You’ve already got some good answers, so I just wanna say that, as one who appreciates personal fashion, that is a nice outfit! Great use of creative clashing between the fishnet and the poncho. And the belt is a good bridge for them.

Dude, I’m a prog head, and I have to say you are so, so wrong. Some of the best prog rock has released in this millennium.

List o' bands

Echolyn

Beardfish

Black Bonzo

Captain Squeegee (only To the Bardos!)

The Dear Hunter

3 (horrible band name, so look up their album Wake Pig)

Thank You Scientist

Bubblemath

Haken (especially The Mountain)

Kaipa

The Mars Volta

Tool

Opeth

Pain of Salvation

Porcupine Tree

Protest the Hero

Pure Reason Revolution

Second Relation

Wobbler

Or a super-duperlative.

Thanks for the correction! I’ve fixed the post. 😁

Maybe I used the wrong descriptor. I’m not into screaming, so I tend to group all screaming/growling metal into the “black metal” label. 🤷‍♀️

Captain Squeegee. A rare combination of ska and psychedelic rock. Their album To the Bardos! is particularly great, and ranks among my top 5 albums of all time.

The Brotherhood of Dae Han. Southern rock with a hint of black metal metalcore.

Black Bonzo. A modern-ish prog band that sounds straight from the 70s.

Bubblemath. Progressive jazz fusion. Their first album was light on the jazz and pretty low-budget, but their second album, Edit Peptide, is the best in the subgenre, IMO.

Lotus Child. Indie alterna-rock. They only had one album, but it’s creative and interesting.

Correctamundo!

A guy just wants to leave his home country and see the world, but his dad won’t let him. Even when he gets past his dad, he still can’t quite make it. It’s in the blood.

Red Dead Redemption 2?

“Karen’s”

Just FYI, friend, the apostrophe is a punctuation mark used only to denote possession or missing letters - never plurals, even for proper nouns.

An impossible task, choosing a favorite. So I’ll just go with the first one that came to mind:

Goodness Gracious, by Kevin Gilbert (RIP). It’s pretty dated, but a lot of it is still relevant today.

Goodness Gracious is there nothing left to say?

When the ones that get to keep looking

Are the ones that look away

It’s pabulum for the sleepers

In the cult of brighter days

Goodness Gracious at the mercy of the crooks

We’re broke and stroking vegetables

And there’s way too many cooks

In every pot a pink slip, In every mouth a hook

Goodness Gracious I’m not listening anymore

Cause the spooks are in the White House

And they’ve justified a war

So wake me when they notify

We’re gonna fight some more

Goodness Gracious not many people care

Concern is getting scarcer

True compassion really rare

I can see it on our faces. I can feel it in the air

Goodness Gracious me

Goodness Gracious my generation’s lost

They burned down all our bridges

Before we had a chance to cross

Is it the winter of our discontent or just an early frost?

Goodness Gracious of apathy I sing

The baby boomers had it all and wasted everything

Now recess is almost over

And they won’t get off the swing

Goodness Gracious we came in at the end

No sex that isn’t dangerous, no money left to spend

We’re the cleanup crew for parties

We were too young to attend

Goodness Gracious me

Goodness Gracious my grandma used to say

The world’s a scary place now

Things were different in her day

What horrors will be commonplace

When my hair starts to grey?

Ha! Fair point. I guess the Internet is ultimately peanuts compared to the real world.

But as far as relative negative effect on its sphere of influence, I’d say they’re comparable.

Wow, that blog post is truly nauseating and infuriating to read, knowing the context.

Fuck Google. They’re the Nestlé of tech.

Two questions to ask yourself:

1. Does it make you happy?

2. Does it hurt anybody (yourself included) in any way (including financially)?

Three things in life are certain: death, taxes, and governmental abuse of powers granted in good faith.

Open-source, decentralized platforms like the Fediverse are some of the few things that keep my hope for a brighter future from dying a cold, lonely death.

Same same