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Liz Ryerson

@ellaguro.bsky.social

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she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · Jul 25

reminder that you can still buy a copy of my book here: www.mostancient.com/shop/great-art and i'll soon have some more copies on hand to sell in person as well

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 9h

virality is simultaneously more trivial and more terrifying than it used to be. it's like the slop fountain is pointed at you and the ravenous hordes are ready to consume you and move on.

Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 9h

thinking about how the idea of going "viral" at this point is mostly a terrifying proposition that brings untold fear and anxiety that you will be broadly misunderstood and mischaracterized at best, if not actively targeted. and it doesn't seem to include the promise of money too much anymore either

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 10h

yeah if you ever had anything go viral it was easy to get high on your own supply and think you were the coolest most plugged in person in the galaxy for a day

Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 10h

something about downbeat trebly math rocky riffs makes me think of the sort of cold gray fall turning into winter melancholy that starts to take hold the midwest, they're very tied together in my mind www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gvz...

Mooch

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 10h

fully into October weather here, feels appropriate to post www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfCU...

October All Over

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 12h

like in the 80's, in the 2010's i think there were a lot of insidious ideas that got presented with a smiley face. the "there's no such thing as selling out" stuff is another one of them.

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 12h

one big reason i have problems with the 2010's being framed as a broadly progressive decade is so much of the zeitgeist of the era was about doing mostly selfish things under the guise of progressive language. very "have your cake and eat it too" that i think it's related to 80's Me Decade stuff

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

Relatedly, I recall a lot of "the joy of canceling plans" jokes and memes from the 2010s and now folks are talking about a loneliness epidemic, and, well...

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 1d

the reactive media ecosystem is constantly about representing yourself and who you are, talking about who you are - but again, fully putting the work down is a separate skill altogether and is often not directly compatible with what it takes to be successful within a reactive social media ecosystem

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 1d

a lot of things that the Trump admin does - it talks about them, it even actively wants to do them, but again - it exists as a phenomenon of the same media ecosystem and it's definitely not fully committed to the thing. not because it doesn't believe in it, but because it can't move past that phase

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 1d

there are a lot of things that i've wanted to do or i've wanted to represent about myself that i haven't really fully committed to doing. i'm not saying that's a great quality to have, and posting isn't doing nothing either exactly anyway - it's just very much a feature of social media.

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 1d

there's a big difference between talking about something, even wanting to do something vs. actually doing it. feels like so much of our current unreality comes down to getting short term reward for posting in a way that represents you, but it's not the same as fully committing to actually do a thing

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 1d

this is a classic Alex post in that i can't tell if you're shitposting (and at whom if you are) or this is just your general state of vibing

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 1d

related but this did make me think of how the only version of Radiohead's Talk Show Host i knew for years was the remix because i just happened to download it unlabeled as such from filesharing, so it is my canonical version of the song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVOn...

Talk Show Host (Nellee Hooper Mix)

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 1d

i like the dubbier sound of this one but i think i like the original better just because this has that remix thing of straying kinda far from the original melody and being a little repetitive

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 1d

i think this is the same one as the one in the video? it sounds the same, and is the same length. maybe i haven't heard the original then

Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 1d

haven't heard the remixes tbh

Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 1d

related but i was thinking about how this is definitely not one of the better trip-hop songs in spite of being a hit and it's still like an 8/10. it gets old to say but it truly is an all-time great genre www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eBZ...

Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground - Official Video [HD]

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 1d

current mood www.youtube.com/watch?v=oknF...

Aftermath

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 24d

i think esp there's been a lot of music i might otherwise be interested in where i can tell the production and everything about how it is sold it is meant to make the artist look like some kind of singular badass to the expense of everything else. nothing makes me tune out more quickly

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 2d

school shooter manifesto www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vjv... (seriously i hated sega as a kid because of these types of ads lol)

Sega Genesis "Bully" Commercial - 1993

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 2d

Mario goes to jail www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRzf...

Mario Party Commercial (1999)

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 2d

dunno if Born in Flames or The Watermelon Woman are fully canonized yet but they are examples of stuff raised to prominence in the 2010's for obvious reasons (broader social recognition of the issues they deal with etc). also as an aside, Inland Empire didn't use to be nearly as beloved as it is now

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 2d

i'd known of Come and See for awhile cuz i'm just that cool, tho hadn't seen it fully until recently. i'll say like Born In Flames or The Watermelon Woman. on the flipside, feels like i heard a ton about Gaspar Noé (Irreversible, Enter the Void) at one point and i don't now. maybe Gus Van Sant too?

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 2d

throwing this prompt from Twitter in here. what examples you got?

tweet by @Caol_MacCormaic that reads, uncs of film twitter: what are some movies that are canonical now but were basically unknown when we were coming up? like Come and See or Possession. inversely: what are some movies or filmmakers that seem to have fallen off? (Takashi Miike comes to mind)

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