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ian @ismathers.bsky.social · Jan 1

Ripping this off from many (directly from @tomewing.bsky.social): in 2025, I play to a new-to-me record a day. Partly to prevent year-end listening being so clogged (AGAIN), partly just because I keep finding myself going "I should play more records" and doing nothing about it. Thread to follow.

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ian @ismathers.bsky.social · 1h

vibe death doula

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 5h

It's been nearly 20 years since Jay Electronica emerged from nowhere to drop some of the best & most enigmatic rap of the '00s.

Since then, he's been a ghost.

Anthony Seaman tried to make sense of his new EPs and his descent into tin foil conspiracy theories.

www.passionweiss.com/2025/10/08/j...

What the Fuck is a Jay Electronica in 2025? | Passion of the Weiss

With Jay Electronica's latest "album," Anthony Seaman starts to wonder if his once-brilliant talent is anything more than a memory.

www.passionweiss.com

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ian @ismathers.bsky.social · 1h

god, just imagine

ian @ismathers.bsky.social · 1h

yeah, all sorts of heights can be very attractive! i do feel for the short kings and tall queens who people are weird about though

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ian @ismathers.bsky.social · 1h

shouldn't take more than a week!

ian @ismathers.bsky.social · 3h

as a relatively tall guy (i am genuinely the height a lot of guys lie about being on dating profiles lol) finding out that i am sometimes too short for tall women was an unpleasant surprise tbh

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ian @ismathers.bsky.social · 6h

it's just such a perfect in-character moment, sublime

ian @ismathers.bsky.social · 6h

Swanboy is always, always incredible but I feel like "Incubus's 1999 self-titled album 'Make Yourself'" might get overlooked here and it's too good for that to happen

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ian @ismathers.bsky.social · 7h

agreed!

ian @ismathers.bsky.social · 16h

huh, same result today!

ian @ismathers.bsky.social · 17h

Os Tincoãs another GB possibility, and Mad Professor might get my bonus

ian @ismathers.bsky.social · 18h

all decent, slightly surprised to find myself going with Bad Brains here

ian @ismathers.bsky.social · 19h

i ask myself this almost every fucking day at work

ian @ismathers.bsky.social · 19h

a lot of the people who responded to you need to shut the fuck up, maybe have a couple of weeks off of here to think about themselves and what they're saying. just the most dumbshit possible rationales because they think calling people fat as an insult is fun to do.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 23h

Eight thousand iterations of this discourse later, there is no political utility in calling fascists fat. All you're doing is propping up the brutal hierarchy which lets people like them work up from deniable social torture to state violence.