i mostly visit the RateYourMusic and AlbumOfTheYear charts and occasionally i’ll check out the last.fm profiles of users i find interesting. basically, i treat music like a hobby but i do so because i desire that kind of connection. i love music so i devote a lot of time to it. i have pro accounts on all three places. luckily they are relatively affordable. i think last.fm is $3 a month lol. but yeah, i’d say if you are unfamiliar with RYM or AOTY then maybe check one out.

edit: in case you’re not familiar, all of those mentioned are music cataloging websites that you can create customized profiles on. last.fm will import your listening history and you can track your habits in real time. it’s good for finding your stats.

we found the main character

informal contractions are simply informal just because. there’s no real reason to consider them informal or not standard other than arbitrary rules.

“You shouldn’t’ve done that.” “It couldn’t’ve been him!” “I might’ve done that if you asked.”

while you’re not wrong i do want to reiterate that mRNA vaccines are likely going to be how we treat and cure cancers so there is precedent at least for this to be massive news. if not this there will likely be a real announcement one day.

oh they hate when you say that there lmao

ah see, thanks. i need to catch up then. i was hoping to be wrong about the direction of their reactions but you are pointing out my worries coming true. “idk i’m seeing some vicious anger that appears to imply their focus on pedophilia overrides their allegiance to Trump,” i thought. lol. welp. i guess we’ll see but now i’m back to where i was.

check the edit in my comment. i don’t know about a documented uprising or anything but people are vocally expressing disapproval and some are rather upset. trump almost got assassinated by a disillusioned conservative. these people are dangerous and unhinged even against themselves.

…no, i said real world examples lol. like a town hall meeting where people loudly booed Trump and it was a meeting specifically for his crowd.

edit: this here - i can’t find a good clip that is just the event itself, sorry. searching nowadays is garbage but it is out there. this will give you an idea of what i’m talking about. there are more examples.

“your honor… yes, i killed two people, but they combine into one person who doesn’t matter. i killed my ex who deserved to die and my wife who didn’t. they cancel each other out. am i free to go?”

Other media’s lapping it up to tell readers want they want to hear: MAGA is infighting, when in reality they are not.

can you show me some examples of this not being the case? i am wondering where to look for an actual analysis on how MAGA is handling this letter, because i have seen several real world responses from his supporters that are extremely upset and feel betrayed. you’re saying this isn’t a sizeable group within his base? interesting.

imo reddit as a whole is conservative. the userbase is center-left at the most visible and i regularly saw progressive opinions discarded or mocked. you’d expect the liberals to defend them at the least but i’d see less of that and they’d get dogpilled too.

i was banned from reddit but had been wanting to leave for quite some time at that point, so it was a welcomed change. that’s when i learned more about decentralized social networks and stuff… glad to be here. i wouldn’t go back to reddit even if i was allowed to.

i know he wasn’t a credible person but Epstein said it himself lol. Trump and him were very, very close, especially for two men in the positions they were in. probably not “close” on an emotional level but close in partnership and depravity. Epstein knew too much detail about Trump for him to simply be lying and making shit up. listen to his own recorded conversations about Trump that came out last year (2024) and see for yourself. this is completely believable, i’m sure she’s telling the truth.

i feel ya. i am unfortunately alone in my area. not literally, i’ve seen other trans people and even had a friendship with a local transwoman, but she abruptly cut communication with me so it’s back on my own. i don’t have much to say other than you aren’t alone, at least. i’m sorry you’re feeling the pain of solitude.

How many fascists have you killed?

lone wolves are useless and a detriment to any serious cause. i haven’t killed any fascists because i cannot, i will be jailed.

A Ted Kaczynski would say a person who really cares about these issues would already be sending mail bombs.

see above. i disagree with his assessment that one-offs are useful. he is proof it accomplishes nothing.

but could you not bring your partner along?

he is more of a homebody than me, lol.

Just because you have the luxury of time and space to be involved in politics and spend a lot of emotional energy in that area doesn’t mean that everyone else has that luxury.

i’d argue it isn’t a luxury it is a responsibility and i do not have the time or space, actually. i do it at the sacrifice of my mental health as i’ve made clear.

frankly, i’m not interested in this conversation because you are not the first, second, third, or 100th person to say the same thing and my response is never agreed with and it just becomes a back and forth until we either agree to disagree or tell each other off.

also no, i have not stopped short of actively killing fascists. murder it would not be, it is self-defense. ultimately, i am morally superior and am confident in that fact. it’s not something i expect people to understand. i am lucky that my partner feels the same as me and we can share in this worldview. what makes me more correct than others? the fact that i am and they aren’t. i have the outlook that results in the least amount of human death and suffering.

oh wow this is actually really bad for him lmfao. if his base was getting pissed before this then it’s about to get so much worse for him because that weird typewritten note back and forth between the two… h’oboy.

i know it seems that way but it’s only because you are not accurately viewing the world, in my opinion. it isn’t that there are dicks, it’s that there are uneducated, ignorant, self-serving people who are just trying to get by. they don’t usually act maliciously but their unintentional ignorance and poor judgment causes worldwide death and suffering.

i cannot stand the average person any longer. truly, i have struggled my entire life. but the PTA mom who votes Dem without giving much thought? she is just as responsible for fascism as her Republican counterparts. it doesn’t matter if she isn’t doing it intentionally or maliciously—the end result is the same. if you are effectively contributing to the destruction of humanity i want nothing to do with you on a personal level.

no, i just know how to write and format English lol.

my fears are many but they are all tied to one constant: capitalism

• Modern American fascism is seemingly unstoppable. The legal protections in place have been eroded and the heads of agencies have been replaced with Trump loyalists. Deportation of legal residents is currently happening and the administration is actively looking into stripping citizenship from born Americans. Trump has mentioned several times that political and moral enemies would be targets. Nobody is coming for us. Nobody is going to stop this. The average American has been pacified and made powerless; nobody believes in radical revolution.
• Every single major AI company has stated their goal is AGI (artificial general intelligence; or what we colloquially understand as actual artificial intelligence) and humanity is absolutely unprepared for it. We have no systems in place to prevent misalignment of AGI agents and our focus of profit above all else will only guarantee a misguided path.
• Genocide is happening worldwide and the majority of the world is living in poverty.
• I am a gender, sexuality, and religious minority, and my far left radical beliefs make me a target