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brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 24m

Feel like I could post this track of mine every day and it'd still be relevant. Can't say you weren't told...

we tried to warn you/we told you this would happen, by Anhnch

from the album The Byzantine Business of Reality Maintenance

anhnch.bandcamp.com

brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 13h

"Freedom is dangerous, but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread and pottage." - Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

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brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 1d

Because it's important to always remember to share the joy, here's an album that has been blowing me away since it came out earlier this year. It's 90s influenced ambient techno electronica and it's absolutely brilliant. @neoouija.bsky.social #ambienttechno #electronicmusic

Paraphony part two, by Lovetrip

9 track album

neoouija.bandcamp.com

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brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 1d

44 minutes of essential viewing. Utterly heartbreaking. Chris Hedges is a truth teller. Mainstream media could learn SO much from him. They won't, but they could. #FreePalestine

Chris Hedges Gives the Edward Said Memorial Lecture: 'Requiem for Gaza'

YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel

www.youtube.com

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brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 2d

An interesting read but few points:
1. Idea of 1 big-tech company making another company 'be better' doesn't make me overly enthused.
2. Prince refers to "almost every reasonable AI company..." Are there actually any?
3. Partnership with Microsoft so isn't this just biz strategy for Bing?

Inside the web infrastructure revolt over Google’s AI Overviews

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is making sweeping changes to force Google’s hand.

arstechnica.com

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brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 2d

Can someone stop them from demolishing the White House? Please? He's a fucking TENANT, he doesn't OWN the building. I've lived in lots of apartments where I paid rent. I was allowed to decorate how I wanted to. I was NOT allowed to put an addition on or demolish a wall. There's no difference here!

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brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 2d

Obviously everything he does upsets me but this is particularly galling for whatever reason. The metaphor of the image writes itself obviously.

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brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like we should all post this every day: "He didn't win, he wasn't shot, he's in the files." And repeat ad nauseam...

brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 3d

Enjoy your posts here too and will look forward to your future writings!

brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 3d

Just finished this very interesting book from @commonnotions.bsky.social connects AI fears with capitalism in a pretty interesting way. Definitely worth a read if you're worried about our AI overlords, and if you're not you should be! @hagenblix.bsky.social thank you! Co-author not on Bluesky?

Why We Fear AI — Common Notions Press

Fears about AI tell us more about capitalism today than the technology of the future.

www.commonnotions.org

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brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 4d

Explain what he's doing to America without using words!

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4d

This is the East Wing of the White House that Trump is having demolished to build his gaudy Mar a Lago style ballroom.

A large, gray Volvo excavator with a pincer claw tears into the side of a white building, actively demolishing it and sending dust and debris into the air. The building, which appears to be the West Wing, is partially collapsed, with a large pile of rubble on the muddy ground. Several construction workers in yellow safety vests are on the site, and the main, undamaged White House residence is visible in the background.

brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 4d

I hate to give any more oxygen to that embarrassing AI post, but I'll do so to note that I really wish we'd all stop saying "T***p posted this AI video..." At this stage in his dementia there's 0% chance that he knows how to post an AI video. He's old and delusional he's not posting this shit.

brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 5d

7 million people = 0 arrests.

The "ceasefire" is already falling apart because Netanyahu is a psychopath.

Would be good to see the news coverage reflect this!

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brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 6d

Much obliged!

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brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 6d

That felt good! Thanks!!

brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 6d

Picked a really bad and very inconvenient day to get a stomach bug! 😞

Thank you to all the PATRIOTS who will be making their voices heard on the streets of our country today. WE are America, not them!
#NoKings #NoKingsDay #SayNoToFascism

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brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 6d

Is Spotify TRYING to make themselves the most unliked company in the world? I know that Amazon and Apple are no better but my God, this might be the final straw for me.
#FuckSpotify #FuckICE

Spotify to Continue Running ICE Recruitment Ads as Boycotts Grow

Spotify has no plans to pull the DHS's ICE recruitment ads from their platform, even as some on social media call for boycotts.

consequence.net

brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 7d

His apostolic exhortation is worth reading. Is this guy perfect? No. But is he a whole lot better than a lot of the options the Catholic Bishops had. Absolutely!

Pope Leo Declares Whose Side He’s On—and It’s Not JD Vance’s

Leo XIV’s first apostolic exhortation focuses on loving the poor. Conservative American Catholics are sure to lose their minds over it.

newrepublic.com

brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 8d

Of course he's not going to call them out. This is the GOP base.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8d

“Kids”

brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 9d

There's not much good news about these days, and the mainstream media has been mostly useless since 1/20, but this is deserving of all the praise it's getting. Good for all of these reporters!

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 9d

"In unison."

Amen.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules

After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 9d

Remember when President Kamala Harris gave $40 billion to Argentina to attempt to influence their elections, and invaded a few Republican leaning cities with the National Guard, the Army and ICE, while decimating the Fed Govt, science, and public health.

Correct, it wouldn't have happened!

brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 10d

More in the "in other news, water is wet" category! Color me shocked in no way shape or form!

Leaked Young Republican chats include hundreds of racist, homophobic slurs

According to a Politico investigation, Young Republican leaders from around the country sent startlingly racist, even pro-Hitler, messages.

mashable.com

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brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 10d

#BidenPeaceDeal

reasonsvoice.bsky.social @reasonsvoice.bsky.social · 10d

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brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 11d

If anyone thinks that DJT/Netanyahu are actually going to bring peace I've got proverbial bridge to sell you. Two sociopathic lunatics, one of whom is also hardened Zionist, are NOT interested in peace. Glad that nobody is being killed for a few days, sorry to be a cynic but no way this holds!

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brianjohnroach.bsky.social @brianjohnroach.bsky.social · 11d

My memory is that MAGA's ignored first No Kings Day, probably because focus on their big bday parade for him (that was a total bust). No Kings Day was a massive success. Suddenly they're all trying to denigrate the 2nd No Kings Day. They're scared don't forget that and they know they're losing!