KRA 🏳️‍⚧️ - Stuck in Bed, Send Memes

I got a third of the way through, and it was enough of a downer that I put it down. I really should finish it, it was good, just heavy.

Every once in a while I see something artistic or athletic that makes me feel privileged to have merely witnessed it. This was one of them - she was having a blast and it was obvious that she loved what she was doing, and damn good at it.

The last time I had the privilege of voting for somebody who reflected my progressive politics back at me in a general election was, well, fucking never, and I refuse to just take whatever liberal who is more than happy to throw anybody under the bus the Grown Ups decide us trans people deserve.

Insofar as I am incapable of personally running for President of the United States of America, what, am I supposed to just accept whatever shitty candidate ahead of the primaries and pledge my vote to the second worst Dem you've ever heard of for the sake of solidarity?

Fair point... In that case, 5 minutes tops.

I guess it confuses me that people would rather pay $360 a year for the privilege of not paying $200 for FL once and you don't even get the pleasure of exciting your brain folds a couple hours a week. The extent of joy from a Suno gacha pull is like, 30 minutes tops if you're easily amused.

On top of that, no academic musician ever took a serious interest in whatever tinkering I was doing, despite many attempts over the years to show them. Best I ever got was "Cool I guess, but we don't really do that here." I did it largely because it just made me happy to make strange things.

I paid $0 for the first 6 years I used Reaper, after which I got sufficiently annoyed by the nag screens to pay (gasp) $60. I learned production software entirely as a hobby, completely separately from any other musical study I was doing and on top of part time and eventually full time work.

The temporary homestay I'm currently staying in has Harry Potter 4-7 on the cutesy show-bookshelf and I honestly feel icky that I hadn't even been able to consent to this before booking

*set to the Helleluja of Händel's Messiah*

> CIS 144
Ah great, there's that many of em?

I don't have a response to this because I'd be in over my head with the moral philosophy but one time I went to a concert where the guy who wrote one of the Haikyuu OPs sang very passionately about MLK Jr's dream for everyone including the Japanese and the cringe possessed my body like a damn wraith

One day, if the dreams of genAI founders come true, the very concept of applying yourself because it feels good to shape the world around you will be anachronistic. I really resent that, but I have no idea how to counter it.

The idea of doing things because they are meaningful or require acquired skill is actively hostile to a huge number of people who are like "I don't wanna", so things like Suno and ChatGPT are the answer to their prayers.

I feel generally cynical about all this, in that I believe a huge chunk of the population has really been yearning for a release from the need to have skills or do labor that involves judgement of any kind for a long time.

Personally, I find the general argument of "doing music is what makes music culturally valuable, not the end product" compelling, and the observation that the industry of AI music generation is attempting to kill that very thing is worth amplifying because of the far reaching social implications.

So he makes the easy argument on that level, and then makes arguments of seemingly equal weight in his much smaller domain of expertise.

There are of course many arguments that *could* be made in the domain of politics and culture, but he kind of just abdicates that because he is a mere musician and doesn't want flack for doing political and sociocultural commentary outside of his lane.

I'm about halfway through at this point, and I agree, a lot of what he's saying is kind of siloed. On the scale of "musicians doing music" I think making a point about musical inspiration is totally reasonable.

YouTube video by Moon Channel Why Do Lawyers Want to Abolish ICE?

There was a recent Moon Channel video that goes into just how weird and bad it is that ICE is even a thing, from a legal perspective. Knew most of the broad strokes but it's the details that really make the buildup to this remarkable youtu.be/zkgNnbTrsgw?...

Dude makes me sick, if there were some other charismatic politician who actually has a heartbeat and human skin who were advancing a properly progressive campaign, I'd be shouting their praises from the rooftops

*in a waiting room, just signed consent forms for bottom surgery*

"Alrighty then, let's actually read what I just agreed to. Can't be that bad, it's not like they're gonna sterilize me or someth- ............ oh no..."

I'm glad the staff have a sense of humor.

If they could frictionlessly mass-revoke the passports of anybody they don't like without restriction, they would.

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

I had a vision, is this anything

Straight women I will suffer your culture purely so I can catch a glance of even one music shitpost

I don't even care that it's a het romcom, if there's any chance of something like that happening again I have to be there

The J-pop oshi housemaid anime from this season literally pulled a Vitas "Seventh Element" reference and I'm losing my fucking mind over it, insane music pull

Kind of ironic to be using the AI-generated summary as a screenshot to explain this. As a matter of course, avoiding giving these services any traction and use whatsoever is both the most ethical thing to do and the best way to signal that they shouldn't be developed further.

The recent episode on the time one of the Beach Boys was almost in the most infamous American cult was fucking incredible, 12/10