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Riki MJ Adams

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Sometimes I make music, sometimes I write things I’m probably gonna talk about wrestling Use any pronouns for me you see fit, I am fluid and messy and contradictory Vocals for What We Owe The Dead https://linktr.ee/whatweowethedead

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · Jul 5

Big news!
@whatweowethedead.bsky.social has released our first single and music video ahead of our album Rituals of the Collapse, which comes out July 25th.
For fans of Mastodon, Baroness, and the like. Hope you dig it 🤘🏻 #progressivemetal #progmetal #doommetal #chicago #chicagometal #chicagomusic

What We Owe The Dead- Unmarked Grave (Official Music Video)

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 12h

D'Angelo, The Vanguard - Really Love (Live on SNL)

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 1d

Hole’s cover of Gold Dust Woman from The Crow: City of Angels is one of my all time fav covers, no question.

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 1d

🥰💜😘

Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 1d

Hi, I think I looked cute yesterday, so I’m giving some to the timeline 🥰

Three pictures of me in various poses, I’m bald, bearded, bespectacled, and tattooed. I’m wearing a cute pink dress that would be scandalously short if not for the blue tropical patterned pants I’ve got on underneath.

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 4d

And a lovely Saturday to you 🥰😘

Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 4d

😍💜😍

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 5d

Listening to a lot of Marianne Faithfull this evening

Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 6d

In fairness, they couldn’t release it then either

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 6d

Noticing there’s an uptick in articles about veterans committing “disability fraud” and I can’t help but feel this is a precursor to a VA disability purge and when I tell you that there are SO MANY reasons to be afraid of what that could look like at this present moment…

A screenshot of 5 articles, 3 from the Washington Post, all railing about VA fraud.

“New report exposes fraud and abuse in VA disability programs

The Washington Post
VA's disability program is an
'honor system.' These veterans are defrauding it.
7 minutes ago

Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW to Washington Post - Veterans' Disability Benefits are Not 'Loopholes' to Exploit
16 hours ago

The Independent
Hair loss, jock itch and toenail fungus: The millions taxpayers spend in VA 'disability' benefits...
1 day ago

The Washington Post
How some veterans exploit $193
billion VA program, due to lax controls
1 day ago

The Washington Post
Opinion | VA disability benefits is the hardest government program to reform
1 day ago”

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 14d

Give Ali the belt you cowards!

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 8d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 10d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 11d

The Punisher movie came out in 2004 & was popular with troops in Iraq, w/ a soundtrack single by Drowning Pool who did a big USO tour in Iraq in 05/06, & every base had weird little souvenir shops that had shirts and hats emblazoned w/ Punisher skulls.
We’re forever reckoning w/ the “War on Terror”

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 11d

reddit occupied government

Ken Dilanian
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The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.

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Logan @thelogantrent.bsky.social · Feb 7

I remember telling someone this one time in relation to guns from Indiana coming to Chicago and they did the confused dog head tilt

Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · Feb 6

You know what radicalised me? Discovering that there is ONE gun shop in Mexico.

One Single Shop.

The cartel guns? They're smuggled in from the USA.

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 13d

Oh cool, we’re getting openly partisan over in the direct VA communications. Love that, great sign

An email from the VA, the text reads-

“As you may be aware, funding for some government agencies, including portions of the Department of Veterans Affairs, expired at midnight
this morning.
President Trump opposes a lapse in appropriations, and on September 19, the House of Representatives passed, with the Trump Administration's support, a clean continuing resolution to fund the government through November 21. Unfortunately, Democrats are blocking this Continuing Resolution in the U.S.
Senate due to unrelated policy demands.
During the current lapse in funding, the vast majority of VA benefits and services will continue uninterrupted, but the government shutdown is not without consequences to VA. Here is what you need to know:”

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 13d

Invest in the good pillows and the good shoes if you can, wear earplugs in loud places, and make effort to maintain your close friendships and connect with regularity

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it's charloween! (it/its) @charloh.online · 13d

no AI can ever dream of capturing the absolute batshit frenzy of any Uwe Boll film

also they can't tell their critics to meet them in the fuckin ring about it

Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 13d

i don't know how you can watch like, any movie ever made and think a computer would do a better job than even the most hack filmmaker

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 14d

Give Ali the belt you cowards!

Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 14d

The older I get the more I grow to appreciate the twangy tunes

Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 14d

I’ve always maintained- it’s maybe not a great Metallica album, but it’s an incredible Lou Reed record. But also, I’m a St Anger defender and think the Load era was the MOST Metallica that Metallica has ever been

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 15d

If you see this, post a pic from your device with no explanation.

A mostly naked Grace Jones riding an equally mostly naked Dolph Lundgren against a stark white background

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 16d

well fuck…

Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · Jan 7

So, I wrote a more serious one over at FBC this time. It’s about propaganda, the military, veterans, and… yeah, I dunno, just had some thoughts

Military Atrocities, Nü Metal, & Me.

20 years ago I was boots on ground in Iraq for the first time. Roughly 1.5 million Americans can say something similar as veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Many were in their 20s, and fo…

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 16d

Saw Kiss of the Spider Woman for the first time just like a month or two ago, been thinking about it ever since. @mattbaume.bsky.social is one of my fav video essayists and this was a fantastic (and sadly relevant) watch

Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 16d

Pucker up for a spider kiss. My new KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN video goes live now -- come join us for a live watch-along of the premiere:

Kiss of the Spider Woman: Pleasure & purpose in prison

Kiss of the Spider Woman was one of the biggest surprise hits of its time -- in part because its heroes are a Marxist revolutionary and a queer window dresser, at a time when the US was gripped by…

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Riki MJ Adams @rikimjadams.bsky.social · 18d

Never got to see Cher live, but this Farewell Tour record is fantastic.

I grew up listening to Heart of Stone on cassette in my mom’s car, since picking it up on CD earlier this year it’s now in regular rotation in my car, got me in the nostalgia

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 18d

Anyway, evergreen

Tumblr post by superorganism: You have to be annoying and do everything as passionately as possible because we live in a world where everyone operates through sixteen layers of post irony and to love with recklessness is literally counterculture.

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