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library bits, art bits, music bits. was @CaptainGravity on the hellsite
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As a librarian I’m only disappointed that more libraries are going fee free because it makes my knuckle tats reading “LATE FEES” seem outdated and gauche.
December 13, 2025 at 3:18 AM
aeason.bsky.social
I’ve named my fists the Two Ronnies because it’s good night from **him** and it’s good night from **him**. And they both wear glasses so there’s that, too.
December 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
the whole article could have just been ten pages of “Brilliant Things Eleanor O’Brien Said,” and some gold was left on the cutting room floor, but this is such a banger of a closer and it’s so very much the theme of today
"I want people to know that what's happening in Portland - the creativity, the irreverence, the refusal to be intimidated - that's replicable," she says. "Every city has artists. Every community has weirdos. We just need to find each other and start creating the alternative story. The revolution doesn't have to look like a protest. Make it weird. When they tell you to cover up, shut up, and comply, the most radical thing you can do is be visible, speak truth, and take up space. With joy. Tap into your creativity. Art isn't a luxury in times like these - it's survival."
October 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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coachgowron.com
You are worthy of respect, of friendship, of love. Sometimes you may need to work harder to bring it forth, but never doubt that it is within you.
October 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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infinata.bsky.social
Do it with Muppets you cowards
September 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
aeason.bsky.social
I just finished the Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard. It’s absolutely stunning and made me believe in something better, at least while I was reading. What a gift, what a tonic for the heart it is. A beautiful, powerful and just book. And funny, too!
The cover of The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard . It’s a library book so it’s covered in protective plastic which means the cover is a bit ripply. The main design on the cover is an antique rendering of a sun in glory, with a stylized face and golden flames rippling out in a sunburst. The rest of the cover is mainly black, except for the author and title, done in gold, like the sun.
September 1, 2025 at 1:42 AM
aeason.bsky.social
good news everyone. I finally told a doctor about my now decades-old undiagnosed major depression. Unfortunately the psychiatrist's receptionist keeps hanging up on me but I am now officially allowed to be a nuisance to them and get some therapy for my stupid brain.
August 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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scarredforlife.bsky.social
LOOK AND READ - DARK TOWERS (1981): Classic spookiness from the BBC's literacy strand for primary school kids. Written by Andrew Davies (Marmalade Atkins, A Very Peculiar Practice, House of Cards), with songs by Derek Griffiths!
August 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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deescribe.bsky.social
little library gallows humor for ya :'D
A sign on a metal bookshelf that says "Apocalyptic Fiction has been moved to Current Affairs"
July 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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lauramckee.bsky.social
It’s taken me too long to read this book, Towards a general theory of love by Clare Shaw (Bloodaxe
Books). Just read this poem before I try to sleep tonight, lord there is something in my eye.
June 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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radosh.bsky.social
I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it.

Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters. A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago. And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety. To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And- Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think- A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different. Q: They're not really. A: Those are like different genres. Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different. A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.
June 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
We don’t know exactly what this means, but if it means what it seems like it means, it's very bad.
"Effective July 7, 2025, the National Archives will become a restricted-access federal facility with access only for visitors with a legitimate business need..."
www.archives.gov/college-park
Restricted-Access Federal Facility, Effective July 7, 2025 Effective July 7, 2025, the National Archives at College Park, MD, will become a restricted-access federal facility with access only for visitors with a legitimate business need. It will no longer be open to the general public. Security officers will enforce these restrictions, and your cooperation is appreciated.
June 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
aeason.bsky.social
youtu.be/ZYybxMzzxy4?...
For me the best, and most chilling version of Shipbuilding-
June Tabor - Shipbuilding
YouTube video by sichlaubruun
youtu.be
June 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
aeason.bsky.social
Beans zooms in sideways to wish me a good morning.
A small grey and black schnorkie lying sideways on a pile of pillows looks into the camera with an engaging expression.
June 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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ebe404.bsky.social
Cool, cool

mixmag.net/read/spotify...
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek becomes chairman of AI military start-up following €600 million investment
Ek had previously invested €100 million in Helsing, a software specialist that currently produces drones, aircrafts and submarines for military use
mixmag.net
June 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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maxkennerly.bsky.social
During the largest protest in U.S. history, a protest against the gravest threat either has faced in their time in politics, Schumer and Jefferies were at the Hamptons wedding of a mega-donor.

