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New Rooms @newrooms.bsky.social · 1d

Masking up AND repping redscroll, way to kick ass Perennial!

New Rooms @newrooms.bsky.social · 3d

Like, getting band and album recommendations from people to try out new things is one of the consistently joyful things you can do. Outsourcing that part of your humanity to the plagiarism machine just seems sad

New Rooms @newrooms.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve always thought this! “His leather jacket had chains that would jingle” sticks in my craw as a line that only exists to serve the rhyme. I like Petty generally but the most charitable possible read is he had to write this song very quickly

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A Place For Owls @aplaceforowls.bsky.social · 9d

everybody, real quick!! cancel your spotify ~~~!!! pick up your guitar~~~ !! write a song ?? start a band -- attend many local shows \\\ become friends with everyone . . . live a life of kindness and purpose

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New Rooms @newrooms.bsky.social · 11d

The google AI lacks the capacity to understand this

A google search result with the AI overview stating (arguably falsely) that the Richard d James album is not an emo album

New Rooms @newrooms.bsky.social · 11d

The Richard D James album is basically an emo album (complimentary) and you don’t hear many people saying this

aphextwin.bandcamp.com/album/richar...

Richard D. James Album, by Aphex Twin

10 track album

aphextwin.bandcamp.com

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New Rooms @newrooms.bsky.social · 12d

Babs the cat, making a batch of muffins on a comforter

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New Rooms @newrooms.bsky.social · 22d

I tried googling what day was halfway between the end of World War Two and today, and it keeps giving wrongs answers, half of which are in the future. This machine is not taking anybody’s job anytime soon

Google search result AI overview claiming that the halfway point between 1945 and 2025 is 2035

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New Rooms @newrooms.bsky.social · 25d

Oh shit

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New Rooms @newrooms.bsky.social · 28d

This is it; this is the post that finally made me preorder your new book

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New Rooms @newrooms.bsky.social · Sep 5

Genuinely annoyed right now that radio shack isn’t still a place. What am I supposed to do if I want to go to the store and get like, one op amp and ten resistors. We used to be a proper country

New Rooms @newrooms.bsky.social · Sep 5

This is good to know and bandcamp Friday is a very good day to learn this

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New Rooms @newrooms.bsky.social · Sep 5

In theory I can appreciate that describing things in a non traditional way can encourage users to create something they otherwise wouldn’t, but at a certain point it’s like, what does this do. The only thing almost as esoteric is the first paragraph of the Mannequins Just friends description

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New Rooms @newrooms.bsky.social · Sep 4

I’ve only listened to the first album but it’s absolutely tremendous

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · Jan 21

(Photo of coyote)

YOU'VE BEEN VISITED BY THE NO REGRETS COYOTE
REPOST IN THE NEXT TEN MINUTES TO AVOID BEING A PRISONER OF THE WHITE LINES ON THE FREEWAY

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New Rooms @newrooms.bsky.social · Sep 1

Probably “Find The River,” which I give the edge over “Nightswimming” because the band doesn’t really actually play on the latter track

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · Sep 1

Without saying Losing My Religion, fav R.E.M. Song?

michael stipe in a black suit blue shirt bald five o clock shadow leaning into the side of a brown building with a zig zag design. hot.

"We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago."

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New Rooms @newrooms.bsky.social · Sep 1

Ooo this is a REALLY strong choice

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New Rooms @newrooms.bsky.social · Sep 1

(1) Mule variations is my favorite post-Rain Dogs Waits; pre-Rain Dogs I’ll take Small Change.

(2) the great thing about you not sharing the Letterman clip is I watched three interviews before I found the “right” one and they were all great

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New Rooms @newrooms.bsky.social · Sep 1

I feel like circa their comeback/reunion albums the answer to this was Steely Dan but the pendulum has swung so deeply in the other direction that it’s tough to imagine them being perceived as uncool

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Marc Weidenbaum @disquiet.bsky.social · Aug 29

I pick an Oblique Strategies card at random every morning. Been a while since I got this banger.

It reads: "Repetition is a form of change"

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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · Aug 29

LOGOS/KORG.GIF

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New Rooms @newrooms.bsky.social · Aug 29

There’s a chance that’s the joke

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phoneswithchords @phoneswithchords.bsky.social · Aug 27

The initial, creative spark never has anything to do with perfection. It’s only afterwards that we seek to make some thing perfect and often times ruin it in the process.

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New Rooms @newrooms.bsky.social · Aug 21

Oh man I only know the one sixpence song and it’s definitely not bad, but I think the combination of that album art and the APFO seal of approval means I need to check this album out

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wolfears @ furpoc @wolfears.net · Aug 18

you have to live forever

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