Reposted by Edgar UmKen '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻 @k3n5s.bsky.social · 2hThis whole thread is #PunkAF 👊🏻 0228
Reposted by Edgar UmBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 9hWe must build the transit, cities, and systems of care - the infrastructure - our species needs to carry on human civilization. We can't keep hitting snooze on this, lest we are finally awoken by seawater lapping at our pillows. 1337
Reposted by Edgar Um7/4 @sevenfour.bsky.social · 9hseth cluett - a position in equilibrium electronic music morning listening I know the name from NYC now at CMU sethcluett.bandcamp.com/album/a-posi... 291
Reposted by Edgar UmDom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 6hImagine trying to murder someone, twice, and then having to quit your job because you failed 5368
Reposted by Edgar Umsick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 23hjaw dropped when I read this www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w... 3819
Reposted by Edgar UmBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23hEveryone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail. 22795603029
Reposted by Edgar UmAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I cannot over emphasize how wild it is that this isn’t a top story constantly. Any other admin, yes. This one? They’re causing death and suffering in so many novel ways that in terms of body count and scale, this actually credibly ranks lower 110832
Reposted by Edgar UmDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker 351953399
Reposted by Edgar UmNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When I say John Roberts is a liar, hack, anti-democracy ideologue, and enemy of the Constitution, I do so in a civil manner. No yelling or cursing here. But since he will be remembered as an utter disgrace who tried to destroy the republic but failed, some in the future might say it less civilly. 22988202
Reposted by Edgar Umthe hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Can't believe it just cost me $200 to fill up the tank in my Ford F-950 Godzilla-Duty pickup that I drive exclusively to the grocery store and golf course 78018
Reposted by Edgar Ummusicdocumentaries.bsky.social @musicdocumentaries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Here's a great film on percussionist and Revolutionary Trio member Jerome Cooper: youtu.be/PagtD81CypMyoutu.beJerome Cooper a film by Jazz on the TubeYouTube video by We should share Music 0106
Reposted by Edgar UmTate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Eduardo Paolozzi, Secrets of Internal Combustion Engine, 1967 botfrens.com/collections/14375/cont… 0154
Reposted by Edgar UmDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When you have no concept of how people engage with music 5758147869
Reposted by Edgar UmDark Entries Records @darkentries.bsky.social · 30/09/2026He's the one we've all been waiting for.... Edgar! Oakland's bold new pop star brings cumbia into a new world of sleezy disco, warped synthpop and gothic underground. 🌟: edgar-mx.bandcamp.com/album/ 1101
Reposted by Edgar UmDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths. 371709278
Reposted by Edgar UmAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Fun fact: In his diary for Sep 9, 1776, John Adams spent only a single sentence, with no particular enthusiasm, noting Congress had officially adopted the name "United States." He then spent a thousand words recounting his argument with Ben Franklin about whether to close the bedroom window at night 512716
Reposted by Edgar UmKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 30/09/2026I'm absolutely fascinated by "journalism" that can't seem to tell readers an obvious truth. Like the fact this is absolutely meaningless bullshit designed to pre-empt real oversightreuters.comTrump releases AI accord with tech executivesPresident Donald Trump released a document on Tuesday that his administration cast as an accord on artificial intelligence and which he said earlier was signed by him and tech executives that he met... 20390117
Edgar Um @edgarumtcrps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026hysterical to me that every google pixel update is that you have to touch at least two buttons instead of one to do anything completely basic #progress great job everyone 001
Edgar Um @edgarumtcrps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026a terrible thing happened to me recently. i regret ever becoming friends with this person. i recommend no one be friends with him. he will just rob you. 010
Reposted by Edgar UmTheo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026Every AI CEO sounds like this. 81062304
Reposted by Edgar UmStevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026What a time to be alive www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...theguardian.comStevie Wonder releases four unheard songs from Songs in the Key of Life sessionsPreviously unreleased material comes as Wonder marks 50th anniversary of album with arena tour 12911
Reposted by Edgar UmRob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Fucking enrages me when I hear corporate “country” slop above the mason dixon line. we have our own dogshit thank you very much 1343
Reposted by Edgar UmJason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid 123195732
Reposted by Edgar UmMoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Robert Rauschenberg, Rhyme, 1956 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont… 0539
Reposted by Edgar UmThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026They are playing in our faces 409125855969
Reposted by Edgar UmJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se... 3234021269
Reposted by Edgar UmAvant Music News @avantmusicnews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Faust’s Four Founders Revisit the Band’s History in New Interview Four founding members of Faust—Hans Joachim Irmler, Jean-Hervé Péron, Werner “Zappi” Diermaier, and Gunther Wüsthoff—discuss the group’s early experiments and four new solo albums in a Bandcamp Daily interview by Jim Allen. Each…avantmusicnews.comFaust’s Four Founders Revisit the Band’s History in New InterviewFour founding members of Faust—Hans Joachim Irmler, Jean-Hervé Péron, Werner “Zappi” Diermaier, and Gunther Wüsthoff—discuss the group’s early experiments and four new solo albums in a Bandcamp Daily interview by Jim Allen. Each album is credited to Faust and curated by one of the musicians, offering a separate view of the band’s methods rather than a group reunion. The interview also covers their work in 1970s Germany, their use of everyday sounds, and the continuing place of experimentation in their music. 042
Reposted by Edgar UmJohn Swolltrane 🫠 @pigeonhistorian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Coltrane conceived of and performed the composition in response to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 1963—an attack by the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four African-American girls" #coltrane100 youtu.be/saN1BwlxJxAyoutu.beJOHN COLTRANE AlabamaYouTube video by roger b 1218
Reposted by Edgar UmEmily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Trump's never been anything but who he is. He's always been corrupt, incompetent, deeply incurious, ravenous for power, & wholly lacking empathy, ethics, or manners. A rapist, racist, liar, cheat, & bully. His age & behavior may suggest recent mental decline, but the above has always been true. 2/ 17111
Reposted by Edgar UmMissing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It's like when auto insurance companies terminate policies of those who don't get into car accidents. 47215
Reposted by Edgar UmRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful. 47371683222
Reposted by Edgar UmNick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...wsj.comExclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against ParamountThe California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs. 24841371670
Reposted by Edgar UmAquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 21/09/2026At 50, Maddy Prior & June Tabor’s Silly Sisters remains a magical hinge album: two transcendent voices, ancient songs, and luminous harmonies. Recorded in 1976 but somehow outside of time, it’s a raw, sophisticated, mysterious gem hiding in plain sight. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/21/m... 1332
Reposted by Edgar UmNeil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 21/09/2026For all his anti-Trump grandstanding, Newsom is hopelessly ill-suited to handle this authoritarian moment. If Americans want to restore their democracy, they should kick out every one of these establishment Dem assholes at the soonest opportunity. 3419
Reposted by Edgar UmKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not. 7752671564
Reposted by Edgar UmIs This Hell? 🏳️🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026it would be amusing to have someone sue over the special treatment Christianity is given in literally every single aspect of our stupid society 131
Reposted by Edgar UmBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want. 652608906
Reposted by Edgar UmTodd @kinetograph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Laurie Spiegel #BOTD - "Patchwork" lauriespiegel.bandcamp.com/track/patchw... #Musicskylauriespiegel.bandcamp.comPatchwork, by Laurie Spiegelfrom the album The Expanding Universe 02310
Reposted by Edgar UmMalevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back" 11568111527
Reposted by Edgar UmJim Henderson @hendy-77.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Fun fact: When Biden left office the Kennedy Center had a 48.7 million dollar budget surplus. Less than 3 months after Trump replaced all the board members with MAGA Loyalists they were 28.4 million in the hole. Where did the money go? 58049
Edgar Um @edgarumtcrps.bsky.social · 17/09/2026i really hope George Clinton and the family members of Funkadelic get money every time that Sleigh Bells song plays. here's the 2005 obituary of the original song's co-writer (with George Clinton) Ernest Harris in the Uniontown Pennsylvania paper: www.heraldstandard.com/news/2005/fe...heraldstandard.comErnest “E” M. HarrisErnest “E” M. Harris, 66, of California, Pa., passed away Friday, Jan. 28, 2005, in Brownsville, General Hospital. He was born in Brownsville, Pa., on April 28, 1938, a son of the late Charles Waters ... 030
Reposted by Edgar UmElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A lot of Dems could take a lesson from this and openly acknowledge that their opponents are bigots. The resistance (mostly from establishment centrists) to stating plainly what's happening instead of using weasel words for the sake of civility is what makes voters think we're spineless. 633038637
Reposted by Edgar UmBlue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"60 Minutes. More like 60 viewers!" 334593693
Reposted by Edgar UmPatrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“Those towns were no angels.” 2548
Reposted by Edgar UmElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026A 40-year-old unvaccinated woman in Pennsylvania has just died from measles. There is no controversy. She needlessly died from a disease that is preventable with a vaccine. But HHS Secretary RFK Jr. thinks measles isn’t that bad. Nobody should die of measles in the United States.washingtonpost.comPennsylvania woman dies of measles-related complications, local coroner saysThe 40-year-old woman, who was from Jefferson County was unvaccinated, according to the coroner. The state health department is conducting a "thorough review" of the case. 1072066783
Reposted by Edgar UmKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I'm serious when I say I've lost track of all the recent revelations of literal Nazis working in high-level positions in Republican congressional campaigns and I would very much appreciate a journalist who took the time to detail as many of them as can fit into an article. 9768141616
Edgar Um @edgarumtcrps.bsky.social · 13/09/2026hard to be enthused about the Pittsburgh Steelers this season (and last) -- team of conspiracy theory idiots @pittsburghsteelers.bsky.social #Pittsburgh 130
Reposted by Edgar Umtat songs @tatsongs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026My neighborhood coffee shop rules 1224
