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kuraine @lena.fyi · 13d

just a reminder that bandcamp friday is tomorrow & streaming services are interrupting music streams with ai generated shit, flooding the database with artists that don't exist in any way other than profiting the platform owners

so instead of paying a monthly fee, buy an album or two each month ok

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Sean McFarland @nisstyr.bsky.social · Mar 22

leave it to kate to articulate what i cannot about the present era!! im buying a dumbphone as soon as they make a good e-ink with full android capabilities

kate wagner @katewagner.wehwalt.net · Mar 20

wrote about how phoneworld is killing our political imaginary and making us profoundly miserable in this, a moment when we need to be stronger than ever www.late-review.com/p/the-eterna...

the eternal present

or: we need to destroy phone

www.late-review.com

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Sean McFarland @nisstyr.bsky.social · Mar 18

Combat! at the place

Combat from Baltimore @combatbaltimore.bsky.social · Mar 13

Hello Bluesky we occasionally play shows at our space, the Undercroft in Baltimore under bad band names. This is one such case come check out @magazinebeach.bsky.social and Crabwalk and us in a little over a week

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Sean McFarland @nisstyr.bsky.social · Mar 7

been thinking about converge a lot this week as every band on the bean™ show tonight secretly prepares a converge cover together. I can't help but think that if all of us internalized these McCarthyisms (of the Cormac variety) in our youth, we wouldn't all be so passive in this political moment.

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Sean McFarland @nisstyr.bsky.social · Mar 3

AG Cook is a good place to look for this

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Sean McFarland @nisstyr.bsky.social · Mar 3

Russia gave us LibGen but also...everything else

Sean McFarland @nisstyr.bsky.social · Mar 3

i have been learning about the history of cybersec and...this does not bode well

Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats

Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’

www.theguardian.com

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Sean McFarland @nisstyr.bsky.social · Feb 28

lamenting the way I lived my life for years before midnight commander

Sean McFarland @nisstyr.bsky.social · Feb 21

Doechii's first bar is entirely in 4:3 over a bmore club beat??😍😍😍

SWÉCRED @justsway.bsky.social · Feb 21

That’s Doechii the Don, the Dean, Supreme, the Swamp Ruler 🐊🔥

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Every Bus Stop Baltimore @bmore-bus-skeets.bsky.social · Feb 19

KIRK AVE & BARTLETT ST
Served by:
CityLink: GR 🟢
LocalLink: 53, 52
ExpressLink: 103

Google Maps Street View of bus stop KIRK AVE & BARTLETT ST

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Sean McFarland @nisstyr.bsky.social · Feb 18

a thing i think that gets lots in translation to the internet is while many orgs have removed the "T" and "DEI" in texts to avoid attention, the actual dialectical materialism efforts have increased. They're just simply not going to tell you that. Source: I know many many orgs doing this right now

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Sean McFarland @nisstyr.bsky.social · Feb 13

i was once given this advice and totally regret not abiding by it!!!

Goblin Gower, PhD (the Ph is for Phantasm) @medievaliste.bsky.social · Feb 13

The number one rule of going to graduate school is that you should never, ever pay for a graduate degree out of pocket (or with loans). Take it from someone who knows.

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Sean McFarland @nisstyr.bsky.social · Feb 11

dumbfounded as to why fusion is ending their fiscal sponsorship program- that shit is like free money for them

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Sean McFarland @nisstyr.bsky.social · Feb 9

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Sean McFarland @nisstyr.bsky.social · Feb 5

watching the white house press briefing as a form of self-harm

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · Jan 31

The pioneering experimental pedal steel player Susan Alcorn has died

Pedal Steel Innovator Susan Alcorn Has Died

Susan Alcorn, the pioneering pedal steel player who steered the instrument in experimental, improvisational directions, has died. The High Zero Foundation, an experimental music organization and festi...

www.stereogum.com

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Sean McFarland @nisstyr.bsky.social · Jan 31

give these people lots of money please

Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · Jan 23

The End of Term Archive team @eotarchive.org crawled millions of federal webpages! If you are worried about a page going down or changing information on it, you can check to see if it is saved in the Internet Archive's @waybackmachine.bsky.social. 1/2