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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises

@thepeskyfly.bsky.social
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Writer. Alt-weekly vet. Honky Tonk singer. Memphis guy. Putting the left in “Elvis has left the building” since 1967.

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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Death at Gonerfest
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Moon over Gonerfest.
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“I am the code,” is what I now intend to say every single time I use face ID on my phone.
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I bought some comics at a very literary estate sale. There were only a handful amid so many highbrow volumes, and I grabbed them all without looking. When I got home I realized I had Conan #23 and #24, which introduce the character Red Sonja. I didn’t even pray to Crom or @gailsimone.bsky.social
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If you don’t love Connie Converse, why?
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yep
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
so the exact scenario all of us opposing this have warned about for the last 2 years
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Not only are foundations and donors pulling back from supporting trans rights, but major foundations are dropping organizations BECAUSE of their commitment to trans issues. This happened to @fightforthefuture.org and we have not recovered financially www.them.us/news/trans-r...
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Trans Leader Sounds Alarm About “Near Complete Exodus” of Philanthropy From Movement
​Shelby Chestnut, the executive director of the Transgender Law Center, says that the “dollars barely trickle in.”
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you are looking for a book with a meta-theory of American politics, I highly recommend "The Sum of Us" by Heather McGhee. Published in 2021, still relevant now.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Awful. Just awful. A promising young man, a high school honors grad who joined JROTC and dreamed of becoming a doctor, killed himself because of the Trump admin’s obsession with hurting Haitians and the humiliating shame of an ICE ankle monitor. His blood is on their hands.
A picture of a young black man, dressed in a light blue suit with a smart black bow tie, smiling as he is handed a diploma from a school official, a white man in his 40s-50s who is also smiling. Underneath is the caption “Pierre Damas Bel receives his high school diploma. (Family Photo/Instagram)”Bel arrived in the United States in 2024 in order to reunite with his parents, who had fled Haiti three years before. The family was granted temporary protected status, purchased a home in Springfield and settled into life in the U.S. Bel dreamed of studying medicine and graduated high school last May with honors and as a proud member of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC), his father said. He was the eldest of three siblings and his family described him as smart and responsible.
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I need to go out and harvest lemongrass blades but I don’t want to because it’s so pretty right now.
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Os Mutantes Merle Haggard Darlene Love Lou Reed The Ramones Prince Carla Thomas Shonen Knife Tom Waits Sonic Youth
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
You know what’s a really good record? Afroharping by Dorothy Ashby. Disc two is probably my favorite, but the whole thing is great. I think her best known record is The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby — and it’s great!— but Afroharping is just the best thing for a late summer night.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Your "It's not disqualifying to fuck dogs!" tshirt has already answered all my questions
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 29/08/2026
This is a good thread that I broadly agree with, but with a kind of large caveat: Corporate actors are also participants in the ecosystem, and LLMs make it much easier to freeload on open source in a way that undercuts open source as a business model.
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If toilet paper is the new eggs and eggs were the new toilet paper does this mean toilet paper is the new toilet paper? I can’t keep up.
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I’m such a crazy cultural quilt of a human being, Dolly, Tim Curry, and Jaye P. Morgan all dying at once feels unusually personal.
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I love this song. youtu.be/WKHJuA-vQbM?...
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Dolly Parton 07 The Bridge
YouTube video by littlesparrow185
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
On the one hand, The Times raises alarms about DSA's organization. Here, a prof declares class war disorganized. And all media blithely dismiss DEI, forgetting what the 'E' stands for. We’re in a New Era of Class Warfare. Is Change Still Possible? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/o...
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Opinion | We’re in a New Era of Class Warfare. History Points to a Way Out.
The class-based violence of the past was part of a broader struggle. Today, the violence is the end in itself.
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Dave Mason @fatsodoctor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Memphis city council considers a data center moratorium, today. I hear the mayor saying %$&Ø like "we just have to have guardrails." ffs. That's a sad denial of the last two years, which have conclusively demonstrated that "guardrails" are a fiction. #freethe901 #noxai #datacentermoratorium #nokings
B&W. Day. A public plaza. Filling the center: the giant block letters of the "I AM/A MAN" sculpture at Clayborn Temple. Four people lined up in front of the monumental words hold a black banner on which is white text: "xAI Kills 901". A fifth person, wearing sunglasses and holding a water bottle, stands at the far left.
