Ears
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Ears
@markears.bsky.social
Chicago based. Musician & plant lover. Into hiking, modular synths, literature and art.
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RIP Dave
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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to all my fellow coil fans:

please consider not buying the newest scatology re-release from some bizarre
November 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Today's fact: the paint tube was invented ten years after the photograph.
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Honcho, 1998, I had a monthly column for a few years which could be covering anything from a sex party to an interview to a review of the Venice biennale. RIP Udo Kier
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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'This came out before David Byrne and Eno did ‘Jezebel Spirit’. Tony Wilson always used to say, ‘They ripped you off’ [laughs] but we were just doing similar stuff at the same time."

’Sluggin’ fer Jesus’ - The Strange World Of… Early #CabaretVoltaire

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November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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RIP Jimmy Cliff. This remains one of the all time great songs of defiance. youtu.be/pmc5H6zAi6M?...
The Harder They Come
YouTube video by Jimmy Cliff - Topic
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November 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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RIP Udo Kier 🥀🥀🥀
I interview him when Kingdom Hospital was released in cinema, and carried on with a fashion spread, curating him into Visions of Excess in Brum England, Berlin travels, and lots of Palm Springs times in the early 2000s.
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Same, kid. Same.
November 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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To help artists find “a path to the deviations within themselves,” Nayland Blake has a few (or 100) thoughts. Assignments include installing shelves on the street and making a sculpture that “produces the ­pleasure of being ignored.”
100 Assignments From Nayland Blake
While ­these assignments ­will not turn someone ­else into me, they ­will provide the practitioner with a path to the deviations within themselves.
hyperallergic.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Lee Miller contact sheet of her photos of Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst in 1939 - probaby at their house in France, which they were forced to leave by the nazis, after which they left for Mexico www.worldofinteriors.com/story/leonor...
November 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Nathaniel Hawthorne added the “w” to his family name because he was ashamed of his great-great-grandfather, a judge in the Salem witch trials.
it is interesting, all family trees have that one ancestor they're really ashamed of, and now we're seeing the making of those ancestors in realtime. three, four, five generations down the road these will be the people everyone wishes they didn't have blood-ties to and skims over their lives.
DOJ is now recruiting for immigration judges by calling them “deportation judges.”

That’s seems really bad.
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.

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November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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New meme format just dropped:
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Chicago skyline, 1958
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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A Guide to J.G. Thirlwell’s Foetus 

Source: Bandcamp Daily. James George Thirlwell was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, where he studied art before moving to England in 1978 to participate in London’s exploding punk scene. While working at Virgin Records as the independent label buyer,…
A Guide to J.G. Thirlwell’s Foetus 
Source: Bandcamp Daily. James George Thirlwell was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, where he studied art before moving to England in 1978 to participate in London’s exploding punk scene. While working at Virgin Records as the independent label buyer, Thirlwell played synthesizer in post-punk group pragVEC and developed working relationships with Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound and William Bennett of Whitehouse and Come.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Yesterday, striking baristas took action at Starbucks’ biggest distribution center that serves the entire east coast.

Today, union stores in 25+ MORE cities are joining our national, open-ended ULP strike!

Our union isn’t slowing down… in fact, we’re just getting started. #NoContractNoCoffee $SBUX
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Jeremy Allen talks to Stephen Mallinder about The Cabs' first decade, the eternal struggle to find the right drum machine and inventing anti-fascist dance routines.

The Strange World Of… Early #CabaretVoltaire

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November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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no one is writing for lapsed catholics like @jpbrammer.bsky.social is writing for lapsed catholics
November 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Very surprised i dig this.....lol
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Charli xcx - House featuring John Cale (Official Video)
YouTube video by Charli xcx
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November 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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We still have a lot of problems as a society but at least albums no longer have endless segues where musicians try their hands at comedy in between songs. Remember this whenever people insist that change is impossible.
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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"Planning for perfection is a valid strategy— allowing room for the unplanned is crucial, keeps me on my toes. The whole idea of mistakes should not be a sure thing. There is a surety in insecurity that benefits from the role of inaccuracy and what that means."

Three Questions With John Cale:
Three Questions With John Cale
The one and only pioneering musician, composer, producer and founding member of The Velvet Underground, John Cale, is next up in the 3Qs series!
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November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Useless Democrats. Sigh.
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Legendary Brazilian singer-songwriter and musician Lo Borges died this week at 73. With Milton Nascimento, he was one of the founders of musical group Clube Da Espina, whose 1972 s/t album keeps influencing artists over 50 years later. Borges live in 2022. #RIPLoBorges m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp3t...
Lô Borges 50 anos de música | Hypershow
YouTube video by Hypershow
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November 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Harold D. Craft Jr.'s 1970 PhD thesis, "Radio Observations of the Pulse Profiles and Dispersion Measures of Twelve Pulsars".
Page 215

I am getting some Unknown Pleasure from this....
November 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Rosalía’s new album ‘LUX’ is out now 🙏
November 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM