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i'm kinda curious about Digger, but I absolutely don't feel like supporting Tom Cruise in any way

yeah, it was validating to find i'm not the only one who was like "where the fuck did this come from all of a sudden" and glad to hear i didn't know about it because it started out in trendy expensive LA stores

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 18h

yeah, but apparently stores will give some new brands free space. i found this NPR story specifically about this company and the practice of paying for shelving space which answered all of my questions. i just read the transcript, it's a pretty quick read www.npr.org/transcripts/...

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How niche brands got into your local supermarket : The Indicator from Planet Money

From salsas to barbecue sauces to refrigerated beverages, small artisanal brands are infiltrating grocery shelves everywhere. How did this happen? Today on the show, we team up with Dan Pashman of The...

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 19h

that's what i'm saying, it's so expensive that even the thrift store of grocery stores is kinda pricey lol. and of course it's not gonna be restocked when it's gone

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 19h

do you think DumbDog is a big fan of Coheed and Cambria's fourth album, because it begins with "Good Apollo"?

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 20h

has it helped? i picked some up at groce out but they're still a buck each at steep discount, and these only have 3 grams of fiber which doesn't seem that significant. still, i could also stand to get fiber wherever I can

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 20h

my suspicion has been that it's all over Seattle because of the sweetened beverage tax. it has added sugar but it is under the 40 calorie threshold for taxation so it may be exempt

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 20h

why does this Ollipop soda take up an entire aisle worth of shelf space in every grocery store when i have never in my life heard of anyone drinking one? is the bullshit prebiotic branding that strong? the cans boast apple cider vinegar as an ingredient, huge "alternative medicine" red flag

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i am quickly learning that needle threaders are the guitar picks of the sewing world, in that everything you buy online will have some included and soon enough you'll amass hundreds of them

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah, I already made sure my needles were ferrous with a string magnet but it's still a little scary

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

man, hand stitching is potentially a goated hobby for sitting in bed or the bean bag and chilling as people watch tv except for the whole part where you turn your furniture into a death trap if you lose a needle

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

there's a hacker group called The Usual Suspects who have been steadily putting out hardware emulators for the past few years because they reversed a DSP chip a lot of 90's gear used, but they've been well-paced and high quality(I like their JP-8000). now everyone's trying to do that hastily

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

but yeah it's not just them, there's a huge wave of hacks and emulations happening right now cuz the word has really spread that you can just press a button and let an LLM reverse engineer hardware for you and spit out mods

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

there have been at least a dozen new Eektron firmware hacks in the past two or three weeks alone. it's why Elektron just recently banned discussion of hardware hacking in their forums

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

does anyone remember a video going around a while ago of a glass or bottle of water with a bunch of medusae or some other plankton swimming around in it? saw Northernlion reference it and refer to them as diatoms, which they definitely ain't. i can't find the video though cuz search engines suck now

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

yeah, that's what i've been doing now. i think what fucked me up was only remembering to take it sublingual like half the time, so my dosing was really inconsistent

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

installing unofficial firmware is already risky business in the best of cases, who the hell is gonna risk bricking their expensive Elektron instruments with vibe coded firmware by people who don't understand it at all? and who wants plugin emulations of hardware that's already an annoying menu dive

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

it sucks so fucking bad how it's taken over music production. every new plugin for the past 3 months has been AI, and every week there's 3 new hardware emulations or third-party firmware releases that were cranked out in 1 day with AI. every production news feed looks like this now:

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

is there really no way to have the macos dock appear on both displays when using a dual monitor setup? i keep missing messages because the dock jumps between displays unpredictably and i forget to check the notification badges if it's on the screen i'm not working on

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the replies to this contain 100,000 variations of the "sickos" comic with different self-insert fursonas in them and that's beautiful

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

these are the fucklers. a friend told me that they can be taken sublingually, and it turns out that they will melt under my tongue eventually, but it's pretty unpleasant and difficult compared to the blue/green tabs. and *something* is off in my brain chemicals lately, whether or not from these guys

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

my college library was named after his grandson and in retrospect i regret not jerkin it in there

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think you missed the "joke" but actually that's good thank you

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Google search legal requirements semicolon tattoo Washington atate

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

pharmacy switching up my HRT again has completely fucked me. I've cried every day for the last 2+ weeks since they refilled my Rx with oral instead of sublingual. i'd be furious if i could feel anything other than sad right now due to the complete armageddon in my endocrine system right now

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

can't sleep. i'm doing really fucking bad right now

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

oh i had a lot more than a cheeky smoke when i recorded most of these :3

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

oh right, I didn't, I just pitched it up in post or maybe it's when I had a whammy pedal briefly. dang I need to get a multi fx pedal again lmao, I'd get too much latency processing my shit live in ableton

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

digging through ancient tracks to perform live for the first time is a wild trip when everything was basically improvised straight into a DAW and I don't remember any of it. "how the hell did I do that? what even is that sound? when the fuck did I have a 24 fret guitar to even play those notes???"

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Seattle Noise @seattlenoise.org · 04/10/2026

TV-MA / KJ Valium / Storm / Paintscratcher / Chigbarg - Saturday, October 10, 8:00 PM at PuppyPound - flyers.seattlenoise.org/events/2026/...

flyers.seattlenoise.org

TV-MA / KJ Valium / Storm / Paintscratcher / Chigbarg

Saturday, October 10, 8:00 PM at PuppyPound

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

ah, here's a small pic of it from my order history when i bought it

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

yay! i was already thinkin i could probably get someone to embroider a new one. it was simple, just a white circle with a rainbow infinity symbol and the words "autism service dog" in black letters around it, IIRC. the phrase is the important part, there could be other cool designs to try

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

damn, I think I lost my precious "Autism Service Dog" patch in cap hill yesterday. I think i'd put it in my denim jacket pocket to remind myself to finally sew it on, then forgot to take it out before leaving the house. I hope some puppy girl enjoys it, it's the last of its kind

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yeah!! I'm starting to learn sewing and want to start making quilts and furry stuff. My mom made me some quilts when I was younger, and it's made me really want to try it now. So many cool designs and colors you can do with it

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

*dictating to your secretary* "and that's written as Rainbow dash Dash. no, not like that. Her name is Rainbow dash Dash. No!! It's R. A. I. N. B . . ."

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

really? i felt like he got off a little too much on calling people out with that one and kinda immediately lost interest in him

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cassio baby @aski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

quilt topper i completed last week. not able to quilt it until next month </3. blacklight zipper

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

specifically, I've had my eyes on this device for a while, which does something I've been looking for forever: records live input and immediately loads it into a playable sampler, so i could record my voice/guitar and then play that with a keyboard during a live set www.novelmusic.org/m4l/catch

novelmusic.org

CATCH — Novel Music — Max for Live Devices

Catch is a simple monophonic performance sampler that captures live audio for instant playback and manipulation.

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

it's bandcamp friday, consider throwing this dog some bones. all of my music is available for FREE but donations sure help the motivation to create. plus there are some cool plugins I wanna grab so I can make even MORE music! numbermuncher.bandcamp.com/track/plant-...

numbermuncher.bandcamp.com

plant a jort, by Number Muncher

from the album #lifehacks

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

now there's a compelling book cover

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dipshit @chigbarg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

yeah, the used instrument market is extremely in favor of buyers and bad for sellers right now. companies overproduced in 2020 and made surplus, and there's so much cheap but high quality import gear now it's hard to sell. i wish you luck, i've paid rent by selling gear dozens of times, it's hard

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