Blake
@blakerj.bsky.social
Sorting records and posting through it.
Photo guy. Fan of the physical.
Perpetually gettin’ real tired of it.
Photo guy. Fan of the physical.
Perpetually gettin’ real tired of it.
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
Another Dwyer improv sesh, Endless Garbage also has Greg Coates, but this time with Ted Byrnes, Brad Caulkin, & Tom Dolas, allegedly the first time these folks ever jammed together. Jittery, percussive, angular wackiness (complimentary.
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Another Dwyer improv sesh, Endless Garbage also has Greg Coates, but this time with Ted Byrnes, Brad Caulkin, & Tom Dolas, allegedly the first time these folks ever jammed together. Jittery, percussive, angular wackiness (complimentary.
One of Osees front man John Dwyer’s improvised jazz-ish side projects featuring Ryan Sawyer, Greg Coates, Wilder Zoby, & Andres Renteria. Freaky fried grooves on JD’s Castle Face label.
November 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
One of Osees front man John Dwyer’s improvised jazz-ish side projects featuring Ryan Sawyer, Greg Coates, Wilder Zoby, & Andres Renteria. Freaky fried grooves on JD’s Castle Face label.
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the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
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Disgusting. You engaged in political gamesmanship using them as pawns knowing they would get harmed and now you question *their* patriotism because some of them aren't wealthy like you and didn't want to work a high stress job for no pay?
Sean Duffy threatens "action" against air traffic controllers who didn't come to work during the shutdown: "I'm concerned about their patriotism."
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Disgusting. You engaged in political gamesmanship using them as pawns knowing they would get harmed and now you question *their* patriotism because some of them aren't wealthy like you and didn't want to work a high stress job for no pay?
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Business rent is way too high on Mag (not Miracle) Mile so companies are just shuffling around. H&M moved two blocks down the road to save cash.
He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.
He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Business rent is way too high on Mag (not Miracle) Mile so companies are just shuffling around. H&M moved two blocks down the road to save cash.
He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.
He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.
On the outer fringes of free jazz sits this intimate collection from a simple Sun Ra quintet featuring John Gilmore, Marshall Allen, Art Jenkins & Ali Hasaan that follows the Strange Strings strategy of improving on unfamiliar instruments. Mind-opening percussion-heavy exploration.
November 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
On the outer fringes of free jazz sits this intimate collection from a simple Sun Ra quintet featuring John Gilmore, Marshall Allen, Art Jenkins & Ali Hasaan that follows the Strange Strings strategy of improving on unfamiliar instruments. Mind-opening percussion-heavy exploration.
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Hot sesh from ‘69 from Don Cherry & George Gruntz and a host of heavy hitters like Sahib Shihab, Henry Texier and Eberhard Weber. Alongside traditional North African instruments from native players, it’s a fiery blend of African jazz and free expression.
November 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Hot sesh from ‘69 from Don Cherry & George Gruntz and a host of heavy hitters like Sahib Shihab, Henry Texier and Eberhard Weber. Alongside traditional North African instruments from native players, it’s a fiery blend of African jazz and free expression.
Slept on this one when it came out last year but have since remedied that. Mountain Movers were never really my jam, but Walking After Dark clicked for me. Dark, groovy, expansive and all within a rock record. One of many dozen Trouble In Mind albums that will stand the test of time.
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Slept on this one when it came out last year but have since remedied that. Mountain Movers were never really my jam, but Walking After Dark clicked for me. Dark, groovy, expansive and all within a rock record. One of many dozen Trouble In Mind albums that will stand the test of time.
Y’all like ambient pedal steel?!
✨ Out today!
Proud to present To Heart, To Earth, the new full-length from The Far Sound, the solo project of pedal steel visionary Rick Pedrosa (Abronia, Federale, Jeffrey Silverstein, Rose City Band).
A cinematic and exploratory journey of sound and spirit.
centripetalforcerecords.bandcamp.com
Proud to present To Heart, To Earth, the new full-length from The Far Sound, the solo project of pedal steel visionary Rick Pedrosa (Abronia, Federale, Jeffrey Silverstein, Rose City Band).
A cinematic and exploratory journey of sound and spirit.
centripetalforcerecords.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Y’all like ambient pedal steel?!
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The State of Wisconsin pays our governor $165,568 a year, and he's constitutionally ineligible for a raise while in office.
By comparison we paid Luke Fickell $7,825,000 inclusive of salary and bonuses to coach the UW Madison football team to a 5-7 record last year.
By comparison we paid Luke Fickell $7,825,000 inclusive of salary and bonuses to coach the UW Madison football team to a 5-7 record last year.
November 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The State of Wisconsin pays our governor $165,568 a year, and he's constitutionally ineligible for a raise while in office.
