David Menestres
@abstracttruth.bsky.social
Destroy the original. Fax the images to Newark. davidmenestres.com Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/LGjqTCbctIfzanv6jEdM4Q88-gRORqbNrxZoWuHUs8BTfG7-NpFGao1HC8l7SHZs
Research from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health released this week has confirmed what many in the Appalachian coalfields knew to be true: black lung rates are higher than they have been in 50 years. www.npr.org/2026/08/05/n...
Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick
Rates are now the highest they've been in nearly 50 years among veteran coal miners. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.
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"A rare chord change on Wednesday — from seven notes to eight — represented the completion of about 4% of the 639-year endeavor"
Lars Gotrich@totalvibration.bsky.social · 9h agoNEW CHORD CHANGE FOR AS SLOW AS POSSIBLE JOHN CAGE HIVE RISE UP apnews.com/article/john...
Guess those jokes I've been making all summer about catching dengue in the garden here in Virginia haven't been jokes after all.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 9h agoVirginia health officials have confirmed the state’s first known case of locally acquired dengue fever
Nobody hates music or musicians more than Live Nation. Which essentially owns everything now.
Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 9h ago“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”
And this beautiful patch by @gorgonparis.bsky.social is the best piece of merch I saw last week. Download code pinned to the back.
Zines published by Brick Digest I got at the show we shared @rhizomedc.bsky.social last week. More interesting lectures as opening acts please.
What's everyone planting in their fall/winter gardens?
What's everyone planting in their fall/winter gardens?
For those of you who know the great NYC drummer Rob Smith, he recently had a medical emergency and there's a GoFundMe here: www.gofundme.com/f/get-rob-ho...
Donate to Get Rob Home to His Family After Surgery, organized by Peter Kerlin
Our dear friend Rob Smith had emergency abdominal surgery on July 18 and was hos… Peter Kerlin needs your support for Get Rob Home to His Family After Surgery
gofundme.com
Everything we thought we knew about the weather is changing. Everything we thought we knew about technology is changing. Everything we thought we knew about literacy, about human rights, about internationalism and world order. And too many of us just keep waiting for things to “settle down.”
if you want trans culture (e.g., trans literature, trans cinema, trans humor, trans music, trans art) you have to support the people doing the social reproduction work to make it possible. No one will create those conditions from the outside.
Donate to Help Keep a Small Trans Zine Press Going, organized by Isobel Bess
Hi! I’m Isobel. I run a small trans zine press and tape label called Other Spaces… Isobel Bess needs your support for Help Keep a Small Trans Zine Press Going
gofundme.com
I want to check out the new UVA press book on Gabriel's Rebellion, but this one is so good.
Gabriel's Rebellion
Gabriel’s Rebellion tells the dramatic story of what was perhaps the most extensive slave conspiracy in the history of the American South. Douglas Egerton ...
uncpress.org
Daniel Bachman@danielbachman.bsky.social · last yr.Black August in VA history includes Gabriel’s Rebellion. IMO an under discussed revolutionary event that included white French abolitionists from Haiti & overthrow of the “Merchant” class. Gabriel & his compatriots planned their attack all month long, only to be thwarted by a tremendous rain storm.
The irony of someone making an album about a predator while one of the people on the album is also a predator.
have u heard the news (from today’s @flaminghydra.com missive, which features a great piece on dbt by the homie @katewagner.wehwalt.net)
would also like to point out that them union-busted its trans staffers out of jobs a while back so it’s also a choice to continue to write for them
A POLITICO investigation raises serious questions about how Virginia regulators handled concerns over air pollution. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
Emails show how Virginia regulators downplayed data center health concerns
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality stepped into a fight over powering AI facilities with natural gas turbines. It could shape the industry’s future.
politico.com
Hate when they're hanging on your boom-boom-pachyderm
Already an amazing collection and just getting started. Keiji Haino, Tom Verlaine, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, etc etc etc.
Ned Raggett@nedraggett.bsky.social · 2d agoPer various posts and things I've seen, looks like a new collection along the lines of the Aadam Jacobs Chicago-and-elsewhere live audience tapes is starting to emerge at @archive.org -- the Jeff Lazar Audio Collection, focusing on NYC/NJ shows over the years. Good stuff up already!
taylor farms is a HUGE conglomerate and because they have a contract with sysco, which supplies restaurants, hospitals, and corporate cafeterias as well as a number of large supermarket chains, this very pointedly means that a ginormous chunk of what we eat is powered by incarcerated labor
