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Blake Leyh

@earlofedgecombe.bsky.social

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Composer, Music Supervisor, Sound Designer, Mixer (The Abyss ,The Wire, Treme, Neptune Frost) Bass/Guitar/Cello/Gravikord. Bastard son of William Blake & The Velvet Underground, literally. https://blakeleyh.com Harlem ~ New Orleans ~ London

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 9h

Ok, so you saw some of that first hand... It's shocking to learn some of the details, to see how newspapers were targeted!

But the film also offers some hope! Great stuff about The Baltimore Banner and other independent journalists who are trying to get new paradigms up and running.

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ANTIGRAVITY Magazine @antigravitymag.bsky.social · 16h

Here is your Voter Education Guide for the Oct. 11 municipal election. You'll be voting on candidates for mayor, City Council, sheriff, assessor, and criminal district court clerk, as well as a City Charter amendment and, in some areas, a tax proposition. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/vote...

VOTER EDUCATION GUIDE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2025

This voter education guide is published primarily as a resource and does not constitute an endorsement of any candidate or proposition by ANTIGRAVITY Magazine. Welcome once again to your ANTIGRAVITY…

antigravitymagazine.com

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 10h

Update!

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 13h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s the trailer for the film:

youtu.be/MOWlPV26yCk?...

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink – Official Trailer

YouTube video by Stripped for Parts

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 12h

Some films need to be seen with an audience in a theater, others not so much. There were some great Q&As at screenings of this, but other than that I think it’s a film that totally works on whatever screen you have handy.

The story is really eye-opening, & it also has some hope for the future.

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 12h

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 13h

"Hedge fund Alden Global Capital gobbles up newspapers across America and guts them. No one knows why, until journalist Julie Reynolds investigates. Her findings trigger journalist rebellions at Alden-owned newspapers nationwide."

Full documentary streaming at @pbs.org.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1d

If you like my work, please share and subscribe. I'm trying to override a variety of shadowbans and broken algorithms. Thank you!

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1d

New Q & A answers are up! Readers sent in thoughtful questions on city raids, digital surveillance, the disappearing internet, and much more: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 15h

Good morning from Harlem

#GoodMorningFromHarlem

Looking through an arched window and hour after sunrise the blue sky is filled with complex layers of gray and white storm clouds. Across the middle of the sky is a band of backlit yellow clouds. Pointed roofs of Harlem brownstones are silhouetted across the street, and a taller apartment building can be seen in the distance. The tops of two trees are on the bottom and right.

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 23h

Melvin, I'm sorry to tell you that is not a mayor winning bagel order.

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · May 11

Arthur Streeton's The Centre of the Empire, oil on canvas, 1902

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Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 1d

A photograph of George Nakamura, a Japanese American soldier, walking around New York City in his uniform. Date unknown, the photograph was likely taken around 1943 or 1944.
🗃 #skystorians

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss’s first project for CBS brought in a phenomenal 145 viewers. Love this for her.

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 1d

It’s tradition that when you see the frogs, you show them respect 🫡

(Someone should do the Creed cut with the footage)

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah!

From the nextfuckinglevel community on Reddit: Chinese instrument sanxian cover of Michael Jackson's beat it

Explore this post and more from the nextfuckinglevel community

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Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 1d

"Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2" is the next album by @melvingibbs.bsky.social released by @hausumountain.bsky.social on Oct 14. It's excellent and well worth your time.

bsky.app/profile/obso...

Observations of Deviance @obsofdeviance.bsky.social · 1d

On the next episode

Amasia / Anamibia Sessions: Melvin Gibbs Interview

Sat, Oct 11, 7-10pm(ET) @wfmu.bsky.social

STREAM ▶️ wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Melvin Gibbs. Photo by Christian Stewart

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Gilly @gillyarcht.bsky.social · 1d

Oooh. New October tradition dropped. Love love love it

Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 2d

turnip Jacko’-lanterns are cursed

via @lillyh.bsky.social

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

Related: my daughter and me in 2009.

A white guy with glasses bundled up in black clothes smiling and looking at the camera, with a young toddler bundled up in pink sitting on his shoulders, looking pensive. The man is holding a sign that says in large white block capitals on a black background "ARREST BUSH"

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

I was really happy that there was a baby in my group of protesters at the last no King's Day. But then I told the baby's mom about how I was trampled by horses in Grosvenor Square at the anti-Vietnam war protest in 1967 when I was 4 years old and she did not find the story comforting.