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Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 7d

FRESH VØID CONTEMPLATION TACTICS:
Someday Your Body Will Disappear

Air-gapped archives, hippy-dippy digi-dub, disappearing bodies, and music for after the end of the world. Plus language from Seung Sahn, a sad story about an old friend, and 90m of Inter-Dimensional Music.

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Someday Your Body Will Disappear

Air-gapped archives, hippy-dippy digi-dub, disappearing bodies, and music for after the end of the world

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Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 1h

good designers who want to get that WOBF money DM me or hit my line

Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 1h

starting a band that does slow-motion improvisational covers of hair metal songs called Dead & Crüe

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Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 2h

You can have a ball imagining an alternate timeline where John Lennon is still alive and hosting a manosphere anti-vax podcast with Russell Brand AND ALSO swoon hearing "Oh Yoko!" for the 1,000th time. You don't have to choose!

Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 2h

Counterintuitive case study: my annoying yet beloved friend who doesn't like Prince. Which is fine, tho I feel sad for them! But they cultivate true alienation with a masochistic / misanthropic eagerness to argue that Prince is bad, actually.

this is also a cautionary tale about going to law school

Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 3h

music snob bros who say things like "Mötley Crüe is the dumbest band with the dumbest fans" are slandering a legion of valiant and kind young women who were my greatest defenders and without whom I would not have survived middle school: they will not be tolerated on any of my pages

Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 3h

hair metal is extremely comforting to me because every nice older girl on the school bus who cussed out shitty bullies for hitting me when the driver wasn't looking wore a Poison or Cinderella T-shirt that smelled like menthols and Aqua Net

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Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 3h

it's only a small glimmer of light in this sunless dystopia of enshittification, but in case anyone doesn't already know this, the Duck2 search engine can play youtubes in a special window that strips the ads, and has a setting that disables AI slop in both general + image search results #blessings

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Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 3h

the rest of TASK's soundtrack is good - "Khala My Friend"!?! – but I'm guessing music supervisor Dan Deacon is the genius who chose a diegetic version of Poison's super horny "Fallen Angel" playing on a junky radio as the soundtrack to the inevitable everything-goes-to-shit E1 shootout bloodbath

Poison - Fallen Angel (Official Video) (Remastered 4K 60 FPS)

YouTube video by SLAYERO MUSIC

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Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 3h

In addition to Muncie being Garfield's birthplace and Bob Ross getting his big break on the local PBS channel, the "and boom goes the dynamite" guy was a Ball State student ad-libbing commentary for a Pacers game recap on the campus sportscast. We are among North America's greatest anonymous donors.

an older man is looking at his reflection in a mirror and says i 'm anonymous .

Alt: Larry David yelling at a museum guard, attempting to gain special privileges for his patronage to the institution despite making an anonymous donation.

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Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 4h

they should re-boot the Nobel Prize ceremonies for CBS and the presenter has to say "and boom goes the dynamite" after announcing each winner

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Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 4h

it's fun to be relatively late to using this site and see otherwise normal people that I follow start posts with "thinking about doing a few skeets about a new recipe I tried" and thinking they're accidentally posting horny on main in a very strange way

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 20h

If you want to understand where we are, don't look first at voters or public opinion, look at how their knowledge of the world is constructed and mediated

It shouldn't be surprising that those who have the power to shape public discourse have a key responsibility in our current plight

Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 3d

Does the news reflect what we die from?

The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News.

In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.

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dirt squirrel @dirtsquirrel.bsky.social · 14h

twitter post from Lauren (@NotABigJerk)

I'm not falling for that hot take. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. I refuse to participate in that kind of perversion

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15h

lmfao keep sharing this stuff. such a balm.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 21h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 18h

The Onion had a post about NSPM-7 before The New York Times did lmao

THE ONION!
theonion.com/what-to-know...

What To Know About NSPM-7

On Sept. 25, President Trump issued a directive called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 in which “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity” were described as “common threads...

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nobody @granddad.bsky.social · 1d

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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“Sam,” and in some cases, “Samuel” @insideoutside15.bsky.social · 21h

Put Eric Adams on Inside The NBA

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 1d

Five episodes in and the universe where the TASK miniseries takes place is so consistently and oppressively bleak that I'm able to believe that hardened extreme violence bikers of Pennsylvania actually do sit in their bar listening to Richard and Linda Thompson on repeat.

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Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 1d

on a much happier note: in addition to the depression/paranoia of doom-scrolling, and the anxiety/embarrassment of my own bad posting, wasting valuable time on this app led me to voluntarily watch and enjoy a baseball game for the first time last night, so that I could get more of the jokes 🙏🏻

Justin Klugh @justinklugh.bsky.social · 1d

BROADCASTER: [Voice shaking] They killed him. The Phillies killed Clayton Kershaw. All he's got now is his ring, millions of dollars, and some personal beliefs no one wants to talk about. Oh god the Phanatic is unhinging his snoot and devouring him like a boa. Why is he even here

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 1d

"civil war" suggests there are armed government factions opposing interstate national guard deployments rather than holding press conferences, or that ice is doing something other than a maximum-roid amplification of what the militarized cops they collaborate with have been doing for decades

New Chicago Decree Holds Police Accountable for Illegal Detention Practices Spanning Decades - MacArthur Justice

The consent decree was announced at the site of Homan Square, a police station infamous for abuse and excessive force. The station has become a symbol of the incommunicado detention, an illegal practi...

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 1d

did my second ever YouTube segment
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWRt...

National Guard Brutally Mocked for Chicago Deployment

YouTube video by KlipNews

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Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 1d

Who remembers when The Daily Show did that hilarious bit about how "antifa" was "vegan isis" ha ha and now the government's gonna drone strike Portland bike racks even though antifa gave up on the whole Cascadian caliphate thing and stopped beheading people after that good joke. Also lol vegans.