Palgolak
@palgolak.bsky.social
Leftist // Antifascist // lover of riffs // horror obsessive // irredeemably British // I don't know shit about fuck // 31 // he/him
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Today I learned that the first drum machine was invented in the 12th century by Ismail al-Jazari, the father of robotics, who created a automaton band that played instruments powered by the flow of water. It featured a drummer whose rhythm could be programmed via wooden pegs in slots.
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Today I learned that the first drum machine was invented in the 12th century by Ismail al-Jazari, the father of robotics, who created a automaton band that played instruments powered by the flow of water. It featured a drummer whose rhythm could be programmed via wooden pegs in slots.
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Weird the way the entire world went mad and only the creator of the IT Crowd was unaffected.
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Weird the way the entire world went mad and only the creator of the IT Crowd was unaffected.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to.
Black Sabbath
The Prodigy
The Correspondents
Napalm Death
Bob Vylan
Black Sabbath
The Prodigy
The Correspondents
Napalm Death
Bob Vylan
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to.
Slayer
Aphex Twin
Village People
DJ Shadow
Slayer
Slayer
Aphex Twin
Village People
DJ Shadow
Slayer
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen -
Oasis Maine Road
Sambroso All Stars present The Buena Vista Social Club
Muse
Cut La Chemist
The Staves
Oasis Maine Road
Sambroso All Stars present The Buena Vista Social Club
Muse
Cut La Chemist
The Staves
November 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to.
Black Sabbath
The Prodigy
The Correspondents
Napalm Death
Bob Vylan
Black Sabbath
The Prodigy
The Correspondents
Napalm Death
Bob Vylan
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Graham Linehan is a normal and well man.
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Graham Linehan is a normal and well man.
Finally saw Frankenstein. I liked it right up until literally the sequence where the lighting hits the machine.
After that...eh.
After that...eh.
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Finally saw Frankenstein. I liked it right up until literally the sequence where the lighting hits the machine.
After that...eh.
After that...eh.
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if you're still writing using the hero's journey, your mind is closed to all the possibilities
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
if you're still writing using the hero's journey, your mind is closed to all the possibilities
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Cis allies, if you're not sure of a trans person's pronouns, be sure not to eat of their food or dance to their music, for if you do you may find yourself in the intoxicating reverie of the trans people for three hundred years, and though you age not a day, all your loved will be dead and gone.
November 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Cis allies, if you're not sure of a trans person's pronouns, be sure not to eat of their food or dance to their music, for if you do you may find yourself in the intoxicating reverie of the trans people for three hundred years, and though you age not a day, all your loved will be dead and gone.
Alright, let's take it down a notch.
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Alright, let's take it down a notch.
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I love the Dropkick Murphys because "Irish-American" + "gen X" + "punk rocker who's been at it for 30 years" should be the formula for the most racist guy alive but instead Ken Casey is constantly giving interviews where he's like "fascists are demons from hell and that's where they belong"
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I love the Dropkick Murphys because "Irish-American" + "gen X" + "punk rocker who's been at it for 30 years" should be the formula for the most racist guy alive but instead Ken Casey is constantly giving interviews where he's like "fascists are demons from hell and that's where they belong"
I think it's a John Langan story where a virus gets uploaded to the cloud where everyone's dead grannies are stored in a perpetual digital suburbia and turns them all into a screaming flesh soup?
Less horrifying than this.
Less horrifying than this.
November 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I think it's a John Langan story where a virus gets uploaded to the cloud where everyone's dead grannies are stored in a perpetual digital suburbia and turns them all into a screaming flesh soup?
Less horrifying than this.
Less horrifying than this.
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Scott of the Cuntarctic.
April 12, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Scott of the Cuntarctic.
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Shout out to the guy who told me we should abandon "all symbols with radial symmetry" to fascists. I think about you every time I see a Mercedes.
July 29, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Shout out to the guy who told me we should abandon "all symbols with radial symmetry" to fascists. I think about you every time I see a Mercedes.
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It is a little known fact that Garth Marenghi's writings and television programs were a huge influence on Hideaki Anno creating Evangelion. More cultured people can notice this.
November 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It is a little known fact that Garth Marenghi's writings and television programs were a huge influence on Hideaki Anno creating Evangelion. More cultured people can notice this.
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8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"
Me, an ethical landlord, when an area is short on affordable properties.
November 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Me, an ethical landlord, when an area is short on affordable properties.
Real alphas know that you should speed the Penguin audiobook of The Odyssey up 16X.
Homer intended it to be read by Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Homer intended it to be read by Alvin and the Chipmunks.
November 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Real alphas know that you should speed the Penguin audiobook of The Odyssey up 16X.
Homer intended it to be read by Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Homer intended it to be read by Alvin and the Chipmunks.
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"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
Oh, they put the machine that tells you to kill yourself and become a God into children's toys? Cracking move.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
futurism.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Oh, they put the machine that tells you to kill yourself and become a God into children's toys? Cracking move.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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"You there! Boy! Where's your fucking poppy?"
November 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
"You there! Boy! Where's your fucking poppy?"
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Saw someone describe Jeffrey Epstein as “The disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein” and I’m torn between wondering if the “disgraced” is superfluous, and pondering how bad of a pedophile do you have to be to be disgraced in the child rape community.
November 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Saw someone describe Jeffrey Epstein as “The disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein” and I’m torn between wondering if the “disgraced” is superfluous, and pondering how bad of a pedophile do you have to be to be disgraced in the child rape community.
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I've often thought that the best revenge for all this fashy misery would be affordable social housing, workers rights, a functional health service, sustainable energy and all the other good stuff they apparently hate. But I do keep glancing thoughtfully at lampposts.
With genuine shame, recent years in politics have given me my first taste for what it is to have moralised contempt for my opponents. Not hatred, not fear; contempt. There's some core element of the right wing coalition at the moment which seems to me best described as a revolt of the loser men...
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I've often thought that the best revenge for all this fashy misery would be affordable social housing, workers rights, a functional health service, sustainable energy and all the other good stuff they apparently hate. But I do keep glancing thoughtfully at lampposts.