flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 31/08/2026torn between making a clever knowing quip and waxing nostalgic about virality before influencers. anyway, old heads know: this rulesyoutube.comAsian Guy Plays Drums On A KeyboardYouTube video by ssjaken 000
flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Haven't seen any mentions of Congo (1995) yet, but... hell yeah 100
Reposted by flunkyChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 25/08/2026ASPIRING TO CULTURE IN EMPIRE: “We just have to keep pressing. Once our memetics take hold, we can subvert the system from within. The nerds will triumph; liberation is nigh!” ACHIEVING CULTURE IN EMPIRE: “…goddammit this is so fucking embarrassing.” 216315
Reposted by flunkyMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 18/08/2026hi, musicologist here: this is a cars problem not a music problem 53351511
flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Let us exorcise these demons. The power of christ (90% top marginal tax rates) compels you! 000
Reposted by flunkyThe Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 05/08/2026The chord change is happening today! The John Cage Organ Project Halberstadt's new chord means this 639-year project is about 4% complete. More from the AP here: apnews.com/article/john...apnews.comThis organ will play one composition until 2640. It's redefining how slowly music can be playedA small organ in eastern Germany is the headliner of the world’s slowest concert. It has been playing the same piece of music by composer John Cage at a glacial pace for nearly 25 years. 094
flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 03/08/2026amazing stuff here, drummer holds it together so wellyoutube.comCory Wong (feat. Joshua Redman) // "Brixton Underground" (Live at The Blue Note)YouTube video by Cory Wong 000
Reposted by flunkyEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The “losing control” narrative creates the loss of control. Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to it, as a way of diffusing responsibility, but the self-perpetuated intelligence myth has them convinced they have no choice. 528591
flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Forgot about this video, but it just came across my feed. Amazing song, and also now I need a dark/gritty HP spinoff about Snape's secret life as an illicit drug manufacturer/addict.youtube.comNine Inch Nails - The Perfect DrugYouTube video by NineInchNailsVEVO 000
flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Ugh it's a myth, the retelling is the point. The added layers of text and meaning are what make it interesting. Before long, these man babies are going to be going on "historically accurate" bike rides by putting their training wheels back on. 000
flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Bonny Doon - Maybe Today music.youtube.com/watch?v=zzGt...music.youtube.comMaybe TodayYouTube video by Bonny Doon - Topic 000
flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 17/07/202610,000BC en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10,000_... but we specifically went to heckle it. We were asked to move, but not to leave... 100
flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 16/07/2026@longnow.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpdg...youtube.comIt's Official, There Are Too Many Satellites!YouTube video by Scott Manley 000
flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Ten years old and still just monstrous: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYqu...youtube.comFloating Points - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)YouTube video by KEXP 010
Reposted by flunkyRob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 11/07/2026For the heavy music enjoyers out there, the new Elder is fucking outrageous. beholdtheelder.bandcamp.com/album/throug...beholdtheelder.bandcamp.comThrough Zero, by Elder6 track album 81457
flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 10/07/2026every now and then I see a bit of news about british politics and I know we're not in a place to talk shit over here, but... c'mon, what? is there a country in this world with a more out-of-whack self-seriousness to actual-seriousness ratio? 000
flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 09/07/2026my mom cried at the end of Armageddon (1998) when we saw it in the theater and I love her for that 000
Reposted by flunkyWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Okay, now it’s Republicans’ turn to kick out the most prominent rapist in their party 211423232
Reposted by flunkyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner. 249137122818
flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 20/06/2026More of Crosby guy myself, so just know: I've been there and I'm here for you 000
Reposted by flunkyPlague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 12/06/2026When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story. 8258072410
flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Is this like when I was in high school and they wanted to make sure Saddam Hussein couldn't get his hands on a PlayStation 2 ?anthropic.comStatement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States. 100
flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 12/06/2026So goodyoutu.be「Leave You」Jackie Evans & VulfmonYouTube video by Vulf 000
Reposted by flunkyTim Riley @timriley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026It was more than I could afford at the time, but I went ahead and bid for it anyway - because it was two of my heroes in one piece of work. Billy Wilder photographed by David Hockney. RIP. 618832
flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 12/06/2026As a high schooler studying photography, I found David Hockney's photo collages & fell completely in love & spent months emulating & riffing on them. Always ask how you can put more life into something! Didn't even know he was a painter until years later. Rad, curious, brilliant dude. Godspeed 000
flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 12/06/2026trillionaires or democracy - you really only get one or the other 000
flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Had this phrase rattling around in my head vaguely recalled from a documentary I saw decades ago. Glad(?) I didn't imagine it.youtube.com"I am not an atomic playboy"YouTube video by DenHvideRose 000
Reposted by flunkyQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 26/05/2026A mad scramble as the engineers realized they just trained Grok on E.O. Wilson, Consilience (1998). 4241
Reposted by flunkyNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026In this Ohio diner, the parliamentarian still means George Clinton. But they do know this: if Trump builds his ballroom illegally, Congressional Democrats should just tear the roof off the sucker. 2485588
Reposted by flunkySubvert @subvert.fm · 12/05/2026We’re live. Two years ago, we released a plan. Today, our collectively owned music platform is open. Explore. Support artists directly. Join the co-op. It’s only the beginning. Sincerely Ours, Subvert 12505239
Reposted by flunkyBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing 7570071751
flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I pitched my boy scout troop on opening a booth at a fair and using this app to make and sell people t-shirts with their own distorted faces on them. It did not happen. 000
Reposted by flunkyNils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026The defining challenge of the coming decades is not inventing powerful technologies. It is (re)building societies capable of absorbing them without losing what makes human life worth living. 18020
Reposted by flunkySam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 05/05/2026You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me, 8177761934
Reposted by flunkyDaniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Shadows of the Empire is arguably one of the most important Star Wars projects of all time. If there was any prediction of where Star Wars would be going in the future as a re-unified movie-TV-gaming-publishing force, it could be found here. 1240563
Reposted by flunkyScreaming Pectoriloquy @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 27/04/2026thinking about the gould quote again 10985271862
flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 23/04/2026wtf is this (complimentary) www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZZf...youtube.comDOOM GONG - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)YouTube video by KEXP 000
flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Definitely saw someone who got a version of this through... it was something like NVW55V and he mounted the plate upsidedown 000
Reposted by flunkyNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 11/04/2026ESCAPING ASTRONAUTS RECAPTURED DARING GETAWAY CUT SHORT JUST PAST LUNAR ORBIT SPACE CRIMINALS BROUGHT BACK TO EARTH TO STAND TRIAL "We're all in this big blue boat together." SAYS NASA SPOX IN NEW STATEMENT. "No exceptions allowed---not on our watch!" MOST SUCCESSFUL BREAKOUT ATTEMPT SINCE 1972 121345257
flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 11/04/2026look props to nasa on pretty much the whole thing, but this helicopter rigamarole for getting the astronauts onto the boat seems way more complicated than necessary 000
flunky @flunky.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I wonder how many meetings it took where nobody had any good ideas for them to finally relent to him insisting on making a speech. 100
