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Jakob Sanchez

@puntrash.bsky.social

He/him. 27. Scenic carpenter and stagehand. Amateur cinephile. Writes occasionally. Currently: St. Louis.

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meave (frown)@meave.nyc · 2d ago

talked to @habibiwolf.bsky.social today; they're in crisis. they're still determined to fight this, and raise $3k to consult with a lawyer about how to best do so pro se, as that's their only option. they've been almost totally isolated from their community—they need support! bit.ly/wolf-and-cub

a horizontal, partly transparent photo of sunrise in a valley in Lebanon. In the corner, a framed photo of a nonbinary, mixed Lebanese and white European person with two small nose piercings and dark red hair pulled back from their face. They are embracing a child who is facing away from the camera, so only their blond hair and the pale skin of their neck are visible. Text: Save Wolf From Social Murder Wolf is fighting multiple civil rights violations by their employer, who’s retaliated by docking their pay, stopping their health insurance, and preventing them from working. Wolf doesn’t have legal representation. They’re almost alone in their fight. A weekly or monthly pledge helps them stay housed, care for their child, and seek legal recourse. Their shortened campaign link: bit.ly/wolf-and-cub Their venmo handle: @wolfs_clothing Their cashapp handle: $wolfsclothing
meave (frown)@meave.nyc · 3d ago

since mr. trust and safety is trending let me shamelessly remind you @habibiwolf.bsky.social caught a week? ban *two years ago* for criticizing his team’s treatment of Palestinians on this site in a “toxic” way again, they were right too soon. please help them out now if you can bit.ly/wolf-and-cub

a horizontal, partly transparent photo of sunrise in a valley in Lebanon. In the corner, a framed photo of a nonbinary, mixed Lebanese and white European person with two small nose piercings and dark red hair pulled back from their face. They are embracing a child who is facing away from the camera, so only their blond hair and the pale skin of their neck are visible. Text: Save Wolf From Social Murder Wolf is fighting multiple civil rights violations by their employer, who’s retaliated by docking their pay, stopping their health insurance, and preventing them from working. Wolf doesn’t have legal representation. They’re almost alone in their fight. A weekly or monthly pledge helps them stay housed, care for their child, and seek legal recourse. Their shortened campaign link: bit.ly/wolf-and-cub Their venmo handle: @wolfs_clothing Their cashapp handle: $wolfsclothing
Jakob Sanchez@puntrash.bsky.social · 2d ago

One of my favorite albums of the year (and of all time) faces off against one of my least favorite albums of the year (though not of all time). I wrote about my journey from hating YHF to loving it in a Discord message lol. Vote Wilco!

Discord message that has a long review of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot I want to take you back to when I first heard *Yankee Hotel Foxtrot* by Wilco. I was listening to a bunch of 2000s records that *Rolling Stone* had recommended, some of which will appear and have appeared in this very column and some of which will appear in future 2000s retrospectives (if Discord is still an option at that point, God, I hate the US). I had enjoyed *Kid A*, *Is This It*, *Songs for the Deaf*, and the first Arctic Monkeys record among others, but one that completely eluded me was *YHF*. I thought it was a bunch of hipster bullshit with no real structure to the majority of the songs, there was a bunch of droning, meandering noise, and my tolerance by the end had completely ran out. I thought it was one of the worst albums I had ever heard and I dare not look into the catalogue of Wilco, deciding to get back into my Green Day and Red Hot Chili Peppers records. But then, it kept sitting with me. I remembered those clocks and static noises all throughout the record, I remembered the emotive singing of Jeff Tweedy, and I realized that since becoming a fan of Sufjan Stevens, I *loved* ambient outros, and since becoming a fan of Phil Elverum, I *loved* moments of unpolished folk and slacker rock. So I decided to get back to it in 2020, when I graduated college into a COVID-infected world, where I missed my old college friends deeply and the people I would have rather been with in person were on the other side of the country. I still wasn't a big fan, but I enjoyed it more, even recognizing that songs like "Jesus Etc.", "Heavy Metal Drummer", and "Kamera", were very good. And then I decided to try again. On the third listen, my enjoyment only grew. The songs I thought were already very good became great, stellar even. I thought that the three track run that contained "Jesus Etc.", "Ashes of American Flags" and "Heavy Metal Drummer" felt like a moment of rebirth, especially on an album filled to t…
The Best Album of 2001@bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Best Album of 2001 Round 7 Match #128: FINAL MATCH #1 Wilco, YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT VS. #3 The White Stripes, WHITE BLOOD CELLS Go here to vote: forms.gle/9KpXR5QF1TFh...

First pic: A low angle photograph, tinted beige-brown, of the two towers of the Marina Complex building in Chicago. It is unsual-lookingin that every level consists of disc or clam-shaped balconies, just hundreds of them stacked on top of each other. Second pic: A color photo of The White Stripes: Jack, white man with black hair wearing a white t-shirt and red pants and Meg, a white woman with long black hair wearing a red shirt and white pants. They are standing against a red wall and are being menaced by six figures wearing all black and black hoods, turning them into silhouettes, like what stage puppeteers wear. The ground looks like it has white paint spilled over it. Jack looks a little unnerved, but Meg is inscrutable, which is normal for her.
Jakob Sanchez@puntrash.bsky.social · 3d ago

Watched that Patrice O'Neal bit about white peoples' love of Creep for the billionth time and couldn't help but think about what a more recent example of that kind of song about being sad that white people just gravitate to would be and it's unquestionably Dancing on My Own

Jayce@jayceb.bsky.social · 5d ago

I have had to pull back my support of my friend Eslam almost entirely, and she deserves so much better than that. She is the first person on Bluesky who ever asked for my help. Please keep helping and boosting her. Her family needs it. chuffed.org/project/1282...

No One Should Starve for Being Born Here

My name is Eslam Mohammad, I’m 24 years old, and I’m from Gaza.  Over the past year, I’ve lived through unimaginable horror.  I lost my home, my work as a photographer and artist, my friends, and the ...

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Jayce@jayceb.bsky.social · last wk.

Please, please keep helping my friend Eslam. chuffed.org/project/1282...

Todd in the Shadows@shadowtodd.bsky.social · 4d ago

There is no reason to ever say "I am not complicit." in any context but if there is, it'd better come with an explanation of why you're not complicit, which you'll notice the rest of the sentences are not. (Does Ed Sheeran think "complicit" means "apathetic"?)

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Jakob Sanchez@puntrash.bsky.social · 5d ago

Ten movies I love at random, not my usual favorites: 1. Fearless 2. Werckmeister Harmonies 3. The King of Kong 4. Scream 5. Night Nurse 6. Prometheus 7. The Wind 8. Killer of Sheep 9. Certain Women 10. The Emperor's New Groove

A K@aklingus.bsky.social · 5d ago

Ten movies I love at random, and not just my usual favorites: 1. Peking Opera Blues 2. Hot Rod 3. My Neighbor Totoro 4. Tar 5. Y Tu Mama Tambien 6. George Washington 7. Ghostbusters 8. Ratatouille 9. To Live and Die in LA 10. A Night at the Opera bsky.app/profile/cait...

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 6d ago

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour. But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families. The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that. Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened. Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues. Ed was in …What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me. And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability. I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed. Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation. When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic: لا شكر على واجب "La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty. That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human. Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…
gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 6d ago

two years ago, i was allowed to use the women's room at the airport no problem. now, the texas state government can fine the airport thousands of dollars if i use the women's bathroom.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 6d ago

One of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights. No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry.