nostick
@spottornado.bsky.social
Welcome to the new dark age. Guitar, cheap hi-fi, wooden boats, politics, and Lake Superior. He/him. Minnesota. Everyone deserves to be treated humanely. Chinga la migra.
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"Someone you love could go hungry because this MAGA regime and the corporate cowards that support them are stealing food from our families while they cut our healthcare, raise our prices and abduct our neighbors." @anatosaurus.bsky.social with @anandwrites.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"Someone you love could go hungry because this MAGA regime and the corporate cowards that support them are stealing food from our families while they cut our healthcare, raise our prices and abduct our neighbors." @anatosaurus.bsky.social with @anandwrites.bsky.social
Today I built the AionFX Celeritas, a clone of the Greer Lightspeed. Battery-only for now so I can try it before I label and paint the enclosure. AionFX does great work. I'm floored; this has cured my aversion to soft clipping overdrives. The Lightspeed circuit has some real mojo. #guitareffects
November 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Today I built the AionFX Celeritas, a clone of the Greer Lightspeed. Battery-only for now so I can try it before I label and paint the enclosure. AionFX does great work. I'm floored; this has cured my aversion to soft clipping overdrives. The Lightspeed circuit has some real mojo. #guitareffects
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The Bluesky government accounts want unhinged engagement with their accounts to screenshot and provide to Fox News to justify their authoritarianism and I’m not going to do their work for them it’s my day off.
October 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
The Bluesky government accounts want unhinged engagement with their accounts to screenshot and provide to Fox News to justify their authoritarianism and I’m not going to do their work for them it’s my day off.
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The Trump admin has come to bluesky. These new accounts for gov agencies are not run by anyone we know in the agencies and have all started off with Hatch Act violations.
In true bsky fashion, I'll be blocking the lot of them rather than giving them any engagement.
In true bsky fashion, I'll be blocking the lot of them rather than giving them any engagement.
October 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The Trump admin has come to bluesky. These new accounts for gov agencies are not run by anyone we know in the agencies and have all started off with Hatch Act violations.
In true bsky fashion, I'll be blocking the lot of them rather than giving them any engagement.
In true bsky fashion, I'll be blocking the lot of them rather than giving them any engagement.
Breadboarding the Greer Lightspeed, continuing my chase for overdrives that combine well with my home built 18 watt Marshall 1974x. I have the wrong op-amp (Greer uses a costly OPA2134 which I don't have yet) and wrong diodes. It sounds very good though, a simple asymmetric soft clipper.
October 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Breadboarding the Greer Lightspeed, continuing my chase for overdrives that combine well with my home built 18 watt Marshall 1974x. I have the wrong op-amp (Greer uses a costly OPA2134 which I don't have yet) and wrong diodes. It sounds very good though, a simple asymmetric soft clipper.
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This is a long, thoughtful, and brilliant post about how to understand political campaigning & strategy from one of the progressive left's most brilliant thinkers and practitioners @anatosaurus.bsky.social. Read it and listen to her: Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight open.substack.com/pub/michaelp...
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.
open.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This is a long, thoughtful, and brilliant post about how to understand political campaigning & strategy from one of the progressive left's most brilliant thinkers and practitioners @anatosaurus.bsky.social. Read it and listen to her: Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight open.substack.com/pub/michaelp...
My "Tone Prince" overdrive. a modified Aion Achilles, itself a clone of the AnalogMan Prince of Tone. Mine has more bass in the LO-MID selection and a bit more compression in TURBO. Graphics feature a copyrighted symbol hence the scribble.
October 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
My "Tone Prince" overdrive. a modified Aion Achilles, itself a clone of the AnalogMan Prince of Tone. Mine has more bass in the LO-MID selection and a bit more compression in TURBO. Graphics feature a copyrighted symbol hence the scribble.
Mamdani's New Birth of Freedom — coreyrobin.com/2025/09/29/m...
Mamdani’s New Birth of Freedom
Reading this New York Times report on Eric Adams’ dropping out of the race—where Adams is described, with no sense of irony, as “politically moderate” and is quoted as warning against Mamdani’s desire...
coreyrobin.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Mamdani's New Birth of Freedom — coreyrobin.com/2025/09/29/m...
So if the purpose of the military is to kill people and break things and they are deployed inside of America, guess who gets killed and what gets broken.
September 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
So if the purpose of the military is to kill people and break things and they are deployed inside of America, guess who gets killed and what gets broken.
Working on a mildly modded Analogman Prince of Tone circuit courtesy of the Aion FX Achilles PCB. For one, the PoT has an aggressive low end cut, and the supposed corrective effect of its "mid boost" DIP is nearly inaudible to my barbaric ears. #guitareffects
August 29, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Working on a mildly modded Analogman Prince of Tone circuit courtesy of the Aion FX Achilles PCB. For one, the PoT has an aggressive low end cut, and the supposed corrective effect of its "mid boost" DIP is nearly inaudible to my barbaric ears. #guitareffects
Minnesota Public Radio hosts and guests expressing utter bafflement as to how this sort of thing might be prevented.
August 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Minnesota Public Radio hosts and guests expressing utter bafflement as to how this sort of thing might be prevented.
