David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 13/10/2026a coward can not be free a coward can not lose a coward can not win a coward can not be [ Amos Poe, "The Foreigner" (1978) ] 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Never 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...open.spotify.comnew psychedelia[ mixtape 9 ] 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026War is like an x-ray. All human insides become visible. Good people become better. Bad people, worse. Mstyslav Chernov 20 Days in Mariupol [ @pbs.org ] www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...pbs.org20 Days in Mariupol | Watch the Oscar-Winning Documentary | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary SeriesWatch FRONTLINE & The Associated Press' Oscar-winning documentary on Russia's siege of Mariupol told through the lens of Mstyslav Chernov and two colleagues who documented atrocities and their own esc... 001
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026It’s only in coming together that we can fight the isolating forces of the algorithm. 010
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The fiction writer who authored our current reality needs to do better. 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 31/08/2026…a massive mafia-style shakedown scheme to benefit the anti-democratic forces in Venezuela and the US, the president’s friends and supporters, possibly the president and his family?” ??? heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-30-... 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 31/08/2026…what side deals have been struck with the corrupt leaders of their country or ours,& we are supposed to celebrate this act of aggression and theft that violates international law and that could well turn out to be… 100
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 31/08/2026…of their national assets, hails the billions it has already brought in and promises billions more, but we don’t know where the money’s going, how it is going to benefit the US, if it is going to benefit the US, who’s privately going to benefit… 100
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Why? 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… 100
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Algorithmic choices reflect corporate tastes — often, in certain genres, they reflect AI tastes… 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Never 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...open.spotify.comdrum 'n bassPlaylist · false memories · 15 items 110
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.orgAlbania, the voices of the Flamingo revolution - OBCTWhile 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 ... 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Ready to erase. Louis Armand [ @louisarmand.bsky.social ] Michel Delville www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono... 010
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Theories 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. 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Cinema: 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… 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 12/08/2026The News: Imbeciles, presenting contemptuous hourly updates on the state of your own alienation. 010
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The Paris Commune was defeated in isolation. Network! Unity! 010
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 10/08/2026If different forms of the same alienation struggle against each other, this is because they are all based on real contradictions that are repressed. #debord 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 07/08/2026We need to take care of ourselves. We are fragile. 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 07/08/2026It 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... 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Negation 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 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I have let time slip away. I have lost what I should have defended. 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 04/08/2026There is talk about "liberating the cinema" — but what does that matter to us? We want to liberate everyday life. 020
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Ruling 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 010
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Next time, they should just use AI to create an image of MVSN cosplayers standing in formation along a street. Someone should suggest this to them. 110
Reposted by David Locker.g. vašíček @rgvasicek.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I 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"open.substack.comTrust Your Electronic FleshWrite with Your Gothic Soul 011
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026There's no reason why a person can't simply stop and sit down, having encountered a fork in the road they're walking… so to say. 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Erasing 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. 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Erasing 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. 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026We 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... 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026We 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... 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026A) Insert Akira Kurosawa wind sfx to soundtrack. B) Move fader up. 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Performance artists. Without this photo, would their "protest" be real? 110
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Never 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...open.spotify.comambientPlaylist · false memories · 15 items 020
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Documentary 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 010
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 28/07/2026When 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… 001
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Do 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 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 13/07/2026The 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… 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Soldiers 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? ??? 010
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 10/07/2026The struggle against fascism, waged in popular culture, will *transform* popular culture in the process. 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Don't rely on the State, or on the wealthy or influential, for defense. Doing so means that you are close to losing. 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Twenty-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 000
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 06/07/2026The masses should not allow themselves to be groomed for exploitation by the rich, and not the other way around. Nietzsche had it backwards. 010
David Locke @david-locke.bsky.social · 02/07/2026A 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... 000
