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A couple of K Records shirts dyed for a respected mutual 🫡
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 AM
A couple of K Records shirts dyed for a respected mutual 🫡
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Finland clings to happiness crown as economic gloom deepens reut.rs/43Q33BP
Finland clings to happiness crown as economic gloom deepens
Harsh economic headwinds are sending a chill through the world's happiest country. But after 1,000 days of unemployment, 33-year-old Juho-Pekka Palomaa hasn't let Finland's problems get him down just yet.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Finland clings to happiness crown as economic gloom deepens reut.rs/43Q33BP
#Propaganda's voice, calling from 1984, arrives in 2025 not as nostalgia but as a transmission we're only now equipped to decode. #JillSinclair and #AnneDudley crafted the recursive architecture of #ZTT that allows it to exist in multiple timeframes at once.
Propaganda's Red Shift and ZTT's Sonic Temple
Forever 20 Minutes into the Future
The 2025 release of A Secret Sense of Rhythm, A Secret Sense of Sin: The Complete ZTT Propaganda offers six discs spanning their time on ZTT Records (1983-85), cura...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
#Propaganda's voice, calling from 1984, arrives in 2025 not as nostalgia but as a transmission we're only now equipped to decode. #JillSinclair and #AnneDudley crafted the recursive architecture of #ZTT that allows it to exist in multiple timeframes at once.
#TheBigBoxSet has all the hand-crafted charm of old school public access TV with the kind of production values that the cable channel folks could only have dreamed about. Full disclosure: my wife is playing bass here. #Rocketship #indiepop
The Big Box Set - Episode 16 - Rocketship
YouTube video by Playland Studio
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November 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
#TheBigBoxSet has all the hand-crafted charm of old school public access TV with the kind of production values that the cable channel folks could only have dreamed about. Full disclosure: my wife is playing bass here. #Rocketship #indiepop
The frontier city of Port Meridian sits at the edge of a war nobody fully understands. Offworld megacorps, independent militias, smugglers, foreign advisors, and desperate locals collide in a place where loyalties shift with the next shipment or the next whispered betrayal.
JARLS: The Crossroads
"One dusty world, too many flags, and nowhere to hide."
An anthropomorphic sci-fi setting for Just Another Rules-Light System (JARLS)
Core Premise
On a distant colony world — part desert, part cont...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The frontier city of Port Meridian sits at the edge of a war nobody fully understands. Offworld megacorps, independent militias, smugglers, foreign advisors, and desperate locals collide in a place where loyalties shift with the next shipment or the next whispered betrayal.
The through-line connecting Stevie Wonder's metronomic drums to Sacred Harp's collective surge, from basement rehearsals to authenticity influencers, is the recognition that constraint produces meaning. Musical expression doesn't emerge despite limitations but through them.
The Architecture of Imperfection
Constraint, Precision, and Presence in Musical Performance
Preface
This essay examines musical performance through the lens of constraint theory—not as aesthetic criticism but as systems analysis. ...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The through-line connecting Stevie Wonder's metronomic drums to Sacred Harp's collective surge, from basement rehearsals to authenticity influencers, is the recognition that constraint produces meaning. Musical expression doesn't emerge despite limitations but through them.
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Four decades back a major label released a debut album that sounded like almost nothing on earth while still sounding incredibly familiar. Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett takes stock of it all
Happy Birthday to the JAMC's Psychocandy, which turns 40 today!
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Happy Birthday to the JAMC's Psychocandy, which turns 40 today!
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November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Four decades back a major label released a debut album that sounded like almost nothing on earth while still sounding incredibly familiar. Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett takes stock of it all
Happy Birthday to the JAMC's Psychocandy, which turns 40 today!
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Happy Birthday to the JAMC's Psychocandy, which turns 40 today!
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November 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
We're all lobsters. The water is genuinely boiling. And the truly absurd cosmic joke is that understanding this changes absolutely nothing about our evolutionary programming or our thermodynamic trajectory.
But at least we can laugh about it.
But at least we can laugh about it.
