coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 26/09/2026it was great to see Uncle Acid again last night, but going to a show the day after crossing an ocean isn't as easy as it once was... dang. 000
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 24/09/2026I still remember hearing Good, their first album, it was unlike anything I'd heard, but every part of it felt right. I am often afraid of posthumous releases... but, in this case, I am hopeful. 010
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 21/09/2026Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto providing a late night border crossing soundtrack, on the train from Lviv to Kraków: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcWA...youtube.comConversation 1YouTube video by Alva Noto - Topic 010
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 17/09/2026not the dogs of war, these dogs of Ukraine just want to be warm and dry… 030
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 11/09/2026Found the Metal venue in Bratislava, always good to see the politics up front… especially now. 020
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 09/09/2026After The Long Room in Dublin, and The Strahov Halls of Theology & Philosophy in Prague, the Prunksaal in Vienna was the last in the top three libraries in my nerd travel list. 0101
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 03/09/2026preparing for a few weeks in Eastern Europe, by stumbling through a post-soviet post-punk wormhole, which eventually dumped me into a rather angular corner of French coldwave... not complaining. 020
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 31/08/2026hi, @ap.brid.gy. things keep vanishing somewhere between mastodon.social/@Coffeekid and @coffeekid.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, any ideas?mastodon.socialcoffeekid (@Coffeekid@mastodon.social)2.47K Posts, 171 Following, 105 Followers · Design, Theory, Coffee & Music 020
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 27/08/2026This Natik Awayez is in heavy rotation: natikawayez.bandcamp.com/album/manbar... 010
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 26/08/2026Our local punk/metal dive bar is only playing Dolly today… the regulars are all singing along. 050
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 23/08/2026This evening’s storm is pretty impressive. These photos could have been taken a block from where we are in West Vancouver. 051
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 08/08/2026In my neighborhood, when a cop parks and sits for too long, the chat gets active until someone asks them to move along. 050
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 29/07/2026I am grateful for friends that want to spend 90 minutes talking about the relationship between AI adoption and nihilism (with side quests through ritual and the making of meaning). 000
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 16/07/2026In today's mail... Charanjit Singh’s Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat. I’ve been trying to track down a (reasonably priced) copy of this record since it was first reissued in 2010. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FapG...youtube.comRaga BhairavYouTube video by Charanjit Singh - Topic 010
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 09/07/2026My conversations today: Delisting Syria, good. Platner replacements, duds. Dems are fucked, thanks. Kelsey Pfendler, holy shit. Cities benefitting from stadiums, lies. 010
Reposted by coffeekidErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I wrote this thing a while back based on what I was hearing in our workshops. It does have some man work tips. The most surprising, and potentially fun, suggestion is dress differently if you're a straight cis white man. This creates room for other sorts of difference. medium.com/modus/be-a-p...medium.comBe a Pal, My DudesA guide to being an ally in the workplace 1237
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 07/07/2026Graham, it shouldn't be so hard for you to not be terrible. Now... we have to ask, do Maine voters like Troy Jackson enough? I know most of them are sick of Susan Collins' bullshit. 000
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 29/06/2026thanks to @currentform.com for introducing me to @lifewinning.com's Perfect Sentences: buttondown.com/perfectsente...buttondown.comPerfect SentencesThis is a newsletter by Ingrid Burrington. Every Sunday, you get a collection of the best sentences I've come across all week. That's pretty much the whole idea. Reader submissions are accepted. Pay... 020
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 19/06/2026I've had this song looping in my head all day... The President, he's got his war Folks don't know just what it's for Nobody gives us rhyme or reason Have one doubt, they call it treason 010
Reposted by coffeekidwaldokanto.bsky.social @waldokanto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026 45104843380
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 30/05/2026if stoner-doomy shit is your thing, the new Monolord will land well... 030
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 27/05/2026Every Democrat I know in Maine will be voting for Graham Platner, and most lefties outside of Maine struggle with that. If you're of those struggling, you should read this 151
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 23/05/2026Local metal/dive bar hosting a fundraiser for Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition… delivering much needed sonic catharsis. #doom 020
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 22/05/2026If we’ve worked together you know that I’m no Luddite, nor am I overly nostalgic, but I am critical of many of the people and things that have made the internet shitty… this is why I often praise The Boring Internet 010
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 22/05/2026adversarial audio? tell me more... spectrum.ieee.org/voice-ai-aud...spectrum.ieee.orgHidden Voice Glitches Could Hijack Audio AI ToolsResearch shows sounds unheard by human ears can hijack models’ behavior 010
