Walter Ostanek

Honestly haven't really given any of his stuff a chance since Iradelphic, I'll give this one a propa listen

bro just email it

Haven't listened to it yet since I'm frightened that I'll hate it

I always imagined (hoped?) that as the bullshit on twitter etc reached saturation level, that people would just write-off social media as an information source, and revert back to conventional news or even community word-of-mouth. But no, seems like we're doomed to sleepwalk into a world where you end up against the wall for denying that the sky is orange

Project Orion was this bonkers 1950s plan to power space vehicles with nuclear bombs. I'd read about it years ago and the idea has been recycled in various sci-fi novels. Didn't realise that Auntie Beeb did a documentary about it, nor did I know that in the late 50s they built a working model, and recorded test launches that show that it would actually work. Mad shit

that album cover had me in legit stiches, how i didn't across this lot in my infected mushroom boy racer wanker days i'll never know

edit: forgot this banger of an album

This guy did a handful of decent videos on the architecture of the Putin regime, the one below covers the ideologic underpinnings, which are full-on fascist. There are other vids by him somewhere (I think?) about the structural, material underpinnings that incentivise the invasion, some of them being: - Russia and Ukraine's political developments have diverged massively since 1991, Russia being far more medieval hierarchical (perhaps matching Marx's "asiatic mode" with the economy entirely slaved to the needs of state power: oligarchs = boyars) with Ukraine retaining a far more politically active citizenry. The latter's existence (and corresponding russophone media environment) is a direct, existential threat to the Putin regime - Russians might think: look how these guys live next door, maybe we can have that here too? - Oligarchs, whom the Russian political-economic architecture pits against eachother, seeing initial opportunities to "get ahead" of their rivals by snapping up Ukrainian assets first (oligarch-insigated asset-stripping is partly what drove the 2014 crusade to set up the "separatist republics" in Ukraine's industrial heartland - that plus genuine fascist nuttery) - Strategic concerns around Ukrainian natural resources (oil, gas, iron & alloy metals especially - in Donbas, Poltava and Kryvbas) - capture them now to prevent them falling into "Europe-friendly" hands and thus being used to undermine Europe's dependence on Russian gas. Curiously, the old "Novorossiya" colonialist project lines up quite well with Ukraine's main natural resource areas Thanks to all the refugees in my area I've got to know quite a few people from the infamous Donbas, and the picture they paint is pretty bloody scary. The supposed civil war/resistance that smoldered there for nearly a decade - they paint it as a massive astroturf job. Ultranationalist adventurers from Russia teaming up with local lumpen crims to help Russian oligarchs pilfer factory equipment back to Russia, and bump off any workers who complain about not being paid because all the money has been stolen. And this is all cheered on by western Stalin-fetishists The thought that anyone, especially leftists, would actually defend this shit, such a fundamental betrayal of anything socialist - is gut punchingly horrifying

If you don't think ambient is ultraviolent then you're not listening to it properly. Eno is a prayer to violence, Biosphere an ode to destructive nihilism, SAW II a glorification of senseless brutality

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Hi dad!

I know I'm just some wankstain on some forum but if shit goes sour again, the CUAET visa for Canada is still a thing for Ukrainians, you can have a spot on my couch. Last year I had a few families from Mariupol here, I can now shoot the shit in Surzhyk

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Going back a bit but the Homeworld games' backstory had heavy shades of Dune, and there was a prequel game that delved pretty deep into Dune territory

Speedy J - A Shocking Hobby & Public Energy #1 Probably the most ae non-ae albums I've heard (Chiastic era)

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Best of luck to them as they approach what might be the crucial stage. It's fucking sick seeing how many red-brown tosspots cheer for russia online (and in spaces that, once upon a time, I would have thought of as pacifist) - solely because, just for once, it's not the yanks doing the dodgy imperial smash-and-grab - a concept which is antithetical to certain preconceived mindsets

Don't they have an omnichord? To me it always sounded like they were button-bashing chord progressions without really knowing what they were doing. You'd get the same effect from letting a five year old poke at the bass side of an accordion