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Michael Zeigermann @michaelz79.bsky.social · 4m

I love this and make absolutely no excuses for it. I mean, an intergalactic battle, with humanity‘s very survival hanging by a thread, set to cheesy 80s J-pop? Bring it on!

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SDF Macross - Do You Remember Love?

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 5h

America right now is the maddest place on earth. Like watching a David Lynch film.

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Michael Zeigermann @michaelz79.bsky.social · 6h

Toto, Africa. For *decades*, I thought it was "I guess it rains down in Africa".

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Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 18h

Bunny rabbit last night starring in her own film noir

Black-and-white picture of one of those ordinary, common brownish colored rabbits standing in the middle of the sidewalk looking to the left with fairly long shadows from a nearby street light, the shadows are coming from one of those fences that people put on that rectangular patch of grass by the street between the street and the sidewalk

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 16h

An important corollary to the Surf Dracula tweet that I think should be talked about more, now that we're basically inundated with these types of shows, is that most of them don't get renewed, but even the ones that are don't turn into the weekly adventures of Surf Dracula in the second season.

Screenshot of a tweet from user @topherfluence: "back in the day if u did a tv show called surf dracula you'd see that fool surfing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the surfboard until you finally get ot see him surf for 5 min in the finale"

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Michael Zeigermann @michaelz79.bsky.social · 15h

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 8: A song that makes you think of a crowded nightclub Adamski - Killer It‘s 1990. 1am. The dance floor is packed. Some are donning their newest cargo pants and neon jumpers. Then this comes on and everybody just loses their shit.

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ADAMSKI - Killer

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Michael Zeigermann @michaelz79.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Minions and Monsters. I laughed non-stop.

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Michael Zeigermann @michaelz79.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Despite the negative press covfefe

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Michael Zeigermann @michaelz79.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And it fits the picture that he was odious to anyone he considered beneath him (which, by all accounts, was a lot of people). He‘s gone, but there are still plenty of Jeffrey Archers out there.

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Class in this country is still the most poisonous bindweed

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Michael Zeigermann @michaelz79.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Siouxsie & the Banshees - Hall of Mirrors "In general, we consider cover versions as an appreciation of our work. The version of 'Hall of Mirrors' by Siouxsie and the Banshees is extraordinary." - Ralf Hütter, Kraftwerk

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Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hall Of Mirrors

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots

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Michael Zeigermann @michaelz79.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For someone who doesn’t want a populace capable of critical thought, AI is an absolute godsend.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Michael Zeigermann @michaelz79.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 7: A Song That Feels Strangely Peaceful Nirvana - All Apologies Not a happy song by any means. It‘s resigned, full of surrender and exhaustion, but it manages to feel tranquil in the process. All in all is all we are.

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Nirvana- All Apologies (Audio)

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Relistening to Low's _Secret Name_ for the first time in ages -- certainly the first time since Mimi Parker died (much less Albini) -- for an upcoming writing project. You hear "Two-Step" and it's just like...she should still be here. I mean, of course she always should be. But even more so.

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Michael Zeigermann @michaelz79.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 4: a song you wish you could hear for the first time again Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel The Illinoise The point where it becomes a Cure-flavoured fever dream was so odd and unexpected. Nostalgia’s one thing but WTF moments are impossible to reproduce.

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Come On! Feel the Illinoise! Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition Part II: Carl Sandburg...

YouTube video by Sufjan Stevens - Topic

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D64 @d-64.org · 05/10/2026

Wir gratulieren unserer ehemaligen Co-Vorsitzenden @afelia.bsky.social herzlich zum Bundesverdienstkreuz! Bundespräsident Steinmeier hat sie heute, am 5. Oktober 2026, in Berlin ausgezeichnet. Danke für deinen Einsatz, Marina!

Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier überreicht Marina Weisband die Urkunde zum Bundesverdienstkreuz. Bild: Bundesregierung/Schacht; Henning

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Michael Zeigermann @michaelz79.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

FWIW, this ought to be the official music video. (Including the German subtitles that Youtube added for me.)

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Michael Zeigermann @michaelz79.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#nowplaying Cigarettes After Sex - Heavenly I honestly fucking hate the band name, it reeks of posh sixth formers playing it for laughs, so I never really paid them much mind. However, I heard this in a cafe this morning and it simply stopped me in my tracks. My god this song is absolute bliss.

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Heavenly - Cigarettes After Sex

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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Come on. This is getting absurd. Peter Thiel looks more Doncaster by the day. Hard house promoter. 1999. Council hearing in Sheffield for the ‘night time economy’ - ‘…and id say to that have you actually heard of Tidy Trax? Because they operate like a serious business’

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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Politician, perjurer, crook, crap novelist and general arsehole Jeffrey Archer has carked it. That both hilarious and sinister clip of him on Newsnight lives rent free in my head. Looks like we'll be waiting for ever for you to be Mayor now pal. Can't wait to read all the glowing press tributes.

