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SaveMeASeat @savemeaseat.bsky.social · 1h

#readandplay (494)
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

“Now I'm stuck in New York, and the rain's comin' down
I don't feel like we'll go anywhere
Stuck in New York, and the rain's comin' down
Still in line for the Vanity Fair”

The National - “Little Faith”

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SaveMeASeat @savemeaseat.bsky.social · 2h

Now we’re getting into the thick of #5DebutAlbums8084, they would break out huge in just a couple years but this is immediately indelible on its own. They basically arrived fully formed which is pretty nuts

Run DMC - S/T
-“It’s Like That”
-“Rock Box”
-“Sucka MC’s”
#musicsky
#MusicChallenge

The cover of Run DMC’s self-titled first album

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SaveMeASeat @savemeaseat.bsky.social · 3h

#readandplay (494)
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”

Read 📚 & Play🎶

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.” - Dolly Parton

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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 4h

"The ICE record reviewed by Scripps News lists more than 300 migrant children locked up in Dilley beyond the 20-day maximum. One child was detained there for 89 days."

This is unconscionable.

Screenshot from article:
"There is not much to do here," one 14-year-old wrote in the filing. The teen, who has been at Dilley for 54 days, indicated there is not much education. "I don't go to the school. It's just one hour per day.”
A 13-year-old claimed: “There is a one-hour window for 6th to 8th grades. I went once but no other kids were there. They just give worksheets or things to draw.”
An 11-year-old asked: “My main question is when can I get out of here?”

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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SaveMeASeat @savemeaseat.bsky.social · 22h

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 9
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

Updated take on a classic sound, which gets done a lot but rarely nails feeling timelessly like both. This one by contrast is pretty damn seamless!

42. Eslabon Armado & Peso Pluma - “Ella Baila Sola” (MEX; March 2023)

youtu.be/lZiaYpD9ZrI?...

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SaveMeASeat @savemeaseat.bsky.social · 1d

#ArtistFave15 Jonathan Coulton
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

One of my first favorite songs of his, it’s still great, taking a “love song” to strange fantasy/sci-fi places. Both genuinely menacing and still hilarious

7. “Skullcrusher Mountain” (Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow)

youtu.be/5IBewKuV9BQ?...

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SaveMeASeat @savemeaseat.bsky.social · 1d

#MusicChallenge
#KillerTunes
Vampire Gang (Near Dark)

Too on the nose? Yes. Awesome enough to make up for it? Also yes.

“I have all the love I need
It is your blood I crave
I am a bitch goddess from beyond your grave”

Future Bible Heroes - “I’m A Vampire”

youtu.be/U7pzDIi4Klc?...

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 21h

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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SaveMeASeat @savemeaseat.bsky.social · 22h

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 9
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

Updated take on a classic sound, which gets done a lot but rarely nails feeling timelessly like both. This one by contrast is pretty damn seamless!

42. Eslabon Armado & Peso Pluma - “Ella Baila Sola” (MEX; March 2023)

youtu.be/lZiaYpD9ZrI?...

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SaveMeASeat @savemeaseat.bsky.social · 22h

Love Jonathan and this is a classic of his!

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 23h

quick question, who were the antifascists in 1930s Germany against

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Gravewriter Cryptid Is Proudly Transmasc @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 1d

They absolutely want an excuse, ANY excuse, to start killing civilians. Don't fall for their bullshit provocations. Keep filming, keep exposing them for the fascist goons they are.

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 1d

🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes.

In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

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SaveMeASeat @savemeaseat.bsky.social · 23h

Such a mood is always welcome, I’m a big fan too!

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SaveMeASeat @savemeaseat.bsky.social · 23h

A classic! Well done 🙌

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SaveMeASeat @savemeaseat.bsky.social · 1d

Ty!

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SaveMeASeat @savemeaseat.bsky.social · 1d

#ArtistFave15 Jonathan Coulton
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

One of my first favorite songs of his, it’s still great, taking a “love song” to strange fantasy/sci-fi places. Both genuinely menacing and still hilarious

7. “Skullcrusher Mountain” (Where Tradition Meets Tomorrow)

youtu.be/5IBewKuV9BQ?...

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SaveMeASeat @savemeaseat.bsky.social · 1d

#MusicChallenge
#KillerTunes
Vampire Gang (Near Dark)

Too on the nose? Yes. Awesome enough to make up for it? Also yes.

“I have all the love I need
It is your blood I crave
I am a bitch goddess from beyond your grave”

Future Bible Heroes - “I’m A Vampire”

youtu.be/U7pzDIi4Klc?...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia …”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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Mr. Morrison in the Haunted World🧛🍁 @mutantmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

The people who spent the last thirty years lecturing us about how digital piracy is terrible and evil have now decided that IP laws are dumb, actually

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SaveMeASeat @savemeaseat.bsky.social · 1d

#readandplay (493)
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”

Read 📚 & Play🎶

“The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the device thickness of our fears and prejudices.” - Jimmy Carter

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SaveMeASeat @savemeaseat.bsky.social · 1d

#ArtistFave15 Jonathan Coulton
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

A soulful mission statement, it always kills at karaoke. I’m also prone to listening to it this time of year when we’re about to lose the privilege (which one? Listen on…)

8. “First Of May” (Smoking Monkey)

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SaveMeASeat @savemeaseat.bsky.social · 1d

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 8
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

The old stalwarts never stopped the fire hose of output, but broke out of a rut and back to greatness within it - and that run continues!

43. Guided By Voices - “The Race Is On, The King Is Dead” (USA; October 2023)

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SaveMeASeat @savemeaseat.bsky.social · 1d

25th Hour (Spike Lee)
#filmsky

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