M. Azevedo
@azevedoaudio.bsky.social
Audio educator, drone wizard as Retribution Body, Grammy-winning mastering engineer, acoustics researcher. They/Them
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"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
February 4, 2026 at 2:53 PM
"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
Most "homebuilders" now are a general contractor who throws together an ad hoc team of freelancers and subcontractors with minimal long term coordination. 1/
Why, for the past 50 years, have US labourers been getting worse at building stuff?
www.ft.com/content/2ae2...
www.ft.com/content/2ae2...
You can see the computer age everywhere but in the construction industry
Making less with more
www.ft.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Most "homebuilders" now are a general contractor who throws together an ad hoc team of freelancers and subcontractors with minimal long term coordination. 1/
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Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
www.thenation.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.
1. Aural Perception of Timbre and Space
2. Acoustics and Psychoacoustics
3. Computer Applications In Music
4. Recording Studio Repair and Maintenance
5. Recital Attendance
1. Aural Perception of Timbre and Space
2. Acoustics and Psychoacoustics
3. Computer Applications In Music
4. Recording Studio Repair and Maintenance
5. Recital Attendance
Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.
1. CLAM Lit (classical and medieval literature)
2. German
3. Ancient Near East and Greece
4. Political Communication
5. Transcendental Mathematics
1. CLAM Lit (classical and medieval literature)
2. German
3. Ancient Near East and Greece
4. Political Communication
5. Transcendental Mathematics
Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.
1. Artistic Expression/live/model drawing
2. Medieval Literature
3. The Modern World ( World History)
4. The Second World War
5. Studies in World Literature
1. Artistic Expression/live/model drawing
2. Medieval Literature
3. The Modern World ( World History)
4. The Second World War
5. Studies in World Literature
January 30, 2026 at 2:15 AM
Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university.
1. Aural Perception of Timbre and Space
2. Acoustics and Psychoacoustics
3. Computer Applications In Music
4. Recording Studio Repair and Maintenance
5. Recital Attendance
1. Aural Perception of Timbre and Space
2. Acoustics and Psychoacoustics
3. Computer Applications In Music
4. Recording Studio Repair and Maintenance
5. Recital Attendance
I think we need to bring back the dream that went unfulfilled a few years ago: we need to get Ilhan Omar a Gundam.
January 29, 2026 at 8:53 PM
I think we need to bring back the dream that went unfulfilled a few years ago: we need to get Ilhan Omar a Gundam.
This should be an album cover.
January 28, 2026 at 8:19 PM
This should be an album cover.
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Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
January 27, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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The disparities in these numbers are fucking terrible. A quantification of how much more valuable a white and then American life is than an immigrant POC.
Links to fundraisers in thread.
bsky.app/profile/last...
Links to fundraisers in thread.
bsky.app/profile/last...
Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE:
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
January 26, 2026 at 11:25 PM
The disparities in these numbers are fucking terrible. A quantification of how much more valuable a white and then American life is than an immigrant POC.
Links to fundraisers in thread.
bsky.app/profile/last...
Links to fundraisers in thread.
bsky.app/profile/last...
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I feel like when folk music starts getting this good again it’s usually a pretty good indicator that shit is FUCKED
January 26, 2026 at 1:19 AM
I feel like when folk music starts getting this good again it’s usually a pretty good indicator that shit is FUCKED
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happy snow day Buddha
January 25, 2026 at 6:23 PM
happy snow day Buddha
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We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century.
snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...
snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...
Lies and Lawlessness
The Camps, the Executions, and the Future
snyder.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 7:26 PM
We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century.
snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...
snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...
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Abolish ICE!
For your printer, in both color and black and white.
For your printer, in both color and black and white.
January 25, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Abolish ICE!
For your printer, in both color and black and white.
For your printer, in both color and black and white.
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I just want to make it clear that it was *Border Patrol* agents who murdered Alex Pretti, and those fuckers murder people regularly here along the border.
Renee Good´s murderer is also a former Border Patrol agent (currently ICE).
Disband ALL the paramilitary groups and prosecute every member.
