Scrypt

@scrypt
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Writer, editor, former studio musician.

Remember Leelah Alcorn. Provoked suicide is murder by proxy.

Whenever we finally restore our power, we must expand the Supreme Court until it reflects the will of the majority. Until it reflects the humane credo of a majority consensus of experts in science and psychology as well as that of the United States population.

@junklight: I wouldn’t humble-condemn anyone for having children at any stage of the world’s implosion, so apologies if what I said sounded that way.

But being in the states, I’ve *often* had to explain why I don’t have children. People feel entitled to ask, for some (Christian police state) reason, as though my not having sired legions of heteronormative Caucasoids is a baffling puzzle I’m obliged to help them solve!

@junklight: I was just listening to 14 and it’s fascinating how much closer to the Nordheim collaboration it is, and how much being stripped of a drummer left them open to develop a style of improvised music that is more composed-sounding, more composed in the studio.

@junklight: I stopped at Supersilent 7 (loved the DVD of their performance) and had no idea they’d kept on. I do have 1-3 and the rest of the first seven albums in storage. 12 looks interesting, but Vespestad was a huge part of the synergy.

My favorite Deathprod/Sten collaboration (really, alternation) was with Biosphere on the Arne Nordheim album.

@junklight: It would be baffling to me if kids *didn’t* bring changed vocabularies to the laboratory of vernacular, or allude to familiarity with spheres of music and culture I hadn’t noticed (not being a parent due to a decision my wife and I made a decade ago about not raising children in the ever-more dystopian States).

“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel. The wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart.”
— James Baldwin, “Everybody’s Protest Novel”

(Surely, I’m guilty of this.)

When males line up in comment sections below women comedians’ performance vids to say they aren’t funny, do you ever think, Why do physical-contact-deprived slabs of bitterness whose privates are choked with rejected sperm haunt the pages of ladies whose comedy they say they detest?

That’s a rhetorical question, of course. Lobbing cliché insults into a void of public threads is the closest those males will ever come to flirting, let alone foreplay.

“If I have a boy, I’ll teach him how to love.

“If I have a girl, I’ll tell her the world is hers.”

— Monologue by the survivor of a Montreal technical school shooting, as represented in the film “Polytechnique”

This month marks the 100th anniversary of Black History Month (which Carter G. Woodson established as Black History Week before Congress extended it). It’s time to honor, discover and celebrate that history!
“Before fascism becomes a movement, it must circulate in everyday life, in the nascent form of everyday paranoia and victimhood, fantasies of restitution and revenge, desire for domination, the authoritarian need to be right, the capacity to humiliate, approval seeking ingroup conformity, and converse tendencies toward malice and social sadism."
— Richard Seymour, *Disaster Nationalism*