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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 17h
"Percy was pissed!"
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 08/10/2026
Like, he just reduces his companies' market value between epic bong rips. Unless they're companies with payola-fueled government contracts. Not a genius.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 08/10/2026
Ahem...Founder?
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 30/09/2026
IDK, man. Maybe something better than a winner-takes-all, two party cartel system could have prevented all this? Blaming one consumer advocate from ancient history or one crunchy crackpot from the recent past doesn't adequately explain how bad our politics are.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 26/09/2026
Not a ton, and I definitely need to do more. I curated a list a while back, with a plan to learn to the top 2 or 3 recordings of the top 20 most popular standards as a starting point. Typically, I laser in on a tune when someone puts it on a setlist and I need to prep it for a gig.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 26/09/2026
Explain this to me. What is there to gain by signing up for an exchange policy, possibly paying a premium, and then never using services? Like, the insurer gets the subsidy, yes? So in this scenario, it would be Cigna, United Health, etc. benefitting from the fraud, yes? The math doesn't math.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I demand that we only pay car and home insurance after we have an accident
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 26/09/2026
KJZZ – the station in Phoenix? I lived out there for about 3.5 years.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 26/09/2026
The last few years, I've played a semi-regular Smooth Jazz/R&B gig with a great group, and I want to do more of that and be more versatile in general. But I'm not a great improviser. Should I learn solos I admire? Patterns? Famous, highly regarded versions of specific tunes? HELP!
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 25/09/2026
I know scales, progressions, etc. I have a few vols of Real Books laying around. I was a pro transcriber for many years. I know HOW to practice and prepare as a professional. But I feel stuck.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 25/09/2026
#JazzGuitar #GuitarSky – I'm a classically trained guitarist, playing seriously off and on for about 35 years. I've had some Jazz instruction a long time ago (college). These days, I mostly play Metal. I want to dig into Jazz standards, but I struggle with WHAT to practice.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 21/09/2026
So, busking. People paid money to go to a large stadium to watch Ed Sheeran do busking.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 18/09/2026
Being in the US without official status is a civil offense...not a criminal one. And crossing the border is not, itself, a crime in a large category of circumstances undocumented immigrants end up in, like overstayed visas. Mullin is just lying.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 11/09/2026
I've held for years now that the moment Texas goes for a Democrat in a presidential, doing *something* about the EC will become a 9-alarm emergency for Republicans, Mainstream Media, The Commentariat, and a substantial plurality of national Democrats. Overnight, it will become a serious issue.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 29/08/2026
"Writing on X, Kalshi's lead lawyer Bobby DeNault welcomed the decision: 'It doesn't matter who you are: violate our rules or federal law and you will face the consequences.'" [Morgan Freeman Voiceover]: "But it does matter who you are, as Bobby well knows."
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 29/08/2026
You can observe a distinct Evangelicalism to Fox News to QANON pipeline. Adherence to fundamentalist versions of Christianity, with their emphasis on the supernatural, conditions people's brains to uncritically accept conspiracy theories with all their obvious non sequiturs and wild leaps.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 28/08/2026
Kind of surprised DHS is doing mugshots, actually.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 28/08/2026
Not to mention the several GOP candidates under investigation for literally beating up women and children who are STILL IN THEIR RACES BECAUSE THE NATIONAL PARTY HASN'T SHAMED THEM OUT OF THEIR RACES!
