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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/04/2026
‘He’d gaze at the stars and go: I’m gonna be up there one day’: Prince by those who knew him best, 10 years after his death
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‘He’d gaze at the stars and go: I’m gonna be up there one day’: Prince by those who knew him best, 10 years after his death
From lurid pranks and late-night drives, to why playing in the Revolution was like joining the marines – Prince’s friends and collaborators recount their memories of one of the music world’s most majestic and mercurial performers
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Andrew Schirmer @dream-beam.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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Five Balearic Cantopop Bangers from SY3 — Test Pressing
SY3 (say it together: "sigh") is a new project out of LA comprised of Kelly Guan, Alex Ho, and Phil Cho. The SY3 crew are all multi-instrumentalists and bonded over a shared love of nice things like H...
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 17/01/2026
Are we honestly doing the World Cup over there? For real?
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
there will prob be a global boycott of US goods by the end of his term
BBC headline reads: "Trump vows extra tariffs for UK, Denmark and other European countries until Greenland deal struck"
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted.
Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.
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Cami @cafiffle.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse
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Andrew Schirmer @dream-beam.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Had a nice chat with Pino & Blake about their lovely new record… testpressing.org/magazine/tes...
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Looking for Left Turns: TP in Conversation with Pino Palladino and Blake Mills — Test Pressing
Records that have been touched by Pino Palladino's fingers include D'Angelo's Voodoo, Gary Numan's I, Assassin, Erykah Badu's Mama's Gun, and Phil Collins's ...But Seriously. Yes, that's Pino's fretle...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/09/2025
"I believe in traditional gender roles, which have served us well for generations. I expect my husband to be the breadwinner, while I take care of the home, and his first wife wails and paces the floors in the night from somewhere above our heads."
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I Believe That Marriage Should Be Between a Man, a Woman, and His Mentally Ill Wife Who Lives In the Attic
Call me old fashioned, but I believe in traditional values, the ones we’ve stood on for centuries. That children are the future. That family comes ...
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Dennis Goris | Cartoons @dennisgoris.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I miss the old brand #CDC
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/08/2025
The Trump administration is making buying cameras, retro games, board games, skincare, flashlights, sex toys, watches, and anything else from overseas far more complicated, slow, and expensive. 🔗 www.404media.co/trump-tariff...
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Trump Tariffs Cause Chaos on Ebay as Every Hobby Becomes Logistical Minefield
Buying cameras, retro games, board games, skincare, flashlights, sex toys, watches, and anything else from overseas just became far more complicated, slow, and expensive.
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theraygun.bsky.social @theraygun.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Hate it or loathe it, RA's come up with the goods here. Nice words from Harvey and Lizzie. And yes, I can safely say, I was there on.soundcloud.com/ZC19U3jCvIsL...
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RA.1000 DJ Harvey & Andrew Weatherall
Andrew Weatherall's first official posthumous mix. The only b2b DJ Harvey ever agreed to. Six hours at Trouw. The rarest of rare for RA.1000: this one's special. When mulling which direction to go in
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Obergefell v. Hodges made me believe in the whole "arc of history bends towards justice." In the 90s, I didn't think gay marriage would be legalized in my lifetime because homophobia was so deeply ingrained. We would have never gotten here without the decision and now it may be overturned.
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 03/08/2025
this is without a doubt the worst book I have ever read, and while I accept that people have different tastes, it baffles me that something so badly written and so grotesque in its prurience has ever been hailed as some kind of great work of literature. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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What our obsession with Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life ...
How did this 730-page novel concerned with horrific abuse become the book of our times?
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NPR @npr.org · 23/07/2025
The man's arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betrayal. [via @wbur.org]
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Former Afghan interpreter for U.S. military detained by ICE after routine immigration appointment
Zia’s arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betra...
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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
More normal behaviour from the peace lover Putin launches spy app to keep Russians in ‘digital gulag’ www.thetimes.com/article/d14c...
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Putin launches spy app to keep Russians in ‘digital gulag’
WhatsApp is to be banned and replaced with Max, which incorporates permanent snooping tech and will be installed on all digital devices sold in Russia
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 17/07/2025
Did you know that Christo and Jeanne Claude wrapped a Snoopy doghouse for the Charles M. Schulz Museum? Thread!
Wrapped Snoopy House, a life-sized doghouse wrapped in tarpaulin, polyethylene, and ropes. Photo by Brennan Spark, courtesy of the Schulz Museum.
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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
The incomparable @tedgioia.bsky.social has shared my intro to PASSPORT TO PARIS AND LOS ANGELES POEMS with his readers. And if you aren’t a reader of his, what are you doing with yourself? Join the club! www.honest-broker.com/p/how-an-exi...
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How an Exiled Russian Noble Became a Great American Songwriter
His story spans everything from Belarus to Balanchine to Bacharach
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 09/07/2025
Gregg Wallace?
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Just going to consult this reference book, “The Consequences of Pursuing Godlike Power,” by The Entire Canon of World Literature
In Pursuit of Godlike Technology, Mark Zuckerberg Amps Up the A.I. Race
Unhappy with his company’s artificial intelligence efforts, Meta’s C.E.O. is on a spending spree as he reconsiders his strategy in the contest to invent a hypothetical “superintelligence.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/06/2025
still think this is one of the greatest posts ever made
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Michael Luo @michaelluo.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
An intense, shocking read, raising all kinds of questions. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 06/06/2025
"Humanity rises and falls as one." *CRASH*
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
A truly great filmmaker. As the article says, a world is disappearing with him.
