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@ProbablyJut

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@BankwoodSchool

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@blkodyssy

@gazeusgames

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@BeerlySports

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@indiainbrazil

@RioJnr17

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@Keythadream

@knecessary

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@DailyXenoSeries

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@HousewifePolish

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@SaltNPrEPPA

@pgstats

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Louie Anderson once blew 80 grand, all his money, gambling in LA, then rented a car, drove to Vegas in the middle of the night and used a casino line of credit to win it all back in the pit by sunup, caught a 7am flight and went straight to shoot a 7-11 commercial. Requiescat.🎈

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Thread: I work in an arcane field where the job requires specific technical knowledge, built on a ladder of understanding and breakthroughs going back over 100 years. It's not immunology but it's not nothing.

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Yes, I'm saying the Juggalos are good. A non-judgmental, inclusive community for people on the fringe, built on a beautiful communion they call "family." They remind me of punk/queer chosen families and I love them. I haven't heard much of the music, it's atrocious. Who cares.

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Indulging the "DEBATE ME!" shitheels does nothing to further the truth. It is exhausting because its purpose is to exhaust you and no credible person should do it.

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No, I'm not going to watch his special before I say it is fucked up and sucks. I have seen fucked up things that suck before and I already know the joke. They only have the one joke. Anti-woke trans-bash comedians are cultivating an audience I want very much not to be a part of.

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People talking about a no-fly zone like it's a big net. It means shooting planes out of the air. Full-scale war.

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Nobody earned a billion dollars. It's literally impossible to be paid for work and end up with a billion dollars. You get a billion dollars by having other people work for it, then taking it.

The Recount

@therecount

1 year

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz complains about Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) “unfair” labeling of him as a billionaire: “I came from nothing … Yes, I have billions of dollars — I earned it. No one gave it to me. And I’ve shared it constantly with the people of Starbucks.”

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What an incredible band. Everything about them is minimal and immediate. Possessed by a mania, you can't take your eyes off them. Ricky the most original guitarist in a decade, everyone's role perfectly defined... Like a Taj Mahal made of twigs.

Christian Schneider

@Schneider_CM

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The B-52's on SNL, January 26, 1980. Incredible.

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@Charlie_Carrel This is, legitimately, the funniest thing anybody has ever said about me.

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Judas Priest are a good example of why debating the willfully ignorant is a fool's errand. It's expensive and exhausting to have to disabuse people of patent bullshit they are attached to. You have to educate people who do not wish to learn and do not trust you.

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Baked into the discussion of student debt is the idea that the function of education is to prepare someone to work, that it is a ticket for the ride of employment. This is a dangerously toxic notion that deserves no respect. Education is learning, literally anything.

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Dolly Parton do you like analog recording

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@DollyParton

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@Charlie_Carrel You call it "trans mania." You are not prepared to have a good faith discussion.

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Trans people are targets of cruelty right now. Official targets, official cruelty. By law. Life is already hard for them, and there is a significant bloc of assholes working night and day to make it harder. If you aren't in direct, vocal opposition to that, you are a bad person.

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Slavery wasn't trade school you sick fucks.

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If you're working for somebody else, this is awful advice. In your 20s you're made out of rubber and nothing leaves a dent. Live your fucking life. Drink all the drinks, take all the drugs, fuck anyone who'll have you. Stay up all night. Don't work a single minute off the clock.

bearishbiasjedi

@FinBizJedi

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Unsolicited career advice: Work your butt off in your 20s. Forget about work-life balance & all the other BS you hear about. You're still young, can test yourself physically & train your mind to work under long, intense pressure. Identify limits, have fun & keep fit for energy.

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You risk-averse sheep want the government to do everything for you. We intend to disrupt everything. Money, banking, tech, the very idea of business, all of it is on the table for us, the risk-takers. (disruption occurs) Fuck oh fuck. Fuck. Somebody do something. Fuck.

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I will always be the kind of punk that shits on Steely Dan

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So this fact-averse mindset persists, whether about evolution, vaccine efficacy, gun control or cryptic satanism. No matter how thoroughly an absurdity is shown to be bullshit and nonsense, its advocates will insist that didn't happen.

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Women of America, I appreciate the restraint you've shown in not murdering all of us men in our sleep until now. If tonight is the night, I understand and I still think you've shown remarkable restraint.

