Finally, a clear repudiation of the brain-dead “it’s just a tool” argument that gets floated cynically about every new technology:

Users of Bluesky: thanks for making it so fun to be here, to read through your thoughts, to behold your adorable animals, your books & your records/CDs/et al.! I appreciate this hang.

If you were to dump the AI-powered streaming services, what physical media would you want when it comes to music? Casettes? CDS? Vinyl? 8-track? Something else entirely?

I like books more as time goes on, and i liked them a great deal to begin with.

Do you like songs where the singer is supposed to be dead in the song Y/N

I’m in Miami, a town I have a lot of fondness for. I belong here as a citizen of the great indoors. But also appreciate the food, the people, the music, and the magnificent Everglades

Nobody else finds it hilarious that Paul McCartney, author of “Penny Lane”, was in a band for over a decade with a man whose name rhymes with that ?!?! It would be like if John’s new collaborator was called Tim Magine 🤣

Um guys look who’s sitting next to me on this flight to Miami

The Stones release “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” 58 yrs ago today. “You get a great feeling of elation” when playing it, Richards once said. “A wicked glee. .. I can hear the whole band take off behind me .. Levitation is probably the closest analogy to what I feel." [Charlie Watts isolated video clip]: 🔥

Make no mistake: you gotta eat well to read & listen to music well!

Airlines are increasing ticket prices and slashing thousands of flights to cover soaring jet fuel prices caused by Trump’s war on Iran. But long before now, Trump was already making your flying experience even worse. Watch.

There should be this much Bob content every day of the year

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

The Knicks look so good! I am in love with Jalen Brunson playing basketball. But when they show up to the Finals, uffff…wish I could be their catcher in the rye

If you don’t absolutely have to fly on an airplane, just don’t. You’re going to have to trust me on this.

Wait why did Paul McCartney call his band wings and not “horns” or “wool”?!? 🐑 🐑 🐑

Just landed in NYC. More strikingly, just realized the entire game Wingspan may be a physical pun on “a bird in hand”…?!?? 🤯 🐦 🦅 🦢

Something about “C Moon” just feels like the most McCartneyish McCartney song. The whimsy? The Linda? The romance? The unconditional love of filling one’s head with glue? The playfulness

Pizza Hut had a free pizza giveaway in Manhattan to ticketholders during the 1993-94 season if the Knicks held a team under 85 points in a game. Fans were chanting "Pizza! Pizza!" during games. It was so popular that it became disruptive during games and the Knicks ended it.

Been thinking about my favorite solo Paul McCartney song all week. is it, is it…”C Moon”?🌙 just love the vocal, the piano, the stoned spirited style, the backing vox, the sections, the vibe.

really glad the post fired all my friends to focus on stories like this

I’m not financially qualified to give this advice but I think you should quit your job and just come read all day.

Let’s post what we would do with the 1.8 BILLION slush fund instead of giving to traitors & criminals who attacked our country. I’ll go first I would create a fund to pay for veterinary care & pet boarding for low income pet owners. I personally believe that pets are essential to mental health

I heard the style of Knicks-Cavs described as “trading mistakes”…

I can’t wait for basketball every night this week, even though it’s two completely different interpretations of the game of basketball.

Maybe I should have helped attack the capitol so I can afford groceries.

I don't want new works of art "broken down" for me, thanks!

The New York Times editorial board: “Americans should be cleareyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals.”

I don't want to pump out nor consume content. This way of looking at creation presumes the content is akin to shit.

🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

Here's my favorite bit of writing advice. Make a list of all the things you are a weird little freak about. Pick three of them that are unrelated. Make a story where those three things intersect in some way. You are going to have fun

Sometimes making music seems like the silliest thing to do and sometimes it seems like the most important thing to do. Sometimes you don't think about what it means at all and you just do it and those are probably the best times.

If the sweetly awkward swaying & period fashion of the "Hey Jude" promo video was your jam, wait till you get a load of "With a Little Luck"!

"Learn your lines next time" 😂

Sesame Street, sweater vest vibes. My fave: youtu.be/2k_4qvMU6kQ?...

today is a super day to quit Amazon forever. all the days are.

Who else has a real love hate thing going on with the concept of travel? Love the promising suggestion of an adventure, hate actually leaving home, feeling like a solitary atom in the world, airports, burning up gas in the sky

Bluesky an amazing piece of tech that supports, enriches, and encourages the tech-free world

100% #BookSky

In the McCartney “Man on the Run” doc, Stella M. speaks illuminatingly of her mom’s self-styled fashion in Wings & says entire careers were based on it…does anyone know who she’s referring to here?

Our girl, Nina. A rescue hound from Georgia now living the snowy dream in Maine. A real beauty inside & out.

If you want to attend a sporting event to watch the game, there's nothing like basketball but if you want to attend a sporting event and not watch the game, baseball is basically the GOAT sport

Even cassette players were sexy in the 1970s.

Do you know I actually think that these people are so inoculated from any public sentiment that they are legitimately shook by a handful of boos at commencements this week?

Thank God there was no social media when I was a working composer.

Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.

I joined Bluesky about a month ago. I’m getting served lots of dogs, a smattering of cats, and much physical media. Creepy to be known like this!

Speaking of physical media…I’ve released six albums of original rock & pop songs. You will like to listen to them! & I’ll gladly send CDs anywhere on earth. (“All I Know” album art by Klaus Voormann)