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I’ve been thinking a lot about Pyrrhus and how it’s more directly insightful about the civilizational significance of the Odyssey than the Odyssey film (even though it’s about a different part of those legends). The analytical frame she builds is so good. Anyway, vibing through the afternoon…

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It looks good playing too! 🫀

Photo of The Fatal Flaw Insomnia Vinyl playing on a black and copper record player with the album cover behind it illuminated by a Now Playing sign

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I gave in! This is the rough trade exclusive, called the Insomina Vinyl.

Photo of The Fatal Flaw Insomnia Vinyl by Paris Paloma. Standard cover of her in a flowing white gown by a red heart vein tree surrounded by darkened blue curtains on stairs, a poster of the hand drawn illustration of the heart and vein tree, an lp folder with a photo of her holding a dove looking off to the side. The vinyl is a transparent brown with white, gray and beige splatter.

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I went with the AT-LP70x because I really want this to work for a long time with no fuss or anymore major changes. It was interesting to fiddle with counterweights etc but I’m over it now. Happy with this choice!

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ARMS OUTSTRETCHED BACK FROM THE DEAD

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YES! “I'm like, OK, Ed Sheeran, whatever, but if it doesn't direct the attention to Robert Kraft and if it doesn't direct the attention to the people who actually have the power who are doing these things, then it's for naught.”

“RHIANNON GIDDENS: Right. And I understood that that was a difficult decision. But for me, it wasn't a difficult decision. You know what I mean? Like, you're a multimillionaire. But anyway, look. The second thing is, is just what you said. I'm like, OK, Ed Sheeran, whatever, but if it doesn't direct the attention to Robert Kraft and if it doesn't direct the attention to the people who actually have the power who are doing these things, then it's for naught. We have to be informed.

We have to inform ourselves and stop expecting celebrities to do it for us. We have to go, "What do we stand for?" What are we putting our money towards?
What are we putting our time towards? The entertainment complex is massive. It's too big. There's too many people out there. You know what I'm saying?

Like, put me out of a job. Pick up a banjo, play some music, write your own song. Not to perform for other people but to just like process the emotions that are going on right now. People need art to do that, but they need to do it themselves. And be inspired by somebody who is a really good songwriter or whatever; I'm not saying that. There's room for both.”

RHIANNON GIDDENS: Mmhmm, yeah. One of our members is Lebanese. Being in a group that includes somebody from the Congo, that includes somebody from the Armenian diaspora, that includes somebody from India-being in a group where people are bringing the histories with them and telling personal stories, telling what this means, puts it all in a different light. You're just like, if I can't do something like this, what am I doing? What am I doing? We now do "Wein a Ramallah" in our show. And I have interpolated-I've put in-l've written verses about Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Wilmington, 1898, into it. And it's like, if we don't pull our struggles together, if we don't connect the struggles together and the overall larger patterns of extraction, the larger patterns of colonialism, the larger patterns of empire, the larger patterns of massive moneymaking-if we don't connect those dots between the struggles, we are never going to get anywhere. So for me, that's what music is for. That's what art is for. And that's why we have to make music with people from different backgrounds. Because then we have that conversation and then it turns into a song and then it turns into a performance.

Rhiannon Giddens interviewed continued (answer to different question):

“But I think that an artist's job is to push on these fissures in society, is to make people uncomfortable, is to make people think about what they're doing, is to make people think, "Who are we morally?" So people who are in power only want the things that are going to keep them in power and that are going to not challenge them. Artists are going to challenge them because that is what we do. So yeah, let's take it down. Take down the Kennedy Center. Take down-what, 40% of new music on Spotify is Al? Like, you see-it's happening. It's happening. People don't even know that they're listing to Al music. The Grammys have-they're not making a stand on how much of music is Al.
We have to label-it should be labeled, it should be regulated, so people can choose whether they opt into Al or not. But this idea, this myth of inevitability-"Well, it's going to happen anyway, so we gotta get in front of it"-no!
Nobody agreed on this. Just the people with the money and the power agreed on this. You know what I mean? So we deserve the opportunity to say, "No."”

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The fractured nature of social media mixed with the Bluesky lack of algorithm sometimes makes things like this feel like a game of telephone ☎️ So for the equally clueless late awakers…

Screenshot from Instagram (I think as I got it from Reddit)

“taylorswift: About a year ago, you guys did a truly unfathomable thing. Something that completely blew my mind... You gave The Life of a Showgirl the biggest first week for an album in history. I took a trip to Sweden to celebrate with Max and Shellback, my two collaborators on this album.
Really we just wanted to reflect and take in how grateful we were for the moment we were in, but there was a studio there and we did what we do when we feel anything at all: We wrote more songs.
I hope you love them, because they were born out of pure gratitude for your exuberance for and celebration of the album we made. The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore including four new songs is out on Friday and available to pre-order and save now”.

