Martin
@sonicmooks.bsky.social
Waiting for the great leap forwards...
(Music Industry Refugee - art, music, film, progressive politics, reading/writing, but please, no arithmetic - thank you!)
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https://music-for-insomniacs.ghost.io/
(Music Industry Refugee - art, music, film, progressive politics, reading/writing, but please, no arithmetic - thank you!)
he/him/his
https://music-for-insomniacs.ghost.io/
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As of today, North Carolina is the only state in the country without a budget.
The General Assembly needs to come back to Raleigh next week to fully fund Medicaid and then pass a budget that meaningfully invests in our people and our state.
The General Assembly needs to come back to Raleigh next week to fully fund Medicaid and then pass a budget that meaningfully invests in our people and our state.
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
As of today, North Carolina is the only state in the country without a budget.
The General Assembly needs to come back to Raleigh next week to fully fund Medicaid and then pass a budget that meaningfully invests in our people and our state.
The General Assembly needs to come back to Raleigh next week to fully fund Medicaid and then pass a budget that meaningfully invests in our people and our state.
I have rarely been more confused, disappointed, and distraught that I was in November of 1985 when I first dropped the needle onto my vinyl copy of "Cut The Crap" by The Clash. Oh boy, it was BAD. Rob Sheffield does a good job of telling the tale here...
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The Legend of ‘Cut The Crap’: The Notorious Disaster That Killed The Clash — Rolling Stone
Forty years ago this month, the Only Band That Mattered drove into a ditch with one of the Eighties’ most hated albums. How did it happen?
apple.news
November 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I have rarely been more confused, disappointed, and distraught that I was in November of 1985 when I first dropped the needle onto my vinyl copy of "Cut The Crap" by The Clash. Oh boy, it was BAD. Rob Sheffield does a good job of telling the tale here...
apple.news/Az3WXIcVZTHG...
apple.news/Az3WXIcVZTHG...
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Congrats @stereogum.com on the relaunch! Chilling line from @scottgum.bsky.social's intro: "Google's pivot to AI search has cut our ad revenue by 70%. Facebook and X's deprioritization of links hurt too, but I can't downplay the brutal impact of AI Overview." Please support music writing, folks.
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Congrats @stereogum.com on the relaunch! Chilling line from @scottgum.bsky.social's intro: "Google's pivot to AI search has cut our ad revenue by 70%. Facebook and X's deprioritization of links hurt too, but I can't downplay the brutal impact of AI Overview." Please support music writing, folks.
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This is so fucking embarrassing. Just beyond. Feckless cowardice.
That December vote is a huge moment we can turn into a victory. People are watching. Good bill, we win; they cheat, they will lose. If we fight united.
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
This is so fucking embarrassing. Just beyond. Feckless cowardice.
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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No one can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like Democratic leadership. Count on it.
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
No one can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like Democratic leadership. Count on it.
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I'm so glad to see people waking up to the reality of the Dems that helped enable this current national meltdown in so many ways.
I would like apologies from every blue waver that yelled at me in the last decade for being insufficiently loyal to a party that wants me to stay silent and powerless.
I would like apologies from every blue waver that yelled at me in the last decade for being insufficiently loyal to a party that wants me to stay silent and powerless.
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I'm so glad to see people waking up to the reality of the Dems that helped enable this current national meltdown in so many ways.
I would like apologies from every blue waver that yelled at me in the last decade for being insufficiently loyal to a party that wants me to stay silent and powerless.
I would like apologies from every blue waver that yelled at me in the last decade for being insufficiently loyal to a party that wants me to stay silent and powerless.
I weep for the future (and the present, for that matter)...
"What worries Miles and Clement is not only that their students are permanently distracted by their devices, but that they will not develop critical thinking skills and deep knowledge when quick answers are only a click away..."
"What worries Miles and Clement is not only that their students are permanently distracted by their devices, but that they will not develop critical thinking skills and deep knowledge when quick answers are only a click away..."
Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?
From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I weep for the future (and the present, for that matter)...
"What worries Miles and Clement is not only that their students are permanently distracted by their devices, but that they will not develop critical thinking skills and deep knowledge when quick answers are only a click away..."
"What worries Miles and Clement is not only that their students are permanently distracted by their devices, but that they will not develop critical thinking skills and deep knowledge when quick answers are only a click away..."
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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If you’re going to accuse me of “purity testing” because I won’t support politicians who throw trans and unhoused people to the wolves, you suck and I’m just gonna block your ass.
October 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
If you’re going to accuse me of “purity testing” because I won’t support politicians who throw trans and unhoused people to the wolves, you suck and I’m just gonna block your ass.
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Way to go, everyone! Huge turnouts from small towns to big cities all across the country!
October 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Way to go, everyone! Huge turnouts from small towns to big cities all across the country!
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Chicago - no kings
October 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Chicago - no kings
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MAGA Mike Johnson said it would be a "hate America rally"
Karoline Leavitt called us "Hamas terrorists" and "violent criminals"
But MILLIONS OF PATRIOTS are showing them the truth about America at #NoKings rallies all across the country
And we're just getting started
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Ag9da7/
Karoline Leavitt called us "Hamas terrorists" and "violent criminals"
But MILLIONS OF PATRIOTS are showing them the truth about America at #NoKings rallies all across the country
And we're just getting started
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Ag9da7/
MASSIVE CROWD shows up in New York City for No Kings Day! #NYC #fyp #Democracy #MAGA #DonaldTrump
TikTok video by Vince D. Monroy
www.tiktok.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
MAGA Mike Johnson said it would be a "hate America rally"
Karoline Leavitt called us "Hamas terrorists" and "violent criminals"
But MILLIONS OF PATRIOTS are showing them the truth about America at #NoKings rallies all across the country
And we're just getting started
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Ag9da7/
Karoline Leavitt called us "Hamas terrorists" and "violent criminals"
But MILLIONS OF PATRIOTS are showing them the truth about America at #NoKings rallies all across the country
And we're just getting started
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Ag9da7/
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If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.
October 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.
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Some important info on Kaleb Horton and his writing for MTV: as I learned, he'd reupped the Merle piece on his site earlier this year, but otherwise his 2016-2017 work there was scrubbed and long unavailable. Happily, I was able to find a Wayback link with them all. Share, read, and remember.
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September 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Some important info on Kaleb Horton and his writing for MTV: as I learned, he'd reupped the Merle piece on his site earlier this year, but otherwise his 2016-2017 work there was scrubbed and long unavailable. Happily, I was able to find a Wayback link with them all. Share, read, and remember.
Life Is A Problem Than Can't Be Solved...
"One of my first thoughts when I heard the news this morning was a writerly thought which I think he would appreciate. It was that I wish he was around to write about this."
www.welcometohellworld.com/life-is-a-pr...
"One of my first thoughts when I heard the news this morning was a writerly thought which I think he would appreciate. It was that I wish he was around to write about this."
www.welcometohellworld.com/life-is-a-pr...
Life is a problem that can’t be solved
Remembering Kaleb Horton
www.welcometohellworld.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Life Is A Problem Than Can't Be Solved...
"One of my first thoughts when I heard the news this morning was a writerly thought which I think he would appreciate. It was that I wish he was around to write about this."
www.welcometohellworld.com/life-is-a-pr...
"One of my first thoughts when I heard the news this morning was a writerly thought which I think he would appreciate. It was that I wish he was around to write about this."
www.welcometohellworld.com/life-is-a-pr...
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The dumbest most craven people alive are being paid 6 figure salaries to be actively dangerously wrong about things and Kaleb Horton, a better writer than pretty much anyone, couldn't find work and now he's dead. Just upsetting
September 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The dumbest most craven people alive are being paid 6 figure salaries to be actively dangerously wrong about things and Kaleb Horton, a better writer than pretty much anyone, couldn't find work and now he's dead. Just upsetting
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“People are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy... and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.”
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Feb 19, 2025
www.juancole.com/2025/02/demo...
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Feb 19, 2025
www.juancole.com/2025/02/demo...
Ta-Nehisi Coates: If Democrats can't draw the Line at Genocide, they can't Draw the Line at Democracy
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Ta-Nehisi Coates and Angela Davis spoke at the University of Michigan's Rackham Auditorium on February 19, 2025, interviewed by my colleague Angela Dillard, the vice pro...
www.juancole.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“People are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy... and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.”
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Feb 19, 2025
www.juancole.com/2025/02/demo...
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Feb 19, 2025
www.juancole.com/2025/02/demo...
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Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.
September 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.
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seeing tributes and eulogies that can only be described as fan fiction
September 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
seeing tributes and eulogies that can only be described as fan fiction
Wednesday evening jukebox....
"Blanche Biche" - Sophia Djebel Rose
#experimental #folk #music #chanson #française #darkfolk #avant-garde #indiemusic #france
music-for-insomniacs.ghost.io/wednesday-ev...
youtu.be/mG8Ja6SkqKk?...
"Blanche Biche" - Sophia Djebel Rose
#experimental #folk #music #chanson #française #darkfolk #avant-garde #indiemusic #france
music-for-insomniacs.ghost.io/wednesday-ev...
youtu.be/mG8Ja6SkqKk?...
Blanche Biche ~ 𝑂𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑉𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑜
YouTube video by Sophia Djebel Rose
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September 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Wednesday evening jukebox....
"Blanche Biche" - Sophia Djebel Rose
#experimental #folk #music #chanson #française #darkfolk #avant-garde #indiemusic #france
music-for-insomniacs.ghost.io/wednesday-ev...
youtu.be/mG8Ja6SkqKk?...
"Blanche Biche" - Sophia Djebel Rose
#experimental #folk #music #chanson #française #darkfolk #avant-garde #indiemusic #france
music-for-insomniacs.ghost.io/wednesday-ev...
youtu.be/mG8Ja6SkqKk?...
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Guy who declared war on Chicago shocked by violent political rhetoric. And the mainstream media is going to carry all of their water.
September 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Guy who declared war on Chicago shocked by violent political rhetoric. And the mainstream media is going to carry all of their water.
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What will it take for people to understand that Democrats do not want to fight back? That they are on board with what’s happening?
What will it take? How long will it take? And how much will we lose because supposedly smart people just keep staring at the dead donkey, waiting for it to resurrect?
What will it take? How long will it take? And how much will we lose because supposedly smart people just keep staring at the dead donkey, waiting for it to resurrect?
I think centrists are often waiting for permission from someone they believe holds a position of authority before they do anything.
So I sincerely hope Ezra Klein’s appeal to elected Dems today gives them the permission they need to actually start fighting back against Trump.
So I sincerely hope Ezra Klein’s appeal to elected Dems today gives them the permission they need to actually start fighting back against Trump.
Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
www.nytimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
What will it take for people to understand that Democrats do not want to fight back? That they are on board with what’s happening?
What will it take? How long will it take? And how much will we lose because supposedly smart people just keep staring at the dead donkey, waiting for it to resurrect?
What will it take? How long will it take? And how much will we lose because supposedly smart people just keep staring at the dead donkey, waiting for it to resurrect?