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Sky's the limit over here. Rockin' the greater Houston area 'burbs…exiled from New Orleans, but not in the Napoleonic sense. Trans-Sabine Texmudgeon. Also found on 🧵 as liprap3. https://liprapslament-theline.blogspot.com
All of the Beatles kick ass and take names on Revolver. Especially Ringo. www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-be...
Revolver is always playing somewhere
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This is incredibly upsetting. And like so many things in this administration - no real process, no responsiveness, no transparency, no clarity - I'd bet they don't even know what they're doing as they drive heavy equipment out there.
Our Public Lands & Waters@publiclandswaters.bsky.social · 18h agoThe destruction of the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park has begun. #bigbend #nationalparks #publiclands #protectpubliclands #bigbendnationalpark
So mad for everyone, huge shoutout to @soundbitesnyc.bsky.social of Bill’s Indie Basement, I got so many great recs from him!!! Will be subscribing to whatever he does next
Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 4h 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”
Hm, a wifi outage used to actually be accompanied by a map and an ETA on when it would possibly come back. Now it suggests it's the fault of the equipment in house and if that doesn't come back after turning it off and then on, whoops, I guess it's an area outage. Thanks, Xfinity. 🙄😒
Hello IT: Tech Support Helpdesk
Alt: Hello IT: Tech Support Helpdesk Have you tried turning it off and on again?
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Hah, the fad for personalized stuff in the 80s hit Jennifers just as hard as it hit unusual names like mine in that all the Jennifer keychains/bags/bike license plates were usually sold out.
John Moe@johnmoe.bsky.social · 4h agoYes, it's true, parents of Gen X girl babies were legally required to name the baby Jennifer but you were able to apply for Stacy or Tracy or Sara(h) if you filled out the paperwork, got it notarized, and paid a small processing fee.
Had to get the Loungefly bag made with this album cover. Absolute classic.
WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 19h ago60
White Oak Music Hall should not be taking this felonious asshole's money, but it is. So I don't think I'll be going there for any shows ever again. #Houston
Jenny Staff Johnson@htownjenny.bsky.social · 16h agoSpecial to Houston live music fans: White Oak music call is hosting an event for Ken Paxton tomorrow, in case you wanna let them know how you feel about that. 
Actual rain. Feels like years since there's been any 'round here.
Now I need to find my Bunny Matthews City Park t-shirt - da hawt of Noo Awlins.
Tim Ruppert@tmruppert.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 22h agoBUNNY DAY CELEBRATING "BUNNY MATTHEWS: HIS LIFE, ART, AND OBSESSIONS" September 19, 2026 at the Historic New Orleans Collection Lectures and a Costume Contest. Free and open to the public. LINK: https://hnoc.org/events/bunny-day #nola #Louisiana #history #art #hnoc
And let's remember 6-year-old Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Tessie Prevost, who also faced rabid white supremacists when they desegregated another New Orleans school at the same time. www.wdsu.com/article/new-...
New Orleans Four remembered for their historic impact to American history
More than 60 years ago, four young Black girls in Louisiana, known as the New Orleans Four, made history by integrating schools in New Orleans.
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We rightfully talk about Ruby Bridges being the first Black child to integrate an all-white school in the South at 6-years-old. But we don’t talk nearly enough about Lucille Bridges, her mom ✨
Linkage below: Middle of a thread on how a few coops and groups are avoiding setting up their virtual shop in the U.S. in order to fight some good fights and hold this administration accountable. Because forces here are trying to ensure that that doesn't happen.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · yesterdayWhich means that Americans could - hypothetically - source their computing infrastructure from suppliers that were based in Canada, and who strictly ensured that they had no dependency on US services and scrupulously avoided a US "enforcement nexus": pluralistic.net/2023/03/05/t... 13/
It feels a bit like the Astrodome's situation is related, except it belongs to everybody in Harris County and demo-ing it or renovating it would cost about the same, so no plan really appeals.
