Reposted by AC NewmanBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential 62143884042
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 07/12/2025Sticky Fingers is easily the best Stones album, yet Some Girls is my favorite. Curious. 2200
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 06/12/2025People thinking Labi Siffre's 'Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying' is a Peach Pit song, it feels almost like stolen valor to me. Not PP's fault, I know The simplest elegant mesmerizing arrangement, perfectly structured short story. Even has a twist at the end that makes you listen again in a new way. 080
Reposted by AC NewmanChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/12/2025This is an ethnic cleansing campaign 1636501501
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025'Taxes' isn't even in the top 5 songs on 'Getting Killed', Pitchfork! SMDH Not sure they listened to the album. 3120
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Harry Potter was never any good. That anyone above the age of 12 read those books is still shocking to me. The movies were a lot of great talent doing their best in service of mediocrity. A long way of saying I support the trans community and a certain billionaire children's author can F off. 2364
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Had a dim recollection of a song I loved 12 years ago. All I could remember was they were from the Netherlands. I found it. Enjoy. youtu.be/CfhMdBez4b4youtu.beMozes and the Firstborn - I Got SkillsYouTube video by TopNotch 0100
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 26/11/2025I am from the original Star Wars generation, even held my nose + tolerated the prequels, but all the ill conceived (non-Andor) series have decimated the brand. It seems to be the work of one man. Impressive in its way. Happy Thanksgiving to all! 1120
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Anyone going through a breakup? I found a great song! Enjoy! youtu.be/MpV8KMZtnQ4youtu.beStraight Lines Letting Go HQ with Lyrics in DescriptionYouTube video by Southern Rocker 150
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 24/11/2025It's fun to have a new favorite band. It's been awhile. Not trying to preach anymore, though, not trying to convert, just quietly shaking my head in disbelief at non-believers. Sure, go enjoy your inferior rock and roll music. Godspeed. 1160
Reposted by AC NewmanGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/11/2025RIP Udo Kier, a true original 📽️ his one and only social media post: 52744632
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Flora Hibberd. Very easy on the ears. music.apple.com/us/album/rem...music.apple.comRemote Becoming Holy by Flora Hibberd on Apple MusicSong · 2025 · Duration 3:51 030
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 24/11/2025This is new to me and I really like it. Flora Hibberd music.apple.com/us/album/cod...music.apple.comCode by Flora Hibberd on Apple MusicSong · 2024 · Duration 3:13 020
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 23/11/2025My 2025 band of the year is.... Are you kidding me?!? Clean sweep! ... Geese! A big year for Geese. 2150
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 23/11/2025My 2025 album of the year is... No surprise here and well deserved!... 'Getting Killed' by Geese. A big year for Geese. Here's looking forward to 2026. 0102
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 23/11/2025My 2025 song of the year is... 'Au Pays du Cocaine' by Geese. Well deserved! Congratulations to Geese! 2151
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 23/11/2025All the gigs I went to this year: Nick Lowe Courtney Barnett Maya Ongaku Minami Deutsch Memorials Shintaro Sakamoto Geese All brilliant. Day 2 of Woodsist also brilliant but that's a festival as compared to a gig. Levon Rambles as well but that's more of a hootenanny. Happy new year to all. 1130
Reposted by AC NewmanRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23/11/2025A video captured of Maria a Street Vendor reunited with her Autistic 15 yr old son after he was wrongfully detained for 50 days. 25839411703
Reposted by AC NewmanRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...oregonlive.comHigh school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in OregonThe 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said. 29888624165
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 22/11/2025On the last night of SXSW the Dung Beatles used to play, maybe they still do. A feces-themed Fab 4 cover band playing hits like 'It's Only Dung', 'She Loves Poo' and the classic 'Felch!' What made me remember that? 180
Reposted by AC NewmanPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 21/11/2025on this day we were warned that: Swastikas and nooses do not betoken hate & Reminding the military to abide by the law is punishable by death. g’night 5540117
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 20/11/2025One other person there. So close. Lanthimos is not a horror director but he keeps you on edge constantly. The levels of unease crossed with the absurdity. Like the final scene of 'The Lobster'. The way he sets up the 2 antagonists in Bugonia, it filled this guy with dread. Anything could happen. 0161
Reposted by AC NewmanBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks. 6832711097
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Going to a 1:30 screening of Bugonia. Hoping for that rare 'only person in the theater' experience. 5150
Reposted by AC NewmanCaitlin Kelly @caitlinkelly.bsky.social · 19/11/2025NEW: In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant. She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency. Then she died. www.propublica.org/article/texa...propublica.org“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. 5223921224
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025It's my dog Banjo. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...rollingstone.com'Like A Horror Movie': The New Pornographers' A.C. Newman Talks Ex-Drummer's Child Porn ArrestNew Pornographers founder A.C. Newman gives his first interview about the shocking arrest of the band's former drummer on child pornography charges 1304
