Karl Olson ❄️ Ultraklystron
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Ultraklystron - Honey Lemon (Lyric Video)
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As my tinnitus & hearing loss/sensitivity remains with a day of antibiotics left & no ENT appointment in sight, I head into 2026 wishing I'd recorded more rap & hyperpop music this past year (I did do a Dn'B LP.) Still, if this was my last single for the foreseeable future, it's a solid bookend:
Yeah, the shipping companies have a truly perverse incentive to encourage tariffs. Lets them fatten their margins dramatically while pointing the finger at someone else and giving none of it back to the actual employees doing the clearance work, assuming the process isn't nearly automatic anyway.
January 13, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Yeah, the shipping companies have a truly perverse incentive to encourage tariffs. Lets them fatten their margins dramatically while pointing the finger at someone else and giving none of it back to the actual employees doing the clearance work, assuming the process isn't nearly automatic anyway.
Like, if folks really want me to start crossposting on another one, put it in the thread here & maybe that'll be a good way to pass the time as I wait to see if I'll even be making music the way I used to, but it's nice to know Bandcamp ain't dead yet. Also, there's always the Internet Archive:
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
January 13, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Like, if folks really want me to start crossposting on another one, put it in the thread here & maybe that'll be a good way to pass the time as I wait to see if I'll even be making music the way I used to, but it's nice to know Bandcamp ain't dead yet. Also, there's always the Internet Archive:
This year may be my last on DistroKid for a lot of reasons (if it's not paying for itself, why bother?/I may just be putting out less music going forward,) but so long as Bandcamp continues with this spirit, it doesn't yet look like I'll have to flee to another OMD yet again any time soon.
January 13, 2026 at 9:36 PM
This year may be my last on DistroKid for a lot of reasons (if it's not paying for itself, why bother?/I may just be putting out less music going forward,) but so long as Bandcamp continues with this spirit, it doesn't yet look like I'll have to flee to another OMD yet again any time soon.
Today in Discord musings:
The Platonic American Suburb - An infinite subdivision of McMansions along winding, maze-like streets, connected by a infinite lane highway to the infinite parking lot for the infinite Walmart, the anchor tenant of the infinite mall, so large it's both alive and dead.
The Platonic American Suburb - An infinite subdivision of McMansions along winding, maze-like streets, connected by a infinite lane highway to the infinite parking lot for the infinite Walmart, the anchor tenant of the infinite mall, so large it's both alive and dead.
January 13, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Today in Discord musings:
The Platonic American Suburb - An infinite subdivision of McMansions along winding, maze-like streets, connected by a infinite lane highway to the infinite parking lot for the infinite Walmart, the anchor tenant of the infinite mall, so large it's both alive and dead.
The Platonic American Suburb - An infinite subdivision of McMansions along winding, maze-like streets, connected by a infinite lane highway to the infinite parking lot for the infinite Walmart, the anchor tenant of the infinite mall, so large it's both alive and dead.
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congratulations to palmer luckey, andrew bosworth, mark zuckerberg, and hell let's throw john carmack a shout-out too for being *even worse than microsoft* at starting and maintaining a respectable video games business
Update: Meta has shut down three game studios and laid off all employees.
-Armature, the devs behind the VR port of Resident Evil 4
-Twisted Pixel, the studio that made Deadpool VR
-Sanzaru, which developed Asgard's Wrath 1 and 2.
-Armature, the devs behind the VR port of Resident Evil 4
-Twisted Pixel, the studio that made Deadpool VR
-Sanzaru, which developed Asgard's Wrath 1 and 2.
Deadpool Studio And More Closed As Meta Chases AI Instead Of Gaming
Twisted Pixel, Armature, and Sanzaru Games have been gutted according to laid off employees
kotaku.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:25 PM
congratulations to palmer luckey, andrew bosworth, mark zuckerberg, and hell let's throw john carmack a shout-out too for being *even worse than microsoft* at starting and maintaining a respectable video games business
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I wanted to experiment, okay?
January 13, 2026 at 1:31 AM
I wanted to experiment, okay?
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thoughts & prayers for “skeletor” lol
September 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
thoughts & prayers for “skeletor” lol
My name is Scott Adams, Dork of Dorks:
Look on my strips, ye nerdy, and despair!
Look on my strips, ye nerdy, and despair!
hollow dilbert, its bloodline severed by the hand of god in holy retribution, lay in abandoned ruin
January 13, 2026 at 6:59 PM
My name is Scott Adams, Dork of Dorks:
Look on my strips, ye nerdy, and despair!
Look on my strips, ye nerdy, and despair!
