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Xojac Thirteen

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Xojac Thirteen@xojac13.bsky.social · 6d ago

Casually listening to the Rent soundtrack and realizing that if I had a nickel for every time a musical had a MC from NYC long for a simpler life in Santa Fe, I'd have 2 nickels.

Spooky Falco@falco.works · 4w ago

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Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 4w 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…
Xojac Thirteen@xojac13.bsky.social · last mo.

I sometimes decide if I'm gonna stay at work or go home early by estimating how many Chipotle burritos I can get. If the answer is at least 1, I tend to stay. I do not know why this works so well, but it does.

Xojac Thirteen@xojac13.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I woke up around 9:30 this morning. That gave me about 4 hours before I have to go to work. In that time I have bad breakfast, weighed myself, and measured my body fat and muscle (I'm trying to get in better shape so I've been doing that regularly for some time). All of that takes, like, 30 minutes.

Xojac Thirteen@xojac13.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#Eufuria was a wonderful experience I really needed. Thanks to all my friends who I saw there working their tails off to make this con such a wonderful experience! And thanks to all the friends who made this a wonderful experience just be being there! I love all you fuzzy-butts!!

Reez 🐺🇻🇪@reezard.art · 4mo ago

Making a small thread of folks with commissions open or a ko-fi account that need help or that will be donating their profits towards Venezuelans in need, if you're able to please consider sharing this post around, thank you 🇻🇪 And if anyone needs help with a boost, pls lmk! bsky.app/profile/dogt...

Dog the Painter || Team Mystery 🕵🏻‍♂️@dogthepainter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hi! I'm Dogthepainter, a Venezuelan artist affected by the June 24 earthquakes. My house suffered severe damage and repairs are way over my budget. Anything helps! Here are my Ko-fi, Kirke & comms sheet: kirke.social/dogthepainter ko-fi.com/dogthepainter #OpenCommissions #EmergencyCommissions

taylor robin@taylor-robin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Wacom recently asked me to talk about why I make queer comics, and given there are multiple bills right now floating around in congress that are effectively "we will kill your livelihood if we get a sniff of queer" I had some pretty strong, simply feelings to relay.