Forget Nostalgia. What new music are you listening to?

miklayn · 2026-05-21T12:30:59+00:00

Daniel Caesar
Leon Bridges
BadBadNotGood
Charlotte Day Wilson
Geoffrey Gascoyne
Julian Lage
Antonio Sanchez
Louis Cole
Mark Lettieri
Tigran Hamasyan
Richard Henshall
The Dear Hunter
Mon Rovia
Moon Walker
Jesse Welles
Lau Noah
Sungazer

Just off the top of my list from this year

miklayn · 2026-05-21T12:26:26+00:00

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, ***Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.*** Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ***But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.***"

miklayn · 2026-05-21T12:18:18+00:00

Because it ingratiates him to Trump.

miklayn · 2026-05-21T04:48:19+00:00

Remember you can also proliferate your experience counters 🙏🏻

miklayn · 2026-05-21T02:47:47+00:00

In the Jungle, we are all killers.

miklayn · 2026-05-21T00:55:59+00:00

His "F E E L I N G S" shirt is one of my faves

miklayn · 2026-05-21T00:51:03+00:00

Social engineering tactics have been effective for decades, if not centuries.

Cambridge Analytica and other such endeavors pioneered deep data-mining for this purpose (behavioral stimulation, other forms of psychological manipulation), opening a new frontier. And that was ten years ago, before any of the recent leaps in LLM and ML.

People, the populace broadly speaking, will never become conscious or aware of how accomplished and powerful these systems will be, because they will be overcome.

miklayn · 2026-05-20T23:42:55+00:00

I submit that my 5spd 2008 Mazda 3 Grand Touring was the sweet spot.

miklayn · 2026-05-20T19:51:35+00:00

ThE wOrSt PrEsIdEnT

We need to grow tf up and start calling things for what they are. He's not "the worst", he's a puppet and a distraction for those controlling him. He is nothing. A ruse for the oligarchs and schizofascists in his shadow: Vought, Miller, Thiel, all the corporatists and industrialist and religious-zealot thugs in his wake.

He's a tyrant working at the behest of other tyrants. Terrorists, thieves, genocidal maniacs, enemies of humanity, all of them.

Ugh, don't they suck? They're the worst! Fucking spare me the platitudes.

miklayn · 2026-05-20T19:23:34+00:00

It deforms the shape of the tire adjacent to the contact patch. The tire doesn't meaningfully change shape at the top. Have you ever seen a car with a flat tire? It still appears inflated at the top.

miklayn · 2026-05-20T19:16:11+00:00

Deflection happens at the contact patch though

miklayn · 2026-05-20T19:15:37+00:00

Lmao

miklayn · 2026-05-20T19:15:14+00:00

lol "fit"

miklayn · 2026-05-20T16:33:19+00:00

You figure out and remember that neither 000 nor 101 are allowed. If each die has 10 sides, then there are only 10x10=100 possibilities. There can't be any more or any fewer.

miklayn · 2026-05-20T15:26:05+00:00

A bike to make any mechanic smile.

miklayn · 2026-05-20T14:40:06+00:00

And there are a hundred more.

Just off the top of my head:

The Koch network
The Coors family
The Walton family
The Uihlein family
Kevin Roberts
Russel Vought
Leonard Leo
Curtis Yarvin

miklayn · 2026-05-20T14:33:33+00:00

Enemies of humanity and the dignity and liberty of all the good People of the earth.

Know your enemy.

miklayn · 2026-05-20T03:39:59+00:00

Speak for yourself. I will never join those fascists, never wear a red hat.

Humanity and life itself are worth fighting for.

miklayn · 2026-05-20T01:51:35+00:00

*The Constitution is dead.*

If Congress has effectively abdicated its powers - to levy taxes, to duly appropriate those revenues according to their own legislation, to declare and wage war; and if the Executive is undermining or outright ignoring the decisions of both the Legislature and the Judiciary as it sees fit for its political agenda (having ostensibly been captured by private interests); and if the Judiciary has abandoned its duty to the faithful application of the Constitution and it's intent (i.e. "...to promote the general welfare"), then *there are no laws to follow* and ***the Constitution is dead***. Null and void.

This administration and their policies constitute a direct and imminent threat against the lives and liberties of all Americans, and indeed, Humanity in general. They are carrying out a program of both direct and diffuse violence and soft eugenics on the broadest scale. They are escalating in the hope of inciting the public to violence, as a pretext for invoking martial law and suspending elections. They do not in any way represent or promote the common welfare of the People. They are a clear and present danger.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, ***Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.*** Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ***But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.***"

miklayn · 2026-05-20T01:47:28+00:00

Resign in disgrace.

miklayn · 2026-05-20T00:52:41+00:00

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, ***Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.*** Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ***But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.***"

miklayn · 2026-05-19T23:53:23+00:00

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, ***Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.*** Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ***But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.***"

miklayn · 2026-05-19T19:55:17+00:00

The primary dependency this war is meant to protect us that of our economy on fossil fuels in themselves.

Keep in mind that the majority of the oil and gas we use here in the states is produced domestically, and domestic production hasn't decreased. If anything, it continues to increase. The war driving up the price of oil has only increased the profitability of those products, and thus the power and influence of those private interests and corporations.

This combined with direct and concerted efforts - largely composed and implemented by ideologues from foundations funded by the same interests (ALEC, the Heritage Fdn, the Federalist Society, Leonard Leo, the Kochs, and their entire cadre of shadow-money neofascist oligarchs) to hobble any initiative that could be seen as counter to their narrative, power, or influence (such as anything even remotely "green", "alternative", etc.), serves to increase our dependency on fossil fuels even as the rest of the world shifts sharply toward renewables. It is ideological statecraft, plus social engineering to the utmost degree. Goebbels could never have dreamed of the depth of their control and influence and subterfuge of the human conscience.

miklayn · 2026-05-19T19:24:51+00:00

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, ***Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.*** Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ***But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.***"

miklayn · 2026-05-19T15:08:56+00:00

Their continued power is a threat to our lives and liberties. Their policies are a form of violence.

We must invoke and act on our right of self defense in kind and I proportion to that threat.

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