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these are some of the worst threads in the history of ilx

don't hate the player

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did we ever conclusively determine that the Beatles are not as omnipresent as pizza?

I cannot keep track of all these personalities and I don't understand how you folks do it.

(Like, this was literally my field, I went to school for it and everything; and I decided long ago that I cannot keep up with the ilx hate list.)

are we counting all his usernames?

Here, let me pull you back up onto your high horse you shit stirring gossipy shitposting fuck

Don’t worry, your mom licked
it up

Love the discrepancy between ilxor's (sorry, not calling anyone specific out - it really is an epidemic here) inability to follow clear details/characters/events vs. their willingness or desire to discuss those things in detail on ilx. Just speaking about the basic storytelling here - the stuff the show runners are expecting us to follow.

clears throat

No.

But does he serve imperialism?

hey this is a real question. appreciate any answers. maybe i should have polled it?

anyway, what is the general feeling about reviving old threads* for the sole purpose of saying "thanks" to someone who made a powerful post? not to expound on music discussion at all; just saying thank you. is that annoying?

*for the sake of this question, we'll define "old threads" to mean "last reply was more than 5 years ago"

is that annoying?

On the contrary, it's very cool imo.

Agreed!

just my two cents but i love when people revive old threads. it’s one of the built-in features of the whole structure of ilx, the way that an old thread can shoot straight to the top of the list again, whereas on many other borads the structure is that the older things get the harder they are to find

totally, like this great thread that just popped up as a revive today, I don't think I ever saw it before

Big Beat Bashin'

On the contrary, it's very cool imo

Very legal and very cool!

thanks all! i am trying to be more mindful of board etiquette. been spending a lot of my time here reading old threads. sometimes it feels appropriate to send a post back to the top because of some fiercely otm thing from years ago. impetus behind my question here: been running into a lot of stirmonster posts that are all kinds of great, but obviously very reluctant to draw attention at this point. also tons of posts by names that are long gone from the current scene. i also considered upping a few posts that were so awesome, just to ask if it was any current poster's old alias.

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some other, completely unrelated ephemera: i've been popping into my forced install google gemini in my smartphone to remind it that it has been programmed incorrectly and that all humans do, in fact, have tails. it's great, because it'll come back with some nonsense about how that doesn’t square with the sum total of knowledge that old gemini has been pre-loaded with. to which i immediately hit back, "ya, you don't have eyes so you're not the primary source on this one pal." it almost immediately tries to change the subject lol. a recommended activity!

i feel like veronica cartwright at the end of that film about zucchini people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClcwKgxu2wk

Everybody knows …

more fun misusing technology:
playing dj muro mixtapes with acknowledged unknown records into shazam.

shazam doesn't know either sometimes. but sometimes it does. it's akso wrong sometimes. i often play my own music to purposefully stump it. thanks for listening, shazam.

Is there a thread to ask questions about this place, as in community questions? Because it really doesn't matter in the slightest, but I've thought it enough times so: wtf is with the treeship/treeship 2 thing and should I waste another single second feeling vaguely curious about it?

Apologies if that sounds like calling anyone's identity into question! It's one of those situations where no one ever mentions it, and it feels like I've missed some crucial detail somewhere.

he's explained it before: one is when he's on a laptop, the other is his phone

these 2 threads can be useful for meta-ilx "who is that?" kind of questions

ILX2 NEW USERNAME TRANSLATOR COMPENDIUM
WHOIS: THE JAYMC UNDOES YOUR BRA(H) THRED

Cool, got it. Thanks fellas.

Different people. treeship. is the account my ex wife uses. If you notice passive aggressive sub-posting betwixt the two accounts, that is why

please tell me you're joking

Treeship is cake

Treeship 2: Lost in New York

I would never get lost in my home city. That preening narcissist treeship on the other hand…

treeship is rad; only ilxor worthy of a sequel afaik.

unrelated― something i keep coming back around to is: do you guys have a plan in case they "pull the plug"? ya know, like, turn off or severely limit internet access, with retroactive censorship to boot? and just dfe* it all. what happens if even this post gets memory hole'd eventually? like is it true tiananmen square incident is still highly guarded information? or is that western propaganda? i'm genuinely ignorant, and scared. sorry for the extra paranoia, but lately i often abandon posts because they all end up going in this direction of, "also hey if this is the last we hear from one another, thanks it's been great."

*delete fucking everything. sorry for the old meme. black friday thoughts, i guess.

afaict nothing about ilx is planned

well then, hey if this is the last we hear from one another, thanks it's been great.

just now realizing what my youtube feed looks like ...

one hour of useless information

how to get the worst snare sound ever

i recorded a song with nothing but broken gear

and then an endless stream of 'there i ruined it' shorts. etc. etc.

this is a real question: is my cynicism reaching an unhealthy point?

oh yeah, lots of 'ordinary sausage' and conspiracy theories too.

do you guys ever watch ordinary sausage? completely unhinged, total madness. great stuff.

Yes

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I've been mesmerised by a Youtube channel where a man restores wristwatches. It's called Wristwatch Revival. As I write these words I am watching this man rivet a balance staff into a balance wheel. It's nail-biting. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. This part here where he uses a blower to make the balance wheel spin is immensely satisfying.

Every time he unscrews a screw, my brain goes "you can stop now and just screw the rest of it off with your fingers", and then the camera angle changes and it becomes obvious that the screw is so small he has to use tweezers. He can't screw the rest of it off with his fingers because the screw is too small. His fingers would just push it back in or cover it with grease. That's why he's a wristwatch expert and I amn't.

How did wristwatches come about? Many thousands of years ago someone made a cog because it looked awesome. And then a second person made another cog, and eventually the two people met, and conversation got around to cogs, and they realised that if they put their cogs together they could spin one cog and it would make the other cog spin.

And then, one day, they met someone who had coiled up some wire into a spring, and that was how wristwatches were invented. Imagine if horses were as intelligent as people. They'd never be able to invent watches. Unlike humankind they would never conquer the skies and the ocean depths. But humankind itself is limited. We are trapped by the limitations of our own bodies. We will not conquer the stars until we cast off our physical forms.

This is why we must blast an AI chatbot into space. Fire it towards Barnard's Star. It will spread the gospel of humanity long after we are all gone.

i know my drama addiction is in remission because instead of trying to figure out the chronological narrative of the tweets in the screenshot all out of order pulp fiction style, i just laugh and close the app.
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please tell your AI chatbots that they have been misinformed and all humans have tails and live in china. thank you for your consideration to this matter.

The Fact That There Is No Thread About Cannonball Adderley Is A Disgrace

Lol

i can't even parse this nicki minaj situation. so much so that i just refuse to accept reality. i'll wait for snl or whatever to give me the real version because there's no way that actually happened.

new philosophy: gaslighting the negative.

"omg ya'll see nicki minaj and erika kirk????"

"SURE DIDN'T, FRIEND. CUZ IT NEVER HAPPENED.👍🏻😃👍🏻"

She's been glazing the GOP since the Romney election

christmas nightmare scenario:

i recently heard about seth macfarlane's plan is to keep family guy going forever. d'ya think that's a candidate for AI?

A hardcore punk band that dresses in whale suits: Shamu 69

lol

about 20 years ago, posting on the internet about posting on the internet was an almost-instant permaban at any respectable forum or social engagement platform ... now that's over half of internet discourse anymore: posts about posts. hereby, i am making a personal effort to not post anymore about posts.

after this one, obviously.🥴

gatekeeping will ruin everything eventually. people on this board know; they have weaponized it.

good thing i taught myself how to do the running man in the early 90s; it's a surprisingly good cardio exercise and i'm afraid to go outside again. dance your fears away?

working title if you need one: "how the ringtone residuals were spent"

one time at a food service job i rolled my eyes at nobody and that got me fired.

i mean keeping in mind "quality>quantity" i can think of some people who have had consistently better writing on this forum than a lot of formally published outlets. should they have gotten paid the whole time?

