Cooper
@derekcooper.bsky.social
Third place advocate, social impact activist, artist and musician. He/him. Tea lover. Bike life. Your friend that has a fountain pen. I know.
Ableton Live, Sensory Percussion, AUM
Ableton Live, Sensory Percussion, AUM
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While babysititng/hanging out with the neighbor's 13 y/o grandkid, I told him that "Social Studies is extremely boring until you become an adult and then it's the most interesting thing in the world"
July 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
While babysititng/hanging out with the neighbor's 13 y/o grandkid, I told him that "Social Studies is extremely boring until you become an adult and then it's the most interesting thing in the world"
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fascists are always the dumbest fuckers b/c they're completely incurious about anything save the delusional mythologies they imagine, they never react out of an accurate assessment, it's all just fear and hatred
July 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
fascists are always the dumbest fuckers b/c they're completely incurious about anything save the delusional mythologies they imagine, they never react out of an accurate assessment, it's all just fear and hatred
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I think of the housing shortage as a giant, billion-dollar, industrial scale machine that produces homeless faster than the people trying to help can get people out of homelessness
A lot of high cost, liberal cities actually have great programs for getting homeless people into housing, their problem is that their mostly self-inflicted housing shortage generates homeless people faster than they can house them.
July 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I think of the housing shortage as a giant, billion-dollar, industrial scale machine that produces homeless faster than the people trying to help can get people out of homelessness
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Every day I imagine an alternate world where the powerful don’t spend every waking moment doing whatever they can to defend their power.
I imagine the sheer enormity of the resources that would be available to us without that systemic defensiveness.
We can all imagine such a world, then build it.
I imagine the sheer enormity of the resources that would be available to us without that systemic defensiveness.
We can all imagine such a world, then build it.
July 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Every day I imagine an alternate world where the powerful don’t spend every waking moment doing whatever they can to defend their power.
I imagine the sheer enormity of the resources that would be available to us without that systemic defensiveness.
We can all imagine such a world, then build it.
I imagine the sheer enormity of the resources that would be available to us without that systemic defensiveness.
We can all imagine such a world, then build it.
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Trump’s new homelessness executive order isn’t about care—it’s about control. Cloaked in fake compassion, it opens the door to mass institutionalization, criminalization, and forced confinement of unhoused people. We’ve seen this before. It doesn’t work. 🧵
Trump signs an executive order to make it easier to remove homeless people from streets
The White House directive calls for prioritizing money for programs that require sobriety and treatment, and for cities that enforce homeless camping bans.
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July 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Trump’s new homelessness executive order isn’t about care—it’s about control. Cloaked in fake compassion, it opens the door to mass institutionalization, criminalization, and forced confinement of unhoused people. We’ve seen this before. It doesn’t work. 🧵
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One of the stupidest, most ridiculous, yet incredibly impactful things about this era is how many people’s politics is little more than “I don’t like some replies I see on social media.”
July 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
One of the stupidest, most ridiculous, yet incredibly impactful things about this era is how many people’s politics is little more than “I don’t like some replies I see on social media.”
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April 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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once the major wave of unemployment hits, right as it gets warm - I predict much larger protests
February 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
once the major wave of unemployment hits, right as it gets warm - I predict much larger protests
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Look at my music industry dawg we ain’t never getting the benefits of seeking out an aristocratic patron class of generations past that in the very least understood the need to fund education and the arts bc they cared about seeming like they were cultured individuals themselves 😮💨
February 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Look at my music industry dawg we ain’t never getting the benefits of seeking out an aristocratic patron class of generations past that in the very least understood the need to fund education and the arts bc they cared about seeming like they were cultured individuals themselves 😮💨
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A lot of the ads also seem to imply that people have no one in their lives they can just ask for basic advice.
Every AI ad is just "you, the consumer, are a fucking moron. We know you can't find your ass with both hands and a fucking flashlight. Buy our product, swine."
February 10, 2025 at 3:13 AM
A lot of the ads also seem to imply that people have no one in their lives they can just ask for basic advice.
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The Chiefs can still win if Mike Pence has enough courage
February 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
The Chiefs can still win if Mike Pence has enough courage
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really starting to feel like that trevor martin skit is getting to be a risky post
February 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
really starting to feel like that trevor martin skit is getting to be a risky post
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goddamn love cilantro all cilantro haters go to hell and die
February 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
goddamn love cilantro all cilantro haters go to hell and die
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Very cool that Spotify, Netflix et al have transformed the vast cosmos of art into “slop that people keep paying for while they’re asleep”
January 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Very cool that Spotify, Netflix et al have transformed the vast cosmos of art into “slop that people keep paying for while they’re asleep”
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I bet you could solve a lot of problems with a really good hammer
January 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I bet you could solve a lot of problems with a really good hammer
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Might fuck around and grossly underestimate or wildly overestimate how long anything will take me to do, for the rest of my life
January 8, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Might fuck around and grossly underestimate or wildly overestimate how long anything will take me to do, for the rest of my life
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Is the passage of time supposed to feel like getting dragged through gravel
January 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Is the passage of time supposed to feel like getting dragged through gravel
Happy New Year or else
January 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Happy New Year or else
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Latest episode from the podcast: David Rowell, Washington Post music journalist, talking about his new book "The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music."
The Threat to New Music - David Rowell - Music Production Podcast #388 — Brian Funk
David Rowell is a veteran music journalist who has worked as an editor and writer at the Washington Post for over 20 years. Stewart Copeland of the Police said "David Rowell is the kind of critic that...
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December 20, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Latest episode from the podcast: David Rowell, Washington Post music journalist, talking about his new book "The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music."
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One weird trick to avoid giving unsolicited advice is to not know anything about anything at all, for your entire life
Ask me how I know
Ask me how I know
December 18, 2024 at 11:34 PM
One weird trick to avoid giving unsolicited advice is to not know anything about anything at all, for your entire life
Ask me how I know
Ask me how I know
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you have to do some punk shit once in a while. for your mental health
December 15, 2024 at 9:47 PM
you have to do some punk shit once in a while. for your mental health
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do you ever drink water out of a mug for that particular kind of thrill
December 10, 2024 at 3:16 AM
do you ever drink water out of a mug for that particular kind of thrill
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asking my auto mechanic in a leading way if he is familiar with the Japanese art of kintsugi
December 5, 2024 at 7:17 PM
asking my auto mechanic in a leading way if he is familiar with the Japanese art of kintsugi
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What if there was an NYPD/FBI operation that would stop at nothing to catch the culprit whenever a poor person one mile north of midtown was left waiting to die by a bogus insurance claim denial
December 5, 2024 at 1:50 PM
What if there was an NYPD/FBI operation that would stop at nothing to catch the culprit whenever a poor person one mile north of midtown was left waiting to die by a bogus insurance claim denial