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Taylor Hawkins was a terrific drummer with a gorgeous disposition, seemed always to be having the time of his life. I didn't know him well but I know music is lessened by his passing, made duller and smaller. Requiescat. 🎈

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As the Omicron variant drives case rates up again, with nearly a million of us dead already from this fucking thing, I have absolutely no patience with the chorus of the same always-wrong little fuckers saying we're overreacting by trying to keep safe from it. Eat shit.

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I don't know about you, but if I could spend $100 to keep somebody from being strangled to death, I'd happily hand over $100. So if you see someone in distress in public, before you strangle them to death, consider just giving them $100.

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@PaulStanleyLive I remember when punk rock came along and made you irrelevant the first time.

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for master tapes that represent an investment of sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars. You have to answer their ignorant objections continuously. And in the end they will just shrug and say, "I don't think so," and that will be that. They will remain unconvinced.

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Spent my whole fucking life voting defensively, having to choke down some lame suit-and-tie asshole in the general to avoid a worse asshole. Absolutely thrilled to have voted for Brandon Johnson. He wants all the things I want and he's going to be the fucking mayor.

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1/ There's an important thread of continuity over time about the exploitation of bands by record labels that deserves a closer look, re the current Spotify debate.

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There is an envelope marked FASCIST MANIFESTO on my desk. I open it and retrieve a 3x5 file card, with the words "I am neither conventionally right nor left" written on it.

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I don't take royalties for recording bands. This is normal ethical behavior in every other industry and should not be exceptional or notable in music. That it comes up every time we discuss how musicians get paid ought to be embarrassing, but for the nth time...

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"Put seeds in your pockets." All-time top tier ice-cold shit talk. I'll be using that for life.

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Beautifully lyrical guitarist, underrated vocalist. Television made a new kind of music and inspired new kinds of music. Marquee Moon is a perfect record. Requiescat. 🎈

Tom Verlaine, Founder of Influential Punk-Era Band Television, Dies at 73

Tom Verlaine, a founder, lead vocalist and guitarist for '70s N.Y. rock band Television, has died. He was 73 years old.

variety.com

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You have to start with Maxwell's equations and the theory of electromagnetism, teach them about the persistence of polarity in magnetic domains, explain the mechanics and design of magnetic recorders, the process and handling of masters in a studio and the chain of custody...

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Because it completely encapsulated everything awful about now. Outlandish amusement for the wealthy, trollish libertarian disdain for expertise and regulation, macho bro daredevilry capped off by signing a waiver. The only thing missing is a cop murdering somebody.

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...ie the engineer did a cryptic reverse-speech soundscape collage, hidden within the apparently-normal recording of a rock band, for the purpose of inducing teen-agers to commit suicide. Every aspect of that argument is beyond absurd, yet it had its day in court. Literally.

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I can't imagine grinding through a massive, gelatinous discography trying to find something I might like by the Grateful Dead with Marquee Moon just sitting there ready to go.

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I graduated at 21 with a normal 4-year degree and debt I finally paid off when I was 37. Debt for education is obscene and anything done to alleviate it for anyone should be celebrated. The only thing to get mad about is that there is such a thing as educational debt.

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There is an excellent inclusion of this in @mountain_goats John Darnielle's excellent novel Wolf in White Van. Of course people like me, professionals in the recording field intimately familiar with the process and technology of recording, knew it was all horseshit.

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I came to college to have no one disagree with me. I found some people disagreed with me. This is censorship. I am so silenced my only outlet is the New York Times.

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@Charlie_Carrel Consider -- just maybe -- that your framing is an example of you kicking yourself in the dick and when people see that pointed out, they think, "heh yeah," and click like.

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However you define "woke," anti-woke means being a cunt who wants to indulge bigots.

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Okay, maybe that record didn't have backmasking and secret messages, but what about *this* one, or *this* one, or *this* one. Maybe that master tape didn't have a secret message track, but what about all the tapes we haven't examined?

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For clarity, being kind to other people isn't virtue signaling, it's virtue. Putting "christian, father, patriot" in your bio, that's literally virtue signaling.

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People are dunking on these absurdist demonstrations but I think they're kinda cool. The point they're making is that your most priceless shit is worthless on a dead planet, and while they're not going to change any minds it's a way to get that idea into the discourse.

