CM Thiede<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@originlbookgirl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>originlbookgirl</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@lovelylovely" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lovelylovely</span></a></span> </p><p>I think somewhere in there, lies <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/exhaustion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>exhaustion</span></a> too. We're all <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/feeling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feeling</span></a> it.</p><p>I saw the writing on the wall when FB, now M, broke out of its container to woo everyone on the planet. Assembled a <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/band" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>band</span></a> to "spread the word" but it was never quite <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/catchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>catchy</span></a> enough for those controlling what <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/stage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stage</span></a> one could <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/perform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>perform</span></a> on. "Can you make more songs like the other one, or change the look a bit?" I understood <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> and studied <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> enough to know SM and MSM would merge in a way that would <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/boost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boost</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/evil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evil</span></a> not <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/good" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>good</span></a></p><p>It just <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/SELLS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SELLS</span></a> better. <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Published" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Published</span></a> this ditty back in 2008 to <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/wake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wake</span></a> people up and rattle some heads, but the <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/production" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>production</span></a> was crap. It was all we could afford. Oh well, can't say I didn't try. </p><p><a href="https://smilingorange.bandcamp.com/track/say-what-u-want" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">smilingorange.bandcamp.com/tra</span><span class="invisible">ck/say-what-u-want</span></a></p><p>The <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/SmilingOrange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmilingOrange</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/MuzakLessons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MuzakLessons</span></a></p>