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John Engine @heyjohncourte.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Tonight, I’m bringing a bag of vinyl to Paris Bar in Detroit. I’ll have enough synth-EBM goodies for everyone. Thanks Razormaid! Records for decades of being the best remix service for darker, harder, and generally riskier tracks than all the others.

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John Engine @heyjohncourte.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I’m at @tangentgallery313.bsky.social for CORRUPTION SaTYRS NIGHT. I go on at 10 and I’ll be blasting some punchy midtempo bangers. Leaning into that “Dionysian Cyberpunk” vibe, hard.

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John Engine @heyjohncourte.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

One thing I’ll support the gun nuts on is this: a 3d printer that has to get permission before it prints something is worse than broken. It’s a snitch and a commissar, living in your home, rent-free.

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John Engine @heyjohncourte.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Fortunately, an anomalous difficulty in collecting my thoughts to make words prevented me from posting something unkind and regrettable. Carry on.

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John Engine @heyjohncourte.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

It looks calm now, but that’s because the lost Soviet submarine went back under before dawn. The backstory on that is one of the weirdest I’ve ever heard.

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John Engine @heyjohncourte.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

"Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot." I really, really miss Iain M. Banks. When my library's available digital offerings are a desert of AI-generated SF bodice-rippers, I dive back into Use of Weapons or Excession while I wait for my holds to come up.

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Remnant @remnant-visage.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Next up with the full formation of Defiled Industrial [Graphite and Wraith] at Tangent Gallery

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John Engine @heyjohncourte.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Some of the best club nights are weeknights, which have an uncanny ability to distill a more contributory crowd. If you’re in #Detroit on Thursday March 26th, check out Corruption at @tangentgallery313.bsky.social for some massive #EBM and #industrialmusic goodness. ra.co/events/2397664

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John Engine @heyjohncourte.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I guess the 20-year pop culture cycle eventually comes for us all. But I think my 2000s were very different from these 2000s

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John Engine @heyjohncourte.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I’m going to get heat for this, but Daft Punk’s ‘Around the World’ would have me spilling launch codes on the 2nd or 3rd play. Maybe 4th, because I’m a true patriot.

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John Engine @heyjohncourte.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

If I can smell you and we’re not slow-dancing, you’re wearing too much perfume.

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John Engine @heyjohncourte.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I have found the Alien, Terminator, Vader, and Humungus of bar snacks: the Philly cheesesteak egg roll at Oak and Stone in Bradenton, FL.

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fig (aka:[phil]) @bad-example.com · 04/05/2025

FOLKS WE DID IT ✅ I'm typing this on @aviva.gay's deer.social ✅ which posted to @alnkq.bsky.social's AppViewLite ✅ which is listening to the @blacksky.app atproto.africa relay

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John Engine @heyjohncourte.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

So let me get this straight: We're turning the USA into an exclusive gated community with a terrible HOA, restrictive covenants, and expensive dues, then shipping everyone who parks a vehicle in the driveway overnight to a #McGulag thousands of miles away. It's so clear now.

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John Engine @heyjohncourte.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

A while back, some pundit was throwing shade on all the latest tech trends and when he got to 3D printing, he said “we’ve already got a 3D printer, it’s called ‘China.’” Not anymore. Might be time to get a 3D printer.

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John Engine @heyjohncourte.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

One of the refreshing things about #bsky is this: Once I've finished reading what I'm interested in, that's it. I can stop. I don't have to sift through maliciously curated chum to find out who and what I've missed.

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John Engine @heyjohncourte.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

We're watching this nation turn into Gilead. Not that Gilead, the @stephenking.bsky.social Dark Tower Gilead, because the world is most definitely Moving On, and the meanest, most dislikable characters popping up in those stories are attaining positions of power they really shouldn't have.

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John Engine @heyjohncourte.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

TFW you have something clever and witty to write, then forget it completely while you're navigating password reset.

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John Engine @heyjohncourte.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

OK, this is great so far. There is little to no #enshittification present just yet.

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