Now I'm just thinking about the village in Earthbound with the cult that just painted everything blue.
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Now I'm just thinking about the village in Earthbound with the cult that just painted everything blue.
I want to do for genderfuckery what Burt Rutan did for canards.
When some dipshit comes along and says we have to leave the table and not participate in the democratic process until an election three years from now I remind them that we're just telling you what matters to us and if you ignore it that's on you if it turns out our votes would have been important.
No idea who owns them but lots of people that drive through my neighborhood have "cheap house money" cars and it was cool until all the Lamborghinis and fun classics apparently got traded in for Cybertrucks.
Yeah, whatever that thing was called it introduced me to Frost*, Pure Reason Revolution, Ozric Tentacles, and probably other bands. The auto play robot sucks hard in comparison to "some nerd".
Now I'm desperately trying to remember the name of that prog rock internet radio that had the vibes of a pirate radio station I listened to religiously in the early 2010s so I can see if it's still going....
If you're insomnia is because you're kept up pondering what it would sound like if half the Grateful Dead decided to be a country music band I've got good news. youtu.be/SfuOV-tiyS8?...
I'm apparently transfeminine years old. 🏳️⚧️
I'm convinced all these people thought John Turturro's character in The Plot Against America was the hero.
This advertisement weirdly kinda works on me because the sect I grew up in believes Jesus was the archangel Michael in heaven first and also doesn't believe in the trilogy so I'm just really curious how they got to this combination (even though I know it'll be an absolute mess).
In case anyone isn't in the loop: cfiraguston.medium.com/the-myth-of-...
If we had smartphones when I was in highschool my friend probably wouldn't have written a C++ program in computer class to squawk Breaking the Law by Judas Priest and I wouldn't have first-hand knowledge of the Borland Turbo C++ documentation chicken skull cavity resonance bullshit.
This bird is 100% looking at RFK Jr.
I didn't go to a big football school and just like watching fans from the bushes like a terrible amateur anthropologist.
There's a breakfast burrito from a place along the road between Flagstaff and Sedona, AZ that we'd always get when my aunt was going for her chemo and now I really want one...
I had to get a new HVAC guy because he kept complaining about my heat pump because he didn't like working outside (he installed it). He also kept asking me if they made me teach "that CRT shit" (I teach college physics).
He's not even been nominated yet. It's not even past midterms. We're telling you he will be unpopular with us and why. Listen and shut the fuck up.
All the games I enjoy are basically spreadsheets, anyway.
I don't pass for shit and all my documents still say M so they always want to pat around my bra strap. 🤮
We built these titties on ESTROGEN
I genuinely hope he collapses in agony on the golf course or wherever it will take the longest to get him medical aide.
This is almost the plot to the third book in the Native Tongue series.
I'm mostly worried that Steven Miller would be replaced by Curtis Yarvin, but either way we've still got an evil scumbag with the charisma of a fence post with an alarming amount of power.
It is my partner and my favorite vegetable and we bond over craving broccoli tossed in olive oil with salt and crushed garlic then roasted until it's just starting to get crispy at least once a week.
I honestly hope he's not dead, just because I'd actually prefer in excruciating agonizing pain.
I'm trying to figure out how to make NE Ohio back into the Western Reserve of Connecticut.
Now I'm trying to decide if 'lol' is better or worse than 'kthxbye'.
I'm particularly glad I never got into gabber when I was a regular at the goth club back in like 2006, because my current partner is Dutch and I cannot do the Dutch 'g' sound to save my life.
I've never had anyone do this to me, but yes please do not. Honestly, I don't like it when people apologize at all? It makes me feel like I have to forgive them and that makes me feel like I have to excuse it indefinitely?
When I say it it sounds exactly the same as "shown". Also, I'm now trying to remember the last time I saw a Shoney's restaurant?
I feel like now that everyone can just conjure up a Marshall Applewhite to their Bonnie Nettles we're about to get articles talking about how Millennials have disrupted the natural flow of the destructive cult industry.
If you want more goofy Jesus theories, @usefulcharts.bsky.social is doing a whole series that includes a few: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Does anyone else remember that weird ncurses (I'm too Linux pilled to think of what else to call it) looking thing that sat on top of DOS to help Windows people run DOS applications that wouldn't run from Windows 3.1 in that era?