It's hardly a surprise the base wants better.
June 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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greg.org
Sargent made these two vertiginous paintings of an orchestra rehearsal in paris in like 1879. they're both at the met rn greg.org/archive/2025...
a brushy painting of an orchestra rehearsing in the round in a steep amphitheater, their sheet music the only clear things among a foggy blur, and three lazy clowns sitting in the foreground, by john singer sargent a blurry grisaille wash painting of an orchestra rehearsal, from a cheap seat, all the musicians a blur of black, with sharp, thin brushstrokes picking out the bare reflections of light on brass instruments, and the white sheet music providing the dominant geometric motif. by john singer sargent.
May 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
Today’s answer to ‘What is Hookland?’
April 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
aeason.bsky.social
I am not gifted with great technical finesse so it was a wonder and a boon to finally figure out how to sequence SWNs voices separately, with Fugue machine as here. (Drums/FX from Live). Please to enjoy this remedial dub.
March 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
aeason.bsky.social
Lair of the Space Kalimba

Back with the 4MS SWN again. This time with kalimba power. When you're triggering the 6 voices the SWN has by hand with the buttons at the top, what you basically have is a fancy space kalimba. so maybe another time I'll do something a bit more kalimba-y and sprightly…
Lair of the Space Kalimba
Back with the 4MS SWN again. This time with kalimba power. When you're triggering the 6 voices the SWN has by hand with the buttons at the top, what you basically have is a fancy space kalimba. so maybe another time I'll do something a bit more kalimba-y and sprightly with it and not the ominous spacey behemoth we have in today's offering.
andreweason.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
aeason.bsky.social
Unknowingness

I’ve heard you favor snakes, my friend; The coil and nictitating blink, Their quietness when undisturbed, The way they flow like living ink. The coil and nictitating blink —  The shed skin bringing newness out. The way they flow like living ink, Like words we cannot do without, The…
Unknowingness
I’ve heard you favor snakes, my friend; The coil and nictitating blink, Their quietness when undisturbed, The way they flow like living ink. The coil and nictitating blink —  The shed skin bringing newness out. The way they flow like living ink, Like words we cannot do without, The shed skin bringing newness out, It curls, discarded, waitingly. Like words we cannot live without…
andreweason.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
aeason.bsky.social
A Murder

A Murder Two crows (or was it three?) I don’t remember. They perched and muttered, convocation-style. The usual: blood and bone and who’s for supper. (You’d think they’d have enough after a while.) They perched and muttered, convocation-style, In Godly black (it doesn’t show the dirt.)…
A Murder
A Murder Two crows (or was it three?) I don’t remember. They perched and muttered, convocation-style. The usual: blood and bone and who’s for supper. (You’d think they’d have enough after a while.) They perched and muttered, convocation-style, In Godly black (it doesn’t show the dirt.) You’d think they’d have enough after a while, Then one will pull a feather from his shirt.
andreweason.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
aeason.bsky.social
Qasim Naqvi and NY Phil
Qasim Naqvi and NY Philharmonic
Today my friend Sherri Rase and I headed out to see the NJ Symphony at Newark. I said to her in the car ride over “I feel like it’s a day for coincidences today, like if I was the kind of person who did rituals it’d be powerful today.” We enjoyed a great concert including a version of a piece called “God Docks at Death Harbor” by Qasim Naqvi.
andreweason.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Phased Loops in 4MS SWN + disting tape FX + Arturia Pigments + DAW FX
Phased Loops in 4MS SWN + disting tape FX + Arturia Pigments + DAW FX
andreweason.com
March 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Triggered Pahases on the 4MS SWN + Drums from Live
Triggered Pahases on the 4MS SWN + Drums from Live
andreweason.com
March 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM