couldn’t be happier with how it turned out! Electro-ska is officially back!!! 2/2

In college I walked up to a friend at an outdoor party to share that a wasp had fallen into my drink bc I was mortified but unbeknownst to me he was trying to flirt with the woman he was speaking to, so he leaned over to her and said "he's making a joke about white Anglo-Saxon Protestants"

My new song Funked Up (feat. Ottie High-Definition) comes out next Wednesday! You can pre-save it to make sure you don't miss the release! Pre-save it here: share.amuse.io/track...

Not now, largest acidic geyser in the world

I never watched Star Wars 9, did we ever figure out if Darth Vader was actually telling Adam Driver to be evil? or was that some kind of spiritual psychosis

Reminder that there are people who cannot speak on certain issues at certain times without threatening their immediate safety. Not a vague threat of future retaliation by an unknown hypothetical force, but a known threat that they are presently unable to get away from. Think before you assume.

If you're a "the curtains were fucking blue" person, you probably think that Atlas & Oracle spends a disproportionate amount of time thinking and singing about walls

Benefits of growing up before and during the new gilded age: "It's not perfect, but it's the best we've got" will never again work on me as a justification for inaction, no matter who I hear it from, no matter what it is defending

In case of emergency break glass And its a Ska album

Never doubt the tenacity of a man's inclination to apply moral judgments to people he sees as lesser while applying "it's complicated" to people he thinks can elevate his social status

Atlas & Oracle exists to prove that anger can be at once explosive, beautiful, subtle, lethal, and immensely full of hope.

I don't know how to tell you that if you're still fuming over things I said a week+ ago, you're already so far behind

What a week for new #Ska releases! New albums from @gruberites.bsky.social, David Hillyard, The Holophonics, Easydread, Juantxo Skalari, and Not The Face! Plus new @astralocale.bsky.social, 100 Kilo Herz, Sammy Kay, and more! www.reddit.com/r/Ska/s/jRoc...

My music isn't meant to make you feel comfortable. There's no nostalgia, there's no inherent respect for tradition. There's no clarity on the surface level. It's meant to make you question why you think you want those things. By the way, why do you?

I don't mean to be rude but anyone who doesn't know what I'm all about has either literally never listened to an atlas & oracle album all the way through or doesn't know very much about history

People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

HELLO EVERYONE GOOD MORNING AND LISTEN TO THE NEW HANS GRUBER AND THE DIE HARDS HOLY FUCKING SHIT

You can tell me when it's over if the high was worth the pain 😜

This concludes the testing phase of the Atlas & Oracle mass broadcast system. It was an overwhelming success!! Get ready for part two~

Who you truly are is based on what you will do when you're certain no one will ever find out.

Ska changed forever again. I didn't tell you this time. U have to earn that kind of knowledge. But you probably felt it in the change of the wind 🌬️