Cosmic Chambo
@cosmicchambo.bsky.social
"non-self improvement for corpse posers"
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ID Music: Let's Not Have Hope
The sound of the heart's luminous emotional capacities, shattered by great, perhaps unbearable suffering
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ID Music: Let's Not Have Hope
Language from Zen teacher Joko Beck on the liberation of giving up hope, and Lester Bangs on Miles Davis' "branch of cold flame." Plus 90 minutes of heavy mellow, ecstatic metal, and post-world music.
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ID Music: Let's Not Have Hope
Language from Zen teacher Joko Beck on the liberation of giving up hope, and Lester Bangs on Miles Davis' "branch of cold flame." Plus 90 minutes of heavy mellow, ecstatic metal, and post-world music.
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On November 14, 1891, Sir Frederick Banting was born. He discovered insulin in 1921 and effectively made diabetes a treatable disease, when it was previously a death sentence. He sold the patent for insulin for $3 saying "insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world."
November 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
On November 14, 1891, Sir Frederick Banting was born. He discovered insulin in 1921 and effectively made diabetes a treatable disease, when it was previously a death sentence. He sold the patent for insulin for $3 saying "insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world."
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By 1923, insulin was widely available, saving those near death due to diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). Today, 1 in 4 people ration insulin or skip doses because it's prohibitively expensive. Despite costing less than $6 per vial to manufacture, the list price is $250+.
November 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
By 1923, insulin was widely available, saving those near death due to diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). Today, 1 in 4 people ration insulin or skip doses because it's prohibitively expensive. Despite costing less than $6 per vial to manufacture, the list price is $250+.
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I've been thinking about Albini a lot lately; I suppose I'll always wonder what he'd have to say about bullshit times. A stranger's post told me the Rainbo Rink show was 30 years ago, so sharing this in case a stranger could use a reminder of their own space for friends, music, + kindness. 💛
Fists of Love
Remembering Steve Albini in Muncie, Indiana
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October 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I've been thinking about Albini a lot lately; I suppose I'll always wonder what he'd have to say about bullshit times. A stranger's post told me the Rainbo Rink show was 30 years ago, so sharing this in case a stranger could use a reminder of their own space for friends, music, + kindness. 💛
Sadly, despite the promises written on the New York Times reg-wall, the terrible article was no better in the app.
November 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Sadly, despite the promises written on the New York Times reg-wall, the terrible article was no better in the app.
Sitting with a cranky friend at the end of their long life, someone who taught me many things about kindness. Heartbroken to recognize the things they failed to learn, but also accepting that as a lesson.
Live your life in such a way that people who loved you aren't wary of coming to say goodbye.
Live your life in such a way that people who loved you aren't wary of coming to say goodbye.
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Sitting with a cranky friend at the end of their long life, someone who taught me many things about kindness. Heartbroken to recognize the things they failed to learn, but also accepting that as a lesson.
Live your life in such a way that people who loved you aren't wary of coming to say goodbye.
Live your life in such a way that people who loved you aren't wary of coming to say goodbye.
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🖤 so grateful for the reality of impermanence 🖤
Deny impermanence and reject the camaraderie that arises from the inevitability of suffering. Deny connection and neutralize the compassion that eases suffering.
Everything is connected: nothing lasts: you are not alone. There is not an app for this.
Everything is connected: nothing lasts: you are not alone. There is not an app for this.
The latest iteration of this doomed cycle is... a product that shows us what it would be like if you could pull up an avatar of a dead loved one on your phone whenever you wanted to and "talk" with them. www.welcometohellworld.com/for-all-thei...
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🖤 so grateful for the reality of impermanence 🖤
Deny impermanence and reject the camaraderie that arises from the inevitability of suffering. Deny connection and neutralize the compassion that eases suffering.
Everything is connected: nothing lasts: you are not alone. There is not an app for this.
Everything is connected: nothing lasts: you are not alone. There is not an app for this.
The latest iteration of this doomed cycle is... a product that shows us what it would be like if you could pull up an avatar of a dead loved one on your phone whenever you wanted to and "talk" with them. www.welcometohellworld.com/for-all-thei...
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Deny impermanence and reject the camaraderie that arises from the inevitability of suffering. Deny connection and neutralize the compassion that eases suffering.
Everything is connected: nothing lasts: you are not alone. There is not an app for this.
Everything is connected: nothing lasts: you are not alone. There is not an app for this.
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NYT describing a progressive who just won an impressive upset election victory: she’s a windbag with no experience
NYT describing a disgraced conservative pedo: a wretched young woman ended up in his vicinity and ruined his life
NYT describing a disgraced conservative pedo: a wretched young woman ended up in his vicinity and ruined his life
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
NYT describing a progressive who just won an impressive upset election victory: she’s a windbag with no experience
NYT describing a disgraced conservative pedo: a wretched young woman ended up in his vicinity and ruined his life
NYT describing a disgraced conservative pedo: a wretched young woman ended up in his vicinity and ruined his life
Commentary on certain current events has me reminiscing over the time I went to the weed store and got a budtender who went on and on about "terpenes" and vape rigs and tinctures and how indica and sativa doesn't mean what I think and I know I'm old-fashioned but IT'S ALL WEED my guy.
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Commentary on certain current events has me reminiscing over the time I went to the weed store and got a budtender who went on and on about "terpenes" and vape rigs and tinctures and how indica and sativa doesn't mean what I think and I know I'm old-fashioned but IT'S ALL WEED my guy.
