KJ ✨

my complete taxonomy of fundamental music theory: (v2)

@TBagsMusings ty for providing a groovy soundtrack to my morning chores 🙏

Glass Beams - Mahal (Glastonbury 2025) youtube.com/watch?v=P8c7z0…

Glass Beams got this oriental crystal hoe aesthetic that matches their instrumental music perfectly

@LemmySmackett your prose is exquisite, Lemmy 💚

"Pft. Dude, check out this online poll." "Hm?" "If you had to be haunted, is it better or worse if the ghost is attractive?" "Eh." "It's obviously better. Like what kind of moron would answer—" "Worse." "Huh." "It is objectively worse to be haunted by an attractive ghost." "Really." "It happened to my Uncle Dale." "Your Uncle Dale was haunted." "Hot Girl Haunted." "Come on." "By a drop-dead gorgeous 18-year-old prom queen who dropped dead in his arms." "What?" "She ran out into the street and ate the front grill of his Chevy Silverado at 60 MPH." "Holy shit." "Yeah." "Why'd she do that?" "Well, it wasn't on purpose. She was blinded by the tears in her eyes." "Dude." "Her high school sweetheart, the prom king, was going off to college after graduation, and he decided the King and Queen Dance was the right time to break the news." "Damn." "She literally ran sobbing out of the auditorium, straight into her untimely chrome-plated demise." "Sic Semper Tyrannis, bro." "Yeah. She was in the running to be Miss Mississippi." "What a dick." "After the police took his statement, they let my uncle go home and he woke up around 3 am that very night to discover her ethereal, diaphonous silhouette wandering the halls of his double-wide in search of her one true love." "Okay so like, yeah, that sucks. But at least he wasn't being haunted by the Nun. Or that freaky puppet from Poltergeist." "That was his attitude too, at first. Who complains about having a pretty girl around?" "Right?" "Even if she is dead." "Beggars and choosers, bro. I've had girlfriends in bed who could flatline an EKG." "But problems quickly arose." "Like what? "Well, for one: having a nubile intangible nymph wandering around your home in a flowing see-through shroud can be a little, uh, agitating." "Ah. You're saying the gauzy buxom beauty was giving him ghostly blue balls." "Right." "He didn't—" "No, no. It wouldn't be right." "Yeah." "He killed her after all." "I was gonna say." "But the hard part was convincing the barflies." "Barflies?" "My uncle is kind of the lothario of his local dive scene." "Ah." "There's no three-toothed saloon slattern he can't two-step his way into a one-night stand." "Huh. Who knew trolling for trollop was so numeric?" "He always says it's a numbers game. But when you're trying to bag busted biddy baddies, the last thing you need is a pallid supple siren moaning in eternal lamentation." "I'm seeing the problem now." "Hell, one grizzled guttersnipe accused my uncle of being a Drake-style necrophile." "Yeesh." "You know what my uncle said?" "What?" "Don't worry. She's dead, but she's of age." "Oof. And how'd that go over?" "About as well as the prom queen." "Yeah, you gotta save stuff like that for the third date." "Needles to say, my uncle's love life experienced its own undeath for a few years—" "I bet." "—until he met a librarian who was Hot Guy Haunted." "Hot Guy Haunted?" "She accidentally knocked over an unanchored steel bookshelf with a pushcart and crushed a Clavicular impersonator to death." "Clavicular? The guy who got a cortisol spike because he got framemogged by the ASU frat leader while jestergooning?" "The one and the same." "Huh. I didn't know he had impersonators." "Anyway, they decided as two haunted people in a desolate, forsaken world that they should just settle for what they had and try to make it work." "Like most people who find love in middle age." "But what they didn't expect is that their looksmaxxed apparitions fell in love with each other immediately and eloped to High Tier Heaven." "High Tier Heaven?" "It's the endless Elysian fields for the Eloi, where the Truest Chads and Stacys ascend to rule forever in courtly celestial splendor." "Oh. Uh, so it's a happy ending then." "Well..." "Did your uncle and the librarian stay together?" "Nope. They broke up the next day without saying a word." "What? Why?" "Well, they both realized what it meant." "Huh?" "As two earthbound uggos, they just got ghosted by their Giga-tier ghosts and, haunted by this lingering morlockian shame, they ghosted each other." --- [g][title: Hot Girl Haunted]

@danallison another banger mr allison 👏 sticker-worthy imo

You are loved. You are free. Goodnight.

No, this is incorrect. The key isn't finding a balance between blissful ignorance and painful awareness, it’s learning to find happiness in sources that don’t depend on the delusional belief that everything is fine. It’s very possible to be both happy and well-informed. We live in an explosively beautiful universe, and getting to experience anything at all is amazing. The fact that our world is plagued by human butchery and degradation does not cancel out the majesty of a bird in the sky, or the ecstasy of the wind upon your skin. It is true that we live in a civilization of unfathomable cruelty. It is true that our biosphere is being strangled while human and non-human beings are subjected to horrific abuses in a society which elevates the worst art, the worst values, and the worst people to the highest levels of prominence. It is also true that getting to live even a single moment on this astonishing blue planet is a gift worthy of immense joy and gratitude. These things are both fully true at the same time. They do not negate each other. Don’t find your happiness in the belief that everything is okay, because everything is not okay. If you spend your life squirming around trying to avert your gaze from the truth and psychologically compartmentalizing away from reality, you will never know actual happiness. Instead, find your happiness in that which cannot be corrupted by this fraudulent dystopia. Your connections with your loved ones. That’s real and authentic. The radiance of the natural world. That’s real and authentic. The crackling aliveness of the senses. That’s real and authentic. The boundless peace deep down at the heart of your being which reveals itself if you listen closely enough. That’s real and authentic. These things can supply endless happiness, even as the world burns, and even as you weep at its burning. Because it is entirely possible to honor the grief and tragedy of this world while also delighting in its beauty. You can weep for the dying oceans while marveling at the stars. You can rage for Gaza while reveling in the earth beneath your bare feet. You can open your heart to all the suffering and to all the wonder. You can fall to your knees in both anguish and gratitude. You can do these things because feelings move through you if you don’t cling to them. You feel them fully without resistance, you invite them in to have their say, and then you let them leave when they are done. It usually doesn’t take long; a few minutes, maybe even seconds. Then you get up and go back to marveling at the miracle. Feelings are meant to be felt. If you simply feel them all the way through when they come up instead of repressing them or trying to manage them, they move through fairly quickly without setting up a permanent residence in your chest. But you’ve got to really let them have their say. You’ve got to give yourself fully over to them. This takes practice if you don’t know how to do it, and because of the way our culture conditions people it tends to be harder for men than for women. But it’s a skill like any other, and anyone can teach themselves how to do it. Appreciating the beauty of this terrestrial experience likewise takes practice. Everything is crackling with beauty all the time, but we don’t notice it because our attention gets wrapped up in mental stories. Just make a conscious practice of noticing beauty at every opportunity, and your aperture for appreciating beauty will get wider and wider. You can learn to live your whole life in this way, from moment to moment. If you can get the hang of these two skills—appreciating beauty and feeling your feelings all the way through—then there will be nothing stopping you from living a joyful and fulfilling life while also having an entirely truth-based relationship with reality.

@eternalism_4eva hbd!! 🎉

[34 years old award] having a good run tbh even the downs are ups with some distance and an ability to not take life too seriously here's to between 2 and 2e9 more years -- somewhat wide error bars nowadays (I'd be miserable if I were childless btw. produce offspring.)

@AnnaLeptikon i've been channeling this energy into my daily chores as of late i'm not "cleaning the dishes", i'm a one man army defeating the universal force of entropic decay !!

Somehow it was learning how many people are fulltime employed to maintain the Golden Gate Bridge that flipped something inside of me in my understanding of the entropic force civilization has to constantly fight against. Before that moment I thought — I had not applied real conscious thought — you simply build a building or anything really and then you just … have it. After that I understood everything is constantly at the brink of being lost.

@midnight_troupe @JeremiahDJohns @Aella_Girl yep i think its about where you draw the line of "person-ification" (literally who you consider to posess *personhood*) racism is absurd in 2026 bc anyone well-informed knows how similar all humans are but perhaps in 2126, species-ism will be just as absurd..?

@JeremiahDJohns @Aella_Girl It is also not that different in a way because for each person, there is probably a certain group of people that they think of the same way a racist think of the inferior races.

I have trouble believing people are *actually* racist, in like, the righteously overfitting that goes far past the nuance of reality type of racist. I keep instinctively thinking it's a joke, like people are larping to be edgy, cause it seems impossible ppl *really* believe it

It’s safe to love fully (1/2)

@saybwala if ur a can nerd u MUST see this masterpiece youtu.be/hUhisi2FBuw?si…

Aluminium cans get their structural strength from internal pressure - either CO2 from carbonation or nitrogen filling. These are either full cans of coke or filled with sand for strength. Both would make it heavy. That leaves the option that there is a frame that bears the load while the cans are empty decor. Btw another fun trivia - filled aluminium cans are only rated to stack 5 high by manufacturers. 6th stack onwards the risk of bottom cans failing increases. So you gotta design storage of filled cans with the 5 stack in mind.

@AnnaLeptikon @gershbrain ..how about tomorrow tho?? 😅

@KompendiaProj @gershbrain Now. Seriously.

This diagram got me much closer to real life: The universe has a tax on deliberation. Rationality collapses into "just do things" quickly. In a live environment, thinking is not free; every extra second spent optimizing carries opportunity cost, the cost of delay. So while additional reflection has marginal benefits in an abstract, costless world, once you factor in delay, the net value of further thinking peaks—and then drops—quickly. Figure 2B captures this as a direct order with an exclamation mark; there is a moment when the right move is to "Stop thinking and act now!".

my fav video of 2026 so far happy new mayor, nyc ❤️

@miniapeur @depthsofwiki 👀

(mobster showing chakra body map to his goons) it flows like a river, capisce

this is why i've been so absent from posting lately fyi so dw, i'm doin very well! just let me cook...

i think about this a lot

@xofresearch HUGE shout out to @michaeloburns for making me aware of it with his fantastic breakdown here: youtu.be/4Dlw2NB_yh8?si…

@xofresearch authoritarian-stack.info

this is some truly incredible work by @xofresearch a dire warning that dissects the dark trajectory of the ongoing corruption of governance but in an inspiringly digestible package that heralds a potential bright future for the sharing of information ✨ (link below 👇)

@u_m_a_m_i @YouTube @YouTubeCreators or that if they DO provide support options natively, they're completely buried or straight up broken :/ (just saw this context after posting lol x.com/i/status/19989… ...still reckon your tweet probably played a role tho)

@u_m_a_m_i @YouTube @YouTubeCreators glad u got this sorted! 🙏🎉 but it's a persistent shame that so many creators' problems are only solved by youtube once they get publically tagged on a separate platform...

Thank you @YouTube @YouTubeCreators, and specifically Dutch for fixing the handle situation on my channel. I am no longer "abstract daddy". Umami was was one the restricted words for whatever reason but they made an exception.