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i'm a Canadian musician. 🇨🇦
Spoons, Honeymoon Suite,
Mamma Mia! Church Of Trees,
Carole Pope......and beyond.
80's hair survivor.
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rObPreuSS🦇🍄🌛🪐🕹️ @robpreuss.bsky.social · May 4
My favourite moment on Bluesky, before all the noise arrives....
robpreuss.bsky.social
omg is there anything more boring than..ready for it? DONALD TRUMP this. DONALD TRUMP that.... omg can he just die or go away already??? life is short. why is this one fucking idiot taking up everyone's bandwidth??? just stop..... bye bye Donny. fuck right off. now. ok. thank you....
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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thequietus.com
'Another Green World is a thoughtful, melancholy, fragile record, arguably one of Eno’s most emotionally resonant moments...'

Listen to John and Luke discussing this seminal album as #BrianEno's Another Green World turns 50 today!

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Brian Eno Another Green World album cover with yellow and red Japanese obi strip.
November 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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ande91.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
robpreuss.bsky.social
yeah sure, you should 'argue against it' especially if you're not a scientist.
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JD Vance thinks gravity is a 'theory'.
sofa king dumb.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
robpreuss.bsky.social
terrified from the top down.
what a weird way to live.
so much delusion and fear.
volts.wtf David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5d
Still thinking about this story. Imagine how cooked your brain has to be on Fox News -- how terrified you have to be, every day in your isolated suburban castle -- to start *shooting* when you see brown people at your door, before the door is even open. We're such a nation of terrified cowards.
Cleaning worker who mistakenly went to wrong home fatally shot: Police
The shooting victim died from a gunshot wound to the head, the coroner's office said.
abcnews.go.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
robpreuss.bsky.social
the fact that SNL spends so much time recreating shitty American/MAGA reality just shows you how fucked it all is. not funny. literally just recreating actual moments with lazy paid cast members. be better!!!!
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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robpreuss.bsky.social
Patti Smith:
"People have the power
Power to dream, to rule
To wrestle the earth from fools"
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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jfallows.bsky.social
-Oct 18, more than 7 million Americans stand up and stand together.

-Nov 4, millions of Dems turn out for landslide wins in VA, NJ, NY, CA, GA, many other places.

-Nov 9, eight "Dems" say "Oh, this nice Mike Johnson and Mr. Trump say they care about health. If they don't, well shame on them..."
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen
November 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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theonion.com
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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anatosaurus.bsky.social
Credit where due, fucking with air travel was genius MAGA move. It impacts upper & middle class and, more importantly, a powerful business interest. Starving millions of poor people doesn't piss off Wall St.
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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jfallows.bsky.social
2/2

You think Dem voters would have turned out in the numbers, and with the enthusiasm, they did JUST FIVE DAYS AGO if they thought the party was going cave like this? Jesus
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
robpreuss.bsky.social
you know what? fuck 'the shareholders'. money for nothing? fuck that. most of the shit in the world is a result of creating 'results' for greedy people. 🤑💢☠️
November 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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scotturner.bsky.social
45th anniversary today - November 7, 1980 - release of the album "Gentlemen Take Polaroids" from Japan. #55 on CFNY's Top 80 of 1980. 👍😎👍
November 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
robpreuss.bsky.social
fuck ai revenue and this
robotic lazy bullshit.
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16d
Premium newsletter: Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft need $2 Trillion in AI revenue by 2030 or they've wasted their capex. The massive cost of building data centers and constant decay in value of expensive-to-run GPUs may make AI profits impossible to achieve.
www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr/
Big Tech Needs $2 Trillion In AI Revenue By 2030 or They Wasted Their Capex
As I've established again and again, we are in an AI bubble, and no, I cannot tell you when the bubble will pop, because we're in the stupidest financial era since the great financial crisis — though,...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 6, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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adaspota.bsky.social
Tim Buckley ~ Venice Beach (Music Boats in the Bay)
(KCET Broadcast, 1970)
#TimBuckley #BOTD #MusicSky

Live, otherworldly performance of this remarkable unrecorded song at Boboquivari with the Starsailor band. A prime testament of magic being conjured.

