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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah it was not a great alternative, as it happens 😬

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

𝒊 𝒂𝒎 𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕, 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒋𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒎 𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒄𝒆 (ⁱ ᵖᵘᵇˡⁱˢʰ ᵃʷᵃʳᵈ-ʷᵒʳᵗʰʸ ʷᵒʳᵈˢ ᵉᵛᵉʳʸ ᵒᵗʰᵉʳ ᵀʰᵘʳˢᵈᵃʸ)

𝐌𝐄𝐆 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐄, 𝐉𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐄, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐏𝐄𝐒 -- 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐏𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭

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GIRL MUSIC 012: THE WHITE STRIPES | MEG WHITE AND JACK WHITE | “HEY LITTLE APPLE BLOSSOM, COME AND TELL ME WHAT YOU’RE THINKING”
Girl Music
October 9, 2025

Juno Rylee Schultz

“With the White Stripes, we were trying to trick people into not realizing we were playing the blues.”

GIRL MUSIC is independent music journalism for anyone that loves pretty art and music.

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Words: Juno Rylee Schultz (she/her)
Edits: Morgan Shaver (they/them), Nathan Miller (he/him), and Bex Stump (she/her)

“I got into blues in my late teens. I knew about Robert Johnson from the bands that covered him. And when I heard him, I thought it was OK. Then I heard Son House’s a cappella song “Grinning in Your Face” [from the 1965 Columbia album Father of Folk Blues]. That was a transformative moment. There’s nothing there, just that voice. And what he was singing made so much sense to me.”

— JACK WHITE, Rolling Stone, 2005

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11h

Actually just occurred to me that those of us who worked at Al Jazeera America — a hugely expensive boondoggle backed by an authoritarian regime that thought it could have it both ways — are uniquely well positioned to predict the future of CBS News.

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 5h

Totally made sense to me, as someone who has been this particular flavor of tired a time or two before. Hoping for a fast and full recovery!

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 5h

If you find out you could be at least a millionaire, but my bets are on its impossibility

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah I wasn't looking to try it even before I found out that slugs tend to harbor nasty parasites

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 5h

"All those people protesting against our cruelty must be on someone's payroll"

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 5h

It's true. I met a woman out in Neah Bay who said that when she was a kid the boys used to dare her to eat them. She did not have good reviews.

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Denice (Dee), the Red Witch @deetheredwitch.bsky.social · 7d

Heya, Łink, and everyone else. Just an artist and writer trying desperately to make rent at this point with about 1350 left to go. I'll gladly take donations here: paypal.me/tormentedart...

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Spirit Halloween Dani 🎃 @djamiempls.meatjacker.social · 17h

Less than a week until court.

Spirit Halloween Dani 🎃 @djamiempls.meatjacker.social · 2d

I have only about 200 of this which leaves about 3.1k and need to knock as much of this out before court on the 16th so I don't lose my housing.

$danirockasota
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Spirit Halloween Dani 🎃 @djamiempls.meatjacker.social · 7d

Okay somewhat decent news.
I actually only owe 3.3k in total and they said they're going to let the courts know I've made payments and we will reach on some kind of payment plan.
So still urgent but slightly less urgent

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 18h

703) Midnightbot. Appears in the corner of the room at midnight and stands motionless, staring at you for exactly 47 seconds before vanishing again. We don't know why. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween

A wedge-shaped robot with banded legs, standing expressionlessly in the corner of a room, dimly illuminated from the front and slightly below its eyeline.

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 11h

Oh Molly, this is how I found out. I'm so sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing Fergus with us, and for giving him such a wonderful life. ❤️

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1d

Use only water or fresh air on tear gas or pepper spray.

No milk, vinegar, antacids, urine, etc. and especially not in eye.

Thank me later,

An actual expert

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 11h

Banana sluuuuug

mimi (caffeine biased) @coffeerow.bsky.social · 12h

another nanner

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 12h

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Kait 🥔 @thryse.com · 12h

Thank you!

