Steve Fors
@steve4s.bsky.social
linktr.ee/stevefors Musician, visual artist, newbie socialist, US expat living in Switzerland.
Hey everyone! If you haven't joined Siavash Amini's Patreon yet, now is the perfect time to do so...he just dropped a NEW ABLUM exclusive to Patreon subscribers! Check it out here: www.patreon.com/cw/u49359212...
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Sending a digital 7" 🤣 off for mastering to Lawrence mid-month...
It's #BandcampFriday of course and thanks to the post from @steve4s.bsky.social a week back we know that Siavash Amini aka @capgrasman.bsky.social is safe where he is in Iran. But since it IS Bandcamp Friday that means you should kick down some for his work on there. You'll be glad you did.
Siavash Amini
"Amini’s work often flits between chamber instrumentation, sumptuous dark ambient, and head-splitting noise..." Pitchfork " Siavash Amini has consistently provided room for reflection through creati...
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People talk and talk and talk to their Reps and Senators but when it comes time for Reps and Senators to vote they always follow their donor class monies over all that talk. youtu.be/OklSZmIx9-o?...
Joey Valence & Brae - PUNK TACTICS (Official Video)
YouTube video by Joey Valence & Brae
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@nedraggett.bsky.social @room40.bsky.social @hallowground.bsky.social @opaltapes.bsky.social @flamingpines.bsky.social
Steve Fors@steve4s.bsky.social · 3mo agoI've just received good news from the Turkish border— the stellar Iranian composer and musician Siavash Amini @capgrasman.bsky.social is alive and safe. While we mourn our fellow Iranian artists and musicians that are lost to us, we also celebrate those that are still here.
I've just received good news from the Turkish border— the stellar Iranian composer and musician Siavash Amini @capgrasman.bsky.social is alive and safe. While we mourn our fellow Iranian artists and musicians that are lost to us, we also celebrate those that are still here.
It's been a month since I've heard from Siavash Amini, the amazing composer and musician, a trusted producer, and my best friend. I'm so worried about him. Fuck the war-mongering US/Israeli political machines. Fuck all the opportunistic Evangelical Christo-fascist parasitic wastes of human flesh.
Siavash Amini@capgrasman.bsky.social · 5mo agoI'm alive but just by dumb luck, i'm connected by sheer chance, will get diconnected soon probably, saw death 2 times in one day, it's hell now in this city, dont know if i will live another day. Don't know what type of person i'll be if i make it.
Per the quote below, it has now been three weeks since the great drone/noise musician Siavash Amini posted from Tehran. He could just be caught in a general Internet shutdown there. It could be much worse. Again, we just don't know. Consider exploring his music: siavashamini.bandcamp.com
Siavash Amini
"Amini’s work often flits between chamber instrumentation, sumptuous dark ambient, and head-splitting noise..." Pitchfork " Siavash Amini has consistently provided room for reflection through creation of space – set between both buoyant and melancholy planes of noise in amicable juxtaposition. " The Quietus
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Siavash Amini@capgrasman.bsky.social · 5mo agoI'm alive but just by dumb luck, i'm connected by sheer chance, will get diconnected soon probably, saw death 2 times in one day, it's hell now in this city, dont know if i will live another day. Don't know what type of person i'll be if i make it.
Dear Brussels, Even though you're a city of over 2MM people, you have the public infrastructure of a city of 500K. Your public transport is not accessibility-compliant, and your road works tangle the city in seeming infinite knots. On Wednesday, I will bid you good riddance, never to return again.
very excited to announce the release of @steve4s.bsky.social's it's nothing, but still: japan/us tour 2023 DVDR. amazing audio, video, and packaging. ballastnvp.blogspot.com/2025/07/now-...
now available: Steve Fors: it’s nothing, but still: japan/us tour, 2023-24 DVDR (ballastnvp070)
I saw Steve perform these pieces in Chicago in 2024 and immediately asked if he had an interest in releasing the material asa DVDR. The audi...
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So excited this project has been released out into the world! Limited edition (32 copies) "it's nothing, but still" Japan/US tour DVD with custom packaging on ballast in Chicago. Check it out! ballastnvp.blogspot.com/2025/07/now-...
