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Jazz.

@jl3001.blacksky.app

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Skeetin' into the void. Hip-hop, video games, headphones, writing, and running, mainly. Toronto born, DC based. https://the-wildebeest.com/

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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · Sep 12

Tired of doomscrolling? I gotcha covered! I'm so glad Wave Generators are back, and this one from their latest album has been on repeat for a minute. "Beyond Beyond" is such a banger with a dope Elucid feature. WG are in a lane by themselves and going wild with it. Wrote about this one, take a look.

Wave Generators (feat. Elucid) - "Beyond Beyond" - The Wildebeest.

There is no one else like Wave Generators, and 'Run Away With A Wild and A Rare One,' their latest, is one of my faves of 2025.

the-wildebeest.com

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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 8h

Chadwick, Trugoy, Gift of Gab, and D all hit in that way

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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 8h

It's like losing a bigger brother or something

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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 8h

It is hitting me to lose folks who helped shape my world and interests with their work, but also seeing that they weren't that much older than me

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Mik | Graphic Designer + Strategist @oksoboom.blacksky.app · 9h

Bitch is you cool?! @death

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Dale Chapman @decmusicology.bsky.social · 8h

A huge loss

Questlove with just one example of how d’Angelo tangibly reshaped the sound of popular music

Questlove on D'Angelo's Voodoo | Red Bull Music Academy

YouTube video by Red Bull Music Academy

m.youtube.com

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“𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐳…” @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 8h

Angie Stone and D'Angelo both passed away in the same year. Man, what the fuck is happening?

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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 8h

Not even noon and this day is friggin on one!

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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 8h

WHAT?

Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 8h

Two weeks ago we lost a giant of the movie posters world, Renato Casaro. Today we lost a modern Master of movie posters: DREW STRUZAN. I can guarantee you have at least seen 5 of his posters in your lifetime. The man has put his art on some of the most popular movie franchises (Indiana Jones, 1/4

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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 8h

Man WHAT???

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8h

Second source variety.com/2025/music/n...

D’Angelo, Neo-Soul Pioneer and ‘Untitled (How Does It Feel)’ Singer, Dies at 51

Legendary R&B singer D'Angelo, who released three albums throughout his career, has died. He was 51.

variety.com

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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 16h

JMSN is THAT DUDE 🙌🏿

Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 17h

Beethoven couldn't have made The Humpty Dance, that's for sure.

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 18h

happy day of official recognition, little guy...

THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE • poems • upfromsumdirt

available from @kentuckypress.bsky.social - or (hopefully) everywhere books are sold.

photo of blue hardback book with orangish, goldish illustrations of a mermaid with a leopard on the front. the book sits on a desk with an assortment of stuff on it, lime an orange notebook, a blue sharpie, and a bottle of black.

photo was taken at about 3am. why isnt the poster asleep?!?

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ceej @ceej.online · 22h

any culture, at any point in history, could have invented darude’s sandstorm. the fact that they didn’t is just further proof that old times were busted generally

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Spook Davis 👻 @lukealexdavis.co.uk · 17h

absolutely

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Lenée says #ProtectJhordin @dopegirlfresh.blacksky.app · 21h

Black people suffer social or literal death when we say no. He wouldn’t kiss that white woman’s ass or make nice with her, so they banned him.

Piper @the-pied-piper.bsky.social · 1d

So, Łink is still banned? All the accounts we see catch bans and come back, and all the ones that mysteriously never get banned, but the one that stays banned is Łink?

Free Łink.

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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 17h

Air was giving pure Brooklyn polycule with that cover tho

Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 17h

This one is "called standing outside at 3 in the morning cuz Uber fucked around and cancelled so now I'm 40 minutes late for work" aka "Sister Bessie" 🎧

Sister Bessie

YouTube video by Air - Topic

youtu.be

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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · Dec 4

Leaving my apartment to go to work like "see you later, home! I gotta go do stupid shit now so that I can keep staying here"

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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 18h

Tiny cars: good, actually

Rocketengine @rocketengine.bsky.social · 1d

Daihatsu Midget X

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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 1d

Yup, also a standout

Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 1d

"All I Need" is sublime.

Albumism @albumism.com · 1d

Do you remember hearing this album for the first time?

album.ink/AirMoonSafari

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

here's the video embed.

I've been anxious about racial solidarity in an environment where republicans are eager to divide & conquer minority communities through antagonism on labor, crime, immigration, housing etc and it gives me a lot of hope to see guys out there unafraid to do/say what is right.

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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 1d

I forget the most random, often important shit every single day of my life but ask me to remember my home phone number, my mom's old cell number, and my aunt's house number, all of which have been inactive since early '00s? Whew.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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CM Janeese Lewis George @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social · 3d

Every sign in DC marks the loss of someone’s neighbor, someone’s loved one, someone’s friend.

Every sign marks yet another step in the march toward authoritarianism.

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’

The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Sitcom People @sitcompeople.bsky.social · 1d

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