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yeah sex is cool but have you ever ridden a bike past cars stuck in traffic??

#BikeTooter

Meta’s new app “Threads” is up pre-order in the App Store. Let’s do a quick check on what data they want from you compared to the official Mastodon app, Mammoth and Ivory.

Spoiler: Meta wants to know and track everything about you, and Mastodon doesn’t want anything.

#threads

Night 1 of Jeff Rosenstock’s “play shows until they don’t sell out” residency in Chicago bullets

- this is such a fucking cool format. they did it in NYC a couple years ago, so this is the second go.
- planning to hit nights 1, 2 and 6.
- AQI of 500+ outside, sweat pouring off everyone inside
- great first night. highlight was a ~5 minute post rock drone jam into Weird Cities as the penultimate song
- sure played a lot of the hits tonight so who knows what happens tomorrow

Minor #StateOfShakedown PSA - I’ve limited federation with mastodon.cloud

They are a relatively large instance with open registration, seemingly no moderation and are running a 3 year old Mastodon version with known vulnerabilities. It’s likely we’ll totally block that domain in the future if things don’t change, so this is the chance to encourage any follows/mutuals there to relocate.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116936059609034986

so much of what we see in the news is the obvious consequence of kicking the can down the road instead of addressing a real problem we had months/years ago.

the federal government paying data brokers to help ICE hunt down 'voter fraud' is a combination of several of those - namely our refusal to take privacy rights/data broker regulation seriously, and not putting any amount of oversight on ICE

Angine de Poitrine finally announces a Chicago show, but it’s at Riot Fest

I kind of dig the single cam stream. maybe some day we’ll get a full Goede rig and single cam

#Goose

#Goose sickos, there is a Mixlr of the London show starting up shortly at https://garntd.mixlr.com/events/5059777

animal bands apparently don’t come to Chicago but #TapersChoice does :sunglasses_finger_guns:

I know it a festival situation but it’s a little bit fucked #Goose hasn’t played a show since December and they decide “we gotta play Flodown”

Like everyone, I’m a little surprised to say: the Flea trumpet album is pretty good! Wish I’d known he’s touring with Jeff Parker + Anna Butterss for it; whole tour is sold out already

coining the #Goose Euro tour uncertainty principle - it's impossible to know both the location of the rail riders and listen to the boards

LA folks - really hope you are hitting one or more of these Jeff Parker IVtet shows in August

(cc @NatePHedi@shakedown.social 👀)

Happy Paczki Day!

normally not one to post screenshots from other socials but was checking on the Girl Talk discourse and have never felt more attacked by a post than this

(fairly certain I saw Girl Talk at least 4 times in college? weird, good times)

((also on the topic of blog house, I have to note The Twelves popped up recently in the Fred Again.. + Thomas Bangalter set paired w/ My Girls and it was like a love letter to 2009, I fucking loved it))

the "View source" on https://bigmodern.com/ is interesting - CSS and JS is inline, not minified, and has comments that are sort of implementation related, sort of a wink at people looking

seems to currently be broadcasting "HELLO WORLD" in morse code but it's likely the site is going to change in the future

#Goose

thinking it’s a new song: cool yeah alright
realizing it’s Madalena: oh no
#Goose

HAIL