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Luthier, writer, musician. Hearing impaired. The whole show at Crowfoot Electric Guitars. Currently writing & recording with Last Valley. Queer. He/him. San Diego, CA. This is my personal account. Opinions expressed here are mine alone. crowfootguitars.com

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · Jan 30

The arc of history bends toward fuck these guys

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

The print subscriber base for @motherjones.com is 2.5 times as high. 🙀

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 1d

FINDS THEM AND KILLS THEM

"Finds Them and Kills Them (Osh-Tisch) looked like a man, but wore women's clothing and had the heart of a woman.... she was brave and good."
― Pretty Shield

Her strength as a warrior is what earned her the name Osh-Tisch, which translates to “finds them and kills them."

Who is Osh-Tisch?
Osh-Tisch was a Apsáalooke Badé, a role within the Crow Nation that defied traditional gender norms, embodying both masculine and feminine qualities. Before colonization, Badé were deeply respected for their unique spiritual gifts, artistry, and contributions to community life.
As a Badé, Osh-Tisch carried responsibilities tied to culture, ceremony, and social balance. Their life shows how many of our nations embraced gender diversity long before Western colonial powers imposed rigid binaries.

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 1d

sets the bar incredibly high for trans names everywhere

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 2d

This weekend I fought whimsy decay by ripping out a few fairy doors. Take that, apocalypse.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world but it’s really sad that so many people have absolutely no desires or dreams in life except to accumulate money and our entire world is becoming a fucking pit because of it

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Sharky 🦈 @sharky.bsky.social · 2d

Hear me out: Sharky Day

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 3d

Cover by Russ Heath.

Spellbound #3 (1952). On the cover, a man and a woman in an underground cave are confronted by a large snake with a beastly but humanoid looking head, that looks very much like something from a Tim Burton film.

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s the trailer for the film:

youtu.be/MOWlPV26yCk?...

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink – Official Trailer

YouTube video by Stripped for Parts

youtu.be

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 4d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Ppallo @ppallo.bsky.social · 4d

Japanese sea captains are only allowed to marry Japanese citizens. This is one of the three major reasons I am not yet a success. Along with, of course, my troublesome uncle who broods in Malta with his confidants, and the bad blood my role in the 2008 financial crash caused.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4d

China in like 4 days

So you come crawling back you cheap sack of shit

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Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · 5d

Women only care about one thing. A beautifully cooked ham they dont have to share. They can eat the whole thing and they dont have to share with anyone. 6lbs of ham just for themself. They can take it in the bath or on the couch and its just theirs, not to share. No one can ask for a single swallow

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Lilly ⭐️ @mothcub.bsky.social · 4d

The debate.

A small dog tells a woman, "Experiencing the world is beautiful and vivid for me. I smell shit piss and vomit and I love it. You are controlled by ceaseless disgust. You're stunted. Haha."

The woman replies, "Yes. But I can read novels."

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Disability Rights Watch (US) @disrightswatch.bsky.social · 4d

Breaking: per internal sources, the entire Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), including OSEP and RSA beneath them, was RIFed last night at the Department of Ed. Developing story. DoEd union says may take 1-2 days for all affected employees to receive official notice.

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 4d

I totally would have drawn an urn.

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 4d

childs drawing of a stylish man saying 'sup ladies'

This is what I will look like when I am 100 years old

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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 4d

honestly i hope zohran goes nuclear on busways and then saves his political capital for childcare, but "wealthy new yorkers who take the bus" is such a great line. what even

Shabazz Stuart @shabazzstuart.bsky.social · 4d

I actually thought this was satire. There are good, real grounded arguments against free busses.

Cuomo has picked (easily) the most nonsensical one.

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 4d

Those fuckin' fat cats in their Rolexes and furs, living it up on the bus. They make me sick.

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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 4d

hahaha woof maaan i dunno, all i can say is i love being an atheist lmao www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Sera @serageranium.bsky.social · 5d

There's nothing wrong with Hooters per se, but only a deeply sexually repressed society would be capable of producing Hooters. It's wild that it existed alongside Applebee's and Chilli's. Yeah man let's go to the psychosexual chicken wing place.

"I want to watch sports and eat chicken wings but I also want to constantly be aware that every waitress in this restaurant was hired for her fat tits. No I want them to be clothed the whole time. I just wanna know that like, in the background."

Any upstanding pervert could come up with a strip club. That's good honest fun. But even a normal pervert couldn't come up Hooters. You gotta be a pervert who doesn't even know you're a pervert.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5d

VA Gov debate:

Spanberger: my opponent has previously said that she does not think that gay couples should be allowed to marry

Earle-Sears: That's not discrimination

Spanberger: she thinks it's okay for someone to be fired from their job for being gay

Earle-Sears: that's not discrimination

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Haystack West 🤠 @go-los.blacksky.app · 6d

Pointing out that America never been shit aside, he got that shit on, bubba.

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 6d

In 1857, Thomas Howland became Providence, RI's first Black elected official.

Later that year, he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife & daughter after the Dred Scott case denied Black people protections of U.S. citizenship. He was denied a passport.

Thomas Howland, 1856
John Blanchard

Portrait of a distringuished Black man from the 19th centrure wearing fine clothes, including high collar and tie of the day.
Museum Text:
Thomas Howland, the subject of this unusually expressive portrait, was a dock worker in Providence, Rhode lsland, In 1857 he became the city's first Black elected oficial when he was amed warden of its Third Ward. However, that same year he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wite and daughter, perhaps in response to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case that denied African Americans the protections of U.S. citizenship. Because of this decision, Howland's application for a passport was denied, despite his status as a free man with the right to vote in his home state (he did eventually make it to Liberia). Howland's confident posture echoes that of the earlier Portrait of a Gentleman shown nearby, the fashionable attire of both sitters serving to reinforce thelir self-possession.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 6d

I am dealing with a “thorny problem” right now, today. It is hard and scary because IT IS ALWAYS HARD AND SCARY. But it is also where you do your best work. It is where stories go from “meh” to “WOW”. When I fix it - because that is the job - I will be that much closer to something worth reading.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 5d

Dolly Parton — Annie Leibovitz, 1991

Of in a white glass and being held up on the shoulders of some soldiers in fatigues who are all laughing and smiling along with Dolly she's on a visit to some troops in Texas to entertain them in Wartime behind is an airplane with a shark's mouth painted on its nose

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