People think they're "doing something," when they aren't, and/or are gluttons for mental punishment.

Chanced upon this beauty on my walk this afternoon. A gorgeous Fall day in Portland.

I don’t use it, but Spotify is running ICE ads, so fuck Spotify.

Book mail day! Stoke to finally dig into "The Unkillable Frank Lightning" from @joshrountree.bsky.social! #westernhorror

"They don't fully migrate because bluesky is viewed as too much of an echo chamber," is complete BS that you and a few right-wing pundits (and MUSK, wonder why?) made up in their heads and starting pushing on people as fact.

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts bsky.app/profile/did:...

I love you so very much, #Chicago. Today, I have immense hope. Thank you ❤️🏙️

Book mail day! Stoke to finally dig into "The Unkillable Frank Lightning" from @joshrountree.bsky.social! #westernhorror

The No Kings March in Chicago is one of the largest gatherings I’ve seen here. Looking down from by the river, the crowd stretches for blocks down Michigan Ave and wraps around Wacker Dr. This video is from a few minutes ago and the end of the protest is nowhere in sight. @blockclubchi.bsky.social

A quick gallery of #NoKingsNYC thismodernworld.com/archives/103...

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Digital media has its place, but I guess I want less and less of it in my eyes and ears. jamesenge.com/2025/10/17/j...

In my experience, if you're going to bother to have a tambourine in your song, you should really make it one of the loudest things in the mix, or it's just wasted. Example: Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Gold Lion." #tambourinethoughts

If you're still on Twitter and on the "left" in any capacity, I'd suggest you reconsider keeping your account... "there is a Nazi doxxing ring over there *very thoroughly* collecting the info of any public lefty they can find, they were banned but Elon personally reinstated them."

i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.

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It can’t be a coincidence that the White House and its minions have joined bluesky the day before the No Kings protest. Do not engage. Block. Protect your peace and what’s left of this space.

Don't engage. Just block. They want to push their rage bait on here. Don't give them the satisfaction. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

Hey friends, a spot of friendly advice from a Bluesky elder (I was in the first 1% of users) - this place got good because early on we used a policy of: Do not engage, do not dunk, just block. The block here is powerful and super effective. It starves them out. Nothing grinds them more.

In my experience, if you're going to bother to have a tambourine in your song, you should really make it one of the loudest things in the mix, or it's just wasted. Example: Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Gold Lion." #tambourinethoughts

If you're still on Twitter and on the "left" in any capacity, I'd suggest you reconsider keeping your account... "there is a Nazi doxxing ring over there *very thoroughly* collecting the info of any public lefty they can find, they were banned but Elon personally reinstated them."

Spotify is a cancer on music. Cut it out.

I really, REALLY hope that when this is all over these American Brownshirts are forced to face a modern Hague for actual crimes against humanity.

Justice. "The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax staged by crisis actors." FactMatters apnews.com/article/supr...

Going to see Lene Lovich perform tonight! Big fan, but I've never seen her live.

Posting so much pain and suffering. Have to remind myself never to let art fall by the wayside. If we lose art, we've lost everything. #musicsky #punkrock #chicago #portland

Going to see Lene Lovich perform tonight! Big fan, but I've never seen her live.

I, for one, will be happy to ditch carrying around a phone all the damn time.

My favorite Halloween record. It has an actual black mass on the b-side. Coven later had a hit with "One Tin Soldier Rides Away" from indie kung-fu movie Billy Jack, which I also highly recommend. #musicsky #halloween

One continuous scene of two separate run-ins with ICE from an alley in Rogers Park this morning, from three entirely different POVs. 1. www.instagram.com/reel/DPt0Roi... 2. bsky.app/profile/roya... 3. bsky.app/profile/juri...

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

12 October 1921 | A Polish Jew, Dawid Aleksander Baumgart, was born in Aleksandrów Kujawski. In #Auschwitz from 11 December 1941. No. 24274 He perished in the camp on 20 December 1941. --- A podcast about registration photos: https://youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc

Some light pre-show reading in the @georgiastraight www.straight.com/music/obsess...

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

When local news KATU posted this on Instagram, they had to clarify that the music was coming from the protesters and hadn't been added as editorial comment. 😂

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system. I am not fearful — I am fearless. We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

My letter to the mainstream media: We will get through this, eventually. But you will not. We will remember each and every sellout.

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Ok, this is just funny. isportlandburning.com

Greta Thunberg after being released #FreedomFlotilla

That's a NOPE from me, dawg. Bye.

For better or worse, the only cure for depression/frustration over your own writing is...more writing. #writing #authors #writingcommunity #writers #fiction #books #booksky

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

Looking for queer Halloween read? Check out WASTE GROUND, from @slashichorrorpress.bsky.social! "Ruvolo keeps the action nonstop as he viscerally displays Portland's underbelly and the unseen hunger beneath our feet." - J.A.W. McCarthy, Author of SLEEP ALONE www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

Here’s the CBS News report about ICE making bogus 911 calls and filing false police reports in Chicago. ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social

The album that changed my brain. I was fourteen when I first heard The Wait. Still holds up forty-five years later. A classic.

You think they're just going to stop with us? They always need new enemies. Oh, you voted for Trump? Too bad, the neighbor that hates you turned you in as an anti-capitalist for complaining about the company you work for. Off to the "wellness camp" with you.