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Nick Starr @nickstarrmusic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I love it when the Traitors soundtrack goes unhinged. We’re watching the S4 finale and the last roundtable is set to an ominous minor key version of…. Ravel’s Bolero.

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Nick Starr @nickstarrmusic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Multiple moments in Spiritfarer and it’s not even close. Top 3 are probably taking Stanley to the Everdoor, finding out Stella’s story, and taking Alice. I’ve been moved by a lot of games’ stories but Spiritfarer is an entirely different category.

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Nick Starr @nickstarrmusic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If I just want to listen to Mahler and have a good time, would I enjoy watching Maestro? I’ve heard it’s not great but I don’t know if that’s “meh whatever” or “it’s unwatchable trash.”

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Nick Starr @nickstarrmusic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My plan to have my 2013 Civic outlive the touchscreens-in-cars trend is looking better and better

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Nick Starr @nickstarrmusic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Might be a hot take but it’s wild to me that Christopher Nolan made two really excellent films (Interstellar and Oppenheimer) and then synthesized their themes into another film that ended up worse than either of them (Odyssey).

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s been said a million times but saying Suno solved music is like saying you’ve solved soccer by installing a conveyor belt that delivers the ball directly to the net and expecting people to buy tickets

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Nick Starr @nickstarrmusic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We are lucky to walk the earth at the same time as this man. The fact that these four bangers are OUTTAKES from a double album is unreal.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up.

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Nick Starr @nickstarrmusic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That Rolling Stone post about Ella Langley is 1000% engagement bait, right? I don’t think we need to talk about it.

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Nick Starr @nickstarrmusic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Brb suing Spotify for stealing 20-year-old me’s idea

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Nick Starr @nickstarrmusic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

No love lost for Flock but I really don’t feel like “Large Company Hires Communications Staff” is news.

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 14/09/2026

None of this covers the real real reason. Twenty years ago, gigs were cheap promotional tools to sell expensive records. Now most people listen to music via streaming and don't buy it, records are free promotional tools for expensive gig tickets.

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Frightened Notes Danny @linernotesdanny.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

in the mid-18th century, galant music rapidly overtook in popularity the competing style of the era, goofus music

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Nick Starr @nickstarrmusic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Baldur’s Gate 3 is the first game in a long time (ever?) that I immediately wanted to replay after finishing more than I wanted to start anything new. It really is as good as you all said it was.

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Jorvorskie Braaaiiins @jorvorskielaynes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Watto is so racist that even trying to figure out exactly what kind of stereotype he is feels offensive

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

if it took you 5 seconds of contemplation to think of an alternative you should take at least another 5-10 to at least consider the possibility that it at least crossed the minds of 1 or 2 of the people who dedicate their lives and research careers to dealing with the problems we post about on here

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Nick Starr @nickstarrmusic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Chris Thile is busy this year (playing multiple tracks on both Sara Bareilles’s and Phoebe Bridgers’s albums)

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

fun part if you ask me: higher ed institutions in secular democracies are the closest approximation of a 'marketplace of ideas' as you are likely to find this side of a global revolution and a lot of people who claim to like that idea do not seem to love its results

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Nick Starr @nickstarrmusic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Stumbled into an online argument about whether ballet is a “sport” and it got me thinking about that whole debate, whether ballet or cheer or marching band or whatever, about whether a very physical form of art is also a “sport.”

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

people ask me if i listen to bieber and i smile simply and say simply yes. Then I show them this and they lose their fucking shit

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Nick Starr @nickstarrmusic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I went with “stayed a while” as sleeping there multiple consecutive nights, “visited” as an overnight, and “passed through” as setting foot in the state outside a vehicle. I really just need a solid road trip in the Mountain West and I’ll feel like I’ve been all around the contiguous 48.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.

“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”

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Nick Starr @nickstarrmusic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The Nautical Miles Davis Quintet

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

it's been around longer than newspapers by roughly 2000 years

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Cool Jim the Vampire @lechased.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

not now Ursula K. Le Guin bot

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect

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Kelly Knox @kelly-knox.com · 08/08/2026

had to be done

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Experts aren't always right. That's why I put my faith in morons who are never right

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

there is a strain of lefty discourse where you can’t come to any unflattering conclusions about the populace—those must be explained away by how they are being acted upon by capital—but I think you’ll understand things better if you understand capital can also exploit weaknesses it didn’t create

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This might sound elitist, but I don’t think the people liking the Peanuts slop posts should have rights

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.

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Nick Starr @nickstarrmusic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

If I can add things and someone else is making it: omelette. If it’s accompanying other foods, especially potatoes: fried. If it’s eggs alone: scrambled.

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Nick Starr @nickstarrmusic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I am cautiously very intrigued by this! I had mixed to negative feelings on their Foundation adaptation but I think Neuromancer is more filmable, IIRC. It’s been a long time since I’ve reread it!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/07/2026

not really surprised to learn that terminal stupidity and racism is the reason i can’t walk into a CVS and just buy a toothbrush without flagging down the one person who might be in the store dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...

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We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The success of Emily Wilson's translation had nothing to do with Christopher Nolan. The hardcover edition came out 9 years ago and was a huge success. The paperback has been in steady demand since 2018. My store has sold 75 copies (a lot for 1 book for us) and 66 of those were before January.

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Nick Starr @nickstarrmusic.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

One thing I will say about Nolan's Odyssey: for a story about a man who canonically wants to hear the song of the most alluring creatures in the world and TWICE spends years stranded while having an affair with a nymph, Nolan's adaptation was weirdly sexless.

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Nick Starr @nickstarrmusic.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

TikTok is inexplicably serving me ads for hotels near me. Location-targeting hotel ads is so perfectly backwards it’s incredible. I live here already!!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

yes, this is about The Odyssey. the Odysseyposting will continue until hospitality improves

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I’m sure Elon Musk will do his AI Odyssey movie, and you can be driven to the premiere on the self driving car he never built, through the cross country tunnel he never built, getting updates from the robot he never built, while checking out the mars base he never built.

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Nick Starr @nickstarrmusic.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The Odyssey is a good, even great film that for some reason rarely captured my heart. Hoping that changes on a rewatch and was just because I didn’t go to the theater in the right mindset or something, because I really, really liked so much of it!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

you will save yourself a lot of trouble and grief on any text based social media site by simply remembering that a lot of people can't read.

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Nick Starr @nickstarrmusic.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Every day I feel more that I ought to actually read some Baudrillard

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Nick Starr @nickstarrmusic.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Honored to finally get my first Bluesky Joke-Non-Understander in my replies

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Davor Mondom @dmondom.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

*spins wheel* The Muppets will open for *spins wheel* BTS, who will segue to *spins wheel* Ted Lasso

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Nick Starr @nickstarrmusic.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Specifically it’s in the privacy settings. I noticed it doing this recently but I’d just been editing it out, I (not unreasonably) assumed they wouldn’t give you a way to disable it!

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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Odyssey looks fine but I think people have a point in criticizing Nolan for not including the story of Bophades

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