Damien Gayle

@damiengayle

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Activists with @JustStop_Oil have thrown tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the national Gallery and glued themselves to the wall.

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As an expert in analog recording, I know there is no way for these things to have been done surreptitiously or other than by the normal methods of recording, but lay people don't know any of that. They could be convinced there was some other, secret, conspiratorial way.

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A lot about the Juggalos is dumb/laughable. So what, your life isn't? Get over yourself. The part that matters to them, that they are there for each other in material ways other communities fail at, that's the whole thing.

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So this is exactly what Judas Priest did. They played their master tapes in court, showed the track sheets and other documentation, had their engineer testify that he was never asked to record any satanic messages, all that. You would think that would put an end to it but no.

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The game is rigged and antidemocratic, but when solutions are obvious (enlarge House, add DC and PR states, enlarge SC, codify Roe & voting rights) and ignored, the conclusion has to be that the D party prefers it rigged, prefers to lose & not accomplish the things we voted for.

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When somebody says "Red hot chili peppers," it instantly makes me think of the band by the same name. From California.

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A couple decades ago there was a christian panic about something the press started calling "backmasking," an outgrowth of the similarly absurd panic about subliminal messaging and advertising, about which I could also talk about for too long but will not now.

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Does a butcher need a degree? Fuck yes. Classics, physics, painting, dance, pick one. I absolutely want a broadly-educated population, with every house a little study group and every person an expert in some ridiculous arcane specialty. Yes, yes, please let us have that world.

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According to the panic, Satanists were hiding messages in music by recording secret messages, only audible if the music were played backwards, but somehow still perceivable and persuasive on listeners. Such messages were blamed for drug abuse, teen suicides and cult behavior.

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Make a list circa mid-80s: Morrisey, Lydon, Rick Astley. Kinda nuts who turned out the best by a mile.

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Every year the phone company delivered a book to our front door with the assassination coordinates of everybody in town. Amazing how little assassinating there was... Unless assassination is almost always a fantasy, a reflexive part of an immersive egomania. Maybe that's it.

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There may be dumber people in public life than Joe Rogan but given the nature his audience (credulous, uninformed) there is likely nobody who amplifies his stupidity to worse effect.

bad_stats 🕜💵🖨️🕣

@thebadstats

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1/ I watched Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Joe Rogan yesterday and it gave me an opportunity to look into some of the "old-school" antivax claims. First Joe Rogan let's us know that he used to think RFK Jr. was "kinda loony", but now he's a true believer in RFK's antivax claims.

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Less annoying than Deadheads by an order of magnitude. Very few lawyers and CEOs for a start.

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Jason I love you but mounting a 4038 ribbon mic sideways like that means the ribbon is under lateral stress, likely to distend in the magnetic gap, potentially rubbing against the armature but certainly not operating in its linear range. Please keep ribbons in the vertical plane.

Jay Duplass

@jayduplass

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Tonight is a rare night we can’t complain that there’s nothing great to watch on TV Our @JasonIsbell (and @amandashires ) documentary premieres tonight on @HBO “RUNNING WITH OUR EYES CLOSED” @SamJones @HBODocs #MusicBoxHBO

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Music fans pull up. Bands are trying to tour again. Decisions about when to tour are always made far in advance, and given the relentlessness of the pandemic, when the time comes to do it, the band has to decide by a deadline whether to go or not, with imperfect information.

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Regardless, "secret messages" retained popular appeal and a few lawsuits were even pursued, one against the band Judas Priest, lent credibility by the passion of the people who believed in it, despite that they had no expertise or evidence, and an unlearned and credulous public.

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When somebody poisons a conversation with stolen, contrary rhetoric, saying reparations or affirmative action are "racist," banning abortion is "feminism," terfing is "protecting women," or that scabs "are workers," a good way to handle it is to tell them to fuck off.

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This became a Big Deal. There were articles and TV shows about it, proponents mounted conferences, did public demonstrations and lectures, and eventually there were a core of believers who were convinced of the problem and adamant in outrage.

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The campaign to notice that nighttime is when it gets dark is similarly dangerous and absurd.

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Live your life like Patti Smith will be writing your obit.

Patti Smith Remembers Tom Verlaine

“He possessed the child’s gift of transforming a drop of water into a poem that somehow begat music.”

www.newyorker.com

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It was actually kinda close.

