Shitposts
Don’t call me a POC
Don’t call me a POC. It’s literally just a repackaged slur. “Colored” with extra syllables. You’re othering me with a...
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The arrest was the best thing that happened for credibility
In July 2025, I got arrested. The event got raided. The cancel campaigns hit peak velocity simultaneously. By every conventional...
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The consulting pivot
It started on Discord. Free advice. Someone asked how to get booked as a DJ in New York. I wrote...
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When hotels start calling you
For the first year and a half of SLIST, every venue relationship started the same way: I found them. Cold...
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The psychedelic insight that started a sobriety arc
During a psychedelic high, I realized I want to stop drinking. The sentence that came through was simple: “I want...
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The EJ theft: when your co-organizer robs your party
I was naive. That’s the short version. EJ was a co-organizer during the early NYC planning phase. We were building...
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The co-promoter who threatened to strangle me
March 2024. TAT3 — Techno Afters Trap 3 — at Galospace NYC. I’d booked 10 out of 12 DJs personally....
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The first Patreon subscriber
Before SLIST had a website, before we had ticket links or commission models or any of the infrastructure that exists...
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The Frankie partnership
The most important operational relationship in SLIST’s CDMX era started the way most things in this scene start: someone showed...
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Gig: 1-2 sets a week for free stays.
I’ve been playing here once or twice a week for the past 4 months (July 23rd time of writing). I...