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david @dhla.me · 26/09/2026

weekly listening 5x5

5x5 grid of weekly album listening, including:

Ween - The Pod
Cabaret Voltaire - CODE (2026 Remaster)
Various Artists - Tresor 3 (Three)
Infiniti - Infiniti Collection (Remastered & Expanded)
Juno Reactor - Transmissions

Vril - KRUX
Alan Lomax - Negro Prison Blues and Songs
Simon Goff - Interior Realms - vol. I
Plastikman - Musik (2024 Remastered)
Gez Varley - Dead Side

Jessica Lea Mayfield - Miss Obliteration
Deadbeat - Drawn and Quartered
Atom™ - HD+ Video Works
Pixies - Bossanova x Trompe Le Monde (Live)
RAC - Diversions

The Durutti Column - Renascent
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Front Line Assembly - Tactical Neural Implant
Oren Ambarchi - Hubris (10th Anniversary Remaster)
The Black Dog featuring Ofra Haza - Babylon Featuring Ofra Haza (Remastered)

The Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Future Is Your Past
Atom™ - <3
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Portion Control - 1983-86 - Hit The Pulse to Purge...
Pixies - Trompe le Monde (2026 Remaster)

david @dhla.me · 24/09/2026

Cool to see the UAD model of the Empirical Labs Distressor on sale for $29. Easily my favorite compressor - versatile, generally sounds good on everything, nice distortion options. www.pluginboutique.com/product/2-Ef...

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david @dhla.me · 22/09/2026

Top BS songs that do this: A National Acrobat The Thrill of it All Into the Void Sleeping Village Lord of This World Killing Yourself to Live

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 22/09/2026

Well look at that, Trump got exactly what he wanted out of the exchange with Mamdani, and Mamdani successfully bypassed a media boycott.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 22/09/2026

It sure is weird how the usual news clipper accounts on here completely ignored this bit of the Q&A section, isn't it?

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david @dhla.me · 20/09/2026

“Who By Fire” Wishing a meaningful fast to those who fast, and a more compassionate year ahead to everyone.

Vinyl copy of Leonard Cohen’s Greatest Hits

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 20/09/2026

During Yom Kippur, I wish my fellow Jewish Americans a meaningful, peaceful and gentle fast. G’mar Chatimah Tovah.

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david @dhla.me · 19/09/2026

Weekly listening 5x5

5x5 grid showing weekly album listening, including:

Peer Raben - Veronika Voss & Lola
Juno Reactor - Transmissions
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
James Ruskin - Further Design (2026 Remaster)
Gez Varley - South Bay

Pixies - Bossanova x Trompe Le Monde (Live)
Head High - HOME.HOUSE.HARDCORE.2
Immersion - What Is Lost Will Return
The Hub - Boundary Layer
Tom Middleton - Spatial Sleep Music

Mikkel Rev - Evocation
Robert Hood - Nighttime World Vol. 1
Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
Pixies - Trompe le Monde (2026 Remaster)
Stone Temple Pilots - No. 4

Fah - In Ways of Summer
Psyche - Elements 1989-1990
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple (Super Deluxe Edition) [2019 Remaster]
Moodymann - Taken Away
Diary - Spiral Bound

Hallucinator - Landlocked
Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music... Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop (Super Deluxe Edition) [2021 Remaster]
Earth - A Bureaucratic Desire for Extra Capsular Extraction
Earth Trax - Everlasting Flame
High Rise - High Rise II

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david @dhla.me · 18/09/2026

this will increase prices on pretty much every physical good, and I really hope we can remember whose illegal and idiotic war is to blame (and whose party did nothing to stop it).

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 17/09/2026

New: Trump called crypto "thin air." Last year, he reported $1.4 billion in income from it. Buyers of his crypto? They're an estimated $4.7 billion underwater. I made an 8-bit game out of it— 📈 Play as Trump: you cannot lose money. 📉 Play as an investor: you cannot win.

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‘THIN AIR,’ REAL MONEY — The Trump Crypto Game

An 8-bit game about real money. Play as Trump: you only make money. Play as an investor: you only lose. Every figure is drawn from Public Citizen's report and the sources it cites.

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Universal-Sci @universal-sci.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Meet Hoag’s Object, a galaxy that shouldn’t look like this Its enormous ring contains billions of stars Most ring galaxies are created by collisions between galaxies. But in this case, a collision appears unlikely So what created it? We still don’t know (Credit: NASA/(STScI/AURA)/Ray A. Lucas)

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david @dhla.me · 16/09/2026

I love how the cope keeps amounting to “all he has to do is [series of things he’s repeatedly proved incapable of doing] and we’re fine”

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 16/09/2026

Everything's falling into place

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david @dhla.me · 16/09/2026

I uh…did not realize they sang in English.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

“trump will destroy everything he cannot own in perpetuity” is one reason i am filled with dread over 2028

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david @dhla.me · 14/09/2026

Rabbi Alan Lew - This is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared. Heavy Days of Awe reading. Like much of the best Judaica, there's nary an answer, just more probing questions. And we wonder why Jews are associated with high anxiety...

