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BobbyBoson
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Mostly music and nature. SF, NM.

Things I Have Enjoyed This Week blog:

https://www.pelicansandtheirallies.com/blog

My music:

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/pelicans-and-their-allies/1036030551

https://music.apple.com/us/artist/poplr/1525267792
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My cookies arrived yesterday!
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jan 22
Hey everyone! Incredible news!

Trans Scouts selling GS cookies this year on my list have sold over 50,000 boxes of GS cookies!

If you want girl scout cookies, consider buying from a trans girl scout this year! They'll mail them to you!

This is literally my fav thing to do every year :)
erininthemorning.com Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jan 12
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?

Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.

Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
January 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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ocasio-cortez.house.gov
SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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jasonkoebler.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized, open source Instagram competitor that has had skyrocketing signups in recent days:

https://www.404media.co/meta-is-blocking-links-to-decentralized-instagram-competitor-pixelfed/
Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed
Pixelfed said it is "seeing unprecedented levels of traffic."
www.404media.co
January 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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theonion.com
Mark Zuckerberg Defends Decision To Fly Confederate Flag At Facebook Headquarters
MENLO PARK, CA—Claiming that the banner embodied the spirit of the company’s values, Mark Zuckerberg defended his controversial decision Friday to fly a Confederate flag at the Facebook headquarters. ...
theonion.com
January 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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caseynewton.bsky.social
NEW: Meta just killed its diversity, equity and inclusion program. Employees aren't buying the company's argument that it's the result of a 'shifting legal landscape.' What they're saying inside the company ➡️ www.platformer.news/meta-kills-d...
Another employee noted in an internal post how reactive the company had become, dramatically changing policies and positions based on one relatively close election. "It's a bit crazy, just thinking that if the election result was different — none of this would happen? Does it mean we were doing things that we did not believe in? Are we going to have such big changes every time power shifts?" Responded another employee: "Apparently the current direction of the wind is the way we 'lean in.'"
January 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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chyand.bsky.social
LA restaurants offering free meals to fire evacuees:

Yeastie Boys (Multiple locations)

Bar Etoile (East Hollywood)

Fiorelli Pizza (Venice)

Bé Ù (Silver Lake)

Danny Boy's (Downtown + Westwood)

Oy Bar (Studio City)

Sunday Gravy (Inglewood)

Dudley Market (Venice)

LaSorted's (Silver Lake)
January 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
bobbyboson.bsky.social
Things I Have Enjoyed This Week

Charlie Brown Christmas album live and struggling with Christmas, Waxahatchee and struggling with Alabama, the bright-ass moon, the Voyager project, etc…

www.pelicansandtheirallies.com/blog/2024/12...
2024 / Dec 16 - 22 — Pelicans and Their Allies
Charlie Brown Christmas album live and struggling with Christmas, Waxahatchee and struggling with Alabama, the bright-ass moon, the Voyager project, etc…
www.pelicansandtheirallies.com
December 22, 2024 at 6:17 PM
bobbyboson.bsky.social
So glad to have left Spotify long ago.
caseynewton.bsky.social Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · Dec 20
Outstanding investigation from @lizpelly.bsky.social into how Spotify is relentlessly replacing artist-driven music on its most popular playlists with anonymous Muzak harpers.org/archive/2025...
For more than a year, I devoted myself to answering these questions. I spoke with former employees, reviewed internal Spotify records and company Slack messages, and interviewed and corresponded with numerous musicians. What I uncovered was an elaborate internal program. Spotify, I discovered, not only has partnerships with a web of production companies, which, as one former employee put it, provide Spotify with “music we benefited from financially,” but also a team of employees working to seed these tracks on playlists across the platform. In doing so, they are effectively working to grow the percentage of total streams of music that is cheaper for the platform. The program’s name: Perfect Fit Content (PFC). The PFC program raises troubling prospects for working musicians. Some face the possibility of losing out on crucial income by having their tracks passed over for playlist placement or replaced in favor of PFC; others, who record PFC music themselves, must often give up control of certain royalty rights that, if a track becomes popular, could be highly lucrative. But it also raises worrying questions for all of us who listen to music. It puts forth an image of a future in which—as streaming services push music further into the background, and normalize anonymous, low-cost playlist filler—the relationship between listener and artist might be severed completely.
December 21, 2024 at 5:10 PM
bobbyboson.bsky.social
Things I have enjoyed this week: Bandelier, junipers, more owls, scary deer, etc…

