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Chris Royalty

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Aux Meadows (guitar/production). Instrumental trio from Oakland CA, blending country traditions, new age sonics, and pastoral psychedelia. auxmeadows.bandcamp.com/album/draw-…

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Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#1 streaming in Atlanta
Senator Schmitt holds up a poster for Hawkeye starring Jack Smith and Fani Willis
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Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wrote a little bit about Neil's SECOND SONG over on @aquariumdrunkard.com.
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Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts :: Second Song - Aquarium Drunkard
At 80, Neil Young remains gloriously unfinished. Second Song, his latest with the Chrome Hearts, is a weathered, luminous meditation on memory, mortality, love, and the strange passage of time. With s...
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Chicago White Sox @notwhitesox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"The Tamale Guy" delivered tonight's game ball in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Night!
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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
These companies and their supporters promised major improvements in safety by taking fallible humans out of the loop. In reality, they’ve taken accountable humans out of the loop.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wow. Sounds like we should just shut down these companies and stop using it?
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greatsatan69.bsky.social @greatsatan69.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Woof
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you're a Dem who thinks you'll gain something by going anti-trans, look at Gallup's "most important problem" and Fox News' "most important issue" polling and see where trans issues rank. Whoever told you going anti-trans is a savvy or necessary move spends too much time on X and should be fired.
Gallup polling. "LGBTQ rights" moves between 0 and 1%.Fox news polling. Wokeness/transgender issues at 0%.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 19/09/2026
Part of the reason why you can’t make a real leftist or non-fascist politics around influencers and influencer media is that at its core, this group’s political culture and political economy is centered on manipulating people for money, which is at best anti-democratic and non-consensually coercive.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.
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Opinion | Panic Won’t Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will.
The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.
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Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the goods
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Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I put together a very sweet mix of instrumentals from @aquariumdrunkard.com's long-running Lagniappe Sessions. Covers of your favorites by your favorites!
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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Instrumentals (2016-2026) - Aquarium Drunkard
Aquarium Drunkard’s Lagniappe Sessions have been rolling along at a steady pace since 2011, bringing together a global lineup of artists to offer up cover versions of a few of their favorite tunes. Ov...
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Bessent is trying to suppress interest rates while the Trump-appointed Fed chair raises them, and Sean Duffy is trying to make gas-powered private vehicles the only transportation option while the Trump team's foreign policy is causing the cost of driving to skyrocket. Amazing stuff.
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Tarotplane @tarotplane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yeah, this is really lovely. I think @thetrailhead.bsky.social mentions in the liner notes its like a post rock Bert Jansch. Kinda is in a way. It's hard to find stuff that's trying to open up new avenues & I really like that this album is adventurous in that way
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Michael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If Democrats were serious they would go straight for the jugular of the crypto industry as soon as they take power. There’s public policy reasons to do this (name a non-crime use case), but also it cuts off a major artery for Republican support and corruption.
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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 12/09/2026
Angry makes me a modern girl.
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Women aging in public
Exiled in oldsville with Liz Phair and Sleater-Kinney.
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☝️SoSayU @sosayu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Veer interesting essay! I had to laugh at: “We do not have to yield to the car dealership owners who have made their midlife crises a geostrategic problem for the entire world.”
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This, by @quinnae.com, is one of the best political essays I’ve read in a minute www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-h...
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The End of History and the Final Girl
Anton Jäger’s "Hyperpolitics" is, at its best, late marginalia for "The End of History and the Last Man." At its worst, Jäger, like Fukuyama, is a prisoner of his political pieties.
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KLOF Mag @klofmag.com · 04/09/2026
Nick Jonah Davis’s “Rose Delta Rising,” pairs electric guitar with Neal Heppleston’s bass, Joe Danks’ drums and Richard Birkin’s strings. A very elegant and accomplished set that feels like a distillation of Nick’s work over the years. + Video premiere of “Spoonbill”. klofmag.com/2026/09/nick...
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Nick Jonah Davis – Rose Delta Rising (Album Review)
Nick Jonah Davis’s “Rose Delta Rising” pairs clean electric guitar with bass, drums and strings. Recorded in the Outer Hebrides — it is both elegant and accomplished, his best yet.
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Chris Royalty @chrisroyalty.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
josephdeebradshaw.bandcamp.com/album/the-la... Terrific long-form 'American primitive' solo guitar from Oakland. Very musical, thoughtfully-structured, compelling use of harmonics (hard to do!). Recommended!
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The Lavender Promise, by Joseph Dee Bradshaw
10 track album
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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Hold up, NYTimes—You're telling me that these people are *receiving communications from the administration describing its endeavors and achievements*? And when they cover the administration, they stand to profit, *monetizing that coverage through advertising*? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/n...
The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands.
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Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Mary Poppins Collection, only on Disney Prime
Top left: the original Mary Poppins, floating down over the logo
Top right: Mary Poppins Returns, with Emily Blunt smiling
Bottom left: Mary Poppins Forever, a green and dark blue logo with Mary Poppins' silhouette behind a question mark
Bottom right: Mary Poppins & Robin, starring Emily Blunt and Chris O'Donnell as Robin
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026
voters wanted trump to lower prices, the cultural stuff was just not that salient, and may have even been a little unpopular. and as you would expect from this, the public is extremely unhappy with trump's failed economic agenda and pretty unhappy with his anti-woke one too!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026
perhaps because of their own media diet, pundits saw the 2024 election as an overwhelming rebuke of "woke." but ACTUAL VOTERS were not thinking in those terms. their calculation was overwhelmingly, "biden/harris is responsible for inflation, trump will make me rich."
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Chris Royalty @chrisroyalty.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
josephdeebradshaw.bandcamp.com/album/the-la... Terrific long-form 'American primitive' solo guitar from Oakland. Very musical, thoughtfully-structured, compelling use of harmonics (hard to do!). Recommended!
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The Lavender Promise, by Joseph Dee Bradshaw
10 track album
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Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Chrome Chasm(mems of Charalambides, Lower Dens) blends patient guitar work with dreamlike embellishments. “The Star” threads the listener through gossamer moments that bump ambient, country, & drone. The song floats through the air with a hazy humidity, landing between fever & fantasy bit.ly/45R1eFk
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Elliot 🫪 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Oh I fuckin hate it out here. Yesterday I had to search Gmail for the quotation-enclosed string “code of conduct” and Gmail showed me every email that contains the word “of”
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The loss of search structure is devastating for knowledge retrieval. I teach basic lit searching and it's always felt like a really core transferable skill for students to know boolean operators and "exact phrase searching" and now google, microsoft etc have just killed it to force us to use slopAI.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“Ladies and gentlemen, the Court as currently constituted ruled that President Trump could knock down half the White House and pour your money down a hole. Is that a fair application of the law? Or do we need to reconsider how the Court does business?”
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Jonathan Kiefer @kieferama.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A short piece for @screenslatesf.bsky.social about Abbas Kiarostami's And Life Goes On, which screens at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts tomorrow. www.screenslate.com/articles/and...
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And Life Goes On
At one unfortunate, or perhaps fortunate, film festival screening of his child-centered drama Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987), Abbas Kiarostami informed the audience that the friend’s house and ma...
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Also: the ‘convenience’ is not for us but for employers, as we are slowly trained to think that it is normal and virtuous to have no time or energy left for seeing friends, being in groups, going to theatres and clubs, picnicking in parks, and browsing in bookstores and shops. It’s life *stolen*.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“I was asked not to mention the Times at all. I’m choosing not to honor that norm, b/c silence abt how accountability journalism gets suppressed is itself a form of suppression.” Read the back story of how @nytimes.com and @thebulwark.com killed @adambonica.bsky.social’s piece. What a mf badass.
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With Fear and Favor
Institutions don’t have courage. They have incentives.
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is one of those arguments that sounds like slopulism but is actually, if anything, understated. 56% of Colorado river water goes to GROWING FEED FOR LIVESTOCK IN THE DESERT.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The thing that is happening is not that the explosion of growth in the southwest has strained water supplies, it's that a steady rate of water irrigation for cash crop agriculture has met a steady decline in Colorado River flows due to climate change. Human settlement basically doesn't matter!
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
STOP GROWING FUCKING LETTUCE IN THE DESERT THIS IS ACTUALLY A VERY EASY PROBLEM TO SOLVE
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16/08/2026
your Tesla supports mass child death
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We're laughing at this guy for saying something dumb while in the throes of AI addiction, but now I'm wondering if we shouldn't treat it like a drug or alcohol problem. These people need help.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."
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Eiderdown Records @eiderdownrecords.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Wanted to give a shout out to everyone for their support on Bandcamp Friday yesterday. The response to the new albums is great so far so thank you 🙏 We carry on post-BC Friday with great deals and killer sounds so check us out if you havent already 🕺 eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.com/merch/summer...
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Summer/Fall LP batch deal from Eiderdown Records
Summer/Fall LP batch deal from Eiderdown Records
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Meme image of Regina George leaning forward and looking mockingly interested in Lindsey Lohan's point in the movie Mean Girls.

