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This is, in turn, unfair to at least 40% of the catalogs of both Bruno Mars and farts

Actually, that’s an insult to both Teletubbies and Berghain, neither of whom deserve to be associated with America’s strange obsession with club music that sounds like someone training an AI on Bruno Mars and farts simultaneously

“You’re listening to The Best of New York, here’s a song we won’t name for you that sounds like two Teletubbies moaning at Berghain”

Sometimes, in the back of certain cabs tuned to late-night pop remix stations, I wonder what kind of person buys Ableton or whatever and goes, “hell yeah, I want to make THIS”

thats just online. it ebbs and flows

My local brewery screamed for an uninterrupted minute and I have been dancing jigs with no one like a grandfather in a pimp coat

Screenshot from the Zero Wing intro cutscene, of All Your Base fame. The character is saying "WE GET SIGNAL."

Remember! What's the first thing we do when we want to have friendly intellectual discussions on how best to save democracy?

It’s so funny that “NYC is a crime riddled shithole where you immediately get stabbed if you go outside” and “the NYPD is awesome” coexist as beliefs in so many brains

i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.

Power move status

I’m also in this, and picking ash out of my drink right before they go on is way too on-the-nose for 2025

Requested an invite already! Been a bunch of years, but my first time going during tech and/or ~the end of the world as we know it~

I'm at #SXSW this year from 3/8 through its conclusion. Yes, I might have Really Done It This Time. I'll keep sharing fun stuff I'm doing, but tell me if you've got something I need to see.

I could not possibly have RSVPed faster

As someone who spends a lot time thinking about the values I want to teach my kid (besides PLEASE DON’T EAT DIRT), the thing I keep coming back to is this: I want him to believe that the strongest, bravest thing he can do is give a shit about other people—especially ones who aren’t like him at all.

Screenshot from Google AI overview stating that many pop stars from the 1950s are available on cameo including Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and Jerry Lee Lewis

AI never misses

America's betrayal The USA is breaking with its Western partners and is now making a pact with Russia. Because Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin share the same reactionary worldview.

Here is a clear-eyed analysis of Trump's surrender to Putin from @zeit.de (headline with Google Translate), better than any coverage in US institutional media. I wish this coverage were translated and opened to US audiences. We need it.

Look, you can’t trust the newspapers. Not good to be here but we’ve been here for a quite a while

Okay. So, what are you going to *do* about it?

That’s real on so many levels. Eurovision slays.

The number of records I have where I go, “I bet this would hit so hard if we weren’t living in an era with pronounced wartime energy” just keeps creeping up. In other news, I’m fully back on my death-thrash bullshit.

Flashes is like saying “what if we rolled Instagram back to being hyper-focused on personal photos, and it was tied directly to your Bluesky account?” It rules so far. Go get it.

flashes is a bluesky based competitor to instagram and it’s honestly great on launch. i get excited for any opportunity to destroy evil billionaires

i’m converting my @junlper.bsky.social alt into my dedicated flashes acct if anyone was interested in me posting some sort of photo once in a while

I had ~1100 followers when Twitter got bought by Elon. 100ish of those followers have since deleted their accounts entirely. I’m sure 2-3x that are parked, like me, for if that app is ever worth humanity’s time again. Let those people pay for their bluechecks and throw hands at ghosts.

I can’t emphasize enough for family and old friends who may read this. When I say “fascists,” I don’t mean “all people who vote Republican” or “you.” I mean: “every big thread on X now has at least one guy who is openly referencing support for Hitler and I am changing the goddamn channel.”

I *finally* deleted X because it was poisoning my brain. My posts elsewhere were getting more negative, more combative, and for what? It’s the Internet. Shit’s tough in the world right now. I would rather unplug from open boosting of fascists and bots in every single reply thread and touch grass.

Permanently deleted X today. It was about time. #unsubscribe

everyone has that one homie with their own special move combo

Some have been so numbed to the creep of power that they keep asking what if this turns violent. Friends, it is violent.