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Texas Chainsaw Massakim

@kimtillman.bsky.social
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Singer/Songwriter. Lead singer of the band Tragic Gadget. Staunch believer that we need to treat kids better. ✨✍🏽🎙️🎧🎥✨ SF Bay Area. ASCAP. Live Events. Music. TV. Film.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16h
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is hit home for me. Years ago I was writing songs in Hollywood & the more access I gained, the more over the top and indefensible shit I was subject to. I’ve had sessions sabotaged by dudes who spent the time talking about me like I was meat instead of another professional in the room.
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Last night on vacation. Getting lit & watching the California governor debate with my parents. Yelling past them at the tv so they know they raised me well lol
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m rarely around Canadians, but I do like hearing them beam about where they’re from.
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m sitting next to a table of people from Mexico, Canada and the United States discussing y’know, all the things & this conversation is fascinating.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026
one great thing about Mamdani's brand of cheerful competence is how ridiculous it makes his conservative critics look, like nobody is buying that the Mr Rogers dude who filled all the potholes is a wild eyed America hating extremist
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shut every fraternity down.
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m on vacation & it’s been nice. In an attempt to seem upbeat and non-partisan where I am these folks have been playing so much innocuous Ed Sheeran party remixes and it’s tripping me out as a news addicted person.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have zero sympathy for the Mueller people who were gigantic babies at the end of the day, but we should let this Jack Smith guy get a second crack at it.
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Magneto is a blood bender, yes or no?
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta muse saying why would I deceive you?
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They’re showing the not good X-Men movie on tv right now and it’s hitting the spot
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Okay ladies: Who among us doesn’t keep a running list of the real monsters in our lives like Arya Stark?
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Introducing Gurpo
A drawing of a small blobby figure inside of an enclosure with string coming off it, with text saying "introducing Gurpo, the new wearable personal assistant. Gurpo is not a computer program, he's a real tiny guy who is trapped inside your medallion necklace. 
Gurpo hates you, but is incapable of doing anything about it, and he has to answer your questions or he gets electrocuted. It's non-lethal.
If you shake his enclosure hard enough, gurpo will throw up!"
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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think it’s absolutely offensive that it’s being called rationalism.
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I feel pretty lucky to have only been non-consentually groped, humped, spanked, threatened after refusing to let a total stranger kiss me on the street, chased both on foot and in my vehicle, & had a prowler repeatedly try to enter my home.
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My drafts folder has a voracious appetite for hot takes
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At the casino with my parents like “Are ya winning Dad?”
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don’t know when I started calling my dad “my guy” but it’s a lot of fun. I’ve also taken to calling mom “hey girl” and what a treat.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers
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ashley (birthday month) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Andy Beshear forever, man
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ugh, how do I not have an audio interface? I’m killing me, Smalls
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The team and I made this record. We huddled last week and dammit, I think we'll make another soon. tragicgadget.bandcamp.com/album/meet-t...
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Meet the Bouviers, by Tragic Gadget
14 track album
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
if you ever lose your pet millennial just scream out FATHER!!!!!! in your best serj tankian and you’ll immediately find about forty of em
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Eating ice cream bites with chopsticks like a classy dame
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I stopped wearing Nike like 20 years/scandals ago & as a SoCal kid I was bummed when they bought Converse. I genuinely don’t care about this new ad but I’m also pretty unsurprised.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The time to push candidates toward more progressive policies is NOT after they get in office. It’s before. We have to look out for everybody. That may include a type of person that is not in your life!
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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Muppets have to put on a show to save the Kennedy Center. There you go, Disney, that's your premise.
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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the much more disturbing "reverse pagliacci" where a clown tells you you should go see a doctor
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I think if I told a 20 year old me some of the cool stuff I’ve gotten up to since then she’d be thrilled to the point of overwhelm. I wouldn’t be able to process it.
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s been a year. Her memory is a blessing & I miss her so much it still makes me wanna puke sometimes. ✨🕊️✨
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 17/09/2026
find one thing today that isn’t awful and notice it’s not-awfulness i believe in you
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Still can't believe Ed Sheeran tried to pull the "there's kids at my show" to the dude who's message was "stop killing kids"
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
god this is good
flight of the concords scene with murray, brit and jemaine. 

"How's this, then? Ed Sheeran, beloved by all, left without an opening band at present. Enter you two."

"What if we want a free Palestine, Murray?"

"I reckon you'll get lots of things for free when you're proper rockstars. This might be your ticket."
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The thing about trying not to pick a side is that the nazis *instantly recognize* which side you picked. They immediately identify you as an ally. They know exactly what side you're on. It doesn't fool the victims, it doesn't fool the Nazis, the only people it could possibly fool is centrists.
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Notice how those “apolitical” people ALWAYS end up siding with the oppressors
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Remmick will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran
Remmick in sinners
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Really exciting time to not remain neutral
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Worse-ula Owen @ueowen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🎸🎸🎸SOOOOOO SAAAADDDD 🎸🎸🎸
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good! I only came to hear about death and get sad and stuff!
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Crash and the Boys will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran
Crash and the Boys from SCOTT PILGRIM. They're a three piece band on stage, two white men in front on guitar and bass, and a 10ish year old Asian girl on drums in the back.
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“FBI! Put your dogs away! Wait! That one can stay…”
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Milhouse Sopracciglia Milhouse Eyebrows
ALT: Milhouse Sopracciglia Milhouse Eyebrows
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How is it that the police were willing to go to the judge’s house on the night Nolan went missing but made his parents meet them at a McDonald’s parking lot in the middle of the night?
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Texas Chainsaw Massakim @kimtillman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
How is it that the young men who’ve been caught lying about Nolan Wells were the ones to identify the body?
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