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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This was so goddamn fun I can’t express how much I appreciated the opportunity.

“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Okay. Sure. At least one world “leader” is getting involved. But, uh, is a somewhat-inbred septugenairian hereditary monarch the best we can get for a spokesperson?

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I mean, we know this is just a dodge, of course. He’s not actually going to do anything, but he’ll bloviate about it a lot to keep his MAHA wingnuts loyal. And it distracts from stuff like “measles” and “diarrhea lettuce” and so forth.

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s the one time I hope it turns out to be a real thing. Then they can get lost in it forever.

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wow that Emmys opening sequence was cringey. No better way to show how relevant you are to pop culture than parodying a song that was written in 1975.

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Aside from being the funkiest thing ever animated, the Sesame Street Number Count did a helluva job convincing an entire generation that pinball was way cooler than it actually was.

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I really hope the democrats hammer Tiffany on the fact that he only ever says he wants to make healthcare costs “transparent” and not “affordable.”

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Hahahahahaha I certainly do not quibble with the concept of my dryer playing classical music when it’s done; I’m more curious as to why that specific piece was the choice.

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I would like to know why my washer and dryer play Schubert’s “Trout” quintet when their cycles complete. It’s such a random choice.

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Music festivals do a great job of reminding me that I have neither the stamina nor the arch support I did in my younger days.

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

They’re all like “Francesca Hong is too badass for WI!”

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Man, these anti-Francesca Hong commercials are really landing in the “don’t threaten me with a good time” category.

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It is a gift. The show works on many levels. It’s both good Star Trek for beginners and deep fan service. It’s some of my favorite.

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

At this point the Minions should just drop the pratfall comedy and go full Cosmic Horror. “At The Minions of Madness” “Banana Over Innsmouth” “The Color Out Of Space (Is Yellow)”

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

“The X-Men have come to Dave’s Hot Chicken” is not a phrase I ever expected to hear in my lifetime, and now that I have, I find it deeply unsettling.

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Very little compares to the thrill of seeing a “meeting: cancelled” notification land in my inbox

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Weather siren or avant garde microtonal horn ensemble? You make the call!

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I say this, of course, while Angine de Poitrine is going viral, so maybe I just should keep quiet

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I know that the point of weather alert sirens is to get your attention, but I really wish they would use a complete chord

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Well it seems to know I’ve only ever worked with capuchin monkeys and never any of the larger apes.

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Hey cool Google AI no longer thinks I’m a Navy SEAL.

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Sometimes I’ll be in the studio mixing something and get hit with the realization that I really get to do this, and it’s fun, and I get to do it with my best friends. It’s pretty awesome. (I just finished mixing the new #EyeNewDark record and it’s amazing. Jill is an incredibly gifted songwriter)

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Heeeeeeeyy so I did a thing! I chatted with a nice fellow across the pond about music for a while. www.mixcloud.com/ColinSpencer...

mixcloud.com

Colin Spencer #210 6-8pm Sat 6jun26 @Colinspencermusic Tobe Eric Oehler Talks Lassigue Bendthaus

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Everyone has rights to it, but only five people know it’s there.

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

“EDI: what if COBOL programmers invented XML?”

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I work in health care IT and it astounds me just how much critical data is just tossed between regulatory agencies and vendors and such in XLSX and CSV (Still like it better than EDI tho)

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I mean it’s not like Donnie has a really great track record for paying *at all*, much less paying *well.*

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

And invariably it’s a file whose functions are understood by only a few harried accountants. No LLM knows “what’s on Steve’s old G: drive” And even if it does, it doesn’t know “why Steve inserted a blank column T in 2022 that breaks every calculation when removed.”

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I’ve worked at several F500’s now and it’s always the same. Fancy new tools and intelligent assistants and yet the keys to understanding the financial health of the entire org is “Payables032025_1.xlsx” in a shared folder named “Steve’s Files.” (Steve having left the company 3 years ago)

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

All the pontificating about “AI in the workplace” and all that always overlooks that an absurd amount of every company’s critical data ends up being maintained in a collection of opaque and poorly-named Excel files.

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Ever watched “Letterkenny?” Gave me a whole new perspective on that word.

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I did an interview and talked about a formative artist (whose name I probably mispronounce)

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

“Fun-size” candybars are such a lie. They’d be way more fun if they were comically large.

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I had my headphones on and legit didn’t realize the guy running the leaf blower in the next yard was not part of the song.

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Any time I see the phrase “liberal elites” used unironically, I generally ignore anything that comes next. Like, guys, you _literally_ elected a billionaire who shits in a gold toilet, and somehow it’s liberals who are the elites?

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

What? You mean a guy who spent the last 50 years living in a gold penthouse is out of touch with ordinarily Americans?!?

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Omelet? You mean those freedom-hating socialist French eggs?

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The Secretary of State is dreaming of putting toothpaste back in the tube.

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

That’s part of it, yeah. And another part of it is tying everything to his personal brand (“The Art Of The Deal.”) But it’s reductive and simplistic, and implies a transactionalisn that isn’t necessarily what we want out of public service and foreign relations.

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“Existential Dread” is my middle name @nulldevice.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

One of the most underdiscussed and frankly worrying facts about the current landscape is how all political discourse has been reduced to the word “deal.”

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