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33. Autistic who hates computers and math.

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · Feb 25

I have terrible grammar, both from inadequate education and a weird quasi-dyslexia that means I often read, write, and especially revise/edit crosswise. A blanket explanation

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Mother Bones, alt curmudgeon @l1vy.bsky.social · 1h

I know it seems mysterious, but it's just because it's a WHOLE lot easier to wreak havoc and destroy things, smash and grab, than it is to collaborate and painstakingly build up useful things that can endure.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 3h

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Weaz 🦇 @spiceweasel.bsky.social · 3h

Keep wondering if Tom Hiddleston is sad that he didn’t get a dick opus

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 3h

Oh dear

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 3h

This is something I always have to keep in mind with theatrically inclined songwriters like Bowie, Randy Newman, Jim Steinman, etc. who usually aren't thought of as writers of musicals, even when they technically are - there's generally a character and a narrative attached to something, somewhere

Chris O'Leary: There were a few things. One is my misperception about how much storyline Bowie had done for Ziggy Stardust. I thought that he had kind of made up the story about Ziggy after he made the album. When he was talking to William S. Burroughs in late 1973, discussing ‘black hole jumpers’ and Ziggy as an extraterrestrial messiah figure, it all felt like the stuff he had come up with after he had written most of the songs.

Now, with the release of the demos, particularly the notebooks in the box sets, Rock and Roll Star and Divine Symmetry, you really can see that he spent a lot of time thinking up the book of the play that was never made, the narrative. He really did have this kind of structure in mind, and it changed the album for me. I can see how “Velvet Goldmine,” for example, fits in much better with the storyline now, as there was supposed to be a character called Zip who was Ziggy Stardust's manager. The manager would be singing "Velvet Goldmine" to him. Obviously, you can have your own interpretation of the song any way you want, but it's interesting to be like, "Oh, okay, this was intended as a stage role for this part that was then cut." Maybe that's one reason why he cut the song from the album. I think many fans would argue it probably deserved to be on there more than something like "It Ain't Easy," the Ron Davies cover that was actually recorded during Hunky Dory.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 3h

lmaooooooo

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 4h

The founder of Antifa having a girlfriend has to strike fear in a bunch of unfuckable bluechecks out there

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 4h

stopping by my doctors office to say hi to the troops, the normal place to do it

Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 5h

Time for an oil change

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 4h

Very 'NO PICTURES' expression

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 5h

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 5h

trump crossed the line to objectively fascist a long time ago but it's funny that he can have an anti-anti-fascist task force and people still treat it like an open question

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Riley @raaleh.bsky.social · 6h

seeing the phrase “since 2009” crop up a lot these days

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Riley @raaleh.bsky.social · 6h

Also 80% of economic growth is based on building a digital god, and it crashes to zero if god isn’t forthcoming

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 7h

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 7h

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 7h

Also relevant bsky.app/profile/elec...

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · Apr 24

...but then it occurred to me that the MO of groups like Wire and the Minutemen - weaving together dozens of short/fragmented songs into one whole - was not terribly different from what somebody like Gentle Giant was doing, especially live

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 7h

Always surprised to see bands that were niche even in the UK - Henry Cow/Slapp Happy, Hatfield and the North - show up in contemporary US media. A good reminder, like the clusters of Krautrock fandom, how deep the pre-punk bench went here bsky.app/profile/elec...

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · Apr 24

A similar thing happened in the aforementioned pockets all across the US - if anything, punk and after represented a narrowing or contraction of sorts. Have you heard about Archie Patterson and Eurock? www.furious.com/perfect/euro...

Perfect Sound Forever: Eurock, Archie Patterson interview

Eurock- interview with Archie Patterson

www.furious.com

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 8h

the Valley Advocate (Amherst MA) attempts an "Art Rock" canon, 30 November 1977

Sgt. Pepper to Zappa's Hot Rats, with Bowie, Family, Kansas, Genesis, Tull, King Crimson, Henry Cow, Meat Loaf, Moody Blues, Floyd, Strawbs, Talking heads, Yes, etc

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J Bogart @jonathanbogart.net · 8h

it took comics fifty years to do continuity-resetting events, movies having to do to it in under twenty is another reason they are the inferior artform

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 8h

It is a really good time to commit a federal crime, you probably won’t get caught

Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 8h

🚨A quarter of all FBI agents have been assigned to immigration enforcement www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 9h

As an incorrigibly secular agnostic/pantheist, however, I tend to see it as the same thing

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 9h

Richard and Linda Thompson's Pour Down Like Silver - though technically, it's 'I've fallen in love with God'

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 10h

I may have erroneously blamed it on Murphy, but I stand by this bsky.app/profile/elec...

Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 2d

The Ed Gein thing is because Murphy was working backwards from Psycho, right

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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 10h

AI will make money will lose its meaning. I, a billionaire investor, believe this, which is why I'm investing on AI

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 10h

He Stopped Grifting Her Today

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 10h

George Jones’ widow, Nancy, took the stand at the preliminary court hearing of her ex-boyfriend, who she claims stole over $10 million in cash and cryptocurrency from her.

George Jones' Widow Says She 'Definitely Trusted' Ex Before He Allegedly Stole Millions

bit.ly

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 11h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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