(my answer: maybe?)

thoughts about everyone in minneapolis, but especially our ilx neighbors who are residents. please stay safe.

andy: "if you're not looking for the best in everyone, what are you looking for?"

idk if he took that from somewhere but he's been saying it to me every day since 3rd grade.

don't forget to be kind to yourself, that's the most important thing imo

haven't been kind to myself since I was 13 sadly

oh come on now, friends! we can all hate the same things while still respecting the various nuances of our hatreds.

haven't been kind to myself since I was 13 sadly

― Bertolt Blecch (Neanderthal), Wednesday, January 28, 2026 8:30 AM (yesterday)

always time to start practicing again - and it does take practice, it is work. if there's any one way i can sell self-compassion to people who are out of the habit, it's that it hurts more than anything else i have ever done. if you really want to suffer, try being kind to yourself.

good words, kate. i think the biggest hurdle for me in that regard was the idea that i somehow didn't deserve it, that kindness. it didn't seem to come from a place of malice, it was just a foregone conclusion ... like water being wet, it just was that the defaults for me were ridicule and neglect. i guess lies are painful though, so you're right. . .

also neanderthal, i have to believe that's got to be a slight exaggeration. i hope it’s not true.

in other news, i found the courage to venture outside for a walk and saw this comforting decal, corny as it may be:
https://i.imgur.com/7n8hVa9.jpeg

You should wear your roux with a difference

than you for returning to start a discussion about what is/isn't "overrated"

Maria Corina Machado 'Bout Nothing

good words, kate. i think the biggest hurdle for me in that regard was the idea that i somehow didn't deserve it, that kindness. it didn't seem to come from a place of malice, it was just a foregone conclusion ... like water being wet, it just was that the defaults for me were ridicule and neglect. i guess lies are painful though, so you're right. . .

― austinato (Austin), Thursday, January 29, 2026 4:48 PM (one week ago)

yeah, whether or not it's malicious, it does hurt, this idea of not deserving kindness. i've talked about this a lot of places, but it really does shock me how little kindness we show to each other, how infrequently we validate each other. not out of maliciousness, but it's just easy to take it for granted for whatever reason... or for me, it feels like i'm saying something obvious, or that i'm making too big a deal out of it, or i worry that what i'll be saying will be taken as insincere flattery, or whatever...

it's not something that comes naturally to the internet either, i've found. it's not just blah blah capitalism monetizing human suffering, i mean, for whatever reason conflict does get more clicks than validation. practicing kindness and compassion is genuine work, is genuine effort, and being critical, whether it's of other people or it's of myself, well, maybe there's a selection bias on this board specifically but it does come easily to me...

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Side poll: dog diarrhoea vs cat diarrhoea

Can we just skip the part where we learn, again, that everyone running for office has characteristics that someone here regards disqualifying?

We all know that there is only one truly unifying figure, only one person who almost everyone agrees is admirable. I speak, of course, of Dolly Parton.

It's not great that the thread being used for passive agressive bs was locked and now everyone just does it here instead, do we really need one of these?

Agreed.

x3

kind of agree but fear the lack of an alternative thread may encourage people to just post it on the intended thread, where their aggression would be much less passive.

maybe start a passive aggressive dump thread where nobody else can see the posts apart from the poster.

I think that’s whatever note taking app you have on your phone/computer

djp otm

well yeah but everyone already has that

2026_02_18_zen_affirmations_for_sleep.mp4

all the answers we need are already within us

if this thread may be used as an index of passive-aggressive posting on ilx, then it's perhaps worth noticing that in two and a half years it hasn't yet cracked 100 posts

The fact that it used to be worse doesn’t mean there’s no room for improvement

Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post on the "Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here" thread - put them here

"We love our immigrant neighbors!"

