Have you ever thought about the idea of load-bearing personality traits? 
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I make psychedelic/punk/alternative music and weird/surreal/retro videogames
Have you ever thought about the idea of load-bearing personality traits?
Suddenly I realized yeah yeah yeahs are an amazing band
#indierock
Suddenly I realized yeah yeah yeahs are an amazing band
#indierock
People who have let birds are a special kind because they’re like “I’m just going to have this tiny dinosaur in my house at all times” 
I started getting small but steady listeners on Apple Music. Sometimes more than this, even! It’s been going on for weeks
It’s the first time I had steady numbers instead of a new song bump that trickles back to basically 0. It feels great no matter how small it is! It’s progress! #alternativemusic 
This is the biggest sales day I’ve ever had… so far! Thanks for helping me pay my bills! #gamedev #gamedevlife 
This is so true. I don’t hear enough people saying it. The people with the most power, mostly tech titans, are all the worst people with the least value to society. We need to change the way our society is organized so we can all live better lives without their petty interference 
Nothing tastes as good as boycotting an evil company feels 😈 
If we all bought used we could take our power and economy back from the elites #democracy
Google forcing you to have YouTube installed on your phone to do 2 factor authentication on desktop is diabolical #lockin
Enshittification is getting so bad, apps aren’t always more convenient than real life. If it keeps getting worse, people might abandon doing everything through phones. Maybe we’ll start going outside more and meeting people there #enshittification
Why am I suddenly craving chocolate milk at 9:27am?
Let’s boycott Substack
“Substack may be legitimizing neo-Nazis as ‘thought leaders,’ researcher warns.”
#substack #boycotts
Ars Technica
Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology
Substack may be legitimizing neo-Nazis as "thought leaders," researcher warns.
Check out this cool playlist that added my song Good Mourning! Good mourning is like a 90s mixtape mixed into one song with influences from Nirvana, TLC, Warren G, and Alanis
Spotify
2026 | Feel Good Moments
Playlist · Steve Marks Music · 45 items · 849 saves
RIP Ozzy Osbourne. My favorite things he’s done are Black Sabbath’s first two albums and the awesome song Crazy Train. War Pigs is more relevant than ever #metal #ozzy #rip #music
Happy Gilmore Girls 2
I’ve decided to stop saying I’m fine when people ask me how I am. I’m not fine! This country is currently under attack by fascists in the federal government.
But I feel frozen by social norms not to talk about it. That ends today.
Tomorrow is Independence Day. I’m freeing myself from conformity 
The first layoff should always be the CEO #business #tech #ceo
Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At
The Era Of The Business Idiot
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize.
Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic
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