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Paul VanKoughnett (Retired, Pensionär)
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a ancient man
3 days after buying a reverb pedal: what i could really use is 2 reverb pedals
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 AM
journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/doc...

Who do we think he was talking to in this one? Seems to be giving advice about US-China Diplomacy? Advice such as "That's why a military display makes sense. Let them and others see, daddys.
Spanking paddle"
and
"First chapter art of war"
Pinpoint
journaliststudio.google.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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This is cool. COURIER has created a searchable database with all 20,000 of the files just released from Epstein’s estate.

Trump's name appears in them more than anyone else, in 1,628 documents.
couriernewsroom.com/news/we-crea...
We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate
Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.
couriernewsroom.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
They really named it the Steam Machine and not the Steam Engine?
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Might fuck around and invent a new form of masculinity. "Glancemales" or some shit. "Pastaboys." We'll lock down the exact language once we get some VCs on board.
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
What do you think they’re doing? Answer in the replies.
November 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 5:03 AM
for almost every instrument you have to keep activating some muscle to keep the sound going.

EXCEPT: the guitar family, harps, xylophones etc., and cymbals. (and some weird electronic stuff)
November 8, 2025 at 5:21 AM
judyhauff.bandcamp.com/album/sacred...

1) this is really cool,
2) she sounds like Judee Sill kinda,
3) an underappreciated hallmark of shapenote style is the pangender octave-doubling of the tenors & trebles, which results in closer harmonies than you’d get from a sex-segregated chiurch choir
Sacred Harp Minor Tunes with the Sixths Raised (Dorian), by Judy Hauff
29 track album
judyhauff.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The people have spoken. It's OK to throw sandwiches at ICE officers. Encouraged, even.
November 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Dog food… but for men. How devilish.
November 6, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Many find these operations baffling. Vexing, even. But to me? They’re trivial.
November 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
saying "comathematicians turn cotheorems into ffee" and so forth is a way of demonstrating concept mastery (and thus group belonging) by successful play. that's pretty interesting, i think -- both the link between mastery and play and the idea that play can succeed or fail.
November 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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He code switches in the South and with black audiences.
November 2, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Am I crazy or does he sound more Southern than he used to? He's doing /aɪ/ -> [a]. Is it because he's in Virginia?
Obama: They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and D.E.I. For every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? D.E.I.. Wife mad at you? D.E.I..
November 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Do y’all have favorite websites/blogs for good writing about music? I feel like I’m always looking for it and am never quite satisfied. Basically any genre is good if the writer’s bringing some depth to the table.
November 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Going to have to accept that this Halloween mix is not going to be ready for Halloween.
October 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Getting a job at Guitar Center but always calling it “The Guitar Center” for some reason
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Worried about what people are saying about me on Threads
October 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
going to rocky horror
October 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
If you’re on RYM you should add me. I review stuff occasionally. For all its faults it is my favorite website. rateyourmusic.com/~allispaul
rateyourmusic.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
the ubiquity of LLMs means that we need more than ever to lean into Negative Lines of Code (NLOC) as a productivity metric.
October 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
UPDATE: I put everything back together and the TV just works now.
this is allll power supply for my busted tv. so complicated!
October 23, 2025 at 3:45 AM