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Riki MJ Adams

@rikimjadams.bsky.social

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Sometimes I make music, sometimes I write things I’m probably gonna talk about wrestling Use any pronouns for me you see fit, I am fluid and messy and contradictory Vocals for What We Owe The Dead https://linktr.ee/whatweowethedead

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · Jul 5

Big news!
@whatweowethedead.bsky.social has released our first single and music video ahead of our album Rituals of the Collapse, which comes out July 25th.
For fans of Mastodon, Baroness, and the like. Hope you dig it 🤘🏻 #progressivemetal #progmetal #doommetal #chicago #chicagometal #chicagomusic

What We Owe The Dead- Unmarked Grave (Official Music Video)

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 6m

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

Charles Grodin as Nicky Holiday in The Great Muppet Caper, holding Kermit the Frog hostage with a pistol drawn

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 7h

It's really sad that entertainment overall has become a landlord economy. The people who own the platforms make the money. The people who provide the labor make crumbs in comparison.

Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 10h

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”

Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 1d

Define your music taste in eight artists:

Florence and the Machine
Kittie
Plack Blague
System of a Down
Iggy Pop
Spice Girls
Jimmie’s Chicken Shack
Hole

Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 2d

Define your music taste in eight artists:

the mountain goats
jeff rosenstock (and associated projects)
100 gecs
underscores
lady gaga
david bowie
sophie
guns n' roses

Amanda (OnionBug) @onionbug.bsky.social · 2d

Define your music taste in eight artists:

Deftones
Sleater-Kinney
Mars Volta
Melvins
Bjork
Fugazi
Tool
Callous Daoboys

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

www.yahoo.com

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 2d

I am beyond stoked for a 3rd season of Primal. But also those first 2 seasons fucking devastated me on a regular basis so, there is that…

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 6d

I get paid 7 figures a year to come up with this shit. Some stuff I have cooking up for you to look forward to: Amazon Prime changing to Amazon Plus. Paramount Plus changing to Paramount Now. HBO Max changing to just HBO. I fucking hate all of you and I will never stop.

Headline about Apple TV+ changing to Apple TV.

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 3d

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

Hellraiser
Event Horizon
Annihilation
Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 3d

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

Under the Skin
The Loved Ones
The Wicker Man ('73)
Christine

Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 3d

The Shining
The Exorcist
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Hellraiser

Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 5d

D'Angelo, The Vanguard - Really Love (Live on SNL)

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 5d

Hole’s cover of Gold Dust Woman from The Crow: City of Angels is one of my all time fav covers, no question.

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 5d

🥰💜😘

Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 5d

Hi, I think I looked cute yesterday, so I’m giving some to the timeline 🥰

Three pictures of me in various poses, I’m bald, bearded, bespectacled, and tattooed. I’m wearing a cute pink dress that would be scandalously short if not for the blue tropical patterned pants I’ve got on underneath.

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 9d

And a lovely Saturday to you 🥰😘

Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 9d

😍💜😍

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 9d

Listening to a lot of Marianne Faithfull this evening

Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 11d

In fairness, they couldn’t release it then either

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 11d

Noticing there’s an uptick in articles about veterans committing “disability fraud” and I can’t help but feel this is a precursor to a VA disability purge and when I tell you that there are SO MANY reasons to be afraid of what that could look like at this present moment…

A screenshot of 5 articles, 3 from the Washington Post, all railing about VA fraud.

“New report exposes fraud and abuse in VA disability programs

The Washington Post
VA's disability program is an
'honor system.' These veterans are defrauding it.
7 minutes ago

Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW to Washington Post - Veterans' Disability Benefits are Not 'Loopholes' to Exploit
16 hours ago

The Independent
Hair loss, jock itch and toenail fungus: The millions taxpayers spend in VA 'disability' benefits...
1 day ago

The Washington Post
How some veterans exploit $193
billion VA program, due to lax controls
1 day ago

The Washington Post
Opinion | VA disability benefits is the hardest government program to reform
1 day ago”

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 13d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 15d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 16d

The Punisher movie came out in 2004 & was popular with troops in Iraq, w/ a soundtrack single by Drowning Pool who did a big USO tour in Iraq in 05/06, & every base had weird little souvenir shops that had shirts and hats emblazoned w/ Punisher skulls.
We’re forever reckoning w/ the “War on Terror”

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 16d

reddit occupied government

Ken Dilanian
@DilanianMSNBC
Follow
The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.

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Logan @thelogantrent.bsky.social · Feb 7

I remember telling someone this one time in relation to guns from Indiana coming to Chicago and they did the confused dog head tilt

Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · Feb 6

You know what radicalised me? Discovering that there is ONE gun shop in Mexico.

One Single Shop.

The cartel guns? They're smuggled in from the USA.

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 18d

Oh cool, we’re getting openly partisan over in the direct VA communications. Love that, great sign

An email from the VA, the text reads-

“As you may be aware, funding for some government agencies, including portions of the Department of Veterans Affairs, expired at midnight
this morning.
President Trump opposes a lapse in appropriations, and on September 19, the House of Representatives passed, with the Trump Administration's support, a clean continuing resolution to fund the government through November 21. Unfortunately, Democrats are blocking this Continuing Resolution in the U.S.
Senate due to unrelated policy demands.
During the current lapse in funding, the vast majority of VA benefits and services will continue uninterrupted, but the government shutdown is not without consequences to VA. Here is what you need to know:”

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 18d

Invest in the good pillows and the good shoes if you can, wear earplugs in loud places, and make effort to maintain your close friendships and connect with regularity

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it's charloween! (it/its) @charloh.online · 18d

no AI can ever dream of capturing the absolute batshit frenzy of any Uwe Boll film

also they can't tell their critics to meet them in the fuckin ring about it

Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 18d

i don't know how you can watch like, any movie ever made and think a computer would do a better job than even the most hack filmmaker

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 19d

The older I get the more I grow to appreciate the twangy tunes