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Ned Raggett

@nedraggett.bsky.social
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Hi! I write about music at various spots (@thequietus.com, @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, Shfl and my Patreon, also in the past @allmusic.com, @pitchfork.com, @bandcamp.com etc. etc.). Plus podcasting about #Tolkien with friends at @bythebywater.bsky.social

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Marc Masters 🌵 @marcissist.bsky.social · 3h
Read about 10 experimental music releases that are GOOD from September. And a list of 10 more that are also GOOD. While you're there, sign up for my newsletter, you get this monthly roundup for free, and if you wanna pay you get a bonus review. Thanks! www.goodexperimentalmusic.com/good-experim...
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Good Experimental Music: September 2026
This time around we have turntables made of stone, scores from installations, drones that are unafraid to be dramatic, and horns playing with themselves.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2h
Maybe time for those who don't experience this directly to return to this thread (which I posted when PTSD was being weaponized to relieve Graham Platner of responsibility for his actions).
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Mark (Baron Of Sealand) @iamjurassicmark.bsky.social · 1h
I can't speak for anyone else but the fact this creature can just breeze without a word into supporting Slipknot at Wembley Stadium means many people simply don't care if 'Their Guy' does bad shit. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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Heavy metal is about uplifting the downtrodden. So why is alleged abuse by Marilyn Manson so easily forgotten?
Slipknot sharing their stage with a man accused of wrongdoing by more than a dozen women is the antithesis of everything the genre should stand for, even if he denies it
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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 1h
In the event you encounter a good faith person who is in danger of being MAHA brainwashed about sunscreen causing cancer, here is my favorite beauty scientist to help. youtu.be/QRYQIUn6Fyk?...
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Sunscreen causes skin cancer: Every argument debunked
YouTube video by Lab Muffin Beauty Science
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Thierry @tcote.bsky.social · 1h
Claude also has a Stevehoffman Mode where it just tells you you’re a goddamn idiot for not getting the 1989 German gold cd pressing of any album
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 3h
drives me up the wall when Austen adaptations give their heroines loose, historically inaccurate hair to communicate that they’re free spirits or modern women or whatever when generally the point in Austen is that these women aren’t. yknow. free.
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 3h
You might know Elisapie in her own right, especially for the amazing album _Inuktitut_, and you might know her from an appearance in _North of North_ doing a performance of this song. And here it is in a standalone studio release. It's very lovely, and yes it's a Cranberries cover.
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Sinnatuumakka (Dreams), by Elisapie
1 track album
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 23h
Giles Martin announces his plans to improve the Beatles
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DELAINE DERRY GREEN @humanpanther.bsky.social · 3h
The big Paul Reubens Auction is up now! Eeeeeee www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/...
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Paul Reubens' Big Auction
Come on in and pull yourself up a chair! Julien's is honored to present Paul Reubens' Big Auction - a once-in-a-lifetime event celebrating the li...
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Centuries of Sound @centuriesofsound.bsky.social · 3h
One day I will write my book on Arthur Collins, the best-selling recording artist before 1920 and arguably the man who made the first jazz record, but essentially forgotten as early as the 1930s. Goes without saying that he's deeply problematic, of course.
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Frenchbloke @darkoutside.co.uk · 4h
the AI rule of thumb - if they can't be bothered to make it then we can't be bothered to watch/listen/read it
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 5h
Apply this excellent logic broadly.
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Hearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social · 5h
If the people behind an album can’t be bothered to invest more than a few seconds into their artwork, how dare they expect us to spend our time listening to it?
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AI Album Covers Have No Place in Hip-Hop
A visual artist who built his career on creating covers for independent rap records laments how AI is bastardizing his life’s work.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22h
Other states besides Texas with voter registration deadlines over the next 7 days: Arkansas, Arizona, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Indiana , Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee, South Carolina.
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John Breen @breen.tech · 7h
Al Gore lost his own state by 80,000 votes
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brad deschamps @polarseas.bsky.social · 6h
September 30th is National Day of Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. I've released another EP with two longform pieces - 100% of proceeds of this release go to the Orange Shirt Society - orangeshirtday.org anthene.bandcamp.com/album/waking...
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waking moon, by anthéne
2 track album
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Wanly Made Mailman @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 6h
Cam
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people on here will tweet anything.
"Charlie Brown had hoes." No he didn't. That isn't true.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7h
It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.
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Catbus @catbus.phd · 8h
someone should do an 'OJ: Made in America' style documentary about the 2000 election, bc NOBODY remembers how completely insane it was
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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 17h
Keep your eyes on Ottawa, on old plans to take Indigenous lands are being dresses up in new clothes. See @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social in the Freep: www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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Opinion: Opinion: Building Canada Strong Act just another way of sidestepping Indigenous rights
In 1846, Britain faced an emergency influenced by the Irish famine, so leaders repealed the country’s “Corn Laws” and restrictions on imported food and grain, transitioning to a system of free trade.
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Chris Barrus @quartzcity.bsky.social · 17h
Here a link to the iOS version apps.apple.com/us/app/donat...
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Donate Books App - App Store
Download Donate Books by Internet Archive on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Donate Books.
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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 17h
Gavin Newsom? Holding an opinion that a slight breeze (aka money or popularity) could change???
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As public worries about AI grow, Newsom's political calculus is changing
In recent weeks, Newsom has signed a series of AI oversight bills and called for stronger safeguards as some of the industry's own leaders warn about the risks of increasingly powerful AI systems.
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Scotland Green! @scotlandgreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t say this as a joke: Pro Wrestling is truly the greatest sport in the world and the realest thing on tv. A little dude in a devil costume shouldn’t be touching and heartbreaking but it is. This shit is REAL
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Josh K-sky @joshksky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
choose texas or don't but do take the opportunity to check out the glorious @flaminghydra.com piece on Andrew Sa by @sirosenbaum.bsky.social
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Andrew Sa: American Rough
“I don’t care if you don’t think I’m country / it’s at the heart of me,” sings Andrew Sa. He is a singer-songwriter working in the idiom of country music, a genre long coded as politically conservativ...
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Heather Muse @heathermuse.bsky.social · 18h
One of my favorite memories from my wedding was dancing with my then 86-year-old grandfather to Pulp’s “Common People.” This is brought to you by my watching “What Do You Do For An Encore?” Recommended.
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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky
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Eric Freeman @freemaneric.bsky.social · 20h
I probably won’t see Digger but it would’ve been an A+ Letterman topic. “Hey Paul, uh, you seen Digger?” etc.
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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 20h
Klobuchar ofc sucks but her turning her page-torturing side onto Schmitt for fucking up Hawks vs Hawkeyes is good tv. Should have made the mf eat salad with a comb.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 20h
GoFundMe was a lot more effective when it was called taxes.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20h
Bc the last 30 seconds of this are the best, reminder that @amyklobuchar.com's dad was a sports journalist, which may explain her utter contempt for Schmitt mistaking the Hawks and Hawkeyes.
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 20h
Tune Messiah
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 21h
as a lapsed catholic poptimist etc... i feel like this is a key that unlocked something deep
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Well, That Was Spooky @thediscoveryofzero.com · 22h
This interview with @timnitgebru.blacksky.app does a good job puncturing some of this BS. I think the private sector often profits off of just this sort of move: hiding ‘expertise’ behind proprietary doors and then making public claims that can’t be scrutinized is par for the course in business.
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There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI Says Timnit Gebru
Podcast Episode · Uncanny Valley | WIRED · September 29 · 32m
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 22h
Saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, an Upper Darby native, gets a MacArthur ‘genius grant’ Wilkins, 29, is the youngest member of this year's class of 20 MacArthur Fellows. share.inquirer.com/sERCtQ
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Saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, an Upper Darby native, gets a MacArthur ‘genius grant’
Wilkins, 29, is the youngest member of this year's class of 20 MacArthur Fellows.
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Shikha Dalmia @shikhadalmia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1/ You should check out my sobering and compelling conversation with @radleybalko.bsky.social about ICE and why it must be abolished before its abusive tactics spread to the rest of American law enforcement at @theunpopulist.net . 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...
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Abolish ICE Before Its Abusive Tactics Spread to Other Law Enforcement: A Conversation With Radley Balko
The agency has gone rogue and cannot be reformed
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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 23h
everyone that lives in Western MA has a J story---a recent one of mine is that I saw him at a Feelies show a while back, and in between songs he was talking loudly to someone about seeing David Lee Roth on tour in the '80s, "with Steve Vai!"
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 23h
The image of one Mr. Mascis making chai and creating chants in India is definitely 'okay, I didn't expect that.' Like Shelter in sorta reverse.
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 23h
"what do you expect to happen? have every rapist fired from their job and ruin their life?" uh yeah that'd be a good start
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your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
evergreen
the donnie darko in therapy meme template.

