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Richard Summerbell @acremonium.bsky.social · 15h

#StillDoinCDs Ellen McIlwaine was a famous exponent of blues slide guitar. Born in Nashville, raised in Japan, but immigrating to Canada in 1987, she became a Calgarian. Her 10th & last studio album, “Mystic Bridge” (2006), with tabla guru Cassius Khan, was a sumptuous fusion.

Cover shows a covered footbridge with tiled roof, as seen in Japan, crossing a large creek in a hilly pine forest.

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Richard Summerbell @acremonium.bsky.social · 15h

@emilycompagno90.bsky.social I’ve gone out on a limb here, following someone who hasn’t posted anything, so the local etiquette suggests that you post something, anything, and don’t DM (direct message), which is a mega faux pas for a new follow.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another young John the Baptist, since the last was (rightly) censored. This one is moody and intense but still pretty hot, in 1604. By Caravaggio, of course. Born OTD in 1571.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican. www.ms.now/news/russia-...

ms.now

A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms

The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican.

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Richard Summerbell @acremonium.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just took in an insane electronic music concert while lying inside an open torpedo tube! Actually, it was an MRI, but some of the tones would be good for jamming with. I told the tech they should add some screams for the lucky Hallowe'en visitors.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Onagadori Rooster. Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, 85 × 132 mm, 2022.

Drawing in black ink, primarily in silhouette, of an Onagadori rooster with long flowing tail covert feathers on a plum blossom branch. The rooster's comb and wattle are the only spots of red. The piece is smaller than a postcard and is photographed with the traditional Chinese brush it was drawn with.

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Richard Summerbell @acremonium.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#StillDoinCDs Another musical UK excursion reveals, via “Now That’s What I Call Music,” v. 123 (2026), that former One Direction members are all over the charts (e.g. Louis Tomlinson’s “Imposter”), Lewis Capaldi & Olivia Dean are big hitters, & Canadians Tate & Bieber remain club VIPs.

The title appears in huge letters embossed on a background of primary coloured molten streams and blobs.

Track list.

1-1 Olivia Dean– So Easy (To Fall In Love) 2:49
1-2 Sabrina Carpenter– When Did You Get Hot? 2:25
1-3 Tate McRae– Tit For Tat 2:57
1-4 PinkPantheress– Stateside 2:49
1-5 Justin Bieber– Yukon 2:43
1-6 Dominic Fike– Babydoll 1:39
1-7 Tame Impala– Dracula 3:26
1-8 Tyla (6)– Chanel 3:09
1-9 Zara Larsson– Midnight Sun 3:09
1-10 Milky And Mall Grab– Just The Way You Are 2:39
1-11 MK* And Clementine Douglas– Come Find Me 3:27
1-12 Sonny Fodera, D.O.D (4) & Poppy Baskcomb– Think About Us 2:59
1-13 Calvin Harris And Kasabian– Release The Pressure 3:26
1-14 Ewan McVicar (2)– Share The House 3:14
1-15 Kato (13) And Jon*– Turn The Lights Off (Radio Edit) 2:59
1-16 Louis Tomlinson– Imposter 2:40
1-17 December 10– Angel 2:27
1-18 Lewis Capaldi– Almost 3:40
1-19 Cat Burns– There's Just Something About Her 3:12
1-20 Lily Allen– Madeline 2:55
2-1 Sienna Spiro– Die On This Hill 3:38
2-2 Olivia Dean– A Couple Minutes 3:32
2-3 Skye Newman– FU & UF 2:39
2-4 Lana Del Rey– White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter 3:54
2-5 ROLE MODEL (2)– Sally, When The Wine Runs Out 3:38
2-6 Noah Kahan– The Great Divide 5:17
2-7 Sam Fender & Elton John– Talk To You 5:15
2-8 Ella Langley– Choosin' Texas 3:52
2-9 Luke Combs– Sleepless In A Hotel Room 2:59
2-10 Westlife– Chariot 3:20
2-11 JP Cooper & Gabrielle– Sad Song 2:46
2-12 December 10– Run My Way 2:45
2-13 Myles Smith And Niall Horan– Drive Safe 3:20
2-14 Robbie Williams– All My Life 3:53
2-15 Jessie Ware– I Could Get Used To This 3:43
2-16 Holly Humberstone– To Love Somebody (Radio Edit) 3:18
2-17 Katseye– Internet Girl 2:44
2-18 Doja Cat– Gorgeous 4:27
2-19 ZAYN (3)– Die For Me 3:01
2-20 Lewis Capaldi– The Day That I Die 2:55

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.

theguardian.com

ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?

Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.

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Mary @mfbrodie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Talarico isn't in the pocket of tech bros, crypto bros, or data center bros. Talarico doesn't have elite donors telling him what to say or how to vote. He'll help us Texans have clean air and water and shut down these data centers. Vote Talarico. 🔥❤️💙🔥❤️💙🔥❤️💙

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Jon Dunn @dunnjons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Distraction from Team Mariposa work this morning. A Barred Warbler is skulking through the bushes in my Shetland garden.

