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Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 25m

Taylor Swift-ass movie release.

Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 54m

I don't think I've ever seen so many types of ticket sold for the same movie

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Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 14h

Just realized that I’m more emotional about it being 20 years since I played my first “real” show than it being 20 years since I literally graduated from college lmao

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Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 18h

TRUMP: I saw a film the other day where Antifa piloted a large ship above the White House and shot it with some sort of death ray. Will Smith was there.

vineyille @vineyille.bsky.social · 18h

The president, facedown on The Presidential Desk: Los Angeles is a hell hole, you have many people doing bangkok rules, riding surfboards. SNAKE PLISSKLEN they call him and we're looking into that

Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 18h

That is to say: If Gen AI produces an output that feels like the “best option” to you, then you need to go back to the drawing board and try to *beat* what the AI produced, because the AI’s output is an amalgamation of a bunch of stuff that already exists. we should be pushing for *newness* in art.

Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 18h

The problem, as I see it, with Gen AI is that it can never and will never produce anything “new.” It can only produce the most viable midpoint of what you’re asking for based on the data given to it.

As a result, I think GenAI should *only* be used to prove that an idea *isn‘t* novel.

The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 19h

That's RIGHT! We played there a bunch (our singer was a sound guy there and our bassist worked the door). Great venue, even if it always smelled like farts in the back of the room.

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Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 19h

I consider Destiny to be a steaming poo but have no quarrel with Hasan (you're right lol)

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Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 19h

20 years (!!!!!) ago TODAY, my band The Appreciation Post played our first show ever! We were pretty good!

youtu.be/3L_WAkcN1Vo?...

Show flyer from October 8 2005

The appreciation post
With
Mando diao
The luxury
Aloud

Tt the bears
10 Brookline st Cambridge ma
Red line t central square
Doors at 830 $10 18+

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Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 19h

if two steamers are having a feud that is categorically None of my Business.

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Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 19h

The screenshotted post you’re responding to is mocking the exact kind of people you’re “calling out” here. This guy has been extremely anti-Trump since 2015.

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Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 20h

I had a punk friend who made fun of me for referring to my "musical career" on a message board but the reality is that at the time, it *was* my career! Like, sometimes it can be!

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Reposted by Roger (Perpetual Stu)

Bando: Musical Bear Extraordinaire @bandobear.bsky.social · 20h

People get mad at me for this take, but creatives who claim to not care about numbers are straight up lying.

While you should have a love for the art, your brain is biologically hardwired to want many people to like you.

Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 23h

I know that everyone says "you're supposed to be making music for YOURSELF" and "play counts shouldn't MATTER" but it's really hard for me to justify spending dozens of hours over weeks and months to make a song I'm really proud of that gets *literally* 8 streams. It just feels bad, man.

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Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 21h

The crux of "Anti-Trans" and "Anti-Autistic" movement seems to be this false belief that there are "more" Trans or Autistic ppl "now," but that perception is driven primarily by the fact that Trans and Autistic people feel safer being openly Trans and Autistic online.

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Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 21h

RT if you've got depression in your brain.

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Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 21h

The "Challenge Coins" thing since Trump 45 has been absolutely *wild.* Trump found out that you can get prizes for attending certain meetings and was so proud of it that he started displaying them behind the Resolute Desk.

These same people think "participation trophies" have doomed the youth.

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Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 21h

I've been in Online Spaces and on Social Media for over half my life, brother. Barely anything that's happened to me has happened without the influence of social media in some way.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 23h

If Chuck Norris was tied to train tracks, he'd make the train derail.

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Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 23h

Fuck Gin Blossoms, Marry Goo Goo Dolls, Kill Collective Soul

Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 23h

This is *so good.*

Joseph Galbo @josephgalbo.bsky.social · 23h

When they do the Kpop Demon Hunters live tour - and there will absolutely be a tour - the shows are going to be fire.

youtu.be/8y-ViyUk7Dk?...

EJAE, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami from KPop Demon Hunters: Golden | The Tonight Show

YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

youtu.be

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Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 23h

I know that everyone says "you're supposed to be making music for YOURSELF" and "play counts shouldn't MATTER" but it's really hard for me to justify spending dozens of hours over weeks and months to make a song I'm really proud of that gets *literally* 8 streams. It just feels bad, man.

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Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 23h

I know it wasn't but imagine if part of the Paramount/CBS settlement for the 60 Minutes situation was that they signed over the rights to use Nickelodeon content this way.

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Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 23h

Really good choice.

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Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 23h

Gotta be:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvxx...

Rockin' in the Free World

YouTube video by Neil Young - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 23h

This is *beside* the fact that she hides "easter eggs" or whatever in her lyrics. On one hand – we shouldn't need a decoder ring to figure out what a pop song is about. On the other hand, she's describing experiences that are damn-near impossible for anyone but her to ever live.

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Roger (Perpetual Stu) @iamtherog.com · 23h

One of my college writing professors was like "Draw from the specifics of your life instead of trying to describe general experiences and you'll have a greater impact on your audience."

I think that Taylor Swift's lyrics since "Reputation" or so are proof that this pendulum can swing too far.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 5d

i had an opinion about the new tswift record after all
www.patreon.com/posts/140377...

“Eldest Daughter" is a symptom of my overall issue with Taylor Swift: the scale of her music just feels fucking off. In 2025, she's no longer a lovelorn kid singing about Romeo and Juliet; she's a 35-year-old billionaire who's played sold out stadiums all over the world. She's Taylor Swift. That's her name. Damn near every living person knows who she is, and she's singing about the internet? About the fucking comments section? When she sings "I'm not a bad bitch," is she even aware that she's lying, that she's worshipped by more girls and women than almost anybody else? Even her love songs feel incorrect to me on these grounds. When I think about the real circumstances of her life, I just start wondering where the songs are about the housekeepers, the assistants, the cooks, the drivers, and every other person who's changed her life way more than the man in the Musso and Frank's booth in "Elizabeth Taylor." I struggle to trust her as the lyrical steward of ordinary human experiences. I am certain it's been many years since she's had one the way I have them, with all the waiting for a table that implies, and the navigating of customer service phone trees, the dithering over $35 travel insurance that I can never decide if I actually need, the frantic emails about unpaid freelance invoices, the trip back to the grocery store for the thing I forgot when I went earlier in the day, and all the other boring crap I have to do because I can't buy up other people's lifetimes so they have to do it for me.

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