maybe *don't* assault your private chef
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music prof, percussionist, audio engineer, music technologist, vcv addict, coffee dork, scotchologist, liverpool fc, generally has good ideas, sometimes not
a loss is a loss because you lost a narrow win is a loss because you didn't win big a big win is a loss because the general is the real test winning the general is a loss because now you have to deliver delivering is a loss because your promo photos have green bananas in them gtfoh
Politico@politico.com · 11h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
The way the history of pop was warped by boomer criticism/historiography into a hard dividing line between a supposed glop past and Elvis-and-everything-after with a rock focus was a massive reductive mistake that is still playing out.
lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
Implicit or explicit, coded or plain, in desire or in actualization, the primary subject matter of rock and pop music is and has always has been sex, and you can either have a problem with all of it or have no problem with any of it.
lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
Pulp is one of the three best British bands ever.
lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
"but everyone i know uses it" hey, it's not my problem that everyone you know is a lazy, soulless chud
Niko Stratis@nikostratis.com · last wk.I loathe the take of “well every writer is using AI and afraid to say it”. Like, that’s only true if your sample group is tech reporters and various hacks. Writers that don’t give a shit about writing, they just know they need a newsletter to make money, use AI. That’s a big fucking difference
You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS
there are many, many funny responses to this going around, but in all seriousness, Jordan Peele's "The Hollow Men" would absolutely bang
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Or for all my contemporary-classical-music-nerd friends: it’s like Reich getting the Pulitzer but for Double Sextet.
Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · last wk.Making Stafford a 99 in 2026 is the football equivalent of the Academy finally giving Scorsese an Oscar but it's for The Departed
I'll never get over how the best line in all of noir – "I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon" – doesn't come from Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, but Calvin and Hobbes
All of you filthy animals know that you want it to be Sam Elliott as The Stranger.
Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w agoYou suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?
Katz didn't know it was actually Leonard Washington at the World Series of Dice saying "you want this bankroll, you're gonna have to shoot me," then getting shot
Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 2w agoI'm never going to forget Morris Katz responding to a credible misconduct allegation against Platner with "If you come at the king you best not miss"
Meta are sending Fucko the Knife Robot to stab you in the knee. To disable go to Accounts> Settings> Robots> Knife Robots> Fucko> Opt Out
[wandering past my containerized hot pepper plants, spontaneously, a la sir mix-a-lot] my habañeros won't grow none unless they get full sun
i think it would be pretty cool and fun to experience life as the type of writer who is default assumed to know what she's talking about when covering one of her areas of expertise. so i guess a man. the type of writer who is a man
Much to my surprise and relief, this new album of calm, spacious electroacoustic duets pairing Nils Petter Molvær with the likes of John Paul Jones, Imogen Heap, Alva Noto, and Anja Lechner put me exactly where I badly needed to be this morning.
Be Quiet, by Nils Petter Molvær
9 track album
nilspettermolvaer.bandcamp.com
more stu holden opportunities: after france go up 2-0, "you can see France is just cruising here, in total control, they're all like, "don't think, don't worry, everything's just fine"
maybe *don't* assault your private chef@billsallak.bsky.social · 4w agomakes me wish he said after Mbappe's goal "look at the topspin he gets on that ball; he can make it move in mysterious ways"
makes me wish he said after Mbappe's goal "look at the topspin he gets on that ball; he can make it move in mysterious ways"
a/k/a Craig Esherick's Mustache@cesmustache.bsky.social · 4w agowas at least his second bsky.app/profile/john...
*meredith brooks voice* im a mitch im mcconnell i help trump comma donald ive a turtle for a head im probably really dead
we've reached the point in the script where Romero gets himself a red card for something impulsive and stupid
[puts hand to earpiece] wait, i believe we have another contender...
maybe *don't* assault your private chef@billsallak.bsky.social · 4w agobest counter of the tournament; nothing even in the same category
that romero challenge on salah should be yellow: two legs, way late, etc.
a big part of belgium being a much better team is knowing how to channel their adrenaline productively. both teams had extra energy going in, for all the reasons we're painfully familiar with, but it psyched us out while fueling the belgians.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4w agoquick question: what's goin on in this match
i don't want infinite music. i want finite music. i want a collection i can comprehend and fall in love with. i want a range of choices, not every record every recorded. i get serious choice paralysis. just let me curate my own collection. i hate the future.
