Lightleak aka D.H. Currier aka Dustin
@lightleakthing.bsky.social
Music that nobody asked for | DIY guy | ⚾️ ‘Helluva Swing’ ⚾️ out now on the internet: lightleakthing.bandcamp.com
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Music for people & animals.
lightleakthing.bandcamp.com
I left here & came back! Sorry about that.
Anyway here’s me in audio form: lightleakthing.bandcamp.com
There’s some new stuff in there that I think is my best shit ever. I hope you’ll give it a listen. 🖤
Anyway here’s me in audio form: lightleakthing.bandcamp.com
There’s some new stuff in there that I think is my best shit ever. I hope you’ll give it a listen. 🖤
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Today is World AIDS Day.
AIDS has killed 44 million people globally.
Over the years, we've learned that silence and stigma are huge contributors.
Yet, the State Department sent an email to employees stating “The US Government will not be commemorating World AIDS Day this year.”
Silence = Death
AIDS has killed 44 million people globally.
Over the years, we've learned that silence and stigma are huge contributors.
Yet, the State Department sent an email to employees stating “The US Government will not be commemorating World AIDS Day this year.”
Silence = Death
December 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Today is World AIDS Day.
AIDS has killed 44 million people globally.
Over the years, we've learned that silence and stigma are huge contributors.
Yet, the State Department sent an email to employees stating “The US Government will not be commemorating World AIDS Day this year.”
Silence = Death
AIDS has killed 44 million people globally.
Over the years, we've learned that silence and stigma are huge contributors.
Yet, the State Department sent an email to employees stating “The US Government will not be commemorating World AIDS Day this year.”
Silence = Death
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I hate the term "hallucinate" vis a vis false AI outputs. It's another way we're being primed to view it as a mind way before it's proven to be anything but a product. Human hallucinations are not "real" but they're not false in the way that wrong facts are. Anyone read anything good on this theme?
November 30, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I hate the term "hallucinate" vis a vis false AI outputs. It's another way we're being primed to view it as a mind way before it's proven to be anything but a product. Human hallucinations are not "real" but they're not false in the way that wrong facts are. Anyone read anything good on this theme?
New album WOOD & WIRES, VOL. 1 out today 🎈
Solo guitar music + field recording for quiet, restorative moments. Mastered by Heather Jones @ So Big Auditory.
Streaming most places (but not Spotify or Amazon)—listen on @bandcamp.com: dhcurrier.bandcamp.com/album/wood-w...
Solo guitar music + field recording for quiet, restorative moments. Mastered by Heather Jones @ So Big Auditory.
Streaming most places (but not Spotify or Amazon)—listen on @bandcamp.com: dhcurrier.bandcamp.com/album/wood-w...
Wood & Wires, Vol. 1, by D.H. Currier
9 track album
dhcurrier.bandcamp.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
New album WOOD & WIRES, VOL. 1 out today 🎈
Solo guitar music + field recording for quiet, restorative moments. Mastered by Heather Jones @ So Big Auditory.
Streaming most places (but not Spotify or Amazon)—listen on @bandcamp.com: dhcurrier.bandcamp.com/album/wood-w...
Solo guitar music + field recording for quiet, restorative moments. Mastered by Heather Jones @ So Big Auditory.
Streaming most places (but not Spotify or Amazon)—listen on @bandcamp.com: dhcurrier.bandcamp.com/album/wood-w...
Saxophone has to be the instrument that I most often mistakenly hear as a human voice for a sec.
October 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Saxophone has to be the instrument that I most often mistakenly hear as a human voice for a sec.
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this week's post is something i've been thinking about for a long time. it's called "all of us imperfect comrades: or, an army of fuckups cannot lose"
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/each-of-us...
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/each-of-us...
October 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
this week's post is something i've been thinking about for a long time. it's called "all of us imperfect comrades: or, an army of fuckups cannot lose"
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/each-of-us...
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/each-of-us...
Just learned that it was Alfred Nobel (of the Prize fame) who invented dynamite!
October 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Just learned that it was Alfred Nobel (of the Prize fame) who invented dynamite!
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You may recall when gentleman and scholar @imleor.bsky.social wrote about Chicago artists dumping Spotify last month. Fortunately, telling Daniel Ek to go fuck himself appears to be contagious! Solidarity to these musicians, and may their movement continue to grow. chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...
Chicago indie musicians organize to spurn Spotify via open letter - Chicago Reader
Local indie artists organize to spurn Spotify via open letter, the 19th annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival lights up the neighborhood, and more.
chicagoreader.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
You may recall when gentleman and scholar @imleor.bsky.social wrote about Chicago artists dumping Spotify last month. Fortunately, telling Daniel Ek to go fuck himself appears to be contagious! Solidarity to these musicians, and may their movement continue to grow. chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...
Good guys with guns watch over us
They know what’s best to serve the economy
Good thing they so seldom hurt us
Their aim is true when protecting state property
And you know how us crowds get unruly
When we’re upset, when we’ve got the numbers…
lightleakthing.bandcamp.com/track/gang-o...
They know what’s best to serve the economy
Good thing they so seldom hurt us
Their aim is true when protecting state property
And you know how us crowds get unruly
When we’re upset, when we’ve got the numbers…
lightleakthing.bandcamp.com/track/gang-o...
Gang of Pawns, by Lightleak
from the album Helluva Swing
lightleakthing.bandcamp.com
September 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Good guys with guns watch over us
They know what’s best to serve the economy
Good thing they so seldom hurt us
Their aim is true when protecting state property
And you know how us crowds get unruly
When we’re upset, when we’ve got the numbers…
lightleakthing.bandcamp.com/track/gang-o...
They know what’s best to serve the economy
Good thing they so seldom hurt us
Their aim is true when protecting state property
And you know how us crowds get unruly
When we’re upset, when we’ve got the numbers…
lightleakthing.bandcamp.com/track/gang-o...
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For no real reason, thinking about this piece about the "headline news about famous guy saying transphobic thing" industrial complex I wrote for Paste two years ago. Just before everything got worse.
www.pastemagazine.com/music/transp...
www.pastemagazine.com/music/transp...
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September 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
For no real reason, thinking about this piece about the "headline news about famous guy saying transphobic thing" industrial complex I wrote for Paste two years ago. Just before everything got worse.
www.pastemagazine.com/music/transp...
www.pastemagazine.com/music/transp...
Every time I hear/read someone saying “during Covid” in the past tense, it makes me lose another little bit of faith in humanity.
September 2, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Every time I hear/read someone saying “during Covid” in the past tense, it makes me lose another little bit of faith in humanity.
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“The order demands that President Donald Trump stand down from his threat to deploy National Guard personnel to Chicago and affirms that Chicago Police Department (CPD) will remain a locally controlled law enforcement agency…”
thetriibe.com/2025/08/mayo...
thetriibe.com/2025/08/mayo...
Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order to resist Trump's plans to deploy feds, troops to Chicago • The TRiiBE
Mayor Brandon Johnson said Trump's deployment of federal agents to Chicago could begin as early as Friday, Sept. 5.
thetriibe.com
August 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“The order demands that President Donald Trump stand down from his threat to deploy National Guard personnel to Chicago and affirms that Chicago Police Department (CPD) will remain a locally controlled law enforcement agency…”
thetriibe.com/2025/08/mayo...
thetriibe.com/2025/08/mayo...
Kinda rad tbh. I personally consider this a greater & far more necessary & obviously less terrifying service than walking around with guns.
The camo does come off a bit camp in this context though.
The camo does come off a bit camp in this context though.
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
August 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Kinda rad tbh. I personally consider this a greater & far more necessary & obviously less terrifying service than walking around with guns.
The camo does come off a bit camp in this context though.
The camo does come off a bit camp in this context though.
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an empire’s dying days. it’s up to us how we will protect one another, and what we will build as the structures we have traditionally relied on cease to function
What's your take on the moment we're living through in 50 words or less. [you able to quote post]
August 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
an empire’s dying days. it’s up to us how we will protect one another, and what we will build as the structures we have traditionally relied on cease to function
Cowards all.
ICE just posted this video taking down the sign in Mount Pleasant on Twitter.
August 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Cowards all.
Any recs for a video camera for someone (me) who has never had one but insists on having one that produces supremely interesting images?
August 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Any recs for a video camera for someone (me) who has never had one but insists on having one that produces supremely interesting images?
