... and given the state of politics and power systems around the world I'm kinda here for more mainstream cultural artefacts that hammer home that point to people who are maybe less intellectually involved in politics than us, even if it has the subtlety of a brick to the face.

I agree with you at a cultural level, but I also think it's important to note that one of the core premises of the first part is something like "beware powerful people in ivory towers and their false promises, and especially their ability to create enemies of good people using propaganda"...

The quest for good running music ultimately led me to composing an album specifically for me to run to. 12 tracks, 5 mins each, one in every key around the cycle of fifths, 90s trance kinda style, available in 3 different bpms. Might be interesting to you www.vitling.xyz/cadence

Unpopular take for a musician I know but here we are, the receipts don't lie. Saying "platform bad" does not fix the fact that people, in the vast majority, are totally unwilling to spend money on independent art; and that problem is older than streaming.

On the positive side it does seem like a good opportunity to prove in court that the BBC has a hugely corrupt pro-Israel bias, which could offer a new angle instead of the BBC just investigating themselves and finding themselves innocent. Let us know if you need to crowdfund legal fees.

Follow people and organizations on social media who you see in the real world doing real work. Share and post *and show up.* The anonymous Instagram- and X-based wreckers aren't trying to help, they're trying to get more eyeballs.

I was DJing in a bar recently and a younger friend asked how I know so much music - he struggled with the idea that I've spent >30 years listening to as much music as possible and curating my taste and that it's inside my brain. He seemed convinced that some tech was making the playlists for me.

I never really knew what NY people meant by bodega and from this thread I have learned that they are basically the same as the spätis we have in Berlin.

Absolutely not. I'm not on X for those reasons, but if you want to actually reach new people cutting off whole avenues of communication is a really bad idea. This is the kind of mindset that keeps the left losing in the west. We need to bring people in, not cut them off.

See also vers in gay culture: "but are you top or bottom really?"

Is there any kind of group amongst the Green Party for overseas electors? I'm a member but my political concerns are much more aligned with other British immigrants to other countries (esp. EU) than with the political concerns of my former London constituency.

Anyway join the @greenparty.org.uk

I don't think Labour is recoverable regardless of who is leader, they've done the promise bait-and-switch too many times and I don't believe the UK will ever trust them again. Not to mention all the war crimes the entire cabinet is complicit in, of course.

...co-branded with my goth alter-ego @bowchurch.bsky.social of course, because it's killer at those big droney witch-house vibes too.

SAME 😢 I missed the previous round of her being terfy so this caught me by unpleasant surprise.

They literally broke the ceasefire and started murdering Palestinians again, and lied about everything. Will anything stop you from publishing genocide propaganda non-stop 7 days a week?