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really a pretty embarrassing few fucking weeks for Bluesky content moderation and what passes for a comms team
patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
really a pretty embarrassing few fucking weeks for Bluesky content moderation and what passes for a comms team
Three things I 💙 about Blue Sky: No accountability for banning kind people for satirical criticism of the powerful; no accountability for tolerating cruel people encouraging actual violence against the vulnerable; and now no access to DMs or controversial news unless I upload a government-issued ID.
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Three things I 💙 about Blue Sky: No accountability for banning kind people for satirical criticism of the powerful; no accountability for tolerating cruel people encouraging actual violence against the vulnerable; and now no access to DMs or controversial news unless I upload a government-issued ID.
if you would like to log off while maintaining a sense of drowning in endless waves of doom, I have some good news regarding Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin's STYGIAN BOUGH: VOLUME II
Stygian Bough: Volume II, by BELL WITCH & AERIAL RUIN
4 track album
bellwitch.bandcamp.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
if you would like to log off while maintaining a sense of drowning in endless waves of doom, I have some good news regarding Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin's STYGIAN BOUGH: VOLUME II
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
a sick, banal dystopia: helping a friend in a nursing home settle some accounts and I realize I gave them the wrong phone number cuz I recognize the AI scammer voice but they swear it's a real person, won't let go of the phone, so I'm prying it out of their hands before they give up credit card info
November 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
a sick, banal dystopia: helping a friend in a nursing home settle some accounts and I realize I gave them the wrong phone number cuz I recognize the AI scammer voice but they swear it's a real person, won't let go of the phone, so I'm prying it out of their hands before they give up credit card info
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How is AI *really* impacting jobs?
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
How is AI *really* impacting jobs?
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
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Man this is shocking. No I've never heard of dennis hastert or strom thurmond, why do you ask?
November 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Man this is shocking. No I've never heard of dennis hastert or strom thurmond, why do you ask?
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I don't know what happened to the playlist I did in my college radio days for Neil Young's birthday but this version of "Down by the River" is so fantastic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IS_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IS_...
Dutch Rhythm And Steel Show Band - Down By The River (1974 Neil Young Cover Buddy Miles Inspired)
YouTube video by Marc Jacobs
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November 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I don't know what happened to the playlist I did in my college radio days for Neil Young's birthday but this version of "Down by the River" is so fantastic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IS_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IS_...
That famous decision where a fellow USA gen x person who likes normal USA gen x music is doing nostalgia and then asks what you've been listening to and do you be normal and say "I still love Pixies as well" or do you be honest and say "I mostly listen to electro-chaabi street rave abstractions."
Hazlom, by Aeson Zervas
9 track album
heatcrimes.bandcamp.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
That famous decision where a fellow USA gen x person who likes normal USA gen x music is doing nostalgia and then asks what you've been listening to and do you be normal and say "I still love Pixies as well" or do you be honest and say "I mostly listen to electro-chaabi street rave abstractions."
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if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
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Besides the #aurora, the other thing that solar flares and CMEs do is cause the upper layers of the atmosphere to 'puff up' which then increases the risk of atmospheric drag for the space vermin, and that brings them down.
I hope it eats lots of Starlink satellites!
I hope it eats lots of Starlink satellites!
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Besides the #aurora, the other thing that solar flares and CMEs do is cause the upper layers of the atmosphere to 'puff up' which then increases the risk of atmospheric drag for the space vermin, and that brings them down.
I hope it eats lots of Starlink satellites!
I hope it eats lots of Starlink satellites!
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There’s a heart-shaped feature in the Sun’s corona - seen in a recent SDO’s A193 filtered image, which captures the hot solar atmosphere.
❤️☀️
The Sun’s sending its love to Earth … cause nothing says love like an X-class flares and series of proton showers! 😅
❤️☀️
The Sun’s sending its love to Earth … cause nothing says love like an X-class flares and series of proton showers! 😅
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
There’s a heart-shaped feature in the Sun’s corona - seen in a recent SDO’s A193 filtered image, which captures the hot solar atmosphere.
❤️☀️
The Sun’s sending its love to Earth … cause nothing says love like an X-class flares and series of proton showers! 😅
❤️☀️
The Sun’s sending its love to Earth … cause nothing says love like an X-class flares and series of proton showers! 😅
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"Degrowth" doesn't just mean business & infrastructure
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Degrowth" doesn't just mean business & infrastructure
As I try to extricate from all the vile tech company services, I'm OK with paying for applications, but I don't want to subscribe to a service. Is this unreasonable?
I'd love to ditch gmail and substack, but even if the alternatives have not-terrible politics, I don't want to pay ... forever?
I'd love to ditch gmail and substack, but even if the alternatives have not-terrible politics, I don't want to pay ... forever?
November 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
As I try to extricate from all the vile tech company services, I'm OK with paying for applications, but I don't want to subscribe to a service. Is this unreasonable?
I'd love to ditch gmail and substack, but even if the alternatives have not-terrible politics, I don't want to pay ... forever?
I'd love to ditch gmail and substack, but even if the alternatives have not-terrible politics, I don't want to pay ... forever?
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EVOLUTION, by Jeff Mills, Jean-Phi Dary, Prabhu Edouard
6 track album
tomorrowcomestheharvest.bandcamp.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM