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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you Pete Hegseth for getting rid of the weirdos and beardos. by Elon Musk and JD Vance

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

robert kraft screaming, crying, throwing up

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Jay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Finally getting a chance to check out @flashstrap.bsky.social's -TWO-HOUR mega-tribute to calypso legend Mighty Sparrow, who died earlier this week at ripe old age of 91 wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

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The Calypso Genius! Sparrow Spectacular!! (+ 3 Insects of Different Sizes): Explorers Room with Flash Strap

Audio & playlist from October 1, 2026

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Anthology Film Archives @anthologyfilm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

WOMEN IN ANIMATION October 11-15 Guest-programmed by Rachael Guma, this series attempts to chronicle the many talents of women working in animation. Featuring CYCLES by the Sunflower Lane collective.

Still from SUNFLOWER LANE. Paper collage image of a woman in bed in a colorful room.

Still from SUNFLOWER LANE. A tampon, an iron, and a perfume bottle, all with clay facial features and googly eyes.

Still from INTERGALACTIC ZOO. An abstractly rendered, cartoony elephant against a black background.

Still from EVERY CHILD. Black-outlined drawing of a male doctor holding a baby and talking sternly to a woman.

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Floating World Comics @floatingworld.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Forming & Like Swimmers release party – Jesse Moynihan and Dash Shaw signing their new books at Floating World this Saturday Oct. 3 from 4-6pm! Then join us at Clinton St. Theater for 'Cartoonists in Person' – an exclusive screening and artist talk starting at 7pm.

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Jay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

HAHAHAHA Never saw this before. Iggy on drums.

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Flash Strap @flashstrap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sparromania time, starting now! PAN WITH ME, JAM WITH ME, FETE WITH ME::::::::::::::::::::::::

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Under Secretary Hegseth’s new plan, servicemen with low blood alcohol levels will be required to undergo vodka replacement therapy.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As a transphobic male senator, there is nothing more important to me than protecting women's sports. Here's why it never occurred to me that Jack Smith, a man, would choose to attend a women's college basketball game. by Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO)

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

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Jay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sue Carpenter's doc film about KBLT, the pirate radio station she ran out of her silver lake apartment in the mid-'90s, is coming and going right now on various streaming services www.justwatch.com/us/movie/40-...

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40 Watts from Nowhere streaming: where to watch online?

Watch "40 Watts from Nowhere" · Full movie online for free · Check all streaming services such as Netflix, Prime Video & Disney+ – including 4K options!

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Greg Davis @gregdavismusic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

latest episode of Raga Vibrations on NTS is up! www.nts.live/shows/raga-v...

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Raga Vibrations 26th September 2026

Playing Indian Classical.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My three-year-old was watching the Jack Smith hearings yesterday when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why does the Senator think the nice bearded man was in Atlanta?" And when I told her "Because our Senate is filled with fucking idiots," she started crying.

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Jay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Two pieces on John Coltrane from the Arthur Magazine archive, plus Gary Lawless's 'Caribouddhism,' a Sally Cruikshank oldie, Andre Codrescu and his incredible friend, Frank Shyong's latest investigation, new Hiram, local javelina report, more... jaybabcock.substack.com/p/landline-s...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud.

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Jeff Golick @jgolick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't post a lot of work-related content here, but I'm so overjoyed about this one, I can't help myself: Lynda Barry reading Lynda Barry's CRUDDY -- on audio for the first time, just released: www.audible.com/pd/Cruddy-Au...

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Cruddy

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. On a September night in 1971, a few days after getting busted for dropping acid, a sixteen-year-old curls up in the corner of her ratty bedroom and begins t...

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Jay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Honestly, why can't every Monday going forward open with new songs recovered from Stevie Wonder's vault of unreleased '70s material...

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tim Maia was born in Rio de Janeiro 🇧🇷 on this day in 1942 📸 Ana Carolina Fernandes, São Paulo, 1988

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a great interview with Stamaty about the origin of the title and his career in @printmag.bsky.social by Steven Heller... www.printmag.com/daily-heller...

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The Daily Heller: Mark Alan Stamaty's Opus Donutus – PRINT Magazine

'Who Needs Donuts?' We all do.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 27/09/2026

One month ago today. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors buff.ly/tl8KxXX

August 27, 2026 – ICE agent Christian Castro was freed from a Texas jail. Prosecutors concluded Castro likely lied under oath about shooting Venezuelan immigrant Julio C. Sosa-Celis through his front door. Federal prosecutors prepared civil rights charges against Castro but never received Washington’s approval. Castro’s 90-day detention expired before they could charge him.

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Jay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On this week of John Coltrane's centenary, here's an excerpt from a fantastic book by Ashley Kahn that we were able to run as an article in Arthur No. 3 (2003): "Avant Garde, a Force for Good: At the peak of his popularity, John Coltrane went for something deeper" arthurmag.com/2021/10/11/a...

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Avant Garde, a Force for Good: at the peak of his popularity, JOHN COLTRANE went for something deeper (Ashley Kahn, Arthur, 2003)

Originally published in Arthur No. 3 (March, 2003) Avant Garde, a Force for Good At the peak of his popularity, JOHN COLTRANE went for something deeper. by Ashley Kahn Excerpted from A Love Supreme…

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In memory of Darby Crash, who would have turned 68 today 🖤 The Decline of Western Civilization – Germs played “Manimal” (1981) #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #germs #darbycrash #history #punkrockhistory #otd

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Jay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

n/r "Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s 'Siege'" by Spencer Sunshine (Routledge, 2024), which I (regrettably) only became aware of yesterday afternoon. Learning a lot about Adam Parfrey (Feral House) and Boyd Rice, all of it bad.

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Spencer Sunshine @transform6789.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ahhh, another satisfied customer from the old days, whose day I ruined! I hope you enjoy the actual Parfrey chapter. I did an overview article here of the counterculture section, which includes a picture of his stack of Mason correspondence. thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

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The Countercultural Figures who Helped Give Birth to the Neo-Nazi Terrorist Networks of Today | The Quietus

Uncovering the countercultural musicians, publisher & journalist who helped give birth to the neo-Nazi "bible" of today

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(Screams From The) Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I wrote about Parfrey not long ago, reviewing a new anthology of his work: burningambulance.substack.com/p/twilight-o...

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Twilight Of The Edgelords

Adam Parfrey, Jim Goad, and their vanished world

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Jay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'll wrap this thread as it's moved in many directions beyond panel breaking weirdness and into general comics space/time cool-ness, but good to close with something from Fred - from the Philemon books (annoyingly still not in English - though I bought this one in Paris) - these are such a treat!

a page from Fred's Philemon - it's like a 9-panel grid page if it were ice cube trays and turned sideways to the reader so it becomes an architectural space. Philemon moves through it and leaves the cubes

a page from Fred's Philemon - looking at comics pages that are curled towards us, like a sheet of cloth or paper that they are supposed to be, on them you can see a comic there, but also the characters are outside of this and interact with some of the panels and in fact fall through it and knock some of the panels out of the layout

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Not Richard @fauxwoodpaneling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ll be done with this in a week. Acid Green Velvet is the long longed for second novel by Grace Krilanovich and if you haven’t read The Orange Eats Creeps, no worries, this one will grab you and not let go in a way that’s more direct and definitive. The most cool and masterful writing to intake NOW

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Ron Cobb, “Skybox”

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Flash Strap @flashstrap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & @gtdradio.bsky.social: a big bag of library music jams, a set dedicated John Coltrane in his 100th year, and some very spiritual dub & roots music. Join me, 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

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Jay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They were Devo. She was Ursula K. Le Guin. It’s time for another edition of Landline’s informal cultural retrieval service series, spotlighting feature articles from the non-archives of the ‘70s mainstream music press. jaybabcock.substack.com/p/landline-t...

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[Landline] They were Devo. She was Ursula K. Le Guin.

Great moments in music press history No. 4

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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Warrior Princess ⬇️

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XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore @xingwu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wu Zetian (624–705) was not a consort ruling from the shadows, but the only woman in Chinese history to sit on the imperial throne as emperor. Founder of her own Zhou dynasty (690–705), she strengthened merit-based appointments, restrained corruption, and helped 1/2

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

The oldest surviving mention of tacos is in a 1905 San Antonio newspaper, describing the meal served at a conference for retailers. The etymology of 'taco' is uncertain. The word in Mexican Spanish in other contexts means "wad, plug, or ramrod" Several theories of its origin:

Two matte flat-green plastic dinosaurs with slots in their backs hold well-appointed hard-shell tacos. One of the dinos is a triceratops, the other a T rex, with an orange plastic base. They are photographed against a white background. Taken from an e-commerce site named after a South American river basin. You know the one. Orinoco.com

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Jay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I would very much like to view Mary Harron's 1991 (?) short film for BBC2's 'The Late Show' regarding Canary Wharf featuring J.G. Ballard and Iain Sinclair but I have been unable to locate it at the usual places...

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The incredible print sale I'm throwing goes for ONE MORE WEEK. All 8x10 prints are 15$, 11x14 are 30, 13x19 are 40!! Get yours while the savings last! michaelkupperman.com/shop

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silvercurrent.bsky.social @silvercurrent.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Celebrating 20 years of outer-jam & West Coast cosmic rippage, Howlin Rain’s WATERMELON is a covers trip through 9 of HR’s fave tunes, feat. special guests Chris Robinson, Ty Segall and David Nance. Out 11.13 🍉🍉🍉 Listen to Silver Paper feat. Chris Robinson: howlinrain.bandcamp.com/album/waterm...

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Jay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"[L]logic has no truck with cinema. The moment has always passed before the bounty hunters recognize what's happening out there; novels appear between three and seven years too soon for their own good. Film is a posthumous art. A question of cruising the obituaries." (Iain Sinclair)

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