Why is any sane person STILL on X?

I see a lot of mid (or just bad) poetry posted here. Well here’s some good poetry. This one touched me. #PoetrySky

Capleton - Don’t Dis The Trinity #ReggaeSky #Dancehall #NowPlaying youtu.be/OjnwWzX5DW4

So we're doing 'patriotic' songs today? 🇺🇸 How do I turn this flag upside down? 😢 I think Chateau Flight is maybe from le France? But anyway this song is a commentary on the sad state of our nation. Chateau Flight - Brain On Drugs (Chateau Flight Remix) youtu.be/pcNJQuoVI4I?si #RaveyardShift

Patriot Front, a white nationalist group that MAGA influencers have insisted is a FBI-orchestrated hoax group meant to smear conservatives, showed up in the hundreds today in DC for the 4th. Their biggest showing in a hot minute.

Time for another bump

John Kricfalusi is the creator of Ren & Stimpy (which OP’s account is dedicated to). He’s an amazing artist and I suspect he loathes AI slop, but I think at some point he was shown to be a real prick as well. This is a sample of his work:

I've been saying this for a while: Steve Bannon has been fine-tuning this tactic for years. The fuel protest worked as a proof of concept, and they did so in advance of the EU presidency precisely so Bannon's allies could throttle the entire EU.

I find a lot of music very performative. The artists don’t make those noises when they’re alone writing an email or taking out the garbage, but oh, as soon as there’s an audience, look out, that’s when the big music show starts!

NEW: Records obtained by ProPublica detail at least a dozen SpaceX investors with addresses in mainland China, Hong Kong or Russia who acquired stakes in SpaceX years ago through a middleman firm in the U.S. called Tomales Bay Capital.

Heute vor 47 Jahren, am 15.6.1979 veröffentlichten Joy Division ihr Album 'Unknown Pleasures'. 🖤🖤🖤

THANK you, KTLA

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

"The future of US media is independent." Sounds sexy, but that actually sucks. Journalists are ultra vulnerable when they are flying solo. Landing big stories is harder and riskier. Cheers to those who do it (including myself, to a degree) but we're all worse off if that's the only real path ahead.

I’m glad I went to a lot of concerts in my early years because I absolutely cannot afford it anymore

Drum & bass legend Doc Scott going OFF about the death of Juno vs the cult of Spotify

Frustrating that I have to unfollow/not follow folks back here if they follow too many shietposter accounts because of the vagaries of the Bluesky algorithm. The only way to wall off the shietposts in my feed!

Who wants some #MusicSky?? …No? Oh. Ok. Breakwater - Work it Out (1978) #funk youtu.be/SVUF2tCKr_c

He was the goodest little bad boy

tl;dr: why not take the good parts of twitter and reddit, and combine them? eg. they could beef up hashtags to make them more like subreddits. (give some actual mod powers to users running them.)

Henri Matisse, Blue Nude IV

A great write-up in The Saturday Paper of a big new report from Greenpeace Australia Pacific which I led. It is heartening how seriously our warning has been taken, and how a whole bunch of stories that have come out in the days since we published just completely vindicated everything we've said :)

Well I gave Bluesky a shot for music. For the average music nerd it’s just not a productive way to explore new tunes. It has potential but it would need a massive surge in popularity to get there. Appreciate the folks making the effort to work around this clunky system anyway. #MusicSky

Re-bumping

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone. (The cat makes it.)

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge May 24: A Bossa nova song ❤️ Caetano Veloso - Sozinho (Live) youtu.be/G_oT4nl3h9I Maybe closer to MPB? Who can say.

I don’t think it’s soft. It’s a broader category with subdivisions within it. You’ll hear us explain how we’re identifying it in the episode.

In the great new issue of #FaithFanzine, @terryfarley.bsky.social mentions this Frankie Knuckles article during his interview with Danny Tenaglia. I think the author is Hilton Als. #FrankieKnuckles #SoundFactory

Listening to music in my headphones and I don't know how I'd survive without it.

Fucking stop using fucking Spotify just fucking stop. There are no excuses. If you're an indie artist and you prop up Spotify because you think it helps you you're part of the problem. Stop using it to listen. Stop using it to host your music.

‘Brits are not as groovy as us – but they’re less square than Europeans’: how drum’n’bass united Brazil and the UK

quote with a fictional band that is not spinal tap.

Ghetts - Mozambique #hiphopsky #drill #grime #afrobeats youtu.be/DIhWBhf1lPY

That one master of the smooth jungle groove, the OG out of Belfast Calibre - No Stopping #junglist #raveyardshift youtu.be/AKtdY1jCiWc

My taste in music has peaked and I don't care.

Avalanches feat. Nikki Nair, Jessy Lanza, & Prentiss - Together #NewMusic #pcmusic #nowplaying youtu.be/KSa1zsPcj8w

is it "Shook Ones, Pt. II" ...?

The replies here are a prime example of what I’m on about when I rant about the toxicity of Reddit-style discourse. Doesn’t matter whether the “doubters” are acting in good faith, the science is settled and they’re just parroting the toxic industry’s campaign of misinformation #ClimateCrisis lies

#MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic #JackTheHouse Day 11- A House Track With A Steady 4/4 Beat: Roy Davis Jr vs Mos Def - Umi Says Remix on.soundcloud.com/Mic6NGS6KXkw...

Hitting a pocket of soul 45s now This is one of my favorite records from the Bay. Not a rare record, got reissued by RCA. I have a couple copies on both labels. But when we talk about daggers 🗡️ 💔 🎭 whew. might shed a tear before the night’s over

I didnt see this but to respond properly. Dudes need to look at themselves, their family, their mother, aunts, grand mothers, sisters, daughters and really ask themselves which men in their life they would trust alone around those they care about and then.. adjust their "friendships"

Reemah - Crowns Up On Your Head #ReggaeSky #RootsReggae #NewMusic youtu.be/xgaanEbyC94

Trying to find a music critic online who unfortunately shares the same name with a fintech “influencer”…the story just gets more and more twisted. 🤨 Anyone know #EmekaOkonkwo the music journo? Or is this fintech guy in fact writing reviews for @djmag.com

Just clearing out some old tabs and revisiting this one. Superb. @philipsherburne.bsky.social pitchfork.com/thepitch/rem...

REVIEW: Isaiah Rashad - 'IT'S BEEN AWFUL' Top Dawg rapper finds redemption via a vulnerable constellation of sounds that flip the bird at complacency... www.clashmusic.com/reviews/isai...

I just had to delete @callofduty.com mobile because of the MASSIVE amount of literal Nazi/Putin #propaganda they platform (mostly in user names they refuse to moderate). How does @activisionblizzard.bsky.social get away with being so obviously pro-fascist? #AgainstFascism #Racism #AntiSemitism

Just gonna slip this one in…Not quite #JackTheHouse is it. But it’s all love. Black Science Orchestra - New Jersey Deep youtu.be/5fZcZmlasjk __ RIP Rose 🌹 ❤️ forever mourn you til I join you