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Ether Diver

@etherdiver.bsky.social

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Weird music, esoteric sound design, music reviews/promo. I want to write about your music! Give me a follow and ask about that. Anti fascist. Nazi/TERF/GOP belong at the bottom of the ocean. https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/ https://www.etherdiver.com/

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Ether Diver @etherdiver.bsky.social · Jun 4

1 like = 1 favorite album

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 2h

Almost like they need to be abolished to live in a free society!

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 6h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 7d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Chris Davis of the Uptown Davises @thepeskyfly.bsky.social · 11h

Am I hallucinating or is the Memphis occupation receiving considerably less national attention than literally everywhere else? Folks are getting snatched here too! I know Portland is fascinating and we’ve got some crime and our mayor rolled over but c’mon !

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Ether Diver @etherdiver.bsky.social · 1h

George Romero showed me the watch he bought with his Creepshow money when I met him. Great guy. Super fun movie.

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worried shoes @worried.shoes · 16h

some upbeat jangle pop for this sunday morning

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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 16h

You’d think conservatives would be into subtle drone music or certain strains of minimal techno as forms which might convey the idea of keeping things as they are, as opposed to having more dramatic, radical changes, but in my experience this isn’t normally the case.

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Ether Diver @etherdiver.bsky.social · 2h

Just remembered I bought a Staind album...

Yeah, I regret that one.

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 3d

What albums does everyone regret buying? Loads for me, but the one that really sticks in my mind is K by Kula Shaker, which I forced myself to listen to joylessly several times in the desperate attempt to convince myself I hadn’t wasted my money, and still get cringes of regret about 29 years later.

Joe Scaramangaaaaarrrrrggghhh!🎃 @joescaramanga.co.uk · 3d

It's one of the few albums I regret buying.
I'll Manage Somehow and Stardust are fine. The rest is mostly forgettable.

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Taz🍀🌟 @tazzle.art · 1d

Reminder to not let corporations devour our community, please. They will take our culture and sell it back to us as slop, infiltrate our spaces and sanitise them. It’s already happening. Tell them to fuck off by not giving them money, while we have the chance! What we have is so important!

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Ether Diver @etherdiver.bsky.social · 6h

Nature finds a way. Some guys just weren't meant to breed.

Ether Diver @etherdiver.bsky.social · 6h

Burning an equivalent amount of fuel as leaving an SUV idling for 3 hours to come up with, "Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you." Fantastic stuff. Truly amazing.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 23h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Andrew b. 🇨🇦 @andrewdoppelganger.bsky.social · 11d

Way to go @mothership.bsky.social !!! Love to see this!

From the Mothership RPG discord

We will be rejecting 3PP license applications for creators who publish AI art or text in their modules.

If you proceed to do this and get away with it and later we find your work contains AI art or text you risk being banned from publishing for Mothership for life.

Do not use AI art.

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TinCan Guy @thetincanandroid.bsky.social · 9h

HOT DOG BABY GOT DOG GET YOUR RED HOTS HERE

get it Jan Terri

Jan Terri - Hot Dog Baby (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Jan Terri

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17h

Extremely funny that people think this is now a Pritzker hate account when all we've been doing is documenting the same police violence we've been documenting well before this ICE surge

Sorry for disrupting your worldview. Welcome to what cops are!!!

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dankcello-ween @danielketter.com · 7h

Cool spider in the garden today

Black and yellow argiope “writing” spider in a web on some plants against a blue sky

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Consortium @consortium.lgbt · 1d

Today is National Coming Out Day, first observed in 1988 on the anniversary of the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.

This #NationalComingOutDay, it's important to acknowledge that coming out looks different for everyone!

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This image has a light brown textured background with a illustration of a turtle hiding in it's shell with a speech bubble that says: "It's okay if you're not ready yet!". The purple and black text reads: National Coming Out Day, October 11th.

This image has a light brown textured background with an illustration of a file open, with different paper clips. There are two images, one a Keith Haring design of someone coming out of the closest ad a poster for the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay rights. The black text reads: he first National Coming Out Day, organised by Jean O’Leary and Dr. Robert Eichberg with the National Coming Out Day organisation, was observed on October 11, 1988, the first anniversary of the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. In 1993, the National Coming Out Day organisation merged with the Human Rights Campaign, formally known as the Human Rights Campaign Fund. During the first few years of the project, Artist Keith Haring contributed his famous 1988 image of a person stepping out of the closet to HRC’s project, and it continues to be a staple in supporting their work by providing resources to the LGBTQ+ community. They created the National Coming Out Project in 1996, which is part of the ongoing work that goes beyond the activities on October 11 to provide resource guides and information to people who are coming out or those interested in understanding the journey. hrc.org/campaigns/national-coming-out-day

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 15h

Reading Kurt Vonnegut was one of the better decisions I made when I was seventeen

Photo of a page in Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. My thumb is visible on the left. It says:

The founders were aristocrats, and they wished to show off their useless education, which consisted of the study of hocus-pocus from ancient times. They were bum poets as well.

But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the
United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it
with pride and joy:

1492

The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the
year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them.

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The Night Train® @thenighttrain.co.uk · 15h

For the record, music isn't shite. It's pretty good.

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Dodecahedron @dodechedrononon.bsky.social · 15h

I haven't listened to it yet, but I found some great music on their last compilation.

Support protest music.

womenofnoise.bandcamp.com/album/agains...

Against ICE, by Women of Noise

14 track album

womenofnoise.bandcamp.com

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wordsSHIFTminds @wordsshiftminds.bsky.social · 9h

"...What really sets it apart, tho, is an almost hyperreal 'in the room with you' production sound..."

Musician and Bluesky regular @etherdiver.bsky.social on the recent wordsSHIFTminds album 'Memento Mori' from 'Other People's Music' (link in image).

"wordsSHIFTminds – Memento Mori

"Intense multigenre mixture of synthwave, DnB, breakbeats and more, delivered with a uniquely present production aesthetic. This is an album that not only refuses to color in the lines, it seems likely it doesn’t see those lines. Rollicking breaks are paired with funky horn lines; synthwave pulse sits alongside fuzzy chillwave instrumentations; sleepy downtempo meets obliquely abstract synth. What really sets it apart, tho, is an almost hyperreal 'in the room with you' production sound.

"Whereas so much electronic music in general, and synthwave in particular, has a pristine, crisp and bloodless sound, this seems to somehow inhabit the real world – the sounds are synthetic, yes, but they feel real in a way that synths often don’t. It’s a cool aesthetic that pairs well with the variety of electronica on offer.

(Listened to the entire album)"

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Leezus H. Christ @langhuck.bsky.social · 17h

oh no, he's discovered the concept of prepared guitar! somebody stop him before he comes home with a Glenn Branca record

a plastic toy guitar held by a child, with a plastic bolt jammed into the sound hole, bending the strings, being strummed with a plastic nail

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 18h

I DEEPLY resent that I have to take seriously the stunted, juvenile political and theological opinions of Peter Thiel

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d

On the new @junkfilterpod.bsky.social: the start of the Prefab Sprout miniseries. Rob Stammitti (@wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social) joins me to discuss Sproutmaxxing, Tha God Paddy McAloon, the band's Galaxy Brained early singles and their stunning debut "Swoon".
www.patreon.com/posts/221-pr...

221: Prefab Sprout: Swoon (with Rob Stammitti) | Jesse Hawken

Get more from Jesse Hawken on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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fox noises (red means recording) @jjbbllkk.bsky.social · 15h

No ads on this, so just stream away and enjoy the music. If you like it, grab the album here: soundvision.bandcamp.com/album/supers...

Superstructures, by Jeremy Blake

10 track album

soundvision.bandcamp.com

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fox noises (red means recording) @jjbbllkk.bsky.social · 15h

I've uploaded a visualizer for my entire new drum and bass album Superstructures to YouTube. A combination of screen captures from the M8 playing the songs, waveform visualization, and footage from my NYC trip converted to symbols.

Check it out here: youtu.be/5tFGEAxXmsc

Jeremy Blake - Superstructures (Full Album Visualizer) - DnB / Electronica

YouTube video by Red Means Recording

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