The Shellfish Gene: A Natural History of Homo Politicus in Late-Stage Democracy
A Field Guide to Evolutionary Maladaptation in the American Seafood Boil
Preface: A Note from the Researcher
This document represents three months of participant observation within the American pol...
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November 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
We're all lobsters. The water is genuinely boiling. And the truly absurd cosmic joke is that understanding this changes absolutely nothing about our evolutionary programming or our thermodynamic trajectory.
But at least we can laugh about it.
But at least we can laugh about it.
Sir, you *are* the skirmish aesthetic. ❤️
Wanna get into simple skirmish games. Sword weirdos good?
November 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Sir, you *are* the skirmish aesthetic. ❤️
You are officers of the Ordo Arbitrae —a sisterhood empowered to arbitrate disputes of faith, doctrine, and institutional order. When evidence conflicts with truth, when conscience conflicts with duty, you are the final word. A #TTRPG #oneshot inspired by @ironlily.bsky.social and #UmbertoEco
Women At Arms: The Silence At Saint Corvin's
A One-Shot Scenario of Women at Arms
WHAT YOU NEED
* Mörk Borg Bare Bones Edition (core rules)
* JARLS: Pressure Drop (Stress, Bonds, Heat mechanics)
* Four players, one GM
* Standard polyhedra...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
You are officers of the Ordo Arbitrae —a sisterhood empowered to arbitrate disputes of faith, doctrine, and institutional order. When evidence conflicts with truth, when conscience conflicts with duty, you are the final word. A #TTRPG #oneshot inspired by @ironlily.bsky.social and #UmbertoEco
Four scenarios of industrial futility. Strip the spectacle from mecha warfare. The O'Neill Cylinder Clock ticks toward 20. You are not heroes. You are pilots in metal coffins. Free TTRPG powered by MÖRK BORG.
Mecha Borg: Complete Edition by hotel.kilo
One-shot tabletop RPG about pilots in mass-produced war machines fighting losing battles
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November 15, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Four scenarios of industrial futility. Strip the spectacle from mecha warfare. The O'Neill Cylinder Clock ticks toward 20. You are not heroes. You are pilots in metal coffins. Free TTRPG powered by MÖRK BORG.
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What an unexpected and welcome gift! A time capsule of a band hitting its stride, viewed from the inside when the sense of adventure and wonder outweighed the road fatigue. Their cover of "Love At First Sight" is one of their finer moments, and a welcome inclusion in the film. #lush #4ad #shoegaze
I am very pleased to announce that Phil King/@junkshopper's 'Lush: A Far From Home Movie', is now on YouTube for all to see.
I very much enjoyed appearing with Phil last year at various events, at home abroad, discussing the film with him and the audience.
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I very much enjoyed appearing with Phil last year at various events, at home abroad, discussing the film with him and the audience.
www.youtube.com/watchv=ow3jE...
Lush: A Far from Home Movie
YouTube video by 4AD
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November 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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'Museum of Sound - A Mika Vainio Listening Room' @ Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark, 12th-30th November 2025.
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#MikaVainio #MuseumOfSound #SähköRecordings #SahkoRecordings #Sahko #KunsthalCharlottenburg #Copenhagen #Denmark
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#MikaVainio #MuseumOfSound #SähköRecordings #SahkoRecordings #Sahko #KunsthalCharlottenburg #Copenhagen #Denmark
November 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
'Museum of Sound - A Mika Vainio Listening Room' @ Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark, 12th-30th November 2025.
kunsthalcharlottenborg.dk/en/cinema/mu...
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#MikaVainio #MuseumOfSound #SähköRecordings #SahkoRecordings #Sahko #KunsthalCharlottenburg #Copenhagen #Denmark
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#MikaVainio #MuseumOfSound #SähköRecordings #SahkoRecordings #Sahko #KunsthalCharlottenburg #Copenhagen #Denmark
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I’m stoked to announce that we have a lil art book brewing, featuring works from 100 artists celebrating the style of HR Giger. The 240 page collection is made in official collaboration with the HR Giger Estate, and the campaign is up NOW. Visit www.kickstarter.com/projects/spi... for more, thanks!
November 12, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I’m stoked to announce that we have a lil art book brewing, featuring works from 100 artists celebrating the style of HR Giger. The 240 page collection is made in official collaboration with the HR Giger Estate, and the campaign is up NOW. Visit www.kickstarter.com/projects/spi... for more, thanks!
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Excerpt of my new film Atmospheric Offence, a reworking of Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hicker and a study of noir serial killing
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Excerpt of my new film Atmospheric Offence, a reworking of Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hicker and a study of noir serial killing
The henhouse isn't going to be rebuilt. It's going to collapse, spectacularly, on a random Tuesday when the wrong spreadsheet cell turns red. And on that day, every politician who spent a decade saying "we can't rush this" will discover—live on cable news—that physics doesn't negotiate.
A Chicken Run: The Disintegrating Hen House of American Healthcare
Author's Note: This essay was written during the federal government shutdown of 2025, completed hours before the Senate voted 60-40 on November 9th to advance a spending deal ending the crisis. The an...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The henhouse isn't going to be rebuilt. It's going to collapse, spectacularly, on a random Tuesday when the wrong spreadsheet cell turns red. And on that day, every politician who spent a decade saying "we can't rush this" will discover—live on cable news—that physics doesn't negotiate.
MÖRK BORG is McLuhan's "medium is the message" exemplified. It not only captured the aesthetics and ethos of "extreme" metal, but made them part of a TTRPG experience. The eyebleed splatter of its layout and art, materiality as part of the statement, demands that you own this as a physical object.
When MÖRK BORG appeared in 2020, it looked like a black metal album that had been accidentally printed in the games section.
A yellow spot that lit up the shelf.
MÖRK BORG was ugly, dirty, and evil.
And yellow.
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A yellow spot that lit up the shelf.
MÖRK BORG was ugly, dirty, and evil.
And yellow.
Read and subscribe to my substack for free: colpicritici.substack.com/p/mork-borg-...
November 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
MÖRK BORG is McLuhan's "medium is the message" exemplified. It not only captured the aesthetics and ethos of "extreme" metal, but made them part of a TTRPG experience. The eyebleed splatter of its layout and art, materiality as part of the statement, demands that you own this as a physical object.
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Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
#Costco is probably one of the biggest #pizza slingers out there, and I gotta say their #turntable for slapping sauce on the dough is a strange delight to witness. Anyway, here’s a close up of the #cheese vista on a slice. Kinda like a quest reward for completing a #speedrun of the place.
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
#Costco is probably one of the biggest #pizza slingers out there, and I gotta say their #turntable for slapping sauce on the dough is a strange delight to witness. Anyway, here’s a close up of the #cheese vista on a slice. Kinda like a quest reward for completing a #speedrun of the place.
Kendra Smith went to her cabin with her chickens and solar panels thirty years ago. She made her record, stepped away, and the culture forgot to mythologize her. That lack of mythology may be her most valuable legacy. #4ad #opal #thedreamsyndicate #kendrasmith
Kendra Smith and the Sixth Way of Disappearing
In 1995, Kendra Smith released Five Ways of Disappearing on 4AD and then did something that seemed quaint even then: she vanished. Not into rehab or a comeback tour postponed indefinitely, but into a ...
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November 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Kendra Smith went to her cabin with her chickens and solar panels thirty years ago. She made her record, stepped away, and the culture forgot to mythologize her. That lack of mythology may be her most valuable legacy. #4ad #opal #thedreamsyndicate #kendrasmith
November 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"Our long game is paying off." -- Chairman Meow
Data shows that pet owners are increasingly buying food that resembles their own diets as part of the trend toward treating pets as family.
Pets contribute to greenhouse gases like us. Here's how to reduce their carbon pawprint
Data shows that pet owners are increasingly buying food that resembles their own diets as part of the trend toward treating pets as family.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
"Our long game is paying off." -- Chairman Meow