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 21/05/2026Someone must be making a movie about Mako Nishimura: www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...theguardian.com‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuzaThe long read: Mako Nishimura fought her way into the Japanese underworld, but drug addiction and the slow demise of organised crime gangs almost destroyed her 010
Reposted by coffeekidDan Hon @danhon.com · 19/05/2026And there we were all making fun of that Bourne film where Julia Stiles is all "double click on the folder that says CIA BLACK SITE" gizmodo.com/the-worst-le... 113733
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 11/05/2026this is what I'm talking about when I say early 90s New England/Boston hardcore shows were a little intense... 110
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 11/05/2026Trying to find the first couple of Sadies' albums on vinyl, only to be reminded AGAIN there was time when bands only made CDs. Dear Travis (and Bloodshot Records), what do we need to do to get Precious Moments pressed into a limited run? www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvL6... 000
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 20/04/2026I’m a fan of the neighborhood FU TEL public telephones around town futel.net/about/ 050
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 19/04/2026every time I read de Beauvoir, even the little things, I feel like I should read more de Beauvoir… 000
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 16/04/2026In all honesty, I feel confident she'd do a better job than Vance... 000
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 16/04/2026Jared Golden (Maine) proving my point that 97.5% of Jareds are terrible people. 020
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 15/04/2026I work hard to remove jargon and make my work as accessible and approachable as possible. Today I had a client tell me they wanted to run my proposal through Claude to add a few big words before sending it to their boss. I don't love this world. 110
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 15/04/2026atproto pals, who is making interesting things related to music? less interested in music making, more interested in everything else. thanks. 341
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 13/04/2026paying taxes to the most corrupt government in US history makes me seriously unhappy. also, I really should be making those quarterly payments... some day. 130
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 07/04/2026last week I saw a sticker with Leon Czolgosz’s last words (credited to Fred C. Nieman) and now I can’t stop wondering if the sticker vandal made a mistake or a deliberate choice… 000
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 05/04/2026“A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living.” This line got me hooked on Dewey as a young designer (nearly 30 years ago). It now feels obvious, but it turned on so many lights: design as a democratic process / democracy as an outcome of design 010
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 03/04/2026Thanks to @burrito.space for indirectly reminding me to listen to Tweez... but I listened to Spiderland instead. 010
coffeekid @jaredcole.com · 17/03/2026Today, marks 27 years. Despite so many things being terrible in the world, I am always grateful that our little corner is doing so well. Looking forward to more adventures and rooftop beers! [Tunisa, 2024] 060
![What is most striking to me, and most discouraging, is that [the students] are so apathetic while being neither blind nor unconscious. They know and deplore the oppression of thirteen million blacks, the terrible poverty of the South, the almost equally desperate poverty that pollutes the big cities. They witness the rise, more ominous every day, of racism and reactionary attitudes—the birth of a kind of fascism. They know that their country is responsible for the world’s future. But they themselves don’t feel responsible for anything, because they don’t think they can do anything in this world. At the age of twenty, they are convinced that their thought is futile, their good intentions ineffective: “America is too vast and heavy a body for one individual to move it.” And this evening I formulate what I’ve been thinking for days. In America, the individual is nothing. He is made into an abstract object of worship; by persuading him of his individual value, one stifles the awakening of a collective spirit in him. But reduced to himself in this way, he is robbed of any concrete power. Without collective hope or personal audacity, what can the individual do? Submit or, if by some rare chance this submission is too odious, leave the country.
Simone de Beauvoir, in America Day by Day](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ztxohsr2l7sceyvqm73xgxfp/bafkreidaiobbjodurkzbhpqbb3iwa6tf4wagayzeuy5qpyqlpeyqzauxyy)
![What is most striking to me, and most discouraging, is that [the students] are so apathetic while being neither blind nor unconscious. They know and deplore the oppression of thirteen million blacks, the terrible poverty of the South, the almost equally desperate poverty that pollutes the big cities. They witness the rise, more ominous every day, of racism and reactionary attitudes—the birth of a kind of fascism. They know that their country is responsible for the world’s future. But they themselves don’t feel responsible for anything, because they don’t think they can do anything in this world. At the age of twenty, they are convinced that their thought is futile, their good intentions ineffective: “America is too vast and heavy a body for one individual to move it.” And this evening I formulate what I’ve been thinking for days. In America, the individual is nothing. He is made into an abstract object of worship; by persuading him of his individual value, one stifles the awakening of a collective spirit in him. But reduced to himself in this way, he is robbed of any concrete power. Without collective hope or personal audacity, what can the individual do? Submit or, if by some rare chance this submission is too odious, leave the country.
Simone de Beauvoir, in America Day by Day](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ztxohsr2l7sceyvqm73xgxfp/bafkreignpgygjcwzpzn6inmjf45zfe3qurnbdohgw6xdfzokxxjyxbaeuy)
