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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 21/08/2025

The Guardian just revealed Israel’s own military data: 83% of those killed in Gaza are civilians. That’s not war, that’s genocide.

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Learning Drums is for: ❌ creating original music ❌ playing in a band ❌ having a hobby to dostract from the agony of existence ✔️ playing "Out Of The Black" by Royal Blood with the detuned St Anger snare drum

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Sometimes you make terrible decisions on purpose. Like this week's terrible decision of mine: Listening to every Nickelback album. Yup. All 10 of them. This isn't a "hear me out" moment, this is just me getting a better grasp on a group I very much dislike.

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Boy, nothing sets off an existential panic more than reading about the insane water and energy costs of data centers for these glorified slop mills. Just Overwhelming dread

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

There's a handful of albums coming from artists I'm familiar with who are dropping albums on Fridays this month, starting today with "Accelerator" by Bad Suns. I'm expecting disappointment, lemme see if I'm correct.

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I really do dislike how there's this prevalent societal expectation that we should spend our free time being "productive" in order to justify being hired to earn a pittance. Not just in like learning a cool skill or hobby but basically turning it into a side hustle just to be considered employable

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

If Spotify being absolutely terrible to artists, embracing AI slop and funding military warfare startups hasn't convinced you to abandon Spotify, let this be the final straw. Begging people to just buy/download music as directly from their artists as possible.

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

If I go back to Canada, first of all I gotta move out of Quebec. Second of all, when I go back to working, I gotta like, I dunno, find work in a corner store or something. Will it be boring and unfulfilling? Probably. But I won't have to worry about fucking tech all the time.

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Philosophy is probably the worst field for studying because it only makes sense if you're actively looking for it and already engaged with the material. Trying to glean anything from it without prior knowledge is just swimming in an ocean of incoherent word soup.

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Regular reminder that I hate GenAI and I especially hate GenAI text. Complete and utter fucking word slop. Just a million words to say fucking nothing of value. No one reads this shit. If they did, their eyes would glaze over. It's a sedative.

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

6 classes this semester where seemingly everything is due in the last month. The workload is crushing me. I so desperately want to crash out.

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

TIL that was one of the big fandom collaboration albums of the Gen 4 MLP fandom was themed and titled after a dubstep side project formed by the members of Pendulum. In hindsight, this explains so much.

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Oh new NIN song just dropped. It's pretty good.

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Really would be swell if assignment outlines, deadlines and expectations didn't change on a near daily basis.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Vote for a neoliberal banker who loves privatization and you get a neoliberal banker who loves privatization

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Top 4 Video Game OSTs I dunno if this is 100% accurate but it's close enough.

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Hahaha, I lost my job for shit like this. (For legal reasons I am obliged to say I did not work on any of the games in the examples but just within video game LQA)

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Every couple of weeks someone makes a bait article about "Bluesky is a left-wing echo chamber" and I always have three instinctive reactions - Reactionary debate bros have no idea what "leftist" means - Bluesky users have no idea what "leftist" means - Bluesky isn't left-wing but I sure wish it was

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

While the country is trending for less important reasons, it's probably worth mentioning that Liberia might be the best example for the failures of America as a broader institution. A country styled so heavily after the United States only to fail catastrophically.

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

List of tired political tropes I am hearing of: "how can you be socialist if you grew up rich" idk man, socialism isn't a poverty cult, and not only is the propaganda tiring, it's honestly really ridiculous to see it embodied in some of the aspiring but unread left of the day.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

obvious maybe but still worth noting that the western news media treats someone shouting "death to america" or "death to the idf" much, much more seriously than the actual deaths being caused by america and the idf

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

fuck America and fuck the fourth of July

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Parts of the Boggly Woods music from Paper Mario TTYD would work really well as the ambient intersperses in an atmospheric Drum and Bass track. This has occurred to me while listening to LTJ Bukem

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Everything sucks in life rn, and I'm incurably furious about world events, and I hate distracting myself in other things to make myself feel better about living through hell times. Perhaps this is why my current music fixation is what it is. I'm going to talk about "Soft Spot" by Honningbarna.

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I really fucking tire of hearing the lazy rhetoric of Jews and Muslims having some kind of innate hate for one another. It's a purely emotional post-hoc justification for the modern day settler colonial project and stoking ongoing phobias towards the other.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 22/06/2025

Any semblance of Western credibility or overweight is gone. Not just Trump and Biden - not just the US. Trudeau and Carney in Canada, Sunak and Starmer in the UK, Macron in France, Merz in Germany - they all steered to this outcome through malice, stupidity, or a lack of spine. It's gone.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 22/06/2025

Israel isn't in control of the United States. This is just who the US is and has always been. Saying we're controlled is just a way of saying we're victims. We're not. We're an imperial power that likes war because it's profitable and enriches our oligarchs. That's it.

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Can't quite get over the fact that I keep seeing a tourism ad for Singapore set to "Lollipop" by MIKA. Like...the song is very obviously about sex and is also widely adopted as a gay song (happy belated pride month). This for a country that's as socially conservative as it is up here in Malaysia

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Mali 💤 MCM London G-23 @sleepimali.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Reposting with alt text since this is going around again!

Two panel comic in black and white. In the first panel, a bunny sits in the grass, surrounded by sparkles and flowers, on a white background. The second panel zooms in on the bunny's face and the background is black, with white text handwritten in all caps on it: "TOUCHING GRASS ISN'T ENOUGH, I NEED MONEY"

Signature: SLEEPIMALI (and the year the comic was made, 2023)

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

My mother continues to be the only emotionally intelligent person I come into contact with on a daily basis. I would be dead without her.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Can this disaster of a day be over. Why is it only 2pm

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

After contemplating, I'm uprating a new album to my fabled 10/10 rating. Interestingly enough it is the first to achieve this rating without any individual tracks being a 10/10. It's about the cohesiveness of it all. Welcome to my hall of fame, Jean-Michel Jarre's "Oxygene"

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

[Person listens to a track with the Funky Drummer break] "Why does this breakbeat song sound familiar?" Me: Did you watch The PowerPuff Girls as a kid? "Yeah, why?" Me: There's your answer.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 11/06/2025

If you’re worried about property destruction wait until you hear about climate change

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Haha, this class already fucking sucks. We had ONE introductory class by an instructor with no teaching experience who barely speaks English, and were then asked to write an extensive design document. within a week. Now we have to add a presentation to it. It's due tomorrow. Haha, Fuck.

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Upon further reflection can we skip straight to this chapter.

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Zack Spades @zackspades.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

[checks news] [laughs humourlessly] Call me when we get to the "loaded gun in a bunker" phase of this feud.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Setting up "aid distribution points" and then massacring people who come to obtain food is sincerely one of the most evil things I have ever seen.

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