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drew beck @drewbeck.bsky.social · 16h

I think that's true of most places. That's why I – a Berkeley boy – moved to the big grimy (NYC)

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drew beck @drewbeck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh is hank getting up?? 🎨🎨🎨

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.” - Albert Einstein

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drew beck @drewbeck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I agree with this but I don’t think “ideological bias” is actually a problem. I don’t believe there’s a way to live without ideology and so without ideological bias. For instance: I am biased toward taking care of others bc of my values. Is this bias itself wrong?

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drew beck @drewbeck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A masterpiece “Look I don’t do this every day, you got style All you’ve got is style”

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drew beck @drewbeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh man I’ve been loving this record recently. This song esp. the production is very Joni from the same period — fretless bass, the floaty gorgeous layering — which tickles me extra as a Joni diehard.

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drew beck @drewbeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Great stuff. Very Avedon in the American West, too.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/09/2026

Porco Rosso mural, Mexico City

Porco in the cockpit of his plane smoking a cigarette and giving a thumbs up

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drew beck @drewbeck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s not just “how can we use this to extract more wealth” it’s also “how can this make us personally better in every way”. Maybe the best historical analog is EST / human potential movement. But now it’s fully blended with tech instead of just riding alongside.

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drew beck @drewbeck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s wild to see how AI has infected the wealthy and powerful — many are all in on letting it transform themselves which feels different from other technological developments.

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drew beck @drewbeck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Something wild about some men finally finding something they'll listen to and it's AI.

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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.

From meteorologist Eric Snitil

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights**

"Heads up birders, I would not be surprised if the biggest bird migration night of the year happens over the next 2 nights. Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight. That is a lot, but the pattern could not be better for migratory birds. A massive area of high pressure will turn the low level winds from the northeast to the southwest across most of the US. The last time we had anything similar to this in the fall was early October last year when a record 1.25 billion birds were in flight. I doubt we get to that level, but I suspect the number will top 500 million especially Monday night which looks to be the bigger of the two nights. You can help by turning off those outdoor lights on big migration nights, and the next 2 nights is about as big as it gets."

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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drew beck @drewbeck.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is good. These days it’s hard not to Zizek as the critical theory Jordan Peterson — vibes-based political and cultural analysis, validating our intelligence while remaining steadfastly entertaining. He represented perhaps the peak and also the end of critical theory mania.

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Rest in Power, Nex @weareallnexb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Seen in Berkeley artist unknown Red Lines Built Your Berkeley Home

A mural that says Red Lines bought your Berkeley home

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drew beck @drewbeck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is beautiful. There’s a collectivity in int’l football fans that I don’t think I’ve ever felt once in a stadium in the US. It’s so inspiring.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 15/09/2026

#OtD 15 Sep 1983 Michael Stewart, a 25-year-old Black student, was beaten to death by 10 NYPD officers after being caught painting graffiti. The medical examiner then helped them cover up the murder. No officers were convicted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8745...

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drew beck @drewbeck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No legs floatin' ghost–ass dress

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drew beck @drewbeck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The remedy ofc isn't his friends voting in primaries – there aren't enough wealthy people to move the needle via voting. No, it's 'civic entrepreneurship' aka lobbying and otherwise spending money to get the people you want elected. Calling it "philanthropy" is how you justify this to yourself.

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drew beck @drewbeck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bad apples, you know. Cops and klan etc etc

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“The modern mind longs for the future as the medieval mind longed for Heaven.” - Wendell Berry

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drew beck @drewbeck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If they want visuals this is very very good. All Day extended music video, basically, through the streets of NYC youtu.be/UYStHmyoAsw?...

youtu.be

Girl Walk // All Day

YouTube video by Alyson Hutchison

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drew beck @drewbeck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I also don't understand it, but them blocking people is fully in the "you do you" bucket. Plus it's a win-win – there was never going to be a relationship there!

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drew beck @drewbeck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Why aren't you like me 😡" is pernicious and growing past it is how we survive together.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 08/09/2025

Hugh Mangum, an photographer, travelled all across the US from the 1890s till his death in 1922s. Possibly ignoring segregation laws in some places he welcomed everybody in front of his camera. The results are fantastic. If only these photos could talk. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Ma...

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 08/09/2025

There's a wonderful book about Hugh and his work; www.amazon.com/Where-Find-O...

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drew beck @drewbeck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Critical theory is back, baby!

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drew beck @drewbeck.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is like Andreesen saying that nobody introspected before modern times. An opinion of a fool.

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Steve Olson @steveolson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The whole point of parties is assembling 50% +1 of the vote by acting in the interests of whomever you need to total up to that. How can anyone blame trans folks (or anyone else) for suggesting their votes are conditional on support from the party?! It’s literally the party’s only job.

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drew beck @drewbeck.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When have your rights and your life ever been on the chopping block Will? When has your right to live been up for debate? And if they were, are you sure you’d happily, quietly, vote for those who spoke out in favor of your death?

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

BOB DYLAN writing in The New York Times on being 80. We’re so used to Dylan being an enigmatic & elusive trickster that it’s always a delightful surprise when he writes something so personal, heartfelt and wise.

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drew beck @drewbeck.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is such a good series!! Watch them all.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

More than 3000 people died of AIDS every year in NYC between 1987 and 1997. Between 1991 and 1996, it was over 6000 per year, peaking at above 8000 in 1994 and 1995. The scale of suffering and loss was magnified by the fear and stigmatization attached to it. Unimaginably tragic.

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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drew beck @drewbeck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sky of blackness and sorrow Sky of love, sky of tears Sky of glory and sadness Sky of mercy, sky of fear Sky of memory and shadow Your burnin’ wind fills my arms tonight Sky of longing and emptiness Sky of fullness, sky of blessed life

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11/2003 I think the memorial lights are beautiful and perfect and elegant.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think we'd see a lot more urgency about regulating AI in Silicon Valley if the AI agents suddenly developed a sense of restorative justice, and instead of them threatening humanity with total extinction, they just wanted to redistribute wealth and reverse power hierarchies.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In fact, it's imperative that YOU DON'T DO THIS if you consider yourself to be on the Left(s). Stop being ridiculous.

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big bleat from badsville @djepelgesh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time

a picture from the NY Post titled " today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century guillotine-loving revolutionaries" (way too long) that shows Mamdani (the specter haunting Europe) smiling in the sky as a bunch of French people goof around

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Sorana 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇷🇴🌈 🎹📸💃🏽🧘🏽‍♀️📿🍉🥗☀️💌🛼👾🎊🥃📚🚘📈 @soranasantos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Indeed! Happy 80th birthday, Freddie Mercury! One of the most masterful frontmen & bridges between his embodiment of the music & the audience in front of him. He seems so present & connected in every second here. #Music #MusicSky #MusicianSky

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