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@ludkmr.bsky.social
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Plays music and types Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Area ludmusic.bandcamp.com

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ludkmr @ludkmr.bsky.social · 7h
Good morning, my band made a record and a lil film to go one of the songs
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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ludkmr @ludkmr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Terry Schilling, a main architect of Republicans’ transphobic campaign messaging, has talked about the "magic" in spreading hate-driven propaganda. "How do win, how do we replicate this on other issues?” he asked on a right-wing podcast. What might those issues be?
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ludkmr @ludkmr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Octember in the Piedmont
A spray of Solidagos —tiny yellow blossoms amid a tangle of stems
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Republicans won in 2024 arguing Democrats were too obsessed with trans people to focus on the economy. As billionaires like Elon Musk flood the airwaves with anti-trans ads amid Trump's own floundering economy, Democrats have a chance to flip the tables. My latest for @thenation.com
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Transphobia Isn’t Winning Votes. But It Is Making Our Lives Much Worse.
Trans people must now live out another election cycle knowing our friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors are being flooded with agitprop designed to dehumanize us.
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ludkmr @ludkmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NC Folks, these constitutional questions on the ballot might seem reasonable, but each one will be enacted by wildly partisan legislation drawn up by a corrupt General Assembly cemented in place through decades of gerrymandering. It’s a trap. Don’t do it.
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.
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ludkmr @ludkmr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Beautiful
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day. vimeo.com/1224659811/7...
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Power to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]
Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther...
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ludkmr @ludkmr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Oh yeah, sorry I’m late, hey it’s Bandcamp Friday so we made a bunch of 45s that you can order on Bandcamp solidagos.bandcamp.com/album/solida...
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Solidagos 1, by Solidagos
2 track album
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ludkmr @ludkmr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Heat index seems to be peaking around 117 again today. Dewpoint was 80 around 10am. Yep
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Yale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Not a warm welcome! Students and community members in Chapel Hill protested data centers and Flock cameras this morning as G20 leaders met at the nearby Carolina Inn with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
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Town of Chapel Hill @chapelhillgov.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
All routes are now delayed.
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Wiley Nickel @wileynickel.com · 02/09/2026
Find your sample ballot: vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup
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Voter Search
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026
“I think it’s safe to say that most, if not all, the students in the room felt like our lives were threatened. We did not feel like we were going to make it out of that room alive,” Samuel Scarborough, senior adviser for the Black Student Movement, said.”
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Black student organizations targeted in racially motivated attack at campus watch party
The individual, detained by UNC Police, entered a Greenlaw Hall classroom Monday night with an aerosol can and lighter. He communicated racially charged threats and threw items at students before flee...
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FOX8 WGHP @myfox8.com · 01/09/2026
NCDOT repairing cracked concrete under Interstate 85/40 Haw River bridge in Alamance County
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NCDOT repairing cracked concrete under Interstate 85/40 Haw River bridge in Alamance County
ALAMANCE COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — The North Carolina Department of Transportation is doing repairs on the Interstate 85/40 bridge over the Haw River due to cracks in the concrete underneath the bridge…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/09/2026
THREAD 🧵
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ludkmr @ludkmr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Pressing arrived. Assembling some 45s w/silkscreen jackets. It’s almost autumn. The year is 2026
Cover of a seven inch record with the name solidagos in red up top and an image in Ox Blood of Nike breaking the sword of Mars a stack of 45s in white inner sleeves a stack of shipping boxes a stack of small glassine envelopes next to a spoon in a bowl of solidago seeds
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ludkmr @ludkmr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express
Photos of a test pilot’s face during rocket sled experiments
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ludkmr @ludkmr.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Cover better than the original This live version in particular www.youtube.com/watch?v=LymN...
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Nina Simone: To Love Somebody (Live in Antibes, 1969)
YouTube video by Nina Simone
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 20/08/2026
For my newsletter, I wrote about some new data showing that LGBTQ people are a massive voter base and Dem candidates should be wary of alienating them. www.burnsnotice.com/democratic-c...
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Democratic Candidates Must Beware of Betraying Queer Voters
New data from the Human Rights Campaign shows how much power LGBTQ voters have at the ballot box
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ludkmr @ludkmr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Here’s to handmade physical media — R Liberti printing up the covers for our new single Make art & music with your friends, y’all It’s the best!
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Kelly Wooten @kwooten.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Great reporting from our student journalists at the Duke Chronicle on increases for the most highly paid Duke employees in the wake of unnecessary massive layoffs: www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
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As cost-cutting began, Duke’s highest-paid employees took big raises
Tax filings reveal administrators, including President Vincent Price and Provost Alex Gallimore, saw their compensation rise in fiscal year 2025. Managers of Duke’s endowment and standout athletics co...
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 27/07/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul 19thNews deep dive on extremist WA ballot initiative which would require EVERY K-12 girls to have their B-A sex medically verified through genetic or hormone tests [which are expensive] or reproductive anatomy inspection [yuck] before they can play girls’ sports.