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025"In retrospect, perhaps I should not have had sex with those trafficked teenage girls on the private island but I digress... where were we?.. yes, the Keynesian model..." Summers, ‘Ashamed’ Over Epstein Ties, Steps Back From Public Commitments www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...nytimes.comSummers, ‘Ashamed’ Over Epstein Ties, Steps Back From Public Commitments 071
Reposted by AC NewmanGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18/11/2025i am going to continue to maintain that normal people hate this shit, and people will *especially* hate *this* shit 401198306
Reposted by AC NewmanJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15/11/2025Organizers told me that at least 7 faith leaders were among those arrested on Friday. In a statement posted on X, DHS referred to demonstrators as "imbeciles" who need to "get a job." One pastor told me "this is our job," adding, "to advocate for the oppressed. religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...religionnews.comAt least seven faith leaders arrested at Broadview ICE facility protest(RNS) — 'I've got bruises all over my body,' the Rev. Michael Woolf, who was thrown to the ground and arrested by police, told RNS. 9542211
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 17/11/2025More new Dry Cleaning. Right on. music.apple.com/us/album/hit...music.apple.comHit My Head All Day by Dry Cleaning on Apple MusicSong · 2025 · Duration 6:03 0110
Reposted by AC NewmanJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15/11/2025NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body." Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a... 4435051427
Reposted by AC NewmanAaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it. 13005945336316
Reposted by AC NewmanBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Here’s a story for every national news outlet: In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property. “Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.” www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic... 4223731291
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Geese's live version of 'Domoto' really showcases Cameron Winter's songcraft. The way the melody + chords move, the singing, the closest comparison I can think of is 'Court And Spark'. To be able to do that and then effortlessly seamlessly move into grooving like the Stones in 1969, boggles my mind 0100
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Geese tonight in a little 250 cap room. Been to many shows that were legendary only after the fact, didn't know it at the time, like Nirvana opening for Sonic Youth, White Stripes playing to 100 people. Forcing the kid to go as a sort of musical history lesson. Geese. Great stuff. 0200
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Democrats 'clawed back' ground with Hispanics, with just a little help from a GOP that is openly trying to disappear all Hispanics off the street. If mainstream Dems are trying to claw back to something, it is a center-right status quo where corporations rule (ideally, hopefully, 🤞) benevolently. 070
Reposted by AC NewmanBrian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 15/11/2025It’s wild that you can just openly bribe the President of the United States with chunks of gold to get whatever you want, it’s fine, you don’t have to hide it, just say “I am bribing the President with gold,” zero consequences. 632760865
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Attacking and arresting priests to send a message of some sort? But what is that message? 063
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 14/11/2025I'd say a solid 90% of GOP couldn't hammer an anchor onto a rail. They don't even know what an anchor has to do with a railroad track. They will never know the honor of hard brutal work, of puking on the side of the track, in the full knives out spring of a hangover. The Canadian way. 070
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Us liberal men, we spent summers in college working on steel gangs, learning how to swing a hammer and spike maul. True story. These GOP dudes here. Using their Holly Hobbie tool sets. I can only shake my head, disappointed, full of pity for the father that must hide his shame. 070
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Who is part of this conversation about leaving NYC? Any real people? Is it news every time a rich dude says he's taking his ball and going home (but doesn't have the fierce dignity of a child that would make him actually follow through with it) ? 051
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 14/11/2025 Geese 'Getting Killed'. Best rock and roll album since 'OK Computer' or maybe Animal Collective 'Feels'. That's just how I feel. 2222
Reposted by AC NewmanSeva @seva.bsky.social · 13/11/2025it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax 10561541168
Reposted by AC NewmanTyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 13/11/2025As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community. 66175405930
Reposted by AC NewmanStrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Soft secession Legislation creates a Federal Tax Escrow Account in the state treasury. Instead of employers forwarding collected federal taxes to Washington, they send them to the state. The state holds the money in escrow. A legislative panel reviews federal spending for constitutional compliance.medium.comExperts Say Blue States Can Stop Paying Federal Taxes. There’s PrecedentIf we could use nullification for people to get high, why can’t we use it to protect human rights and stop fascism? 26241611671
AC Newman @acnewman.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Rock history in brief: These Kentucky teens from the mid 80s not only went on to form Slint and Gastr Del Sol, pioneers of post-rock, but also gave us this, a post-hardcore anthem to rival Fugazi 'Waiting Room' music.apple.com/us/album/sun...music.apple.comSun God by Squirrel Bait on Apple MusicSong · 1985 · Duration 2:47 1306
