Bright Kelly
@brightkelly.bsky.social
Bright the Sprite. Singer, Author, Wandering Bard.
www.brightkelly.me
www.brightkelly.me
My music is not for bigots. That includes red hats and white hoods. That includes those who wield crucifixes as moral weapons. That includes TERFs. That includes genocide apologists. That includes bathroom police. This is not a safe space for hatred.
I sing for the intolerant left.
I sing for the intolerant left.
May 30, 2025 at 3:09 AM
My music is not for bigots. That includes red hats and white hoods. That includes those who wield crucifixes as moral weapons. That includes TERFs. That includes genocide apologists. That includes bathroom police. This is not a safe space for hatred.
I sing for the intolerant left.
I sing for the intolerant left.
We’re being force-fed AI and I hate it. We’re teaching machines to dream and using them to bar humans from careers in creative fields. This is backward. Unsurprising, but downright dystopian.
May 30, 2025 at 3:07 AM
We’re being force-fed AI and I hate it. We’re teaching machines to dream and using them to bar humans from careers in creative fields. This is backward. Unsurprising, but downright dystopian.
Let me introduce myself. Alt-folk-soul, emotions on the bleeding edge of my sleeve. Sociopolitically awake and unapologetic about. Making music for people who punch Nazis and worship their beloved. Pretty, at least sometimes. Ugly when it’s called for. Listen, connect, be??
May 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Let me introduce myself. Alt-folk-soul, emotions on the bleeding edge of my sleeve. Sociopolitically awake and unapologetic about. Making music for people who punch Nazis and worship their beloved. Pretty, at least sometimes. Ugly when it’s called for. Listen, connect, be??
I really want this app to be the one that succeeds.
May 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I really want this app to be the one that succeeds.
This, both literally and regarding what it represents.
February 19, 2025 at 4:25 AM
This, both literally and regarding what it represents.
1) Ouch. Dark.
2) Buy this series and read it. Michael is a tremendous talent and what many call a mensch.
2) Buy this series and read it. Michael is a tremendous talent and what many call a mensch.
One of the early reviews of my dystopian Rafael Ward novels argued that 30 years wasn't enough time for the US to devolve into a nationalistic, autocratic, tyranny with sham elections, vanishing public works, and Orwellian governmental agencies.
Sometimes I hate being right.
Sometimes I hate being right.
February 15, 2025 at 5:02 AM
1) Ouch. Dark.
2) Buy this series and read it. Michael is a tremendous talent and what many call a mensch.
2) Buy this series and read it. Michael is a tremendous talent and what many call a mensch.
Generative AI is plagiarism. Let’s keep AI firmly in the “assistant” department, and pass laws banning scraping from non-consenting artists.
It would be simple enough to create some kind of learning database from royalty-free material for machine learning—there is no reason for this.
It would be simple enough to create some kind of learning database from royalty-free material for machine learning—there is no reason for this.
🔴CALLING ALL ARTISTS🔴
Christie's NYC is planning an AI art auction expected to bring in over $600,000 to creators who've used models trained on copyrighted material from non-consenting artists.
If you object to this, please sign and share this open letter.
openletter.earth/cancel-the-c...
Christie's NYC is planning an AI art auction expected to bring in over $600,000 to creators who've used models trained on copyrighted material from non-consenting artists.
If you object to this, please sign and share this open letter.
openletter.earth/cancel-the-c...
February 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Generative AI is plagiarism. Let’s keep AI firmly in the “assistant” department, and pass laws banning scraping from non-consenting artists.
It would be simple enough to create some kind of learning database from royalty-free material for machine learning—there is no reason for this.
It would be simple enough to create some kind of learning database from royalty-free material for machine learning—there is no reason for this.
Olly olly oxen free.
February 6, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Olly olly oxen free.
Who’s into vinyl and indie rock? I wanna try something.
February 6, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Who’s into vinyl and indie rock? I wanna try something.