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On the potential DC guard deployment:
“One of the [U.S.] officials said it was unclear what exactly the troops would do, but could take part in efforts to protect federal agents or even carry out administrative tasks to free up law enforcement officials.”
via @reuters.com
“One of the [U.S.] officials said it was unclear what exactly the troops would do, but could take part in efforts to protect federal agents or even carry out administrative tasks to free up law enforcement officials.”
via @reuters.com
US military preparing for National Guard activation in Washington D.C., officials say
The U.S. military is preparing for the activation of hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., two U.S. officials told Reuters on Sunday.
www.reuters.com
August 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
On the potential DC guard deployment:
“One of the [U.S.] officials said it was unclear what exactly the troops would do, but could take part in efforts to protect federal agents or even carry out administrative tasks to free up law enforcement officials.”
via @reuters.com
“One of the [U.S.] officials said it was unclear what exactly the troops would do, but could take part in efforts to protect federal agents or even carry out administrative tasks to free up law enforcement officials.”
via @reuters.com
Those little microphones everyone holds in their little internet videos now are very goofy, no? Are we all thinking this?
August 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Those little microphones everyone holds in their little internet videos now are very goofy, no? Are we all thinking this?
Not only am I not interested in this “manosphere” (& pretty sure I would hate it), I’m basically disinterested in the notion of manhood as a whole.
The only criteria that I think is worth considering in judging any man exclusively against other men is how they treat non-men.
The only criteria that I think is worth considering in judging any man exclusively against other men is how they treat non-men.
i wanna try something. quote this post if you’re a man who hates the manosphere
August 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Not only am I not interested in this “manosphere” (& pretty sure I would hate it), I’m basically disinterested in the notion of manhood as a whole.
The only criteria that I think is worth considering in judging any man exclusively against other men is how they treat non-men.
The only criteria that I think is worth considering in judging any man exclusively against other men is how they treat non-men.
It is @bandcamp.com Friday & this album is still free: lightleakthing.bandcamp.com/album/helluv...
Wrote, recorded & mixed this over ~4 months—a scrappy guitar-oriented rock & roll record.
RIYL Chicago in the late ‘90s/early ‘00s, Letterboxd reviews, pop songs that are just a little “off”, etc.
Wrote, recorded & mixed this over ~4 months—a scrappy guitar-oriented rock & roll record.
RIYL Chicago in the late ‘90s/early ‘00s, Letterboxd reviews, pop songs that are just a little “off”, etc.
Helluva Swing, by Lightleak
11 track album
lightleakthing.bandcamp.com
August 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It is @bandcamp.com Friday & this album is still free: lightleakthing.bandcamp.com/album/helluv...
Wrote, recorded & mixed this over ~4 months—a scrappy guitar-oriented rock & roll record.
RIYL Chicago in the late ‘90s/early ‘00s, Letterboxd reviews, pop songs that are just a little “off”, etc.
Wrote, recorded & mixed this over ~4 months—a scrappy guitar-oriented rock & roll record.
RIYL Chicago in the late ‘90s/early ‘00s, Letterboxd reviews, pop songs that are just a little “off”, etc.
I would like to read a 33 1/3 book (or even better, a full tome) on Blonde Redhead’s otherworldly masterpiece ‘Misery is a Butterfly’.
July 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I would like to read a 33 1/3 book (or even better, a full tome) on Blonde Redhead’s otherworldly masterpiece ‘Misery is a Butterfly’.
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Skin, Flesh and Bones - Bones Dub [Jamaica, Dub] (1976)
https://redd.it/108ga5x
https://youtu.be/fwc5RrY77RA
https://redd.it/108ga5x
https://youtu.be/fwc5RrY77RA
Skin, Flesh and Bones - Bones Dub [Jamaica, Dub] (1976)
youtu.be
July 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Skin, Flesh and Bones - Bones Dub [Jamaica, Dub] (1976)
https://redd.it/108ga5x
https://youtu.be/fwc5RrY77RA
https://redd.it/108ga5x
https://youtu.be/fwc5RrY77RA
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Happy 30th birthday, Bisexuals.
i can’t believe it’s been exactly 28 years today since Newsweek discovered Bisexuals
July 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Happy 30th birthday, Bisexuals.
PARTY TIP: Instead of using AI to prove fun points about how shitty it is, you can just… not use it. At all. For anything. Ever.
July 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
PARTY TIP: Instead of using AI to prove fun points about how shitty it is, you can just… not use it. At all. For anything. Ever.
Summer ‘25 playlist for your listening pleasure: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
Summer '25 by Dustin Currier on Apple Music
Playlist · 18 Songs
music.apple.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Summer ‘25 playlist for your listening pleasure: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
Whoa.
This is happening days after the AI called for a second Holocaust and one day after Elmo was hacked on the same website, resulting in… only a handful of people leaving
xAI will now be used by the Pentagon and available to all other government agencies
welcome to Grok for Government (which is the product name)
welcome to Grok for Government (which is the product name)
July 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Whoa.