Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

2/6/2026, 9:13:20 PM

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Okay so it's been explained to me that actually several large chunks of the NiN library are not available digitally at all currently due to Reznor's frequent label changes and some sort of presumably temporary snafu in inter-publisher negotiations, and shamefully Tidal does not currently even have "Not the Actual Events". Copyright does not succeed at the thing our society designed copyright to do

mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

2/6/2026, 9:14:50 PM

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Non-jokingly, my advice to you: Do not become addicted to heroin and then sign contracts with a music industry label

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

2/6/2026, 9:43:00 PM

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116025752963855521

Listening to Nine Inch Nails is so complicated to me. I would just loop his music for weeks at a time, for years, it was like the soundtrack of my own feelings, and then

and now I can't listen to the old stuff, the post 2015-stuff feels right to me but the old stuff is like, a dissonant note, the thing that was going "yeah, that's what life feels like" is going "this doesn't feel like me anymore", the feeling doesn't make sense to me anymore, but here's the thing: