I remember an old coworker said he was anti union. “I’d just find another job if I didn’t like the one I had”, he said. Bold claim.
Criminal penalties for decision makers. Jail time. Disgorgement of profits.
This is refreshing. I’m so tired of right wing people being like “the government can’t do anything right and I’m going to prove it by sabotaging and starving the government”.
Seems like most people don’t really care about or understand stuff like “private platforms enshittify”. Certainly not enough to be inconvenienced. People will be like “that’s where the good memes are” or “that’s where my video games post”. Heavens forbid you miss the hot memes.
The song game. I feel like a lot of people have come up with it naturally.
One person plays a song. The next person has to then play a song with some sort of connection to it. Like, you could follow the velvet underground’s “Sunday Morning” with Nirvana’s “Lithium” because it has the line “Sunday morning is every day for all I care”. Any connection is valid so long as the group accepts it, but I prefer lyrical ones myself.
That’s it. You go around until you lose interest.
I like it as a way to share music, because to do well you typically have to actually listen with their song.
I will continue to avoid McDonald’s. Not going to break a no-meat streak for a shitty burger.
Just spent 10 minutes fooling around with fluxer via the web ui. Was able to invite a dice bot, but couldn’t get it to respond. (Also it’s very D&D-specific, but that’s a separate complaint)
Looks so much like Discord
I would only intentionally live somewhere with good mass transit. I don’t want to own a car. I don’t want to feel like owning a car is playing on hard mode.
That’s a big factor in why I’m in New York City. There’s good transit that runs 24/7.
There’s also places to go. Things to do. Saw like five bands play this summer. If a band is going on tour they’ll almost certainly play here. There’s beaches. There’s parks. You can take the train and hike up a mountain.
Some stuff is expensive but there’s deals. My favorite bar has $5 beers. My favorite grocer has $1 fruit. My friend lives in a house with a bunch of fellow queer weirdos and pays like $1k rent for their room.
I’m not really involved but there’s a lot of queer content here, too. My friend really found their people and filled a void they didn’t realize they had when they lived in suburban Midwest.
I’m pretty happy in New York City. But I’d probably go to somewhere in Europe if I had to leave. Or maybe Montreal. I’d want to do some research and visit before picking a long term home though.
I visited recently and had so much poutine. Everyone was super friendly. Great time.
That’s tough. Lot of choices. Are we filtering by “most impactful” or “most likely to replay” or something else? I’ll go games that made a big impression on me. There’s some boss towards older games.
If there are desperate unhappy people it will probably not go well. Our society produces a lot of desperate, unhappy, people.
These people are horrible and I would celebrate their fall.
Hinds are from Spain https://hinds.bandcamp.com/album/leave-me-alone - they did a great show when I saw them
Arguably not rock or punk, but
I adore this doom from Australia. Holy serpent - Endless. https://holyserpentband.bandcamp.com/album/endless
More doom, from Belgium: https://wolvennest.bandcamp.com/album/the-dark-path-to-the-light
I feel like most of the people with money would just play it up to be super cool instead of a dystopia. And given the Epstein stuff, not lightly edit it so the girl is of appropriate age.
One time a former partner and I were doing it in the morning. Sunlight streaming through the window. They’re on top. Everything’s great.
They’re on their period. They dismount. Some combination of biology and physics made my dick like slap back toward my stomach, and flick a huge splatter of blood into the air. In my mind it went in slow motion, shimmering and roiling through the sunlight until it hit the wall. I was like “holy shit that was amazing!!”
They were really embarrassed and ran off to the bathroom.
Capitalist hellscape. One of my pets scratched me in an awkward part of my leg. ICE horrors. War. Genocide. Other things removed from my immediate, personal, experience but make me sad or angry when I think of them.
Saw No Men at a tiny show once. Great energy. Friendly people. Chatted with them for a while.
Saw screaming females a few times. The singer crowd surfs while doing guitar solos.
This year saw Caroline rose at a tiny packed venue. That was great. Love good crowd banter.
I don’t think “friends” works well as a binary yes/no. There are many different kinds of friends, Some people are like cacti and only need to be watered once a year. Other people are like… I’m not a gardener, but some other kind of plant that needs frequent watering. Some are weeds that will take over your entire home. This metaphor got away from me a little.
Personally, I follow a strategy of “when you have the energy, demonstrate the behavior you want to see.” So if you have the juice to handle an unsatisfying outcome, reach out to them like you’d want to be reached out to. Invite them to a party. Send them a funny meme. Whatever. They might flake. They might not respond. But you only do this when you can handle that disappointment. If someone’s been real flakey and you just can’t deal with it, you don’t have to go the extra mile for them.
Right? But it was so … Short sighted, to think it would last forever and you’d never need to organize.