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I'm Todd Bishop: drummer, author of CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER! drumming blog, player, teacher, Origin recording artist, visual artist, seller of Cymbal & Gong cymbals on my site Cymbalistic. Portland, Oregon.

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CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!™ @cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social · Jan 12

NEW BOOK: Rants, vol. 1
drummers, drumming media, and the internet

From the files of CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!, a collection of things typed in a rage over witnessing something awful related to our exquisite drumming art form! Fun! 290 pages.
cymbalistic.com/products/ran...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!™ @cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social · 7h

oh his brother is an old friend of mine, met him many years ago

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 1d

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12h

A Portland legend is born www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

‘I’ve definitely had spicier tamales,’ says Portland ICE protest frog that got pepper sprayed by federal agents

The 24-year-old talks about the spray, the viral video and why he’s protesting.

www.oregonlive.com

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CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!™ @cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social · 12h

noem rn

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CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!™ @cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social · 12h

[narrows eyes]: clever bitch

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 14h

"By the time she died at the age of 79, she had as strong a star persona as her original screen fashion idol Katharine Hepburn — the kind that made inattentive viewers assume she was just playing herself." Wherein I write about the incomparable Diane Keaton. www.vulture.com/article/the-...

The Unfading Beauty of Diane Keaton

For over five decades, cinema bent itself around her profoundly original image. It had no choice.

www.vulture.com

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CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!™ @cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social · 13h

CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!: Funk practice loops embedded - 01
#drums #drumsky
cruiseshipdrummer.com/2025/10/12/f...

Funk loops embedded – 01 - CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!

Continuing to post some of my favorite practice loops, here are some slower tempo selections from my funk folder. Also check out my rock loops I already post...

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 14h

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride in Portland, OR—getting ready to go.

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CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!™ @cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social · 14h

they're not meant to be anything, the thing just squirt out a pile of bitmap goo, some of which accidentally looks like something

CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!™ @cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social · 14h

no rendering error, it's an accurate representation of the thing's defective "concept" of the right answer

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 18h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 15h

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 17h

this is the list of ideological identifiers laid out in the NSPM-7 that would predict violence, and are all of course, incredibly reasonable positions or just ridiculous framing, like “extremism on gender” which is just being pro-trans:

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17h

Ah yes tell me again about that brown-skinned refugee you worship, Christian nationalists

skippyoz @skippyoz.bsky.social · 1d

Religious leaders denied request to deliver Communion to detainees at Broadview facility chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Religious leaders denied request to deliver Communion to detainees at Broadview facility

Meanwhile, two days after a judge ordered the removal of a fence erected by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, barricades were being put up in front of the fence on Saturday.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Ethan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 17h

Some of my grad students report that they are using AI to generate teaching materials, and in case you were thinking of doing that, here's what ChatGPT thinks the circle of fifths looks like: chatgpt.com/s/m_68ebfc56...

Circle of Fifths Diagram

A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges

chatgpt.com

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CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!™ @cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social · 18h

so now accepting tens of thousands in cash in a fast food bag is sketchy all of a sudden

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you, @aselrod.bsky.social. As far as I can tell, zero internal evaluations are going on at the big news orgs on how to deal with this basic problem, yet any discerning reader can see that it's a major impediment to conveying what's really happening in the US to readers and viewers.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d

“the conventions of political reporting today are poorly suited to capturing this naked use of sheer pretexts and the bottomless bad faith they rely upon.”
@gregsargent.bsky.social is absolutely right. Big, legacy media has got to catch up to reality.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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ceej @ceej.online · 21h

the disastrous refusal of the self-styled silicon valley technokings to keep anyone in their lives capable of questioning their increasingly incomprehensible politics has lead to a crisis of thinking so severe that a fifty-eight year old man believes something is important because he knows about it

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!™ @cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social · 20h

literally ~50 yards of pavement
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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 22h

Caldera (2022)

Sam Rivers
Doug Matthews
Anthony Cole

Live in New Orleans 2002

Archive Series - Volume 6 - Caldera, by Sam Rivers / Doug Mathews / Anthony Cole

8 track album

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 1d

Kenn Duncan’s contact sheet from his November 1968 photoshoot with Diane Keaton.

Keaton began as the understudy for the role of Sheila, but took over the part three months into the show’s run.

Twelve shots of Keaton in various poses.

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John R. @tribe.bsky.social · 22h

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