Bishop says Climate Collapse not Climate Change
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Antifascist. This means: I.Fucking.Hate.Nazis. A Republic... if you can keep it. For the record: I don’t wish anyone dead. I just won’t pretend cruel men were saints because they finally ran out of road.
Bandcamp Friday is this Friday the 7th and until the end of September half of all my Bandcamp sales will be donated to the Sea Turtle Conservancy based in Florida. Shares help a lot! Save some Turtles! Get some indie music! https://limneticvillains.bandcamp.com
Scientists identify five key factors linked to happiness across 66 countries www.psypost.org/scientists-i...
Scientists identify five key factors linked to happiness across 66 countries
What makes a society truly happy? New research in The Journal of Positive Psychology suggests that supportive, inclusive environments boost national well-being significantly more than individualistic ...
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Speaking of Kate Bush (I complained earlier today about a young musician faking being her daughter for clicks), I missed Kate Bush's birthday July 30, sorry! Here's my cover of "Hounds of Love." unwoman.bandcamp.com/track/hounds... (day 200 of 365 Unwoman tracks!)
Hounds of Love, by Unwoman
from the album Uncovered Volumes 4 & 5
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In which I wax rapturous over Blondie's 1980 opus, Autoamerican... joejots.blog/2026/08/04/b...
1. Ulysses 2. Joyce-Ulysses, Baldwin-Go Tell It On The Mountain, Juster/Feiffer-The Phantom Tollbooth, King-On Writing, (new addition) DuMaurier-Rebecca 3. SF 4. SF/F, Literature, Mags 5. Kobo, any used bookstore 6. Rebecca, Cold Comfort Farm, The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City
Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago1 like = 1 book question 📚💙
Our friend @travisbaldree.bsky.social is marked safe in the Spokane fire, but asking those who can donate to head to this link to directly support his impacted neighbors! If you're able to help through donations and/or signal-boosting, please do! my.spokanecity.org/endinghomele...
H.O.M.E. Starts Here Donations
Donations to the H.O.M.E. Starts Here Fund go directly to supporting services for those experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
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She wasn't perfect but our world would be in a much better place than the past 10 years of chaos and mayhem have been
Uncle Bill, William S. Burroughs shuffled off on this date in 1997. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rc3... Death needs time like a junkie needs junk...
William S. Burroughs - Ah Pook the Destroyer/Brion Gysin's All-Purpose Bedtime Story
YouTube video by enc0m511
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Okay hivemind: What is the best bait for a spring loaded #mousetrap ??
I absolutely support the principle of paying creators for stuff, but it would be useful if people linking to paywalled content would briefly mention the fact, to save me clicking through, rejecting cookies, dismissing popups, getting a couple of paragraphs in and *then* discovering I can't read it.
This site is disturbing, the vast majority of trans authors are indie published and, even if they're trad published, almost none of us make enough off our writing to live off. If you can't afford to buy books, many of us share work for free, you can always support trans writers without stealing.
Tilly Bridges@tillybridges.bsky.social · 2w agofriends, please: don’t use transreads dot org they claim to support trans authors, but take our entire texts, post them for free, fundraise off it, and have the gall to claim it’s about preservation they are literally taking money from trans creators and make it harder for us to keep creating
I've not quite finished it, but gracious, Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier is *so* good. (Watched a very recent film version a couple years ago and pushed it on one of my book clubs last month so I'd finally get to reading it.)
An easy August #MusicChallenge. Just post any electronic music song each day in August with the hashtag #ElectronicTunes. Early posts begin July 31st. Post any time.
And just like that Amnesty International turn from allies to transphobes. Losing the support of the trans + community and allies with a single retraction.
I appreciate that there's research to back up what everybody who's taken even a cursory look at this piece of history knows in their bones. The deck was always stacked against non-white borrowers...
Nature@nature.com · 6d agoNature research paper: New-deal mortgage programmes benefited white borrowers disproportionately go.nature.com/3RXZKFP
Check out the brand new banger from Electro Sheep - Just Say Something. It's a goodie! 👉 open.spotify.com/track/2842k9... ⚡️🐑 The guitar work is *wicked*
Make sure you know how to stay safe in the summer heat: 🪭 Like an early 2000s yearbook message, stay cool this summer hanging out in shade. 🚰 Drink plenty of water. 🔎 Signs of heatstroke: muscle cramps, heavy sweating, shortness of breath, dizziness, headache, weakness, nausea.
Debbie Harry's KooKoo is a weird album - followed a post about one of the singles. It's less of a jumble sale than the (absolutely brilliant) AutoAmerican, and leans heavily (given the massive presence of Chic on the album) and R&B/hip hop. Better than its reputation would have you believe.
"Name a perfect album from the 90s composed mostly by _non-white_ musicians" I saw Tricky's Maxinquaye posted, but the followups Nearly God and Pre-Millennium Tension are both incredible as well.
This is the Amnesty International report on the anti-rights groups. These anti-rights groups have immediately engaged in lawfare to bury this report. *be a shame if people kept sharing it. drive.google.com/file/d/1UggI...
Report_-_A_growing_threat__the_anti-rights_movement_in_the_UK_July_2026.pdf
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The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 3w agoAmnesty International has expressed its 'regret' over a report naming dozens of gender-critical campaign groups as 'anti-rights' organisations
Yesterday in the car, we heard Does Your Mother Know? by Abba. For some reason this led to me dreaming of being at an Abba concert. Further details withheld by the subconscious. And here's *your* #earworm for the day... www.youtube.com/watch?v=puxR...
ABBA - Does Your Mother Know (Official Music Video), Full HD (Digitally Remastered and Upscaled)
YouTube video by Enhanced Music Videos
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