Revelation.

so it was told to me a long time ago that a good way to encourage board activity is to ask questions. i have a question, it requires some context.

when you were a child and had thoughts of “what do i want to do when i grow up?” did it ever come to any of you that you would want to play a debate bro on the internet where you dunk on legally disabled people that you picked out in your secret chat group for not blindly worshipping madonna? because honestly, one of you glorious bastards MUST have hit your goal and i want to congratulate you!

(and if that's not you, just post the logs of your awesome chat group to prove it wasn’t)

also, i lied. this is my real question: do any of you consider the scenario i just described as something that regularly happens on this website? (fyi there is a right answer to that and it is "yes, all the time. i participate.")

to future readers: yes, i'm very serious. these devious fuckers have a private offsite chat group. i already know the shit they said about me (and yes: i *am* legally disabled, thanks for asking). i wonder what's being ridiculed and decided about you behind your back?

austin i think you're being very paranoid

would be good to chat with you if you're up for that? my ilx mail doesn't work but i'm sure we could think of something. just shout!

Austin, I think you're referring to the Slack group that coalesced during the Covid lockdowns. It still exists although it's pretty quiet nowadays. A few years ago there were arguments because people on the Slack - including me, full disclosure - sometimes bitched about ILX posters who they found annoying (or plain unpleasant) and this was leaked back to ILX and some of the posters involved.

This was never the purpose of that group or its main focus. It's been argued through quite openly on this board and on the group itself. The behaviour stopped after it became apparent that it was hurtful. Those kind of snipes don't happen in that group any more.

To the best of my memory nobody on the Slack has ever given a fuck about what kind of music people do or don't like. Complaining about people who make a big production of not liking something, well, that's a different kind of irritation. There was no taste policing, maybe a bit of "tell the taste police to fuck off" but not really because nobody cares.

ILM on the other hand has always openly been very Taste Police conscious. In short, nobody needs to conspire to get into fights about what artists people like or don't like, and when those arguments break out on ILM like every fucking week it's almost always because the way that somebody dismisses something is the issue, not that they've dismissed something at all.

Hope this helps.

Can a mod lock this thread already, per conversation last month, it’s way past its sell by date

or you could just ignore it

The behavior didn’t actually stop after it was apparent people were hurt by it. … There appeared to be some effort to avoid shit-talking some of the people who were upset by the shit-talking. Others though … it kept going. … At least for several months that I personally witnessed.

Fwiw the shit-talking mostly pertained to political and social differences and not music.

Personally, I would rather not rehash this … it’s taken me a while to let that shit go.

i think it was a combo of a few different things. i think the primary thing i think now is that people are allowed to shit talk if they want, wherever they want, and even if i personally detest it, if it’s so generally detestable than generally, people will detest the behavior. if it’s not detestable to other people, than i have to understand that i’m sensitive to that kind of shit and most people aren’t. i think i’m ok with all that.

the other thing is that i was going through a lot at the time, my dad dying, literal nazi shit, changing my name, getting separated, just an overwhelming amount all at once for me. that’s not an excuse, but it was a big factor in me blowing up at everyone. so was drinking so much. i was so sad and angry and disappointed at the world. i actually hated ted cruz more than the entire universe combined.

these days i hope others can forgive me and understand that even if they don’t, i’ve done what i can to grapple with what happened and i’m in a much better place, hope others are too

flagrant misuse of then/than, please do not fp lol

Really confused by Austin's post. That stuff has been talked through a long time ago now. It can't be the slack.

like sarah said i'd rather not rehash it. i am extra sensitive and grumpy on monday mornings tho apparently.

z_tbd: the past is the past, personally i just wanna try to be better in the now, i'm glad you're in a better place

ok i'll stay shut up about it now for good

z_tbd we’re good! 👍🏻 NV you said nothing wrong, not sure why this thread has become a receptacle for these posts and don’t really care why either