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It Ain't Me. @notimeforbs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Fear monger certain groups about seeing armed men at the polls, also terrify them about what their personal info and preferences will be subjected to if they vote by mail. The suppression isn't being hidden.
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Yep.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🎶 Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you King 🎶
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
That it is.
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Based on recent actions to make billionaires richer I’m guessing he wants that minimum wage for all 50?
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The world’s least exciting action movie.
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Never forget, every “Tell us how we can pray for you,” sign is an opportunity to knock on a stranger’s door and request blood sacrifice.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"Debates over World War II became popular at Heritage, with a lot of “rehashing and going through who was the bad guy and who were the good guys,”" Also, sounds like a lot of anti-Semitism at the Heritage Foundation. Maybe Trump's task force on anti-Semitism could look into this!
Hale told me that he was willing to debate policy; what he wasn’t willing to do was “sit here and discuss whether the Holocaust happened or not.” Discussions among new hires frequently echoed arguments promoted by Fuentes, Carlson and the podcaster Candace Owens that shed doubt on the historical consensus around the Holocaust or the origin of the state of Israel. Hale described a conversation with one new hire who claimed that the publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell — the father of Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime partner and enabler, and a Czechoslovakian Jew by birth — had paid for the rights to all the history textbooks used in public schools in the United States, and that everything in them about the Holocaust was a lie.
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
As long as we can retain SOME dunking on Matt.
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
It’s just true.
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I did not love the Odyssey. Except for Circe.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/07/2026
Labour did all of these things and what happened? Their progressive base abandoned them for the Greens while they didn't win any tory or reform voters. They hemorrhaged support while emboldening reform.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I thought AP style was “Bozos the Clown”
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
It’s so true. But I bought a couple of pairs of linen beach pants for a trip to Puerto Rico and have been feeling downright evangelical about it. I live in a subtropical climate. Why do we wear jeans in July here? End the madness!
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lesleyest @lesleyest.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We've gotta stop referring to the hpv vaccine only in terms of cervical cancer. They don't care about women. It also causes throat cancer and penile cancers in men.
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
What is the best Ween song and why is it I Gots a Weasel?
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Here's the Eichmann of Minnesota, Ilan Wurman, arguing that the Trump administration has the right to indefinitely lock up every single undocumented immigrant in the United States. Upwards of 11 million people. morninganswerchicago.com/ilan-wurman-...
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This is the villain Jackie Gleason would have played if he’d ever appeared on Batman 66. His plan would be to wreck Gotham City’s birthday by transforming everything true blue in Bat-Town into something green and slimy! Too early for a Swamp Thing appearance, sadly.
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Yep
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
This is really gonna mess with all the “you can’t compare Trump to Hitler” trolls.
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Weaker and weaker.
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
soundmiraclerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/take-a... I can’t stop listening to this. Lives up to its title in every way.
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TAKE A KNIFE AND OPEN MY HEART, by VARIOUS
13 track album
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Nah. One can be a critic of AI without being a Chinese spy. What sort of nonsense is this.
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Cousins of “why is nobody reporting [insert thing that is, in fact, being reported].”
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 13/06/2026
The Walter Anderson Museum of Art will launch a free three-day Fisheye Film Festival June 11-13 in Ocean Springs, featuring films, workshops and discussions focused on environmental storytelling.
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Fisheye Film Festival Launches in Ocean Springs
The Walter Anderson Museum of art in Ocean Springs is launching the free Fisheye Film Festival from June 11-13.
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We hold this truth to be self-evident, no matter where you are in the world nothing can wreck your whole day like a UPS store.
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A thing of beauty.
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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I spent the day swimming in a rainforest. That’s a sentence I never thought I’d type.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Mamdani erasing back rent owed for over 5000 tenants - saving them millions of dollars Showing how to use city power to force corporate landlords to fix unsafe apartments and end exploitative conditions gothamist.com/news/landlor...
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Landlord targeted by Mamdani agrees to forgive back rent in 5,100 apartments
The company Summit says it will waive unpaid rent in its new building portfolio as long as tenants resume making payments.
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