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watching speedrunners like this is the coolest thing in the world…maybe i will learn…to be as cool as you…

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She played bass on 10,000 songs, including the most-played track of the twentieth century. She was paid $55 per session. Her name never appeared on the albums.
Gold Star Studios, Los Angeles, 1964. A woman in a cardigan walks past the receptionist, a Fender Precision bass in her hand like a briefcase. She doesn’t sign autographs. She signs a timesheet.
Her name is Carol Kaye. In three hours, she will record what will become the most-played track of the twentieth century. She’ll pocket fifty-five dollars and head to another studio, on the other side of town, for the next session.
The record label will never put her name on the album.
Between 1957 and 1973, Carol Kaye took part in roughly 10,000 recording sessions. Not as the featured artist, not as a guest, but as a hired hand. She was part of an anonymous collective nicknamed The Wrecking Crew—elite studio musicians who actually played the instruments on your favorite records while the famous bands posed for promotional photos.
The work was relentless. Three albums before the day was over. Stale coffee in paper cups. No rehearsal. The charts arrived minutes before the tape rolled. If you couldn’t read a chart and nail the take in two tries, you didn’t get called for the next session.
Carol could do it on the first try.
She started playing guitar in grimy bars at fourteen because her family couldn’t pay the electric bill. Music wasn’t a romantic dream for her. It was survival. It was a job—factory work with better acoustics and lower pay.
But she was faster and sharper than almost everyone else. She corrected charts in pencil while the producer was still explaining what he wanted. In one session in 1968, she told a famous producer his arrangement sounded like a dying dog. She chose her own line. They kept her version.
That descending bass line that drives the Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”? Carol Kaye. The propulsive groove of “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’”? Carol Kaye. The acoustic-guitar intro to “La Bamba”? Carol Kaye. The iconic theme from Mission: Impossible? Carol Kaye.
She invented techniques on the spot, out of sheer necessity. When the bass sound was too muddy for AM radio, she stuck felt under the strings and used a hard pick instead of her fingers. The tone cut through the static like a blade. It became the sonic signature that defined 1960s pop.
Bassists spent years—decades—trying to crack the secret of the Beach Boys’ gear to get that sound. They were studying the wrong people. They should have been studying Carol.
She received no royalties. No residuals. No gold-record ceremony. No credit on the album sleeves. When “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” hit number one, Carol was already back in a studio cutting a soap jingle.
The biggest bands mimed her bass lines on TV variety shows. New York marketing departments decided a mom in classic clothes didn’t fit the rebellious-youth image they were selling. So they simply left her name off the album credits.
For thirty years, almost no one cared. The truth only began to surface in the late 1990s, when music researchers found the same union contract numbers on thousands of hit records. The very documents meant to preserve studio musicians’ anonymity betrayed them.
Think about it. Every time you heard “Good Vibrations,” “River Deep – Mountain High,” the Righteous Brothers, Nancy Sinatra, or Sonny and Cher, you were hearing Carol Kaye. She composed the soundtrack of an entire generation’s youth.
And yet the records still say nothing. She’s now over eighty. She wrote instructional books. She trained countless bassists. She is finally starting to be recognized by music historians who uncovered the truth about The Wrecking Crew.
But she never got what she deserved: her name on those albums. Credit for the music that defined an era. Recognition that those bass lines everyone associates with the “Beach Boys” were, in fact, Carol Kaye’s.
Fifty-five dollars a session. Ten thousand sessions. The most-played track of the twentieth century.
And the world didn’t know her name.
She was admitted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2025 but refused, fuck yeah, Carol. Her official website is incredible.
Here are my contributions for the Couriway 10k zine, I don't really know how to put into words, but as someone that normally is way to shy to get in collabs I'm so glad I gained the courage to join this project. I'm truly honoured to be part of this, I got to meet so many amazing and talent people, and it was so fun to work together. :3
Pls check out the full zine, everybody's art and writing is so amazing and we put alot of effort into it!
Here is the link to access to a free download of the zine [link], we are also raising funds for SVPA and any donation $5+ gives you access to the full resolution of the zine
Thank you everyone, thank you to everyone involved in this project and that made this zine possible and lastly to the community. I'm so grateful for it 🫶
In honor of Couriway's 10,000th speedrun, 24 artists and writers created the "Tribute to 10k" zine, available for free now!
The zine is also a fundraiser for the SVPA! Any $5+ donation to the SVPA through our tiltify will give you access to the full-scale, high-res artwork <3
Campaign Link + Zine Download: https://tilt.fyi/ghwwjC0qop
As we reach our fundraiser goals, we'll be adding extra bonus content including an additional collab artwork and instructions for how you can print a copy of the zine for yourself!
BANGGGGG gen this qas so fun to work on and ily mcsr artists and couriway nodders

