Martin
@sonicmooks.bsky.social
Waiting for the great leap forwards... (Music Industry Refugee - art, music, film, progressive politics, reading/writing, but please, no arithmetic - thank you!) he/him/his https://music-for-insomniacs.ghost.io/
“For me the intention here is to fragment human thinking even further,” he said, “to make people question even more their critical thinking abilities.” www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
A ‘bananas’ order for 5,000 obscure titles from a bookshop in Galway fuels suspicion
Independent retailers are receiving vast orders for obscure titles, fuelling suspicions that AI companies are quietly building the next generation of chatbots
irishtimes.com
good morning. our second lp is out today. i am exceptionally proud of it and hope you’ll listen if you like music that is loud and fast. i love making music with these dudes so much
FOUR HOMBRES, by daddy's boy
11 track album
daddysboy.bandcamp.com
Friday Evening Jukebox... "Sun Gun" - Ava Mendoza w/ Hamid Drake; from the album "Alive Alone, Alive Together" (Burning Ambulance Music) #musicforinsomniacs #guitar #drums #bandcamp #burningambulance #livemusic #jazz
Sun Gun, by Ava Mendoza
from the album Alive Alone, Alive Together
avamendoza-bam.bandcamp.com
Full text: Frederick Douglass' seminal July 4 address: "What to the slave is the Fourth of July" open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...
READ or LISTEN: Frederick Douglass' Complete Speech: 'What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?'
America's foremost abolitionist spoke from painful experience about the evils of slavery, in front of an audience of white Americans gathered to celebrate the Fourth of July
open.substack.com
I dreamt I overloaded my washing machine so that it shook and leaked and and broke, and Mayor Mamdani and Rama Duwaji came over with their toolbox and fixed it
Well, the city of San Antonio knows what it has to do if it wants to win: first, get yourself a Muslim democratic socialist mayor
Noticed a few double-takes and quizzical stares coming my way at the grocery store last night. At first I thought it was my weak attempt at a beard that drew attention (perhaps sympathy). But then I realized that my "Teenage Fanclub" t-shirt might not be interpreted as intended in the suburbs. 😕😳
We are so incredibly stupid... Has an entire nation ever won a Darwin Award? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘We’re not ready’: US lags on pandemic preparedness after Covid, experts say
Experts say slashed funding and growing misinformation are some of the greatest challenges facing public health
theguardian.com
I’m so freaking happy to announce that my antifascist play OHIO! will finally have a U.S. premiere! AAAAAA! Check out the season announcement. And if you’re anywhere near Urbana, mark your calendars for August 2027!
People on here rightly are pissed by the way Democratic politicians post as if they are witnesses to what's happening instead of ACTORS in what's happening. It's absolutely pathetic and weak.
Happy Opening Day to all who celebrate!! Hope springs eternal…
A bigoted, racist, xenophobic, pedophile, low IQ, feeble, shallow, bitter, shell of a human being…
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoTrump: "In Minnesota, it's very Somalia-oriented. These people come from a crooked country, disgusting country, one of the worst countries in the world. They come to our country -- low IQs -- and they rob us blind. Stupid people, and they rob us blind."
"They are zombies. They eat pain and spit it out as content in an attempt to inure you to the depths of depravity. They want voyeurism, not accountability. If they wanted justice, they would have believed the trafficked child rape victims the first time."
Shipwreck on Zombie Road
Vindication means nothing without justice.
open.substack.com
“This is something that governments in Iran and Syria and East Germany and maybe military regimes back in the day in Argentina and Brazil would do, but in the United States? That’s just crazy.” @emmawhitford.bsky.social #ncpol
UNC Admin Can Now, Officially, Secretly Record Faculty
The new policy prohibits students from recording class without permission but explicitly allows administrators to surveil professors for any “lawful purpose.”
insidehighered.com
I thought this summed it all up pretty well…
John Pavlovitz@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 6mo agoI wonder how a human being finds themselves in that chair in front of the watching world in a moment of such gravity, so completely bereft of empathy, so seemingly unencumbered by other people’s suffering, and so strident in the face of accountability... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-pam-b...
A decade of trans advocacy has taught me people believe lies because they want to, not because they don't know they are lies. They believe trans people will regret our transition because they want us to regret our transition. They believe we are a "social contagion" because that is how they see us
New article! On life, death, and the rampage of ICE. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-shining-...
A Shining Mausoleum on a Hill
Life, death, and the rampage of ICE.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
Remind me, when your masked paramilitary thugs are strangling kidnapped immigrants to death in torture prisons, are you still the Good Guys?
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 7mo agoBREAKING: Medical examiner says death of ICE detainee was a HOMICIDE - a witness says he was choked to death by GUARDS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - George Orwell, 1984
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
If you’ve been on the Internet the past few weeks, you probably heard that MTV went off the air last Wednesday, New Year’s Eve, at midnight, after 44 years. It’s a sad moment in cultural history, and also an interesting one, in that it absolutely did not happen at all....
MTV Is Still Alive. So Why Does Everyone Think It Shut Down Last Week?
Our ability to tell fact from fiction—even when the facts are right in front of you—is nearly gone. This is not going to end well.
esquire.com