Todd in the Shadows

I find it loathsome because both the misreading of the Charli XCX song and the attempted mean-girl diss (I guess you're like totally in love with me) makes Taylor Swift look like a terrible person. It's humiliating because her disses are incompetently written. Thank you

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!

Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png

he has my vote immediately

Oh and "Actually Romantic" but I'd rather not have the noble stop-on-the-word-stop sullied by a song that loathsome and humiliating

Tom Petty: Running Down a Dream

it's an awkward way of saying, "Which jail were you in," implying that I must have been somewhere isolated from society to have missed the news

I of course did not miss the news, I was joking

*face in hands* Yes, I'm aware that this was in fact reported before the election. That's the joke. That's the fucking joke.

Oh man, I sure wish Trump's extensive connections to Jeffrey Epstein had been known before the election

YouTube video by Maven of the Eventide Santo vs Dracula: Wrestling with masculinity Luchador style

My dear friend @elisahansen.bsky.social (and resident vampire expert) has a new video about Mexican wrestler movies. With vampires, and I owe her for using her vampire expertise in a vide once, so check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHJ3...

a few months afterward the dude responded to the callouts by pretending to commit suicide

i mean, it was mostly trying to frame Hbomb, not me, but I did catch some of it

Sometimes I sit back and think, "Man............ a guy tried to frame me for murder last year"

This is an incredibly fucking stupid thing to say

There are going to be A LOT of misleading, vaguely-worded headlines — particularly from non-music publications — in the near future trying to drum up hysteria about the AI Music Takeover. Please try to not take them at their word. We're still a long way off from this actually being a thing.

So many don't know that said digital sales song charts are routinely mocked within the music industry as being easy as hell to rig by labels / companies, who buy up the song all at once (often in bulk) to get to that #1...

If only for an hour or two. It's not about the sales, it's the headline.

By botting up the sales and generating headlines, apparently

I don't know if they're bots but they're almost certainly not fans. No one's buying it to listen to it, I feel confident of that

So for everyone flipping out like this is the end of the world: That's what AI people want you to think. No one actually likes or wants this, or at least there's no evidence of it yet. Please stop making this a big deal

The No. 1 Country Song in America is AI-Generated

I've been seeing this headline floating around. To be clear:

1) This is "No. 1" on a miniscule chart, The "Country Digital Song Sales" chart, as in people actually paying money to download country songs which is a tiny amount of people

2) The actual consumers are almost certainly fake

It takes forever!!! The bosses don't react! You're sitting there shooting for ten minutes waiting for a phase change!

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As someone who loves the game, my biggest frustration is the visceral sense that shooting the bosses does nothing

Consider me subscribed (I was already a subscriber)

Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."

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The American Eagle thing spread on Twitter. So many things people claim are bad about Bluesky are actually things that are bad about Twitter

yeah, like i said, abbott doesn't do mean jokes. still, the joke is that jacob is kind of lame.