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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 2h

one time i asked claude to give me a list of the five best bands from baltimore and the answer included an america cover band and the good, the bad, and the queen

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 27/09/2026

playing frijoles with plrls this friday! we'll be on first, come early!

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APPLIED KNOWLEDGE (PHILLY)
50FT WOMAN AND THE WORMS
HOLY FRIJOLES, BALT. MD / 8PM / $10

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 4h

You can talk like a goddamn adult on Bluesky, which is one of the reasons I like it here. The cutesy euphemisms, although I know why they’re in use on more restrictive platforms like TikTok, make me so irrationally angry

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 3h

i hope this book comes with a dozen pączki

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 5h

today's first song of the day is "french disko" by stereolab www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdhV...

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French Disko

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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 21h

If you assign a group project in grad school I should be allowed to tase you

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Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social · 21h

Drivers making right turns in Baltimore (or any city): please, please, please look to the right as well as the left because sometimes there are these people called pedestrians in the crosswalk. Respectfully, Woman who almost got killed by a UPS driver 5 minutes ago and he didn’t even seem upset.

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E G @edgy.bsky.social · 20h

Imagine if they had given the arabbers all of the money they gave to pimlico instead

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 22h

i for one would like to choose the bear to eat the man, can we have that option please

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 29/09/2026

idaho is voting on their official state gun and none of the candidates is the potato gun? embarrassing ballotpedia.org/Idaho_Offici...

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Idaho Official State Gun Question (2026)

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 29/09/2026

today's first song of the day is "never say never" by romeo void www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x0f...

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Romeo Void - Never Say Never

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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 29/09/2026

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Sierra Furtwangler @sierrafurtwangler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Since everyone is talking about country music today because Rolling Stone published something profoundly stupid. youtu.be/K_IjIj97gKE?...

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Slim Cessna's Auto Club - That Fierce Cow Is Common-Sense In A Country Dress | Glitterhouse Records

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a day Teach a man to transform permanently into a fish, you'll probably never hear from him again

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 28/09/2026

my thoughts on the cornell situation are that a lot of people have helped to pinkwash le mondo, the parkway, and iron crow

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

BREAKING: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison. Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning. Today, at Law Dork:

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Breaking: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison

Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning.

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"I felt terrible that I had argued with the famous writer. I also felt terrible that the famous writer… had turned out to be a stodgy middle-class Briton with the narrow views of his class." —Lucy Sante

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Baltimore music lovers! Starlings have an album release show Saturday night at 1919, and Glad Pulses opens. Sean Lally’s Telecaster slinging is reason enough to come. And Pulses have some brand new songs for you, one of which trashes the 21st century. See you there. www.facebook.com/share/18vcDF...

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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

one of the four Key of Life outtakes that Stevie Wonder released today is "I Can See the Sun in Late December," which I wrote about a few months ago when all we had of the song was a Roberta Flack version and a few Stevie live performances: www.spinmagazine.com/2026/05/deep...

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Deep Cut Friday: ‘I Can See the Sun in Late December’ by Stevie Wonder - SPIN

Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. In January 1974, Stevie Wonder performed the ballad live several times, ...

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Cary Moy @donaldhollinger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Yip Yip Yow" by Caroline Rose, from her Gentling the Horse at the Walt Whitman Mall album which will be released on Friday 23 October 2026. Cowboy Carter Beyoncé after drinking an entire case of Yee Yee Energy. I love it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBfd...

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Yip Yip Yow

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 28/09/2026

this is great next, let's prohibit ppl from driving around maryland with ICE *in* their car

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Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I still need to go to New Bedford to look at the Hot Herman Melville statue.

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the hot dog guy @quesoquesoqueso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

whoa, Kid Koala (Deltron 3030, Gorillaz et al) did a DJ set at the new local hot dog/cocktail bar, Werewolves Welcome this weekend. Fuckin rad, wish I knew www.instagram.com/p/Dd0Q0E3u51...

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caitlin @trustpunch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just bumping this 💜 I’m still short with rent due next week so, if you have a little to spare, it would really help! Extremely grateful to everyone who’s thrown in/shared already — truly, thank you. V*nmo: cgoldblatt

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bibliotequetress @bibliotequetress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Igs are no longer held in Massachusetts because it's no longer safe for attendees to fly to the US Scientists studying cockroach milk and nose-blowing win Ig Nobel prizes for quirky science apnews.com/article/ig-n...

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Scientists studying cockroach milk and nose-blowing win Ig Nobel prizes for quirky science

Researchers have been honored for their quirky, imaginative contributions to science at the 36th annual Ig Nobel Prizes.

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 27/09/2026

playing frijoles with plrls this friday! we'll be on first, come early!

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 27/09/2026

livin on the bubble in my bubble outside the bubble inside a bigger bubble, which is why they call me bubbles

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 27/09/2026

haven't knowingly heard the song but i did read the lyrics and it's about women competing over a man who is a solitary drunk, a boring heterosexual conflict filtered through arbitrary and obviously permeable borders of states that do not share a border it's straw men all the way down

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 27/09/2026

can't even get ppl to care about the rape apologists and pinkwashers in the meat world but you want me to be kind a robot i didn't even ask for

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

one week from today! the Inter Chicago Circle for Experimental Critical Theory's curated show "ART IN THESE TIMES" hands-on bookbinding workshop discussion of the exhibition alongside the philosopher Jacques Ranciere's "Paradoxes of Political Art" join us! interccect.com/2026/09/10/a...

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Art in These Times: an InterCcECT exhibition

ART IN THESE TIMES affirms art’s special obligation to refuse authoritarian assaults on free thinking and creative making. Spotlighting works that circumvent familiar gestures of political ar…

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@seattlecritics.bsky.social is presenting a screening of GREEN ROOM on Oct 14 at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social as part of our SFCS at 10 series. Featuring a virtual interview with JEREMY SAULNIER and other surprises. Come through! Tickets and information: nwfilmforum.org/films/sfcs-1...

The punk band: Callum Turner (totally forgot he was in this), the late, great Anton Yelchin, and Alia Shawkat wearing a Dead Kennedys t-shirt.

Callum, Alia, and Anton punking out on stage.

The lovely Imogen Poots with an accurate skinhead girl hairstyle.

Patrick Stewart as the head of an Oregon white supremacist compound. With Brent Werzner, Mason Knight, Samuel Summer, and Colton Ruscheinsky as his guys (a lot more not pictured).

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 26/09/2026

i heard there was a secret chord that dolly played now it's season gourd

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 26/09/2026

in retrospect i realized my friendship with **** ended when a year later i asked for my battered first edition of the rules of attraction back and she said "does it have to be that copy"

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 26/09/2026

i saw a robot dog yesterday it was taking a nap

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 26/09/2026

i just tapped out at ad #21 it wasn't until ad #6 that i saw a non-white person in an ad

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 26/09/2026

a good life goal is to live your life so that alex gibney makes a documentary about you (complimentary) as opposed to living your life so that alex gibney makes a documentary about you (derogatory, oscar-winning)

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