Barred Warbler (Curruca nisoria) © Jon Dunn [archive image from 2023 - no camera with me today!]

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Unbelievable. Apparently at the same time Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan approved by Congress, he offered to sell arms to Xi Jinping, despite the fact that China is aiding Iran and Russia. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...

nytimes.com

Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says (Gift Article)

President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.

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Charlie Ludwig @chuck4242.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A Ruby Throated Hummingbird in flight. I really like the quality of light that I got with this photo. It almost feels like a studio shot. #Birds #Birding #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Animals #Photos #Photo #ECK #BirdOfTheDay #Airborne #Stunday

A Ruby Throated Hummingbird in flight while it comes up to red flowers to feed.

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JBC @johnbcaddell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

this little 2-footer with an attitude came out of its burrow and side-eyed me like I was lunch. #Raptors #BirdOfTheDay #owls

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Richard Summerbell @acremonium.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#StillDoinCDs Spinvis (Erik de Jong), from Spijkenisse, NL, waited til he was 40 to bring his attic-made 1st demo to a label, where he was signed & rose to alt electro folk rock cult star. “Be-bop-a-lula” (2023) is album 7, with fluent tunes & witty Dutch lyrics - genius really.

Cover mimics famous Edvard Munch painting “The Scream,” but featuring a yellowish figure with either curly hair or exposed brain running along a green lane between two rows of yellow, Amsterdam-style 2-story, gabled buildings. Rays emanate from his head as his steamy breath bears the text, “Als je maanlicht braakt,” “if you vomit moonlight.” This is a text from the album’s most popular song, Paradijs, meaning Paradise.

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DebDebz @debdebz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@robcrank68.bsky.social says Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Pairs photos with pairs of the same species in them. Alt theme is #Green green in the backgrounds not on the birds Cape Barren Geese - a twofer #birds #birdphotography #BirdsOfAustralia #ProtectBirdHabitat #EastCoastKin #BirdsSeenIn2026

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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am disgusted by the appearance of white nationalists on the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc reserve. This is happening just days before the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation. I stand with Indigenous communities & all marginalized communities in the fight for a future free from racist intimidation.

cfjctoday.com

Apparent white nationalist gathering spotted on Tkʼemlúps reserve Sunday

TK'EMLUPS - A post on social media appears to show a group of masked individuals gathered on the Tkemlps te Se...

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Doesn't surprise me that this is their (garbage) take But it does remind me that so many social movements (successful and failed alike) were driven by underemployed, overcredentialed, and aggrieved young people, even movements that primarily benefit other groups we're dangerous to the WSJ types

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Ani @aninewforest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Let's call on the UK government to remove the barriers that keep our dwindling fish populations from reaching their spawning grounds. Petition ⬇️

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Eric Williams @williamsforoppd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And none of that “it hurts business“ nonsense. Every store is full of people. Every person’s hands are full of things they bought. People are the indicator species of a successful urban environment, not cars.

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Lady Luddite (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Are people aware that this means YOU are the ones paying for literally everything from government to Medicaid to infrastructure and military, while these arseholes pay next to nothing AND they’re ensuring that whole departments that YOU benefit from are destroyed?!

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DaughterOfDefiance @z-buck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I really, really hate this timeline... Also, why the hell was this NOT reported on when it happened (Mar 2026)???

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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 24/08/2026

Congress funded the CDC's Alzheimer's work, the sickle cell and epilepsy data programs and a rape prevention unit, and Vought simply will not release the money. Grassley told him to his face he lacks the authority. The pocket rescission alone took 4.9 billion.

alternet.org

Republicans furious as Trump’s budget director goes 'rogue'

The director of the Office of Management and Budget is infuriating Republican lawmakers by "going rogue" on what appropriations were approved by the House and Senate.

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Richard Summerbell @acremonium.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#StillDoinCDs Rough & Ready, 1971, was the 3d solo group album of eminent rock guitarist Jeff Beck (from the London area) after hitmakers The Yardbirds broke up. Unusually for him, he wrote most of the rather complex, jazz-influenced but definitely rock-oriented tracks himself. Highly influential.

Cover shows portraits of 5 young-ish (30s?) male band members.

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Richard Summerbell @acremonium.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trying to get a good photo of my good friend the resident downy woodpecker dude was getting me nowhere, so I thought, eh, I’ll just make a little movie.

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lory State Park lichen yesterday 🌿 Rusavskia elegans (Elegant Sunburst Lichen)

Orange lichen with numerous apothecia on black rock

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Richard Summerbell @acremonium.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#StillDoinCDs American Woman was a rocket of a #1 album (Canada; #9 US) with a #1 title track (both countries) that moved the Guess Who from pop stars to rock stars in 1970. “No Time” was a 2nd #1 (Canada) track that was my Canadian rock gateway drug in Grade 8. Chills forever!

