Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net

tooting is better than tweeting because you can get nuck tats that say "TOOT BOYZ," "TOOT LYFE," things of that nature

never change, the onion, never change

@CrimethInc It's ridiculous

Ahead of the release of video footage documenting the police execution of Tyre Nichols, the authorities are deploying all the standard tactics in the counter-insurgency playbook:

—Delay the release of the video

—Appeal for calm while mobilizing the same police forces that carried out the killing to be prepared to carry out more violence on a massive scale

—Permit some family members and activists to view the video in order to enlist them as spokespeople demanding a certain kind of response and delegitimizing those who do not comply

—Spread fear about an invented identity ("outside agitators," "gang members," "antifa") in order to preemptively justify violent repression

—Fire the officers involved; if necessary, initiate legal proceedings (these can always be dropped later)

All this has become standard practice. This is how they hope to suppress unrest, even in the most egregious cases of police murder.

But they have no intention of diminishing the amount of violence that police employ, nor addressing the disparities that render that violence inevitable. This is obvious because they are putting all their energy into managing the public response to police violence, not into seeking any sort of change.

If there is to be any change, it will have to come from us.

#AbolishthePolice

This is an amazing 12min presentation about how the internals of the most obscure but critical technologies are unfortunately being lost as the generation who built it and know the dark magic retire. (via @tiffsequence)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3zaq56QsX28

#VerseThursday TO LOVE SOMEONE LONG-TERM IS TO ATTEND A THOUSAND FUNERALS OF THE PEOPLE THEY USED TO BE., by Heidi Priebe

If you’re homeless there’s no fucking difference between Democrats and Republicans. If you’re in jail there’s no difference between Democrats and Republicans. If you’re killed by the cops, a Democrat mayor and a Republican governor will display the same contempt for your memory.

The difference between a blue state and a red state is if a white employed trans person feels safe or not. That’s not good enough for a party to deserve your support.

new gender just dropped

So I've been building a 100% analog polyphonic synthesizer with an unique twist. To use only vacuum tube era technology from the 1930s.

Over 300 neon gas diodes create the sound you hear. Pretty awesome for technology from 100 years ago.

Still a work-in-progress, but I wanted to post a video of it with the innards spread out across the workbench. : }

I call it the "Neon String Machine"

#synthesizers #music #electronics #audio #synthwave

Our hearts go out to people in Atlanta, Georgia, where police have murdered a person in the course of their efforts to evict and destroy the Weelaunee Forest.

Here is a statement from Atlanta:

https://atlantapresscollective.com/2023/01/18/press-release-police-murder-protestor-in-atlanta-forest/

I wrote a blog post giving an introduction to the PNG file format, aimed at anyone who wants to generate or parse their own PNGs (or who just wants to know how it works!)

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/hello-png.html

What's a weird thing i believed in as a child?
*staring blankly off into the middle distance, whispering*
America