This isn't hyperbole, by the way. I fully believe that untethered MAGA rule would bring back chattel slavery within a generation.
Ryan@aliveagain.bsky.social · 3h agoThat's step two: import foreign slaves
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Code monkey, parent, husband, and amateur musician. Politics are left of the average US Democrat. Midwesterner.
Ryan@aliveagain.bsky.social · 3h ago#MusicSky I don't listen to a lot of Christian music any more, but now and then I do go back to this banger from my youth. Dripping with the sounds of ~1990, it's every bit as good as anything Howard Jones or Richard Marx put out at around the same time. "Picture Perfect" by Michael W. Smith
Picture Perfect
YouTube video by Michael W. Smith - Topic
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Man goes to see the Cyclops. Says he's depressed. He wants to get back to his wife and home, but he keeps running into fatal predicaments along the way. Cyclops says, "Prognosis is simple. Nobody can help you." Man starts crying. Says, "But Cyclops, I *am* Nobody"
"Goonies... never... die..." Chunk gurgled as the last of him flowed down the drain.
trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry
"Israel, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, the US and more are merging into a mega-war run by robots. They used to call these World Wars. They used to call people on the phone. The most common call I get today is from someone named 'Scam Likely.'" sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand
Quicksand
Gen X was right after all.
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We're clear-eyed: Every tulip farmer and investor has massive incentive to hype the most glorious bulbs. So the fields might never live up to their promise. But this would require every Dutch tulip investor to be collectively delusional about where they're spending trillions in combined capital.
Father (to sad music): "I was working too hard; tired of missing out on my kids' lives. But I've finally found the right balance." Cuts to scenes of him wasting time on video games, ignoring children, wife screaming about unpaid mortgage. "WHY DID YOU QUIT YOUR JOB, WE'RE GOING TO LOSE THE HOUSE"
#MusicChallenge #SongBuilding Day 30 - Eastern "One Night in Bangkok" by Murray Head (apologies, as I'm probably not the only one who'll post this, but it's too good not to) youtu.be/rgc_LRjlbTU
Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok "From CHESS"
YouTube video by ChessVEVO
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Here’s Johnny 💙🇺🇸🐕🦺🎶🎸🇨🇦BLM🌈🇺🇦@heresjohnny.bsky.social · 7d ago#MusicChallenge #SongBuilding Day 30 - Eastern Led Zeppelin - “Kashmir” 🐪🏜️ One of rock’s greatest journeys. With its Eastern-inspired melody, hypnotic groove, and larger-than-life atmosphere, Kashmir transports you somewhere both real and imagined. youtu.be/PD-MdiUm1_Y?...
The most true thing I’ve learned about politics over the last decade is that people who revel in cruelty are untrustworthy allies of the left. If you follow someone who engages in and celebrates cruelty, even on social media, because you like their politics, they will betray you and those politics.
ellie lockhart (she/they)@eleanor.lockhart.contact · last wk.The reason you keep seeing your mutuals fighting over Will Stancil and it’s annoying you is that you’re trying to maintain contact with both the people who support public harassment and scapegoating and the people who can see that if they can do this to Will they can do this to any of us
Is hockey big in Australia? Seems like a sport that would fit right into the nation's ethos.
Do you think Douthat will attempt to do a curmudgeonly Andy Rooney-style kicker at the end of each program? If I were in the producer's shoes, this would seem the most natural use of his "talents." (without even the charm of Rooney, of course)
#MusicSky Post your own; use songs with radio play only! TURN IT UP: "No More Tears" by Ozzy Osbourne TURN THE STATION: "Baby Hold On to Me" by Eddie Money
I haven't had a Diet Mountain Dew in many years, but bought one by mistake tonight. Does anyone else notice an artificial "bacon-y" undertone, as compared to regular Dew? Like there's a single bacon bit soaking in the bottle? Am I losing my mind?
I hope he does run in 2028, and the backlash finishes off what's left of the GOP. It's just sad that Lindsey Graham won't be around to see his prediction come true.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains Villains by The Verve Pipe (1996) Straightforward pop-rock; catchy as hell. My favorite track is "Photograph," but the whole album is great.
𝕖𝕔𝕜𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕚𝕟@ecksteinish.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Ok, that ad where a whistling, Trump-haired smiley face marks UP the prices at Walmart got a genuine laugh out of me
Attn, classic rock stations: Phil Collins's "In the Air Tonight" is maybe his 20th best song. He has others.
Found a combination Mexican restaurant and Pancake House. I have applied to lease the upstairs apartment, sight unseen.
I just keep forgetting about it 🤷
space ghost@luxenoir.blacksky.app · 2w agoPost a meme you have NEVER gotten to use
Attn, classic rock stations: Phil Collins's "In the Air Tonight" is maybe his 20th best song. He has others.
Their inability to even decisively lose in Iran, the bottom falling out of the AI boom, they are turning all their attention to repression, red scare, economic punishment (Canada tarrifs) and now medicaid attacks. They are cornered, terrified and flailing. Extremely dangerous, extremely weak
#MusicSky When I say that Tom Petty's music is like therapy to me, tracks like this really embody what I mean "Wake Up Time" from Wildflowers, one of my favorite albums ever youtu.be/nS2C8BmHP-c
Tom Petty - Wake Up Time (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
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The future of the US is something close to binary, in my view. Either we rip out MAGA by the roots & get the biggest spurt of innovation & reform in our history since FDR, or we collapse into a prolonged internal conflict. The good news is MAGA is committing suicide & we just need to seal the deal.