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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

God why is farina so unreasonably good?

Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Nothing is that surprising anymore, but it is worth noting that this young person as well as the Christchurch shooter both cited absolute nightmare of a human being Candace Owens as a primary influence. #nashville

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Chicago I love you but I also have no idea why I *choose* to live in a city in which I have to dress like this to take my dog to the corner.

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Alright music people who's going to #namm ? It feels a bit weird though to take up a hotel room that could be used by someone displaced by the fires in LA. - is that a relevant concern in Anaheim?

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Dark chocolate helps you lose weight by rewiring your brain to think chocolate is disgusting. #fitness

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I am so into killing #tiktok - and yet the first time I'm on the cover of the @chicagotribune.com it's because I swallowed my contempt for the platform to help my friend make a Tik Tok video 🤦🏽‍♂️🙈.

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

If the millions of users who left Twitter and came to Bluesky also made a best attempt at not buying everything from #amazon, we'd really be getting somewhere. #bezos #activism

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Walking out of a grocery store without buying anything always makes me feel like I'm under suspicion of committing multiple felonies.

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Neighbor got a Buchla. Good start to the year. #synth

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Sub-bass rumble is the sonic equivalent of visible heat shimmer. I want to use it excessively but I'm afraid anyone with actual speakers will Luigi me after I destroy their gear.

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the only form of currency on #bluesky

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Missed my goal of releasing this EP in 2024, which means I can safely spend the next 8,700 hours obsessing over every detail. #music #synthsky

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Not a historian by any means, but two events surrounding the to 1980 defeat of #jimmycarter seem to signal a turning point in the United States and the kernel of how broken our country would eventually become...

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

RIP Jimmy Carter. Seemingly by acclamatio, possibly the best person to have held the office of President of the United States.

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Really want to check this out but I'm afraid if I listen to it I might never get laid again. #music

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

People always talk up the Sub37 and it would nice to have another voice and more knobs, but man the filter on the Little Phatty is FILTHY. #moog #synth

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Any mix engineers want to fix my distorted ambient EP "for exposure"? Timeline is a very generous 48 hours and it's an incredible opportunity. I have similar incredible opportunities for mastering engineers and PR agents. #music #musicproduction

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Download the 186-page eBook from CNN today. #vivek #elon

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Started to post something sarcastic about the Parker Solar Probe's incredible feat today but won't. Let's just recognize that in the midst of so much political and social strife, the fact that #nasa exists and is still a collective and not a commercial effort is reason to be happy. #space #science

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Normalize picking up the dog shit that other owners left lying around the dog park.

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Me realizing that the same person flailing about at James Hetfield and having nonstop temper tantrums in Some Kind of Monster was the same person who played drums on ...And Justice For All. #metallica

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olive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 26/12/2024

my reaction when the supposedly faithful require transparently fraudulent scientific evidence for their faith

Saint Thomas Aquinas, it's that one picture of him looking a little pissy

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Alcohol is the last hard drug it's acceptable to push on people and that it's weird if you're not a user. The alcohol industry also kills 178,000 Americans per year (the next highest drug by annual deaths are opioids, at "just" 81,000.) #alcohol #drinking #drugs #statistics

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Just a reminder that the 2020 mortality rate of COVID-19 was 2.3% and caused 375,000 deaths in the US alone. The case fatality ratio of Avian Flu in humans is between 50-60%. #covid #h5n1 #avianflu #pandemic #health

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

As of Dec 18, there were over 60 confirmed cases of H5N1 in the US. Bring back any memories of December 2019?

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Insecure, entitled man who won the "born into colonial wealth" lottery thinks he knows how women should spend their money. I'll take "color me fucking surprised" for $200, Alex. finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-mu... #elon

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Elon Musk takes aim at MacKenzie Scott again for giving billions to liberal causes, calling the gifts 'concerning'

Elon Musk reposted a critique of MacKenzie Scott for giving billions of dollars to liberal nonprofits and said the giving concerned him.

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Happy 5th birthday, my beautiful, loving, funny, old soul boy Buran. #dogsofbluesky #dogs #samoyed

Samoyed in winter snow, sitting in front of purple graffiti.

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

🎄 Does anyone else begin stringing up #Christmas tree lights with near-Japanese levels of artistic perfection but get increasingly more unhinged in your placement as you move your way down the tree? Like three-quarters of the way down I'm literally just shoving clumps of lights towards the center.

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

My 4-month old said he would help me untangle the lights and has made basically no progress.

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Still no polling though on whether insurance companies killing their customers is "acceptable" or " somewhat acceptable." @axios.com next poll pls? #luigi

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

On my flight today a woman was wearing an embroidered TRUMP sweatshirt that actually looked pretty nice. I wonder if there were people in Germany walking around wearing nice-looking fashion swastikas in 1938. #resist #usa #travel

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Literally the first time my bag has been lost by an airline *before* my flight. Not usually in the habit of complaining but #United really went above and beyond on figuring out a creative way to making a mess this time. #travel #airlines

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Just a reminder for all of those traveling this holiday season, find any option other than your airport Starbucks. The company is giving #CEO Brian Niccol a *ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR PLUS* compensation package while #Starbucks #workers are given the cold shoulder on fair pay. @sbworkersunited.org

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Things That Feel Good #1: The way your skin heats up from the inside out after you've just submerged yourself in really cold water.

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I've decided that in the face of rising authoritarianism, the growing malignancy of late stage capitalism, and impending climate collapse, I'll occasionally post Things That Feel Good, tiny morsels of a humble compendium of what makes being around worthwhile.

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Ok, so best #synth though: Prophet 5 or this bad boy?

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Man if only children were billionaire CEOs we could finally get the #gop behind gun control. 🤷🏽‍♂️ #america

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Years and years making music with analog and digital gear, and I've never until today tried to use a hardware step sequencer. Is it really this clunky? Every single note is like putting an IKEA cabinet together. . . . #synthsky #synthesizer #electronica

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Travel rig for the next week. Going to be learning the Oto Biscuit's "Der Oto" #synth mode, which I've never really played with. Chosen for the team: Strymon BigSky, Source Audio Superlunar SR-01, Source Audio Nemesis, Arturia Microfreak, SSL2, and my old Zoom recorder.

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

If only there was a way to *deport* polio.

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

So what's a unit of content on this site called? "Bluesky post" seems awkward. Do butterflies make a sound?

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

When I was like eight I invented determinism and very self-assuredly decided I was one of the smartest people in the world. Since then, a long, slow plummet into self-awareness. . . . #science (not science)

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

When did United Airlines get rid of Gershwin? Those preflight videos used to be basically like 6 minutes of Rhapsody in Blue. You just get a little swish at the end now. #travel

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Lyra-8 with some heat from an RML 432k distortion box makes such lovely noise. Thinking of turning this into a track... #analogsynth #synth #ambient #music #electronicmusic youtube.com/shorts/gwcRS...

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PSA: The RML 432k distortion/fuzz pedal is a drone synth's best friend.

YouTube video by Chris Oquist

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I'd be hard-pressed to part with any of them, but I think my OG Juno-60 is the ONE.

Vintage Juno-60 analog synthesizer on a hardwood floor.

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Chris Oquist @chrisoquist.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Joined just in time to be super late to the party! #bluesky

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