A comment on a tattoo coverup of an actual hate symbol, gleefully supporting said hate symbol, without even the courtesy of clever misspelling, doesn’t go against Meta’s Community Standards.
That tells me that Meta HAS no standards.
That tells me that Meta HAS no standards.
February 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
A comment on a tattoo coverup of an actual hate symbol, gleefully supporting said hate symbol, without even the courtesy of clever misspelling, doesn’t go against Meta’s Community Standards.
That tells me that Meta HAS no standards.
That tells me that Meta HAS no standards.
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What are the odds that, in the silence of the dark hours of the morning, even the Self-Tan Supervillain knows he done f**ked up and sits there worrying over how deep up his a*** the puppeteer’s hand has gone?
February 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
What are the odds that, in the silence of the dark hours of the morning, even the Self-Tan Supervillain knows he done f**ked up and sits there worrying over how deep up his a*** the puppeteer’s hand has gone?
I feel like @aoc.bsky.social could perhaps take the hint.
When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.
February 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I feel like @aoc.bsky.social could perhaps take the hint.
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It’s a coup! Please read or listen to Robert Hubbell’s newsletter!
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
Call it by its name: A coup.
February 1, 2025
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February 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
It’s a coup! Please read or listen to Robert Hubbell’s newsletter!
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
I have to somehow keep promoting my art and paying my rent amidst all this chaos, so like … consider buying my albums and stuff, I guess.
February 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I have to somehow keep promoting my art and paying my rent amidst all this chaos, so like … consider buying my albums and stuff, I guess.
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The FBI’s core values, including integrity, compassion, fairness, and allegiance to the Constitution - and oh, yeah, diversity, are being painted over at the FBI Academy. Source: NYT.
January 31, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The FBI’s core values, including integrity, compassion, fairness, and allegiance to the Constitution - and oh, yeah, diversity, are being painted over at the FBI Academy. Source: NYT.
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This is terrifying.
February 1, 2025 at 4:04 AM
This is terrifying.
At the very least.
We’re gonna have to march.
February 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM
At the very least.
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Turns out the secret to a coup is just do it on Friday. The opposition will make strongly worded posts and see what they can do about it on Monday
February 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Turns out the secret to a coup is just do it on Friday. The opposition will make strongly worded posts and see what they can do about it on Monday
A coup d’etat is an overt deposition of government by force.
A self-coup involves a legally elected leader KEEPING power through illegal means.
A constitutional coup occurs when power is expanded using semi-legal means such as loopholes or rule changes/suspensions.
All of these are possible now.
A self-coup involves a legally elected leader KEEPING power through illegal means.
A constitutional coup occurs when power is expanded using semi-legal means such as loopholes or rule changes/suspensions.
All of these are possible now.
February 1, 2025 at 7:50 AM
A coup d’etat is an overt deposition of government by force.
A self-coup involves a legally elected leader KEEPING power through illegal means.
A constitutional coup occurs when power is expanded using semi-legal means such as loopholes or rule changes/suspensions.
All of these are possible now.
A self-coup involves a legally elected leader KEEPING power through illegal means.
A constitutional coup occurs when power is expanded using semi-legal means such as loopholes or rule changes/suspensions.
All of these are possible now.
I want to believe you, Congresswoman. Tell us an action plan that prevents these madmen from suspending democracy and refusing to cede power. We have heard, from their own lips, that very intention. How do we save the USA—looking for concrete answers, not just hope.
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
February 1, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I want to believe you, Congresswoman. Tell us an action plan that prevents these madmen from suspending democracy and refusing to cede power. We have heard, from their own lips, that very intention. How do we save the USA—looking for concrete answers, not just hope.
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Media purges have started.
If you’re keeping score at home yes, we’re on pace with 1933 level shit and speed
If you’re keeping score at home yes, we’re on pace with 1933 level shit and speed
February 1, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Media purges have started.
If you’re keeping score at home yes, we’re on pace with 1933 level shit and speed
If you’re keeping score at home yes, we’re on pace with 1933 level shit and speed
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...