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Simon Reynolds @simonreynolds.bsky.social · 2d

Scritti videos are constructed around ruses to get round the fact he can’t dance. The one for ‘hypnotize’ has him on a sofa if i recall right

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Philip Sherburne @philipsherburne.bsky.social · 13d

I wrote a little about Optimo's JD Twitch futurismrestated.substack.com/p/mixes-dige...

Mixes Digest 22: Remembering Optimo’s JD Twitch

8 enduring sets from the late Keith McIvor (plus links to 20 more)

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · Aug 15

Republicans are... scared for no reason!

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Simon Reynolds @simonreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 23

For his Rabbit Holed column @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social interviews Music Place, bonkers online archivist of the ultra-obscure, who leaves "a cursed but beautiful 'breadcrumb trail' across scenes and languages"

Meet the Most Cracked Music Archivist Online

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, Kieran ...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 17

Knowing everything you know about Epstein and Trump read this yourself two-three times and ask what the most obvious interpretation of it would be.

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Simon Reynolds @simonreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 17

Well I have 14 years on so you can imagine how ancient I feel reading K's stuff!

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Simon Reynolds @simonreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 17

Quick! Read while the paywall is relaxed for 24 hours this conversation between @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social and Shawn Reynaldo of First Floor substack about being a Gen Z music+culture writer

Kieran Press-Reynolds Is Mapping the Brainrot Continuum

A conversation with the NYC-based writer and proud zoomer, who shares his thoughts on Gen Z's relationship with music and details his own penchant for trawling the weirdest corners of the internet.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Jul 16

PLEASE TALK ABOUT ANYTHING OTHER THAN EPSTEIN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

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Simon Reynolds @simonreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 15

RIP Keith Dobson of World Domination Enterprises - probably the most exciting live band I ever saw + creators of the immortal "Asbestos Lead Asbestos". Keith, aka Kif Kif, was a lovely guy, a great interview, a genius noise guitarist, and a counterculture lifer blissout.blogspot.com/2025/07/rip-...

RIP Keith Dobson

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Simon Reynolds @simonreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 10

"Actively passive, losing-itself-in-the-noise" - new column by @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social steps out of his lane to explore "hazy new-gen alt-rock": bar italia, untitled halo, deer park et al. Slackerdelia returns, only this time they don't even have the energy to capitalize their names...

The Dreamy Malaise of Post-Pandemic Alt-Rock

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, Kieran ...

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Simon Reynolds @simonreynolds.bsky.social · Jul 6

I can’t work out who the three Davids are - is it Niven, Attenborough, late period /naff 90s Bowie?

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Simon Reynolds @simonreynolds.bsky.social · Jun 26

For his Pitchfork column Rabbit Holed @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social‬ reports on SWAGGOTFEST, a 12-hour anarcho-pride parody of a music festival that transcended cringe and captured the sweetest, rawest aspects of the New York DIY scene pitchfork.com/thepitch/all...

All Night at Swaggotfest

Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, he repo...

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Simon Reynolds @simonreynolds.bsky.social · Jun 16

Joy on the glorious #NoKings protests in LA

Joy Press @joypress.bsky.social · Jun 16

I've been stunned by the maddeningly out-of-whack portrait of Los Angeles being presented to the world, so I wrote an on-the-ground report from some of the vibrant, riot-free local protests this weekend www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

In Los Angeles, So Much of the Protest Narrative Has Felt Wrong. Saturday Was a Corrective

After a week of watching a fun-house-mirror version of their city in global media, thousands of Los Angeles residents took to the streets on Saturday.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Jun 15

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jun 14

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · Jun 13

"No Kings must break through to normies, independents, and Trump voters feeling remorse...Size is persuasion...If 100,000 people show up for Trump’s parade, but 5,000,000 people turn out across the country for No Kings rallies, who looks strong and who looks weak?"
www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-n...

No Kings. No Surrender.

Shows of force can work both ways.

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Simon Reynolds @simonreynolds.bsky.social · Jun 12

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS PASADENA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS PASADENA · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · Jun 5

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Best of Dying Twitter @bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social · Jun 5

“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · Jun 5

"I was this pedophile's biggest supporter until he was personally mean to me" seems like a bit of an own goal.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jun 5

Musk says Trump is in the Epstein files and it is being covered up. This escalated quickly.

Time to drop the really big bomb:

@realDonaldTrump
is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public.

Have a nice day, DJT!

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Simon Reynolds @simonreynolds.bsky.social · May 28

Entertaining + revealing GQ profile by @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social of YouTube cult star Adam Friedland, a left-aligned comedian with an irreverent / puerile approach to politics and the art of the interview.

Adam Friedland Could Be the Millennial Jon Stewart. But Does He Want That?

The 38-year-old comedian started his YouTube series ‘The Adam Friedland Show’ mostly as a joke. But in the wake of an election that podcasters helped swing in Donald Trump’s favor, he’s fielding inter...

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Simon Reynolds @simonreynolds.bsky.social · May 27

A tribute to Susan Brownmiller, pioneering activist and writer in the women's liberation movement, by @joypress.bsky.social. Fascinating and funny tales of how the feminist firebrand took down Hugh Hefner on TV and helped organize the occupation of Ladies Home Journal.

The Still Vital—and Still Complicated—Legacy of Susan Brownmiller

The activist and author of the landmark rape study, Against Our Will, lived long see the struggle is still just beginning.

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Simon Reynolds @simonreynolds.bsky.social · Apr 19

Apparently there is a Yoko reinvention of ‘whoopee’ on Double Fantasy - a retro pre-WW2 romantic number with new lyrics, titled ‘Yes, I’m Your Angel’.

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Simon Reynolds @simonreynolds.bsky.social · Apr 19

Wow - I only know the Sinatra version which elides the whole having affairs and divorce bit, circles back to the ‘comic’ image of hubby dishwashing and sewing - keeps it light and breezy. Had no idea the full lyric is so cynical and bleak.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Apr 13

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The rise of end times fascism

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

www.theguardian.com

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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · Apr 12

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year.

Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

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