I recently saw Freescha perform live at a small norcal festival. They played during the magic hour - sunlight dappling through the redwoods. #AmbientAugust attacknine.bandcamp.com/track/bumble...
Bumble (Version), by FREESCHA
from the album Kids Fill The Floor - Remastered Extended Edition
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Luke Abbott - Amphis (live) Modular synth gloriousness youtu.be/_ziEUmnJyfY?... #AmbientAugust
Luke Abbott - Amphis (Live)
YouTube video by Border Community
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Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent) This was the very first song my son ever heard. I played it for him in the hospital when he was born. #AmbientAugust youtu.be/OlaTeXX3uH8?...
Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent) (Remastered 2019)
YouTube video by BrianEnoVEVO
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Momentarily breaking my regulars weekend social media abstinence to participate in #ambientaugust Benoit Pioulard - Upon the break arch. Best heard at night when things are quiet. pioulard.bandcamp.com/track/upon-t...
Upon the break arch, by Benoît Pioulard
from the album Sonnet
pioulard.bandcamp.com
Another disaster, more neglect, more failed policy. But don't just get depressed: act and spread the word. WIth help from Hyperaktivist (DJ) and Carlotta Aoun (media artist), gathered some resources, including a lovely book and some music. As always, giving directly > NGOs. More:
Venezuela is reeling from major earthquakes; artists on how to help - CDM Create Digital Music
Our friends from Venezuela are facing a horrific reality. Wednesday night, the country was hit by two back-to-back earthquakes, each among the strongest in a century. As I write this, the official con...
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Beware of perpetuating rants against “progressive” or “centrist” Dems. Putin & MAGA want us to have this fight. Let’s not enlist. Support candidates who address issues we care about rather than align with “camps” within the opposition. Focus on defeating the fascists in the midterms.
1) Open this image up 2) Find the small, blue feature in the very middle Congratulations, you've spotted the Perseverance rover on Mars, photographed from orbit! 3) Trace the rover tracks as they wend their way across the surface
Join our team Tuesday June 9th from 1-2 PM as we share highlights and findings from our latest report on the conditions at Immigration Detention Facilities in California. Visit oag.ca.gov/care/community-briefings to register.
For the fourth time, nominations for this year's Tiny Awards celebrating the "best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web" are open. https://waxy.org/2026/06/tiny-awards-2026-nominees-are-open
Tiny Awards 2026 nominees are open - Waxy.org
For the fourth time, nominations for this year's Tiny Awards celebrating the "best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web" are open.
waxy.org
I really appreciated this review of BoC's latest offering by @philipsherburne.bsky.social pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
Boards of Canada: Inferno
Read Philip Sherburne’s review of the album.
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Quaker principles line up quite well with modern parenting research. “Infused in all of these practices is the conviction that children are not lesser proto-adults, but fellow beings worthy of respect and agency regardless of their behavior.” [theatlantic.com]
Quaker Parents Were Ahead of Their Time
The nearly 375-year-old religion’s principles line up surprisingly well with modern parenting research.
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It’s the age of electricity and America isn‘t ready. Virtually every goal Americans care about requires making big changes to the grid. I’m in @nytimes.com today writing about why power bills are going up, whether AI is to blame, and what we need to do to fix it: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Why Is Your Electric Bill Going Up? Blame the Broken Grid.
Our grid is too old and our supply of electricity too small. If we don’t meet this moment, we will face an impoverished future.
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The Wetland Project has been my favorite alternate-reality radio experience since it began. Since it only happens once a year, you can’t become accustomed to it. Close your eyes and be washed over by the sonic reality of an isolated bog on Saturna Island!
Wetland Project@wetlandproject.bsky.social · 4mo agoDetails at mailchi.mp/4396a6512d1e...
New Order’s 1983 Classic “Blue Monday” Played with Obsolete 1930s Instruments
New Order’s 1983 Classic “Blue Monday” Played with Obsolete 1930s Instruments
Released 40 years ago this week, New Order's 'Blue Monday' (hear the original EP version here) became, according to the BBC, 'a crucial link between Seventies disco and the dance/house boom that took ...
openculture.com
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
"California is pledging to put 7.5 million acres under tribal stewardship in the state’s first-ever tribal stewardship policy." Absolutely *phenomenal* news & essential. We need this, across Turtle Island, fast. We don't time. But WOW. What an amazing thing to see in my lifetime.
California pledges to open 7% of its land and waters to Indigenous tribes — a step toward healing a 175-year-old broken promise
The new plan aims to bring at least 7.5 million acres of land and coastal waters under the care of Indigenous tribes — representing the acreage the U.S. promised and failed to hold for tribal reservat...
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Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, “A Call to Conscience” - Statements - Archdiocese of Chicago - AoC Portal
As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes fr...
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the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
solidarity forever
Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)@jphillll.bsky.social · 6mo agoToday is the day. Right now hundreds of Minnesota businesses and institutions are shut down. Thousands of people are refusing to work. There’s a massive picket at the airport. Minnesota’s resistance to ICE today is changing the tenor our fight against fascism. www.jphilll.com/p/the-first-...
"You deplore the demonstrations that are presently taking place in Birmingham. But I am sorry that your statement did not express a similar concern for the conditions that brought the demonstrations into being."
Letter from a Birmingham Jail - Martin Luther King Jr.
YouTube video by Justin Ashurst
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I take scam fighting personally, been doing it for over 25 years. It pisses me off. GSE is bringing people together to offer simple tools to keep us all safe online. I’m putting my money where my mouth is. www.globalsignalexchange.org/blog/craig-n...
Craig Newmark backs global platform tackling online scams and protecting vulnerable communities
The Global Signal Exchange (GSE), today welcomes support from Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist and a leading digital-safety philanthropist, to accelerate the GSE’s work to help organisations tackl...
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Making waves: You can see Saturn’s little moon Daphnis (8 km) and the waves it’s raised with its gravitational pull, along this gap in the rings of Saturn. (NASA/Cassini) 🧪
This is so good. So inspired by Coates. Particularly to see a guy with such a huge brain leading with his heart.
A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 9mo ago“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
Refusing to Choose Is a Choice. “You can say ‘all are welcome,’ but if wolves and sheep are both welcome then you’re only going to get wolves.” [kottke.org]
Refusing to Choose Is a Choice
I recently found this quote on social media and quite liked the sentiment: You can say “all are welcome,” but if wolves and sheep are both welcome then you’re only going to get wolves. The smart sheep will go somewhere
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i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view
The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial | Press Watch
The frog in the proverbial pot is dead.
presswatchers.org
