Chris Andersen
@bodhidrop.bsky.social
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Music (Punk, Jazz, Garage, Funk n Soul, Psych). Commie. History (Paleo, European, Revolutionary movements). Dad. Optimistic Curmudgeon. Fumbling Buddhist. Living in Hamilton, Canada.
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bodhidrop.bsky.social
Remembering Charlie Bird parker on the anniversary of his birth.
jazyjef.bsky.social
Charlie Parker was born in Kansas City, Kansas on this day in 1920

📸 William Gottlieb/Redferns
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lexialex.bsky.social
She's a U.S. sponsored opposition candidate and the daughter of a steel oligarch. Machado champions the privatization of Venezuela's oil, power, and steel industries.
connieschultz.bsky.social
New York Times:

“Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela & for her struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
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punkrockhistory.bsky.social
38 years ago today
Husker Du (Greg Norton, Grant Hart and Bob Mould) at the Vic Theater in Chicago Illinois, October 10, 1987.

Photo by Paul Natkin

#punk #punks #punkrock #huskerdu #hüskerdü #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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bodhidrop.bsky.social
Quality good ol' fashioned Punk Rock on Hamilton Mountain next Saturday.
steelcitymusic.bsky.social
Steelore Presents The Responsibles with Lowdowns and Full Throttle Band Oct 18 @ Cliffords Brewery tinyurl.com/3fm53ayd
#HamOntEvents #hamont #hamontmusic
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self.agency
israel has been holding over 1,700 people hostage the whole time it has been demanding the release of its hostages
diplomatofnight.com
Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.
Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.  
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.  
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.  
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.
bodhidrop.bsky.social
Middle school English ? I bow in respect.
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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 24 Sep 1918 the revolutionary @IWW union in Canada was declared illegal due to its opposition to WWI. However it survived and continued to have successes organising lumber workers and coal miners, amongst others. Learn more about the union in Canada: workingclasshistory.com/2021/05/17/e...
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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 7 Oct 1879 Joe Hill, songwriter and Industrial Workers of the World (@IWW) revolutionary union martyr, was born in Sweden. He wrote such working-class anthems as 'The Preacher and the Slave', and was executed in the US. Learn more in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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claytoncubitt.bsky.social
"What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?"
Bertolt Brecht
greylace.bsky.social
The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.
flipinidaho.bsky.social
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.
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jdavey.bsky.social
#HamOnt trips by walking vs cycling vs car! 😲
bodhidrop.bsky.social
This is at that place on Ottawa st ?
bodhidrop.bsky.social
Do I even have to add "Thus surprising no one "? Tragedy.
bodhidrop.bsky.social
Enjoy !

Whammy Bars" ,"Trem systems" are an interesting thing, far as I go. I don't seek them out, have only ever had 1 guitar with one, but.... when I've played a guitar that has one, I use it. Going nuts at the end of song or a set. Lots of fun. Maybe not tthe original idea, but hey...
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alexhanna.bsky.social
I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down
carlquintanilla.bsky.social
NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
bodhidrop.bsky.social
Well, you know, it's a good try...
medmilmedicine.bsky.social
Tuesday’s ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat.1726, f. 37r
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gillmartin.bsky.social
Jewish People Talk about Their Support for Palestine and the Need to Protest Now

#protest #Palestine #manchesterattack #genocide #Gaza #empathy