Paul Starr
@pa.ulst.ar
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No kings! In 2021 (pandemic) I recorded a talk about pre-modern democracy movements (republics, anarchists) because I was tired of Game of Thrones fans telling me anti-authoritarianism was ahistorical. For America 250, I've tidied it up and added graphics. youtu.be/QWDB8cIlshU?...
Hidden Pasts: Old Democracies and the Cycle of Forgetting
YouTube video by Romie Says
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The Dismal Science, the Bitter Lesson, the Repugnant Conclusion…lighten up people!!!!!
WRETCHED PAUL: My perrier is too warm. You awful shit. I ask for caviar and I get roe paste from Ikea? I've been shanghaied onto barges fed me better than this rubbish. I'm going to shit on a baby POLITE, HELPFUL RINGO: No complaints about me feed. Oats is better dry I always say
lottie "The Adversary" lovely ⚧️🏴☠️@vaporlight.bsky.social · 4d agomy job? Zookeeper for the remaining Beatles. Sounds great, right, but I'm on Paul and he's just the worst. The man simply needs too many pictures of range rovers to stop throwing his feces at guests. Meanwhile those smug bastards in the Ringo team keep bragging about how docile and cooperative he is
let's take a moment also to celebrate the first absolute meatball down the middle getting fucking crushed. the first woman in pro baseball league history to get her shit rocked
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 4d agoand Denae Benites hits the first home run in Women's Pro Baseball League history!
@socialistboat.dad informing my friend socialist boat dad about the ship with red sails  bsky.app/profile/albe...
Albert Dros@albertdros.bsky.social · 5d agoEarlier this month I had the opportunity to work with Elsi, this beautiful red-sailed ship. It looked so tiny in between the massive icebergs of Greenland.
what happened to the SDF-2 Megaroad
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 6d agoWhat's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story
🚨 RENOVATIONS COMPLETE! 🚨 After 34 months, today I unveil the final form of the single largest creative project of my life. THE NAMCO MUSEUM MUSEUM: EVERY GAME, EVERY COLLECTION, EVERY PORT! I've meticulously studied & presented EVERY single instance of Namco's historic game collections, for you!
The Namco Museum Museum | Every Game, Every Collection, Every Port! [REVISED & EXPANDED!]
YouTube video by Mythic Resonance
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anyway I just found out about this guy. so far I love him and also he sounds like the most annoying person in the universe
Paul Starr@pa.ulst.ar · 6d agodid Wendell Berry ever end up buying a computer or what
My secret, Cap, is that I'm *always* angry about old books. For instance, here's a tiny slice of the millions of books 1931-1986 that have no commercial value, that are digitized, but that we're unable to use in large-scale research because they are illegal to share or display.
Standing up on an airplane and giving everyone a brief rundown of how I have the MIDI triggering set up on my synths and drum machine
One of my favourite cute mistranslations in the 16-bit era. Sarah says 水臭い, which literally means "(you / it / etc...) stink of water", but is a Japanese phrase you'd usually use when someone close to you is treating you like a stranger and not leaning on you / opening up to you when they need help.
“Ringo Sheena recorded Shōso Strip when she was 20” is the new “Hiroyuki Yamaga wrote and directed Wings of Honneamise when he was 24”
A solar eclipse. On Saturn. By Titan. Photographed from Earth. 📷: AJ Smadi (StardustAstro/Correct_Presence_936)
Extremely important for all of us who want to live lives of substance in the all-encompassing vacuousness of our age to actively safeguard our souls, our intellect, our depth... because everything around us is trying to destroy them.
I translated some excerpts from a lengthy, technical interview feature with Sheena Ringo in Sound & Recording magazine. This kind of material doesn’t make it into English very often, and I wanted to remedy that a little. (Also, god, she’s such a fucking genius) disk.horse/sheena-ringo...
Sheena Ringo in Sound & Recording
The cover story for the September 2024 issue of Sound & Recording magazine was Sheena Ringo's latest studio album, Hōjōya (Carnival). The issue has been on my desk for two years, waiting for me to tak...
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We were talking about what if The Talented Mr. Ripley was Jason Bourne and I uh
I was really cooking with this one.
Paul Starr@pa.ulst.ar · 3y agoThe "wedding ring" design carefully balanced volume with surface area to maximize the destructive potential of its main gun, the muon lance—and like all vessels in the Diffuse Human Collective's fleet, the DHCV 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘑𝘦𝘴𝘵 was a union shop.
Now—Lt. Stonecipher? Get us the 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭 out of here.
Paul Starr@pa.ulst.ar · 3y agoI hate to risk my ship and my crew in such a dangerous gambit this close to the galactic core and its violent gravitic clutches, but when our vile alien adversaries mistake my feint for a tactical blunder and find themselves ensnared in those same vast and terrible tides—I absolutely love that.
hey weren’t we supposed to have nerve-stapling by now. Where can a fella get nerve-stapled
The more you explore the history of anime, manga, Japanese games history, the more you are confronted with the fact that MANY of the forms’ most potent innovations sprang out of and could not have existed without pornography. It’s integral to and inextricable from these histories
Kotaku@kotaku.com · 2w agoGhost In The Shell Fans Who Never Read The Manga Are Very Confused By The New Hornier Adaptation:
