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. . . beneath the Salish Sea

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My reading has slowed considerably the past decade. That’s life for you. In the hope that chronicling my progress publicly will motivate me to make time, here’s the past year, chronologically from last September [* rereads]:
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cap’n watsisname @capnwatsisname.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
an uber driver wearing sock puppets on both hands that talk to each other about how bad the steering wheel tastes your whole ride
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 29/04/2026
The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI. “If universal basic income enables even one more Einstein to become Einstein over the course of the next century, it will have paid for itself a thousand times over.” [scottsantens.com]
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The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI
Why Angine de Poitrine's viral microtonal math rock KEXP session, Ireland's permanent basic income for artists, and Albert Einstein are three sides of the same human triangle Two guys in papier-mâché masks from Saguenay, Quebec, have been playing music together for 20 years since they were 13 yea
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
being afraid of the DSA is loser shit, sorry. “these progressive ideas are scary!” grow up.
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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar just out there cutting everything down to their essence.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
the mens world cup is over but the hydration breaks continue keep drinking my friends
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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 20/07/2026
Here’s a playlist that LJ in Cool Machine would listen to. Half (not all) is what you’d hear at Shoot the Hostages, the club in the book. It’s art-noise, post-punk, proto hip-hop clubby stuff & mostly an excuse to spread the gospel of “The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight.” open.spotify.com/playlist/56P...
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COOL MACHINE songbook
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 19/07/2026
Heartbroken to hear of the passing of Jennifer Finch from L7. I just saw Jennifer last year, rocking as hard as ever… Fuck cancer, man.
Jennifer Finch from my 2019 video for L7’s “Stadium West”
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Ben Sears @bensears.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Drawing of eyes watching an ice agent
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
gone, now: the dramaclouds of sundown
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
took an analog riso class
[ medium blue ] ant lord says a[ fluorescent orange ]cab; the [ yellow ] data don’t lie!
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Old School Punk Librarian @kennethf62.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
We lost one of the great ones today. RIP to the saxophone colossus, Sonny Rollins. #SonnyRollins #Jazz #Musicsky
Sonny Rollins (1930-2026), holding his saxophone
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
my sky, tonight
looking south, a bright gibbous moon shines over cottonwood and dramaclouds
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BobS @landsteward.earth · 06/05/2026
We all see the same Moon in our own way. #moon #thought
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Charles Mudede @mudede.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Thinking About Swallows in Perhaps the Last Decade of Their Returns to Seattle www.thestranger.com/animals/thin...
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Thinking About Swallows in Perhaps the Last Decade of Their Returns to Seattle
The more one enfolds swallows, the more swallowish their thinking becomes.
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...
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Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
moonclouds in dreamsky
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
What is hard is to keep alive on a world you don't belong to.
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
looking over the Pacific from atop the bluff, sunbeams radiate through a dark cloud and the waves keep on with the work of breaking
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
nearly empty ocean beach with bluff in the background. It is somewhat misty and foggy. It is quite cold. Black and white photograph
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
a creek cutting a channel to the sea leaving sand cliffs to contemplate crumbling
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
the surf of the Pacific Ocean lapping around a pole with windsock—far, now, from any thoughts of standing plumbreflection of said windsock in the water-slicked sand as the frothy surf rolls in
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
stepped away a few days
yours truly in hat and sunglasses, looking out to sea on a sunny not-quite-cloudless day; a black and white photograph
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
the moon I guess a fir tree
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krat @kwholesaler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
moon trees and cloud
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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The Democrats didn’t flip a red seat in the Texas Senate. The PEOPLE flipped a red seat in the Texas Senate.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
double rainbow over Eld Inlet
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
tiny mushrooms on mossy cedar bark
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
surprised here on @bsky.app more folks aren’t going on about the last word of Pynchon’s new book being Skeet
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Mason & Dixon and Molloy
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Three second exposure in the dark dark night out back; floodlight on. There is a lightly clouded sky with stars; there are evergreens and fence posts, uncertain foliage; there is a barn . . . .  Blacks and deep greens are present, as are reds and ochres, in the golden throw of light. Blue too.
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
So happy for LK — these guys haven’t shut up all morning!
My László Krasznahorkai collection. There are a number of titles; the majority are proof copies. Satantango is signed.
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Braindead Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee.
You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
No new pictures, where are you at mentally?
Samuel Beckett in the trees throwing things on a burn pile, the flames taller than he. Photo by Barbara Bray.
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
my sky, tonight
moonsmudge and cloud obscuring smoky starlight
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
my sky, tonight
stars, sky, clouds, trees . . . there are some colors
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
my sky, tonight, through catalpa and fir
the moon, through trees
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
❌ 👑 Olympia
no kings rally in Olympia, WA at the state capitol
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Our oldest being (briefly) home from their first year of college, we got up to Fort Worden for the day—a favorite of both kids.
an old rusty door set in a concrete stairwell hidden in the grasses and trees of a hill. Through the door is a 30-foot drop and a rebar ladder.
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The roses are crazy this year!
climbing rose with many blossoms dominating the downspoutanother view of all those roses
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
rabbits
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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 19/04/2025
Bunker Rule No. 1: The people in control of the bunker are lying about what’s outside the bunker.
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failing better . . . @nobidil.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
HANDS OFF OUR DEMOCRACY
“Hands Off Our Democracy” sign with the State Capitol in the background approaching the Hands Off Olympia rally.
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