Reposted by Chris Royalty Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 13/10/2026President Trump and the Republicans had a two year romp through every political fantasy nourished in their heart since The John Birch Society and Richard Nixon, and you know what: it turns out their ideas were bad and are tanking the economy. 152011364
Reposted by Chris Royalty Grumbholdt @grumdholt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Love to have an economy propped up entirely by expensive malware generators. www.malwarebytes.com/computer-worm 031
Reposted by Chris Royalty Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A portion of the responsibility falls on design and research educators who set students up to believe that influence is proportional to effort and output quality without providing the tools for analyzing incentive structures. 4424
Reposted by Chris Royalty Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Because everyone comes up working in-house now they don't have the consulting callous or the structural power to say "Here's the work. It's good. It's what you need. If you don't use it, that's on you. I held up my end." 3422
Reposted by Chris Royalty Eiderdown Records @eiderdownrecords.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Psst: anyone want to grab a copy of one of the best records you’ll hear this year? 182
Reposted by Chris Royalty Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I think, increasingly, the big tech firms have forgone the right to be consulted on their own regulation. The public seem to be already there, so politics just needs to get over the final hump of not giving them a hearing. 022
Reposted by Chris Royalty Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026#1 streaming in Atlanta 422335
Reposted by Chris Royalty Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Wrote a little bit about Neil's SECOND SONG over on @aquariumdrunkard.com.aquariumdrunkard.comNeil Young and the Chrome Hearts :: Second Song - Aquarium DrunkardAt 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... 4293
Reposted by Chris Royalty Chicago White Sox @notwhitesox.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"The Tamale Guy" delivered tonight's game ball in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Night! 747973
Reposted by Chris Royalty Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026These 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. 5168
Reposted by Chris Royalty Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Wow. Sounds like we should just shut down these companies and stop using it? 341011168
Reposted by Chris Royalty Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If 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. 563327940
Reposted by Chris Royalty 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." 12357491512
Reposted by Chris Royalty ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 19/09/2026Part 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. 937676
Reposted by Chris Royalty Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026AI 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.nytimes.comOpinion | 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. 251171310
Chris Royalty @chrisroyalty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Thrilled to be included, thanks! (Btw, Sibylle Baier cover is the best thing I've ever heard in my life) 120
Reposted by Chris Royalty Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I put together a very sweet mix of instrumentals from @aquariumdrunkard.com's long-running Lagniappe Sessions. Covers of your favorites by your favorites!aquariumdrunkard.comThe Lagniappe Sessions :: Instrumentals (2016-2026) - Aquarium DrunkardAquarium 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... 14414
Reposted by Chris Royalty Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Bessent 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. 323542
Reposted by Chris Royalty Tarotplane @tarotplane.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Yeah, 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 0193
Reposted by Chris Royalty 🎃🎃🎃Michael Scare-anicolas🎃🎃🎃 @karanicolas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026If 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. 251888327
Reposted by Chris Royalty Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 12/09/2026Angry makes me a modern girl.oaklandreviewofbooks.orgWomen aging in publicExiled in oldsville with Liz Phair and Sleater-Kinney. 0166
Reposted by Chris Royalty ☝️SoSayU @sosayu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Veer 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.” 041
Reposted by Chris Royalty Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This, by @quinnae.com, is one of the best political essays I’ve read in a minute www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-h...liberalcurrents.comThe End of History and the Final GirlAnton 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. 0185
Reposted by Chris Royalty KLOF Mag @klofmag.com · 04/09/2026Nick 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...klofmag.comNick 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. 031
Reposted by Chris Royalty Chris Royalty @chrisroyalty.bsky.social · 31/08/2026josephdeebradshaw.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!josephdeebradshaw.bandcamp.comThe Lavender Promise, by Joseph Dee Bradshaw10 track album 021
Reposted by Chris Royalty Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Hold 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... 1232647
Reposted by Chris Royalty Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The Mary Poppins Collection, only on Disney Prime 271417422
Reposted by Chris Royalty jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026voters 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! 18114279
Reposted by Chris Royalty jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026perhaps 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." 91106138
Chris Royalty @chrisroyalty.bsky.social · 31/08/2026josephdeebradshaw.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!josephdeebradshaw.bandcamp.comThe Lavender Promise, by Joseph Dee Bradshaw10 track album 021
Reposted by Chris Royalty Raven Sings The Blues @ravensingstheblues.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Chrome 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 181
Reposted by Chris Royalty Elliot @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Oh 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” 33130995
Reposted by Chris Royalty Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The 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. 6643200
Reposted by Chris Royalty 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?” 22447115
Reposted by Chris Royalty Jonathan Kiefer @kieferama.bsky.social · 21/08/2026A 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...screenslate.comAnd Life Goes OnAt 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... 032
Reposted by Chris Royalty Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Also: 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*. 16315
Reposted by Chris Royalty 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.data4democracy.substack.comWith Fear and FavorInstitutions don’t have courage. They have incentives. 11197451
Reposted by Chris Royalty Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 18/08/2026This 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. 512844802
Reposted by Chris Royalty mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The 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! 101191111
Reposted by Chris Royalty mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026STOP GROWING FUCKING LETTUCE IN THE DESERT THIS IS ACTUALLY A VERY EASY PROBLEM TO SOLVE 984771787
Reposted by Chris Royalty e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16/08/2026your Tesla supports mass child death 262480651
Reposted by Chris Royalty Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026We'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. 642633172
Reposted by Chris Royalty Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Axios 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... 49272151664
Reposted by Chris Royalty Eiderdown Records @eiderdownrecords.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Wanted 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...eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.comSummer/Fall LP batch deal from Eiderdown RecordsSummer/Fall LP batch deal from Eiderdown Records 051
Reposted by Chris Royalty Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 26/12/2025 22237602
Reposted by Chris Royalty Marc Masters 🌵 @marcissist.bsky.social · 02/08/2026not sure why the original post was deleted but here's what it was linking to: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2026/07/19/a...brightwalldarkroom.comBack to the Future (1985): A Nice Place to LiveWhat sets Back to the Future apart is not that it is nostalgic, but that it grasps nostalgia as a production, a site of labor. 1113
Chris Royalty @chrisroyalty.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Coincidentally just picked up a used Roland JU-06 this week. Now I'll have to make sure I only use the sounds that you don't. 110
Reposted by Chris Royalty Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 29/07/2026MAGA 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 1586