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lol that is 1. a scar and 2. my face
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lol that is 1. a scar and 2. my face
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old martins can go crazy
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i basically look for Japan or Korean pieces now if they arent USA β incredible stuff (also that pink one is great)
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how do you like the noiseless pups
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(2007 MIJ strat in jupiter blue with texas specials)
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pregaming music.apple.com/us/album/f-n...
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veruca salt saturday music.apple.com/us/album/the...
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Ty Albert
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Barry you dumb motherfucker
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π₯
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did not know abt this, ty
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posthumous classic music.apple.com/us/album/coa...
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slept on classic record music.apple.com/us/album/ane...
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
yes
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funny and absolutely psycho move that happens to me every few months where a company i've never spoken to somehow calls me via Zoom to cold pitch me
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perfect face-punching lead riff music.apple.com/us/album/bur...
Alvaro M. Bedoya (@bedoyausa.bsky.social) reposted
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape peopleβs reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
Kashmir Hill (@kashhill.bsky.social) reposted
The rare opportunity on my beat to make some jokes. A story about the Panama Playlists, unveiling the identify of the person who doxxed my and @mikeisaac.bsky.social's Spotify playlists, alongside those of people way more famous than us. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/t...
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ripper music.apple.com/us/album/loc...
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
pretty much every asian countryβs snack technology is light years beyond our own and we should feel shame about it
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god tier snack from the korean grocer tastes like an apple fritter French fry
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
like back in the Paste days!
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
i would also like that
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
huge with the kids now. saw them twice in the last year and crowd was bifurcated btwn 20 and under then 40 and up
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social)
i profiled deftones β a band that grew up in the age of numetal but always managed to transcend it thirty years later on the eve of the groupβs tenth record release, they are experiencing a late career renaissance www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/a...
Derek Mead (@dmead.bsky.social) reposted
People seeing energy prices go up vs. the endless demand for data centers: Who comes out on top? san.com/cc/texans-wa...
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social)
NEWS: Meta will announce an AI reorganization today, dividing the Superintelligence division into four units weighing some cuts or employees moved from AI division considering licensing closed source models to build new AI products w/ @elitan.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/t...
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social)
a fucken wasp just stung me in my own backyard
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
awed at how poorly written it is, would have thought it would get a punch up by a speechwriter who had the sense to remove the vocab word adjectives and dependent clauses but you do you Mme. 1st Ldy
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
my guess would be itβs a Facebook thing since their goal is always to reengage lost users but if someone can tell me if itβs an iOS or Google thing instead i would appreciate it
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social)
some switch flicked in my Google calendar in the past month or something so now i get every single facrbook birthday notification daily and itβs upsetting to remember some of these long lost people
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
quickly became my fav guitar to play
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
one thing Iβd say is theyβre specifically designed for strats and teles so my offsets are annoyingly difficult to place, fwiw
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
itβs that one yes. also a fender one for the hanging gretsch. they work well!
Peter Kafka (@pkafka.bsky.social) reposted
I wish I'd seen this before I asked Mike to explain the AI arms race, which is leading to things like Mark Zuckerberg paying a single engineer $250 million. Too late now. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
criminal. you are one of the last reviewers i read regularly. sorry to hear this
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neighbor cat keeps shitting in my planter box
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
custom job, he announces some one offs every so often on his IG β give him a follow (his amps are incredible)
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god this fucking suuuuuuuuucks
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π
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literally a description of me, i need to know who this investor is
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this particular compilation of theirs was so good β every track on it was a great pick
John Herrman (@jwherrman.bsky.social) reposted
a weird and disorienting AI scoop in here: ChatGPT now appears to be using Google Search? Google declined to comment and OpenAI was like hey we love all our partners and everything with Microsoft is great by the way!! nymag.com/intelligence...
Clara Jeffery (@clarajeffery.bsky.social) reposted
So glad @mikeisaac.bsky.social did a piece/quiz on the ridiculous tech-speak billboards in the SF area, the only thing sort of equivalent is the defense contractor ads on the DC Metro. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/b...
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
is that good
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ripper
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yes
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i want to pet the forbidden cat again
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watering the bushes and look up to find im being stalked
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) reposted
Somehow this came across my feed on X and this is genuinely hilarious. Tablet Mag is arguing that a performing arts center in New York is actually a secret Kaaba, because... uh... it's a cube? And the Kaaba is a cube? And they both have some marble on the outside, so check-mate libs.
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
fairfield circuitry. incredible stuff. highly recommend looking into their demos
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i smell a new boontatheme brewingβ¦.
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spent an hour in the dark making drone noises π
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
looks like this is indeed the case x.com/akbarsahmed/...
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
i did figure there was some polling or intelligence that started circulating before it that we arent privy to either
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
missed this, will read ty
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social)
the phrase βhistory will judge you poorlyβ always bothered me because i find it to be a self-soothing mechanism dead people are unable to care about a future perspective
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
that was my guess too. unavoidable mass deaths coming and ass covering commences
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
unfamiliar with british media dynamics, super interesting and helpful cont xt probably strong correlatives in us media too
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
definitely onto something here.
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
doesnβt fully explain it because anyone honest looking at video and photo coming out of the region could have told you this. crazy making
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social)
trying and failing to understand the Overton window shift on coverage and statements on Gaza in the span of literally one week best i can tell it was from the right wing British newspaper of all places putting a starving baby on its cover β something that has long been undeniable front and center
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
this one definitely was on the list
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i have been to that Starbucks!
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planning a trip: need your best Munich, Prague and Berlin recs
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess i should thank him bc it made me throw this on for the first time in years music.apple.com/us/album/mak...
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
jesus
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
how are you gonna pick the lamest fucking hip hop artist of the aughts DMX and Master P were right there. even Ma$e is better. Three six mafia. Bone thugs. loser!!!!!
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damn
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in 2010 scientists who sequenced ozzy's DNA discovered he was literally a drug-doing super mutant and i think thats beautiful rip prince of darkness
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
the world we have created is bad
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was never huge into PJ when i was young but as i got older and played more guitar i have come to really appreciate the sound of mccreadyβs drive on a strat β and you cant say riffs from their most iconic songs arenβt great music.apple.com/us/album/yel...
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
you motherfucker
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wow
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damn
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
itβs a standard but a bit frankensteined β non OG tuners, i believe swapped bridge and the pick guard is also swapped, and they stuck a studio flourish on there itβs not in front of me but i believe itβs a 99 or 97 canβt remember
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social)
more time i spend with this more i am coming back to this as maybe fav guitar to play i love all my children for their different sounds, but feel-wise this one is a standout
rat king π π (@mikeisaac.bsky.social) reply parent
seeing them in sf but would be fun to catch them in New York!!
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think this is one of my simple but favorite guitar licks of all time (even beyond the iconic brass section) music.apple.com/us/album/pri...
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woah