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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 13m

*on the phone with Apple customer service* Hi, yeah, I’m calling about the asteroid. Mhm. Yes, I’m sure you would like to be with your family, but I paid good money for a 2-year warranty, and that’s exactly what I expect to receive! Hello?

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 41m

My nervous system bears the scars of an unthinkable number of barely-survived horrors that have sculpted and honed me over billions of years of evolution into the perfect killing machine and by far the sweatiest person in this supermarket.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 6h

I could really use the help! 🫶

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 3h

All of these are living playlists, not mix CDs, like I actually use these and frequently trim or add new tracks. I like to give interesting songs a chance to audition. So stay tuned. Excited changes are coming. I’d welcome feedback, positive or otherwise! Or you could send my your playlists 🥹

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 4h

I have too many playlists to keep track of otherwise so I put together a little public reference guide. You can scroll through and see if anything catches your eye. Enjoy! I’ll share these each below with their links and descriptions. Feel free to follow on Spotify. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Claylists

Around the World (105 songs – 8h 18m): Places on the planet. Art: NASA / Apollo 17 crew, “The Blue Marble” (1972). Sampler: "Around the World / Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" (Daft Punk), "(Take Me...

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 5h

Wow hi! I’m a big fan of how you work that.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 5h

“Where do you want to save the download?” Oh, well let’s see, hmm, I dunno, how about the Downloads folder?!

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hi friends. I’m trying to get my life back on track and I’m making progress, but against the headwinds of bills and losing my SNAP benefits and car, it’s been exceedingly difficult. If you’re in a position to send any help my way, I’d so appreciate it. 💕 Venmo/Cashapp: claymationary

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 21h

There is goodness in you that isn’t strength!

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I managed to smuggle some deteriorating magnetic tapes of his posts out of Greece in my rectum. Unfortunately the tapes were… lost. They say it was the only copy that existed, from his earlier threads most people say are a myth.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My mom didn’t drink when she was pregnant with me, but I did. An addict always finds a way.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Just spent 20 minutes looking without success into the meaning of a post I did not engage with and, indeed, never will. AMA

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Now you listen here, sonny: I’ve refilled prescriptions you never even heard of!

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I have that high-functioning insanity. It’s the low-functioning of my sanity that’s really the problem.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Not sure if anyone else will be interested, but I threw this together the last 2 days: a philosophy playlist, “For the properly mixed life of reason and pleasure.” Based on Socrates’ idea in Plato’s Philebus that the good life contains both. I tried to mix them well! open.spotify.com/playlist/5JO...

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Philosophy

For the properly mixed life of reason and pleasure (ὡς κάλλιστα συμμειγνύναι).

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Please be kind to other people. We are all terrified, all the time, all with very good reason!

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I hope I’m reincarnated as a potato or something. That’ll show me.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We’re born screaming and the first thing kids have to learn is to stop crying all the time. Terror and despair are nature’s default state as soon as it’s brought to life, and to terror and despair we will return.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hi friends. I’m trying to get my bills current and eventually relocate, which I urgently need to do, but it’s been especially hard since my car was repossessed and I lost my SNAP benefits (due to an administrative screw-up). Anything you can send me would help a lot! 💕 Venmo/Cashapp: claymationary

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Halloween’s a great excuse to set up a working guillotine in your yard.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I don’t mind getting older because my Halloween playlist just gets better every year.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I think we should work 2 hours a day and commute for 8.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Start with a single, dimensionless point in space. Got one? Good. Now I want you to radiate out in all directions, infinitely. With me so far? Perfect. Now take a look outside. Do you see anything? Just curious. Oh, that’s marvelous. That’s wonderful. That’s all I wanted to know. Thank you.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think they should put all the Nobel Peace Price nominees in an arena and make them fight to the death for it.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am so fucking at peace that attachments let go of ME!

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A work-in-progress, so it may change a bit soon, but anyway here’s a playlist I kept separate from the main Halloween playlist so as not to kill a party but there’s a whole, rich world of music here and it’s about 100x scarier than the other one. open.spotify.com/playlist/5BK...

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Classical Halloween

Art: Die Toteninsel ("The Isle of the Dead") by Arnold Böcklin (1880)

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sharing some of my other playlists now: Better Git It In Your Soul Can You Get to That Hallelujah, I’m a Bum Ignorant Head-Banging Electro In and Out of Time It's the End of the World Let's Fall In Love Starstruck The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Watch the Stars What Hath Man* Wrought?

Better Git It In Your Soul (258 songs - 18h 23m):
Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high: any-genre feel-good, life-giving music. Mostly Motown, jazz, funk, soul, rock, pop, disco.
Sampler: title track (Charles Mingus), Think (Aretha Franklin), Move On Up (Curtis Mayfield), Sir Duke (Stevie Wonder), I Got You (I Feel Good) (James Brown), Jump in the Line (Harry Belafonte)
Can You Get to That (96 songs - 6h 19m):
Love gone wrong. When it's over, whether or not it's over: Breakups, fuck-ups, good love that left or bad love that stayed too long.
Sampler: title track (Funkadelic), I Can't Stand the Rain (Ann Peebles), Go Your Own Way (Fleetwood Mac), I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor), Ms. Jackson (Outkast), Tears Dry On Their Own (Amy Winehouse), Dancing on My Own (Robyn)
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (36 songs - 2h 1m):
Failure. Despair. Misery. Misfortune. Being a fuck-up. A celebration of losers everywhere.
Sampler: title track (Utah Phillips), The Loser (Derrick Harriott), S.O.B. (Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats), Dead End Street (The Kinks), Avant Gardener (Courtney Barnett), Anthem for the Already Defeated (Rock Plaza Central)
Ignorant Head-Banging Electro (52 songs - 3h 48m):
Stupid and irresistibly delicious. Rank rave shit.
Sampler: VYZEE (SOPHIE, Installation (Pangaea), New Generation (Salvatore Ganacci), Ride on Time (Black Box), Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe (Trace, Liquid Rose), Atmosféra (Brutalismus 3000)
In and Out of Time (230 songs - 17h 5m):
Hours, weeks, Mondays, Novembers, holidays, yesterdays, weird time signatures, etc. Not sure where it's going sound-wise, it's kind of like a science experiment. Time will tell.
Sampler: In Time (Sly & the Family Stone), A Day in the Life (The Beatles), Five Years (David Bowie), 9 to 5 (Dolly Parton), Time Has Told Me (Nick Drake), Take Five (Dave Brubeck Quartet),
4'33" (John Cage)
It's the End of the World (133 songs - 9h 32m):
And you know it. Doom, gloom, brimstone and apocalytica. When in a burning Rome...
Sampler: …

Let's Fall In Love (145 songs - 9h 40m):
Music to fall in love to. Best listened to in pairs (or more). The best love songs that aren't too cheesy to stomach. Sweet but not Hallmark sweet.
Sampler: title track (Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson), Happy Together (The Turtles), Fly Me to the Moon (Frank Sinatra), Getten to Know You (Parliament), God Only Knows (The Beach Boys), Let's Stay Together (Al Green), Kiss of Life (Sade), Really Love (D'Angelo), This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) (Talking Heads)
Starstruck (182 songs - 11h 53m):
Fame, power, being a badass and all the problems that follow. Bold, brash, loud and boastful, not worried about tomorrow but probably already tortured from yesterday.
Sampler: Fame (David Bowie), King Kunta (Kendrick Lamar), Famous (Charli xx), Paparazzi (Lady Gaga), Sucker for a Superstar (Aqua), Limelight (Rush), I'm the Greatest Star (Barbra Streisand), I'm Still Standing (Elton John)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (96 songs - 6h 39m):
Revolutionary music, from all peoples, all places, all genres, all proud and brave and unwavering.
Songs you could not televise the revolution to.
Sampler: title track (Gil Scott-Heron), The Guillotine (The Coup), World Town (M.I.A.), Qué Viva Fidel (Celina González, Reutilio Domínguez), No Parasan (Rolando Alarcon), Solidarity Forever (Pete Seeger), Joe Hill (Paul Robeson)
Watch the Stars (217 songs - 19h 34m):
A playlist for night and the night sky, and everything one might find in either.
Sampler: Kelly Watch the Stars (Air), Xtal (Aphex Twin), Under Stars (Brian Eno), Stardust (Artie Shaw), Midnight in a Perfect World (DJ Shadow), La femme d'argent (Air), Andromeda (Weyes Blood), Northern Sky (Nick Drake)
What Hath Man* Wrought? (205 songs - 15h 55m):
Oh, the humanity! All too human songs about what we are, what we've brought into existence and what we maybe shouldn't've.
Sampler: She Blinded Me With Science (Thomas Dolby), Computer Love (Kraftwerk), Digital Witness (St. Vincent), Supernatu…

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

*watching my own life* Wow, that exact thing happened to me.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey, I just wanted to check in and see if you were okay. I just noticed that you really look like shit, I mean you look absolutely terrible. I wasn’t even sure you were alive until you moved, and even then it was debatable for a few seconds. I have never seen someone look worse.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Every few weeks an app or website you’ve used for years just stops working, and when you try to find out what’s wrong you find communities of people complaining about a very fixable issue for years. Like they really don’t give a shit about whether the products work. You feel the decay in haptics.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Finalized the description and added some new songs I’m still vetting honestly, but that takes it to 678 songs now—within comfortable striking distance of the number of the Beast after a bit of culling. Check it out on shuffle and enjoy! Feedback is welcome. 🎃👻🪦🦇🧟‍♂️🧚✨ open.spotify.com/playlist/627...

Spotify playlist: “Halloween: Mash, Mask & Mass”

Description: “Monster Halloween playlist from grave to Overlook Hotel dance floor-and back! High-art, lowbrow, middle class nightmares, crossroads to Castle Dracula, souling, Samhain, Sabbath sacrifices, Death at the door, "It's alive!" & the unfinished-businessman. Best shuffled. Art: Nolde's Mask Still Life III”

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*being crushed into diamonds at the center of the Earth’s inner core* “I can only go up from here!”

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m really sorry I treat you like shit. It’s only because I know you so well, and have such a low, and informed, opinion of you.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One of the favorites from this year’s haul in my annual Halloween playlist treasure hunt: open.spotify.com/track/5Xkayg... Massachusetts is really like that btw.

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Lizzie Borden

Chad Mitchell Trio · Chad, Mike and Joe's Anthology · Song · 2022

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Cemeteries are just storage facilities for forbidden Halloween decorations.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

You really shouldn’t cry. That’s your eye juice. Your eyes need that.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I should be paid an annual salary of $1 million for my many ideas and contributions to the kinds of conversations that are taking place on the Internet these days. Conversations about real people. I mean presumably. Conversations that just might save your LIFE!

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The dead can actually talk to anyone, they just think you suck. In fact they’re telling me how much they think you suck right now.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The hatred in my heart powers a mid-sized Connecticut housing development. Which is not so much, really. I could do so much more.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A lot of people hide behind their jokes. I’m not like that. I stand directly in front of my jokes, to protect them! From all of you people! I mean they’re just jokes! They don’t know our ways.

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