america is a nice country ...for me to poop on

Everybody shut up and listen to this. It's very very good!

The Sleep-ins@sleep-ins.one28.us · 2y ago

This is from the before time youtu.be/sHvtEbs4GdY?...

musicians have to quit spotify we can't appear to even tacitly support this slop

The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d ago

“The product would allow paying subscribers to use AI to create their own versions of popular songs, such as transforming a folk song into a dance track or making one artist appear to cover another’s music.”

do you record, mix, and master your own recordings? iow, do you like to have control of the process end-to-end or do you let someone else take on one or more of those duties bc you value their input/expertise/creativity?

this reminds me, my new band dildo hoarder are playing at the civic center tonight

🍁Imani Gandied Yams 🍠@angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 4w ago

Anthony Comstock: Morality crusader. Professional hater. Dildo hoarder. He collected porn, sex toys, and books. And he showed them to Congress to sell lawmakers on the Comstock Act, an 1873 law which conservatives could use to ban abortion nationwide. New Baby Boom! Lawyered Out now.

that reminds me, my new band beef gamble are playing tomorrow night

Politico@politico.com · 4w ago

Trump’s beef gamble isn’t paying off politi.co/4dwJIKG

I don't think that America is good anymore sorry

The Press@thepress.co.nz · 4mo ago

The Government has agreed that flights from the US to NZ can carry undercover American air marshals, likely from the end of August.

omg a taco w lil jalapeno booties

Punished Cat Guy (aka Johnny Cashew)@majima.space · 6mo ago

I went to St Mary’s and they’d have him come to big Lady Rattlers basketball games (we didn’t have nor did we want a football team bc our basketball girlies were the SHIT) and he’d bring the other horrifying San Antonio mascot…HENRY THE PUFFY TACO.

Mayor Mamdani restores library funding after public outcry gothamist.com/news/mayor-m...

Mayor Mamdani restores library funding after public outcry

Mamdani, who praised the importance of libraries, faced criticism for slashing library funding earlier this year.

gothamist.com

What do I mean when I say @bookhive.buzz runs on AT Proto? You can use your existing Bluesky account to log into it (no need to create another account), and then you can access a Good Reads-like social platform where you can easily find your existing Bluesky mutuals.

“Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered,” he added. “It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds

Louisiana’s cultural hotspot could be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century, authors say

theguardian.com

who else is in a weird place

our website is down, I'll get to it eventually

I'm going what might be the unpopular opinion route here to say that electric feel would be the superior song were it not for the use of "baby girl" in the lyrics, which will always and forever be cringe

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 6mo ago

blocking resistance accounts that post slop or any resistance child romper room rah rah bullshit goes without saying no alt text for these children learn to hate the man like an adult, you look like ridiculous little kids you resistance clowns

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Western Kentucky Botanical Garden is nice

Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax

Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax

Money is another reason to leave Substack.

buff.ly

yeah well once yer llm outs itself as mechahitler that puts a pretty strong stamp on the brand

Quantian@quantian.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Wow. XAI selling their compute to Anthropic because they can’t use it all on account of Grok having 0 organic demand

Tube Amps for Justice account is suspended because the mods on this site are stupid assfaces

I don't want to be disingenuous here, I also smoke weed on other days

don't be jealous, but I go to the moon every day without a spaceship

in the old days we had a couple of words for the kind of people who are using AI to do their work for them now lazy losers

I have an idea for a TV show called Golden Gilmore Girls and you can't deny that we need it

Our first album Songs About Girls & Outer Space was released fifteen years ago today. We were on the way to play a show in Raleigh NC. The album charted on what was then the CMJ 200 and the song 'Silver State' got a film placement. The band made enough money to each buy their own small microwave.

#ProofOfRock the Sleep-ins Cat & Fiddle Balmain NSW 11 may 2005

one thing I did almost completely throughout my career as a band-former is not hesitate to get some kind of gig booked as soon as there were three or more people in the same room making something that sounded like music play as many gigs as you can because that's how you get better at playing gigs

I don't know who needs to hear this but you're allowed to be a fan of your own work

I did some real Stalin shit on this photo taken after @sleep-ins.one28.us first gig to make a flyer for an acoustic gig we did later on