samizdat

I don't think it's much of a question. Many of the current leaders in the tech space have written extensively on their political objectives. Most of which can be boiled down to network states where they seem to not understand anything about how or why states exist.

the slow disappearance of Palestinian sources from my feeds is heartbreaking

come catch that yugo-nostalgia. it doesn't matter that you lived your whole life in Ohio. Ohioans are basically the slavs of the Americas anyway.

A concert poster for Disco Elysium featuring italo, soviet, euro, and yugoslav disco. The poster has an 80's style woman in a red jacket looking through futuristic goggles at a desert landscape with electricity around her.

tomorrow!

sometimes it's helpful to remember that a significant portion of the US government's support of Israel is because they believe it'll trigger the rapture and the end times. sometimes it's not helpful to remember this because it's obviously insane and these people are in charge of things

an unbelievable amount of gullible rubes willing to accept maybe Israel didn't blow up a hospital.

my dad is Santa Claus, and sometimes some of that nurture comes through when I grab my belly and laugh. my wife does not enjoy it that little family quirk though.

"shit, that's a sweet spot" - a guy

I remember the year XK9M2, but no one else does

Denis & Denis - Ti i Ja (Synthpop 1984 HD) A cult mid 80's Croatian synthpop duo, in the most successful years comprised of the mastermind Davor Tolja and the vocalist Marina Perazić.

Denis & Denis final A side track from their debut album with the legendary Jugotron

obviously, the human cost was catastrophic. don't like that part.

one of the things I really like about exploring Yugoslav synth and disco, is that you feel the tension of country that is about to rip itself apart. So much of the good stuff is in the backend of a track where everything breaks down into nonsense

hard to fit them together for a set though

discom.bandcamp.com/album/sizike...

Šizike - Svemirski Čistač http://www.discogs.com/%C5%A0izike-U-Zemlji-%C4%8Cuda/release/972633

Šizike one of the classics of early 80's Belgrade. Of course DATA is contributing, because it's 1984 in Belgrade, and DATA have all the good synths.

sweet cover art too

somehow, shockingly, and despite widespread warnings from local message boards and coworkers the guys who were using fans to go to war did not activate their sleeper cells in Kentucky.

still got dog piled for calling them fucking idiots. apparently I need to educate myself on tiktok