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I'm Todd Bishop: drummer, author of CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER! drumming blog, player, teacher, Origin recording artist, visual artist, seller of Cymbal & Gong cymbals on my site Cymbalistic. Portland, Oregon.

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CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!™ @cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social · Jan 12

NEW BOOK: Rants, vol. 1
drummers, drumming media, and the internet

From the files of CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!, a collection of things typed in a rage over witnessing something awful related to our exquisite drumming art form! Fun! 290 pages.
cymbalistic.com/products/ran...

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CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!™ @cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social · 1h

so now accepting tens of thousands in cash in a fast food bag is sketchy all of a sudden

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you, @aselrod.bsky.social. As far as I can tell, zero internal evaluations are going on at the big news orgs on how to deal with this basic problem, yet any discerning reader can see that it's a major impediment to conveying what's really happening in the US to readers and viewers.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d

“the conventions of political reporting today are poorly suited to capturing this naked use of sheer pretexts and the bottomless bad faith they rely upon.”
@gregsargent.bsky.social is absolutely right. Big, legacy media has got to catch up to reality.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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ceej @ceej.online · 3h

the disastrous refusal of the self-styled silicon valley technokings to keep anyone in their lives capable of questioning their increasingly incomprehensible politics has lead to a crisis of thinking so severe that a fifty-eight year old man believes something is important because he knows about it

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!™ @cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social · 2h

literally ~50 yards of pavement
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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 5h

Caldera (2022)

Sam Rivers
Doug Matthews
Anthony Cole

Live in New Orleans 2002

Archive Series - Volume 6 - Caldera, by Sam Rivers / Doug Mathews / Anthony Cole

8 track album

nobusinessrecords.bandcamp.com

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 15h

Kenn Duncan’s contact sheet from his November 1968 photoshoot with Diane Keaton.

Keaton began as the understudy for the role of Sheila, but took over the part three months into the show’s run.

Twelve shots of Keaton in various poses.

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John R. @tribe.bsky.social · 4h

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 17h

it actually offends me how sloppy and careless they are. anyone who’s ever been laid off knows the panic you feel when it happens. and while obviously it’s good that they backtracked, these are people’s fucking LIVELIHOODS they’re messing with.

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 1d

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!™ @cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social · 17h

watched that last year, first time since the 80s, it holds up

CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!™ @cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social · 17h

actually we're hoping to come there next year-- we'll look you up

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CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!™ @cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social · 18h

pssht quiet baltimore can hear you, those fuckers are crazy

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Nemo. 🎃 @sirnemo.bsky.social · 18h

"This is just the greatest city ever. More breweries than Germany, more strip clubs than Vegas. Now THAT'S a town." -- Dave Grohl, 2005.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19h

if it’s portland vs. everyone than it’s portland vs. *everyone* i will take the twee and grime of west coast best coast portland over paying $2900 a month to rent a studio apartment in the most youthful and exciting part of boston, which closes at 6PM

Ed @ed3d.net · 20h

lmao my Portland Inferior mutuals have just been staked on a hill of fire ants

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CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!™ @cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social · 18h

naked portlanders, assemble

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

The ride is set for Sunday, October 12, beginning at 3:00 p.m.

‘Emergency’ Naked Bike Ride announces starting point

The ride is set for Sunday, October 12, beginning at 3:00 p.m.

www.oregonlive.com

CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!™ @cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social · 18h

as ever

CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!™ @cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social · 18h

how we do car thievery in oregon

CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!™ @cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social · 18h

retrograde ass maga person who gives a shit about even the barest shred of actual policy

CRUISE SHIP DRUMMER!™ @cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social · 18h

seems like there should have been some lawsuits over this by now

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18h

265 days into Donald Trump's term:

The president's net approval rating is -16%,
down 0.7 points since last week.

39% approve, 56% disapprove, 4% not sure

www.economist.com/interactive/...

Donald Trump’s approval rating

Follow our presidential approval rating poll tracker to see how favourably Americans view Mr Trump

www.economist.com

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 21h

A video in which Homeland Security Secretary Kristine Noem blames congressional Democrats for travel delays during the federal government shutdown is expected to play at airport security checkpoints across the country — but not at PDX.

www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 21h

Read our 1977 cover story with Diane Keaton, where she revealed that her iconic ‘Annie Hall’ outfit came from her own closet. “I don’t have a lot of gowns,” she told us. “And I don’t have any tiaras!”
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