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I got around to reading this closely and it's an easy education in how David Shor rigs things. The tested messaging on deploying the National Guard is actually shit - so they lead you to conclude that the *focus* is shit, instead of the fact that the test message is (deliberately) shit
This memo is being sent to Democratic leaders/elites,
arguing that directly attacking Trump's deployment of the National Guard in DC is politically unwise. It encourages the use of terms like distraction and stunt. (I am not endorsing this kind of thinking at all. ) www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bz9d8...
arguing that directly attacking Trump's deployment of the National Guard in DC is politically unwise. It encourages the use of terms like distraction and stunt. (I am not endorsing this kind of thinking at all. ) www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bz9d8...
www.dropbox.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I got around to reading this closely and it's an easy education in how David Shor rigs things. The tested messaging on deploying the National Guard is actually shit - so they lead you to conclude that the *focus* is shit, instead of the fact that the test message is (deliberately) shit
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I got s lot of responses to recent posts hating on "AI" saying, smugly, "well, I don't use AI."
I thought: well, um...
youtu.be/86nhP8tvbLY?...
I thought: well, um...
youtu.be/86nhP8tvbLY?...
YouTube Is Using AI to Alter Content (and not telling us)
YouTube video by Rhett Shull
youtu.be
August 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I got s lot of responses to recent posts hating on "AI" saying, smugly, "well, I don't use AI."
I thought: well, um...
youtu.be/86nhP8tvbLY?...
I thought: well, um...
youtu.be/86nhP8tvbLY?...
The AnalogMan Prince of Tone circuit. He describes the effect of the DIP switches as "subtle," I would go with "inaudible." Hoping to mod these sections to get an effect I can actually hear in my setup, which is HSS Strat to Marshall 18 Watt.
July 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The AnalogMan Prince of Tone circuit. He describes the effect of the DIP switches as "subtle," I would go with "inaudible." Hoping to mod these sections to get an effect I can actually hear in my setup, which is HSS Strat to Marshall 18 Watt.
Most of AnalogMan's Prince of Tone, via the Aion Effects "Achilles" schematic. Having the usual honeymoon where I think this is the #guitareffects I have been looking for all my life. Very excited to build this for real. Unlikely to do any mods but have not played through it LOUD yet.
July 1, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Most of AnalogMan's Prince of Tone, via the Aion Effects "Achilles" schematic. Having the usual honeymoon where I think this is the #guitareffects I have been looking for all my life. Very excited to build this for real. Unlikely to do any mods but have not played through it LOUD yet.
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It was pretty fun, got to see this. Good luck on your project!
June 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
It was pretty fun, got to see this. Good luck on your project!
Um okay I just saw "heartwarming" footage of the @okcthunder.bsky.social greeting fans through a 10' high chain link fence. What the hell was that?
June 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Um okay I just saw "heartwarming" footage of the @okcthunder.bsky.social greeting fans through a 10' high chain link fence. What the hell was that?
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An important thing to know about Donald Trump is that very few people actually like him! The structure of his support at this point is a relatively small number of psychotic groypers and a much larger swathe of the public who have been convinced by right-wing propaganda that Democrats are worse.
I don’t mean this in the conspiratorial way, I accept that it happened, but how in the blue fuck can a country that turns out millions for anti-Trump protests and barely thousands for his lame ass birthday parade be <8 months out from having re-elected him?
June 15, 2025 at 4:37 AM
An important thing to know about Donald Trump is that very few people actually like him! The structure of his support at this point is a relatively small number of psychotic groypers and a much larger swathe of the public who have been convinced by right-wing propaganda that Democrats are worse.
In just the last week how many officials have publicly condoned or celebrated violence? Ron Desantis, Mike Johnson, a bunch of others.
June 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
In just the last week how many officials have publicly condoned or celebrated violence? Ron Desantis, Mike Johnson, a bunch of others.
Has anyone done a Woodstock style split screen movie where on one side people go shopping at Target and talk about TV shows and on the other side the same country descends into fascism? The Official Story is a little bit like that, but with the opposite timeline.
June 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Has anyone done a Woodstock style split screen movie where on one side people go shopping at Target and talk about TV shows and on the other side the same country descends into fascism? The Official Story is a little bit like that, but with the opposite timeline.
Democratic focus group goal: what should our message be and how carefully must we deliver it? Republican focus group goal: is our message breaking through or do we have to push it harder?
May 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Democratic focus group goal: what should our message be and how carefully must we deliver it? Republican focus group goal: is our message breaking through or do we have to push it harder?
Thanks to the cheap scab U.S. president many feds have a new entry on their pay stub this week marked "REVOCATION OF AUTHORIZATION" that un-deducts union dues from their paychecks.
May 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Thanks to the cheap scab U.S. president many feds have a new entry on their pay stub this week marked "REVOCATION OF AUTHORIZATION" that un-deducts union dues from their paychecks.
For my main setup ("Lone Star" Strat bridge humbucker into an 18W Marshall breaking up some) the JHS NOTADÜMBLË really REALLY works. NOTAJOKE. #guitareffects
May 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
For my main setup ("Lone Star" Strat bridge humbucker into an 18W Marshall breaking up some) the JHS NOTADÜMBLË really REALLY works. NOTAJOKE. #guitareffects