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Scott Adams' most immediate legacy for me is probably how my partner confided in me that they couldn't get into Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney and the associated yaoi because they thought Phoenix just looked like a bishonen version of the pointy haired boss
January 13, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Scott Adams' most immediate legacy for me is probably how my partner confided in me that they couldn't get into Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney and the associated yaoi because they thought Phoenix just looked like a bishonen version of the pointy haired boss
Shame that it's an international problem:
Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan to the Electoral Commission, swapping the £ pound sterling symbol for a cross, that looks very much like it is modelled on the Iron Cross used by Prussia & Germany 1871-1918 and Hitler's Nazi regime from 1933-45
January 13, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Shame that it's an international problem:
Yeah pulled a Steve Jobs but even worse.
January 13, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Yeah pulled a Steve Jobs but even worse.
Patient Zero for the Elon disease.
January 13, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Patient Zero for the Elon disease.
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my pregnant Dilbert animation cel skyrocketed in value overnight this is awesome
January 13, 2026 at 4:54 PM
my pregnant Dilbert animation cel skyrocketed in value overnight this is awesome
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The UPN show was better than the comic, and at some level I think that chaffed Adams, yet he was also mad (in a racist way IIRC) that it "only" got 30 episodes when so many other prime-time animated series only got 13 with only 4 making it to air, waiting years for full runs on Adult Swim later.
January 13, 2026 at 6:04 PM
The UPN show was better than the comic, and at some level I think that chaffed Adams, yet he was also mad (in a racist way IIRC) that it "only" got 30 episodes when so many other prime-time animated series only got 13 with only 4 making it to air, waiting years for full runs on Adult Swim later.
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my mug broke a while back so it might be up to @hrtraulsen.bsky.social or to @mattielubchansky.com herself for posting the rest
January 13, 2026 at 5:50 PM
my mug broke a while back so it might be up to @hrtraulsen.bsky.social or to @mattielubchansky.com herself for posting the rest
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in 2016 i made an edit of a dilbert comic and scott adams got so mad he blocked me and then blogged about it
January 13, 2026 at 5:13 PM
in 2016 i made an edit of a dilbert comic and scott adams got so mad he blocked me and then blogged about it
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A reminder that my strip took over Dilberts vacant spot in the Washington Post after they dropped his ass. 😎
www.stlpr.org/show/st-loui...
www.stlpr.org/show/st-loui...
How a St. Louis cartoonist replaced 'Dilbert' in the Washington Post
"Heart of the City" replaced "Dilbert" in the Washington Post.
www.stlpr.org
January 13, 2026 at 4:43 PM
A reminder that my strip took over Dilberts vacant spot in the Washington Post after they dropped his ass. 😎
www.stlpr.org/show/st-loui...
www.stlpr.org/show/st-loui...
The above skeet is even more true now.
January 13, 2026 at 5:47 PM
The above skeet is even more true now.
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Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.
March 26, 2024 at 9:35 AM
Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.
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Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams accused of rug pull as NYC Token crashes
January 12, 2026
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=nyc-token-crash
January 12, 2026
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=nyc-token-crash
![Additionally, on-chain researchers observed at least one wallet that spent almost $750,000 to purchase around 1.5 million $NYC around 10 minutes before the token was publicly announced, leading to speculation around insider trading. However, because of the token price crash after the team began pulling liquidity, the apparent insider ultimately lost around $500,000. People were quick to accuse Adams, or his unidentified crypto team, of rug-pulling buyers. Adams and the project's social media account have claimed that the team was simply moving or "rebalanc[ing]" liquidity, though they have not yet offered any explanation as to where the missing $1 million went.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ugyl6syayvsrvu5w4uxtlkz4/bafkreieehdfgdyzy4mmg57mrr3rsj6a6huhu3m2lpkvyeyb5wlqtsfhokm@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams accused of rug pull as NYC Token crashes
January 12, 2026
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=nyc-token-crash
January 12, 2026
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=nyc-token-crash
I mean, to be fair:
Bro you invested real life money with the Noid that’s not on the Noid that’s on you
Eric Adams, former NYC mayor, launched a memecoin (cryptocurrency) today. He marketed it as an “NYC Token” and used media appearances and his social media to promote it.
Within hours, Adams then drained its liquidity, apparently having scammed investors out of $3.4 million—a move called a rug pull.
Within hours, Adams then drained its liquidity, apparently having scammed investors out of $3.4 million—a move called a rug pull.
January 13, 2026 at 5:38 PM
I mean, to be fair:
Given that Scott Adams said in one of his books that he felt he only got a shot in the newspapers because Larson and Watterson retired, and that he felt he willed that opportunity into existence, clearly, it's time for Powerup Comics to be syndicated in the wake of Adams' passing.
January 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Given that Scott Adams said in one of his books that he felt he only got a shot in the newspapers because Larson and Watterson retired, and that he felt he willed that opportunity into existence, clearly, it's time for Powerup Comics to be syndicated in the wake of Adams' passing.
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Lol why does Scott Adams gotta die right when I've just started the most necessary and timely Powerup Comics arc of my career
January 13, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Lol why does Scott Adams gotta die right when I've just started the most necessary and timely Powerup Comics arc of my career