Dustin Ragland
@youngweather.bsky.social
car parts, bottles, and cutlery, and whatever I find lying around Ableton Education Team // Producer in Atlanta :: (he/him) :: music at youngweather.bandcamp.com My new LP Partial Views: youngweather.bandcamp.com
Plus groceries for a family mean the costs aren’t exactly super different anymore and cleanup can be easier 😅 - enjoy a meal out, it’s hard enough out here
darth™️@darthbluesky.bsky.social · 3h agosomewhat tangential but i never really understand the “just cook it at home” retorts sometimes u just want to go out to eat it is fine
There is probably nothing I am more confident about than my ability to formulate a thought in writing, but then I read @davidjroth.bsky.social and realize I will never be that good at it.
David_j_roth@davidjroth.bsky.social · 12h agoI wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...
The introduction to the vibes book is live and free on the publisher’s website! dukeupress.edu/good-vibes-o...
Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation
dukeupress.edu
hey this really sucks, BV especially has been in what seemed like a new era and very active also the Good Charlotte guys ending up as CEBros was pretty obvious
Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 12h 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”
7. Is there a series/book that got me into reading? A tie between my first beloved book: Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman (still have an autographed copy) Number the Stars by Lois Lowrey Under Alien Stars by Pamela F. Service and of course: Jurassic Park
The worst brand of weirdos are the "Let me defend data centers" crowd.
reposting the book stuff because you don't need to hear my thoughts on MI politics, I'm not a pundit but I do like books, maybe you do too!
I’m your huckleberry - 1 like = 1 book question
Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago1 like = 1 book question 📚💙
Shoutout to the perfect convergence happening tonight: people on Bluesky tuned into Michigan politics who also listen to Sufjan
I’m your huckleberry - 1 like = 1 book question
Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago1 like = 1 book question 📚💙
Ella & Pitr fill city rooftops and fields around the world with a signature sense of quirkiness and joy www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/08/ella...
The new documentary short film I directed about @bobmouldmusic.bsky.social and @sugarcopperblue.bsky.social is coming to YouTube this Thursday!
all the talk the other evening about Elemental and I needed to play thru some of it
“Evidently the beat exists in me...” Take some time to go read this deep interview with musical giant Gigi Masin by @dhla.me ... into the meaning of sound and "ambient." I love taking the space for this kind of conversation.
Gigi Masin on Movement, the age of sampling, and thinking analog - CDM Create Digital Music
If there’s a throughline in Gigi Masin’s releases, it’s an aquarian presence – water often appears on album covers, and there’s a liquid quality to his playing. You can hear the elements (his debut is...
cdm.link
all the talk the other evening about Elemental and I needed to play thru some of it
'A recording is captured time, and each listen, at each stage of life, becomes a layer in a grand palimpsest. Records allow us to relive long-past moments of life over again at will; in other words, to break out of linear time.' Quick Smart: In Praise of the Shortest Albums buff.ly/CN4mQnu
ICYMI TBH I fell for the lionizing, thought maybe I’d misread statements he made years ago that had turned me off more so, but Neko puts it in no uncertain terms. nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...
IN WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE?
This last week I was just cookin’ along minding my business when I suddenly found myself quite depressed.
nekocase.substack.com
If you want to go on a blocking spree (always recommended), search “Neko Case” and find the guys talking about how much they think she is full of it at this very moment & block precipitously. Then pity their wives & children.
More like “AAyyyyy I’m not gonna do anything to help this season”
Ah yes, the epic tale of Odysseus, from whom we get the word "odyssey" - and Telemachus, from whom we get the word "telemarketing."
Sunday blog: Sometimes “community” is all in the head. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/on-books-a...
Making the most of an imaginary community
Ursula K. Le Guin, Machiavelli and finding your community.
mattdpearce.substack.com
![An image of The Villeneuve Scale of Air Pollution (aka the Milleneuve)
Arrival
< 100 milleneuves
(normal particulate levels)
Prisoners
200 milleneuves
(chimney smoke and rage)
Sicario
300 milleneuves
(gunsmoke and drugs maybe?)
Enemy
600 milleneuves
(C'mon, Toronto, you used to be cool)
Dune
750 milleneuves
(stillsuits are a must!)
Blade Runner 2049
900 milleneuves
(omg why are you even outside, Ryan Gosling??)
[each entry has a still from the film showing the sky color, from clear to deep orange]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e3adzvtg56lfn3wpdlfjwnoc/bafkreifderpx4gkosjxomcme5gtboehesquihk5usfuv75aq7naejsitie)