JMR@jamesfortexas.bsky.social · 2d agoFor Texas Architect, I unloaded on Texas cities for using deferred maintenance as a precedent for demolishing and abandoning civic structures, including I.M. Pei's Dallas City Hall. Fort Worth and San Antonio aren't spared either. magazine.texasarchitects.org/2026/07/28/d...
The Landry administration has unfettered access to Project NOLA's network of cameras. This needd to be reigned in. The call is coming from inside the house.
Jeff Landry’s Intelligence Chief is Spying on New Orleans with Project NOLA
Public records show GOHSEP’s Director of Intelligence was personally provisioned Project NOLA credentials. Nobody told the people being watched. On January 29, 2025, Mark Fontenot, Director o…
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How slavery fueled elite status, wealth and influence It is vital to acknowledge that this extreme wealth and luxury were built directly on the forced labor of hundreds of enslaved Africans and their descendants.
How slavery fueled elite status, wealth and influence
It is vital to acknowledge that this extreme wealth and luxury were built directly on the forced labor of hundreds of enslaved Africans and their descendants.
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Salvador Dalí & Walt Disney’s Short Animated Film, Destino, Set to the Music of Pink Floyd
Salvador Dalí & Walt Disney’s Short Animated Film, Destino, Set to the Music of Pink Floyd
Dalí long gone and Disney gone longer still, it came out. The delayed arrival of Destino had to do with money trouble at the Walt Disney Studios not long after the project began, and it seems that few...
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Trump wants Americans to unlearn what they know about the history and legacy of enslavement. What his executive orders really promise to restore is a sense of comfort contained in the most reductive and sanitized stories about the US — the bliss of ignorance. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
Opinion | Trump's Smithsonian Attacks Are Attacks on America’s Future (Gift Article)
This is how we decide who we are and who we want to be.
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Speaking of cross-stitch, I am still working on my projects, including this one, 'cause the news + my physical fragility of late = gimme a knife. subversivecrossstitch.com/products/sta...
Stabby/Evil Kitty from Strike Gently
We took one of your favorite needle minders — Stabby Kitty (her creator calls her Evil Kitty) — and turned her into a cross stitch kit! It’s a collaboration with the artists at Strike Gently, and it c...
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🧵 Cross stitch: How to say "Fuck Christian Nationalism" but make it look vintage. 🎉 Find plenty of anti Christian Nationalist cross stitch patterns in my Etsy shop. 👉 See link in bio.
Hmm. It's a stumper. Let's see, which countries are the ones where healthcare (a huge factor as you age) is tied to employment in a society with an unstable employment market with layoff threats always looming and where people over 50 are not so subtly pushed out the door? Is it Sweden? No?
Depresh Mode with John Moe@depreshmode.bsky.social · 2d agoIn some countries, depression, loneliness, and memory issues actually improve in middle age. Almost everywhere else, they at least stay steady. And in only ONE country, they get WORSE . I'll give you three guesses and you have to forfeit the first two. maximumfun.org/episodes/dep...
A few weeks ago I realized that tomorrow is the date the Ray Bradbury story “There Will Come Soft Rains” takes place. It’s a shame science fiction from 75 years ago isn’t relevant anymore
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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Damn, y'all, I so miss Commander's Palace. One night, we decided to try to get in without a reservation just for dessert. I was sent in as a stalking horse 'cause I was dressed best. After ten minutes, we were seated on the patio, Dan and I and a friend, and took the plunge on a full meal. Divine.
Sarah Lungaro, MD@lungareaux.bsky.social · 3d agoA thread of the courses at our Chef’s Table, for posterity’s sake (and because I am still dreaming and salivating over this meal) #nolasky #nolatwitter
I never considered having a long COVID. But when I see this, it makes me think. I have a real problem of motivation for a while now. Some say it could be depression. But I must admit that this situation can strangely match with when I caught COVID...
Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 4d agoThe COVID brain fog explained. The COVID-19 virus binds to the ACE2 receptor to enter cells. Dopamine producing neurons are rich in the ACE2 receptor. The virus causes disruption in the dopamine network in the brain. 🧪 tech-paper.com/scientists-f...
