We were in the studio making Shake the Sheets the day Reagan died, and friends, we danced and danced and danced. (And ordered in from Pepe Giallo, and ate a ton of pasta.)
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We were in the studio making Shake the Sheets the day Reagan died, and friends, we danced and danced and danced. (And ordered in from Pepe Giallo, and ate a ton of pasta.)
Seattle! Iāll be up on Friday
TWENTY YEARS AGO I posted about how easy it is to get around any sort of flag-burning law/amendment/executive order/whatever, and here we are today, having it have some relevance. Also our current president is a feculent spoon. whatever.scalzi.com/2005/06/23/c...
Few Clothes Molly checking in
Back in 2016 we did the first volume bomb block party and this was about the extent of the prep we did. Now weāre a legal non profit with staff and itās been an insane journey
"I HAVE HAD IT WITH THESE MOTHERFUCKING STRANGERS ON THIS MOTHERFUCKING TRAIN"
Thanks to the @portlandmercury.com for the coverage; itās always appreciated
Radio interview jason Rocksmore and I did with @stapled-spine-zine.bsky.social on @xrayfm.bsky.social
Yeah itās cute but when I do it, the neighbors call the cops
Volume Bomb Block Party 8 (points of chaos) shirts! Iāll be slinging these Saturday out in front of the Spaceroom. #portland #punk #hardcore
Before and after listening to the volume bomb 8 comp in the studio with @stapled-spine-zine.bsky.social on @xrayfm.bsky.social
I wish all transphobes, including JKR, a very fix your hearts or die. Reinstate Jessie Gender, @bsky.app.
Comp is live! 30 tracks of our favorite artists and a great way to preview the show on the 23rd
This tracks with some of my travels recently through MAGA country cause most of our social interactions are in bars and the lack of assholes there has been surprising compared to years past
New flash sheet inspired by Shadowdark! Designs are available to be tattooed so get at me! ā ļø
Coming up on my favorite day of the year: 50 bands, 5 venues, $20. #portland #punk #volumebomb
"However disillusioned I might be with hope, I'm even more disillusioned with despair. I know that despair has nothing to offer me." From @kimkelly.bsky.social's interview with Catharsis. salvo.ghost.io/catharsis-re...
Throwing a 15th birthday for my weirdest friend and, surprisingly, not the laziest roommate
Weāre thrilled to be featuring a curated shelf by erotica, horror, and tingler(!!!) author Chuck Tingle! Chuck has picked a great list of āLas Vegas favoritesā in honor of his new novel, LUCKY DAY, available 08/12: us.macmillan.com/books/9781250398659/luckyday
Catharsis, hands down my favorite hardcore band of all time, just dropped a new record, and my day just got a lot more yell-y
Sneak peak at the pasties I just ordered for the Volume Bomb Block Party merch booth. If these sell as fast as the butt plugs we did 2 years ago you need to show up early to snag a pair
Coming up on year 8 (points of chaos) of the volume block party! Whipped this design for this years shirt. August 23rd 49th and SE Hawthorne, 50 bands 5 venues, $20
Thereās a sizable chunk of people in the US who generally support lefty positions but donāt want to be associated with them because democrats have a well deserved reputation for being spineless
My humble recommendation, cause comps rule and weāve got a lot
despite everything, i still believe in the potential of humankind to create utopia. but it will require hard work, courage, and above all else extremely deep v-necks that go almost down to the dick
This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace. It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate. They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.
No good? We had a streak of great horror but I knew it couldnāt last
Best movie ever
Can across this while putting fliers up and almost dropped my staple gun
No. Thereās a word for conservative punks and that word is posers
All the devils in Hell get to run wild on Hulk Hogan now
I would once again like to apologise for my ancestors sending the puritans to America rather than just digging a real deep hole and burying them all in there to be the mole people's problem.
I respect āWar Pigsā for its moral simplicity. Listen to that on 10 and then read one of those 1,000-word op-eds that amounts to āthe reasons for state violence are complicated.ā Which do you find more convincing?
My public high school basically had this program: we were required to volunteer or intern as a class. I volunteered at an anarchist book store and interned at a guitar shop and that was my first retail experience
Weāre just banging a song out for this years block party comp. New record will probably be out late this year/early next
In the studio with one drink and other lies today
Just had our book club meeting and we all admitted weād absolutely climb a random staircase in the woods
If JD Vance were a true Catholic instead of defending Trump he would simply assign him to be President of another country
That boom you heard a little while ago was every leftist screaming āwe fucking told youā
Just watched the season finale of Murderbot. Im not crying I just need to check the perimeter @marthawells.com
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
I have established diplomatic relations with Canada (a guy I met at a motorcycle shop): theyāre down to trade Alberta for Washington and Oregon
we all know this classic way maybe even third or fourth snooze. pleas enjoy new tingler BISEXUALLY POUNDED BY THE PHYSICAL MANIFESTATION OF THE FIRST AND SECOND TIME I HIT MY SNOOZE BUTTON out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0FHHSHSLC or on true buckaroo patreon tier www.patreon.com/posts/bisexu...
In my happy place riding 377 miles, on top of anarchist mountain, and on the way to a punk rock pinball bar in Bellingham
Happy birthday to Lyudmila Pavlichenko (born July 12, 1916), Soviet sniper in World War II, with 309 confirmed kills. A true role model for today.