Corey Brickley Illustration @CoreyBrickley . Sep 26, 2023

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"Not everyone has the time and resources to become an artist!"

"So you agree that creating art requires a lot of labor and resources that Al
companies are profiting off of without compensation?"

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Marc Masters 🌵 @marcissist.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
not sure why the original post was deleted but here's what it was linking to: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2026/07/19/a...
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Back to the Future (1985): A Nice Place to Live
What sets Back to the Future apart is not that it is nostalgic, but that it grasps nostalgia as a production, a site of labor.
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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
MAGA is the dark side of this: it understands that voters do not care about democracy but really want to see the “right” people suffer. So it delivers the suffering, plus videos and memes about the suffering. That buys permission to do literally everything else
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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The reason the DSA folks seem to get so much attention is that they tend to talk about stuff like why your rent is high or why the bus is never on time. Voters by and large don’t really care about “democracy” because a lot of them have not gotten much out of democracy www.npr.org/2026/07/29/n...
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To win over working-class voters, Democrats need to stop talking about democracy
Working-class voters have moved away from the Democratic Party. Winning them back is key to the party's future, a new reports shows. But first, the messaging has to change.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I don't like a walled garden, philosophically. I want interoperability and the right to repair and better choices. But in the absence of regulation, anti-trust, and meaningful consumer protection, fleeing to better aligned business models at a premium might be the best choice.
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Forrest @dunots.voidsent.com · 25/07/2026
A thing I've been saying is that I think polls have been asking if people think the economy is bad and people have been answering that they think the economy is evil
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.
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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
It’s so maddening! If folks like us who are so committed to sustainable transportation can’t make it work, how can we get more folks on transit? When with family we now plan nearly all our transit trips on BART. Tough to wait 30 minutes for a bus with a 6 year old.
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
futurism.com/future-socie... lol
As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Several people commented on the idea of an "AI native" for such a new technology.... As @gregpak.net has suggested with his cocaine analogy, "AI addict" or "AI impaired" might be more accurate for those who have outsourced their cognitive functions...
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
DOGE slashed 3/4 of the personnel from the CDC lab that’s supposed to prevent turbodiarrhea outbreaks www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...
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The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year
“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.
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