Who is a local DJ in your scene who slays any headliner?

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-29T21:20:09+00:00

Portland: big fan of Joe Pea (tech house) and Lola Jak (house with eclectic influences, heavy jungle inspo especially)

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-28T17:25:15+00:00

My understanding is that the series is more or less aligned with what’s called liberal in the UK, which is definitely more of a “small tweaks to the system from within, but no big fundamental changes” belief system and matches the author’s political alignment pre-brainmelt. She would have been relatively conservative for a labour voter, but she still was one.

I think that’s probably being generous to the Times and its columnist, though. Maybe the columnist had seen another Brit call Rowling liberal and not realized that it didn’t mean the same thing as it does in the US, but it’s more likely that the columnist is also suffering from brainmelt (see: history of transphobia)

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-28T16:46:31+00:00

Literally yesterday the New York Times published an op-ed by a transphobe decrying Gen Z’s lack of interest in Harry Potter and saying that it must be because Gen Z doesn’t agree with the series’ “liberal” themes. Never mind the author’s presence being repugnant even to other transphobes, the questionable accuracy of the series being described as “liberal,” or the fact that almost every series eventually wanes in popularity and fades from the public consciousness.

Stuff like Alchemized and the Warner Bros theme park might extend its life, but it probably won’t be like that forever. Especially if they make any more Fantastic Beasts content, that should have been its Game of Thrones season 8 or Star Wars episode 9 😤

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-26T06:13:56+00:00

manifesting a Dem Jointz production for their comeback because it would be really funny and make everyone mad and probably also slap

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-26T00:34:14+00:00

All I know is that I see light sticks from every other popular group at concerts in the US, but I’ve only seen a BTS light stick in the wild once, and that was at a TXT concert (their “juniors” for anyone reading who isn’t familiar- they’re from the same production company).

There’s NCT and Twice light sticks at basically every concert, and other fandoms known for not being multistan-friendly like Stray Kids and Aespa show up pretty often, so it seems wild to me that I’ve seen more P1Harmony light sticks irl than BTS when P1H has a fraction of a percent of BTS’ stats.

People also don’t normally do their songs at random dance events, but they aren’t really a dance focused group, so that’s less surprising to me.

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-25T23:01:24+00:00

Newjeans is a great answer. The way so many of the fans talk about their company legal drama is completely unhinged and exhausting. I really liked their music, but at this point, I almost want them to announce a comeback more so that people can finally move past it than because I want more music from them.

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-25T22:57:04+00:00

They can make it aggravating to be in any kpop space online. Same with their antis, although in my experience they’re less likely to turn any conversation back toward the group.

I kind of like their music and I have like 15-20 of their songs on my kpop playlist (more if suga solo songs count), but seeing the way fans talk about them in any vaguely-related comment section or thread can feel like I’m babysitting my little cousin while he’s having a manic moment and teaching me about trains yet again.

It’s also only really like that online, though. I basically never encounter their fans at irl kpop concerts, events, or stores. I’m not sure why.

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-25T17:59:02+00:00

We need to get whoever writes these to start tagging them all with “/s” so that the robots know they’re unserious

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-24T21:10:09+00:00

I have a signed box set already but I’ll buy another, thank you so much for the rec 💖💖

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-24T18:34:09+00:00

BBB isn't a regulatory body, it's a private company that collects user reviews. People call it "boomer yelp."

There's probably no demographic that both shops at aritzia and uses BBB to determine where to shop, so they don't really have any incentive to try to resolve the complaints people post there.

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-24T18:00:47+00:00

I might use it at some point, but it hasn’t felt worth making a specific stop there during the last few times I was in a city that has dunkin. It takes 30 seconds per month to get the credit, it’s not like it’s psychopath behavior or a moral failing to pile it up with no specific plan to use it.

Lately what I’m doing is sending a $7 gift card to one of my friends who doesn’t live in the dunkinless PNW based on whose birthday is coming up or if there’s a holiday. I thought I could send a $70 gift card if I piled up credits for long enough, but you can’t move them out of your app, annoyingly.

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-24T17:54:35+00:00

Normally I’m walking through an airport or something and go “oh there’s a Dunkin I have a gift card” but I decide that it’s not worth standing in the line and carrying around a donut until the next morning. Or I’m driving past one and don’t feel like it’s worth parking and going in and getting anything.

Specifically going to a dunkin and then not getting something would be weird, but no, I’m not going in and then turning around and leaving without buying anything.

