@bgregory
(He/Him) Disabled(MS) generic elder millenial. I tend to keep a low profile, I guess. Barely post, not a reply guy; mostly just here to lurk and leave the occasional "like" https://gregoryandgregory.bandcamp.com
For fretless bass, the first name to come to my mind is always going to be Michael Manring
youtu.be/sI9HQQoAY94?...
"turn around, don't drown" may come across as drastic, but it is better communication than to defer to the potentially flawed judgements of the general public.
This is the sort of thing I was hoping for when I hit "see more replies"
Or, Voyager would have never got sent to the delta quadrant, but he would have been alone on a shuttle and sent there on his own.
Introduce yourself w/ 5 concerts you've been to:
Ornette Coleman
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
The Pillows
Sigur Ros
Old Crow Medicine Show
Introduce yourself with four spaceships
Once, while exhausted being admitted to the ER, I had to ask for clarification when I thought the admissions nurse asked, in a thick southern accent, if I had a "metal knife"
I had apparently neglected to put my middle name on some paperwork.
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
John Cusack. Purely irrational. I am not aware of any reason to be viscerally repulsed by his presence, but I've never seen him in anything where I didn't come away feeling justified in my distaste.
Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out
BlueSky is a bad site used by good people. That describes most social media sites. But BlueSky is egregiously unethical. Any of you can be disappeared for baseless reasons. I've been on social media for 17 years and never been suspended. BlueSky is the first place to do so – over Johnny Cash lyrics.
I was suspended from BlueSky for defending the honor of Johnny Cash. I wish I were joking. In early October, I referenced the "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die" lyric of "Folsom Prison Blues" in response to a terrible Wall Street Journal article saying that Johnny Cash was uncool. I quote-tweeted the article and everyone understood the reference. There was no outcry. I stand by my assessment that Johnny Cash is cool. I do not like being the subject of so much attention, especially when I cannot see the discussion. But the BlueSky admins are now claiming that I wrote a post saying, out of nowhere, "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die". They are not posting a screenshot of the actual tweet, which shows that I am quote-tweeting an article about Johnny Cash, and that my post is obviously not a threat but a play on "Folsom Prison Blues." BlueSky is lying and saying I posted this line on November 10. I did not. I posted it in early October, when the WS) article came out. You can see that they are lying about the date from this page showing my last BlueSky tweets: I was not given any explanation for my suspension the first two times l inquired. Later I was told it was for the "Folsom Prison Blues" reference, and I asked for clarification but did not receive it. I thought it might be a prank until a reporter reached out this morning and confirmed it. BlueSky's behavior is bizarre and unwarranted. I have lost access to friends and all my posts and photos. I am incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support here on Substack and also on BlueSky - though I cannot see it, because I am suspended. To quote another Johnny Cash song: "I ain't never done nothin' to nobody/ I ain't never got nothin from nobody, no time/ And until I get somethin' from somebody, sometime, I don't intend to do nothin' for nobody, no time." As for BlueSky...
Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
Director Guillermo del Toro, seated for an interview in front of a red background, wearing thick-rimmed glasses
Ralphie from 'A Christmas Story' clinging to a red slide in a department store, wearimg thick-rimmed glasses
Surely I can't be the only one who saw the stills from del Toro's recent interview while hastily scrolling through the feed mistook it for Ralphie.
Also forgotten by my: that I even had the '400 Days' DLC. Given that I haven't unlocked any of the achievements for completing the chapters of it, I think I don't remember buying it in part because I never played it.
I had forgotten that hoping The Walking Dead would run on my aging laptop was why I started a steam account. Those Telltale load times were a bear, but it ran.
Oh jeez, Haggis is the most relatable fictional character I've seen in a long time and I worry for what that says about me.
A Pain That I'm Used To
Cyberpunk 2077
Generation Zero
Zachtronics Solitaire Collection
I'm not familiar with the quiz, but the framing of these as opposites seems odd. I don't know if it would serve the same purpose within the quiz, but "irrational/rational" seems like it would work and have the added bonus of avoiding the ableist undertones of casually throwing around "deranged"
In observation of Bandcamp Friday, I might as well share this link to my EP of instrumentals
gregoryandgregory.bandcamp.com/album/ampers...
I don't know particularly about their business practices, but the first place I'd look for electronics would be newegg.com
No one's listening, but I might as well post this link more often, anyway. Instrumental EP self-promo open.spotify.com/album/1xG39t...
Here's an EP of instrumental music by my brother and me. It's not a huge time commitment, so go on and give it a listen
open.spotify.com/album/1xG39t...
Nothing too exciting. Mostly stuff a lot of guitarists would be comfortable picking up: bass, lap steel, octave mandolin(though I haven't played it in quite a while.) Long ago I had a bass clarinet and I loved it but was never any good and playing it gave me headaches.
Disabled(MS) mostly guitar but a few other things as well. I was a guitarist well before any MS concerns and, unfortunately it hasn't seemed to fully hold off the troubles MS has given my right hand, but it seems to at least help slow the worsening.
When Jean Genie makes a greatest hits, you know the bench is pretty thin. But damn if Life On Mars or Modern Love don't stand up as all-time greats.