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woah imagine if a bunch of mcsr writers and artists came together for a really cool little project for Couri's 10k run that's also raising money for SVPA... wow... that'd be so cool. if that were to happen. and be released on May 31st. :D
that'd just be so cool i think. that'd be really awesome.
who up at 3:30 am striaght up watching they couriway
okay i was just scrolling wiki on mimicry (bc i think extra would be some sort of animal that uses mimicry) and WHAT IS C LMAO IS THAT A UFO
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i'll be honest thinking about las vegas makes me nauseous.
like this shouldnt be possible.
Every part of Vegas feels like it's pulled out of fiction and is Incredibly off-putting. It's a major city in the middle of one of the world's most inhospitable deserts
Its famous for recreating other world landmarks on a small scale. It uses this as a trap to bait people into making life ruining decisions. It's motto is essentially "never speak of what happened here". Fucked up
i ❤️ faceless character designs like yesss keep the mask on… Obscurity is so hot
“what if you could see their face” well i neither want nor need any of that. i’m right where i want to be

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Actually wait reblogging again to point out how wild the temperature changes are here in the UK.
My building is early Victorian - it is not modern by any stretch. Earlier this month it got so cold I had to put on my one portable radiator. Now it's so hot I need my electric fan.
It's unpredictably hot or cold - it goes up and down like a yo-yo. This isn't normal. I've been alive 25 years and I don't remember a May as varied as this one.
One thing im uncomfortably woke about is bugs. And im actively trying to get more uncomfortably woke. By this i mean i DO believe the normalised fear of bugs stems from both government and business propaganda. The start of household pesticide sales coinciding with the boom in insect related horror movies. The promotion of anti intellectualism and anti enviromentalism. If you're scared of bugs, you wont care about saving them. If you dont care about saving them, you wont care about saving our home, since without bugs it cannot be saved. If you dont care about saving our home, the rich can do whatever they want with the chunks of it they continue to destroy.
I WILL calmly and kindly try to help anyone who is afraid of bugs. I will show them my finds, i will explain their importance, i will tell them just how sweet and gentle and friendly they are. And I WILL shoot down any immature loser who believes senseless killing is the only possible response to not liking something.
Get woke. Love bugs.
sor ey everyone i got distracted by my love for the bugs
If you notice there's less lightning bugs around then there was when you were young, you aren't going crazy. Lightning bugs/fireflies are becoming endangered!
Above is a video from one of my favorite youtubers, Ze Frank, that goes into more detail.
Lightning bug conservation is not being funded, so the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation requires donations to further their research. The aim is to establish lighting bug sanctuaries and begin habitat restoration efforts.
Studying these little guys has done so much for us in many different fields including medicine! It's important that lightning bugs are protected so future generations can experience that magical feeling of sitting in a field surrounded by little lights.
Fireflies are cherished, but they are also declining. Based on assessments published on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s
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Summertime is approaching, prime lightning bug season. Bringing this post back because there's still work to be done! The Xerces Society does more then just protect lightning bugs, but butterflies and bees too!
They also have a free PDF guide on how to make your yard/property/garden as firefly safe as possible!
Fireflies are some of our most celebrated insects. They have immense cultural, biological, and economic importance and are important compone
Long live the fireflies!
Oh, you like dogs? Even the ugly ones? That's weird.. I can't even look at dogs without feeling sick. I mean, of course I like dogs! I just want them as far away from me as possible. It's the dogs fault if it wanders into my house, of course I have to kill them. Dogs obviously know what houses are, it should know the house is mine. Hey did you see that video of the little machine someone made that rips dogs legs off? That's so funny haha. What? Don't be so sensitive! Killing dogs doesn't matter anyway, it's not like they're even real animals. They don't feel anything. I kill dogs all the time, I mean some of them deserve it! Some dogs are just evil. Honestly if I could make some dogs go extinct I would. Why should they be alive if they're so ugly and annoying? They don't even do anything. You really like dogs? There must be something wrong with you.
This post is about bugs.
Oh my goddddd shut the fuck uppppp shut upppp you're annoyingggg *FART WITH REVERB*
[ID: The strawman comic showing a person wearing clothing with a sign that all say "stupid [article of clothing]. a person says "This is my over-the-top strawman character. no one actually thinks like that, I'm just using hyperbole to make a point." in the next panel the strawman character appears and says "hi"]
person in the tags ^
For those wondering why we shouldn't drive ticks extinct:
Animals don't have to prove their worth to humans. Animals have as much a right to exist on this planet as humans. A tick's life has as much objective, inherent worth as your life does. But in case you're convinced that animals must have a purpose to be allowed to live:
When ticks feed, they are taking nutrients (blood) from other animals without killing them. Without exoparasites, like ticks, there is no way a spider could eat a deer. The nutrients would be 'locked' in the deer until its death. This is the core role that exoparasites play in the ecosystem - to move nutrients around without violence.
Ticks are an important environmental indicator species. The migration of ticks can tell us a lot about how different areas are affected by climate change.
Ticks create jobs and fuel The Economy by being disease vectors. Is that anthropocentric enough for you?
Ticks are beautiful, and looking at them brings me joy.

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Fixed a wasp meme :)
A Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens) on a dandelion with some very tiny ants...