Passage from Rabbi Alan Lew's book, This is Real and You Are Completey Unprepared, reading: "And here is the bad news I have come to deliver. This is a true story, and it is not about me or my mother or a man desperate to blow the shofar. It is about you. It is really happening, and it is happening to you, and you are seriously unprepared.

"And is it real whether you believe in God or not. Perhaps God made it real and perhaps God did not. Perhaps God created this pageant of judgment and choice, of transformation, of life and of death. Perhaps God created the Book of Life and the Book of Death, Teshuvah and the blowing of the shofar. Or perhaps these are all just inventions of human culture. It makes no difference. It is equally real in any case."

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david @dhla.me · 13/09/2026

Individually these things all seem petty, but put it together and you understand why it's going to likely take some new constitutional amendments before other countries ever trust the US again.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What's happening is very simple. Tucker is a Nazi, and he's anti-Israel for Nazi reasons as opposed to anti-Israel for anti-genocide reasons. Consequently, he's going to side with the more anti-Israel candidate because that's his defining animus. You don't have to respect it or praise it.

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david @dhla.me · 12/09/2026

Weekly listening 5x5

5x5 Chart of weekly album listening, including:

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Munki
Portion Control - 1983-86 - Hit The Pulse to Purge...
Topdown Dialectic - False LP A
Harmony Index - Lights On
Pharaoh's Daughter - Songs of Desire

Dinosaur Jr. - There Near
Front Line Assembly - Tactical Neural Implant
Gez Varley - South Bay
Sova - Alight!
Captain Sky - The Adventures Of Captain Sky

Peer Raben - Veronika Voss & Lola
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Damage and Joy
Dina Summer - Children Of The Night
Astralasia - Alien Love Song
Juno Reactor - Transmissions

Robert Hood - Minimal Nation
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
Dane Law & Chants - Bonded Pairs
Juno Reactor - Bible of Dreams
Miles Davis - Live-Evil

Miles Davis - The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions
System 7 - 777 [Us]
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned (Remastered 2017)
Clinic Stars - Only Hinting
FAH - In Ways of Summer

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david @dhla.me · 11/09/2026

Shana Tova everyone! To a sweet and peaceful new year 🍎🍯

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david @dhla.me · 11/09/2026

You know how it is - if it’s not about enriching or celebrating him, why should he care?

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david @dhla.me · 10/09/2026

And this is tame compared to the comments on any social media post that actually involves Judaism. Also why I’ve been tearing my hair out for years begging people to take a firm line against conspiracy theorists.

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david @dhla.me · 10/09/2026

what I don't get is that it's not like saying "he's different now than when I supported him" is some horrible thing to do - people change and not always for the better! Unless, of course, you feel the need to dictate reality so that you've always been right about everything.

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david @dhla.me · 10/09/2026

What really kills me about the last decade or so of populism is that it's very social media-poisoned - prioritizing the magnitude of promises vs actual follow-through, then telling anyone who wants actual plans that they just don't *believe* hard enough. Sick of it!

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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Aright today's the day. It's @theartsdesk.bsky.social's birthday and your last chance to get the founders' subscription rate in perpetuity. A little story: in 2009 the papers were gutting their arts coverage, thanks to advertising collapsing post the 2008 crash. Following yet another announcement

09.09.09

the day the arts got their own paper

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david @dhla.me · 09/09/2026

The OpenAI controversy seems to be bringing out the smug “expert on whatever thing it is this week” brigade. It’s just extra funny when it’s advanced fluid dynamics. It’s really okay to sit this one out, o TikTok scholars!

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david @dhla.me · 08/09/2026

Hilarious/frustrating watching American populists try to blame SPD for AfD’s victory with the same “economic anxiety” BS suggesting the fascist base are leftists in waiting. It’s a parliamentary system and Die Linke, Greens, and hell BSW were on the ballot. Why didn’t they smoke AfD then?

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The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is what you get when you build a force to terrorize immigrant communities and recruit for it with Great Replacement fear mongering and slogans borrowed from white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

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david @dhla.me · 07/09/2026

The most obnoxious thing about Elizabeth Holmes is that we keep getting sold this idea that there's some incredible story there. She tried to inhabit the right stereotypes to be a "young genius", she lied about important things, and she got caught.

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david @dhla.me · 05/09/2026

Dinosaur Jr. jamming in a late summer release, all infectious melodies. And the great lyric, “There’s nothing quite as bad as a bored edgelord”

Vinyl copy of the Dinosaur Jr. album, There Near

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david @dhla.me · 05/09/2026

One thing that occurs to me: part of his job is being regularly briefed on exactly who is getting sick and dying. He understands all of it, how his policies contribute, and he's reminded of it constantly.

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david @dhla.me · 05/09/2026

🧵 1/ Bandcamp Friday - need some recs? For starters, see my piece on CDM about favorite releases of 2026 so far: cdm.link/the-best-les... Next up, some newer stuff - including a lot just out today, specials, and preorders:

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The best lesser-sung sounds of 2026 so far - CDM Create Digital Music

It's time for a sonic refill. David Abravanel is here with a full supply of lush arps, washes of sound, rapid-fire grooves -- everything Appleblim to Posthuman to Vladislav Delay Quintet, Suzanne Cian...

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david @dhla.me · 04/09/2026

Weekly listening 5x5

5x5 grid of album covers showing weekly listening, including:

Larry Heard - Alien
SKY H1 - Azure
Zomby - With Love
Floorplan - M-Print: 20 Years of M-Plant Music
Dinosaur Jr. - There Near

The Breeders - Lsxx (Last Splash 20th Anniversary Edition)
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
Chris & Cosey - Songs of Love & Lust
Severed Heads - Living Museum
Front Line Assembly - Tactical Neural Implant

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
Todd Rundgren - A Cappella
Madonna - CONFESSIONS II
The Comet Is Coming - Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
Erykah Badu, The Alchemist - Before The World Blows

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Liquid Son - Garden of Eden
LMan - SID Chip Club (unmastered)
Miles Davis - Nefertiti
Severed Heads - Cuisine (with Piscatorial)

Windy & Carl with Optigan Conservatory - Windy & Carl Meet Optigan Conservatory
Cabaret Voltaire - CODE (2026 Remaster)
Flying Saucer Attack - Further
Mikkel Rev - Evocation
Nuron - Nuron + Fugue 1993-1996

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david @dhla.me · 04/09/2026

Sharing this again cuz we all need some humor and I put moderate effort in here.

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david @dhla.me · 04/09/2026

I'd love to see the actual language RFK's social media intern used to prompt this, because I guarantee it didn't stop at "suggest they're friends who like to eat healthy and nothing more"

AI-generated image from RFK Jr's Twitter feed, showing RFK and JD Vance sitting at a restaurant table, with RFK feeding Vance a spoonful of sauerkraut. There's a steak in front of RFK. In the background, partially hiding behind a pillar, Marco Rubio watches the two of them while munching on a frosted pop tart. It looks like the cover to a gay porn flick.

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david @dhla.me · 03/09/2026

Some surprise sunshine, so playing an album that always sounds like summer to me. The included fake ringwear was funnier on the CD cover, really.

Vinyl copy of the Queens of the Stone Age album, Era Vulgaris

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david @dhla.me · 03/09/2026

It’s positively chilling the extent to which the world’s wealthiest man engages in racialist pseudoscience with zero professional consequences.

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david @dhla.me · 03/09/2026

major point here. Social media tends to turn everything into a fandom, both erasing nuance and insisting that entire categories of things must be all-bad or all-good. Actual positive change and progress often doesn't look like what you celebrate in a fandom.

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david @dhla.me · 02/09/2026

“No one person should get to dictate reality” would, you’d think, be something to bear in mind if you wanted people to trust you as both an info source and a repository for your most sensitive info.

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david @dhla.me · 02/09/2026

Apparently the NYC skies are also aware that today is the anniversary of JAMC’s best album.

Vinyl and CD copies of the Jesus and Mary Chain album, Darklands

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david @dhla.me · 01/09/2026

Certainly the most affecting song you'll ever hear named after Octopussy.

Vinyl copy of The Wedding Present album, Seamonsters.

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david @dhla.me · 01/09/2026

Cloudy with a Chance of (Meat?)balls

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david @dhla.me · 31/08/2026

Don’t normally share these, but it was one of *those* today Wordle 1,899 6/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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david @dhla.me · 31/08/2026

Awful watching this slide continue. Only tempered by the fact that as long as they don’t have a majority, it’s unlikely that any party (BSW? 🧲) would coalition with them.

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david @dhla.me · 31/08/2026

Been going through Buffy the Vampire Slayer with the guy. Buffy and Faith dressed like clubbers from the intro to Blade dancing to Curve's "Chinese Burn" is the most wonderfully 1998 thing I think I've ever seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zqv...

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Chinese Burn

YouTube video by WatchWithMati

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