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rael gost pictuers

@jackfeerick.bsky.social

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Proofreader. Editor. Musician. Badger at the teddy bear's picnic. Antifascist, anticapitalist; but I repeat myself. I don't know if love is guaranteed going to save us, but I'm pretty sure it's the only thing that might. He/him linktr.ee/jackfeerick

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · Sep 24

YOUR OCCASIONAL REMINDER that I'm a working musician, and I am OPEN FOR AUDIO COMMISSIONS! Podcast themes, ad jingles, short film STs, V/O, theater soundscapes, what have ye. Samples in yonder link! Diverse styles, affordable rates. No job too small. Get in touch via the Linktree in my bio! 💋

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Singer - composer - multi-instrumentalist now accepting commissions for tiny songs. Pop and jazz styles, leaning toward the lush vocal harmonies of classic radio jingles. No job too small! • Custom r

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 6h

I'm trying hard, dear friends, but being flat broke in a country that's actively trying to kill everyone and everything I love, including my own flesh and blood -- it's A Lot. One day, God willing, I will be a fun hang again; but it ain't today.

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 6h

Strange are the ways of The Algorithm

rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 7h

I keep a Facebook page for the band at it started pushing me Nate's reels for some reason. Weirdly fascinating to watch. The dude's got almost 3 million followers.

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 7h

Except that a bunch of them are no longer living, but that's a minor quibble

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 7h

Taylor Swift is not only not the Greatest Living Lyricist, she's not even the Greatest Living Taylor Swift-Style Lyricist.

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 2d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 8h

Or "Let Him Dangle," from the same album. Elvis was on a fucking *tear* around 1987-88.

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 8h

That's a really convenient excuse for never stepping up to protect marginalized people. There's always anoter election coming up, after all, so the blessed day when the Dems can full-throatedly defend human rights for everyone is always just over the horizon, but never actually arrives

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 8h

(I found myself coming back to this one a lot during the summer of Ferguson)

rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 8h

Another strong contender, especially that second verse, which is just brutal

They're gonna call me "Sir"
They'll all stop pickin' on me
Well I'm a high school grad, I'm over five-foot-three
I'll get a gun and a badge and I'll join the PD

Concrete Blonde - God Is A Bullet

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · Sep 20

I firmly believe that violence is never the answer, except when it is, which is surprisingly often

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 8h

Bruce Cockburn had a run of bangers in the '80s and '90s -- "The Trouble with Normal" and "Call it Democracy" are as smart as political pop gets -- but this one, apart from a couple of topical references, is as ripped-from-the-headlines as it was forty years ago, which is depressing as hell

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 10h

You ever get that thing where you get a random muscle twitch in your eyelid? I've had that going on in my lower lip for about 45 minutes now

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En Sabah Neurodivergent @spearhafoc.bsky.social · 10h

It's @ingforart.bsky.social's theory of Antifascist Clowns.

Fash street thugs want to fight to show toughness, but clowns are a step too far. If they win against the clown, the best they can say is they beat up a clown. But if they lose? Even if it's a %1 chance... there's no coming back from that

Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 11h

The best part of how Portland is handling this is they’re not only protesting, but also angering the goose steppers by not taking them seriously.

Pretty genius. Because even ICE & the national guard don’t want to be displayed as that asshole fighting people in cute costumes.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 11h

This is the old joke about the guy who kills his parents, then begs the court for mercy because he's an orphan.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 11h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 11h

Here's a project you might want to back from a poet you ought to know about

Adam Ford @theotheradamford.bsky.social · 16h

UPDATE: With 21 days to go we are 28% toward funding CHOOSING SIDES, my book of poems inspired by Rom Spaceknight. Here’s a poem from the book. If you want to help this kooky thing get made, visit tinyurl.com/choosing-sides #romspaceknight #australianpoetry #speculativepoetry

rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 21h

10 horror movies to get to know me by:
🪰 Cronenberg's THE FLY
💉 AUDITION
🧟‍♂️ THE FOG
✂️ US
🐈 ALIEN
🧳 LET ME IN
👲 ENCOUNTER OF THE SPOOKY KIND
🚣 NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
🧢 TRAIN TO BUSAN
👙 SWEETHEART

The Ken in Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 23h

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🚑 Return of the Living Dead
🥩 Ravenous
💃 From Dusk Till Dawn
🧛‍♂️ Nosferatu
📚 In the Mouth of Madness
☎️ Skinamarink
🪓 The Shining
🖐 Evil Dead II
🕶 Near Dark
📷 Lake Mungo

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🦇Bram Stoker's Dracula
✝️The Devils
🍼Rosemary's Baby
👻The Medium
👫Possession
📹Lost Highway
💉Audition
🐸The Wicker Man ('73)
⚫Under the Skin
♦️The Neon Demon

rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 22h

Are you or your loved ones "creepy"?

"Kooky"?

"Mysterious and spooky"?

Or perhaps "Altogether ooky"?

You may be entitled to compensation.

THE ADDAMS FIRM, LLC

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 1d

i miss living in a country that wasnt murdering itself so openly

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 1d

Karl Marx might have read HUCKLEBERRY FINN and Mark Twain almost certainly read THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 1d

All righty, let's see a Blue Jays sweep

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rael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 1d

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