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sug @sugzone.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Last week I figured out how you can duct tape some stuff together on Bluesky to make it work like a platform just for music. It's really easy and you don't need to code or anything. I put together some instructions so my friends can do it too. Reply with your shiny new music feed!

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How to make a lofi music feed on Bluesky

part 1 of a series on keeping track of stuff... maybe?

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atrevido @atrevid000.net · 30/07/2026

shameless self promo. first release out now on naive. naivetrax.bandcamp.com/album/atrevi...

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Atrevido - Reflection, by Atrevido

7 track album

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sug @sugzone.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

today I went on a hike and now I’m laying down

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sug @sugzone.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The person who invents a way to bring your cat to the rave is going to be the first ethical billionaire

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sug @sugzone.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I wish my mom would send me pictures of my cat without me even asking

404 Media @404media.co · 02/02/2026

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404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for the Palantir-made tool called ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address. www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

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Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE

404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Children screaming and crying can be heard as a possible uprising is underway at the ICE Children's Concentration Camp in Dilley, TX (1/24/26).

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Sharing this report of ICE depravity from Facebook at the request of community member. This is from a suburb north of ICE-occupied Minneapolis. The text is from her post on Facebook.

A child in a blue hat stands near a vehicle during an ICE raid.

The text of the Facebook post that accompanied the photo.

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sug @sugzone.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I’ve thought about it and I think we should sabotage Spotify low-frequency.beehiiv.com/p/let-s-sabo...

Enshittification, by and for the people

Let's sabotage Spotify

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

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sug @sugzone.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Community radio should be the Internet's center of gravity. Social media sucks because it's literal work and work sucks. You're not living until you're winding through Appalachian mountain roads, listening to a station low on the dial. All this and more in my newest blog post yet.

Freq goes to college (radio). And Appalachia.

Tuning In

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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

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Ryan McGrady @antisomniac.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Spotify was archived by Anna's Archive 2 days ago. When the company starts filing lawsuits, remember this bit from the book "Spotify Teardown": Spotify *exists* because of bittorrent, and because it began ... *with an archive of pirated music*.

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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

absolutely cursed property. anything short of returning it to death by audio/285 kent/glasslands (or equivalent) will result in generations of karmic haunt to all future tenants & their parent corporations.

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sug @sugzone.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

If I could be any cat I’d be my cat.

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sug @sugzone.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

on the verge of being back in business

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sug @sugzone.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Just sent a follow up to God

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

An incredible, revelatory intervention by my friend Dr Tarek Loubani. Humane, scathing, courageous. Watch it and share and be enraged.

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sug @sugzone.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

This is the last episode of this show I'll be producing and oh my god is it an incredible one. Absolutely essential listening for anyone interested in the fate of science and technology in America. Shoutout to powerhouse host @ethanz.bsky.social, might not be the last time we do something like this

sug @sugzone.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

just released the open source software powering Freq, superFreq, developed during my soon-to-end time at @idpiumass.bsky.social can’t believe I got to build this crazy thing at this job. now it belongs to you, world. github.com/iDPI-Umass/s...

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GitHub - iDPI-Umass/superFreq: Software for social music discovery. Powering Freq.

Software for social music discovery. Powering Freq. - iDPI-Umass/superFreq

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sug @sugzone.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

How did one of the 1st attempts to bring the DIY music community online turn into yearly industry summits and a policy push advocating for independent musicians? In part 3 of my Simple Machines history, scrappiness begets savvy and we say hi to Steve Jobs. low-frequency.beehiiv.com/p/when-diy-w...

When DIY went digital (then to Cupertino and Washington)

Was Steve Jobs a... rocker guy?

PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

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Anti-trans disinfo runs on fossil fuels, and hating on Trans people is the new "climate is a hoax". An independent analysis of 45 right-wing groups advocating against trans rights found that 80% have received donations from fossil fuel companies or billionaires. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

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Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

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sug @sugzone.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

they should sell some snacks for people at the pet store

Bernie sanders addressing the camera in a parka

sug @sugzone.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Gonna post more about Freq even tho ironically I am not someone who posts a lot in general. But! Just added a feature today that automatically gets metadata from Bandcamp, SoundCloud, and YouTube if you paste a URL to an album or song. I used it to make this post! www.freq.social/posts/sug/no...

Welcome to Freq! | Freq

sold @glorbis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

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Gonna use this as an opportunity to plug my buddy @sugzone.bsky.social’s music website Freq, “A place to hang out with your friends and find out about music” Here’s the URL to request an invite freq.social/welcome/invi...

Invite request | Freq

sug @sugzone.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

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Part 2 of my little old Simple Machines series goes deep on why "underground" meant so much to the music world in the 1990s. The Top Gun soundtrack and Three 6 Mafia Underground Vol 1 are mentioned within 300 words of each other. A music journalism first? low-frequency.beehiiv.com/p/the-diy-de...

The DIY Decade: Why the 1990s needed the Mechanic's Guide

Rising from the underground

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sug @sugzone.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

against all odds I am ready to rock

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Critical Listening @criticallistening.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

🚨Introducing Critical Listening, a new podcast from Liz Pelly and Max Alper🚨 Head over to patreon.com/criticallistening to hear episode zero, a short introduction to the show.

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sug @sugzone.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Just published the first of a few posts about how DIY worked before the Internet swallowed music culture whole. A little punk history of cyberspace. The *other* cyberpunk if you will. low-frequency.beehiiv.com/p/the-mechan...

The Mechanic's Guide: how two DC punks taught the American underground to start labels

With a *tsunami* of precious intel

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Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Two punk goddesses not only made amazing music, but taught the DIY world how to press and distribute their own records. Mike Sugarman on Simple Machines, Tsunami and The Mechanic's Guide to producing your own recordings. low-frequency.beehiiv.com/p/the-mechan...

The Mechanic's Guide: how two DC punks taught the American underground to start labels

With a *tsunami* of precious intel

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Sean Carlson @sean-carlson.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I stopped by @lizpelly.bsky.social's book talk in Providence and ended up with a few words of my own on her debut Mood Machine and the intersection of music and technology — plus, context from @sugzone.bsky.social on establishing a localized streaming server at the venue. motifri.com/breaking-dow...

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Breaking down the Mood Machine: Liz Pelly riffs on music in the age of Spotify at Providence's Lost Bag - Motif

In “Big Mood Machine,” her 2018 essay for The Baffler, journalist Liz Pelly honed in on the role of digital music as part of “a burgeoning industry surrounding technology that […]

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Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

(And once you're on, add me as a friend: www.freq.social/user/ethanz)

Welcome to Freq! | Freq

Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

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It's Friday. The world is a terrifying place right now. Take a break and try a new online community, where the only goal is shouting out the music you're in love with right now: freq.social, from your friends at the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure.

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Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Freq: out! The new music recommendation/blogging app from iDPI, created by Mike Sugarman, is now in beta release, with invitations available via Mike's wonderful blog post about creating this new platform: low-frequency.beehiiv.com/p/freq-out

On building social media for music community with music community

Freq out

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sug @sugzone.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Wrote a bit about Freq, a project I've been working for years. Which means writing about my dream to build tools for music community with real music communities, that reality that I'm a musician not a software developer, and the weird personal history that got me here.

On building social media for music community with music community

Freq out

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sug @sugzone.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

the podcast I produce is back with an extremely timely episode

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sug @sugzone.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Ok... who wants to try out my social media site for community-centered music discovery? It's a fun place to hang out and talk about music, but it's also a pretty unique attempt to develop software *with* the actual communities who are going to be using it. www.freq.social/welcome/invi...

Invite request | Freq