youtu.be/PwWcGSB8wWI via @YouTube
Tim Buckley - Venice Beach [rare live]
YouTube video by Illia
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February 15, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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munkiman.bsky.social
Multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger & sound designer, soundtrack composer & college professor Joseph Byrd -- leader of The United States of America, and who, in 1968, recorded 'The American Metaphysical Circus,' credited to Joe Byrd & the Field Hippies -- has died at 87. More: alt text
Richie Unterberger writes: Rock groups are supposed to be hatched in garages and inner-city lofts, not the upper reaches of academia. That wasn't going to stop Joseph Byrd, experimental composer and ethnomusicologist from the UCLA New Music Workshop, from devising a plan in 1967 to approach rock'n'roll from the opposite direction. Byrd, who had frequented avant-garde circles since hanging around with Terry Riley, LaMonte Young, and Virgil Thomson in the early '60s, used the United States of America to bring cutting-edge electronics, Indian music, and "serious" composition into psychedelic rock and roll. The group's sole, self-titled album in 1968 was a tour de force (though not without its flaws) of experimental rock that blended surprisingly melodic sensibilities with unnerving blasts of primitive synthesizers and lyrics that could range from misty romanticism to hard-edged irony. For the relatively few who heard it, the record was a signpost to the future with its collision of rock and classical elements, although the material crackled with a tension that reflected the United States of America itself in the late '60s. More: By mid-1968, the grand experiment was over. Conflicting egos, a drug bust, and commercial pressures all contributed to a rapid split. The United States of America may have had their roots in the halls of higher learning, but ultimately they were prey to the same kind of mundane tensions that broke the spirit of many a band that lived and died on the streets. From the time Byrd founded the band in Los Angeles with colleague Michael Agnello, says singer Dorothy Moskowitz, "group dynamics were never a strong point in the USA." Moskowitz, Byrd's ex-girlfriend, had a background in writing and performing for musical theater. She moved from New York to California to join the group and, as she puts it, provide "the requisite schmaltz." Bassist Stu Brotman, once of the stunningly eclectic L.A. psychedelic group Kaleidoscope, was also an early member. But he and Agnello were gone by the time the group began recording for Columbia. Agnello, a radical sort, was arguing with Byrd over leadership of the band, and not sure the act should even be signing to a record label in the first place. "When you ask why the group broke up, well, why did the group even record after it broke it up?" points out Moskowitz. More: Yet the lineup that cohered for the album brought impressive credentials to the table. Electric violinist Gordon Marron expanded the instrument's parameters with a divider that could raiser or lower it an octave, as well as tape echo units and ring modulators. Rand Forbes played an unfretted electric bass, and drummer Craig Woodson would tinker with his sound in unusual ways, attaching contact microphones to his set and suspending slinkies from cymbals to get a musique-concrete effect. Ed Bogas added organ, piano, and calliope. Most of the material was penned by Byrd and Moskowitz, the latter of whose alto delivered the lyrics -- which are alternately evocative and foreboding -- with a cool precision reminiscent of an icier Grace Slick. Byrd was chiefly responsible for the electronic textures that would provide the album with its most distinguishing characteristics. This was 1968, remember, when synthesizers had rarely been employed on rock records. What Byrd crafted were not simulations of strings and horns, but exhilarating, frightening swoops and bleeps that lent a fierce crunch to the faster numbers, and a beguiling serenity to the ballads. Byrd had crucial help in his endeavors from Richard Durrett, who designed the Durrett electronic music synthesizer used by the band, and from Tom Oberheim, who pioneered the use of the ring modulator employed by the USA. Nico, Moskowitz has recalled, tried unsuccessfully to join the band, after leaving the Velvet Underground. More: Add to this mix a fascination with modal playing and Indian music. Byrd and Moskowitz were serious students of North and South Indian music, and had already made little-known contributions to a Folkways LP of Indian music by Gayathri Rajapur and Harihar Rao, recorded in 1965. Country Joe & the Fish, the Doors, and others were opening the gates for modal playing in rock and roll, and the USA were one of the first ones through; Frank Zappa had also opened the possibilities for incorporating ideas from contemporary composition into a rock format. And then there was Byrd's application of concepts from Charles Ives, which simulated marching bands moving from opposite sides of the stereo spectrum... Was it all too much to fit into one album? "As a whole, the album does not have a coherent, unified vision," declares Moskowitz, who now lives near Oakland, California, where she composes music for both adult and children's theatrical events in the San Francisco Bay area. "Joe had vision, but by hiring all these interesting people, it had to be diluted. Everybody had to have their say. I'm told that someone took the album to Apple Records. The Beatles listened to it and asked, 'Which is the band?' If you listen to each song, it's almost like a variety show. "Today you would say, it's a cultural blending of avant-garde music, of elements of Indian music. If you asked me back then, I'm not sure what we were doing. That might have been the basic charm of the group. We were charting territory for which their were no names."
November 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM
robpreuss.bsky.social
@writingonmusic.bsky.social today i was happy to find your book at @roughtraderecords.bsky.social Rockefeller Center.... it was waiting for me!
November 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
Short interruption of our daily program for this health check.
Please close your eyes, press play and wait.
If you don't start to tap your feet, shake your head or feel the need to jump up and dance, get in touch with your doctor.
It's for your own good.
youtu.be/r2S1I_ien6A?...
"SING, SING, SING" BY BENNY GOODMAN
YouTube video by WorldWar2Music
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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oldergamers.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
If Trump’s fascism is so bad, why aren’t the students protesting? We asked three right-wing oligarchs who bullied their alma maters into enforcing total bans on freedom of assembly on campus.
October 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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leilabelkora.bsky.social
Whether you like science or art or history or space travel, I promise this will be the best thing you read all week.
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www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Lunar Photography Brought the Heavens Down to Earth (Gift Article)
No explorers ever traveled farther from home than the Apollo astronauts. As artists, they’re still underrated.
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.
A tweet from Morgan J. Freeman states: “FACT: Venezuela is NOT a major producer of cocaine. They do not have large cocaine factories. They do not produce fentanyl either. What Venezuela does have is the world’s largest oil reserves.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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philk282.bsky.social
Morning #weekendsingles gang.

Incredibly yesterday was the 50th Anniversary of the fifth Roxy Music album 'Siren'! The final album of their incredible opening salvo 🎶💥

Two amazing 7's were released from the album, 'Love Is The Drug' & 'Both Ends Burning', two classics of their time!

#musicsky
October 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
"Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan being against tariffs. Guess what? Ronald Reagan was against tariffs."
October 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM