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Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 9d

FRESH VØID CONTEMPLATION TACTICS:
Someday Your Body Will Disappear

Air-gapped archives, hippy-dippy digi-dub, disappearing bodies, and music for after the end of the world. Plus language from Seung Sahn, a sad story about an old friend, and 90m of Inter-Dimensional Music.

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Someday Your Body Will Disappear

Air-gapped archives, hippy-dippy digi-dub, disappearing bodies, and music for after the end of the world

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Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 6m

One key to maintaining an appreciation of Mötley Crüe, Cinderella, et al is were you introduced to their music by the girls who also taught you about George Michael and Terence Trent D'Arby, or by dudes who've fought DUI or sexual assault charges.

Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 23m

And who can forget the cultural differences that arose in the "Mexican cuisine" episode a couple seasons back where the bakers produced speedy gonzalez wedding cake biscuits inspired by gran's acapulco holiday and sculptural showstoppers with mustachioed bandidos dozing under pan dulce sombreros.

Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 39m

If Samuel Delaney is famous for fulfilling the proposition of "what if the robot had an erection" then Mötley Crüe deserves credit for realizing the proposition "what if T Rex drank enough vodka to give themselves a traumatic brain injury while maintaining an erection."

Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 1h

ha ha yes I also do not wish to shed my 50-year-old form and molt into Young Rasputin please advise me as to the gas stations selling this product so that I may refuel my vehicle elsewhere

Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 1h

I understand this is neither sustainable nor healthy and apologies/solidarity to my kindred in recovery but if drinking a moderate amount of decent tequila and listening to Mötley Crüe while entertaining the cats with a laser pointer is the consolation that gets me through a dark night, so be it.

Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 1h

mfw I got stoned and accidentally munchied the psilo chocolate bar but then remembered there's kraft singles in the back of the cheese drawer

[apologies to Louis Wain]

an image of a white cat vibrating red psychedelic lines with a mischievous grin, by the artist Louis Wain

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Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 10h

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

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Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 1h

Hey you swells, /r/tubi informs me that channel just added a bunch of Vincent Price films for October & if you haven't seen him in Corman's Fall of the House of Usher & Masque of the Red Death you better get on that, it's the people's streamer, do I have to remind you of everything around here.

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 1d

sick nasty

hell heah @kcls.org

hell yeah public libraries

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Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 1h

I am an anachronism as a Gen X person who knows Barry Weyes is terrible without having read a word of her writing, and who is aware that her stewardship of CBS news bodes ill for the republic but doesn't know how to watch CBS news other than on motel televisions that don't have Golden Girls reruns.

Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 1h

thinking about creating a memorial for all my fellow lowbies who didn't survive the journey to blue sky: see you offline, kindred, we have the watch

Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 2h

I know about creekwest but I can't deal with the frustration of beating the porno game popups only to be defeated by the buffering boss that appears as soon as the game gets exciting

Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 2h

Every few years a combination of social isolation plus twitter now blue sky leads me to try and figure out how to watch sports and outside of a surprisingly affor fable [sure, autocorrect, affor fable] NBA League Pass subscription I always fail to access sports broadcasts.

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The Marriage Braggart @bombsfall.bsky.social · 7h

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

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Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 2h

screen shot of a comment from a person who posted an obviously AI video, and defended it by saying "well if it's AI, it's at least true."

Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 2h

Trying to decide between doom-soothing myself with an Adam Curtis doc, or staring out the window and watching families exiting the local community theater into the parking lot of a massive brutalist architecture bank while listening to soundtrack contenders for future Curtis docs.

Neither Curve Nor Edge, by Carrier

4 track album

0207carrier.bandcamp.com

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10h

If you are buying silly costumes and whistles to help stop our country from sliding into fascism: congratulations on doing more than our elected Democratic congresspeople!

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 11h

top-shelf alt-text

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 16h

Every time Mescalina is mentioned I imagine a small dog wandering around a house in Canada in the 1950s, vibrating like one of Louis Wain's cats.

$Six drawings/paintings of cats by Louis Wain in various stages of psychotropic flux, from the straightforwardly representational to the fractally polychrome abstract.$

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Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 12h

Perhaps the brazen coincidence of "hooray for technology that will replace everybody's job" AI propaganda and "if you don't work, you should die" healthcare policies will help a couple more people understand how little liberals or conservatives are interested in actual solutions to actual problems.

Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 1d

A pastoral Buddhist interlude and into a third act where there is no light other than the flames of exploding vehicles, flashbacks of youthful camaraderie that only deepen the mortal suffering that arises from the pursuit of financial gain, fratricide with a brother's skull the only witness. Gatdam.

Buddhist monks paddling in a skiff toward the scene of a massacre

sun setting into mountains, reflected on water

Buddhist monk in a candlelit cave, preparing a flower-adorned body for burial

Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 1d

The end of the second act where it becomes the A Better Tomorrow finale crossed with Missing In Action - suited Hong Kong gangsters teamed up with a squad of Chuck Norris stunt doubles to machine gun Vietnamese peasant commandos - is more suggestive of Woo's coming pivot to Van Damme vehicles.

Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 1d

Face/Off is good times but American action movies are so monochromatic compared to Hong Kong. For a US studio he's just another Michael Bay or whatever, all the earnest soft focus cantopop melodrama stripped away, only campy stunt shows left behind.

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Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 1d

TFW somebody already rented Hard Boiled and you gotta choose something else fast cuz the video store is closing

A 3.5 star review of Bullet in the Head from Letterboxed that reads "I came here for duel-wielding gun-fu. This movie was damn miserable."

Cosmic Chambo @cosmicchambo.bsky.social · 1d

BITH goes from nostalgic coming-of-age melodrama to back-to-back Michael Mann-caliber bomb attacks and brutal running street battles in Hong Kong and Saigon, with our plucky doomed best friend penicillin smugglers caught in the middle in the first 30 minutes. Incredible and seamless tonal shift.