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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 07/10/2026

a cool thing you can do when you see something online is be like ah ok then go and do something else

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Zoyd Sportello @zoydsportello.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The angel of history must’ve also seen some of these small good changes piling up too

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 28/09/2026

people keep talking to the computer like it's a person that remembers things and not just a probability machine. it's been several years now of "you're right, that's on me. i shouldnt have erased your hard drive" and they're still surprised when it happens

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Zoyd Sportello @zoydsportello.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Eating 4 mini chocolate croissants after playing bad basketball

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Zoyd Sportello @zoydsportello.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s pretty easy not to listen to popular music now!

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Idu House @iduhouse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🚀 Artist of the Day: Sun Ra The cosmic jazz pioneer who declared himself from Saturn, Sun Ra reimagined what sound, and existence, could be. Through his music, he built worlds of freedom, blending ancient Egypt, space, and Black futurism into one infinite vision. 🗃️ #CreatorsAtWork #BlackSky #Art

Color film still of Sun Ra from Space Is the Place, shot in the Bay Area in 1972 and released in 1974. He stands outdoors in full cosmic regalia in front of a white car, with a dry hillside, road, trees, and an intensely blue sky behind him. His black-and-gold striped pharaonic headdress rises into a huge gold orb framed by two tall antenna-like prongs. A broad jeweled collar rests over a striped blue, red, black, and white tunic, while an enormous yellow-orange cape catches the wind and spreads across the frame like solar flame. His shoes echo the same saturated palette. The image captures the central visual idea of Sun Ra’s world: ancient Egypt, outer space, Black self-invention, and theater fused into one living language. Born Herman Poole Blount in Birmingham in 1914, he remade himself as Le Sony’r Ra and insisted he came from Saturn. That claim was not simply a joke or stage gimmick. It became part of a larger philosophy in which myth offered Black people a way to imagine existence beyond the racial limits imposed by America.
Space Is the Place turned that philosophy into cinema. Directed by John Coney and co-written by Sun Ra and Joshua Smith, the film follows Ra returning to Earth and proposing another planet as a home for Black people, with music itself serving as a vehicle of liberation. In one of the film’s most famous exchanges, he tells young people that he comes to them as “the myth,” because a society that denies Black people full reality has already pushed them outside its definitions. The clothing matters just as much as the dialogue. Sun Ra rejected the boundary between costume and everyday dress, and the Arkestra’s handmade metallic robes, Egyptian forms, sequins, and space-age headpieces transformed performance into what he called cosmo-drama. Here, standing beside an ordinary car on an earthly road, he looks deliberately impossible. That tension is the point: the future is being staged in the present. The roadside becomes a launchpad for freedom.

Portrait of Sun Ra from the Space Is the Place era, standing against a deep, electric-blue background in a monumental red-and-gold robe. His body is almost completely enclosed by the garment, which falls to the floor in broad panels of crimson, bright gold and bronze. A black-and-gold striped pharaonic headpiece frames his face. Above it rises the same extraordinary emblem seen throughout this period: a large metallic orb held between two long upright prongs, glowing under the lights like an artificial sun. Sun Ra looks slightly upward, making the portrait feel less like a conventional musician photo than an icon from a civilization that does not yet exist. That effect was deliberate. By the early 1970s, Sun Ra had spent decades constructing a universe in which music, clothing, poetry, philosophy, theater, technology, and ancient Egyptian imagery belonged to the same project. He called his stage spectacles “cosmo-drama,” and he treated clothing as part of the sound itself, once declaring, “Costumes are music.”
The Arkestra’s garments were often handmade from metallic or found fabrics, assembled with the same experimental spirit as the music. This visual language reached one of its clearest forms around Space Is the Place. Sun Ra and the Arkestra recorded the album in Chicago in October 1972; Blue Thumb released it in 1973. The film, made in 1972 and released in 1974, translated his mythology into an Afrofuturist science-fiction story about Black liberation, interplanetary migration, and music as a technology powerful enough to change reality. Decades before the word “Afrofuturism” was coined, Sun Ra was already practicing it as daily life. The orb, pharaoh stripes, and cosmic robe were not an escape from Black history. They connected ancient African symbolism to a future in which Black existence could exceed the categories imposed on it. In this portrait, Sun Ra does not dress like he came from another world. He stands as evidence that another world can be invented.