www.pelicansandtheirallies.com/blog/2024/12...
Mountains in Bandelier national monument A dead juniper tree in front of a blue sky The Sangre de Cristo mountains in Santa Fe at sunrise A great horned owl sitting in a tree with pink clouds behind
December 15, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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nytimes.com
On Aug. 12, 1958, Art Kane gathered 58 jazz notables in front of a Harlem brownstone for a group portrait.

Only one of its subjects is still alive: the saxophonist Sonny Rollins, 94, who spoke about the historic image.
58 Jazz Musicians Were Photographed for ‘Harlem 1958.' Only One Remains.
Art Kane’s “Harlem 1958” gathered giants of the music. Sonny Rollins, 94, looks back at the historic picture.
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2024 at 1:27 AM
bobbyboson.bsky.social
Things I have enjoyed this week: Wisdom the albatross, Christmas antler, Reese’s “shapes,” etc…

www.pelicansandtheirallies.com/blog/2024/12...
December 8, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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Gator tots. GBHs are harsh.

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December 4, 2024 at 5:15 PM
bobbyboson.bsky.social
I've listened to this cover of Just Like Heaven about 5 times in a row. I dunno. I lost count. youtu.be/NHzFNJ-pAxU
Just Like Heaven - EZ Band
YouTube video by EZ BAND
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December 3, 2024 at 4:12 PM
bobbyboson.bsky.social
Bluesky is great, but I could do with fewer of the following types of posts…

1 - “X sucks!” Yes. That’s why we’re here.

2 - “Bluesky is great!” Yes. That’s why we’re here.

3 - Strong feelings about Oxford commas. Wtf? Puts me in an Oxford coma.

But…don’t mind if they do, I guess.
December 2, 2024 at 2:05 AM
bobbyboson.bsky.social
Things I Have Enjoyed This Week.

Olivia Tremor Control, Large Marge, Roadrunner, etc…

Read about it here:
www.pelicansandtheirallies.com/blog/2024/11...

What have you enjoyed this week?
December 1, 2024 at 5:21 PM
bobbyboson.bsky.social
Great guide. If you’re in driving distance - go. Bosque Del Apache is a great single stop spot to see TONS of amazing wildlife.
November 30, 2024 at 6:17 AM
bobbyboson.bsky.social
RIP Will Hart. A total genius. Olivia Tremor Control is one of my all time faves. I’ve seen them more than any other band. They taught me so much about music and about creativity in general. The world is a richer place for having had him for a while. 💔

www.stereogum.com/2289129/elep...
Will Cullen Hart, Elephant 6 & Olivia Tremor Control Co-Founder, Dead At 53
Will Cullen Hart, co-founder of the legendary Athens, GA indie rock collective Elephant 6 and musician with the Olivia Tremor Control and Circulatory System, has died. Robert Schneider, of the Elephan...
www.stereogum.com
November 30, 2024 at 4:13 AM
bobbyboson.bsky.social
Positive affirmation: I am deserving of love and/or pie.
November 28, 2024 at 2:43 AM
bobbyboson.bsky.social
Flaverification is not a joke in this town
flavorflav.bsky.social FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · Nov 27
BRING THE NOISE,!!! We gots my guy @scottian.bsky.social from ANTHRAX up here,,,
Added to the music starter pack,!!

And y’all can peep a bits of the flaverification process 👍🏾👍🏾
Flavor Flav DM exchange with Scott Ian confirming his BlueSky account
November 27, 2024 at 10:34 PM
bobbyboson.bsky.social
This owl sat and stared deep into my soul for a long time, then crapped while maintaining eye contact with me and flew away.
Plus! Spied on by our phones, musical ramblings, cat’s dancing to Let's Dance, etc…
www.pelicansandtheirallies.com/blog
November 26, 2024 at 9:01 PM