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Selena Kane

@serendipityjones.bsky.social

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Unironic rocker girl 🤘🎸 PNW forest witch 🌲🐳 (Seattle's my city but, we're in the woods now) she/her 🌈 guitar—TRASH PANDA GO KART w/ ❤️ Zinnia Su 🥁 bass—BEYOND CAPTAIN ORCA! 🐳 improv rock w/ Endino & Lenon http://trashpandagokart.com http://5-track.com/

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Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 12d

hello!

in this space:

whatever I'm listening to/working on/doing, "nature", rock&roll in theory & practice, non sequiturs, Seattle-&-PNW-centricity from the woods outside of town, queer witchiness, & occasional bouts of bigfoot-posting.

@ztigerseye.bsky.social & I are Trash Panda Go Kart 🤘🥰🌈

🤘🥰🎸

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Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 12h

friends of mine around 1999 loved D The B, covered a bunch of their songs, and brought them up to play at their little festival in Vermont. we got to play right before them. super fun 🥰

Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 18h

LOVE The Hu 🤘🔥

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 20h

Most of you are familiar with Newark mayor Ras Baraka....particularly after his arrest earlier this year trying to enter an ICE facility.

But do you know his father?

Lemme tell you about Leroi Jones 🧵

Book:

"The Defeat of Black Power" by Leonard Moore.

Pictured is Amiri Baraka standing at the podium of the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary Indiana

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Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 22h

next week even

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Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 2d

we got compared to Cat Power yesterday, honestly didn't see that coming but I'll take it 🤘🤷‍♀️

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Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 2d

anyone in the #Seattle area, Trash Panda Go Kart will be playing twice this week...

Thursday Oct 9 at ADD-A-BALL in Fremont with Oliver Elf Army...

Friday Oct 10 at the Georgetown Steam Plant for day 1 of Possibilities Expo!

both should be epic 🤘🥰🌈

#MusicSky

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Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 1d

decent pic from Saturday, thanks to Lisa from GRRRizzly for takin it!

black and white pic of Selena Kane playing with Trash Panda Go Kart in Tacoma, WA, in large white sunglasses, denim jacket, butternut telecaster, shortish black dress & berry-colored leggings, and her hair all doing what it wants as usual

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Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 1d

Ken Parker r.i.p. 🙏 There's no other guitar like a Parker (for good or ill & your mileage may of course vary) & the few of them that have turned up in my life have invariably had an outsized impact. Safe travels, KP.

Selena Kane at Seattle's FUNHOUSE, short grey dress, hair all in her face, velour coat, with a black & white Parker Nitefly guitar.

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Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 23h

🤣🤣🤣

Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 1d

yup yup, gotta change a few of mine soon in advance of some recording dates next month, hoping to hit the sweet spot lol

Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 1d

in defense (?) of white reggae bands, I strongly suspect that many of them are possessed

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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 1d

Let me preface this with a reminder that I often have incredibly vivid, detailed dreams

The dream I woke up from today is no exception

David Bowie was recording a new concept album (yes, he knew he was dead & that wasn’t going to stop him from rising to this moment)

The album title:

LACRIM/OS/A

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Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 1d

turning into butterflies

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 1d

11) I know I'm in the rare minority that's still masking because I take things like Covid seriously, but even outside of a pandemic, I have no idea what kind of person would willingly go through an airport unmasked.

It's... you're crammed in with thousands of people, from everywhere. Breathing.

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Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXPS...

SOPHIE LIVESTREAM HEAV3N SUSPENDED

YouTube video by SOPHIE

www.youtube.com

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Ethan Nichtern @ethannichtern.com · 1d

Fearlessness is not the *absence* of fear, but rather, a willingness to stay present with fear.

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Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 1d

heh $2k pretty much. worth it for the tremolo alone but that doesn't mean the cost can be justified 🤘🤣

Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 1d

usually one or two for sale on ebay or reverb 🤷‍♀️ you'd want a mid-90s one if possible

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Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 1d

they're *perfect* for some things, *terrible* for others hahahaha (I insist on mostly doing the latter on mine... garage punk all the way!) ... & the ones I've played don't inherently sound good unplugged the way a nice strat or SG might. but DAMN, they do play like they're not even there!

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Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 1d

decent pic from Saturday, thanks to Lisa from GRRRizzly for takin it!

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Ethan Nichtern @ethannichtern.com · 2d

The more I study what LLMs actually do and how they do it, the clearer it becomes that the whole thing is a mirage.

But then again, so is capitalism.

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 2d

‘The most devastating shortcoming of LLMs is that however many things they appear to know about the world, and however smoothly they express these things, they don’t actually know that there is a world.’

@jamesmeek.bsky.social on Artificial General Intelligence:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

James Meek · Computers that want things

For all the fluency and synthetic friendliness of public-facing AI chatbots like ChatGPT, it seems important to remember...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 2d

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Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 2d

"Stellar's Sea Ape"

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Selena Kane @serendipityjones.bsky.social · 2d

we got compared to Cat Power yesterday, honestly didn't see that coming but I'll take it 🤘🤷‍♀️

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