Four finished pieces in the Dominion series. Giclee prints with interventions, antique frames burnished with dry graphite lubricant.. All around 55 x 45 cm. Original illustrations were featured in The Royal Natural History, a six-volume survey of the animal kingdom, by Richard Lydekker, 1893-96.
New work in progress DOMINION: Glace Found object, industrial graphite powder 7 x 6 x 30 cm
Finished up the last piece of this puzzle—the DVD label. The a/v set from last year's tour to Japan and the US. Limited edition of 32, released this summer on ballast in Chicago. @bedwards314159.bsky.social
DOMINION:The Eurasian Jay is finished and installed at the gallery. Time to start on some new pieces!
Siavash (@capgrasman.bsky.social) is an AMAZING producer; his ear is second-to-none. He supported me, challenged me—no one has taught me more about the practice of making sound than he has.
Siavash Amini@capgrasman.bsky.social · last yr.You can Listen to what I can do as a producer in @steve4s.bsky.social's excellent LP on @hallowground.bsky.social hallowground.bandcamp.com/album/steve-...
any us citizen supporting israel supports apartheid and slavery. this is the palestinians land
Josep Goded@josepgoded.bsky.social · last yr.Palestinian citizens forced open a gate built by Israel as part of a settlement enclosing a home in Beit Ijza, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, to rescue an elderly woman in urgent need of medical care.
How is it being enforced and who by, is what I'd like to hear reported. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/n...
Judge Halts DOGE Access to Treasury Payment Systems
The order came in response to a lawsuit filed by 19 attorneys general accusing the president of failing to faithfully execute the nation’s laws when he let DOGE comb through federal computer systems.
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It's amazing how people can have such blind, unwavering faith in broken institutions that Nazis like Musk have shown that they don't respect and won't listen to. How do you stop the richest man in the world from doing whatever he wants? 🤔
Federal judge blocks Musk’s DOGE from access to Treasury Department material
The judge also ordered Musk and his team to “immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from Treasury Department’s records and systems, if any.”
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The key concept that Marxists need to communicate to liberals is that political and economic power cannot be separated. The idea that you can change the social and economic reality for the better by voting for someone is absurd when EVERYTHING is owned by oligarchs. We have owners, not rulers.
leftfootforward.org/2025/02/melt... Oh dear… what a shame!!
Meltdown for Musk: Tesla sales crash in Europe as ‘polarising’ CEO blamed
The latest figures show that Tesla experienced a decline in sales across five European countries in January, including a fall of nearly 12% in the UK.
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We've updated our tracker below with these 3 additions. If you have information about any of the people on this list, or know of other Musk associates who have entered the federal government, reach out on Signal at 917-512-0201.
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
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ProPublica@propublica.org · last yr.NEW: ProPublica has identified three lawyers with elite establishment credentials who’ve joined the DOGE effort. Two of their names haven’t been previously reported as working for the Elon Musk-led initiative. Here’s what we know about them:
The choice is socialism, or barbarism. Fearing systemic change and holding onto the neoliberal order will only push us deeper into fascism. Liberals need to come to terms with the fact that their ideology has led us directly to Trump, and that there will be no future under capitalism.
Fascism Is Possible Not in Spite of Liberal Capitalism, but Because of It
The question of the labor movement under fascism is the question of what to do when it is already too late.
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Did we learn nothing from his first term?
Bunkunin@bunkunin.bsky.social · last yr.'No One Is Above the Law': Judge Blocks Musk Wrecking Crew From Treasury Payment System www.commondreams.org/news/doge-tr... This assumes no one will physically take possession of the system's machinery--court decision or no. There is still a lot of liberal naivete in news reportage.
Neo-Nazi’s showed up to Lincoln Heights, Cincinnati, Ohio and were chased away by locals who stole and burned their swastika flag in the street : www.instagram.com/reel/DFy9N5e...
Ethel Rosenberg got the chair for doing a lot less damage to U.S. national security than Elon Musk has done this week
Neo-Nazis appeared in Lincoln Heights (metro Cincinnati) Ohio and got ran out of dodge… but not before locals stole and burned their swastika flag in the street.
