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2 Mello @2mello.net · 2d

I'd like to use my blog more for extended writing as opposed to social media. Doing deep dives on my favorite songs; here's an entry on Digital Underground's "Sex Packets" and how I think the sci-fi concept of this love jam resonates today.
2mello.net/blog/2025/10...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmvU...

Digital Underground - Sex Packets

YouTube video by Tommy Boy

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 3h

Watched it for the first time this year and was very high on it. IDK if it could exactly be called folk horror, but if it is, it'd be my favorite of those

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 20h

YOU POSTED CRINGE
(watched Phantom Of The Paradise for the first time)

Phantom from phantom of the paradise reacting mouth open

Phantom from phantom of the paradise reacting mouth open closer

Phantom from phantom of the paradise reacting mouth open wider and closer

Phantom from phantom of the paradise shines spotlight on subject

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Sajankenstein was the name of the Sajientist not the Sajonster @planetsmudge.bsky.social · 1d

hey #portfolioday , I'm available for work from November onwards, but feel free to reach out now!
www.sajanrai.co.uk/portfolio

illustration of a disgruntled person wearing a helmet that is bustling with logos

illusttration of a knight in a forest holding a lamp

illustration for The Ostrich by Dove B Dagny, showing an ostrich flying against a sun, and bordered by winter trees.

Illustration for a single by Brother Zulu, a person holds flowers and looks into a mirror by their window - it sparkles. Behind them in the shadows is a chaotic room

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 1d

This was terrible to read yesterday because I had forgotten how to do blogs, but I've fixed the margins now. All I'm giving out on bluesky is patch notes. You have to click through if you wanna know what I think about the song.

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 2d

Definitely super Parliament-Funkadelic inspired. Let's riff on this concept and find new vocal tics for 7-10 min

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 2d

I'd like to use my blog more for extended writing as opposed to social media. Doing deep dives on my favorite songs; here's an entry on Digital Underground's "Sex Packets" and how I think the sci-fi concept of this love jam resonates today.
2mello.net/blog/2025/10...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmvU...

Digital Underground - Sex Packets

YouTube video by Tommy Boy

www.youtube.com

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 3d

I've been staying under the threshold for too long on this issue

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 3d

it's a free mixtape
it's for a kickstarter
i don't need compressors
the sample's from YouTube

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 5d

Only slightly kidding when I say you should reduce the brightness by like 60 percent to experience it like the no-backlight GBA. It kinda goes raw and is way scarier

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 5d

A lot of people call the guitar in "I Wanna Kno" a ukelele, and I even almost tricked myself into thinking it was the precious little Brazilian guitar called the cavaquinho, but it is actually just a normal acoustic +6 semitones. You do things in the heat of the moment.

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 5d

WE NEED TO RESPOND TO THE JAGUAR RIGHT AWAY

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 7d

If you have a bookmarks folder full of all your faves, you can periodically "open all in tabs" and scan through for all updates you'd want, in a far more direct way than scrolling these sites until you fucking feel something :)

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 7d

yeah that's me! thanks so much!

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 7d

I've been loving seeing people look up non-social media sites of artists they love and learn stuff they didn't know, or that they can support the artists soon on tours/events! Copy me and pitch the same idea to your people. It's never been more "fuck platforms", let's find and bookmark REAL websites

2 Mello @2mello.net · 8d

Let's do a web search exercise. Think of your favorite artists and creators and find their NON SOCIAL MEDIA links--websites, stores, blogs--then share them in the replies. Also your own if applicable. Then bookmark their website/subscribe to them directly if you haven't. Let's get really connected.

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 8d

Let's do a web search exercise. Think of your favorite artists and creators and find their NON SOCIAL MEDIA links--websites, stores, blogs--then share them in the replies. Also your own if applicable. Then bookmark their website/subscribe to them directly if you haven't. Let's get really connected.

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 7d

Yeah, thanks!

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 8d

look at us!!

2 Mello @2mello.net · 8d

Hey, get in here. I'm forcing you to look at your faves' websites and see how much information you can glean when not relying on it to come to you via social media. Check up on them!

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 8d

the joke is on all of us cuz we're here and he's not

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 8d

This is what the fuck I'm here for let's goooo! I love that the first reply we're already learning new shit about our faves

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 8d

Let's do a web search exercise. Think of your favorite artists and creators and find their NON SOCIAL MEDIA links--websites, stores, blogs--then share them in the replies. Also your own if applicable. Then bookmark their website/subscribe to them directly if you haven't. Let's get really connected.

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 8d

No need, we've got them on the Internet Archive, thanks! archive.org/search?query...

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

archive.org

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2 Mello @2mello.net · 8d

Have been quietly peeking at it getting worse so quickly between lots of blissful irl time! Weird and unnecessary!

2 Mello @2mello.net · 13d

I can't believe this perfectly good website is going to slowly die now because of the adults who own and monitor it making the world "waffles" a passive-aggressive way of saying they hate and don't want to think about their own most at-risk users.

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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 12d

TGI(stfu)F. Learn the script.

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