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Michael Zeigermann @michaelz79.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Come On! Feel the Illinoise! Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition Part II: Carl Sandburg...

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Michael Zeigermann @michaelz79.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#MusicChallenge 🎶 #BackToThe2000s Day 5: Have A Nice Life - Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000 My favourite track on Deathconsciousness. Starts off rather lo-fi and strangely retro ("ah, a Casio loop. I remember Casio loops.") until it suddenly kicks the door down and grabs you by the throat.

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Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000

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Jüdische Allgemeine @juedischeonline.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Die Eltern der Autorin Shida Bazyar stammen aus dem Iran. Ihr Buch »Die Lücken« ist einer der besten deutschen Romane überhaupt. Eine Rezension von Maria Ossowski. buff.ly/694T8Jr

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»Die Lücken« von Shida Bazyar: Dorfroman mit Ewigkeitsnote

Die Eltern der Autorin Shida Bazyar stammen aus dem Iran. Ihr Buch »Die Lücken« ist einer der besten deutschen Romane überhaupt

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Caroline M @carolinemockri4.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Vicars' Close, Wells. 🏘️ The oldest 'intact' medieval street in Europe, still used for original purpose.

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Michael Zeigermann @michaelz79.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Imagine buying the brand new Pink Floyd record in 1983, excitedly putting it on… and realising how terrible it is. The disappointment must have been immense.

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Michael Zeigermann @michaelz79.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wenn Nationalhymnen der Gäste ausgepfiffen und -gebuht werden, sollten Sanktionen folgen, ganz ehrlich. #GREGER

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David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 03/10/2026

Alan Moore & Zach Rabiroff have a great line in this interview where they compare the work of history to laying bathroom tiles. Just as we use grouting to connect these tiles together, so too the historian tells a story to connect otherwise disconnected facts. flaminghydra.com/issue-619/

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Crouching in the long grass

Alan Moore on the invention of history, interviewed by Zach Rabiroff

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Michael Zeigermann @michaelz79.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#nowplaying Golden Brown is such a fantastic song & an all-timer, but it‘s interesting how something so odd (harpsichords! Less-than-subtle lyrics about heroin!) was such a big hit, wheras a more openly commercial song like Always The Sun more or less flopped.

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The Stranglers - Golden Brown

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Art is Human" Anti-AI mural seen in Denman Island, British Columbia

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Michael Zeigermann @michaelz79.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#MusicChallenge 🎶 #BackToThe2000s Day 2: Bloc Party - She's Hearing Voices Would listen this at full volume on my brand new iPod on the tube because I was cool and everybody else wasn't and my god what a twat. Still, great album. Back in 2005 I was convinced they'd conquer the world. Alas.

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She's Hearing Voices

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Michael Zeigermann @michaelz79.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#MusicChallenge 🎶 #BackToThe2000s Day 1: Burial - Archangel I’ll be posting these in a totally random order, just my fav songs of the decade as they come to mind. Anyway, here‘s some Burial, just as depressing autumn kicks in. Bloody amazing album, still.

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Burial, Archangel

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

People who believe LLMs are conscious are having one of the biggest AI meltdowns yet because someone is running a Saw-like torture chamber for LLMs on GitHub. Just before we published, GitHub took it down. GitHub hasn't said why www.404media.co/someone-tort...

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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet

The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."

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Michael Zeigermann @michaelz79.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Steve Hackett‘s departure had a bigger impact on Genesis‘s sound than Gabriel‘s. That‘s not really a hot take, is it?

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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just imagine the amount of squealing, hands thrown up to the heavens, and shirts torn open in righteous indignation if Ukraine, even once (!) responded to Russia’s mass killings and barbaric bombardment of historical heritage by striking the Bolshoi Theatre or the Hermitage…

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

I’m increasingly of the belief that we’ve never truly left the Great Financial Crisis. Everything we’re dealing with today started there, and every excess and problem stems from the US government’s failure to contain or eradicate its causes.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We’re in the middle of a hostile takeover. Liberal democracy is being replaced by authoritarians favorable to destroying general protections and representation and overseeing violent oppression and surveillance on behalf of historically wealthy oligarchs.

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

L.L. Cool J debut album insert (1985) Image: Def Jam Recordings / CBS UK

A young main in a hat with tape recorders in the background and a long piece of promotional text with the headline A Minimalist Homeboy Who Knows His Beats

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Richard Shaw @richards7370.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Well, that’s wrap! A huge thank you to everyone who took part in #5DebutAlbumsFinal Around 500 voted, fittingly making it one of the best supported polls for some time. The final top three were:- 1) The Stone Roses - S/T 2) Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures 3) The Velvet Underground & Nico - S/T..

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

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