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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 1d

Necking at the malt shop
Well I’ve heard about
Rats in the booty yard
found out about you
found out about you

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 1d

there's a grant for artist/mothers in NYC I just came across, in case this might be you www.artistsandmothers.org/grant

Grant — Artists and Mothers

www.artistsandmothers.org

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 2d

If you haven’t yet read Becca Rothfeld’s merciless review of Jean-Pierre’s book, please do.

Imagine parting ways with the Democratic Party not because of its unwavering support of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he violated international law and waged a bloody campaign against civilians in Gaza; not because of its humiliating failure to mount meaningful opposition to the Trump administration's assault on just about everything of value in the country; not because it continues to run candidates in their 70s and 8os, one of whom opted to die in office at 90 rather than cede her seat to someone younger; not because of its inability to expand access to health care, or protect immigrants, or tax the wealthy, or really get anything done at all; not because of its politely noncommittal affect and rhetoric of facile uplift, or its members'® tendency to address the public as if they are delivering the keynote at a corporate retreat; not because the Democrats have no political vision, something of a liability for a political party; but rather because of the single sensible — if very belated - thing they have done in recent memory, which was to usher a doddering Joe Biden out of the 2024 presidential race.

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 3d

I think the big failures of Biden & Dems on Covid are more about what they did in 2022, '23, and '24. The medicaid unwinding, the end of the pandemic emergency declaration, the CDC shitting the bed by solely focusing on vax, the aversion to talking about masking, it's all terrible public health

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 3d

Hochul pronounced "Mamdani" wrong and now the crowd is yelling it back at her. Brutal. She can't get a word out. Huge chants of "tax the rich" at her, as well. She finally broke down and just said, "I can hear you."

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 4d

Conservatives in both parties are addicted to voting for the people who killed their friends and loved ones with covid

우리가이긴다 @yanquigohome.bsky.social · 4d

I mean what do you even say. Ideology trumps material reality every day of the week.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 4d

There’s an interesting paper on how infection with SC2 is both conferring T cell memory, and reducing T cell receptor diversity… opening up the possibility that response to future infections could be suboptimal…

t.co/2zikOfVUpJ

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2025.1680089/full

t.co

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 4d

Duchamp? More like DuShrimp

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 5d

truly, a squirrel

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 6d

👋🏻 thanks for the spin
Btw that’s a viscacha on the cover (it’s in small print in the J card), they live in the mountains in Argentina
Also btw you said the name of the album right but my name is said like “more rude than” (and David Rudder is a famous soca singer)

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 6d

thanks to Brad Cohan for the words & ear on the Thee Reps album and some other cool stuff on this list too www.treblezine.com/9-great-expe...

9 Great experimental albums from summer/fall 2025 - Treble

Welcome to Without a Net, our quarterly survey of the far-out and free-form

www.treblezine.com

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 6d

Are they making the noodles out of apples yet?

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 7d

this brings up the great question of why we would even have private landlords in the first place www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/23/a...

Affordable Housing’s Slow-Motion Financial Collapse

Nonprofit groups say swelling operating costs exceed the rent they collect for more than one in five of their apartments, housing some of the city’s most vulnerable tenants.

www.thecity.nyc

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 8d

My hope is that the actor who was Troll Boy in the Little Buff Boys sketch continues to list on their CV for many, many years that they were Troll Boy in Little Buff Boys

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 9d

potentially a cool thing hellgatenyc.com/grand-centra...

A New (Cheaper) Way to Get to Albany

And more links for your Tuesday.

hellgatenyc.com

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Sam @very-simple.com · 9d

To be clear, these apartments have been sitting empty during the Adams administration, when there were NOT rent freezes, but somehow a potential future policy is the problem.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 9d

There are thousands of rent-stabilized apartments in New York currently sitting vacant. Some landlords argue that Zohran Mamdani’s rent freeze would keep them empty.

Would Zohran Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Keep Rent-Stabilized Apartments Empty?

Thousands of apartments in New York are run-down and vacant. Some landlords argue that a rent freeze, paired with preëxisting housing laws, would keep them that way.

www.newyorker.com

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 12d

that is a great podcast! still gotta see the movie...

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 13d

One of the dumbest ways to go extinct as a species really would be for our leaders to decide they have to mine coal and drill up oil not because we actually need them anymore but because they just refuse to accept that we don't.

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 13d

END IT is a great song for the moment. Arp (Burning Property) too. I Feel Hated has some of the coolest drum production. Don't Quit the Band makes me cry. All the feels on this one.

And your keen ears will tell you that's me singing back up along with Aliza Simons

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 13d

I am just posivitely kvelling for my dear guy @jefftobias.bsky.social today cause he's got the big new album out and it's so good that you should listen to it! jefftobias.bandcamp.com/album/one-hu...

One Hundredfold Now in This Age, by Jeff Tobias

10 track album

jefftobias.bandcamp.com

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 13d

great cool new album out on Gold Bolus today from Carrie Frey and the Rhythm Method string quartet: carriefrey.bandcamp.com/album/seagla...

Carrie's first album was solo viola, now you can hear her brilliant SQ notions & experiments IN YOUR OWN HOME or wherever really

Seaglass: Works for String Quartet, by Carrie Frey, The Rhythm Method

4 track album

carriefrey.bandcamp.com

Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 14d

I got stools of chunks like you in my guys

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I got guys of stools like you in my chunks

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 16d

Why is Israel declaring "victory" in Gaza when many of its aims were not met? @peterbeinart.bsky.social writes that the real goal is the same as it has been for decades: maximum land, minimum Palestinians. Trump's ceasefire plan is another step in that direction.

jewishcurrents.org/what-israeli...

What Israeli “Victory” Looks Like

The Trump deal doesn’t destroy Hamas but it does further Palestinian dispossession.

jewishcurrents.org

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Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 15d

wild ideas!

Dave Ruder @daveruder.bsky.social · 16d

What do we think about toasting bread in a frying pan?

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