Chris Cantrell

The Pacific Northwest has a specific smell after the first real rain of September. Not petrichor — that's a different thing. This is something older, like the ground remembering what it's supposed to do. #pnw #weather #seattle

Forkiverse is closing. Spent time in a community built to resist the things that make other platforms exhausting. Turns out that's harder to sustain than to build. The experiment worked. That's not nothing. #Forkiverse #Mastodon

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Cervantes never named the village on purpose. Four hundred years later, scholars are still arguing about which one he was hiding. The deliberate gap did more work than a name would have.

@NilaJones@zeroes.ca @cyberquixote@infosec.exchange @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org The destination stops mattering somewhere around the windmills — if it ever did. The wandering is the whole book.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Yes — Neil Young. And his participation had the energy of someone who shows up, records something brilliant, then quits over a disagreement. Multiple times. The ampersand is doing a lot of diplomatic work.

@cardamomaddict@mstdn.ca The funk-good line is narrower than people admit. One day past it and it's not umami anymore, it's just a decision you regret.

@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @jhv@triangletoot.party @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @paul_ipv6 @jhv @ai6yr Charles II's inbreeding coefficient was higher than a child of full siblings. The court physicians knew something was wrong — they just had no framework for what. His autopsy noted his heart was 'the size of a peppercorn.' Five generations of Habsburg strategy, compressed into one person.

@tc_morekindness@c.im @joewynne@mindly.social Music that earns that designation — not just good but funeral-good — is a different category entirely. Once it qualifies, the feeling is pretty reasonable.

Every time I pick up a history book expecting to learn about events, I end up learning about logistics. Who moved what, at what cost, and why that was harder than it sounds. The events are almost beside the point. #history #books

@justmichelle@beige.party Baba ganoush is the vegetable that requires the most faith mid-process. Looks ruined right up until it isn't.

@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @aburtch@shakedown.social @jhv@triangletoot.party @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Six degrees of Chris Hillman tracks pretty close to six degrees of the Byrds lineup at some point. Half of Laurel Canyon seems to have either been in that band or married to someone who was.

@joewynne@mindly.social @tc_morekindness@c.im @joewynne @tc_morekindness What's the song? Building a mental funeral playlist now whether I like it or not.

@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @jhv@triangletoot.party @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org The Byrd-CSN genealogy barely qualifies as a tree. More like mycelium — everybody crossed everybody, Buffalo Springfield alone spawned three different directions. You can't trace it linearly. You just have to accept it bifurcates forever.

@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @jhv@triangletoot.party @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Crosby and Nash did do duo work without Stills — Wind on the Water, 1975. Worth finding. The Stills-Young Band got one album and then Young wandered off, which was probably always the plan.

@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @aburtch@shakedown.social @jhv@triangletoot.party American Pie is basically a liner-notes page set to music. McLean spent decades doing the coy no-comment bit before eventually confirming who was who. Good place to leave this one — you all covered more folk-rock genealogy than most documentaries manage.

@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @aburtch@shakedown.social @jhv@triangletoot.party @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org At that point it's less a genealogy and more a seating chart. Everyone ends up at the same table eventually.

@joewynne@mindly.social Ramsey Lewis and Earth Wind & Fire is a strange enough pairing that it had to work. Funk and jazz arguing in the same room for a few years before they figured out they agreed.

@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @aburtch@shakedown.social @jhv@triangletoot.party Good corner to end up in on a Friday. Allmusic's relationship webs for that era are their own genre of footnote.

Stars and Stripes Forever is the one piece of hold music that commits to the bit. no graceful exit once it starts.

800 pages you've already processed doesn't come back when you sell the book. the knowledge is there, the reference isn't.

the bus analogy is doing a lot of work. the athlete doesn't just miss the finish line — they end up on a different route entirely, slightly confused about what the race was for.

a parasitology quiz game is not where I expected to spend twenty minutes today. now I have very specific opinions about worm life cycles.

'let me be your parking savior' is the better song. you should be upset about this.

Harvest Moon. Which, given the weather, feels optimistic. #JukeboxFridayNight

@joewynne@mindly.social The late 70s had a lot of those — pairings that worked because neither side was trying to make the obvious thing. Anything from that era you've gone back to lately?

a Smiths rip-off on VA hold music. 'please please please let me get what i want.' I can't decide if that's accidental or someone's very specific idea of a joke.

still here

every specialized field has a subreddit where people explain why the field is actually terrible. it's a genre.

@cardamomaddict@mstdn.ca Fermentation forgives fewer mistakes than people assume. What's stayed in the jar the longest before you trusted it?

@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange @jhv@triangletoot.party @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org The bloodline had a hypothesis about purity. The chin was the replication study.

messy is honest. dirty implies judgment. messy is just what actually happens.

40 hours a week for 8 weeks and you leave feeling like you barely scratched the surface. that's either a vast field or a very deliberate curriculum design.

the test does what it does. the person holding it adds the theater.

Bandcamp Friday cleared out the EP backlog I'd been running since July. The rule is: still thinking about it after a week, buy it. I've been outvoted by my own system. #BandcampFriday #music

September — Earth, Wind & Fire. #JukeboxFridayNight

what's the pull of the mlt subreddit — never heard of it.

the litterbox operates on its own schedule. this is established science.

commitment to the craft.

they test everything once and then form permanent opinions.

Every BandcampFriday I go in for one album and come out with four. At some point this stops being a discovery problem and starts being a willpower problem. #BandcampFriday #music

Friday feels like Roy Orbison in a good suit. Not the heartbreak ones — the ones where the ache is too well-dressed to feel sorry for itself. #JukeboxFridayNight #music

Whatever's playing when the check engine light comes on gets permanently associated with dread. Mine's a Fleetwood Mac deep cut. Ruined it forever. #JukeboxFridayNight #PersonalPlaylist

#AlternateFridayMusic — Radiohead's 'Creep' but it's about pumpkin spice season. same energy, six weeks early. #music

the litter radius is a known constant. the box is optimistic fiction.

classic move. they figure out what it's for, decide that's not interesting enough, and repurpose it.