My music is not for bigots. That includes red hats and white hoods. That includes those who wield crucifixes as moral weapons. That includes TERFs. That includes genocide apologists. That includes bathroom police. This is not a safe space for hatred. I sing for the intolerant left.

We’re being force-fed AI and I hate it. We’re teaching machines to dream and using them to bar humans from careers in creative fields. This is backward. Unsurprising, but downright dystopian.

Let me introduce myself. Alt-folk-soul, emotions on the bleeding edge of my sleeve. Sociopolitically awake and unapologetic about. Making music for people who punch Nazis and worship their beloved. Pretty, at least sometimes. Ugly when it’s called for. Listen, connect, be??

Pique a boux

I really want this app to be the one that succeeds.

This, both literally and regarding what it represents.

1) Ouch. Dark. 2) Buy this series and read it. Michael is a tremendous talent and what many call a mensch.

Generative AI is plagiarism. Let’s keep AI firmly in the “assistant” department, and pass laws banning scraping from non-consenting artists. It would be simple enough to create some kind of learning database from royalty-free material for machine learning—there is no reason for this.

Olly olly oxen free.

Who’s into vinyl and indie rock? I wanna try something.

A comment on a tattoo coverup of an actual hate symbol, gleefully supporting said hate symbol, without even the courtesy of clever misspelling, doesn’t go against Meta’s Community Standards. That tells me that Meta HAS no standards.

What are the odds that, in the silence of the dark hours of the morning, even the Self-Tan Supervillain knows he done f**ked up and sits there worrying over how deep up his a*** the puppeteer’s hand has gone?

I feel like @aoc.bsky.social could perhaps take the hint.

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It’s a coup! Please read or listen to Robert Hubbell’s newsletter! open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...

I have to somehow keep promoting my art and paying my rent amidst all this chaos, so like … consider buying my albums and stuff, I guess.

The FBI’s core values, including integrity, compassion, fairness, and allegiance to the Constitution - and oh, yeah, diversity, are being painted over at the FBI Academy. Source: NYT.

This is terrifying.

At the very least.

Turns out the secret to a coup is just do it on Friday. The opposition will make strongly worded posts and see what they can do about it on Monday

A coup d’etat is an overt deposition of government by force. A self-coup involves a legally elected leader KEEPING power through illegal means. A constitutional coup occurs when power is expanded using semi-legal means such as loopholes or rule changes/suspensions. All of these are possible now.

I want to believe you, Congresswoman. Tell us an action plan that prevents these madmen from suspending democracy and refusing to cede power. We have heard, from their own lips, that very intention. How do we save the USA—looking for concrete answers, not just hope.

Media purges have started. If you’re keeping score at home yes, we’re on pace with 1933 level shit and speed

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Instead we are watching them shamelessly prepare to suspend democracy. We are watching massive executive overreach, and we are watching the naked, shameless, cowardly targeting of the most marginalized groups among us. I hope the “both parties are the same” argument is ashes in your mouth.

I think that we should be talking about what Trump is trying to do to trans people in the context of the Nuremberg laws.

Let’s get less quiet in here. Music. Books. Activism. Intrusive thoughts. Butts.

Suddenly, I feel like forgiving Greyhound for that time a guy peed on my shoe after asking me for h*roin.

The Price of Injustice: How Trump’s Policies Bankrupted More Than Our Morality open.substack.com/pub/stacyaal...

every Dem that went along with this needs to be primaried into the sun…

Organize. Assemble. Resist.

I’m over the narrative that we need to field moderate/centrist candidates. It’s time to strike out boldly. Gamble on someone who can galvanize the electorate. Temperate politics are unfit for turbulent times.

Sometimes, the solution is right in front of us.

A 🧵 for comic book fans: Nearly all comic villains—Doom, Skull, Luthor, Osborn, Darkseid, etc—are autocrats, fascists, and right-wingers who play directly into a certain stereotype (that you might not-see *cough*). 1/3

I’m just gonna build community, protect who I can, and sell records for now. But I’m prepared for worse, if it comes to it.

He seems determined to defeat Andrew Jackson in all future Bad Presidents lists. Today was a bad day.

The level of shameless propaganda we just witnessed is deeply alarming.

Ah, the void. I’ve missed you.

Seeking all the meta-fleeing music fans. Connect with me. I’m about to start being a regular.

Listening to @xynetak.bsky.social and @brightkelly.bsky.social while wrapping the latest batch of Xmas presents, rain lashing down, wind howling, windows rattling, and cosy in my @nikkihurray.bsky.social Platypussies PJs. A perfect way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon. Hope you're all doing good.

This is the life I have. It’s my silly little adventure to be on. I’m not going to derail it by being anything other than who I want to be. Neither should you.

And for bonus points, but MY record. Only 200 were pressed!

How many of these do we have?

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever. #books #reading #booksky #poetry

Matryoshka posting

Okay, if this ends up better than Threads and X, I’ll stick around. Trying to connect with people who love music and books—since I create both of those things for a living.