I want to try again come the new year tho

Might be good timing for me too. I have a bitwig license and a lot of hardware, and an intention to keep my production on linux. Perhaps we will figure it all out together.

An icon.

I know there's enough of a scene in ABQ that they've had multi artist nights at venues with 100% trans rappers. Sadly my friend in that city has deleted me from their life. But just saying that might be a place to start looking for names to search up.

Other than that, there's no way I'm sharing mine until I re-find my voice. If I even try to spit again. Maybe it's time to expand my genre boundaries. Or at least figure out how to use my synths' modulators to fux with it enough that I don't die of cringe and shame when I listen back to it lmao.

O lawd don't make me get back on my bullshit. I have been putting off re-cabling my whole fuckin studio since I moved. So. Much. MIDI.

I have had a continual nagging feeling that it's time to get back to making beats n shit. This further pushes the desire.

Yeah, indeed. I've been terminally online for long enough that I was there for the genesis of gamergate and its hijacking. Good point of reference to include in the scope of this discussion.

:)

Once of his usernames was Ghostdancer. He had it tattooed down his spine.

If you're unfamiliar with the concept, you'll probably enjoy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Dance and especially its historic connection to Lakota resistance to the white invaders. It's all very sad, as well, but deeply cool and as I watch the USA collapse I can't help but think about those native spirits (he is with them now) working (or at least watching) from the spirit plane as a factor in the decay of the inherently rotten construct of the white man's nation.

I'm almost entirely materialist but I keep a little space in my heart and mind to allow for this sort of magical thinking, as a treat.

Edit: also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Dance_War

Thank you comrade. I've had plenty of time for self care, it has been years. Grief just comes in waves or is triggered by certain reminders. And it's never ideal to forget our dead, they're only ever finally gone when we stop remembering them.

It's time to just retire the account, by force if necessary. Preferably keeping the posts intact.

I think that would ruin the experiment. It was perfect the way it was. It is okay to let it go. It's a testament to the community that it survived so long, I expected it to be banned within a day.

I keep my notifications blocked with a browser extension for mental health management reasons, but I unblocked it yesterday to check something and saw that I'd apparently been included in the password invite list. I am/was very flattered, but had already decided at the time that I was happy enough to just enjoy the collective efforts of the people already using the account and knew the magic would fade if I were to make myself a part of it.

All this is to say. Wasn't me.

I'll miss the bit, but I was pleasantly surprised every day that it stayed active. I only saw good to mid-at-worst posts from the account and think on balance the experiment was a success and positive time for the community. But it is right that it should end while it remained a net positive. It was probably inevitable that it would end up abused. It was pretty funny yesterday watching a 20+ user collective account keep one terminally online smuglord engaged in an 8+ hour argument. Like, that's almost a perfect note to end on.

Whoever was using it to report etc, that's spineless and selfish behavior and you should do some self crit. This is a microcosm example of the general rule that "we can't have nice things."

There are five million ways to kill a CEO.

Same. Banned for allegedly violent rhetoric against TERFS. Apparently my account was not reinstated after Musk liberated the platform for free speech lol. Now I have a permanent redirect to the proxy site via a browser plugin for when I want to see what twittoids are yapping about.

Civ 6 so old Luigi Mangione an intern at Paradox working on it.

MMFWCL

Yeah, it's a tough one. The whole system is set up to avoid the formation of class consciousness, or even just basic self interested action like unionising. Dealing with decades and generations worth of multi-vector propaganda.

I think those commies who do free tail light replacement (etc) type events are on the right track as far as praxis goes. Just doing helpful stuff without expecting reward but making your political allegiance clear. "I'm a socialist and I have your back because we are on the same team" type beat. I think that sorta shit is the most effective and accessible way to start chipping away at the problem.

I should get a small dingy with a communist flag (or similar) before the next big flood here. Same for my truck. Just any time you can volunteer your time to help people, do a little bit of optics on the side without preaching any theory. Wear your ideology shirt when you're spontaneously dropping a few cases of water off at a picket line during a local strike. Just start helping people recognise that "we're the good guys" by doing and not telling.

Got banned from a Ukranian community in three comments

so fucking zased.

Fuck that's powerful. I got goosebumps.

I'm sorry for your loss. I hope writing this gave you catharsis.

I MEAN HOW DO YOU DIE OF A FUCKING BROKEN LEG I AM SO MAD ALL OVER AGAIN NOW AND FOREVER FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUU AMERIKKKA I HOPE TO LIVE TO AID IN YOUR DEMISE WATCHLIST TIME LETS GO FUCK YOU SEE ME AT THE FRONT DOOR FED BOYS I AINT DONE NUTHIN WRONG AND I WILL HAPPILY WASTE YOUR TIME TIL THE END OF MY SPITEFUL DAYS.