Over the last couple days Iāve ridden through 900 miles of deep MAGA areas in the PNW and only seen 3 trump signs. The shift is utterly remarkable compared to the last 9 years. Hell, I met a 1%er in Idaho who was talking about how he loved Obamacare. Anecdotal for sure, but the vibe is different
Iām in a motel-bar! Iām in a mermaid show! Iām in a combination motel-bar/mermaid show!
Day 1 of a 2500 mile trip riding to a mermaid bar in Montana
New shirt from my favorite screen printer in PDX: Inknife
My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdaniās dad (same like āmy stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmatesā) and apparently the New York Times doesnāt understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my momās people!
Was just reminded that an image I whipped up for a 5e game went viral a few years ago, and it seems today is a good day to share the original and the cropped one that comes across my feed every once in a while
i will vote for whichever politician demands access to the list of people who bought alligator alcatraz merch
Silver lining: Jimmy Swaggart woke up next to Pat Robertson in Hell today.
Thatās actually really motivational
Iāve read it twice for bookclubs. I totally get why people love that one but it was kinda the book that made me think I preferred horror on the screen rather than on the page. The streak Iām on right now disabused me of that notion though
That was a hell of a book and Iām going to be thinking about it for a while
10/10 no notes. I think 2025 is the year i finally get horror as a genre. With Black Hunger by Nicholas Pullen and Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling Iāve reading banger after banger and stoked to get out of my usual genres @chuckwendig.bsky.social
To quote the band Earth āthe bees will make honey in the skull of the lionā
Tonight I get to play a wedding out in the woods where the bride and groom are members of a scooter club and a motorcycle club respectively. The party involves mud wrestling and my band screaming about how much we hate cops. Iāve never felt more in my element
PORTLAND BUCKAROOS i will be trotting to @powells.bsky.social cedar hills crossing location for LUCKY DAY BOOK TOUR on AUGUST 19TH. unlike other shows on tour there is no ticket required however id recommend arriving early for a seat. LETS TROT. MARK THOSE CALENDARS www.powells.com/events/chuck...
Happy birthday, Emma Goldman! On this day in 1869, the Lithuanian Jewish anarchist-feminist writer, philosopher and agitator was born. š“
Hands down the silliest motorbike tattoo I have: lost kewpie hobbit reading a map cause apparently I plan every route. Thanks @the-infamous-eel.bsky.social
Boom! Full line up just announced #portland #punk
at least toby keith is dead this time
"Be Gay, Do Crimes" Poster spotted in Newtown, Sydney
Did a limited run of these to help fund volume bomb events this year: Iāll have them at our upcoming shows until theyāre gone
No kings
Iāve collaborated on a bunch of benefits with this guy over the years but this might be my favorite shirt heās whipped up yet
Empire always comes home. All the sins we have committed abroad were always destined to find us in our homes, on our streets. We're being haunted by the violence we allowed to thrive.
Hating the tyrant is instinctive, but my most visceral hatred is for the centrists who ought to know better. Like, we know Miller, Noem, and DJT are irredeemably evil but journalists sane washing them feels like a betrayal
Last Portland show till August
Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Putting up a fierce fight at the opening of the poem is the way to stop the rest of the poem from coming true. The fight for migrants and to stop ICE is the same fight as the fight to protect LGBT people (citizens or not), reproductive autonomy, and everyone else the fascists want to fuck with.
ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people
Like seriously. I know to a lot of people it sounded like a far-left rallying cry before, but if we get through this, we need to Abolish ICE much like a democratizing Germany got rid of the Gestapo or the collapsing USSR got rid of the KGB
Elon Musk is not bad because he threw in his lot with Donald Trump. Elon Musk threw in his lot with Donald Trump because he is bad.
Full lineup for Olympia tomorrow
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
Anyway
@caitlinstarling.com bringing us the finest in sword lesbians and occult cannibalism: 10/10 no notes
Womp womp
Beat sales person ever at a drum shop, though Iām pretty they just wanted me to throw a drumstick
Stumblebum aggressively serenading Olympia last night
Now Playing: "Spelbound" by Siouxsie & The Banshees HAPPY WORLD GOTH DAY 2025! Top Comment: "Running through the woods aimlessly is the most gothic 80s thing you can do." #WorldGothDay #Siouxsie #Goth #NowPlaying
The exact opposite, as in to hell with the concept of poverty
Got to see Gang Of 4 last night night with @tedleo.bsky.social on guitar and they absolutely killed it
Ngl, I want a copy of this version and then itās drinking game time
Just wanted to share the best birthday cake ever: hot mess Barbie
Campaign I run is not balanced in the slightest, so I really try and be explicit about how terrifying a monster is. If the players donāt catch it, I remind them that we talked about how a glorious PC death can immortalize them in song and tales
Counterpoint: it should be a gender neutral bathroom
Finally got see my drummer @jessicadejesus.bsky.social playing bass in her new band Jet Hag and they absolutely rip
The biggest, dumbest, and most rewarding thing we do every year: 50 bands, 5 venues, 1 block. Save the date #volumebomb #portland #punk
So stoked to read this one next
My TTRPG group is about to learn how quickly I can railroad them through a dungeon so I can watch this after #murderbot
We need more dead kennedies