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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 2d

- put down the damn AI.

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 7h

Here's a non-paywalled archive link. I just learned that gift links break when you cancel your NYT subscription!

archive.is/Ocgid

archive.is

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · Apr 26

Fascinating article in the NY Times about my friend Peter Gordon. Here's a gift link.

Peter has recently released a flurry of great music on his new label Adjacent.

He’s Music’s Mr. Adjacent, Connecting Minimalism to Disco www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/a...

He’s Music’s Mr. Adjacent, Connecting Minimalism to Disco

Peter Gordon, who studied with Terry Riley, has always made music that is surprising but accessible. Now he’s starting his own record label.

www.nytimes.com

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 8h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 7h

Ok we have confirmed dates and tickets on sale for three of our upcoming European concerts. Peter Gordon (Love of Life Orchestra) and me playing live to mark the release of the acclaimed 1996 album THE YELLOW BOX on vinyl.

More info and tickets here: bit.ly/YBTOUR

Poster for the yellow box tour. Two guys with bowler hats and glasses, bright red, in front of a cityscape. Text reads:

Peter Gordon
with
Blake Leyh
the yellow box tour
Monday November 24th - Cafe Oto, London
Wednesday November 26th - JAKI Stadtgarten, Koln
Thursday November 27th - les ateliers claus, Brussels

TICKETS: bit.ly/YBTOUR

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 9h

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

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 16h

The fact that this coming 9 days before the largest peaceful protest in modern American history is absolutely intentional. We will not back down. Trump and Miller can lie, smear, and threaten all they want. They will lose. No Kings, No Kings, No Kings. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 17h

Good morning from Harlem

#GoodMorningFromHarlem

Looking through an arched window half an hour after sunrise the pale blue sky is cloudless, with a yellow glow at the horizon. Pointed roofs of Harlem brownstones with red brickwork are across the street, and a taller apartment building can be seen in the distance. The green tops of two trees are on the bottom and right.

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ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 1d

so the frog is 卖娃青蛙。https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_23101624 it was designed by a mom with the last name Tong in Nanjing, inspired by the toad in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabas.... it is a mascot of 躺平culture (lay-flat, against capitalism)

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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liprap @liprap.bsky.social · 19h

OMG PIDDLY PO-BOY

Jorge Escalante @escalante.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely dying at this tiny ass Po-Boy from the revived Emeril’s in The NY Times www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/d...

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Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Manohla Dargis @manohladargis.bsky.social · 1d

antifa!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yes Chicago

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

I watched it for the upteenth time recently & it never gets old. But I also recently saw the 2004 Demme remake which was a lot better than I remembered. A good double bill!

(I worked on the 2004 version a little bit doing sound design on the weird memory voices "Raymond Shaw is the kindest..." Etc

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d

Tonika Lewis Johnson’s artwork includes the acclaimed Folded Map Project. She’s one of 22 new MacArthur Fellows, announced on Wednesday.

MacArthur 2025 ‘genius grant’ winners include a Chicago photographer

Tonika Lewis Johnson’s artwork includes the acclaimed Folded Map Project. She’s one of 22 new MacArthur Fellows, announced on Wednesday.

trib.al

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 1d

JET Magazine, October 8, 1959 featuring half of the chart topping duo Mickey & Sylvia, as well as the legendary "Mother of Hip-Hop" and Sugar Hill Records founder, Sylvia Robinson.

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gambolloch @gambolloch.bsky.social · 1d

Bowery
#photography

A broad four lane city street on an early and drizzly Wednesday morning

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning from Harlem

#GoodMorningFromHarlem

Looking through an arched window half an hour after sunrise the sky is full of blue-grey rain clouds. Pointed roofs of Harlem brownstones with red brickwork are across the street, and a taller apartment building can be seen in the distance. The green tops of two trees are on the bottom and right.

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 2d

Do you want to live in an authoritarian country where healthcare is free or where it’s prohibitively expensive. That’s it. That’s the brain drain driving reality now.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 2d

“I didn’t mean to scare anyone or make it sound so serious … She’s been a little under the weather and I simply asked for prayers bc I believe so strongly in the power of prayer. It was nothing more than a little sister asking for prayers for her big sister. Thank you all for lifting her up.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 2d

DON’T SCARE US LIKE THIS, FREIDA www.wsmv.com/2025/10/08/i...

‘I didn’t mean to scare anyone’: Dolly Parton’s sister says after asking for prayers

Dolly postponed her first Las Vegas residency in more than 30 years late last month, saying she was dealing with health challenges.

www.wsmv.com

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · Aug 15

Accepting fascism requires us to unquestioningly replace the learned experience of our own senses with the state’s official version of reality. So reaffirming our past is more than nostalgia. It is an act of resistance.

Read @jonsavage.bsky.social's extraordinary 1979 review of Unknown Pleasures.

An aged newspaper clipping of Jon Savage's 1979 review of Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures." Text reads in part:

“To talk of life today is like talking of rope in the house of a hanged man.” Where will it end? 
The point is so obvious. It’s been made time and time again. So often that it’s a truism, if not a cliche. Cry wolf, yet again. At the time of writing, our very own mode of (Western, advanced, techno-) capitalism is slipping down the slope to it’s terminal phase: critical mass. Things fall apart. The cracks get wider: more paper is used, with increasing ingenuity, to cover them. Madness implodes, as people are slowly crushed, or, perhaps worse, help in crushing others. The abyss beckons: nevertheless, a febrile momentum keeps the train on the tracks. The question that lies behind the analysis (should, of course, you agree) is what action can anyone take?

One particular and vigorous product of capitalism’s excess has been pop music, not so much because of the form’s intrinsic merit (if any) but because, for many, bar football, it’s the only arena going in this country, at least. So vigorous because so much has to be channeled into so small a space: rebellion, creation, dance, sex energy, and this space, small as it is, is a market ruled by commerce, and excess of money. It’s as much as anyone can do, it seems, to accept the process and carefully construct their theatre for performance and sale in halls in the flesh, in rooms and on radios (if you’re very lucky) in the plastic. The limits imposed (especially as far as effective action goes) by this iron cycle of creation to consumption are as hard to break as they are suffocating.

“Trying to find a clue/trying to find a way/trying to get out!” “Unknown Pleasures” is a brave bulletin, a danceable dream; brilliantly, a record of place. Of one particular city, Manchester: your reviewer might very well be biased (after all, he lives there) but it is contended that “Unknown Pleasures,” in defining reaction and

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Matthew Perpetua @fluxblog.bsky.social · 2d

ENO UNIVERSE playlist! A retrospective of Brian Eno’s body of work from 1972-1995 including his solo rock and ambient records and his collaborations with Bowie,Talking Heads, U2, Devo, Fripp, etc! All links and annotated tracklisting in the newsletter issue fluxblog.substack.com/p/fluxblog-5...

Fluxblog 566: ENO UNIVERSE

A retrospective of Brian Eno's music 1972-1995

fluxblog.substack.com

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 2d

GHOTI = 🐟

I first came across "ghoti" in Nicolas Slonimsky's autobiography "Perfect Pitch," but it's deployment as an example of the vagaries of the English language far precede that usage.

gh, pronounced /f/ as in enough
o, pronounced /ɪ/ as in women
ti, pronounced /ʃ/ as in nation

Ghoti - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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