I’m just incapacitated physically right now and I have to be out of this apartment in twenty days. I have no money, I live gift to gift off of Venmo. I don’t know where I should even look to go now that there’s fascism and I’m trans and going on the unperson list eventually.

Kait 🥔 @thryse.com · 20d

Ok so I’m going to need to move by the end of October and have no prospects or savings or social circles.

Kait 🥔 @thryse.com · Aug 13

While I have food now, I’m broke with no income and I am going to be hard pressed to come up with any money to put towards rent or anything else. I’ve just been treading water for a year.

Please, if anyone can help my payment links are in my bio. Uber credit also helps💕💸💸💕

#mutualaid #crowdfunding

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 12h

$410 still needed bsky.app/profile/pope...

Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 1d

needs $460 to pay the rest or the rent and $685 by EOW - she got one payment to get it out of repo but they sant another by Friday. getting closer. #UrgentNeed #BlackCrowdFund paypal.me/MsSoniaD or cashapp $spunkylilminx

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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 11h

One key takeaway here:

Since Pat Buchanan, the GOP has consistently acted to appease, co-opt, and include those on the party’s fringe.

The Democrats, conversely, consistently strive to sabotage, marginalize, and exclude those not firmly in the corporatist dead center.

The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 11h

From GOP officials to media figures, the entire right leaned in HARD to DHS’ memo, embracing the slogan “I am the right-wing extremist DHS warned you about.”

(and, of course, merched the fuck out of it)

Meanwhile, 2025 Dems are “concerned” and “condemn extremism on all sides.”

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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 12h

‪Then-DHS head Janet Napolitano first had the memo retracted, then apologized, and finally resigned in response to GOP outrage over the domestic terror memo. ‬

‪Back in 2025, Democratic officials apparently don’t seem to have heard about NSPM-7. ‬

‪ www.cbsnews.com/news/dhs-dom...

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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 12h

When an Oath Keeper leaked the 2009 DHS memo about militias recruiting members of the military, the entire right-wing went ballistic about “presidential tyranny” and “political prosecution” and “patriotic dissent” and “domestic extremism” and “government overreach.”

just saying

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 20h

Soo everytime America swears that something has never happened before

It has happened and usually to a Black person

History may not fully repeat but it rhymes with

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 1d

In 1857, Thomas Howland became Providence, RI's first Black elected official.

Later that year, he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife & daughter after the Dred Scott case denied Black people protections of U.S. citizenship. He was denied a passport.

Thomas Howland, 1856
John Blanchard

Portrait of a distringuished Black man from the 19th centrure wearing fine clothes, including high collar and tie of the day.
Museum Text:
Thomas Howland, the subject of this unusually expressive portrait, was a dock worker in Providence, Rhode lsland, In 1857 he became the city's first Black elected oficial when he was amed warden of its Third Ward. However, that same year he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wite and daughter, perhaps in response to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case that denied African Americans the protections of U.S. citizenship. Because of this decision, Howland's application for a passport was denied, despite his status as a free man with the right to vote in his home state (he did eventually make it to Liberia). Howland's confident posture echoes that of the earlier Portrait of a Gentleman shown nearby, the fashionable attire of both sitters serving to reinforce thelir self-possession.

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 1d

Goodest of boiz!

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 1d

in case you want some non bullshit about antifa here is something i wrote

buttondown.com/theswordandt...

We Keep Us Safe: On Antifa

This past Saturday, Donald Trump announced that his administration would be deploying federal troops to Portland, OR, authorizing the military to use “full...

buttondown.com

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Phil Hornshaw @philhornshaw.com · 1d

Journalists: Save. Your. Work.

I use journoportfolio.com, and I've also liked the Fireshot browser extension, which makes quick PDF snapshots of websites.

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 1d

GameZone, a website dating back to 1994, has had its archives wiped:

aftermath.site/gamezone-video...

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · 1d

Move is now landlord and post office official 🫣

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