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Flavio Sette@flaviosette.bsky.social |
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Writer. Musician. Dork. He/him
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Flavio Sette
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(No offense to either band; I don't hate their music, I definitely picked them because they seem like the better bands off of the aughts "indie rock" crop)
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Flavio Sette
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But also, I'll put "Might" or "Chumming the Ocean" up against anything Neutral Milk Hotel or Somebody Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin ever did. Fight me.
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Flavio Sette
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So yeah, I know it's nothing new, it's been that way since before I even heard of Archers of Loaf. But still, man.
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Flavio Sette
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I mean, I know it's been that way for a while. Hell, growing up I thought Travis was indie rock. I remember when I heard Archers of Loaf (a band I must admit I never got SUPER into), I thought "oh, expected something like Travis! This is actually interesting!" I felt like I'd been lied to.
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Flavio Sette
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When did the meaning of the term "indie rock" change? When did it go from referring to bands like Guided by Voices, Velocity Girl, and Seam to quirky, acoustic-y soft rock hipster bullshit? Who decided that?
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Climate News
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A brief history of self-regulation
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Pookleblinky
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It turns out people really, really like to vote for a campaign that promises to do specific things to make their lives better, and that this motivates people a hell of a lot more than making a j/o gesture and telling them to enjoy the camps unless they pokemon GO to the polls.
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Pookleblinky
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When the american liberals use France's election as an illustration of the need to VOTE, they ignore that people were not only voting against the far right but *for* something. They voted for a campaign which promises to: increase minimum wage, lower retirement age, pay for all childcare, etc
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Flavio Sette
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"I've never seen that headset before, and furthermore I don't even know what that is."
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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In France, the left coalition comes in first, Macron second, the far-right third. The best way to defeat fascism is not centrism, it’s a strong left.
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Flavio Sette
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(I was thinking of Pitchblende, Six Finger Satellite is from Rhode Island)
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Flavio Sette
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Man, that whole Pitchblende/Slant 6/Dismemberment Plan/Q and Not U D.C. groove-oriented post-punk scene could've gotten huge had those bands formed just a few years later.
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Flavio Sette
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It's been a long time since I read that All New X-Men run, but I recall it getting a lot more sympathetic towards Cyclops and his team after the first couple years' worth of stories.
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Flavio Sette
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Oh, I almost forgot Train. History will not be kind to them (for good reason), and during the height of their popularity they were a rock band in the loosest sense of the word (like Imagine Dragons), but they were also HUGE.
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Flavio Sette
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Like, it's one thing for a genre to eclipse another in retrospect, for history to place more emphasis on this kind of music than the other. But when it happens within a genre, and within a period of like twenty years? Crazy.
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Flavio Sette
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At the same time, it's not like indie sleaze and hottopiccore were these little known only-the-cool-kids-dig-them phenomenons; most of those bands were on major labels! Their videos were getting played on TV, their singles made it onto the lower reaches of the pop charts.
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Flavio Sette
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Like it or not, "indie sleaze" and hot topic punk were never nearly as popular as like Nickelback, Coldplay, or Maroon 5, and I'd bet there's way more bands out there influenced by the latter group than the former.
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Flavio Sette
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Everyone always brings up the fact that '60s bubblegum pop was a lot more popular than the music we usually associate with that decade, but what I find fascinating is how the history of 2000s rock has been rewritten to ignore the bands that were most popular in that genre at the time.
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JThomasAlbert
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Star Wars Legends: He woke up after a night of partying and wild sex. He went to use the bathroom. "Welcome to the Dark Side" was written in lipstick on the mirror.
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geeky steven
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Urban Legends: There's a guy hiding in the backseat of your car with a knife Star Wars Legends: Yoda is hiding in your car with a space knife
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Flavio Sette
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I've said this on Twitter before, so allow me to offer this thought in skeet form as well: I feel like web design peaked in 2001.
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Beccas can't be choosers
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if i had to pinpoint the beginning of the internet's long decline i would say it's when "search-engine optimisation" became a thing burying the worthwhile beneath the profitable has been the death knell of every industry ever
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Flavio Sette
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My therapist says that a lot too. About how anger is a useful emotion and often tells us we need to enforce boundaries.
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Flavio Sette
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This version of "Ms Jackson" and U2's "When Love Comes to Town" are fighting for dominance over my head. I think I have a headache. Please send help.
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Bobby Pesto
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New New Labour
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Flavio Sette
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I didn't think anyone was making records that sounded like they were recorded in 1998 any more. Everything just sounds so over-produced these days, but man, this band… one to watch out for, for sure.
