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AGreatSound

@agreatsound.bsky.social
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Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominated sound designer, composer, professor, and photographer in NYC. I am an adoptee shaping stories with sound, and music. 📸🎼🔉🏫🗽

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kwisatz haderade (#FreeSkylar) @booksandbows.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
why do journalists keep vaguely referencing what sophie is doing as “using her platform” or “speaking out” like it’s inherently good or noble to do that regardless of context? dedicating yourself to being a transphobe isn’t the same as talking about climate change. all causes are not of equal value.
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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
You wanna know how bad it’s gotten? The Pod Save America crew did a 10 minute segment about a Twitter beef they’re in with an anonymous account. You spend all day staring into the void, you think it’s staring back.
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Does this food have teeth?
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I wrote about doing a show at Edinburgh Fringe, which is both the greatest and most terrifying place on Earth!
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Hello from Edinburgh Fringe, A Fascinating Part of Hell
I'm having a good time! Please see my show! Half-off! Quarter-off! Sir! Sir, please!
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
16 pizzas works out to 128 slices.
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’m having a blast at @edfringe.bsky.social, I saw Woody Sez, Muse!, & Hole yesterday. All were fantastic! All are must see! Seeing Mothman Commeth, tonight! Tomorrow is @steveburnsalive.bsky.social and @mikedrucker.bsky.social’s Shit Arcade tomorrow!
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Where is Pistol Pete Hegseth? Where is all the machismo talk about Warfighters and giving them T? I thought if we threw out the laws of war we could easily windy conflict?
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 04/08/2026
getting tired of people on the left still launching substack newsletters after all the reporting on that company in recent years
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
it is completely correct politics to claim credit for this but NYC crime rates have been in a steady decline since what, 2021 and the pandemic peak? (and in a long term decline before that)
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
@gruber.foo RE: Loop and Apple Upgrade. At the end of the new program you do not own your device. You have 3 options. This is the catch of the program. 1. You have to pay the buyout cost to keep it. 2. Return the device and end the contract 3. lease a new device.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/08/2026
Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/
A sepia-toned 1950s era boardroom in which men in suits sit around a circular table. The chair of the meeting has been replaced with a man in a straitjacket, making a funny face. The heads of the remaining board-members have been replaced with robots from 1930s pulp magazines. The image has been hand-tinted.
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Here for it.
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Software brain!
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
She’s definitely running.
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Using the West Wing Theme Song for this is such a hypocritical move.
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Adoptee Rights Law Center @adopteerights.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I'm currently not recommending U.S. domestic air travel for intercountry adoptees unless it is 1) necessary and 2) they have a U.S. passport. More details. Please read carefully. 🥚 adopteerightslaw.com/advisory-do-...
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ADVISORY: Do Not Fly | ARLC
Intercountry adoptees should use caution and possess a US passport book or card when flying within the United States.
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 29/07/2026
Both my adopters have died, and both my birthparents are alive. Am I more or less an “orphan” now than when I was adopted?
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
🥚 A story as old as the adoption industry itself: Brazilian adoptee discovers she wasn’t abandoned in basket after all. She was stolen from her mother, assigned a new birthday, and spirited out of the country with forged documents. Adoption = corruption swedenherald.com/article/adop...
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Adopted as a baby, Gabriela finds her biological family after DNA test reveals illegal adoption | Sweden Herald
Gabriela was adopted from Brazil and grew up believing she had been found abandoned in a basket
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 29/07/2026
another myth is that #adoption heroically rescues defenseless children from imminent peril (as manifested in the way we’re told that our alternative fate would have been to be thrown in a dumpster). in fact, the adoption industry is deeply *complicit* in separating children from their families.
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 29/07/2026
one of the biggest myths about #adoption is that most or even many adopted people are orphans. Almost none of us is a true orphan. We were orphaned by a sociolegal system, not by death or fate.
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is the most reaping what they sowed dynamic ever. Throughout it’s existence the Heritage Foundation has used the more…feverish…parts of the right’s coalition to get into power to enact their most egregious policies. They thought they could control them. They never considered what’s beyond that.
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Worst part is we knew this. We found this out when The Jungle was published 120 years ago.
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
As an Eagle Scout. I am thrilled to see it’s working out so well. Scouting needed a boost since the leadership botched so many things before this.
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Here’s a fun fact for the old heads. The Lemming games and GTA were/are developed by the same game studio.
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Space Bob Lemmings Classic Gameplay
ALT: Space Bob Lemmings Classic Gameplay
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Evergreen skeet.
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Pumpkin Spice Matte @preflop.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
it is dead ass crazy we have an irl rasputin in 2026
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punkitt ‼️🧣 @punkitt.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
mucho texto i know but i wanted to write a lil thing about how u can treat yourself nice!!
art of a wolf girl eating broccoli and brushing her teeth. the dialogue says:
I've been an adult living on my own for a coupleyears now and since I have ADHD and bouts of Sick Brain Disease  I can fall into a rut easilyESPECIALLY when it comesto taking care of myselfbut the awesome thing about being an adult is that no one is watching over your shoulder making
sure you're perfect i used to give myself shit that i wouldn't be able to eat healthier or take care of myself in an optimal way here's a cool trick tho: ANYTHINGis is better than nothing. if you can only eat a couple vegetables? buddy thats better than no vegetables. worried about brushing your teeth for like three minutes? do like ten seconds instead want to socialize more often but you're worried you can't do multi-hour events? babe you're an adult now,  if you get tired you can just leave lol If you want to improve, fuck yeah, work your way up to more of whatever. starting at all is the hard part - if you can do that then you've got a lot of what you need already anyway ive crunched the numbers and treating yourself a little bit better than yesterday is actually a million times better than trying to Fix Your Life Completely and getting mad when you can't do a 180. be nice and recognize that you can live a lot of your life in first or second drafts; if you're not perfect yet? fuck it, you'll get better later! u can do it!!! woof!!
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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
🧵 Adoption history. 🥚 Once again I was trying to clean my house but instead I read the old papers and am posting excerpts. The excerpts below are from the Child Welfare League of America's Bulletin, Jan. 1942, from my research on why adoptee birth certificates were sealed. Like buried treasure. +
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
1. Why do you think this was held outside? WH wasn’t accessible. 2. Yes, the 90s weren’t some amazing time of equity, but this wouldn’t get a vote today, let alone persist for two years, which is how long it went back and forth until 3. Disabled people won this with their bodies.
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Peter Kirn @pkirn.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Tour guide to the Submerge techno museum and the soul of Detroit:
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Detroit legend John Jammin Collins has passed - CDM Create Digital Music
Few faces are as essential to Detroit music and Detroit techno as John "Jammin" Collins, an institution behind the decks, stalwart of Underground Resistance, and the literal tour guide at Submerge's t...
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This album is ground breaking and iconic. Changed the game. The 20th anniversary release I’m listening to on Apple Music will soon need its own 20th anniversary release. So it’s no surprise it does sound a bit… of its time.
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The Old Hack @the-old-hack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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Albumism @albumism.com · 25/07/2026
The Beastie Boys released ‘Paul's Boutique’ 37 years ago on July 25, 1989 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/beastieboysPB
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
People will say the big 3 didn't see it coming but US auto executives knew this was happening 15 years ago and largely acted accordingly, making huge investments in EV tech and lobbying the US govt for subsidies to those investments. Then Trump got reelected and it all got thrown out the window
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Honey! A new sleep paralysis demon dropped!
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Everyday we edge closer to all of America becoming Night City
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is the correct opinion for all bond films. They are all fine.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Can the U.S. build more houses with less workers?
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Gummy Arts @gummyarts.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Elvis Costello’s “My Aim Is True” was released on this date in 1977.
Colored-pencil card drawing of Elvis Costello
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 21/07/2026
Jennifer Finch was an #adoptee. RIP.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
One of the really perverse things about US disability benefits is that they actively punish disabled people for having family help them.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21/07/2026
the fact that we turn to AI for the support and understanding we can only get from other humans is a profound critique of our basic values... the idea that a computer could provide what addiction recovery groups provide in those rooms is absolutely horrifying, and the results shouldn't be a surprise
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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 20/07/2026
🌕 Today marks the 57th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. If you have a small telescope, head outside tonight. By a remarkable coincidence, the Moon is almost exactly the same phase it was when the Eagle landed. We'll show you how to find Tranquility Base at capitalweather.com
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This is so scary. Why are there no boundaries for AI responses like this? Obviously, drinking beer every hour is nonsense! Aren’t they red teaming these kinds of things??
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Kayax
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POTUS Speedrun Record Holder @theradiostar.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
one of my favorite charts
chart showing how almost all americans think we need more factory jobs, but almost no americans actually want to do them
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is not a new phenomenon. This was true in the 90s as well. This is part of why conservatives have been railing against the “liberal Hollywood elite” for decades.
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
It gets worse with bio family and terminology there. Example: I don’t think my biodad’s wife’s title should be stepmom, even though that’s the accurate term. 🥚
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AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I have always agreed with Mark Twain about golf.
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