Judas Priest’s Subliminal Message Trial: Rob Halford Looks Back

Rob Halford reflects on Judas Priest's subliminal-messaging trial, 25 years after the band was found not liable in the deaths of two young men.

www.rollingstone.com

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In order for something to appear on a record, forward or reverse, it would need to be recorded onto the master tape, and debunking it should be as simple as going through the tape track by track and demonstrating that there was no demonic message there.

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If you're confused or offended by ACAB, while it's true good people might want to be cops, they must choose between being good and being cops, so there are no good cops.

Katie Sponsler

@KatieSponsler

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I have been taught to yell “stop resisting” and “drop your weapon” after firing a gun, because bystanders will remember you said it and their memory will automatically reverse the order of the events to make it make sense. Their testimony will support yours, because of this.

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You say there would be some evidence of the recording having been done, but couldn't it be done some other way? I recall a lawyer in the Judas Priest case arguing that the message in question was made as a composite of sounds including the vocal, guitar and hi-hat...

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This is absolutely model owning-your-shit behavior, and if a goddamn fucking Juggalo can manage it, a nine-figure podcaster can step the fuck up without whining.

Abe Goldfarb

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Sometimes I think about Violent J and I am reminded that people can change.

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So this time it's not funny because it's *you*. It's fucking awful because *you* are saying the same things people hear when they're being abused, when their humanity is being denied, when they're targeted. The things they hear right before they're murdered.

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Better than winning a Grammy.

Jim Goad

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Steve Albini is another one who's become an insufferably estrogenic shrieking moralist spouting the same brainwashed pieties. And they all wind up looking like the same elderly gender-studies student.

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It's not my day so I'm not trying to tell anybody what it means but I will say the moment I realized trans people didn't want anything more than to be treated like people everything clicked into place and been cool ever since. I love you guys you make the world more interesting.

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30 years ago I hit on this lady in a bar. 17 years later she agreed to marry me and she's still there. How lucky am I.

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Learned about Victor Jara after playing in a venue named in his honor. The junta tortured public figures as a terror. They broke all the bones in Jara's hands, smashed them to paste. They hammered out all his teeth. They shot him and left him in the street for his mother to find.

Ilhan Omar

@IlhanMN

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Today marks 50 years since the U.S.-backed coup in Chile that overthrew the democratically-elected Salvador Allende. We remember the thousands disappeared or murdered, including singer and activist Victor Jara. It is long past time the U.S. declassified our role in the coup.

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Correct. I am not a fucking tool.

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I spent $7000 on a lighter today. We are not the same

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From now on, I'm pronouncing "doing" the way I pronounce "boing," with a bouncy comical inflection. What is everybody doing tonight? My life is empty. The dry brittle husk of my ambitions.

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we are what we pretend to be. Indulging the pretense eventually becomes so comfortable that it fuses with the person underneath. I've seen it happen up close, with people I called friends, and it demands the self-reflection people of my generation have failed at.

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House shows are the linchpin and ideal expression of a thriving underground music scene. Everybody formed in one of those scenes has moments from house shows burned into their very identity, indelible for life. This is heartbreaking.

jim fear

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Fatal shooting at a DIY punk house in Minneapolis last night. Devastating. Good folks picking up the pieces. Please share and donate if you can:

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This idea that you spend money on an education as a cover charge to a career should be laughed out of the room. Most people don't work professionally in their field of study, but their studies helped form and complete them as people, and that is actually a better use of them.

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Again and again I am heartened by the clarity and commitment of people much younger than me. My generation blew it and we're almost done. The kids are all right.

Victor Shi

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Wow. Students are standing outside the Tennessee House right now and chanting, “Fuck you fascists.” Young people are absolutely pissed off & we are about to give Republicans hell like they’ve never seenZ We aren’t forgetting this.

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Ricky Gervais got comfortable inducing groans, learned to do it like a trick, got famous and wealthy from it. Eventually he saw the groans as the point, and in enlightened circles, the way to induce groans is to disdain enlightenment and be a bigoted piece of shit.

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I have a new favorite caucus

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Nobody is ever opening that tab again.

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Oh fuck completely off.