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How Washington state’s sports ballot measure will impact all girls
A ballot initiative to bar transgender girls from girls’ teams would require all girls to ‘verify’ their identity.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 23/07/2026
Laws allowing private citizens to challenge other voters' eligibility have too often been used to suppress voters of color. Voter roll maintenance belongs in the hands of trained election professionals — not private citizens. bit.ly/4h8jgK7
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The Racist History of Voter Challenge Laws
Laws that allow citizens to challenge one another’s eligibility have been used to suppress voters of color. 
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97.9 The Hill WCHL & Chapelboro.com @wchlchapelboro.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
COLUMN: "Nearly a quarter of a million North Carolinians are projected to lose coverage." Read this perspective on Medicaid cuts from Duke Sanford School of Public Policy's Paul Shafer and primary care physician Caroline Sloan:
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Viewpoints: Looming Medicaid Cuts Will Hurt North Carolinians - Chapelboro.com
On April 30th, Governor Josh Stein signed House Bill 696 (HB 696) into law, ending a protracted funding shortfall for the state’s Medicaid program, which provides health insurance coverage to over thr...
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ludkmr @ludkmr.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
it’s funny because it’s true
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Michael Bitzer @bowtiepolitics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
NCSBE Executive Director addresses the recent federal announcement about SAVE results for North Carolina #ncpol
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.
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ludkmr @ludkmr.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Cool Liberti poster for Wednesday’s show at All Day* *this is a Carrboro subskeet
A poster of a window in a clapboard house looking out to a snow covered patch of Solidagos. The poster is for show on Wednesday at 7pm at All Day Records in Carrboro NC  featuring Solidagos and Spring Summer
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 14/07/2026
Hugely good news. HHS will NOT go forward with a rule blocking Medicaid and Medicare funding for hospitals that provide gender affirming care for minors.
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C. Fray @cfrayforcarrboro.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
There are many great reasons for Carrboro to increase housing density. One is avoiding this fate... Want to avoid another tax increase like last year's? We're going to need more people. We already tried "fix it with just commercial" in our Vision2020 plan and folks, that math doesn't math.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
liberalism has a huge naivete problem. we collectively do not look at this as a war. liberalism operates like conservatism has just taken a little deviation and that they will come to our senses. our leadership is not a wartime configuration and the voters dont get it either.
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Jeremy Markovich @ncrabbithole.com · 08/07/2026
lol Grayson Haver-Currin wrote a Pitchfork review of The Star Spangled Banner (and it’s really well done) pitchfork.com/reviews/trac...
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Francis Scott Key: “The Star-Spangled Banner”
Read Grayson Haver-Currin’s review of the national anthem.
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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 08/07/2026
"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...
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These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech
Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
futurism.com/future-socie... lol
As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
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ludkmr @ludkmr.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Wandering the countryside on the border of Molise and Puglia and thinking about the 332 Fighter Group
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ludkmr @ludkmr.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
At Ramitelli
Sign for the site of Ramitelli Airbase in Italy, home of the 332 Fighter Group aka The Tuskegee Airmen
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.
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ludkmr @ludkmr.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Perfecto
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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This is absolutely bonkers: newly uncovered text messages reveal how Republican operatives are working INSIDE the North Carolina State Board of Elections. Full story: nclocal.org/2026/07/02/elections-li…
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 01/07/2026
FT Exclusive: The International Energy Agency has forecast US-based spending on power plants fuelled by coal and gas will reach $50bn this year, as companies rush to build out data centres. ft.trib.al/aakY0J7
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97.9 The Hill WCHL & Chapelboro.com @wchlchapelboro.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
“It has a nice stream, it has a bunch of mature, hard wood trees. It does not have a tremendous amount of invasive species. So, it’s attractive from a conservation perspective – but it’s also not particularly attractive from a development perspective.”
chapelboro.com
South Creek Finalizes Deal to Protect 80 Acres of Forest with Local Conservation Group - Chapelboro.com
The developers of South Creek struck a deal to formally convey the largest undeveloped, privately-owned tract within Chapel Hill town limits.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.
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A personalized vaccine for melanoma cut the risk of cancer returning after five years
If the vaccine is effective in a late-stage trial, it would be “paradigm-shifting,” one expert said.
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SamWalkerOBXNews 🎙📻📰🥍🦓 @samwalkerobxnews.com · 22/06/2026
A new report from the State Auditor concludes the long-debated Mid-Currituck Bridge project faces a funding gap of at least $702 million and is not financially viable under current conditions without substantial new funding. www.patreon.com/SamWalkerOBX...
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State auditor report raises new doubts about financial viability of Mid-Currituck Bridge | SamWalkerOBXNews.com
By Sam Walker A new report from the North Carolina Office of the State Auditor concludes the long-debated Mid-Currituck Bridge project faces
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ludkmr @ludkmr.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Truly honored to be included in this comp and to be a part of this music community dupedzine.bandcamp.com/album/the-fo...
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The Fourteen Bears in Summer and Winter, by Duped
14 track album
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ludkmr @ludkmr.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The lowdown
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