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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Truly an abomination, to the point where I don’t even see how their political calculus supports it
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The moral and intellectual pygmies around Trump might learn a thing or two from history and America's last grand strategists. Of course they won't. My weekend FT essay. on.ft.com/3GhNw4u
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The last grand strategists: what Brzezinski and Kissinger could teach Trump
[FREE TO READ] Living parallel lives, they counselled presidents and changed the course of the cold war. How would they steer America today?
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 12/04/2025
I needed this. Quality #content.
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Andrew Schirmer @dream-beam.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...
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She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her (Gift Article)
President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.
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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 11/04/2025
"If there is a time and a place for stubborn resistance, there is also a time and a place to plant iris." on.ft.com/3EiP5P5
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How to do without the Donald
[FREE TO READ] For most of us, the realm of international events is a place to visit, not a place to live
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404 Media @404media.co · 08/04/2025
A 'US-Made iPhone' is pure fantasy "The army of millions and millions of people screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones, that kind of thing is going to come to America." 🔗
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A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy
"The army of millions and millions of people screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones, that kind of thing is going to come to America."
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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Here are the US reciprocal tariffs against all the territories mentioned in Enya’s Orinoco Flow
Bissau 10%
Palau 10%
Avalon (UK) 10%
Fiji 32%
Tyree (UK) 10%
Isles of Ebony (UK) 10%
Peru 10%
Cebu (Philippines)  17%
Babylon (Iraq) 39%
Bali (Indonesia) 32%
Cali (Colombia) 10%
Beneath the Coral Sea (Australia) 10%
Ebudæ (UK) 10%
Khartoum (Sudan) 10%
Deep Sea of Clouds 10%
Island of the Moon (Madagascar) 47%
The Ross Dependency (Antarctica) 10%
Tripoli (Libya) 31%
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Reuters @reuters.com · 02/04/2025
Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said that the US had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized US President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like ‘a Roman emperor’ reut.rs/4iRDMfK
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Costa Rican former President Oscar Arias says US revoked his visa
Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said on Tuesday that the U.S. had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like "a Roman emperor."
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 31/03/2025
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Andrew Schirmer @dream-beam.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I reviewed the new Wilson Tanner record for #testpressing testpressing.org/review/wills...
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Willson Tanner ‘Legends’ — Efficient Space — Test Pressing
Test Pressing are happy to welcome a new writer on board. Andrew Schirmer is a music and film fan who we came across on our TP forum writing under the name dreambeam. Andrew came up through raves in S...
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Deeply strange entering middle-age at a time in world history where things are getting measurably worse. Just a continual psychic struggle of “is this fogeyism or are things just not what they used to be?”
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404 Media @404media.co · 27/03/2025
Studio Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki, Who Said AI Is ‘Insult to Life Itself,” Reduced to AI-Generated Meme by OpenAI 🔗 www.404media.co/hayao-miyaza...
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Hayao Miyazaki, Who Said AI Is ‘Insult to Life Itself,” Reduced to AI-Generated Meme by OpenAI
The internet is flooded with AI-generated images in the style of Studio Ghibli, whose founder said “I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.”
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 24/03/2025
‘No populism, right or left, has so far produced a powerful remedy for the ills it denounces. Programmatically, the contemporary opponents of neoliberalism are still for the most part whistling in the dark.’ New: Perry Anderson on neoliberalism after the crash. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Perry Anderson · Regime Change in the West?
Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures –...
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Andy Mackenzie @andymack.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Lee Perry would have been 89 today. Sending birthday wishes to wherever in the universe the Black Ark has docked
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28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
“Boyz II Stronger Men: Achieving a Better Masculinity Through Slow Jams” (Simon and Schuster, 2026)
tweet from @bigsnugga:

i was raised on silk shirt rnb so all that incel shit never hit for me, i believe in beggin for the pussy. outside in the rain, crying, throwing up, just for a sniff. thats your role as a man
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Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
We need more of this. "C'est fou. C'est simple. C'est fou. Point final." ...
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Meta's trying to suppress Sarah Wynn-Williams book because it exposes what an amoral man child Mark Zuckerberg is and how Facebook "doesn't give a fuck" about people. Sarah, who is a friend, knows what she's talking about. She worked at Meta for years. Buy her book! www.amazon.com/Careless-Peo...
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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism [Wynn-Williams, Sarah] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Comparisons often drawn between Trump and many other regimes: Germany in 30s; Mussolini's Italy But I keep thinking about a much more recent parallel. My latest, on how oligarchy destroys democracy and what 1990s Russia might teach us about Trump's US democracyforsale.substack.com/p/want-to-un...
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Want to understand Trump’s US? Look at late ‘90s Russia
Oligarchs looting the state. A weak, divided opposition. A strongman consolidating power. The lessons of 1990s Russia feel alarmingly relevant today.
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
When exactly did The World of Yesterday become the world of now?
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 04/03/2025
About that whole "risk-free asset" thing... on.ft.com/41hSg0Q
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Investors dare to imagine a world beyond the dollar
[FREE TO READ] The US could dismantle its own exorbitant privilege by pushing the big bond market beasts into the arms of others
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
we've reached the point that the WSJ opinion section is publishing pieces with headlines like this, just saying
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Gideon Rachman @gideonrachman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The biggest hope we have is that Trump’s unchecked lunacy blows up the Maga movement quite quickly. It’s looking quite promising ….
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