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Unwoman

@unwoman.com

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I've made 18 albums and you should listen to at least one of them. No longer on Spotify. https://unwoman.com

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Unwoman @unwoman.com · Sep 8

It's my season.... 👻
I'll be performing at Cabaret Macabre in Sacramento, Friday Oct 24!
www.eventbrite.com/e/cabaret-ma...
And the following night at Clockwork Alchemy in Redwood City!
www.clockworkalchemy.com

Cabaret Macabre 2025 presented by Nevermore Gorelesque

Gorelesque, drag, & variety with a Halloween theme.

www.eventbrite.com

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Unwoman @unwoman.com · 7h

Wooooow wtf

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Unwoman @unwoman.com · 9h

eeee my friend just messaged to say they're sitting in a bar (The Hub, Redwood City) waiting for a drag show and my cover of "Crucify" is playing in the house!
unwoman.bandcamp.com/track/crucify
aaand here's a video of me playing it 17 years ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjt5...

Crucify, by Unwoman

from the album Uncovered Volume 1

unwoman.bandcamp.com

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 10h

This is Toronto and it doesn’t matter because when “we” do misinformation it’s funny .

And because the person who did this is a white man

They will not be harangued for days

Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 1d

Ice Fishing in Portland

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 1d

The right has AI slop, the reactionary center has “Ordinary,” and the rest of us are listening to tons of new and weird stuff that has about as much success breaking through the mainstream as left ideas have of getting covered in mainstream media

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Unwoman @unwoman.com · 1d

See, this is just practical.

✨ Erinyes ✨ @erinyes.diy · 1d

if you touch lgbtq rights we will stay home in california where your money comes from and we will stay home in wisconsin and pennsylvania and florida which you require to win and you will lose

Unwoman @unwoman.com · 1d

PHEW

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

“I didn’t mean to scare anyone or make it sound so serious … She’s been a little under the weather and I simply asked for prayers bc I believe so strongly in the power of prayer. It was nothing more than a little sister asking for prayers for her big sister. Thank you all for lifting her up.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

DON’T SCARE US LIKE THIS, FREIDA www.wsmv.com/2025/10/08/i...

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Unwoman @unwoman.com · 1d

I haven't heard it either, and even her good albums are meh to me with a few exceptions of great songs

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Unwoman @unwoman.com · 1d

Boooooo (also funny how this gets more traction when she releases a disappointing album; people are willing to overlook some horrible shit for good music)

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Unwoman @unwoman.com · 1d

Yes!! Thank you so much!

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 2d

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 2d

It turns out building habits and stuff actually requires not being in survival mode, who knew?!
(Yeah yeah I did)

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 2d

Hear ye hear ye a message of hope and inspiration from our courageous leader in exile, Link. May all his loyal followers take heart!

I appreciate all the people showing love and support to me. I’m so grateful honestly. It means a lot. The ban isn’t that big of a deal for me. I think it was wrong and the explanation was bullshit. But that’s ok and I accept. Social media comes and goes. I’m grateful for all the connections I was able to make and all the people I get to be connected with off Bluesky. More importantly, the world needs more people to give a fuck. More people to give a fuck about Palestinians, more people to give a fuck about disabled folks, more people to give a fuck about our queer and trans siblings, more people to give a fuck about Black liberation. The world, and Bluesky, is full of bootlickers who will do anything to avoid doing anything to upset the status quo. These people are cowards groveling to those in power in hopes of protection. I just hope people continue to show love and care and kindness. Mutual aid is so important. Give when you can, boost when you can. We only survive this together.

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Unwoman @unwoman.com · 2d

"You are taking in the Human Centipede of content"

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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From Create Mode
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Unwoman @unwoman.com · 2d

I read the piece and didn't disagree (haven't listened to the album yet) but I think a big part of it too is how when someone is as phenomenally successful as Swift, they stop hearing "no" from people close to them.

Unwoman @unwoman.com · 3d

I watched Buckaroo Banzai alone, about 20 years after my friends recommended it, and it was definitely the wrong move

Unwoman @unwoman.com · 3d

Whhhhaaaat?? If you ever want to change that, we have a pretty nice home cinema.

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Unwoman @unwoman.com · 3d

Saw Stevie Nicks with @grnfaerie.bsky.social last night. That was some magic I DEEPLY needed. Feeling slightly hopeful about some of the terrible things.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 3d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 7d

For anyone else out there who thinks in grids and continuums, this is a visual from ep. 3 of my asynchronous course, “MEETING THE MOMENT: Political Poetry and the Anthemic Impulse,” and it’s a good peek into what the rest of the class/workshop is about.

More: guante.info/meetingthemoment

A four-part grid: at one end of the y-axis is “Art makes no material impact on the harms people are facing and is therefore useless, even (or especially) when it has radical characteristics.” At the other end of the y-axis is “Art is inherently, actively revolutionary and if you just write good enough, it will wake everyone up and usher in a magical new era of enlightenment and radical change.” At the left end of the x-axis is “Meeting the moment” as a destination. At the right end of the x-axis is “Meeting the moment” as a direction. A small pink star with the word “try” is in the middle of the y-axis, toward the right end of the x-axis.

Text: What does that pink star on the field represent? (1) Humility. We know art won’t magically solve all the problems of the world, but we cannot see what impacts/ripple effects it might have. An arts practice is bigger than the individual pieces of art it produces. (2) Perspective. Art isn’t the only thing we need in this historical moment, but there is no version of victory in which art, storytelling, and culture work are not elements of the struggle. (3) Intentionality. Some work moves the floor, and some moves the ceiling. Some work plants seeds, and some plants crops. Some work preaches to the choir, and some invites new people in. Some work is for you, and some is for others. All of it matters.

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Unwoman @unwoman.com · 4d

Doug Jones would NEVER

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Oct 14

Accelerating collapse means accelerating harm to the most marginalized & vulnerable because the most powerful & comfortable are, definitionally, that. So disabled people, Black people, Indigenous people, Trans & otherwise LGBTQIA people will be the first and main ones harmed, & disproportionately so

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jun 29

Reminder that there is no "left" accelerationism under capitalism

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4d

"The fights for trans rights and Palestinians are over and we lost" is something I'm seeing over and over from cis white progressives. And I'm seeing variations of this popping up about racial justice, marriage equality, and disability rights too.

Sorry, but fuck that.

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Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 20d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 4d

every autism website flourishes when the perverts outweigh the bullies and withers when the bullies outweigh the perverts

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Unwoman @unwoman.com · 5d

"Please, let this do to the Trump admin what persecuting major league baseball players did to HUAC," I beg for the 37th time

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 5d

Saying "The NFL sucks.." really is a bold strategy, let's see how that goes

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 5d

Kristi Noem’s message to the NFL for selecting Bad Bunny for the halftime show:

“The NFL sucks and we’ll win and God will bless us and we’ll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day and they won’t be able to sleep at night because they don’t know what they believe…”