#REQUIRED LISTENING

[omnifuneral]

“I mean, I am not a political thinker at all. That is not my set of talents. I know that everyone on earth thinks they are a political thinker right now, but I am the one person who doesn't. I am not qualified.

That's not really what I'm interested in. I'm interested in how people are thinking. And I guess over the past 15 years, my main instinct has been one of resistance to the medium they are thinking in.

So, for me, the thing with the internet, don't get me wrong, I like the internet, but this particular version of the internet, this social internet, from the very beginning, one of the first big essays I wrote, it's about Facebook, was the idea that the actual algorithm is not neutral. It is ideological. And I don't mean that it radicalizes you to a particular politics.

I mean it is a behavior modification system. And I really believe that. It's not people's politics I object to, it's that they're doing all their thinking through this medium, which they seem to consider neutral. And it isn't neutral. It has, like, literal colonial plans for your consciousness.

It wants your brain all the time. It is funded by some of the richest people in this world, it wants your attention and it has its own rules of engagement.

And all I'm trying to say over and over again is: have all your views, but have you tried having them independently of this machine, which is manipulating you day and night. Because my main experience is, I guess, because I'm not on it... it's like when you're not on heroin and everyone's on heroin, nobody thinks they're behaving any differently.”

from This Cultural Life: Zadie Smith, May 30, 2024

[joegramoe]

...and she saved enough to get back home, when spring replaced the winter

[half-doomed]

Everybody go here with me

[echolaliaplayer]

Sad I can only link the radio edit on here but whatever all your attention spans are shot. Sorry it's not a minute long with a custom GTAV racetrack in the background or whatever

[iwanthermidnightz]

iwhm! Very important and very gay question for you! What are some of your fave MUNA and boygenius songs??? I’m super curious! Love ya!

My favorite topic: gay 😂

boygenius (oh I didn’t tell you guys about how I saw them live a few months ago and I’ve never seen so many queer/lesbian/sapphics in one place and we were all staring at each other)

not strong enough ★ cool about it ★ true blue ★ we’re in love ★ letter to an old poet ★ satanist ★ me & my dog

MUNA

one that got away ★ silk chiffon ★ number one fan ★ stayaway ★ what i want ★ so special

[likeadog]

TATĂ, 🗣🗣🗣🗣 ŞI MĂMUCĂ DRAGĂ 🔊🔊🔊🔊 NU M-AŢI ÎNTREBAT DE VREAU ✨🎉🎉🎧🎹🎹🎻🎻🥁🥁🥁 SĂ SĂLĂŞLUIESC ÎN LUME 💃💃💃🤘🤘🤘 SĂ GRIJESC DE OI SĂ STAU!

[slicksquid]

I love BFG division more than I love myself

[valdiis]

“First of May (ASL version)” by Jonathan Coulton (Warning: lewd language)

[half-doomed]

Required listening !!!

[echolaliaplayer]

Not sure this is the original video because I'm pretty sure I first saw this when I was 15. Either way, irreversibly altered the course of my aesthetic sense and music taste into synth kitsch trash, my version of the early teen AMV phase. Deeply treasured time in my life, fucking with pirated NI Massive and vengeance samples on a shitty Asus laptop I bought from a job where I just blasted DnB on the demo sound systems half the day. I have almost none of the stuff I made from this time and god I'm missing out on so much cathartic reflective cringe according to the stuff I do have. Fuck.