If he were a professional wrestling character he would 100% get "we're tired of this" booed not even heel heat booed.
I am determined to experience joy through gritted teeth as an act of resistance.
That's wild, because I don't even think that was a single off of In Search of the Lost Chord. Good work!
My favorite Moody Blues album is whichever one is the one I've listened to most recently between Days of Future Passed and Seventh Sojourn, but I probably come back to DoFP most often because I'm a sucker for a concept album.
I was raised a Jehovah's Witness and one of my greatest fears is that if I turn out to be a real piece of shit that everyone will blame it on JW eschatology from before I was even born.
I got into The Moody Blues in the late '90s because it was the only band my dad listened to that wasn't smooth jazz that played during the local forecast on The Weather Channel and my mom wouldn't let me go see them on that tour with him because she was afraid they'd be too satanic.
Sometimes you just really need to hear an acoustic guitar sound like it's about to explode.
When I was teenager in the early 2000s I was super into The Moody Blues, particularly their epoch from 1967-1974 and I constantly have to remind myself that that's probably way weirder than my nephew being into Nirvana in 2025.
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
I may just watch the entirety of @loadingreadyrun.com's Road Quest (an attempted Top Gear special tribute that turned into a touching show about friendship) again in a vain attempt to feel something other than despair. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
I tried to read it in college when everyone else kept saying how it changed their lives. I couldn't finish it, it was so boring, and my only regret is I didn't write a blog (as was the custom at the time) about it called Fresnel Shrugged.
Rapping mayors should eclipse Bill Clinton playing the saxophone as the default "elected official doing music" in the public consciousness.
Cis people: This is where you fucking step up. Do everything you can to support trans people in the coming days. You're going to hear horrible, hurtful rhetoric about us. Shut it down. Don't let it stand. And buy the trans people in your life a drink.
God drives a Plymouth. He drove Adam and Eve out of the garden in a Fury.
almost no situation you will encounter will be improved by the presence of men with guns but there are tons of situations a calm and thoughtful bystander can fix
I really wish the defacto members of the American Democratic Party coalition were more like professional wrestling fans. This bit would fall flat so hard so fast if it were a wrestling gimmick that people would be watching a different production by now.
Arcologies should both be explored as an architectural and city planning paradigm but also be inducted into the Portmanteau Hall of Shame.
BRILLIANT THANK YOU
As long as I can show up with four Contaminated Ground, four Psychic Venom, and a bunch of twiddle effects in a deck called 'Stop Hitting Yourself!" I'll be happy because I'm losing anyway.
I've spent so much time unsuccessfully trying to make this a pauper bomb.
The most terrible thing about public transit is that I don't use it enough to make buying a pass worth it and just pay as I go and my social anxiety is constantly screaming that I'm a weirdo freak without a pass and I should feel ashamed.
Once after doing our dishes together a now ex of mine said, "ugh now my back hurts and my shirt's wet" and I said "well you could take it off and lay down?" She was mad that it actually worked.
It isn't to me.
Automated gay space communism or bust.
What will you do today to contribute to the efforts to stop the regime from harming people? [No need to respond - it's a question for you to answer for yourself]
I'm not a life sciences person so I have no professional insights and would pick coconut crab based only on sheer size and intimidation.
I do this basically every single term. 🫡
I love that song (and also kitties). youtu.be/QdMHy074kNc?...
I've got a Schecter, a Squier with a few Fender parts bolted onto it, a Sterling, and a Peavey Powerslide (possibly the goofiest stringed instrument ever made). I collect budget and b-stock guitars.
@470nm.bsky.social can probably cover some of that
For reasons beyond my ken, this is the song stuck in my head right now. youtu.be/8970WhW4Z18?...
Cecilia hopes it doesn't rain again today because she's tired from protecting the house from raindrops yesterday.
I'm still so mad about the new(ish) unofficial Cleveland city flag. We now have two flags and they're both awful.
Fritz Lang's Metropolis but it's ultimately decided that everything will be wonderful if only slightly fewer members of the labor class are fed to Moloch.
I want to start telling people about the time Howard Dean yelled weird like I'm a bronze age storyteller at the fire.
Every time I want to restring my steel slide guitar I shop around to find the absolute chonkiest flat wound strings I can possible. One of these times I'll actually remember what kind I bought last time, I'm sure.
I want to play Vampire: the Eternal Struggle so bad now. I miss having a regular group that's basically developed its own weird language that makes no sense.
I love explaining things to children because they haven't had the ability to ask goofy questions squeezed out of them yet.
I once spent an entire afternoon looking for the source of the Cuyahoga River via shit tier aerial photographs without looking up anything else.
Every time someone says we need to reach for the middle I want to lock them in a room and explain the difference between mean, median, and mode and the fundamentals of frequentist statistics.
My favorite game was against my partner where we both saw a sign that said Antigua and each picked different wrong places called Antigua.
There's an Ohio chain called Dewey's that will do halves with different sauces and now I really want one of their salads...
Yes!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_...
Now I'm struggling to remember the name of the guy who did some fake anthropology in Mexico, wrote a bunch of books about it, and then ran a small cult until he died?
youtu.be/SgPrZARFPiA?...
I still have no idea if this has anything to do with my ND, but I've always felt like other people's concerns got treated like the end of the world and mine as irrelevant to the point I was afraid to ask for help when I was struggling in school and then got yelled at for not asking for help.
A DigiTech Polara was one of the first pedals I ever bought and it taught me that it does too much and I find it overwhelming, but now years later I'm finally exploring some of the mysterious settings on it.
This has given me a profound self realization as I barely "play songs" when I'm messing around with my guitars. This week has been spent trying to make a reverse reverb effect sound like something other than a dying goat.
So don't vote for Gavin Newsom, got it.
I'm so confused what that has to do with anything and I kinda want to reply with an incoherent rant locking tremolo arms that changed enough to be legally distinct from Floyd Rose while they were still under patent?
I watch AEW because it's more entertaining to me personally than WWE but I'm deeply annoyed every time someone just shows up and gets a huge pop without having done anything in AEW yet and I'm supposed to just be excited about something they've done on another program I don't watch.
I desperately want one of those for my desktop computer that looks like an antique rolltop desk.
My noise sensitivity that's usually "not bad enough to worry about" has buckled under the strain of an entire week of getting a new roof installed on my building and I want to crawl into a hole, listen to nothing but smooth jazz, and cry.
Depending on which pharmacist fills my prescription I may get a hazardous material disposal bag and a warning sticker on the box.
For several summers pre pandemic they closed off several parking spaces in my work campus's lot to make room for them to nest in the landscaping with signs saying they're not aggressive if unbothered.
I want to make a Minecraft mod that adds the bends as a status effect from rapidly coming to the surface from large depths while swimming but will still let you eat an entire loaf a bread under water just because I think that'd be funny.
I'm confused, power Metal is like 100% feelings. It's basically a genre that distills all the feelings associated with beating the big bad in a TTRPG into an album.
I can be your DJ in this one specific circumstance. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
R. Buckminster Fuller. I've read a lot of his books and a pretty big chunk is brainworms level nonsense but it's brainworms level nonsense about making the world a better place in a way that really appealed to me in my 20s.
For me I think it's an anxiety thing. I want to be in a crowd of obsessed weirdos screaming and throwing up the horns but I'm also extremely put off by crowds and usually end up standing awkwardly on the fringes of the crowd with people who are just kinda there.
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
The most recent two term Democratic president ran as a progressive and somehow the party is stuck between the same strategy that's produced catastrophic to middling results since the '90s and "to beat a shit-eating troglodyte we need a shit-eating troglodyte that looks better in a suit".
I should check on my fermenting kombucha. Thanks for the reminder, wizard.
there is no defeating fascism by ignoring trans rights and freedoms. fascism is defeated when everybody has rights and freedoms.
So you've got a solution in search of a problem and the solution is shitting on trans women. Got it.
Where are the trans women dominating women's sports? You're talking like this is a real problem and not something that's just been made up as an excuse to further marginalize trans people.