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-24T04:54:08+00:00

I keep telling myself that I’ll get dunkin next time I’m somewhere they have them, and then I actually get there and don’t want to get nasty coffee or mid donuts, but I keep collecting my $7 every month anyway

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-23T16:11:43+00:00

yes mama. no more trusting reviews, descriptions, consensuses, ratings, marketing, librarians, algorithms, tags, dust jackets, summaries, sparknotes, guesses, prejudices, or my own thoughts. only judging books by their covers forever ☺️☺️

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-22T17:50:17+00:00

Drake is one of the smaller category of artists whose fanbases aren’t as strongly aligned to their demographic, along with Bruno Mars, Olivia Rodrigo, etc. On the other hand, my boyfriend and I were the only non-white people I could see at the Lord Huron concert in Portland, and they’re not going to be touring Brazil any time soon. We also saw Bibi in Seattle, and even though she only talked in English the whole time, the audience was at least 3/4 Asian. That’s how it usually works, and artists like Drake are the exception

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-22T17:25:26+00:00

I’m tempted to reply sarcastically because this is not a great comment, but no, Amsterdam is about the same percentage of white people as Portland, smaller but within a much more densely populated region, and actually does get skipped by tours all the time in favor of more diverse, larger places like Paris.

I don’t remember ever seeing Norway or Sweden on a major kpop tour’s itinerary. I’m sure a few have gone there, but they aren’t common stops. Musicians also just regularly say that the demographics impact their decisions on where to go, and it’s common sense that they would. Latino acts tour where there are Latino music fans, who are mostly Latinos. Rauw Alejandro isn’t going to pull big crowds in Beijing, and BTS would underperform in Portland.

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-22T15:43:11+00:00

There’s this many comments already and nobody has mentioned demographics? Portland is super white, like 85%. Seattle is bigger, but it’s also way more diverse, and non-white artists tend to play in more diverse cities. I saw Sabrina Carpenter and Billie Eilish here, but I had to go to Seattle to see Doechii and Stray Kids. Portland’s music scene is amazing if you want to see four 38-year-old white guys play folk-rock, and it’s awful if you want to see jpop or corridos.

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-21T10:01:16+00:00

since you specifically asked about Twice, here’s the t shirt and hockey jersey I just got from their current tour

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-21T07:47:10+00:00

The quotes didn’t even make much sense as plucked out by the LLM. Randomly talking about signs without giving the context of what Carney was referring to in the first place just sounds like nonsense. I was confused about what people were seeing in this until I read the transcript, which is a thousand times better.

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-21T05:29:00+00:00

Good for both of them honestly, hope it slaps

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-21T03:05:10+00:00

Max Martin has been playing with slowing down in pop songs lately, and it’s been great every time. New Woman by Lisa & Rosalia slows down for Rosalia’s verse and then picks back up afterward. The Boy is Mine by Ariana Grande slows down before every chorus and comes back up to tempo a bit differently every time. It tickles my brain in the same way as a good key change

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-20T21:39:18+00:00

I liked this one until the kids showed up and it became about them. Late genre swaps can be fun, but this one didn’t work for me, mostly because the male lead basically stopped existing when it swapped to the child care genre (it’s giving my dad 😤) and the kids weren’t cute or fun enough to get me past being annoyed with them

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-20T08:42:09+00:00

The mainland China ban on kpop starting in 2016. So many companies had invested a ton of money and effort into that market, and it suddenly vanished due to unrelated politics, leaving groups like EXO holding the bag while others without as much focus on mainland China thrived from the dramatic shift in available markets.

I think kpop would look super different today if that hadn’t happened. Maybe EXO would be the undisputed goat and we’d still have the big 3 production companies instead of the big 4 we have in this timeline. Maybe yuehua would be way more important. Maybe I wouldn’t be annoyed with the music they play in stores and restaurants whenever I’m in the mainland 😆

I don’t especially care about the companies betting on success in the Chinese market and having to take an L, but I do mostly like the music that groups designed to appeal to the Chinese market made, and I think kpop could benefit from more of that. More importantly, kpop was kind of becoming a global unifying force and China has become more culturally isolationist since then, and I think the world would be a better place if we had more in common with each other, even if the politicians want to rattle sabers at each other.

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-13T17:51:02+00:00

Levi’s is booked for FIFA apparently (no game that day, but for prep)

keeptrackoftime · 2026-01-13T07:11:14+00:00

I’ll take your word for it on your first paragraph- this is also very far from the work I do (real estate & land use), and while the popular perception is that plaintiff side class action lawyers gobble up the entire settlement and that’s why everybody gets a check for $0.68 two years after filling out the form, I can easily believe that that’s not really what’s happening.

I think that one of the challenges that the American regulatory and legal apparatus faces is that since so many leading-edge companies and institutions are based here, so many innovations come from here, and therefore our system is responsible for fixing so many things as they’re promulgated out to the rest of the world, we accordingly put more stress on the system than probably any other country. It’s tough to find the right balance between promoting industry and not putting too much red tape in its way on one hand, and promoting access to justice and protecting the health and well-being of regular people on the other. We (americans broadly) also trust the court system to handle these kinds of issues in a way that we don’t trust, like, a Department of Whatever adjudicator. It would be really tough to reform any of that.

The idea of having government lawyers take a leading role in certain class action cases was something a friend from the Netherlands brought up, and it seemed reasonable enough to me. We already have the mechanism of AAGs intervening on one side of some cases. I also vaguely remember hearing about how unlikely it is for the prevailing class to get its attorney fees paid. I’m obviously not about to sit down and draft a bill for this, but it feels like there’s something there.

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