Color performance photograph of Sun Ra and his Arkestra at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan on September 23, 1978 photographed by Leni Sinclair. Sun Ra stands near the front of the stage in a shimmering bronze-black robe, a beaded or metallic head covering framing his face. His right hand is raised as if cueing, blessing, conducting, or reaching into the air. Behind him, members of the Arkestra hold brass instruments, behind a steel sculpture of curved rods that arc overhead like trajectories, antennae, or orbital paths. Warm amber stage light turns the sculpture and Sun Ra’s robe into streaks of copper and fire against a dark background. The photograph captures the Arkestra at a moment when a Sun Ra concert had long since become far more than a conventional jazz set. Music, costume, movement, poetry, chanting, props, lighting, and spectacle were fused into what Ra called cosmo-drama, a ritual designed not simply to entertain an audience but to alter its sense of what was possible.
This performance took place during the 1978 Ann Arbor Jazz Festival at Hill Auditorium, a festival dedicated that year to Duke Ellington. That context matters. Sun Ra revered the big-band tradition, especially Ellington and Fletcher Henderson, while pushing it through free improvisation, electronics, unusual instruments, theatrical staging, and what sounded to many listeners like music from another century. His work was not a rejection of jazz history so much as an argument that its history already contained the future. The steel sculpture surrounding him makes that idea visible. Traditional brass players remain in the frame, but their stage has become a cosmic environment of curves, metal, shadow, and motion. Sun Ra’s raised hand sits at the center, directing both orchestra and image. By 1978 he had spent decades asking audiences to imagine Black life beyond earthly restrictions. Here the concert hall becomes his spacecraft, the Arkestra its crew, and performance itself the engine.

Square cover image for a 2024 reissue of Sun Ra and His Arkestra’s Jazz in Silhouette. A close portrait of Sun Ra fills the frame against a hot pink-red background bordered in yellow. His face is black-and-white, while oversized rounded sunglasses glow yellow-orange over his eyes. He wears a zebra-striped cap, a patterned collar, a purple metallic-looking top, and a large sun-shaped pendant at his chest. At upper left, bold yellow lettering reads “SUN RA,” with smaller text naming his Arkestra and the album title JAZZ IN SILHOUETTE beneath it. The psychedelic color treatment reflects the cosmic Sun Ra most listeners now recognize, but this is not the album’s original 1959 cover. It belongs to a modern 20th Century Masterworks reissue, released on blue vinyl in 2024. That distinction opens the deeper story of the record. Jazz in Silhouette was recorded in Chicago on March 6, 1959 and issued that May on Saturn, the independent label Sun Ra built with Alton Abraham to release music the established record business was unlikely to support.
The earliest-known sleeve was hand-screened and credited to H. P. Corbissero, a name researchers have suggested may have been Sun Ra himself. Musically, the album stands at a threshold. The Arkestra still swings with the precision of the big-band and bebop traditions Ra knew deeply, but compositions such as “Enlightenment,” “Saturn,” and the expansive “Ancient Aiethopia” already point toward stranger harmonic, rhythmic, and philosophical territory. Sun Ra was not abandoning jazz’s past. He was treating it as raw material for another future. Saturn itself was part of the experiment: records appeared in small runs, were sold at performances, re-pressed, relabeled, and sometimes given new handmade art. This modern cover therefore creates a kind of time fold. The cosmic icon looks back at one of the records where his musical universe was still taking shape, reminding us that the spaceship was being built long before most people noticed it.

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Zoyd Sportello @zoydsportello.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

1. This did something good for my mental health today 2. I don’t think I’ve ever seen video of Jeremy Enigk before 3. 16/17 year old me would be absolutely swooning at this 4. I should back and relisten to more Sunny Day 5. I was gonna say I never got to see them live but I saw their comeback tour

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 19,1960

P1 - ONE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS WANTS NANCY TO SEE HIS BABY COUSIN
KID: MY BABY COUSIN JUST SAID HIS FIRST WORD
P2- NANCY IS FOLLOWING HIM TO SEE HIS BABY COUSIN
NANCY: WAS IT "PAPA" OR "MAMA" ?
KID : NEITHER
P3- KID: THIS IS A MODERN BABY
P4- THEY ARE LOOKING IN THE WINDOW AT THE BABY BEING HELD BY HIS FATHER
KID: HIS FATHER IS A BEATNIK
BABY: DADDY-O

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Zoyd Sportello @zoydsportello.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just realized I have three hobbies and I’m deeply mediocre at all of them. But I’m better now than when I started them*, which I think is the point * chess is the exception here, I might’ve regressed back to beginner

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Zoyd Sportello @zoydsportello.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Is having a go-to reference song for audio quality a red flag?

