Ryan Flint

Been intermittently using this little sketch book for decades.
This one made me laugh

It was so strange to hear Marcy Playground still makes music.

It felt like news from an alternate reality to hear that A-Ha is still making gold records.

I feel like I'll be hearing Jellyroll is a reincarnation of Jelly Roll Morton in a couple of years.
(But it will be barely noticed in dystopia)

Pretty sure Steven Seagal is a fantasy Donald Trump had about himself until it became a tulpa and inflicted itself upon entertainment and martial arts for a few decades

Owning a thrift store is interesting, because you have so much unique stuff, you rearrange to make sure everything gets attention.

As opposed to sleek modernist boutiques where it's like 5 items, multiple sizes, muted colors, with the store logo on them.
One glance covers it and it's overpriced.

“If Motörhead moved in next door to you, your lawn would die” -Lemmy Kilmister

Truly, no more noble goal has been stated for rock'n'roll

It's morbidly funny how conservative policy has brought a near negative birth rate while they deport anyone they can get their hands on.
These fucks want America to go back to the prosperous times of a 90% tax rate, heavy union organizing, and baby boom without any of the things that made it happen

I live in a conservative city, and really need to get some stickers of this...

I noticed my Chinese friends did a lot of voice messages, because it was easier than stringing together characters or interpolation into the Latin alphabet.
I do kind of wonder if that's as common in a place where people would understand what they're saying.

I only get them when they're 1min +

It's so strange to hear how most people don't really enjoy music beyond the releases of their teen years, or at least an imitation of that sound.

I absolutely hated the popular music of my formative years and what I did like at that age, hasn't really held up unless it was already an old classic.

Amazing what hollow, pathetic people American oligarchs with more money than God are.
They inflict their insecurities on the world from a bubble of ignorance that gives them the impression they're not lucky.
They could anonymously have any experience in the world (except being whole and likeable.)

Solid gold everything is exactly why I find Trump so gouache and pathetic.
It's an idiot's idea of displaying wealth and power.
What's worse are the people that fall for it.

I find cosmic horror relatable. It's always people going insane from realizing the scale and hostile indifference of the universe, utter inability to do a thing about it, or live life normally after that.

It's the same as the paralysis of worrying about every day ahead and all of your problems...

Cemetery Sex, by Cemetery Sex 11 track album

Cemetery Sex finally dropped their album.
It fucks.

@anastasiaofthedark.bsky.social is a fantastic vocalist. Band is a throwback and a breath of fresh air.
Can't wait to share the stage one day.

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Ignorance breeds fear.
Fear breeds conservatives.

I'm truly disturbed by how much of the conservatism, bigotry, sexism, and other cultural bullshit seeped into my brain as a kid in the 90s.
I wasn't even raised that way, it was just in the air.
To hell with it

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Oh, they do.
Find yourself an "adult arcade"
A lot of them claim to be interested in women, but their actions say that they're at least flexible on that point.

If you want a more direct comparison, Louis Armstrong did both "Dream a Little Dream of Me" and "La Vie en Rose"

(You can feel the warmth of his soul.)

youtu.be/wLoGMwpC54o?...

youtu.be/9n-hyA2-FDg?...

YouTube video by Edith Piaf Edith Piaf - La vie en rose (Officiel) [Live Version]

Best known version written in about 1945
youtu.be/rzeLynj1GYM?...

YouTube video by The Mamas & the Papas - Topic Dream A Little Dream Of Me

Best known version, but the song is from about 1930
youtu.be/v8I5vDewcZo?...

I cannot be the only person in almost a century to notice that "La Vie en Rose" is essentially "Dream a Little Dream of Me" with the serial numbers scraped off.
It's been obsessing me for days and business school graduates have turned search engines into an artificial rumor mill.

Really though.

Aliens:
'You call your planet "dirt?"
No, that's stupid.
We're gonna call your planet "Humania."'

The trick would be getting over the dysfunction to enact the solution

I love how every human culture's mythology seems to stumble onto the tropes of:
"What if humans, BUT BIGGER? (And not around much these days)"
And also
"What if humans, but smaller? (And hard to see)

And also, often Dragons, Bigfeet, and a sky daddy.

Nothing new under the sun.

Just try not to fall under the delusion that children acting like children means there's no future.
That's been happening as long as we have written records.

I know there is real athleticism and injury with American wrestling. It's entertainment, foremost, though.
So it's weird that anyone would be defending Hulk Hogan as a great wrestler when all his wins were scripted.
To say nothing of him being a racist, union busting, MAGA piece of shit.
Grow up.

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America:
Poorhouse for a colonial kingdom.
Overthrown for rich, genocidal enslavers.
Invented racism to divide us.
Forgave the ones that killed for slavery.
Recruited German fascists into intel, national policy affairs, and sciences.

It's baked in to the USA.
We've been worse and we can be better.

I think reality TV is as much a social blight as AI.
It caught on during a writer's strike and it's just more of the money trying to cut out the labor with vapid bullshit that the producers themselves wouldn't watch.
They're both advocating a lack of empathy to the point of fascism.

I used to think vampires cringing, hissing, and backing away from crosses was silly.
But now I've lived in a country of theofascist Christians long enough that I get the impulse.