David Singer

@davidsinger.bsky.social

Shoot-first point guard. Music and movies and music for movies. Incoming podcast all over the place. Everybody is under suspicion, but you don't wanna hear about that. IncomingPodcast.com DSArrows.com

Of all the things the US government has spent your taxpayer dollars on since 1940, nuclear weapons and weapons-related programs rank third after Social Security and all non-nuclear defense expenditures—incl. WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and every subsequent military conflict.

Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · last mo.

What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?

Hey everyone! I make a fiction podcast called Incoming that’s loosely based on the nuclear-missile-false-alarm that freaked out a bunch of Hawaiians in 2018, and our S2 started today!

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Hey everyone! I make a fiction podcast called Incoming that’s loosely based on the nuclear-missile-false-alarm that freaked out a bunch of Hawaiians in 2018, and our S2 started today!

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I think there are at least two powerful themes that conservative writers handle really well - the grief that comes with change and the struggle to preserve the good against the tide of humans’ worse natures. Modern conservatism is all-in on humans’ worse natures and thinks grief is for losers

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The stuff going around about how conservative art isn’t good/doesn’t exist is interesting because what it means, which is true, is that the American conservative wing 2026 is completely incapable of making good art. There are several reasons for this but they boil down to the absence of vision 1/3

Ok, obviously Randy Newman is a huge miss but what about MIKE STOLLER!?!??! Young Blood, Yakety Yak, Searchin', Poison Ivy, Charlie Brown, Jailhouse Rock, On Broadway, Stand By Me, Spanish Harlem, Hound Dog, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Down In Mexico, Treat Me Nice (cont.) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters

More than 250 music insiders and six New York Times critics weighed in on who defines the new American songbook. Here are the artists they chose.

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While we wait to find out what the maniacs in charge of our government are willing to do, perhaps you’d be interested in hearing from someone who was once responsible for the potential launch of a nuclear weapon:

they should make a constitution that has checks and balances so that one guy can't just rule over america like a king. i feel like the founding fathers should have clearly intended that so that we could interpret it that way. alas