Renee Good´s murderer is also a former Border Patrol agent (currently ICE).
Disband ALL the paramilitary groups and prosecute every member.
January 25, 2026 at 3:28 AM
I just want to make it clear that it was *Border Patrol* agents who murdered Alex Pretti, and those fuckers murder people regularly here along the border.
Renee Good´s murderer is also a former Border Patrol agent (currently ICE).
Disband ALL the paramilitary groups and prosecute every member.
Renee Good´s murderer is also a former Border Patrol agent (currently ICE).
Disband ALL the paramilitary groups and prosecute every member.
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just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now
Our government is murdering the citizens of this country. They are doing it without any checks on their violence
January 25, 2026 at 12:26 AM
just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now
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Cannot stress enough that the Dems are fully collaborating with Republicans on this front. They don't have an alternative vision on immigration, only a politer version of maintaining the lie of an immigration problem. They have no interest in reform.
Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.
January 24, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Cannot stress enough that the Dems are fully collaborating with Republicans on this front. They don't have an alternative vision on immigration, only a politer version of maintaining the lie of an immigration problem. They have no interest in reform.
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If you want to know what people mean when they say Democrats are "controlled opposition," rather than whipping votes against ICE funding, Hakeem Jeffries struck a deal with Republicans to allow Democrats to feign outrage at ICE while still funding the spending package.
January 23, 2026 at 2:00 PM
If you want to know what people mean when they say Democrats are "controlled opposition," rather than whipping votes against ICE funding, Hakeem Jeffries struck a deal with Republicans to allow Democrats to feign outrage at ICE while still funding the spending package.
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🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
Democratic politicians have, though, pursued growth in GDP at the expense of other values. One response to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com pessimistic scenario is refocus on those values, combined with egalitarianism, sufficiency and quality of life. Not "it's the economy, stupid" but "it's the the society"
Is liberal democracy in terminal decline?
The old system worked under a set of conditions that are no longer present
www.ft.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:07 AM
🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
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This is really important (read her thread). We went from bathroom bills being politically radioactive in 2016 to 2024 due largely to manufactured moral panic to erode LGBTQ rights using trans people as a wedge. We know this because they said it out loud in 2018, yet very little Dem counter
January 21, 2026 at 2:28 PM
This is really important (read her thread). We went from bathroom bills being politically radioactive in 2016 to 2024 due largely to manufactured moral panic to erode LGBTQ rights using trans people as a wedge. We know this because they said it out loud in 2018, yet very little Dem counter
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I've been thinking about this a lot, for months: Gaza was a breaking point between verifiable reality and liberal governance. "AI" sparks fears ppl will believe things that aren't true, but Gaza SHOWED things that WERE true—& western governments, universities & news outlets pretened they were not.
What did we think Trump was going to do, if Europe showed him we would fully collaborate on the total destruction of the Gaza Strip and ferociously repeat even the most absurd lies about it to our citizens? Did we think he would decide: best to not push the law breaking and war crimes, be sensible.
January 21, 2026 at 10:28 AM
I've been thinking about this a lot, for months: Gaza was a breaking point between verifiable reality and liberal governance. "AI" sparks fears ppl will believe things that aren't true, but Gaza SHOWED things that WERE true—& western governments, universities & news outlets pretened they were not.
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This is AMAZING.
Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
January 20, 2026 at 11:52 PM
This is AMAZING.
Oh my, the sigh I let out after reading this.
Sometimes I think about everything I could do, all that I’d be capable of, if I wasn’t stressed at a bone-deep level about absolutely everything 100% of the time.
January 20, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Oh my, the sigh I let out after reading this.
Publicly funded slop, coming soon to a downtown wall near you.
NEW: Glasgow City Council has just approved a massive AI-generated mural to be painted in the city centre.
The illustration of Scottish elements inexplicably contains a bald eagle.
The planner says those upset about it are "keyboard warriors" who should "calm down"
The illustration of Scottish elements inexplicably contains a bald eagle.
The planner says those upset about it are "keyboard warriors" who should "calm down"
January 20, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Publicly funded slop, coming soon to a downtown wall near you.