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Zoyd Sportello @zoydsportello.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Freeways are pretty insane. What are we doing here, just learn to wait a little

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Zoyd Sportello @zoydsportello.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

He was always old Zim to me, wild to see him ostensibly young like this

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It’s pretty smart politically to alienate a group that you would probably get like 90% of their votes so that you can appeal to some imaginary transphobe that will vote for a Democrat instead of their preferred candidate which is literally anyone else

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Zoyd Sportello @zoydsportello.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026)

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Guy born between 1980 - 1997: what's up I'm Ryan

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Zoyd Sportello @zoydsportello.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I personally would be very into a Hunt for Red October legacy sequel

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

just remember, no matter what words you're using or how you're pronouncing or intending them, you're wrong and should be ashamed. same goes double for anything that you do or don't do, physically.

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Flock-o'-Lantern @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

pulled the video so you don't have to go to X we stan a towering queen who does not care for the antics of mediocre men

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Zoyd Sportello @zoydsportello.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Im glad she’s cool, I always of that preseason video where she accidentally calls A’ja Wilson mommy and Cam is so embarrassed

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adrian @crawf34.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

what an amazing tribute game by sophie cunningham. zero points, rebounds and assists to represent the number of trans women in the WNBA, 15 minutes as a nod to the total number of terf losers protesting in her name

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Zoyd Sportello @zoydsportello.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Finally something that was on my 2026 bingo card

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Zoyd Sportello @zoydsportello.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Was pretty into this hat when I was 13

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Zoyd Sportello @zoydsportello.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is why all the Celtics said they didn’t want to sit next to him at the movies

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Zoyd Sportello @zoydsportello.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Whenever I see pavement or similar, I tell friends that I’m the guy with a beard and glasses in jeans and a band t-shirt so they can find me easily

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 13/08/2026

Absolutely not! I’d rather die!

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Zoyd Sportello @zoydsportello.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Zuckerberg? The visionary behind the metaverse?

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

hp fandom found dead in a ditch somewhere

@youhavebeenwatchingfilms Potterheads will properly shag a mound of dickhead rocks for their dumbfuck shitboy elf but then close their eyes and cry and piss themselves to sleep because someone told them to read a good book for once

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Amongst media-aware trans people someone who signed the Harper’s letter is shorthand for this person didn’t give a fuck. This is someone who didn’t care, as fascism rose, whether I lived or died." www.welcometohellworld.com/who-goes-tra...

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Diana and Apollo Killing Niobe’s Children, by Jacques-Louis David, 1772, 📸 by Juan Ocampo

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

so you’re saying there’s another wnba but it’s just all men. yeah lemme get right on that *jerkoff motion followed by throat cutting motion followed by the thing where i point at my eyes then yours* it sounds really fun

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Zoyd Sportello @zoydsportello.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Hard to believe they didn’t experience massive growth from the Mr Delicious ads archive.org/details/mr-d...

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Zoyd Sportello @zoydsportello.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I mean I put up similar numbers but I don’t hate trans people so who’s to say

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Zoyd Sportello @zoydsportello.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

You wouldn’t eat a whole thing of peanut butter m&ms

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Zoyd Sportello @zoydsportello.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I genuinely Enjoy how 70% of the Bosch books are just naming freeways and streets

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DJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

if men don’t read books I wouldn’t have to hear about dungeon crawler Carl every time I looked at my fucking phone so there goes that theory

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Zoyd Sportello @zoydsportello.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is like saying Grayson Allen was snubbed by the USA men’s team foh

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Zoyd Sportello @zoydsportello.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Would love to see James Cameron’s writing sessions for the Avatar movies. “And the whales will be like wise elders… Pi Kan, that’s the name of one of them…”

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