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Dj Ripley
@djripley.bsky.social
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Scholar, teacher, DJ, radical, junglist.
Former streetmedic, current assoc. prof. More at http://larisa-mann.com
She/her.
I wrote : RUDE CITIZENSHIP: copyright, Jamaican popular music & reverberations of colonial power https://tinyurl.com/RudeCBook
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Mr Burns standing in front of a bookshelf, fist clenched before his chest, speaking the immortal lines "since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun. I will do the next best think -- block it out."
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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I will never let go of this one that welcomed me back to London after a few years away
Headline in English tabloid: Super-hot Dorito Nearly Killed Me
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Impressed with whoever got this up at the San Juan PR airport
Garbage can in the foreground of an entryway to an airport with a security screening area. There’s a sticker on the other side of the can from the security that says “fuck ICE”
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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I need to remind people that Soviet propaganda included a multiracial global revolutionary narrative. They did have plenty of square-jawed white dudes, but also stuff like this. So please look elsewhere for your references for the US's extremely narrow racial fetish
Soviet poster of a march consisting of a multiracial coalition of armed mainly men (one women in the second row) in clothing reflecting different nations, the front row is an Asian-looking person with a sling of bullets across their shirt and a wide woven hat, a Castro-looking guy in a buttoned up military shirt and a beard, a square-jawed white guy in overalls, and a Black man with a beret and a neckcloth who looks a bit like a burlier Huey Newton. All of them are locked arms. A Soviet poster featuring a four men arm-in-arm striding from left to right in front of a silhouette of Moscow, they are smiling and looking around, seeing the sights. A brown man w/a mustache in traditional Mexican(ish) looking embroidered vest over white shirt, red wide fabric belt, neck scarf & long pants w/embroidered down the side; a pinky-white man in embroidered belted tunic (slavic folk style); a dark brown/Black man in a white robe and a red fez-like cap; and a lighter brown Asian man in a tunic and shorter pants and a white pyramid/flat conical hat. A Soviet poster of a globe with people in different costumes standing around leaning outward from it holding up flags that say in various languages "All Hail the World's October Revolution." (Russian, French, Arabic, Chinese(?), and Spanish all visible). The man front center left is a Russian Peasant, immediately to his right is a Black woman in overalls and behind her to the right is an asian man in a flat military cap.
October 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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soviets were not as bad as this, even from a propaganda perspective. definitely looks like the regime they fought in wwII though!
Soviet poster of a march consisting of a multiracial coalition of armed mainly men (one women in the second row) in clothing reflecting different nations, the front row is an Asian-looking person with a sling of bullets across their shirt and a wide woven hat, a Castro-looking guy in a buttoned up military shirt and a beard, a square-jawed white guy in overalls, and a Black man with a beret and a neckcloth who looks a bit like a burlier Huey Newton. All of them are locked arms.
October 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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September 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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UCBerkeley (home of the “free speech movement” 🙄) handed to Trump regime names of over 160 professors who have been investigated for “alleged antisemitic incidents.” list includes Judith Butler (who is Jewish) among others. These “prestigious” institutions just crumpling like tissue paper. SHAME
September 13, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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 today! 4 to 6 PM Eastern time, myself and Dj Sideswipe are on base duty for you at greatcircles.net. Tune in and get deep!!
September 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Newsweek headline from 2023: Charlie Kirk says gun deaths “unfortunately” worth it to keep 2nd amendment
September 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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"Copyright vs. Electronic Dance Music: Law as Weaponized Culture" is out! (short piece) Curious how abolitionism, copyright, & club music intersect? Wondering what's significant about so many club musics reusing beats & samples? #singsing #think #amen #dembow #batidamrcatra #triggaman #thehadance
"Electronic Dance Music vs. Copyright: Law as weaponized culture" out now!! text superimposed over images of the amen break, a cracked screen of fruityloops, a mixtape, the movie scene Masters At Work sampled for "The Ha Dance," the "Diwali Riddim Album," a lathe cutter for cutting your own dubplates, a pirate radio tower.
August 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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A dumpster looking cybertrucky
July 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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July 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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July 12, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Want some bass and jungle sounds to get you thru this afternoon? Me and @djsideswipe.bsky.social go live on @greatcircles.bsky.social greatcircles.net ! 4-6pm Eastern Time!
A moody gray soft abstract background with pink letters - spelling out SUBVERSION at the top, info about the radio show at the bottom.
July 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Nice street art out of Nicosia in Cyprus (north side)
An off-white wall, slightly hot marked, with a circular image of a woman’s upper body inside a circle, the background is a hot, orange or yellow, the woman has lined patterns on her face and arms and a two-horned headdress or hair style, she looks rather mythic or Mononoke-esque
June 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Cypriot wobblies!
A kinda beat-up white poster for the Industrial Workers of the World on a marble wall in Nicosia, Cyprus. Text is in greek, except for the IWW seal at the top - there are images of little black cats peeking around the text.
June 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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“LAPD can handle 1 10,000 person march, but 10 1000 person marches across the city would [be impossible for] us”
“LAPD can handle 10000 person March but 10 1000 person marches across the city would cripple us” -tweet from syndicalist trash Panda, rting one from Belarus free theater about how protesters and mince have adopted a new tactic, which means the police force can’t keep up.
June 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Philly! Dance off some stress with bouncy bassy fun at HYDRATE tomorrow (Friday) at Upstairs at 700 : myself DJ Ripley, with hosts Gravers Lane and Ladyprowwl
HYDRATE tomorrow (Friday) at Upstairs at 700 : myself DJ Ripley, with hosts Gravers Lane and Ladyprowwl . 10pm-2am $5 before 11pm $10 after
May 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Perfect pairing
Talia Lavin reposting an image with comment: “If you’d asked me five minutes ago I would have said there’s no wrong way to eat a croissant but” the image is of a horrible larval looking wodge of something bready with caption “ am I the only one who peels a croissant before eating it” the whole post immediately followed by the Endless Scream account going Aaaaaaaaa
May 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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April 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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April 24, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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April 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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April 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Dr Celnisha Dangerfield speaking on her work on IP, Sojourner Truth and Black Sanctuary #raceip25
April 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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What does abolition have to do with Intellectual Property law? @raceip.bsky.social starts us off
April 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM