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Moon Gazing Raccoon @banditpaws.com · 1d

This post and its responses are a precious gift from God's Holy Internet -- a joy to behold and a blessing to all who gaze upon it.

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN LOGIC
1. A male is defined by having a penis and testicles
2. God is a male.

Therefore
3. God has balls and a wang.

Ask a fundamentalist how big god’s hog is. No matter how big he says it is, it will be a limit to the infinite size of god and therefore a blasphemy.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 1d

As predicted, some of them are going to start pretending they were never like this

No more "owning the libs": Ramaswamy pushes sharp break for GOP

Ohio gubernatorial candidate sees "fork in the road" for conservatives and wants Republicans to be less confrontational.

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Moon Gazing Raccoon @banditpaws.com · 1d

every time you look again the evil has both expanded and intensified

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 2d

Whenever anarchism — or any idea more radical than the status quo — gets dismissed as unserious, it's worth remembering the current system runs on things like "we put all the money on a scam machine that tells rich dipshits they're god."

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3d

forum wars took over the government. the 10,000-page thread spilled out into the streets. people are getting their doors blown open and hogtied so that nerds can win an online argument. they tanked the dollar and fucked the economy permanently to own you

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5d

There’s no rule of journalistic neutrality that requires you to say something is “unclear” when that is objectively untrue. It would be illegal. There’s absolutely zero ambiguity about that fact. Saying it’s unclear is making a false statement in your reporting.

Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 5d

It is not clear that Mr. Trump’s image can be featured on a coin. An 1866 law enshrined a tradition that only deceased people could appear on U.S. currency to avoid the appearance that America was a monarchy. Trump admin is planning to do it anyway.
By Alan Rappeport

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...

Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin

www.nytimes.com

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Moon Gazing Raccoon @banditpaws.com · 4d

somebody should frame this devastating piece of art:

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4d

Starting to read NYT headlines a la the classic Patton Oswalt bit, in the voice of the narrator of the Dukes of Hazard "the boys and Uncle Jesse had begun murdering fishermen on the high seas, well now how friend how the heck do you suppose they're gonna get out of THAT jar of marmalade?"

Moon Gazing Raccoon @banditpaws.com · 5d

Happy Friday! I hope it’s a good one.

Alton Ellis — Bless You, 1990

#reggae

Bless You

YouTube video by Alton Ellis - Topic

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Moon Gazing Raccoon @banditpaws.com · 7d

Punctuating the rage and fear, there are moments when I have to pause to digest the... absurdity... of it all.

As a reminder to not take our institutions too seriously, enjoy U-Roy, Chalice in the Palace, 1975.

Wanna come by the palace and lick up a chalice
Gonna dub it with ya majesty

#toasting

U Roy - Chalice In The Palace - Virgin LP - 1975

YouTube video by K Gold

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 8d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Moon Gazing Raccoon @banditpaws.com · 8d

The kids are adults now. We had all kinds of music at home, but there was always reggae.

Last weekend I remembered that this was the first song my daughter learned to sing as a toddler.

She LOVED it and sang it constantly, which got us some weird looks in the grocery store of our little farm town.

MAX ROMEO - I Chase The Devil [1976]

YouTube video by Bionic Dub

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Moon Gazing Raccoon @banditpaws.com · 8d

Even though reggae wasn't my ex's thing, he accompanied me to reggae festivals and shows, and on trips to Jamaica. When a local bar started having reggae nights on Wednesdays, we went every week. He always let me haul our kids to California, Florida, and all over the Caribbean to see reggae shows.

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Moon Gazing Raccoon @banditpaws.com · 8d

It helped that, because of the unique way ska and reggae evolved, some of the same names from a very short list of musicians & producers appear in the credits of every record from the 60's through the 80's.

I had periods of listening to other genres, but have always returned to ska and reggae.

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Moon Gazing Raccoon @banditpaws.com · 8d

I don't remember how or when I started listening to reggae. It was before the internet. I lived in a small Midwest town with no reggae radio stations. I didn't know anyone who liked reggae, but I spent hours looking for records in used record shops. I usually hadn't heard them before buying.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 9d

More importantly, what's the soonest it can happen please?

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?

The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

www.theatlantic.com

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Moon Gazing Raccoon @banditpaws.com · 9d

This is the thing:

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 9d

More importantly, if your objective is regime consolidation over the military, then bringing together 800 irritated top officers is the worst possible idea. They wouldn’t normally conspire electronically, but stranding them together during a govt shutdown gives them time to talk & compare notes.🚨

"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 9d

This guy is going to give a Very Special Speech to over 800 of our top military officers tomorrow. All in one place at one time. When things like drones exist. Genius.

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Moon Gazing Raccoon @banditpaws.com · 9d

nightmare fuel

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Moon Gazing Raccoon @banditpaws.com · 9d

Are we sure he didn’t say “bored of peace?”

It hasn’t even been a month since he brought back the Department of War.

Executive order restoring the United States Department of War, dated September 5, 2025

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Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com · 9d

Gods it is so fucking embarrassing that the Oval Office is occupied by such a craven narcissist and that other world leaders clearly know how easy it is to sway him just by feeding his gluttonous ego

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 9d

Last week, convention center expert Heywood Sanders wrote this about LA's expansion plan: "the likelihood of any significant increase in the city’s convention business is effectively nil."

So I called him up to talk me through his analysis — and what he told me makes LA's plan seem *even worse*

Why this convention center expert is calling LA's expansion plan a disaster

"If you think that somehow a bigger convention center is key to downtown revitalization, or is going to do wonders for local job creation, or economic development? The answer is, you've got to be kidd...

www.torched.la

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Moon Gazing Raccoon @banditpaws.com · 9d

The original is 'Love Without Feeling' - The Heptones, 1973.

Each is wonderful on its own, examining them together is a masterclass in musical drama. Mudie's approach is remarkably sumptuous. Tubby isolates and layers distinctive elements, creating suspense by building them to crescendo.

#reggae

LEROY SIBBLES & THE HEPTONES - Love Without Feeling [1973]

YouTube video by Bionic Dub

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Moon Gazing Raccoon @banditpaws.com · 9d

King Tubby & legendary producer Harry Mudie remixed songs from Mudie's catalog in a genius-meets-genius collaboration.

The tracks were released as "Harry Mudie Meets King Tubby's In Dub Conference" Vol 1-3, 1976. I own all of them, and every track is fire. My favorite is Dub With a Difference

#dub

Harry Mudie & King Tubby - Dub With A Difference

YouTube video by OldDubDomain

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Moon Gazing Raccoon @banditpaws.com · 9d

Some credits rightfully belong to Scientist, who was Tubby's protege. If it's dub & Tubby didn't mix it, Scientist probably did (or maybe Prince Jammy, depends on who you believe) Anyway...

King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown (1974) is King Tubby's most famous cut. It's a great one, but here's my fave:

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Moon Gazing Raccoon @banditpaws.com · 9d

King Tubby engineered, dub mixed, & remixed for Jamaica's greatest producers, including Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Bunny Lee, Augustus Pablo, Yabby You, Niney the Observer, and Harry Mudie.

Tubby has hundreds of credits, and more uncredited work. He touched tracks by many of the top artists of his time.

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Moon Gazing Raccoon @banditpaws.com · 9d

Tubby mixed for Duke Reid before opening his own production studio at Waterhouse. He built and adapted his own equipment and developed the totally unique, atmospheric, stripped-down aesthetic that is dub. Musicians and producers from all over the world came to learn from him and work with him.

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