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Tweeting about near-ancient pop culture. Opinions are mine alone. He/Him. This isn't Twitter. http://teepublic.com/user/scottythered

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average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · Nov 21

my name is Scotty and I've spent 20 years in love with the Power Pop genre. I'm going to post a #dailyFavoritePowerPopSong just to see how long i can go without running out.

Day 1: seems appropriate to start with the Paley Bros, since we lost Andy Paley this week.

The Paley Brothers - Come Out And Play

YouTube video by DooWop Darrell

www.youtube.com

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average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 14h

Just be sure to practice standard web browsing precautions and you should be fine for a while

average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 14h

you can continue using Windows 10 on the laptop, but there won't be any security updates in the future

average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 14h

hilariously, I was just telling @jbfink.bsky.social that I can see a linux-only, post-windows future in my household, and for a hot second, it was looking like the path to that would be with Framework.

not now though.

Scammo @scammo@chaos.social

Oh wow, the @frameworkcomputer team's reply to them supporting far-right racists is terrible: https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986/2.

I don't want to spend money with a company that has a "big tent" policy and allows people to piss in it. I never want to be in a tent with people pissing in it. OSS does not need it.

Speaking as a German - this 'big tent' approach just doesn't work.

Today is a good day to write to support@frame.work using your shop email address. I will.

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average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 15h

this entire segment reads like David Simon being interviewed by Jean-Ralphio from Parks and Rec.

"Hiya doin', Sam Simon! Full disclosure, I've never seen any of your work or know who you are, but I asked ChatGPT about about you and it sounds like you have some hot takes, so let's DIG IN!"

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 16h

I went to school with a girl was talented in voice/performance. She went up for a test with a piece in Italian. She had the melody down but didn't speak Italian, & just as the accompanist started, she realized she was missing 4 pages of the score. She bullshat her way through the Italian & got an A

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 20h

For reference: Framework started promoting Omarchy, authored by David Heinemeier Hansson, probably best known as the author of Ruby on Rails but also a right-wing fascist.

Framework gets called out, says they're a "big tent", and the forum thread descends into fascists showing up to gloat.

average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 20h

How it started // How it's going, "Framework is supporting fascists" edition

Framework supporting far-right racists?

nrp
Framework Team
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We support open source software (and hardware), and partner with developers and maintainers across the ecosystem. We deliberately create a big tent, because we want open source software to win. We don’t partner based on individuals’ or organizations’ beliefs, values, or political stances outside of their alignment with us on increasing the adoption of open source software. We’ve sent out large quantities of hardware to folks at Fedora, Bluefin, Bazzite, NixOS, Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Omarchy, and many other distros, and have sponsored either the organizations directly or events with Linux Foundation, LVFS, NixOS, Debian, KDE, Hyprland, and others. Within the team itself, personal distro and OS preferences span basically every Linux distro you can imagine along with FreeBSD. I personally am running machines with Fedora (for machine learning), Bazzite (for gaming), Omarchy (general productivity), and Windows 11 (when I have to).

I definitely understand that not everyone will agree with taking a big tent approach, but we want to be transparent that bringing in and enabling every organization and community that we can across the Linux ecosystem is a deliberate choice.

Ryan_DV
Yes, I consider it better if your kind did not exist. <3

Fabian_Bornschein
WTF?!

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average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 1d

Shoulda been there for the Steve Bartman incident. I could hear the booing in our dorm room

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown

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average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 2d

when you definitely have been getting screamed at by rando New Yorkers and you piss at your pants in front of the journalists suggesting you talk to some more of them

But Schiffman was far less eager for real-life engagement. We asked him to meet us at the West Fourth Street station, where 53 of the more than 11,000 ads Friend has purchased around the city are plastered. As New Yorkers passed by, several paused to puzzle at the ads or take pictures. Gothamist took note and asked Schiffman if he’d like to join us as we spoke to passers-by about the posters and his product.

But he repeatedly declined and asked that we not identify him to the onlookers. Schiffman even turned down the chance to watch us talk to them.

“I’m just tired of talking to New Yorkers,” Schiffman said. “It’s just such a ordeal, I just don’t want to do it.”

Schiffman said he’d been talking to New Yorkers about the ads for days, which was “great” and “very entertaining,” but also said he couldn’t recount specifics from any of those conversations.

“I like [Friend] so much that I don’t need to keep yapping about it, and I just don’t want to keep convincing everyone here,” Schiffman said.

average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 2d

I can hear Joey in my ears: "HEY! We're the Ramones, this one's called Rockawaaay Beach!"

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average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 2d

- there's a groundswell of support against a massively unpopular admin across the political spectrum, which should be leveraged

- any attempts to "reach across the aisle" with talks of amnesty or forgiveness when he finally gets deposed are ludicrous and should be dismissed out of hand

average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 2d

multiple things can be true

-the trump admin is flailing b/c they know that it's never going to be better for them than it was (maybe) a few months ago

- people are still going to be killed & trafficked by this admin

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average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 2d

what a pleasantly surprising one-two punch this was:

that Troma produced a movie that's thoroughly enjoyable without a trace of irony, and that said movie would wipe out $15 million in medical debt

io9 @io9dotcom.bsky.social · 2d

'The Toxic Avenger' Has Helped Eliminate Over $15 Million in Medical Debt

The ooey-gooey, proudly raunchy horror comedy launched a fundraiser ahead of its theatrical release—and it's still going along with its arrival at home.

gizmodo.com

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average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 3d

oh man, this brings me right back to getting really into the flaming lips two albums before they flew completely off the rails down a mountain of cocaine

Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 3d

It is SUCH a formative experience the first time your favorite artist releases a bad album. I envy all the kids going through it this week, you’re about to learn so much about the world! You’re learning how to let go!

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average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 3d

oh man, this brings me right back to getting really into the flaming lips two albums before they flew completely off the rails down a mountain of cocaine

Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 3d

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average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 3d

shorter of breath, and one day closer to death

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average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 3d

"like, i could only afford the 180-degree drum kit, eh"

Bob and Doug McKenzie on their show Kanadian Korner, aka The Great White North

average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 3d

blasphemy! i was told Doug McKenzie played the drums, did nobody think to ask him?!

(kidding, sounds like these two will be in good hands with a pro like Anika Nilles)

Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 3d

Geddy and Alex firing up a Rush celebration tour with a drummer who isn’t a dude? Chef’s kiss right there.

Rush Sets Reunion Tour for 2026; Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Discuss the ‘Difficult Decision’ of Finding a New Drummer After Neil Peart’s Death

Rush will head out on a reunion tour in 2026, with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson joined by a new drummer. The tour will pay homage to the late Neil Peart.

variety.com

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average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 3d

This generation finding out what it was like to buy a whole album for only one song you like, but now there's streaming too

average scottythered @scottythered.bsky.social · 3d

the entire physical media landscape is being turned into little more than a speculative market ala Funko Pops. I'm glad they're finally realizing this, but they have no one to blame but themselves