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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 5h

Play it loud. Play it everywhere. Play it live.

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 6h

Borat voice: Verrry nice.

Has 'Jesse Waters reported to have slashed woman's tires to offer her a drive home' vibe to it.

Regardless, even if alleged, such claims ought be thoroughly vetted.

Oh, who are we kidding?

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 9h

This might indeed be great. Currently, though, GenAI music stuff is shite. Like early 90s Midi shite.

And to gain any proximity to any kind of simulacra of 'real instruments', they would have to raid the sample libraries of extremely copyright vigilant cos. (NI, Ableton, E/W, etc.).

No way.

Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 11h

Like, I will never be able to play guitar well enough to capture the music I hear in my head -- my dyspraxia won't let me. I would *love* a machine that could telepathically hear the stuff I have in my head and convert it to sounds other people could hear.

Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 9h

"Hello, fellow cool kids. Always take 'tips on cool' from our 'dude' with the pulse on cool, 'cool guy', Jon Fasman. So cool.

See his other thinkpiece: "Some say he was there at its birth, but was Miles Davis cool? I'm not so sure."

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 9h

Cheers. It's a good piece on bad stuff.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 10h

It's from this piece:

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 10h

Ness and Social D, undeniably cool. So game meets game.

Also, Cash (with a little help from Rick Rubin) could even make Neil Diamond cool (see American III - also no shade on Neil. He's great. Just not 'cool' maybe?)

Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 11h

I heard somebody say Johnny Cash wasn't cool.

jfc what is wrong with people

youtu.be/XX7LxXEi5lA

Social Distortion - Ring of Fire (Live DVD)

YouTube video by Social Distortion

youtu.be

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 1d

Wait 'til he (assumed) sees 'Gadot' in Happy Days.

It might be just they're waiting for.

Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 1d

Just don't let Ken Paxton know. His undercover op will then have an advantage!

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 1d

"girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Who is she?

Whatshername Noem - the puppy killin' woman - needs to make the identity known so 'we can do our own research'!

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 1d

IYKYK

Kash Patel In A Ridiculous plaid suit on TeeVee

Don Cherry in a ridiculous plaid suit on teeve.

Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe The Atlantic has a bit of a journamalism problem?

They should do some journalism on it.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 2d

Scott Williams of @wfmu did a live set with them a week or two ago on 'Radio Row'.

It's def in the archives. And it's very well-recorded.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago has 'the meat'.

Sort of a 'nice little barbecue you have there. Shame if something were to happen to it.'

Also, the CME could just halt. And the port just ceased to function - for some - for reasons. Hotels and 3A. And on and on.

This isn't well-thought-out . As one might expect.

Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 3d

Sounds like a plan.

"“You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the economy goes to total hell and everything is a disaster,” Mr Trump said in 2014.

“Then you’ll have, you know, you’ll have riots to go back to where we were when we were great”.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 4d

Not a monetary theorist, so grain of salt, but let's talk redemption.

If sovereign currency - ex-US, which is now all in? - refuses to recognize a fake currency's value, that's one thing. But if $USD craters, which seems likely given *waves hands*, wherein lays the value?

Satoshis? Ok. Else? LOL.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 5d

The evil genius of crypto is that it creates fake ‘money’ that trades for real value. Keep the scam running and you can swallow the world.

That is the endgame.

Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 4d

Jealous.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 4d

I did not. And have not. But, my grandparents got the fuck out and I am lucky to be here because they did.

Knowledge gets passed, Mr. Nilkolaides. As does trauma and awareness of circumstance. You learn, and are conscious of what you've been taught. So you're aware.

Perhaps unlike the War College?

Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 4d

Generational trauma reaches a long way down. Greece was a very repressive, even fascist, place under 'The Generals', Mr. Nikolaides. But that was 7 years.

The Reich was 12. My grandparents survived. But, hey, lucky I'm here to say so.

Have I got that right?

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 4d

Grandparents certainly did. They are gracefully returned with
Blessings and Lessons passed.

Certainly told us what to watch for.

What they told is what we see now.

Your views are your own. But certainly not formed by the 'War College', right?

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 4d

Say what you will, this guy is often very useful in insight regarding certain things. Worth reading.

In this case, however, he's just fucking turtle-ing. It's ridiculous inasmuch as he's never lived under fascism. The view is academic, theoretical War College bullshit.

His stakes are not yours.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 5d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 5d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 4d

You can dunk on a dunker, one supposes. And that's OK.

But this is simply bullshit, in that Louvre hasn't encouraged any militant action against public facilities where children are likely present.

Yes, you could say 'Yet', but LoTT basically made that their pole position. So....

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 4d

The Louvre of Bluesky is Libs of TikTok for leftists and it's embarrassing that anything they say has a large footprint here

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 6d

Not a single American voted for this fecal remnant of Salem. Nor did they elect a Temu Goebbels in the dybbuk-like form of Stephen Miller.

But it's patently obvious that Smoked-Salmon in Chief is basically 'lying-in-state' at present and these ghouls are running the show.

Press should report it.

Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 6d

Schedule F: the boring-sounding guillotine that could end the Republic. Russ Vought doesn’t want to “drain the swamp.” He wants to salt the earth.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

The Wrecking Ball Named Russ Vought: How One Man Is Taking a Sledgehammer to Democracy

How a Christian Nationalist Turned OMB Into a Weapon Against Democracy

open.substack.com

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 6d

It's quite apparent how those 3 Bowie Berlin records just snorted this stuff mostly uncut.

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Digi Frere @frobisher.bsky.social · 6d

Steve Jobs was a different kind of cat. Not a 'hero' by any means, and it was a different time.

But would he have let any of this shit slide? Or would he leave/be forced out, do something else and make markets want it? Asking for history.

Tim Cook is a supine puppy.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 6d

Apple has removed an app that allowed people to track and anonymously report the activities of ICE agents from its app store, due to “objectionable content,” the developer said.

It comes after criticism of the app from Trump administration officials.

Apple removes ICEBlock app that tracked agent sightings amid controversy

The developer of the app, which allowed people to report the activities of immigration agents, said he believed pressure from the Trump administration was to blame.

wapo.st

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