Ben Peake
@reddishraven.bsky.social
Somewhat random. Full of all the vices and none of the virtues of my Gen-X heritage. He/Him.
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Ben Peake
@reddishraven.bsky.social
· Jan 10
Given it's late March, probably past time I start a 2025 New Tunes thread.
First off the rank is art-rap group clipping. Daveed Diggs may not objectively be the best rapper in the world, but damn it if he's not my FAVOURITE.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvp5...
#NowPlaying
First off the rank is art-rap group clipping. Daveed Diggs may not objectively be the best rapper in the world, but damn it if he's not my FAVOURITE.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvp5...
#NowPlaying
Dodger
YouTube video by clipping. - Topic
www.youtube.com
Right. So writing my best 5 albums and tracks of 2025, as I've done in years past.
My Bluesky thread of 2025 new tunes is here, I'll add links to the reviews below that. Happy listening, to whatever you're into.
bsky.app/profile/redd...
My Bluesky thread of 2025 new tunes is here, I'll add links to the reviews below that. Happy listening, to whatever you're into.
bsky.app/profile/redd...
Carrie and Lowell is likely the best album about grief ever made. YMMV, of course.
#NowPlaying
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTeK...
#NowPlaying
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTeK...
Sufjan Stevens, "Fourth Of July" (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Asthmatic Kitty Records
www.youtube.com
February 19, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Carrie and Lowell is likely the best album about grief ever made. YMMV, of course.
#NowPlaying
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTeK...
#NowPlaying
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTeK...
Tinker, Tailor, Muppet, Spy
All Quiet on the Muppet Front
One Flew over the Muppet's Nest
February 19, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Tinker, Tailor, Muppet, Spy
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Pauline's just cut and pasting from British and American right wing tropes. It's all the same terminally online stuff pushed on Facebook and X
🌻😡”there are Australian suburbs Westerners cannot enter.” Name them. Put up or shut up Pauline ,you’re appealing to the lowest common denominator voters & it’s pathetic 😡😊 #auspol
Hanson issues partial apology for suggestion there are no 'good' Muslims
The One Nation leader qualified her earlier remarks, which had been met with condemnation, while reiterating calls for tougher vetting processes for Muslim migrants.
www.abc.net.au
February 18, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Pauline's just cut and pasting from British and American right wing tropes. It's all the same terminally online stuff pushed on Facebook and X
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Put it on a tee
I love immigration ❤️🥰
February 18, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Put it on a tee
Not mad exactly, but the groans I made walking up the aisle after the end to Breaking The Waves could be detected by areas seismographs.
fun question: what’s the maddest you’ve ever been leaving a movie theater? not necessarily worst movie you’ve seen, but the one that just pissed you off the most. mine is Batman v Superman
February 18, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Not mad exactly, but the groans I made walking up the aisle after the end to Breaking The Waves could be detected by areas seismographs.
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And the Wolfdog automatically triggered the photo finish camera.
Good boy. Good, good boy.
Good boy. Good, good boy.
February 18, 2026 at 10:12 PM
And the Wolfdog automatically triggered the photo finish camera.
Good boy. Good, good boy.
Good boy. Good, good boy.
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I mean what is this going to show? Explicit racial vilification? Swastikas? The list of stuff that is outright banned across Europe is quite short, quite grim, and ultimately quite tedious.
Exclusive: The US State Department is developing an online portal to enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4cySsA6
Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propagan...
reut.rs
February 18, 2026 at 10:38 PM
I mean what is this going to show? Explicit racial vilification? Swastikas? The list of stuff that is outright banned across Europe is quite short, quite grim, and ultimately quite tedious.
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Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker https://theonion.com/revised-national-parks-webpage-describes-harriet-tubman-as-human-trafficker/
February 18, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker https://theonion.com/revised-national-parks-webpage-describes-harriet-tubman-as-human-trafficker/
Rowe is the only Australian cartoonist who even vaguely approaches the caricatures of the British press.
Not sure if this is a good or bad thing, but there we are.
Not sure if this is a good or bad thing, but there we are.
Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
February 18, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Rowe is the only Australian cartoonist who even vaguely approaches the caricatures of the British press.
Not sure if this is a good or bad thing, but there we are.
Not sure if this is a good or bad thing, but there we are.
Again, when she says "what Australians are thinking" it's very much "what Australians have been told they should be thinking".
Even as a demagogue she's derivative.
Even as a demagogue she's derivative.
Pauline Hanson is a ███ing ███ who deserves to ███ but she isn't saying anything about Lakemba we didn't already hear from Tim Blair and the Daily Telegraph a decade ago - our racist media doesn't just pump her tyres they are in complete goosestep the entire way
Mayor responds to Hanson's 'unwelcoming' western Sydney suburb claim
It comes as Pauline Hanson faces a backlash over anti-Muslim remarks.
www.sbs.com.au
February 18, 2026 at 6:03 AM
Again, when she says "what Australians are thinking" it's very much "what Australians have been told they should be thinking".
Even as a demagogue she's derivative.
Even as a demagogue she's derivative.
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"We think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all...as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills...steel saucepans...and fleece vests...grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe"
—Le Guin
—Le Guin
is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...
The left is missing out on AI
As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right
www.transformernews.ai
February 18, 2026 at 4:08 AM
"We think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all...as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills...steel saucepans...and fleece vests...grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe"
—Le Guin
—Le Guin
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I thought Aaron Rupar's comment was a hyperbolic joke. However, it is literally what this asshole is saying. A yellow star. A *yellow star*.
I don't know if these dickheads don't know their history, or if they very much do. Either answer is terrifying.
I don't know if these dickheads don't know their history, or if they very much do. Either answer is terrifying.
Mike Rounds says Republicans just want to make you show your document with a yellow star in order to vote
February 18, 2026 at 4:20 AM
I thought Aaron Rupar's comment was a hyperbolic joke. However, it is literally what this asshole is saying. A yellow star. A *yellow star*.
I don't know if these dickheads don't know their history, or if they very much do. Either answer is terrifying.
I don't know if these dickheads don't know their history, or if they very much do. Either answer is terrifying.
USians thinking the postwar Western Alliance was an altruistic (or even pragmatic) rallying behind liberal values remains a grimly amusing bit of posthoc rationalisation...
February 18, 2026 at 4:15 AM
USians thinking the postwar Western Alliance was an altruistic (or even pragmatic) rallying behind liberal values remains a grimly amusing bit of posthoc rationalisation...
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You couldn't make 30 Rock now*
*a sitcom with a well-staffed writing room, strong ensemble cast, a budget and long enough seasons to allow heaps of talented guests and recurring minor characters to rotate through
*a sitcom with a well-staffed writing room, strong ensemble cast, a budget and long enough seasons to allow heaps of talented guests and recurring minor characters to rotate through
February 18, 2026 at 3:06 AM
You couldn't make 30 Rock now*
*a sitcom with a well-staffed writing room, strong ensemble cast, a budget and long enough seasons to allow heaps of talented guests and recurring minor characters to rotate through
*a sitcom with a well-staffed writing room, strong ensemble cast, a budget and long enough seasons to allow heaps of talented guests and recurring minor characters to rotate through
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every day someone posts Smart Boy Systemic Analysis About Society at the same time a news article is coming out about Meta launching a baby-mulching device that has no practical use case and cant even be explained by conventional profit motives
Recurring gripe: people on the left have social media and generative AI exactly backwards. Gen AI is the printing press: it cannot and will not be uninvented. It can run on a laptop at this point. Social media is a handful of specific companies with specific first mover and network effects.
February 18, 2026 at 1:41 AM
every day someone posts Smart Boy Systemic Analysis About Society at the same time a news article is coming out about Meta launching a baby-mulching device that has no practical use case and cant even be explained by conventional profit motives
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anyway let’s check in with keir starmer to see how “conceding to popular prejudice” is working our for the labour party
February 18, 2026 at 2:53 AM
anyway let’s check in with keir starmer to see how “conceding to popular prejudice” is working our for the labour party
Stop! Stop! I was already going to buy it, you don't need to keep going.
February 17, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Stop! Stop! I was already going to buy it, you don't need to keep going.
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"I forced the shape of English onto resisting tongues and then dared to call it 'broken.'"
I’m Still Your America
Hey, patriot. It’s been a week. As ICE spreads terror through the streets, and Teacup Eichmann presided over the murder of yet another innocent civ...
buff.ly
February 9, 2026 at 2:00 AM
"I forced the shape of English onto resisting tongues and then dared to call it 'broken.'"
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His alleged mistress left her precious heated blanket on the other plane, so Corey Lewandowski demanded the pilot turn the plane around to go get it.
When he refused, Lewandowski -- who has zero authority to fire anyone at any time -- tried to fire the pilot IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLIGHT.
When he refused, Lewandowski -- who has zero authority to fire anyone at any time -- tried to fire the pilot IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLIGHT.
it's even worse than first reported
the fucking guy caused an inflight disruption so bad the pilot had to leave the command deck then he was like I RELIEVE U OF DUTY
absolute toddler baby shit brained government at the highest levels
the fucking guy caused an inflight disruption so bad the pilot had to leave the command deck then he was like I RELIEVE U OF DUTY
absolute toddler baby shit brained government at the highest levels
New details emerge about in-flight blow-up between Corey Lewandowski and pilot
Additional details have emerged about a mid-flight showdown between Homeland Security advisor Corey Lewandowski that led to a Coast Guard pilot's firing — and immediate reinstatement.DHS Secretary Kri...
www.rawstory.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:56 PM
His alleged mistress left her precious heated blanket on the other plane, so Corey Lewandowski demanded the pilot turn the plane around to go get it.
When he refused, Lewandowski -- who has zero authority to fire anyone at any time -- tried to fire the pilot IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLIGHT.
When he refused, Lewandowski -- who has zero authority to fire anyone at any time -- tried to fire the pilot IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLIGHT.
a man and a woman are jogging down a sidewalk .
ALT: a man and a woman are jogging down a sidewalk .
media.tenor.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:39 AM
February 17, 2026 at 11:36 AM
February 17, 2026 at 11:33 AM