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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Never allow an algorithm to choose your playlists. Reject the scourge of AI. Insist on genuine music, created by real artists, curated by real fans. Mixtape 9: New Psychedelia [60 min] open.spotify.com/playlist/1bB...

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s only in coming together that we can fight the isolating forces of the algorithm.

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There’s no worse prison than the past.

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The fiction writer who authored our current reality needs to do better.

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Why? Why did we do this to ourselves?? “So, let me get this straight,” national security reporter David Rothkopf wrote. “[T]he US illegally attacks a country, kidnaps its president, threatens its government with massive military force, gets them to hand over to US control a huge portion…

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Never allow an algorithm to choose your playlists. Reject the scourge of AI slop. Insist on genuine music, created by real artists, curated by real fans. Mixtape 8: Drum 'n Bass [60 min] open.spotify.com/playlist/7fd...

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“There I understood that it was the middle class that was participating and that was tired, disappointed and had had enough. There I understood that this protest would be heard.” "We do not accept this political class continuing in power." This needs more publicity. This should inspire all of us.

balcanicaucaso.org

Albania, the voices of the Flamingo revolution - OBCT

While the flamingos have given the Albanian protest its visual identity, drums and chants have given it a voice. In this report, we have collected some of the most well-known voices from the protests ...

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Ready to erase. Louis Armand [ @louisarmand.bsky.social ] Michel Delville www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Theories are made to die in the war of time… They may only be used if they're available when needed, and become obsolete constantly. And must continually be replaced.

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Cinema: A deranged imitation of a deranged life, skillfully designed to communicate absolutely nothing, whose purpose is to relieve 90 minutes of boredom with a 90 minute representation of the same boredom…

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The News: Imbeciles, presenting contemptuous hourly updates on the state of your own alienation.

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Paris Commune was defeated in isolation. Network! Unity!

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If different forms of the same alienation struggle against each other, this is because they are all based on real contradictions that are repressed. #debord

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

We need to take care of ourselves. We are fragile.

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It seems like each time a repressed group wins respect, an institutional memory of elitism provides the rationale for *new* exclusive cliques to hurt and steal from exactly the same out-groups as before, as though no change ever occurred: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-6-2...

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Negation must have its own style. Criticism is destruction, which must be expressed in a specific language — that is, the language of contradiction. It must be expressed as conflicting voices, whose attacks on each another act to destroy the topic. #situationalism #debord

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I have let time slip away. I have lost what I should have defended.

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

There is talk about "liberating the cinema" — but what does that matter to us? We want to liberate everyday life.

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Ruling class monopolies on publicity for art these days have exiled artists from "official" cultural production. Any art film about this era must feature the anonymity of its authors — as a central theme! #situationalism #debord

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r.g. vašíček @rgvasicek.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I am starting to stack some subs on Substack... anti-lectures & microlectures & underground lectures are forthcoming... for now: "Trust Your Electronic Flesh: Write with Your Gothic Soul"

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Trust Your Electronic Flesh

Write with Your Gothic Soul

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Erasing familiarity with a topic, just to relearn it again, is like applying an additional coat of interior house paint to further conceal the palimpsest of the former paint beneath. It's good practice.

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We all wear costumes. Even those of use who refuse costumes are costumed in an anti-costume, a protest costume, the costume of a protester against costumes...

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Never allow an algorithm to choose your playlists. Insist on genuine music, created by real artists. Mixtape 7: Ambient [60 min] open.spotify.com/playlist/4du...

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ambient

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Documentary films are easily digested because their topics are restricted to defined facets of experience. Imagine how a documentary film could attempt to capture the *full complexity* of a moment… #situationalism #debord

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

When freedom is practiced in a closed circle, it fades into a dream, and becomes an image of itself. At any moment, "ordinary life" may prevail once again…

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Do not count on the future. It may never be possible to be together later, or anywhere else. There will never be a greater freedom… #situationalism #debord

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The billionaires who own the social media algorithms, who own the cable news networks, who own the politicians fighting on our screens, they are turning neighbor against neighbor. They divide us by party, by race, by gender, by religion, so we don’t notice that they’re picking our pockets…

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Soldiers controlled by Trump and Hegseth will patrol Washington, D.C. *for the rest of Trump’s second term*, under the bald-faced lie pretext of assisting law enforcement during a "crime emergency"… So, why do you think they're there, really? What purpose could they *possibly* be there for? ???

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The struggle against fascism, waged in popular culture, will *transform* popular culture in the process.

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Don't rely on the State, or on the wealthy or influential, for defense. Doing so means that you are close to losing.

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Twenty-first century fascism will massively enhance the domination of capital over human beings, in every sphere. Paul Mason [ paulmason.bsky.social ] How to Stop Fascism

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The masses should not allow themselves to be groomed for exploitation by the rich, and not the other way around. Nietzsche had it backwards.

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

A sample of great tracks from a couple of years ago: Never allow an algorithm to choose your playlists. Also — insist on genuine music, created by real artists. Mixtape 6: 2023 [60 min] open.spotify.com/playlist/2ni...

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Fascism is the elite's go-to con, which they reach for whenever liberalism fails them…

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

In the world of propaganda, uprooted masses can feel at home and are spared the never-ending shocks which real life and real experiences deal to human beings and their expectations. Hannah Arendt [ @hait-tud.bsky.social ] Origins of Totalitarianism

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

When a group of people want radical change, they start to frame the whole of reality around that desire, ignoring all the facts that contradict it. Karl Mannheim Ideology and Utopia

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The adjunct lecturer is a vagabond: errant, restless, a wanderer. R.G. Vašíček [ rgvasicek.bsky.social ] 888 An Anti-Memoir rgvasicek.substack.com/p/888

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r.g. vašíček (@rgvasicek.bsky.social)

lo-fi samizdat artist & machine elf in the noösphere https://rgvasicek.com

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

As we get older, we become more like ourselves. R.G. Vašíček [ rgvasicek.bsky.social ] Underground Lecture #1 Are You Ready to Quit? rgvasicek.substack.com/p/undergroun...

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Underground Lecture # 1

Are You Ready to Quit?

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Never allow an algorithm to choose your playlists. Insist on genuine music, created by real artists. Mixtape 5: Cinema [60 min] open.spotify.com/playlist/2PW...

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cinema

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Misinformation, divulged under official pretext, for the purpose of allowing insiders to steal hundreds of millions of dollars overnight from oil futures investors; (1/5)

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Never allow an algorithm to choose your playlists. Insist on genuine music, created by real artists. Mixtape 4: Electroclash [60 min] open.spotify.com/playlist/5zc...

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The State Dept. is finalizing a plan to put Trump's picture On U.S. passports. 😭😭😭 www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-...

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

In the age of the smartphone, where people aren’t joining clubs and don’t know their neighbors — and are emphatic about conspicuous consumption and preoccupied with status — we have become envious, isolated, lonely, and distrustful… We’re going to get more Trumps. [Alan Elrod] @aselrod.bsky.social

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Transcript: Trump’s America Is Deeply Unwell, and It’s Time to Say So

As Trump reveals his unfitness in stark new ways, a political theorist argues that our election of this man to the presidency twice should prompt deep introspection about what we’ve become.

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The NSDAP constructed a "lying world, which was more adequate to needs of the human mind than reality itself." "They did not believe in the reality of their own experience; they did not trust their eyes and ears, but only their imaginations…" Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Last night, Trump excoriated his own propagandists — Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Alex Jones, et al. — in retaliation for criticizing his Iran war. Next, he published a SNUFF VIDEO of *a man murdering a woman with a hammer* — captioned with further screeds against Hatians and… Joe Biden. (1/2)

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Trump went from making genocidal threats this morning to hyping a "golden age" in Iran hours later, having received no concessions in between. He’s a basket case who needs to be removed from power before he follows through on one of his mass murder fantasies… Aaron Rupar [ @atrupar.com ] #Trump5150

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David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Regarding this morning's "a whole civilization will die" proclamation, wherein Trump threatened to genocide Iran *tonight*: This post is from a deeply unwell man — a man with access to a nuclear arsenal, who should be nowhere near power. A man who needs to be 5150'd. Seriously.

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