Washington Post Opinions

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Higher minimum wages may increase homelessness, @AsymmetricInfo writes

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You only need one. Guitar, amp, snare drum, crash cymbal, whatever... You can use the same one for every song for the whole of your career and it's fine.

gryphoneer

@OneRadChee

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YOU THERE. YES, YOU. WHAT'S A LITTLE-KNOWN FACT ABOUT YOUR PROFESSION THAT WOULD MAKE OTHER PEOPLE LOSE THEIR SHIT?

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Eric Abbenante

@EricAbbenante

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"Like Chicago: Most of the shootings are young black men killing other young black men. Is that not correct?" [Yeah] "Much more than what the cops do. Why doesn't anyone talk about that? Why aren't there 100 giant black celebrities saying 'What are you doing to yourselves?"

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Music isn't for everybody.

george

@deejaygeejaygee

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Lol

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From what I know, Taylor Swift is one of the smartest people in music. Oh, almost forgot. Let's hear your record, cocksocket.

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@aimeeterese I had heard you were awful but it's something to see up close.

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2 years

You'll have the next sixty years to buckle down and be professional, and by the time they give you your gold watch you won't have a mushroom guy in your phone any more. I'm going to be 60 in a few weeks and I regret every hour of my life I traded for wages like I was robbed.

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@electricalWSOP

1 year

Ding-dongs are baffled at rejecting a blue check. Elon is a cunt, all the nazis have blue checks, hardly anybody I want to read has one, and it adds no veracity to the handle. There's literally no reason to want one and a thousand reasons not to. Ding-dongs gonna ding-dong.

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@electricalWSOP

2 years

Yeah misspelled haha funny but if I ever start tweeting inspirational quotes of myself, I insist that one of my friends do me in with a shovel.

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@electricalWSOP

2 years

I used to like Ricky Gervais. His comedy hinted that he disliked the part of himself he indulged so flagrantly, the boorish, selfish unaware part. Him playing an oblivious creep was a necessary element of comedy critical of being oblivious. But as Kurt Vonnegut observed...

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@electricalWSOP

2 years

I don't need someone to guide me through the Grateful Dead. It's fucking Albuquerque, I don't need to know my way around I'm not fucking going to Albuquerque.

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@electricalWSOP

1 year

I heard the news in the most base circumstances, surrounded by degenerates, stuck and cursing, in a conference room in Deerfield. I was momentarily overwhelmed, the sound of her voice resonant in my memory, beautiful and heartbreaking. Godspeed Mimi Parker. Requiescat. 🎈

LOW

@lowtheband

1 year

Friends, it’s hard to put the universe into language and into a short message, but She passed away last night, surrounded by family and love, including yours. Keep her name close and sacred. Share this moment with someone who needs you. Love is indeed the most important thing.

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@electricalWSOP

1 year

Whenever I see one of these fascists post a baby picture as though it were exonerating, all I can think is, yep Little Lord Fuckleroy here looks like a typical silver spoon asshole. Gonna grow up and make people miserable.

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@electricalWSOP

2 years

"... and given a choice I much prefer racism, abject insanity and oppression of women to unionizing the workforce."

More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

2 years

NEW: Elon Musk says he’ll vote for Republicans this year because “the Democratic Party is overly controlled by the unions and…class-action lawyers.” Musk is a notorious union-buster & was hit with a class-action lawsuit from 1k Black workers who alleged rampant racism at Tesla.

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@electricalWSOP

8 months

Did 20 songs, tried not to include any I worked on but made an exception for Nina.

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@electricalWSOP

2 years

I found this badass store called Dan Flashes that's my exact style

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@electricalWSOP

3 years

Genuinely charmed by people trying to "out" me regarding stuff that had print runs in the tens of thousands, bands that toured the world, stuff that was already reported on by Pitchfork... whatever. I am not afforded the luxury of secret shame, guys. Knock yourselves out.

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@electricalWSOP

2 years

I'll admit I was out of my depth with the chip butty thing, my bad. But I don't get standing in a queue for 24 hours to look at a dead body. There's nobody I hate that much.

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@electricalWSOP

11 months

Dude is just thrashing his reputation with a rake, aligning with every crank and crackpot in sight.

Cornel West

@CornelWest

11 months

I thank my dear brother Russell Brand for providing the stage for my presidential announcement! He is a progressive gem!

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