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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 4h

Two days ago I said it cost Paul a significant amount of genius to write a song like “Yesterday” so simply without it being corny or stupid. The same thing is true of “One More Time”

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 8h

Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 9h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 10h

This is primitive ancestral trauma from the Neanderthal admixture, which makes them like the beast

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 1d

A’ja Wilson is the greatest basketball player alive isn’t she

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 1d

You are sheltering enemies of the state, are you not?

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 1d

The TRON: ARES soundtrack was fine

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 1d

I might be critical of the tracks I’ve made this year in various ways but if I enjoy listening to them more than I enjoy the TRON: ARES soundtrack I think I’ve landed in a perfectly acceptable place

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 1d

No! No!!! NO

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

Johnny Cash's rendition of Hurt has this property where it almost feels just totally obvious that this is the way the song should be performed, but I am not sure it would have felt that way had he not in fact done it.

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 2d

donning the armor of god to face the forces of hell

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 1d

Pupils dilating and heart rate rising as I realize I can say that taking the tritone out of Cash’s cover was a form of elder abuse

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

Johnny Cash released his cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" in 2002, shortly before he died - it was an enormous hit, it's hilarious that some guy writing for the Wall Street Journal is just now realizing he was cool

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 1d

Go support a cool thing this guy is doing

Cooter Jones @cooter.bsky.social · 2d

Now that all of Issue 1 is shipped, I’m logging off to finish Issue 2! It’s projected to be 2x the size of #1, so our goal is $600 to cover production. All who pitch in get original art from the book + an early digital copy!

Venmo: @BucephalusMissouri
Paypal: @cooterjones262

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 1d

Are you really going to tell the model it shouldn’t activate the weights associated with heresy and apostasy

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 1d

Hoe warmer hoe beter

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 2d

The band is vamping while the vocalist delivers a rhythmic verse dense in meaning and imagery light on melodic content?

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 2d

My evening conclusion is that Dylan actually has plenty of songs that are perfectly legible as rap

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s see the president spell world backwards

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway I agree with you that the lyrics serve the song and trying to be conceptual or literary or something doesn’t always work in that context. I read about some high concept Dylan was maybe trying to do with Tangled Up In Blue I’d never picked up on and I reacted basically with “sure man whatever”

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 2d

So that’s the thing, when I do my list you do get a lot of rappers including at the very very top (why isn’t Kendrick the greatest lyricist ever)

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 2d

Basically I think it’s really hard to write Yesterday like that and not have it be corny or stupid

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 2d

I think that’s true and I think Paul is one of the giants of melody but I do think Paul’s best lyrics have an immaculate simplicity to them that isn’t showy or conceptual but is why everybody knows and loves all his stuff

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 2d

I was literally just having that argument with myself about the difference between those things

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 2d

Freakin like Paul McCartney is still alive

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 2d

Probably not mine either but that’s where I start with who you’re toe to toe with

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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s something to get myself into big trouble. He isn’t the greatest lyricist alive but I probably do honestly believe Lin Manuel Miranda clears Taylor and fairly easily

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 6d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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