By comparison we paid Luke Fickell $7,825,000 inclusive of salary and bonuses to coach the UW Madison football team to a 5-7 record last year.
By comparison we paid Luke Fickell $7,825,000 inclusive of salary and bonuses to coach the UW Madison football team to a 5-7 record last year.
Wickedly under appreciated album from guitarist Steve Palmer. Useful Histories is one man’s sonic journey, a ship drifting in an ocean of psych, kraut, and experimental Americana; passively contemplative yet steadfast in its course. From Sunrise Ocean Bender & Deep Water Acres.
November 7, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Wickedly under appreciated album from guitarist Steve Palmer. Useful Histories is one man’s sonic journey, a ship drifting in an ocean of psych, kraut, and experimental Americana; passively contemplative yet steadfast in its course. From Sunrise Ocean Bender & Deep Water Acres.
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It's worth emphasizing how cowardly these thugs are. It's unprofessional and shitty to escalate a situation and start a fight, but these aren't even fights—if anyone fights back they're facing federal felony charges— it's just beating up totally defenseless people.
Excessive force. PERIOD!
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It's worth emphasizing how cowardly these thugs are. It's unprofessional and shitty to escalate a situation and start a fight, but these aren't even fights—if anyone fights back they're facing federal felony charges— it's just beating up totally defenseless people.
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week."
This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
November 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week."
This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
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if i were running for office i would absolutely call my volunteers “the wide awakes,” i would hand out wide awake pins and stickers and hats for people to wear and campaign events would have wide awake banners
THEY USED TO CALL US WOKE
NOW THEY CAN CALL US WIDE AWAKES
NOW THEY CAN CALL US WIDE AWAKES
November 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
if i were running for office i would absolutely call my volunteers “the wide awakes,” i would hand out wide awake pins and stickers and hats for people to wear and campaign events would have wide awake banners
Spiritual Unity, Albert Ayler knows. I think might’ve been the first non Sun Ra jazz record I bought. I’d say it was good instinct, but I’m pretty sure it was the cover & title.
November 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Spiritual Unity, Albert Ayler knows. I think might’ve been the first non Sun Ra jazz record I bought. I’d say it was good instinct, but I’m pretty sure it was the cover & title.
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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If at least 26 billionaires can waste at least $27 million trying to defeat Zohran Mamdani, then those same billionaires can afford to pay an extra 2% on their income over $1 million to make New York a better, thriving city for everyone — including themselves.
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If at least 26 billionaires can waste at least $27 million trying to defeat Zohran Mamdani, then those same billionaires can afford to pay an extra 2% on their income over $1 million to make New York a better, thriving city for everyone — including themselves.
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
Sure is nice when the vibes are good. Ty Segall, Slaughterhouse. We rockin’ on a Tuesday.
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Sure is nice when the vibes are good. Ty Segall, Slaughterhouse. We rockin’ on a Tuesday.
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Today's newsletter is about The Bottle Tapes, an incredible new 6CD set of live avant-jazz recordings, and about the difference between the New York and Chicago music scenes:
burningambulance.substack.com/p/the-bottle...
burningambulance.substack.com/p/the-bottle...
The Bottle Tapes
An essential storehouse of Chicago music history
burningambulance.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Today's newsletter is about The Bottle Tapes, an incredible new 6CD set of live avant-jazz recordings, and about the difference between the New York and Chicago music scenes:
burningambulance.substack.com/p/the-bottle...
burningambulance.substack.com/p/the-bottle...
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Louisiana — the red state that Mike Johnson nominally represents — has the second highest percentage of residents enrolled in SNAP in the nation.
They’re pushing this fantasy about these being “Democrat programs” used only in blue states but that’s a PR fantasy divorced from reality.
They’re pushing this fantasy about these being “Democrat programs” used only in blue states but that’s a PR fantasy divorced from reality.
Mike Johnson: "These blue states have abused the SNAP program just like they've abused Medicaid and so many other government programs."
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Louisiana — the red state that Mike Johnson nominally represents — has the second highest percentage of residents enrolled in SNAP in the nation.
They’re pushing this fantasy about these being “Democrat programs” used only in blue states but that’s a PR fantasy divorced from reality.
They’re pushing this fantasy about these being “Democrat programs” used only in blue states but that’s a PR fantasy divorced from reality.
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Randy Holden - Dark Eyes [US, Psychedelic Rock] (1970)
https://redd.it/1oa107v
https://youtu.be/44i6snkyqRk
https://redd.it/1oa107v
https://youtu.be/44i6snkyqRk
Randy Holden - Dark Eyes [US, Psychedelic Rock] (1970)
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Randy Holden - Dark Eyes [US, Psychedelic Rock] (1970)
https://redd.it/1oa107v
https://youtu.be/44i6snkyqRk
https://redd.it/1oa107v
https://youtu.be/44i6snkyqRk