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Desmond Dekkard Cain @mlehoux.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Time marches on, but that just means more new #Ska to listen to! Check out the new music from: @astralocale.bsky.social, @jokersrepublic.bsky.social, News For Parrots, The Aggrolites, THE DOOMSTOMPERS, Fast Food Orchestra, AGE OF KID, Rock Shed Rangers, and more. www.reddit.com/r/Ska/s/Nuxn...

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Solarpunk but make it ska Ska but make it Daft Punk Daft Punk but make the robots cyborgs Cyber-organic but make it electronic Electronic but make it punk But make it ska Digital Rainbows - 6/2/26 links.astralocale.co...

A cat sits on the windowsill of an unfinished wooden frame of a house. The window on the opposite side of the floor is replaced with a pixelated background reminiscent of a rainbow. Digital Rainbows, the title of the album, is superimposed over the rainbow window. Atlas & Oracle, the name of the band, is in the bottom right of the image, superimposed over the wooden boards that make up the building's exterior.

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

America's goal is for everyone to grow up thinking they're bad so that they feel the need to work their lives away as penance and keep other people in check by angrily talking about them behind their back

Nonbinary in that my face doesn't look quite right to me with a short beard, or with a longer beard, or a mustache, but if I shave, it also doesn't look quite right

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When you call someone performative for a behavior that they also do when nobody's watching, it feels a little bit like a play within a play.

The day will come, as sure as the ever-setting sun 🙂‍↕️🌞

Experimental ska is the most healing medium of creation for people who are me. That's what they say anyway. Someone said that. I heard it.

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

"Does he even know what Beer for My Horses is about?..." Uh yes i DO which is why this was such a shocking and informative memory, I didn't know the words at the time and it was still BIZARRE, if you thought that sounded like a fond memory instead of a distressing fever dream idk how to help you

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People love showing me their worst side and then acting surprised when it changes how I see them.

THE ORACLE'S ATLAS

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Confidence can easily be confused for arrogance when the beholder can't define either.

THE ORACLE'S ATLAS

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Recognizing when you're being treated with prejudice and responding accordingly is actually distinct from treating someone with judgement apropros of nothing, but it's pretty hard to sus that out if you're used to being told you're the problem

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One thing u need to know to understand my music is that I'spent years thinking all schoolbus drivers played only country radio. Beer For My Horses would come on and the whole bus of elementary schoolers would cheer and sing along. This was normal. Then Fergie dropped The Duchess

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I rarely gatekeep, but I definitely notice when people try to sneak through the door even though it's wide open

THE ORACLE'S ATLAS

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People who don't judge and don't ask questions are gold standard. People who ask questions but don't judge are great too.
It's the other bozos you have to worry about

THE ORACLE'S ATLAS

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People love misreading my strategy and then getting angry when I don't do what they expect

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"You should continue to be who they want you to be and accept that they will always ask for more while never trying to be who you want them to be"' is what a lot of friendship / relationship advice
basically sounds like to me these days and I'm just not here for it anymore

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"If he says that out loud, just imagine what worse things he's keeping to himself!"
Nah bro that's you.
You're thinking about yourself

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

People who've shown me their worst side expecting me to be aligned with their toxicity love pretending that the mistakes I make are worse than their intentional power games

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Kind of sick of hearing that everyone's trying their best. Some people are
beyond question trying their absolute best to do nothing more than be evil and not get caught.

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"Could you hurry up and solve your personal problem ASAP so the rest of us can go back to ignoring the reality that helped create it? TY"

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There is nothing which can be unraveled by the truth that doesn't deserve to be.
Nothing.

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Atlas & Oracle's ska functions as a mystical mirror that reflects your purest intentions, but also your darkest secrets.
The catch?
I've never met you.....

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I need to know if gaslighting existed before the eponymous movie or if ppl have just been getting their ideas from that film's cultural impact

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It turns out it's actually really easy to find out whether a person is telling you something about someone else honestly or dishonestly by asking questions like how they know what they know.

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Did we take the time to really discover
How little
We know about each other?
🤔

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Been washing dishes so long my hands got pruny 😮‍💨
Then I realized everybody else's fingers looked the same 🤔

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Take nothing for granted. Not stability, not your reputation, and certainly not the reputation of others. Everything can change in an instant, and you'll only see the signs in retrospect as those intuitive nudges that you were convinced to ignore.

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I actually love being corrected when I've made a mistake. People who hate their mistakes being acknowledged find this baffling

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In retrospect, maybe the movie industry should have held off on all the movies humanizing robots before they figured out how to humanize humans.

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Your honor, forcing a cartoon character to live a normal person life is nothing short of cruel and unusual punishment.

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What If a Grifter was Genuine:
A Memoir

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Atlas & Oracle's mission is to be the ska band that says it all. We're about halfway there so far.

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

When did you first notice that the world was on fire? The Jungle was the hardest book I'd ever had to read, both because it was for class and because it was so utterly bleak. I was taught that as bad as things were, they were "better now". Unfortunately, history often both rhymes AND repeats itself.

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Sometimes you just gotta sleep for an alarming amount of time and have a series of disturbing dreams before you can lock in

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Being neurodivergent is having people think that pure coincidences are secret hidden messages and clear direct messages are purely coincidental and I think it's usually bc they straight up want me to turn out to be someone more acceptable to hate

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Atlas & Oracle makes prescient ska for prescient people.
Don't believe me?
I knew you'd say that.....

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If you think me liking or responding to your post, tweet, or insta story is flirting you might as well just block me it's not, but you thinking that signals a deep incompatibility
on more levels than just romantic.

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People waiting for a big reveal are going to be sorely disappointed when they realize
they've been revealing themselves
the whole time.

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"You're so full of yourself, you really think those people are still thinking about you?" Bröther,
I wish I did not know for a fact that they definitely do.

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Reckon was one of the later songs written for the album, but I think it pulls the whole thing together into a thesis statement for the era. The past is never forgotten, only kicked down the line. No one wants to be the one to uncover it first; seems we'll all need it do it at once. Start again?

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

There's a certain type of question that seems simple but is in fact steeped in so many layers of context and meaning and unfamiliar concepts that it feels as impossible to answer in one sentence or one conversation as a question like "How do you drive a car". But that's equally as hard to explain

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I have to assume that when someone says "you should choose your battles" they're basically saying that they know they're wrong but they're not going to admit it and they would prefer if you battled someone else instead of them

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When someone demands evidence for your feelings of unsafety before they support you or approve of you getting away from that environment, it kinda feels like being asked to solve your own murder before it happens

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"Everything I know has led me to this one possibility as the only possible explanation"
Have you considered that the answer may lie in that which you don't know?
"Is there something wrong with you?"

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"If you could just keep changing yourself forever so that the rest of us don't have to look inwards, that'd be great" -the trappings of a famously comfortable and safe environment for differences

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"It's rude to call someone shameful for their political opinions" Yeah well that guy's political opinion is that I should eat shit and die, so I don't know if politeness is the solution here

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

"Dreams don't always come true you know 😒" They never do! Not quite- I know this well. In fact, very few things in my life have gone remotely as expected. Chasing a dream isn't about reaching a specific milestone; it's about taking step after step towards becoming who you already know you can be.

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

How are we supposed to get by??: An Easter Egg Journey Through the Atlas & Oracle Discography. From day 1 of writing our debut album Jubilee, there's been a focus on musical exploration and moral discipline. Every line a story, every song a spell, every album a journey. Part 1: "Forgettable"

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

"If people are laughing at you, you must be doing something wrong" you fool. you ahistorical ignoramus. go read a fucking book

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I think one of my problems is that I'll say things and assume that people will understand what I'm saying or ask questions if they don't, when in reality a lot of people will just pretend and then make assumptions

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"Who does X think they are, a Y?"
As we all know, everyone is born with the full set of skills they'll ever possess as infants, so it may be strange to recognize someone becoming something you don't understand. But if that's your reaction, it's clear you think they've got a shot!

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Nooo don't do it your own way, do it the way you're supposed to so we can control you, noooo :(

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Genre is a prison and we're tunneling out.

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What if you just posted it anyway

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Weird hot take, there need to be more massive and unexplained sources of wonder in video games. The first time I saw a dragon in breath of the wild I literally dropped my jaw and stared. Later I found out that there's a min-maxed strategy for harvesting their parts, and the magic was gone.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Hi. Stop doomscrolling. You need energy for even more challenging things tomorrow. Charge your phone away from your bed. Max loves you. You still deserve time to rest and recover.

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Men need to stop giving women special treatment. Don't let them "stay at home with the kids" or have all the fun cooking delicious meals. Elect them into office and give them the nuclear launch codes so us guys can stop worrying our pretty little heads

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The neurodivergent experience sometimes feels like watching or experiencing someone doing something bad, being told it's normal, no one standing up for you so you assume it must be normal, then the first time you do it someone steps in and calls you a maniac

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

"It feels weird promoting art during--" It shouldn't. Make art for the times you're living in, ABOUT the times you're living in, and promoting it stops being about seeking attention and starts being about community, perspective, and healing. Art has purpose. It's not weird if it's necessary.

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

"If you don't overwork and contort yourself, there are things you'll never be able to get!!" The lesson I was supposed to learn: overwork! contort! The lesson I actually learned: my reality will inevitably be the area of intersection between my goals and my capabilities, so I only want what aligns

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

There's a certain type of arguer who will come to the table with both 0 information and 0 ability for comparative analysis. Their entire goal seems to be to take the facts you've laid out and use them as toys. There is little regard for being correct- unfamiliar facts are dismissed with no context.

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Brandon Turner @hexadecibelska.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Any jungle fans out there? I played with a new genre with this one, and am so pumped for y'all to hear it! Lost is out March 25th with Ünity Club Records links.astralocale.co... Cover art by Sam Poncé instagram.com/samwic...

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

"Men don't realize that women are people" I'm not sure if all men have realized that Men are people– Guys will do horrible shit & lie to your face abt why they did it and you'll just go around thinking it was normal behavior until you realize a decade later that he Hated and Maybe Wanted To Kill you

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If your public opinions are based on what you think you're supposed to say, you will obviously never learn what it's like to be whole as a person, but you will also never learn the reasons why what you assume to be true is wrong and hurtful.

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'You're not going to make many friends with that attitude"
This attitude is actually to protect me from friends who think like that

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Anyone who categorically hates pop music is still operating in 9/11-era levels of normalized misogyny and racism that they should have unpacked years ago. Look no further than the special exceptions everyone makes for the songs they have a personal connection to.
ISWIFS.

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Pompei by Bastille is the closest we've ever gotten to having a Streetlight Manifesto song on pop radio. Most people aren't ready for that conversation though.

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I just know that someone got really excited to screenshot and send this to someone to say "he doesn't even know that the 'real emo consists of' snippet is a meme" until they read this caption. Props to the ones who sent it before getting to this part

(Simpsons Meme)

Hey, aren't you that genre everybody hates?

Oh, my, no! I'm Ska!

"REAL ska is..."

(Twitter post from Oct. 21, 2020)

@ClippedHussar
Fly me to the moon, let me kick it's fucking ass
Let me show you what I learned
In my moon jujitsu class

"But it's not REAL punk because..."

(ExtraFabulousComics)

I HAVE STRONG OPINIONS!

ARE THEY BASED ON REALITY?

THEY
ARE
BASED UPON
HOW
I FEEL IN MY HEART.

(Heart) I'M TERRIFIED THAT IF I RESEARCH AND FORM OPINIONS BASED ON REALITY, A WEDGE WILL BE DRIVEN BETWEEN ME AND MY COMMUNITY AND I WILL LOSE MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY

"REAL emo only consists of...."

(deep fried meme of a goldfish leaping out of its bowl: im nothing like yall 😎😭😭😭)

If you can't stfu and surrender to the ceaseless passage of time then I am gonna REALly piss you off this year

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

RIP to young me you would have had a very mixed feelings about how many of the people who bullied you for playing video games are now hopelessly addicted to them

THE ORACLE'S ATLAS

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Teaching boys not to be angry doesn't work because the ones who care about doing the right thing will try to listen and the ones who don't will not. Teach them to be angry for the right reasons. Don't teach them not to be destructive; guide them to what needs to be destroyed.

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"Why aren't more people-"
Anyone who is not paying attention yet is looking for
ANYTHING else to pay attention to. On some level they know that to recognize reality NOW means accepting the inevitable death of their very identity.
They have doubled down on the archaic game of interpersonal drama.

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"Aren't you supposed to be all about uplifting and supporting everyone?"
Ah! You're referring to the night's first showing.
Unfortunately, those who booed the initial performance will not be invited back for the part 2.
Plenty of room for everyone else though!

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Some people confuse what's right and what's normal to the extent that they can't even articulate a reason for why they consistently choose to do something that harms others- it's just "the way it is"

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

At least a full 40% of my musical philosophy and perhaps my personality as a whole is primarily informed by a member of the Butthole Surfers telling an interviewer that their music makes some people angry, being asked where they get angry, and replying "between the ears"

(Text overlaid on a picture of a turkey strutting the median on a Boston highway)

"Stop pretending to be someone that you're not!!"
That's what I've been doing more and more, thanks for noticing :)
"But you're so... performative!"
Guess that's just who I really was the whole time
"Well you should cut it out, you make me cringe"
What was the first thing you said again?

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Brandon Turner @hexadecibelska.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Y’all know how much I love ska! Mixing that with punchy drums, a synth, and even some drum breaks makes Funked Up what it is. I had a blast mixing these styles together and couldn’t be happier with how it turned out! Electro-ska is officially back!!! 2/2

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

In college I walked up to a friend at an outdoor party to share that a wasp had fallen into my drink bc I was mortified but unbeknownst to me he was trying to flirt with the woman he was speaking to, so he leaned over to her and said "he's making a joke about white Anglo-Saxon Protestants"

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Brandon Turner @hexadecibelska.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

My new song Funked Up (feat. Ottie High-Definition) comes out next Wednesday! You can pre-save it to make sure you don't miss the release! Pre-save it here: share.amuse.io/track...

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Not now, largest acidic geyser in the world

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The largest acidic geyser in the world is erupting again a... Read more

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Yellowstone's rare acidic geyser is active again after yearsof dormancy, USGS says

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I never watched Star Wars 9, did we ever figure out if Darth Vader was actually telling Adam Driver to be evil? or was that some kind of spiritual psychosis

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Reminder that there are people who cannot speak on certain issues at certain times without threatening their immediate safety. Not a vague threat of future retaliation by an unknown hypothetical force, but a known threat that they are presently unable to get away from. Think before you assume.

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

If you're a "the curtains were fucking blue" person, you probably think that Atlas & Oracle spends a disproportionate amount of time thinking and singing about walls

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Benefits of growing up before and during the new gilded age: "It's not perfect, but it's the best we've got" will never again work on me as a justification for inaction, no matter who I hear it from, no matter what it is defending

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SpacePrez @spaceprez.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

In case of emergency break glass And its a Ska album

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Never doubt the tenacity of a man's inclination to apply moral judgments to people he sees as lesser while applying "it's complicated" to people he thinks can elevate his social status

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Atlas & Oracle exists to prove that anger can be at once explosive, beautiful, subtle, lethal, and immensely full of hope.

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I don't know how to tell you that if you're still fuming over things I said a week+ ago, you're already so far behind

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Desmond Dekkard Cain @mlehoux.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

What a week for new #Ska releases! New albums from @gruberites.bsky.social, David Hillyard, The Holophonics, Easydread, Juantxo Skalari, and Not The Face! Plus new @astralocale.bsky.social, 100 Kilo Herz, Sammy Kay, and more! www.reddit.com/r/Ska/s/jRoc...

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

My music isn't meant to make you feel comfortable. There's no nostalgia, there's no inherent respect for tradition. There's no clarity on the surface level. It's meant to make you question why you think you want those things. By the way, why do you?

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I don't mean to be rude but anyone who doesn't know what I'm all about has either literally never listened to an atlas & oracle album all the way through or doesn't know very much about history

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 19/02/2026

People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

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jonnyK @jonnyk.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

HELLO EVERYONE GOOD MORNING AND LISTEN TO THE NEW HANS GRUBER AND THE DIE HARDS HOLY FUCKING SHIT

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

You can tell me when it's over if the high was worth the pain 😜

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Atlas O'Clare @astralocale.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This concludes the testing phase of the Atlas & Oracle mass broadcast system. It was an overwhelming success!! Get ready for part two~

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