Four young (20s), long-haired rock band members cluster in a photo superimposed on a large image of a red-headed woman’s face. The woman has hair pulled back severely and her face is bluish in silhouette. The ruffles on drummer Garry Peterson’s leather jacket blend into the silhouette making it look as if the woman has fangs. One of her eyes stares at you past the band huddle.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Many thanks to @theunpopulist.net for reposting my piece on Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration, which really needs more attention. This agency announces right in its name that white nationalism is the basis for US immigration policy: www.theunpopulist.net/p/stephen-mi...

theunpopulist.net

Stephen Miller Is Paying Monstrous Dictators to Admit Expelled Immigrants

A Democratic Congress needs to urgently investigate this abuse of taxpayer dollars that were actually meant for refugees

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Jan Casavant @jancasavant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today's Alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Brown, birds with brown in their plumage. This little #SavannahSparrow was running around on the path and looking for breakfast (Concord, MA - 9/18/26) 😍🤎🪶 #birds #sparrows #ECK #BirdPhotography #OM-1 #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Massachusetts @robcrank68.bsky.social

A Savannah Sparrow running around on the gray gravel path with some green foliage on the edge, in both sunlight and shadow from the early morning sun. This bird had brown upperparts with black streaks, white underparts with thin brown streaks on the breast and flanks, a small brown crest, and a streaky face with a small yellow patch in front of the eye. This was the first one I've seen this year at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord, Massachusetts.

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Cordoba Luis Photographer @cordobaluis.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

Highland traditions Domestic goats wearing ceremonial wool adornments perched on a stepped wall in Tibet High altitude documentary #photography capturing daily life and local culture along the route to #Everest against the Himalayan #mountains #luiscordobapharchive #Tibet #eastcoastkin #scape

Horizontal orientation documentary photograph Decorated Goats on Tibetan Wall, Sacred Lakes and Everest Route. The composition features a stepped wall of traditional Tibetan architecture, built with white plaster, dark slate stone, and red coping tiles, running diagonally across the lower frame. Four small white domestic goats adorned with colorful pink and yellow traditional wool ornaments stand perched at varying heights along the ledge. On the far right, local villagers in traditional clothing sit near the structure. The upper background is filled by the massive, atmospheric, monochrome slope of a high-altitude mountain under soft daylight. Optimized for Tibetan traditions, traditional Tibetan architecture, decorated goats, traditional stonework, travel documentary, and Tibet landscape photography indexing

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

even in states that dems *don't* fully control, dem governors in Kentucky, Louisiana, Kansas, Wisconsin and Arizona have vetoed anti-trans legislation sent to them by Republican legislatures

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Michael Babcock @mbabco.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's a twofer for @robcrank68.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Borbs, birds looking plump, and the alt of #Brown, birds with Brown in their plumage. It's a Black-crowned Night Heron at Crissy Field (Marsh) in San Francisco, California.

Fluffed up Black-crowned Night Heron standing at the edge of marsh.

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

German traitors side with the Kremlin

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David W. Pippy @davidwilliampippy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Good morning! A fishing stage in Quidi Vidi Village in Newfoundland and Labrador photographed by Gord Follett..

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Richard Summerbell @acremonium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#StillDoinCDs Matt Steady is a top indie musician I support with advance purchase of new projects, & I’m delighted with “Velvet & Gold,” a collection of often Celtic-inflected rock done with multi-instrumentalist & vocalist Sally Minnear. Yes, daughter of Kerry Minnear, ex prog band Gentle Giant.

A young middle aged man with a violin and a younger woman with a star-shaped tambourine face each other while playing music in a deciduous forest. Signature of Matt Steady superimposed.

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Richard Summerbell @acremonium.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Canadian MAGAs know that PM Mark Carney is the author of all price increases.

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Richard Summerbell @acremonium.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#StillDoinCDs Sons of one of the first-recorded “Senior Dagar Brothers,” Ustad Zahiruddin & Faiyazuddin Dagar, as the “Junior” Dagar Brothers, brought the family tradition of 2-singer, meditative dhrupad music through the mid 20th cent. Their Rag Miyan Ki Malhar (2000), is pure rainy-day bliss.

Cover shows a black & white image of two sixty-something Indian singers singing together into the same microphone. The image is framed in two concentric layers of fancy gold frames and forest-green matting.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What a time to be alive

Per a note to Boston Globe staff today, the lesbian bar story generated 1,000 subscriptions to the paper yesterday. The Globe’s managing editor said it was “by far our best performing story of the year,” and appears to be “on pace to shatter all sorts of Globe records.”

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Tom @birdfan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today's #BirdoftheDay theme is #Raptors. Here is a juvenile Cooper's hawk from last weekend at #PrescottPreserve, #PalmSprings. #Birds #Nature #photography

Perched on a diagonal branch with his/her back to us is a brown-backed hawk. His head is turned to look at the viewer, and we see the yellow eye and the hooked beak. There is a fine horizontal streaking on the head and neck which almost looks orange in the morning sunlight. The tail is gray with black horizontal bands. The tree has some scattered small green leaves and the background is clear blue sky.

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Lavonne @loveon9.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"They published a study in the Journal of Democracy of 40 “dictator’s endgames” from 1946 to 2014, the cases in which an authoritarian leader faced nonviolent mass protests and the military had to choose sides." cmarmitage.substack.com/p/would-the-...

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