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Big Ol’ Billy
@bigolbilly.bsky.social
Doom modder | bouzouki, etc. with Wasted Wine | PhD, ex-academic (expect some sociology)

Doom projects: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Big_Ol%27_Billy
Music: https://wastedwine.com
Solo music: https://manifestsons.bandcamp.com/album/rich-idiot-condos

He/him
PURCHASED A PAIR OF FLABBY WINGS-AH
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 AM
#nowplaying on #compactdisc

Ulver - Shadows of the Sun (2007)

S-tier gloomy Tuesday morning music
October 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
P impressed with #nokings in downtown Greenville, SC. Massive crowd, speakers on Palestine, reproductive rights, police brutality. LGBTQ+ and immigration signs probably outnumbered the “Putin’s Puppet”-type lib stuff, which is great to see in this neck of the woods
October 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
September 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
#nowplaying #compactdisc

This deeeeep cut Italian prog album makes me thankful for the improved (if imperfect) translation tools we have today. Not my favorite LP musically, but it’s really fascinating that this is a concept album about the (internal) migrant experience in 1970s Italy.
September 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
One day campus speech will be so free that every class will simply rehash the Dubois-Stoddard debate (Dubois side optional)
September 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
It’s been interesting to return to 70s Italian prog, maybe the first hyper-niche music genre I obsessed over in my teens, as the USA is experiencing its own Years of Lead. Wild to think how much I loved this music while not understanding that there was anything particularly political about it
September 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Playin the bouzouki, feelin a lil spooky
September 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Keeping on my current Italian prog kick with this hard-rockin’ but also prettily-flutin’ album by De de Lind. Bonus points for the wonderfully named frontman Vito Paradiso 🇮🇹

#nowplaying #compactdisc
September 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Hard to pick my favorite part of these auto-translated 1973 Italian prog album liner notes, but “Lil Mental Block” is a real keeper.
August 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The lowest form of this is the microgenre of books I read for my dissertation research: basically guides for using startup principles to build new churches
August 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This passage in particular is a pretty shocking conflation! The purposeful design of the Pac-Man ghosts is such a fundamentally different thing than “sure, let’s just use ChatGPT for NPC dialogue.” If someone doesn’t understand that idk if they should be writing about games
July 29, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Got the turntable set up in my new place just in time! #vinyl
July 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
July 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
July 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
There was a massive amount of protest, although its impact was hard to feel in the US, especially in media. My memory of the time is certainly a lonely one—the first real political thing I ever did was taking part in a pitifully small antiwar protest at my conservative Southern college
June 19, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I’m intrigued but not sure if I’ll be able to fully appreciate it without watching the first Lusty Liaisons 🤔
May 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Amazing just how well Fritz Lang’s M holds up at nearly 100 years old. Besides being beautiful and eerie, it has a shockingly relevant take on how real predation on children can feed into state repression of undesirables, general paranoia and distrust, and unhinged vigilantism
May 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Lotta possibilities here
May 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
May 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Laura Beyer’s Doom Remastered when
May 9, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I’ve been reading this since Feb and it’s been a great slow read with a lot to savor
May 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Not sure I understand the “type” categories—so if something is a family mass killing it isn’t a felony mass killing? And a few “public” mass killings were committed in residences? Also I see there’s a separate family “situation type.” 🤔
April 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Du Bois on the “fetich-worship” of the Consitution: “No more idiotic program could be laid down than to require a people to follow the written rule of govt 90 years old… Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice, and plain common-sense.”
April 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Post a picture of who you wanted to be as a kid.
April 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM