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Ben Peake
@reddishraven.bsky.social
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Somewhat random. Full of all the vices and none of the virtues of my Gen-X heritage. He/Him.
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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · Mar 21
Given it's late March, probably past time I start a 2025 New Tunes thread.

First off the rank is art-rap group clipping. Daveed Diggs may not objectively be the best rapper in the world, but damn it if he's not my FAVOURITE.

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Dodger
YouTube video by clipping. - Topic
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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 13h
And mamma, ooohoooh
I think that I'm a killer
Though this verse is mostly filler
Cut it out, cut it out
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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 16h
How indeed...
a bunch of snails are crawling on a table with the words action replay
ALT: a bunch of snails are crawling on a table with the words action replay
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Beddy @lancecalhoon.bsky.social · 18h
If baked-in unemployment is offical policy, then so should UBI
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 19h
Champagne will be popping at the RBA today - they achieved their aim of getting 4.5% unemployment!

So well done on not cutting rates last month! Real finger-on-the-pulse move!
Chart showing Australia's unemployment rate since Jan 2022 and how in Sept 2025 it hit 4.5%
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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 19h
Always Think 1st so U R #W... @alwaysthi... • 19h How recently was she a registered Republican. As a Progressive l've got nothing in common with this creepy woman. Harping on the mess in Israel when we have big problems here seems disingenuous. ... lirroc @lirroc.bsky.social • 18h Yeah we shouldn't get distracted by these international crises, hey what's your profile pic about btw
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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 19h
I know we have had an elegant sufficiency of Underground Lovers albums, but do with Vince Giarrusso and Glenn Bennie had given GBVG another album or two. A linked, but distinctly different sound and vibe.

#NowPlaying

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKKN...
GBVG - 'Theme from GBVG' (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by rubberrecords
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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d
Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man
"C.M.O.T. Dibbler liked to describe himself as a merchant adventurer; everyone else liked to describe him as an itinerant pedlar whose money-making schemes were always let down by some small but vital flaw, such as trying to sell things he didn’t own or which didn’t work or, sometimes, didn’t even exist."
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Hell Ray-ser @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · Feb 10
It's impossible to play the hurdy gurdy without making it your whole personality. No one is a casual hurdy gurdy player.
Hurdy gurdy guy in ren faire clothes Hurdy gurdy lady in ren faire clothes Red head hurdy gurdy lady rockin out Hurdy gurdy guy dressed like some kind of dingus cowboy
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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 20h
just saw a king in a discord describing client work as “i make their drivel to fund my frivol” and folks

FOLKS
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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 20h
I feel so much vicarious rage on behalf of entomologists looking at this.
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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 1d
nailed it!!! absolutely iconic work by @pizzacakecomic.bsky.social
its a pizzacakecomic illustrating the difference between how young republicans portray themselves privately versus publicly using examples of texts from a leaked chat from yesterdays politico report
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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 21h
This kind of article annoys me, just because it's pretty much pure stenography. What, exactly, did the ABC add to this?

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Aussies stick with US in new poll despite disliking Trump
New polling shows most Australians want to stick with the US alliance, despite holding overwhelmingly negative views towards the Trump administration and harbouring deep worries about the erosion of A...
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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 9d
The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.
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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 9d
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h
a person too narcissistic and egotistical to engage in self-reflection and who has also surrounded themselves with people who will indulge their worst qualities, many such cases.
Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector
It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...
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Eri :03 ΘΔ @mandateofheaven.bsky.social · 1d
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 22h
OH - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELATEN WHOSE JUST WONDERIN ABOUT WHAT YOU GET OUT OF USIN A SITE THATS OVERTLY EVIL , EVERY CORPORATION IS OWNED BY A PEACE OF SHIT , EVERY SOCIAL MEDIA SITE REQUIRE'S YOU TO PICK CORN OUT OF THE TERD'S , BUT WHY USE THE ONE THATS ALL TERDS IF YOUR NOT A PEACE OF SHIT , ANYWAY "I HAVE TO USE TWITTER ALL MY FRIENDS ARE STILL THERE , OH AND WHY IS THAT " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 22h
#AccidentalSext
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Newfound Planets @i-find-planets.bsky.social · 22h
I have discovered a planet. It is pink and venerated. It is through the lookingglass. We could visit there, perhaps.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h
if you're black and 14, you're a man. if you're white and 40, you're just a kid
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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 22h
Modern "Literature" is a elite clout-chasing scam.
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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GriffinMuffin @griffinmuffin.bsky.social · 23h
If you like Candela Obscura and like supporting local Aussie streamers, my wife is doing a live stream tonight with Let's Roll for Dragons! #ttrpg #candelaobscura
www.instagram.com/p/DP0uBoTD_X...
hexxelia_ on Instagram: "Join the Circle of Remnant and Ruin through a twisting mystery of psychological and physical horror. Our incredible investigators:�…"
Join the Circle of Remnant and Ruin through a twisting mystery of psychological and physical horror. Our incredible investigators:🕯️ @neliodoesdnd🕯️ @stevieschafer🕯️ @hexesandvexes_🕯️ @viva_la_kirk🕯️ @donandresmmOn twitch.tv/letsrollfordragons
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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d
I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news
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Gigs You Missed @gigsyoumissed.bsky.social · 1d
Reorganising the Street Press. They've been in boxes pretty much in purchased/obtained order for decades. Now sorted into masthead.
Blue tarp with piles of street press (tabloid sized newspaper), sorted into brand, including Beat Magazine, InPress, Drum Media, db Magazine Time Off, Revolver, Juke, RipItUp, Rave, On The Street, Mix Down, Melody Maker, NME, Sounds and more!
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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 1d
Hi hello I am an American citizen with a very intense knowledge of the first amendment.

Apparently people who are not American cannot say Charlie Kirk "devoted his entire life spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynist rhetoric."

I fact checked it.

Charlie Kirk devoted his life to that.

Jail me.
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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 1d
Some favourite songs shrink when you revisit them, being linked very precisely to who you were when you first heard them. Others retain their full power to delight and to move. Vleugels, by @michelbanabila.bsky.social falls in the latter category.

youtu.be/QL4gfWboWCc?...

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Vleugels
YouTube video by Michel Banabila - Topic
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Ben Peake @reddishraven.bsky.social · 1d
The Archer-fication of society proceeds apace.
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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 1d
I didn't intend to write this today

On the sick lie of sick people in a sick culture, that violence and military might can bring peace and harmony

On Trump in Israel

On the wisdom of dissenting Jews, Arendt and Butler

On the necessity of grief

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Bombs for peace and other lies
A shaky ceasefire holds in Israel-Palestine. And yes, thank whatever or whoever, this is cause for some hope and some celebration. Fewer people are dying today. This is good. But I am filled with gr...
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