Their EP is on spotify, and it SLAPS SO HARD.

Really, really, great. I can't wait to see how they develop over time, and who they inspire.

Oh hey, this is the movie that they think killed Tarkovsky, right? Well, the shooting location that possibly led to his cancer anyway.

madness knows no borders and never has.

Yeah ... I wouldn't bet on it considering how many people are seeing long-term effects from COVID-19. We're going to see more strokes, for sure.

My boss at the time was also really keyed in, so it was something that we were all talking about at work, being like "man, idunno wtf is gonna happen."

Maybe I was just more tapped in, or maybe it's just because I've played the original Pandemic game a few too many times, but sometime after things started to go south in Italy I knew that shit was bad and the world was going to change.

This is such a shit take, to be honest.

Bad poetry that resonates with people isn't bad poetry, it's just poetry. So you don't like it - neither do I. It's still poetry. Don't be butthurt that the brown woman who learned how to market herself because society doesn't just do it for her like to does white men has succeeded in finding a broad audience - learn to market yourself as more than a misanthrope, Sizemore.

Ugh.

It's 60% because chords make more sense to me like this - they're built more like classical harmony is - 20% because the low end helps me sing in more comfortable keys, 10% because it's weird and I like weird, and 10% because 4 fingers 4 strings just makes sense to me.

It's a 30" scale length bass, and I'm using a combination of Baritone guitar strings and fender Bass VI strings.

I'll try to post a clip or something today. In the meantime, I also have an acoustic guitar tuned like a cello (CGda), and I have recorded it - link to the tune here

I think she'd love it too!

Bass playing it going well, I have a while at the beginning of the ol' Backstreet Boys Reunion Tour we've been living through where I could barely play at all, but I feel like some of my music is coming back - the songwriting too.

I'm also using a short scale bass guitar tuned to Bb-F-c-g (a whole step below a cello) as a sort of guitar-ish accompanying instrument for myself. I figure, four fingers, four strings = less complicated heh.

oh yeah, for sure. Yeah, sorry, I realized after I posted my comment it might come off as shade in your direction, but I didn't mean it that way.

I would describe Yoko Ono as ... an experience. lol.

Well, for one thing, this is the actual original:

So that helps the context quite a bit, probably.

I'm sorry but if it wasn't already obvious the man had lost it, this would be the moment.

I'm this lady, but for Rush Limbaugh instead of Margaret Thatcher.

But it also raises major questions about how much power payment processors hold. It's always unpopular speech that is targeted first.

This is what I'm concerned about. PornHub rightly deserves to burn.

I fully concur that Pornhub (and its ilk) deserves to burn. It's a shitty company with shitty ethics.

My primary point in posting this is that you couldn't get them to move until the credit card companies did something about it. That should be, of course, unsurprising, if perhaps something that has continually surprised everyone as it's occurred over the past century that is 2020. See also - sports teams with racist logos not doing a damn thing until their sponsors threatened to pull funding.

my other reason to post this is that I do have a concern that social conservatives have used this strategy before, and will again, with success. Yes, PornHub deserves to burn, but it only existed in a form as shitty as it was because of all the restrictions we impose on sex workers of all kinds. We make them deal with shitty companies if they want to make a living, and we do it over and over again. Filing taxes as a sex worker sounds like a fucking nightmare.

Imagine, however, if we just like ... decriminalized it and put in health and safety regulations like any other job?

We'd have way fewer companies that are able to host child pornography because they're supported in the main by people who just want to get off. If you set the industry up like any other, it makes it much more difficult to traffic people, to film sell and distribute child pornography, to abuse actors, to engage in non-consensual acts.

But social conservatives aren't actually interested in those things. They just want to control people. Just like they're also not actually interested in the aborted fetuses of women, they just want to control the women. Same shit, different pile.

And that's why this shit worries me.

Absolutely. I definitely have content I source from OnlyFans or Patreon because they are people I actively want to support - Ethical porn consumption is something I think about quite a bit.

But the problem is that this issue doesn't go away if everyone migrates to OnlyFans - these groups just target OF instead. then Mastercard, Paypal, et al pull their support for OF, and all these people are left in the lurch. That's the issue that really concerns me.

Ever read something that, when you finish it, you get an incredible need to show someone, anyone?

This was one of those.