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 24/08/2026
You know, as part of the media, you have agency here. Just observin'
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 24/08/2026
Prediction: SROs and Police responding to incidents will get drone pepper sprayed.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 23/08/2026
"Insurgent left...", "prioritizing [...] infighting..." Who's going to tell them that "Third 'Way'" earmarked a $15 million war chest to discredit the "insurgent left" during the midterm cycle? The Atlantic (or this headline, anyway) misstates who is prioritizing infighting and why.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 21/08/2026
There is an old law that prevents it. There was a case before the 2024 election. It went to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court was like, "meh"
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 21/08/2026
Harder and harder to mark satire as satire without explicitly screaming "THIS IS SATIRE!!!" but this hit that mark. Well done.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 21/08/2026
Painting a tunnel in the side of a mountain to trick Wile E. Coyote into crashing into the side of a mountain.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 18/08/2026
Still bots, just made of cells instead of code.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 09/08/2026
Really hope some of these candidates win the general. Wonder what your framing will be if they do.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 09/08/2026
Many countries, maybe all, that have some mechanism of universal insurance also have private insurers. Just in case some readers are tempted to interpret this as an intentional or unintentional zero sum false choice.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 18/07/2026
How to handle litigious bullies:
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 17/07/2026
www.statnews.com/2026/07/17/c...
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 16/07/2026
"Like the petrofuel in Ken Ham's gas tank" is how I've often preface affirming something that is definitely true, even if a commenter wishes it wasn't.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 08/07/2026
Like, Due Process is for deciding whether to put someone in jail or not? Not for deciding whether a person is fit for public office. Greenwald is a lawyer and he definitely knows better than this.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 04/07/2026
Wankers.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 30/06/2026
Three Supreme Court Justices Fail Reading Comprehension Test
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 03/06/2026
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 02/06/2026
50 Year Old Dad Shreds Marty Friedman Solos at 85% Tempo, Gets Most of the Notes #Thrash #Tribute #HolyWars #ThrashPanda #MartyFriedman
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 31/05/2026
1st Marty solo from Holy Wars at ~85% tempo. #Thrash #Tribute #MartyFriedman #ThrashPanda
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 26/05/2026
Guy Who Was Wrong About Things Still Wrong #NotTheOnion #OwMyBalls
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 26/05/2026
Careening toward our very own Butlerian Jihad like:
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AI as a Fascist Artifact
(This is a bit of a merger of two talks I recently gave about fascism and AI. One was in German at the Cables Of Resistance conference, one in English at the Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy...
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 26/05/2026
Wanted: Drummer in Richmond, VA area for 80s/90s Thrash Metal tribute act. Currently rehearsing ~2x per month to get in front of music fans this fall. Sample setlist: -Medusa -Holy Wars -Behind the Crooked Cross -Beg to Differ -Master of Puppets -World in a World
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 24/05/2026
Slayer Avail Policy of 3 Anthrax Iron Maiden Steve Vai John Scofield Bad Religion Ben Folds Five Descendants
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 23/05/2026
"Major Questions! Major Question!"
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 23/05/2026
Seems like there should be some oversight+transparency where hundreds of millions of tax dollars are concerned.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 14/05/2026
Folks in RVA: I'm supporting Duke Benet on Guitar for Dominion Energy Jazz Café at VMFA on 5/20 from 6-8 PM. Come say hi!
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Dominion Energy Jazz Café | Duke Benet - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 10/05/2026
Savage
A Google search for Emacs returns a suggestion for Vim.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 09/05/2026
Democrats: *keep winning elections Packed Courts: "Whoa there, slow down..."
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 07/05/2026
He should've been held accountable for so many crimes well before 2011. Coddling rich sociopaths who've failed upward all their lives isn't the way to protect us from their narcissistic vengeance. He shouldn't have been there, full stop. And besides, it was a roast. He was, ostensibly, an adult.
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 29/04/2026
*Bobcat Goldthwait voice
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 29/04/2026
SCOTUS: "Why do you keep denying yourself the right to vote for the representative of your choice?!!??!"
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 22/04/2026
Got a little music thing going on. If you ever wondered what The Beatles would've sounded like if they formed in 1977 an played through the '90s, the give @tickettoriot.com a follow. No content yet really, but we hope to add some in the next several weeks. 🎸🥁
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coffee | metal | code @coffeemetalcode.com · 22/04/2026
Peter Thiel set $10m ablaze trying to plow through checks on the authoritarian takeover of the United States and lost. #virginia
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