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Flavio Sette
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I'm only a track into the Darling Fire's first album and I think I've found a band that's got everything that's missing from modern rock.
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Flavio Sette
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God, I love jangly indie pop, but there's SO much shitty jangly indie pop out there.
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Sean T. Collins
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Without commenting on any of the underlying issues at all, and with full knowledge I am one of the people being described: Receiving a steady stream of opinions from people suffering from debilitating depression and/or anxiety is bad even at the best of times.
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Laura Helmuth
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This is predictable but so important: Pasteurizing milk kills the H5N1 bird flu virus that is circulating widely in dairy cattle. It's easy to take a 150-year-old technique that has saved countless lives for granted, but don't fool around with unpasteurized dairy products. 🧪
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Flavio Sette
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Seriously, a lot of liberals assume certain politicians are hyper-competent and just making mistakes due to exhaustion or whatever. But come on. They do big fat lines all day every day.
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Flavio Sette
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Honestly, I think 90% of all U.S. politicians' gaffes, like most of the famous ones, "potatoe", "human being a fish can coexist peacefully", "coconut tree", can be attributed to heavy drug use.
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Alisha Grauso
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The greatest contribution to Scottish poetry since Address to a Haggis.
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Flavio Sette
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He might've read the original review in some alt weekly. Did you check the Village Voice?
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Cwnidog 🍉🇵🇸
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90 years old but this photo of NYC is futuristic still.
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Flavio Sette
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Music youtubers: watch Trash Theory's videos, and take notes. They are all tightly scripted and generally the writing is terse, giving you only the information you absolutely need to understand what he's talking about. You should take your cues from him.
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Flavio Sette
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One trend in yt videos that needs to end is the "youtuber rambles about things that are only tangentially related to the subject at hand to stretch out the runtime and get more ads in there". I get that you're trying to make more money here, but you're scaring your audience off of your videos.
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Flavio Sette
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Someday we will worship at the feet of ASMRtists. We will come to their temples and prostrate ourselves before them like so many have before faith healers of all stripes. We will take our aches, our worries and pains to them, lay fortunes at their feet, so they may perform their rituals and heal us.
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wednesday
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it's a recurring argument with lots of libs that are trying to shine the turd that is bidenomics they want to backpat about how wages are up and the economy is Good when food insecurity has quadrupled over the same period because of how much essentials spiked while luxury goods remained static
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Flavio Sette
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The Buggles, Talking Heads, the Cure (during their poppier eras), Blondie, and the Human League sound nothing like each other, and yet all have been called New Wave. People seem to use it as shorthand for "any band that uses synths regardless of sound/any British band from the early '80s", basically
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Flavio Sette
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New Wave is one of the most useless genre tags I've ever heard. On top of being little more than a marketing term to help sell punk, early alternative rock, and synth-pop to the U.S., it doesn't mean anything.
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Flavio Sette
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Both DC and Marvel did a bunch of stories about AIDS back in the '90s, and most of them aged pretty poorly for that reason (which isn't to say comics creators should never tackle politics or topical issues; they can, should, and have done it well in the past)
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Flavio Sette
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I just think stories about heavy subjects like these have to be handled in a respectful and sombre way… but it's very hard to do that when the story also has to feature colorful super-heroes jumping around and a bad guy or two for them to punch in the face.
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Flavio Sette
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That's right, I meant to say "or" rather than "and". Frankly, I don't really care about the continuity aspect…
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Flavio Sette
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And anyway, there are some amazing writers, artists, and editors working at both companies, none of whom are in charge of big decisions like "should our comics reflect the current situation vis a vis covid".
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Flavio Sette
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The last time Marvel and DC put out a comic addressing a major real world issue as it happened it became a meme. People to this day gripe about the 9/11 special or post that panel of Doctor Doom crying. I don't think we can trust the Big Two to handle this subject, and I don't think they want to.
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Flavio Sette
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But yes, I care a lot about physical media. And I say there are many reasons to get physical records/comics/books if you can, including doing it for the sake of preservation. If you'd rather get a digital copy, fine, but there are ways to do it and support the creators.
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Flavio Sette
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Tell a lie, it's their first full-length, Every Night Fire Works that I bought and got it as a CD and digital download.
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Flavio Sette
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Evidently, some people see "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" as a guideline rather than an indictment.
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Flavio Sette
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Take music, for example. I have tons of CDs and digital albums I bought off bandcamp. If all copies of Hey Mercedes' Unorchestrated EP disappear tomorrow, I've got a CD + digital backups. Today there are more ways to get digital stuff while simultaneously supporting artists than ever before!
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