This just showed up in my Youtube Recommended feed:

It's a fucking BOP, reminds me of some of the stuff KB sent me once. very much a pastiche of 80s new wave and synth sounds.

You're not necessarily the target market, but I assert that Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake is a better, more modern story that hits almost all of the exact same notes that Catcher does, despite in some ways being its total opposite - A trip away from New York instead of to it, for example.

If you're interested, I'd be curious to see your thoughts on it if you read it.

Oouu, biopunk. will check out, for sure, if only to see what he thinks about energy storage.

Flywheels, gravity batteries, springs, it's all interesting but none of them solve the problem as effectively as chemical batteries do. I could create some sort of magic to do it, but I'd rather see what I can extrapolate from first.

So, as someone who's actively thinking about what our future looks like because I'm getting ready to write a speculative fiction novel, this is something I'd thought about as a potential solution, and it's interesting to look at the ways in which people are starting to work around fossil fuel without batteries.

So, Baader-Meinhoff, I just saw a video on this the other day, maybe even yesterday. They were also used in the Phillipines. I think the idea was ... "fine"? But not good enough to keep improving as the cost of gas was cheap.

Definitely something swipeable for future-tech.

AH! I love these guys. The bakery I use to work for made Pain de Muerto as well. I love the sesame seeds - great touch!

I see that Florida is still tied between Biden and Trump and I sincerely yearn to see it swallowed by the Atlantic.

and also,

Further, Idunno what your opinion of Sarah Kendzior is, but if you want to be driven to day-drink then have a listen to this: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/381-radio-party-lines/episode/15806135-party-in-the-u.s.a-what-could-possibly-go-wrong

Sure, Those are problems, but our current way of dealing with them is "Instead of trying to find those acceptabilities and safeguarding the intent, we're just going to avoid the issue to the detriment of anyone who is not an able-bodied, attractive, straight, cis, white man."

Some of them are pretty easy to figure out, in my opinion:

1.) saying that a group of people are objectively bad because of the colour of their skin is not acceptable. Further, saying that some people are not people because of the colour of their skin is not acceptable.

2.) saying that someone is lesser because of their gender is not acceptable.

3.) saying that someone is objectively bad, or lesser because of their sexuality is not acceptable.

4.) saying someone is lesser because of their disability isn't acceptable.

I manage to get through my life basically every day without breaching one of those rules. I don't even have to try, it's quite simple.

I'm from a country where the concept of free speech is fundamentally different than it is in the US, so the concept of "things you can't say" isn't some Orwellian, 1984-style bogeyman. It's just not being a piece of shit, and being held to account when you are.

Apparently? And apparently Joe Rogan is still giving Info Wars a platform.

The music of my high school years is coming back and I literally cannot be more stoked.

While support for Trump has dropped among all three groups of White Christians analyzed in the survey, support for Biden did not see a corresponding (statistically significant) jump. One partial factor in Trump’s declining support from White Christians might be that the new survey, for the first time, gave respondents the option of saying they would vote for Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen or Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins. Only Trump and Biden were listed by name in the August survey.

Y'all are headed for another republican win via the electoral college.

Nobody gives a crap how many key signatures Dream Theater goes through except the people who won't shut up about Dream Theater. And we know better than to ask them.

Are you saying I shouldn't invite you to my 24 hour restream of Change of Seasons?

Seriously, though, I get that these are not as wildly different as the Van Halen example. It just reminded me of a similar phenomenon. Alternatively, it's a bit like calling out a classic tune at an Irish folk jam and having 4 people start in 4 different keys because "that's the one I was taught it in".

Frankly if it was possible to drag one pipe organ over to play next to another we would have settled on something in like 300BC.

Maybe, but we're still arguing about pitch now. Yeah, if you're playing with a keyboard, the you tune to the keyboard, and yeah 440 is the standard, but orchestras routinely use 442, Vienna is at 446, some people advocate for 432 (they're mostly nuts). Baroque musicians use a different arbitrary standard, 415, even though A has historically been as low as like, 392, and as high as 460something.

That doesn't even go into intonation systems. We use one equal temperament, but there are others - 1/4 comma is popular in some baroque circles, and groups without a keyboard instrument often aren't even using equal temperament, they're using a form of just intonation!

Shit's wild, fam.