This is my Microblog!
If you're un familiar with the concept of a microblog, it's basically a social media timeline. They're very short posts, usually without titles, and they can be anything from random thoughts in text to sharing a video.
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2024-10-13 03:04 42.126_dead
CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of the current genocide happening in Gaza.
You don't have to expose yourself to things that hurt you. Stay safe. ♥
I love Post-Rock. It's one of my favorite music genres, if not my favorite and I don't listen to enough of it. Well, I have a new band on my radar. I've just listened to this after hearing about it from Anthony Fantano. I don't watch all of his stuff but this peeked my interest and I'm glad I checked it out.
I won't say much about it other than: I recommend you listen to it while doing very little if not nothing at all. Like a lot of Post-Rock: it is a profound, even if deeply sad experience.
As you read from the title of the album, this is an album that, while it says very little words, has a lot of things to say.
Since October 7th 2023, at least 42,126 people have been killed in Gaza by Israel. 16,765 of them were children. These are the numbers of Palestinian Ministry of Health. On it's own, this death toll is horrific. But these numbers are estimated to be extremely under-estimated. And that is only since October 7th of 2023.
Israël's brutal colonialism over Palestine is nothing new, it's something that's been happening for more than 80 years while the world stood there and watch, while the governments of the western world not only turned a blind eye to the atrocities of an ally but gained profit from it. I don't have much more to say, other than stating this simple truth.
Israël's actions cannot be justified. It cannot be reconciled with it's long history of brutal colonialism over Palestine, nor with its more recent actions. And while there is nothing I, or probably you, can do about it, it's important to take a moment sometimes and remind ourselves that it is happening. For the simple act of caring. Of not letting these lives get snuffed out in absolute indifference. To watch and to remember, who is letting this happen despite having the power to stop it and who are the people still defending this, or worse, demanding it.
I want to believe that humanity is better than this.
Longer post than usual for the microblog, but the context called for it to be so.
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2024-10-12 20:18 rain_city_drive
While their 2022's Self-titled album left me with some songs that I love but ultimately failed to properly grip me, I absolutely loved Rain City Drive's "To Better Days" released in 2020. It's actually an important album for me in relation to the year I was going through when it released.
And now, Rain City Drive is back with "Things Are Better Now" and this one hits just right. I've been hooked by all of the singles, "Neverbloom" especially. "Medicate Me" with Dayseeker's and Hurtwave's lead singer Rory Rodriguez is simply amazing and what's great here, is that the rest of the album matches these two.
The opening track "Losing My Composure" sells the album to me, that's one of hell to make a good impression and the closing track "Sacrifice" is a fantastic to way to close the album. Just like their Self-titled album "If I Was Right", my favorite track of that album1, "Sacrifice" sends off the album on a very powerful and emotional note. This one much more powerful and raw than the melancholic send off from 2022, but just as effective.
It's not the most challenging, it's not the most complex, sure, but what it is is an amazingly catchy album that is super easy to listen to.
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It's Concrete Closure on this one, followed closely by Sacrifice. I'd also give a big mention to Neverbloom because the only reason why it doesn't do much for me now is because I've exhausted it from listening to it again and again.↩
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2024-10-11 16:25 muskrat
Urgh....
With the failure rate of Teslas and the mess that Cybertrucks were, from the second these ever launch (which they probably never will), I'm placing my bet: Three days. Three days until these kill someone.
Also, my god, this guy's charisma is non existent. And the thing is: I didn't hate watch! I was just curious about the announcements, out of curiosity even though I fucking hate cars but still, I forgot he was there when I clicked. But the way he walks on stage like he's fucking Tony Stark and he's going to solve transportation by fucking over every public transportation systems, making empty promises on stage, saying random shit to the point where it feels like everything is fully improvised and there is a PR and engineering team backstage that are just sweating listening to every shit he is saying in fearing for their jobs... this dude embodies everything I despise.
Also: No plug! Wireless charging car, BECAUSE FUCK THE PLANET, RIGHT?!
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2024-10-10 22:58 rdr_pc
HOLY SHIT IT'S REAL.
After 14 YEARS, Red Dead Redemption is finally coming to PC! Like, for real! My god, miracles do happen.
And on that, I'm not going to say anything more because I'm about to get extremely cynical about the state of this port.... c:
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2024-10-10 19:48 ambient_guitars
Love that song. Just give me some ambient guitars like that and you've won me over, I'm a sucker for that. The rest of the album is cool too. It is Lofi/Chillhop in the end, so, it's probably nothing you haven't heard before but again: Ambient guitars. It calms me down. :)
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2024-10-10 17:00 recorder
I got a new toy! :D
I've always been very fixated about sounds and I've wanted to have something I could record all the random stuff that perks up my ears when I'm out in the — often very urban — wild. Now, I do. It's a H1essential from Zoom. I'm also gonna use it as a general purpose microphone but I can carry this everywhere with me.
I got a 128gb micro-sd card and some rechargeable Triple As to go with. Yes. Triple A batteries. I'm so happy about that, because when the battery dies, I can just change them, don't need to throw away the whole device or open it to try and replace the battery. Can't wait to play around with it!
Look at it, it's so small!
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2024-09-24 17:32 lp_crown
So Linkin Park just released a new single and I'm already obsessed with it.
It doesn't sounds as good as The Emptiness Machine which I indeed think was the best song possible for their comeback. But it sounds super good.
Emily's performance is fucking astounding in this, like, damn, I wish I could do this with my voice, it's legit inspiring.
This song also does have something special: It "tastes" like Meteora. Like, the second I heard Mike rapping on it, I was like: Holy shit, that's a modern 2024 Meteora song! It also has that mix of guitar and synth with melodies that have that epic dimension to them that is very Meteora-esque.
My does it feel good to be this autistically excited and obsessed with that band again. <3
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2024-09-13 23:41 sheldon
So I went on a rant about this to a friend of mine recently and she said, oh my god, that happens to me constantly as well. And from that alone, I'm guessing that this is much more widespread than what I thought.
So I'm going to say it's simply: Stop comparing Autistic people to fucking Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory. For the love of everything.
I never watched a single episode of The Big Bang Theory. Every clip I saw, I hated. But I don't need that to know that Sheldon and I have nothing to do with each other. Because every time I've been compared by people around me to a fictional character, or hell, even someone else, it's just because people summarize me as a hyper-specific trait. Usually: "Oh, you're a nerd!"
If I have to hear one more time, somebody tell me "He's just like you". I may scream until my lung bleeds.
Fuck you, Sheldon. Like, for real.
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2024-08-07 19:28 plume
On August 07, 2023, during that same evening, overwhelmed by a profound sense of distress that manifested itself as a desperate need to regain control over my identity, I renamed myself “Plume” to my partner.
5 days later, I would finally accept myself as the woman I had always been, but it all started with this name.
I love this name, it's not just a name for me. There's so much of my DNA encoded in this name, so many reasons why it's this name and not another.
It wasn't a choice, it wasn't even a thought, it was purely obvious. It was always going to be Plume and it could never have been anything else.
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2024-07-28 13:51 stateslines
I'm not doing well at the moment. There's a lot going on in my life, some buried things are resurfacing and mental wounds ignored for too long are festering.
In all this, music has been a tremendous shelter for me. And I wanted to share some of that with you. Music that I love and that makes me feel good.
Here's “Stateslines”, by Novo Amor.
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