that's crazy omg, when I played guitars I was always a weird tele enjoyer. my last one had p90s in the bridge and neck with a semi-hollow body

Squire Bass VI in black finish with a brown/red tortoiseshell pickguard, an Indian laurel fretboard, and a poplar body. It looks like a Fender Jaguar but it is a bass tuned one octave below a typical guitar.

A customized version of the Bass VI is my main instrument these days so I absolutely feel that lol

(Thurston Moore tuning a string down 2.3 steps and playing super off-key as a joke): You guys like this?

(Audience): Wow, so avante-garde.

(Thurston Moore, surprised): Oh. Yeah okay I'll make a career out of this specifically.

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I love sonic youth but this is how I imagine it went down

If you have had a near-religious experience at a gelato place because of how insanely good it is, you understand what's up lol

I usually just try and listen to music or read a book to fill time so it doesn't feel wasted. Have started thinking of it as kind of a break from having to work or do “productive” things and it has become much more tolerable tbh.

Ice cream is just okay in general but most of it is cheap and not good.

Gelato is better because at a slightly high temp and with more fat you can actually taste the flavor, but department store gelato is hardly distinguishable from ice cream. Gotta go to an actual Gelato place for the good stuff.

When I started to think of an hour-long train ride across the city of Chicago to get somewhere as routine, I knew I had taken the Public Transit Pill

Lady behind me at The Thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? You watch it and information is revealed"

remembered a good tweet

yeah the past couple weeks have been so bad 😭

True yeah damn it does seem to just be private equity not giving a shit

Yeah exactly. And they work at such a scale that they have horrible ecological effects and are trained on anything and everything. But like for a local open-source model where you ethically train it, whole different story imo.

Vim standing in their hallway entrance with a black hat and hoodie wearing a backpack. They're chilling.

Extremely lazy running around doing stuff selfie

oOhH.......... Richard

congratulations!! 💕

In case you haven't or in case you have and want to read again:

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How is that EHX bass synth pedal? Have been curious about playing around with bass synth pedals but there seems to be a bunch of options. I have always appreciated EHX’s quality for its price point

Yeah I'm also introverted and basically didn't have IRL friends until I moved to Chicago with a couple exceptions. There isn’t really an early 2010s Tumblr-like online community or another off-beat/niche and interesting social space widely available like I had. It all feels centralized/consolidated.

Totally there is like actually little to no hope for a better world as things currently stand. I’m a millennial that at least was online during a period where social media was fun or interesting and there was generally things to do and causes to believe in. I don’t know what to say to kids now.

Yeah they made SCP House of Leaves with trendy liminal space aesthetics basically. It feels like a logical evolution of creepypasta for people who missed that wave.

The Backrooms feels like House of Leaves for zoomers

yeah it is a hard time trying to explain to young people, who have never known a world except for this current extremely horrible one, that they should care when there are so many reasons it is very hard and taxing to do so

I don't have insults for what I want to say about those threatening it or the grief and fear I am feeling about this situation

Have no words for the threat of nuclear genocide by the pond scum threatening it.

so sorry friend 😔

also feels like a good time to remind chicago folks that 10am this morning is siren testing for the tornado warnings

NASA picture of the Earth peeking out from the Moon in the foreground.

NASA image of the Earth eclipsing the Sun which renders the Earth like a black orb in space surrounded by light.

I realize that everything is hellish and NASA basically exists to combat the USSR’s scientific progress for propaganda reasons and it's all evil and bad but these two images are genuinely so breathtaking

Data Center Tech Lobbyists Fearmonger in Attempt to Retroactively Roll Back Right to Repair Law Cisco, IBM, and major lobbying groups are trying to exempt "critical infrastructure" from an existing Colorado law.

Cisco, IBM, and major lobbying groups are trying to exempt "critical infrastructure" from an existing Colorado law.

Same height 🤝

If the real-world treatment of trans women by the healthcare system was invented for a work of fiction, it would instantly read as an absurdist satire of all the issues with cis women's healthcare. yeah you can get a vagina but only if the doctor thinks he'd want to fuck it afterwards.