panel 1: donnie says "i made an ai agent that can make phone calls for you"

panel 2: therapist says "an ai agent or a person in the philippines?"

panel 3, the bottom: donnie says "a person in the philippines"
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"These creatures called humans, what are they, and what is a jape." On the bright side, I'm about finally done suffering through trailers for the damn thing. Just in time to be irritated by others, I'm sure.
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Trinket @trinketbirdy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Years ago now a cis friend of mine fully shut down his boss talking about trans people in sports by saying hey man, have you actually read up on this cos I have and you sound like a fool and causing the entire office to laugh at him. Guy never opened his mouth to do anything bigoted again.
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Hunter Felt 🏳️‍⚧️ @hunterfelt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are two good movies with Tom Cruise in them: "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Magnolia' and that's entirely because those directors understand that fundamentally Tom Cruise does not have a soul.
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026
A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.
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Sharon Z @sharonz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thing is, this is made even harder by the fact that people are organizing against the data centers that they need, and the chips that they've already paid for aren't necessarily in use yet. Their path to having the infrastructure to make that money is full of potholes and ruined bridges.
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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The first time a boy harassed me was 6th grade. I was 11 or 12, and Patrick would walk around behind me in gym class loudly discussing my butt. The school principal said he liked me and I should be flattered. My mama said he should shut it if he valued his teeth.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here's a terrific NYT profile of the vital work @galvinalmanza.bsky.social is doing. (Note: This is also the subject of my forthcoming book!) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/h...
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Can a ‘Teach for America’ Model Save Public Defense?
Public defenders are overworked and underpaid. A growing corps of client advocates is helping defendants in communities across the U.S.
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Matt Damon's Powered Exoskeleton @punzer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
so it's not unlocked.
NYTimes lock screen that says "someone unlocked this story for you" but then demands you sign into a NYTimes account to read the article.
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Ezra Brooks @ezbrooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New music from Nadia Reid! *klaxon* I still haven't gotten to see her perform live, so this will have to do in the meantime. It's a lovely recording. nadiareid.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...
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Live at Old St. Paul's with NZTrio, by Nadia Reid
10 track album
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