Trombyl Bombadill

@davidstillberg.bsky.social

Nördigare än dig. Har ett barn och är trött. Förvandlar döda träd till information. Hälsing i Stockholmsexil.

I mean, adjusted for inflation a plane ticket from New York to London in 1980 would cost about $4,500 dollars today. It's not that air travel has got worse. It's democratised. If you pay the 'old' price in modern money you basically get the same, if not better, experience than you did then.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 23h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

dorian

@doriantaylor.com

air travel is one of those experiences that has gotten monotonically worse over my entire lifetime

question though: has *anything* in the last 40+ years genuinely gotten *better*?

like, there's *more* stuff, sure, but is any of it *better*?

2:58 PM Aug 4, 2026

Music videos with diegetic sound effects or dialogue that aren't in the song are ridiculous egotism from a director who hates the job they're doing, has reduced the standing of music in culture and mostly suck.

Al Ewing Writes Comics@al-ewing.bsky.social · 5d ago

Almighty-type “add a litre of drum machine” covers 1000% beat indie-ass “slow down a banger, make it sad” covers. See the ur-examples, PSB Always On My Mind and Gary Jules Mad World