SplitSuns
@splitsuns.bsky.social
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24, he/they. you probably know me from RYM or soundcloud. i make music for deconreconstruction. mostly here to repost art i like or funny stuff.
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splitsuns.bsky.social
i made some music for PLOVERDRIVE, a game by @handcrushe.dev, @soulware.us, and bassdrop.club! check out this sampler, and if you like it you can download the whole soundtrack for free! you should play the game too...
splitsuns.bandcamp.com/album/plover...
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mcsquiddies.serball.net
spectober day eight - rena thought these glasses were cute so she took them home!
#ひぐらしFA
Rena Ryuugu from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni wearing swirly glasses and going omochikaeriiiii >u<
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proptermalone.bsky.social
I’m the guy who is fleeing platforms for Mastodon because I hate mod drama
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no-stunts.bsky.social
you know, in japan, the protomen are called the blues brothers
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
huge notice that pops up if you try to edit the cat article
adding a photo? read this first. we know you love your cat. so do we, but that doesn't mean a photo of your cat is a good choice for the article
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williamleonard.net
she's all ink no tober #azumangadaioh
OSAKA: "ah thought ah'd gettem ALL 'n one go! —itsa SKELETON-STARFISH-DEER-KING with a MUSTACHE an' PIERCIN' STINGERS BLASTIN' FIREFLIES outta its TRUNK [...] the ARCTIC [...] ONION [...]"
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northerniion.bsky.social
title feel good af when you actually get the reference
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phillipbankss.bsky.social
happy 10 year anniversary to this comic I drew when I was a teenager
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albumminus.band
what if instead of girls band cry it was Girls Bart Csimpson
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burntsienna.bsky.social
This video really did irreparable damage to the way I speak
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nedraggett.bsky.social
And now I'm just spelunking around and here's this Facebook post by Kaleb Horton from September 2017. It was three months after MTV dumped its freelancers. I'm sure it would have been a piece there; instead he posted this on FB just to have it written out: Toys 'R' Us as societal microcosm.
Facebook post from Kaleb Horton, September 18, 2017:

Toys R Us is probably going out of business this year.
I'm fascinated by the collapse of retail, because what it really signifies is the collapse of the 20th century. 
The reason I pushed to profile guys like Harry Dean Stanton, Merle Haggard and Chuck Berry, was that writing about them is a way of writing about the 20th century, and how different it was from where we are now. How shockingly different, in retrospect. The migration out of the south, the descent of the Dust Bowl, which was a Biblical plague; the millions of people who were killed during World War Two. Monoculture, and the idea that a great episode of a television show would be seen by *half of all people.*
The arrival of flight, and the end of horses. Homes without electricity. Coming of age without computers, without television. Listening to the radio for entertainment. 
The 20th century was a long time ago and it's a ghost now. It's a ghost you see in the places you wouldn't expect. It's seen in towns that were bypassed by the freeways, the dusty little towns out west that still have old diners and motels and payphones. It's seen in the places that we left, places where mines shut down, places where tourist attractions died off. 
It's seen in Bakersfield with Buck Owens' Crystal Palace and it's seen in Roswell, which stubbornly maintains the relics of the '90s UFO boom. Things like that won't be around forever. Someday owners will die and towns will burn and they won't be rebuilt. And it's difficult to suss out what those things are, because they're on roads, physical and metaphorical, that we no longer travel. The ghost sightings happen in stupid places, unexpected places, and uncool places. A few months ago, I went with Marie to the Toys R Us on Victory Blvd. in Burbank, which still looks exactly like it did in Back to the Future in 1985 somehow. It's not nostalgia that you see there, it's just a customer base and economic model that's aging and won't be around a lot longer, and it's *boring.* There's no reason for anyone to ever go to Lancer's, the little diner by that Toys R Us. Because it's not good. People go there out of tradition, and old habits. 80 and 90 year olds go there.
We were lining up for a Nintendo, which is still a hard thing to keep stocked in stores. Toys R Us was actually the best place to obtain one, because it's no longer a place children beg their parents to take them to. When we went in, wham, there it was. The ghost of 1996. I was 8 years old, for a fraction of a second. The feeling wasn't nostalgia, it was a kind of temporal dislocation. A confusion. But it wasn't an immaculate 1996, it was a fading 1996. It was lonelier than I remember it. It's time for Toys R Us to go out of business. It was time ten years ago, fifteen.
There are reasons to be nostalgic about the 20th century. We weren't plugged into so many wires, so many screens. We were a little bit closer to the process of manufacturing and agriculture than we are now. We made more things by hand, and our goals as people were uniquely audacious and driven by mad, desperate power that was temporary and had to end. 
But the 20th century was hopelessly cruel and soaked in blood. The 20th century gave us flight, but it also gave us bombs that can end the world and Richard Nixon and his evil sidekick Kissinger and it gave us new mutations of slavery and race and class subjugation and it gave us useless, disgusting monuments to Confederate slavers and traitors and cowards. It gave us President Trump, who wouldn't exist today without New York City's collective cocaine addiction in the 1980s.
I want to find the ghosts, not because I miss the past -- the good old days can't return because they're imaginary and what you really miss is youth and if you're lucky a warm feeling of safety -- but because I don't even know what things we'll lose, or when we'll lose them, or how long we have to document them. I know ghosts when I see them. Toys R Us for the mundane side and the Salton Sea for the widescreen wasteland side. But I have absolutely no idea how many there are.
I figure people go first, then places. Those are the things we have a limited time to physically document and historically examine and preserve on film. The ideas will go away much slower, and some of them may be eternal, like cold wars. But those are a lot less fun because you don't get to drive to them.