Billy JO Crystal

@tycrust

"a super machine in the world of pleasures of the flesh" according to a spam email | 33 | Nonbinary (he/him) | An-com | Musician & mixing engineer My music and stuff:

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Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· 26d

guy who's doing fine:

Recent Tracks from my last.fm and they're all "Underneath the Waves" by Strapping Young Lad

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· 27d

screenshot because character limit: missed that it was nonbinary day or w/e yesterday. not many people seemed to give a shit anyhow

anyway keep us out of your discourse-addled mouths, if you call me "enby" you are my fucking enemy, and all that cutesy nursery school pastel shit can get fucked. my gender is nebulous, ever-shifting octopus god. worship me

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· Jul 12

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· Jul 11

audio sync is probably slightly off but oh well. some of the sound here is a warbly tape saturation VST.

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· Jul 4

weird crop bc I don't wanna doxx myself but I had to try to record the sound of this wind. also a microwave beep and me swearing

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· Jul 3

with apologies to Emma Ruth Rundle

photo of me, white masc nonbinary person with long brown hair and mustache, neutral expression, wearing a red flannel shirt with the sleeves rolled up, sitting at a wooden desk, looking toward the viewer. my hair is draped over my shoulders and upper arms. my left arm is propped on my elbow with my hand aloft. my right hand rests on the desk. on the desk in front of me, left to right: a scale mail pendant in nonbinary flag colors, and a stemless wine glass flecked with gold paint, full of water. sunny late afternoon light

cover of Electric Guitar: One by Emma Ruth Rundle: a photo of Rundle, a white woman with brown shoulder-length hair, wearing a red/white flannel shirt, in a dim but warmly lit room, sitting at a white-topped table, looking toward the viewer. her left arm is propped on her elbow with her hand aloft, holding a cigarette between her fingers. her right hand rests on the table. on the table in front of her, left to right: an ashtray, a white lighter, a bottle of beer, and a pack of cigarettes

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· Jul 3

(once upon a time you would have had to resort to ASIO4ALL which is kind of a hacky cheat that isn't really ASIO, but it looks like things have moved past that point, kinda.) anyway here's a little blurb about ASIO from a Sweetwater article:

ASIO

Steinberg designed this format to improve latency performance and channel count compared to Windows Audio drivers. ASIO (Audio Stream Input Output) allows the software to bypass Windows Audio and gives direct communication to the hardware. This is the preferred driver mode for all professional recording and audio applications. Because of the direct communication between the hardware and the software, device sharing between multiple applications is severely limited or not allowed. This means you won’t be able to reliably run more than one program using your interface while your recording software is open.

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· Jun 30

still from Society (1989, dir. Brian Yuzna). a human head emerging from a human posterior speaks to a horrified young man

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· Jun 25

annotation comment by Genius user wrongkeys on the lyrics page for "Billions" by Caroline Polachek: "all you spermatophobic Polachek nerds have driven me to this"

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· Jun 21

please be fucking serious.

"Voting is a powerful and amazing thing. Voting is a scheduled revolution where you get to overthrow the government every few years. How cool is that!!??"

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· Jun 2

contemplating this today

tweet by Richard Dawkins: "Saw a down-and-out in Seattle last night. His sign said not 'I need food' or 'I need a job' but 'I need a fat bitch'. What could this mean?"

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· May 29

The Nine Inch Nails have withdrawn from the Freedom 250 celebration

The Nine Inch Nails performing at the Roadhouse

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· May 29

lrt

cover of Metallica's 1983 debut album Kill 'Em All

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· May 27

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh does anyone have $115 I can have

Earth Book Edition pre-order bundle for The Ocean's new album Solaris

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· May 25

Usage Wounds (Pour Your Heart Out) a pared-down, starker take. took more editing than I expected.

spiraling trails of white light, like half a ribcage, cross the top half, with a single stream of red light pouring down like blood, left of center

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· May 20

I have exciting news

my post above followed immediately by a post from michael lutz (@ztul.bsky.social) reading "Sources tell me the NEXT JAMES BOND will have an ANXIOUS ATTACHMENT STYLE"

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· May 16

Post a meme made by you

Walter from The Big Lebowski brandishing a gun with top text: "AM I THE ONLY ONE AROUND HERE WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT" and bottom text: "ABOUT THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN MOLLUSCA AND ARTHROPODA"

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· May 16

I don't care about "historical accuracy" but you can't just do this:

drawing of guy in left foreground wearing a hat labeled "thinking cap," saying "this fucking sucks actually" while pointing a thumb toward a hot dog riding a skateboard while wearing sunglasses and a backwards baseball cap, labeled "(literal coolest thing ever)"

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· May 12

this is shit advice, and the fact that the writer here lets it go uninterrogated as standard—not "revolutionary"—is irresponsible at best.

relevant highlighted text: "Don't offer an alternative if your kid rejects their dinner."

full paragraph: "But Picky isn’t a parenting book, not really. Helen confines her advice to the epilogue, if that tells you anything. And she doesn’t have any revolutionary suggestions. Don’t let them snack too much between meals, she says. Don’t offer an alternative if your kid rejects their dinner. It’s okay to tell them they have to try their broccoli to get dessert. Describe what you’re eating and why you like it. Avoid highly processed foods if you can. Be confident."

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· May 4

is this okay

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· May 1

alright who cummed on the floor in the Dollar General

a large puddle of some sort of white substance on the floor of a Dollar General

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· Apr 29

EUREKA I feel like the smartest motherfucker alive. I mixed it with this in a bowl and poured it back into the pouch. she didn't know shit

pouch of Delectables Lickable Treat Bisque with Tuna & Shrimp

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· Apr 28

you can just say any old shit on the internet

cropped bsky post: "there's a type of guy who hates that t*yl*r sw*ft is on this list and has a 'trumped that bitch' bumper sticker on his truck and is sick of caitlin clark being compared to "real" athletes and whose main concern, if you ask him, is 'fairness in girls' sports'"

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· Apr 27

did blood work & she's pretty much normal, including her kidneys and liver, which I was most worried about. gave her a shot to calm her stomach + an antibiotic. gave me some gel stuff I gotta feed her every 8 hours + some bland food. need to pay off my credit card by 5/13 $100/$232.51 so far

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· Apr 27

gonna be taking Zina to the vet a day early because she's hardly eaten or drank since Saturday night. I don't know how much this is all going to end up costing but I know I'm going to need help. I haven't slept since yesterday. I've been too anxious to eat. I just want her to be okay.

my cat Zina, an orange and white tabby, chewing on my thumb

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· Apr 22

aaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahaha this thin-skinned little freak

screenshot showing that @why.bsky.team has blocked me, presumably via the "AI Haters" blocklist

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· Apr 20

Usage Wounds

spiraling trails of blue-white light, like half a ribcage, cross the top half, with four streams of red light pouring down like blood

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· Apr 17

-Yuki-onna -Trinity (more of a pixel sorting thing) -The Grace of Gold

a mass of black light trails in the center giving the impression of ghostly hair, over a background that transitions from dark blue to teal in the top half; then downward to blue, to pink, to a centered bit of yellow at the bottom

a centric mass of light surrounded by pixel sorted weirdness mimicking old photos of the first milliseconds of an atomic blast, in which the nuclear fireball has odd tendrils extending outward. black background with a bit of white in the bottom left corner

downward curving arcs of golden light over a green-black background, with golden sparkles interspersed throughout

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· Apr 17

-They're Going to Build a Data Center on Your Grave so Elon Musk Can Make an Anime Wife of Dubious Age Who Can't Divorce Him -Omen of the Deep -Spine 5 -To Carry the Flame

chaotic scramble of mostly red light trails, with predominantly blue-white but multicolored trails in the bottom right giving an impression of a sort of cascade

dark blue light squiggles in the top 2/3rds + blue/black background giving the impression of deep ocean, with much brighter white/orange/green lights in the lower right giving the impression of something brilliantly bioluminescent

an orange trail of lights in a shape reminiscent of a human spine hovering in darkness

a bright, flame-shaped mass of tan-white light in the center, with tannish "smoke" behind it in the lower right corner over a dark background

Billy JO Crystal@tycrust· Apr 17

I've been feeling like doing a thread compiling all of my finished light trail art so far, so here's that. haven't reapplied to Inprnt lately, was thinking about setting up some other means of selling prints myself but idk. got a lot of other shit going on. Electronic Void Phenomena 1/2/3