Reposted by Brent S. SirotaDylan @dyl057.bsky.social · 3hFolks, the Adam Hamilton candidacy has revealed the esoteric secrets of the second-largest Protestant denomination in America. We will never recover 86713
Reposted by Brent S. SirotaAquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 02/10/2026The Sagegazers is an ongoing project devoted to the strange and beautiful world of privately released ambient, electronic, and New Age cassette music of the 1980s and ’90s. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/10/02/t... This mix offers a journey through that world, bringing together 15 recordings. 0234
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 03/10/2026October 1st is also known as the Negroni/Boulevardier line 070
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The convention where Trump kept talking about physically unappealing he was? Huh.nytimes.comKen Paxton, G.O.P. Nominee in Texas, Privately Said Trump’s Convention Hurt HimKen Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times. 000
Reposted by Brent S. SirotaTaulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We do need a clear moral and ethical story about how we can all live together but it is by crushing fascists beneath the heels of a multi-racial Democratic Republic. 152
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Unreasonable amount of matzo ball soup at Perly's in RVA. 1100
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 25/09/2026In North Carolina late August turns into early October in a matter of hours. 1100
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This was literally an Onion bit from 26 years ago. 2112
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Last year @aquariumdrunkard.com I compiled a mixtape of songs about John Coltrane. Obviously, you should spend today listening to the man himself. But after that, here's a sound register of his impact on modern music.aquariumdrunkard.comLamentations: Twenty-Two Songs about John Coltrane - Aquarium DrunkardIn the nearly six decades since his untimely passing, musicians from all over the world have never stopped honoring John Coltrane. And not just artists in the jazz tradition, those in rock, funk, prog... 34015
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Nothing quite conveys the incomprehensible power of Coltrane's quartet like the "Afro-Blue" on this album. It is apocalyptic but somehow threaded with gossamer. It is heavy as judgment but somehow never touches the earth. It remains one of the most staggering things I have ever heard in my life. 3100
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This extraordinary deep dive into the "medbed" mythos is a good reminder that much of contemporary American conspiracy theory amounts to new age notions of healing and spiritual wellbeing awkwardly grafted onto evangelical Protestant eschatology.slate.comTrump Posted About Magic Beds That Cure Cancer. Millions of Americans Believe They’re Real. I Found the Guy Who Started It All.An internet conspiracy theory was killing people even before the president posted about it. I found the man who started it. He’s nothing like you’d expect. 1204
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 20/09/2026William of Normandy says triumphal tower will be military complex.bbc.comTrump says triumphal arch will be military complexTrump said the updated plans were at the request of the US military and for national security purposes. 020
Reposted by Brent S. SirotaThe Orchid Show @theorchidshow.myatproto.social · 20/09/2026John Zorn's Cobra but entirely with smooth jazz guys. 1111
Reposted by Brent S. Sirotaleah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Did not expect to wake up to an article in the NYT putting the spiritual jazz industrial complex on blast 😅nytimes.com‘Spiritual Jazz’ Has Turned Cozy. John Coltrane Demanded More. (Gift Article)The term has lately become synonymous with sonic serenity (and chic merch). But the saxophone great challenged listeners with radical honesty. 88923
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Punishing news outlets by not subjecting them to the tsunami of bullshit that is the daily White House press briefing. 010
Reposted by Brent S. SirotaMicah @rincewind.run · 17/09/2026lol they're running this playbook in florida, they're beyond fucked 955676
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 17/09/2026James II, the deposed king of England and Scotland, died in exile on this day 325 years ago in 1701. Louis XIV's recognition of his son James Francis Edward Stuart as rightful king of England made another European-wide conflagration--the War of the Spanish Succession--more or less inevitable. 042
Reposted by Brent S. Sirotaplay by post @playbypost.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The two warring sex cults that rule America are fighting 30840151
Reposted by Brent S. SirotaSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Research Triangle: Next Generation Fayetteville: Deep Space Nine 921329
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Shana tovah, y'all. Hope you all find your way into the book of life. 030
Reposted by Brent S. Sirotapixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11/09/202625 years since I asked William Basinski to copy some tapes for me and he ruined them. I’m still mad about it. 545572
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Just a brutal day. Time for a negroni and some Foat. 151
Reposted by Brent S. SirotaSecretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Trumps ability to corrupt every institution, virtue, and tradition we supposedly hold dear remains his superpower 391138179
Reposted by Brent S. Sirotanoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026trump hit 'em with the gen X professor syllabus format 6513
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Fascism entails an endless stress-testing of reality, to find all the places it can be bent and all the places it can be broken entirely. 092
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Wouldn't a "New America" have to be somewhere other than the Americas? There are no doubt more important things to worry about but this is what my brain is getting stuck on. 110
Reposted by Brent S. Sirotaelias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 05/09/2026they did too much. there’s too much fucking shit on him. 05610
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It should almost go without saying, but the new Steven R. Smith (@worstwardrecording.bsky.social) album on @eiderdownrecords.bsky.social is absolutely exquisite 192
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 04/09/2026how am I just learning that there is a German producer who performs under the name Umberto Echo? That's incredible. 0212
Reposted by Brent S. SirotaChris Robinson @chris-robinson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Durham, it's September, and we did it!!!!!! 131
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 03/09/2026When I first moved down south, I asked my NC born and bred colleague how to deal with the heat. She told me to just "lean into it." I am happy to report that Babka has figured out how to lean into it. 0110
Reposted by Brent S. SirotaRazzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Gonna print this out and put it under wipers on Teslas in Los Angeles 1792655443
Reposted by Brent S. SirotaDan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 02/09/2026First of all, Markey has swag. Secondly, he takes your call. Same reason he beat that Kennedy twerp. 31409
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 31/08/2026All I would do with a time machine is go back and tell historical personages to knock this shit off. 1253
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 30/08/2026It's been almost four decades since I had to think about how stupid the name Cole Trickle is. 130
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 28/08/2026What stage of counter-revolution are we in?cnn.comRight-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos detained by ICE | CNNControversial British figure Milo Yiannopoulos, who gained a reputation as a right-wing provocateur more than a decade ago, has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of ... 041
Reposted by Brent S. SirotaReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It's really impressive how the GOP staffer class keeps getting worse and weirder 22957117