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This is the best kind of news to be behind on as a mountain/pacific time zone person vs when horrible things happen overnight and we wake up several hours into a nightmare discourse. Also IT WAS twelve exclamation marks for the og tracks plus four 0’s for new ones on a deluxe edition lmao

AppleMusic entry for The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore by Taylor Swift a deluxe edition available for presave.

Screenshot of the end of the track list for Life of A Showgirl: The Encore

12. The Life of a Showgirl (feat. Sabrina
Carpenter)

Disc 2

1. Patient Zero

2. Cleveland!

3. Pink Clouding

4. Babylon

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Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This was a perfect day. I clowned for hours with my pocket friends. I had an impromptu date night with my person at a local foodie spot I’ve never been to before where we sat outside in IDEAL weather. And then I picked up a new (better) turntable to replace my broken one. ❤️‍🔥🖤🩶🤍

Photo of the outdoor patio at The Post restaurant in Longmont with the string lights on.

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2016 really was a wild year because WHAT IS THIS?!

Movie poster for “the Great Wall” starring Matt Damon, Jing Tian and Pedro Pascal. It also has William Defoe in it for some reason (not pictures on the poster which features two other characters). They are dressed in vaguely medieval armor taking battle stances.

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Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I slept in and now feel all sorts of disoriented haha like what is this

Screenshot of lyrics with os randomly capitalized

But you don't know the life Of a shOwgirl, babe

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Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Need to make this the tagline lol

Screenshot from AppleMusic for The Fool by Queen Herby & THOT

Displayed lyrics:

It's a bop, bippity-boo
Witchy bitches comin' through.

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Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Speaking of solidarity…with alt text

“This is to advise that, effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the President.
This follows the White House's position preventing CNN from fulfilling its assigned pool duties. There will be no replacement pool put in place.
All other pool coverage will continue as normal, including Congress, VIPs, and selected events in Washington and around the country.
We will provide updates as this situation develops.”

Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Also if you have a lot of people in your social network caught up in fascist/supremacist ways of thinking it’s worth it to click and read through to the end. There is something powerful in both being honest about how they are wrong but also releasing yourself from the responsibility to change them.

Last idea for now: You are responsible for your own improvement, not that of others.

Can we imagine an improved John Gannon? I can.

He's had a terrible shock, and he's not alone. A lot of people have recently been faced with the incontrovertible evidence that they belong to a system that exists to abuse and consume human beings.

An improved and improving John Gannon would have to be a John Gannon capable of thinking "who is affected more than me?" and capable of hearing "yes actually this is who we are."

How could we get John Gannon there? is the usual question, but I don't think it's the right question. I think the right question is: Is there anyone who might do something that might help him get himself there?”

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Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yes. But we are still kind of allergic to this especially where it intersects with faith. IMO saying things like “this is not REAL Christianity” or “there are good and bad republicans” is a form of sidestepping this very needed interrogation of entire worldviews:

“The first idea I offer is this: Our primary opposition is for the worldview, not the individual.

As I see it, we are in contention, first and foremost, with a terrible anti-human worldview. It's a worldview that puts us in frequent but secondary contention with the actual human beings who ascribe to it and promote it, literally all of whom would be better off free of it. So, we would do well to realize the difference between individual stories of Me and collective stories of Us. We'd do best to save our empathy (where appropriate) for individuals, while being ruthless with worldviews.”

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Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wow this is EXCELLENT and his suggestions on how to reframe these conversations at the end is well worth your time BUT this description of the internal logic created by ideologies that preach we are “good ones” in contrast to some other “bad ones” is a must read:

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Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I love that the high seats in stadiums in Colorado makes for epic viewing 📸 my on location reporters

Picture of coors field from the upper 300 level, the whole stadium visible with sun rays braking through dark vlouds set against patches of blue sky.

Zoomed in view of the mountains from the upper 300 level at Coors field

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Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Not sure how many NEEDTOBREATHE fans are lurking on this app but this is for you if you find it

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Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ok so problematic issues aside Bear’s voice is so distinct and he and his people really know how to put on a good show. Plus all of my videos include loud cameos of my husband singing his heart out lol so I am calling last night a major success. I think I’m obsessed with red rocks at this point.

Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Touching grass with the calmest red rocks crowd imaginable lol

Photo of red rocks as we wait for opening act to start from row 40th with blue cloudy sky as the sun sets behind us.

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Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This man is a christian libertarian who is mad his religion is in power because he can’t frame himself and his socially uncomfortable beliefs as those held by a poor little persecuted minority anymore. I think it’s the “we haven’t changed” part that is breathtaking for me.

“Staver argues that the Christian law firms have stayed true to their mission, which is promoting conservative values and the free expression of
religion.

"We haven't changed," Staver said. "They have."

Whitehead says that he now sees other issues - including the rights of immigrants and the growth of Flock cameras and other surveillance — as more urgent than the issue of religious liberty.”

Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

yeah man, just like Pete Seeger (Also he has to mean Frank Schaffer here…right?!)

Whitehead found himself somewhat in the middle, a place that maybe made sense for someone who counted among his best friends the evangelical theologian Francis Schaeffer and the left-wing singer Pete Seeger.