Long ago in the pre-sideshave days, @laurenshippen.com & I met on a fun D&D webseries. Lauren went on to create thrilling, heartfelt (queer!) stories in podcast, novels, & self-produced indie art I fell in love with.
Now we’re reunited! I’m proud to be Cal in Phantom Pulse. Please check it out! 🎸🖤
Now we’re reunited! I’m proud to be Cal in Phantom Pulse. Please check it out! 🎸🖤
November 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Most of my shows in November/december are self produced or produced with me friends and that’s kinda scary in an exciting way :3
November 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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a small shred of me dies every time some clever or inspirational self-expression is immediately repackaged as a "trend"
it turns something that would in any other circumstance evolve into something transformative from everyone's unique lens into a mass-produced replica that I've seen 4,000 times.
it turns something that would in any other circumstance evolve into something transformative from everyone's unique lens into a mass-produced replica that I've seen 4,000 times.
November 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Tony Brevett was one third of the harmony trio The Melodians who recorded multiple hits from You Have Caught Me to Rivers Of Babylon.
In the early 70s he started recording solo like with this beautiful self-produced tune...
youtu.be/hQAQ4y3GmwA?...
#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky
In the early 70s he started recording solo like with this beautiful self-produced tune...
youtu.be/hQAQ4y3GmwA?...
#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky
November 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Adding that NO billionaire is self-made. He benefits from infrastructure, the peace and stability derived from NATO, from brilliant scientists produced by US universities — all subsidized by taxpayers — US. And he doesn’t feel the need to pay his fair share of taxes. He is a thief.
November 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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It is your job as a self-publishing writer to inhabit every stage of a well-produced book. This starts with RESTING your draft for weeks or months after you finish writing it. Then after resting you do your FIRST of many editing passes. The first is developmental.
#writingcommunity #booksky #edits
#writingcommunity #booksky #edits
November 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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They are probably self-convinced that these statistics are produced by *woke* agencies. 🤷♂️
November 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Beatrice Orchard Carter (1889-1939) was a South African botanical illustrator.
She produced ophthalmic drawings for an oculist, D. J. Wood.
She was appointed as an artist at the Bolus Herbarium in Cape Town in 1926.
Her early death left unfinished much of the artwork she had begun.
#WomensArt
She produced ophthalmic drawings for an oculist, D. J. Wood.
She was appointed as an artist at the Bolus Herbarium in Cape Town in 1926.
Her early death left unfinished much of the artwork she had begun.
#WomensArt
November 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Lancey Foux, UK rap’s great sonic shapeshifter, is coming for the dancefloor next 🔵
He's venturing into bold sonic terrain on his forthcoming LP ‘THE TIME OF OUR LIVES’ and follow-up ‘BLEACHED’ version of self-produced remixes.
Read: mixmag.net/feature/lanc...
Mixmag Lab: bit.ly/lanceymixmag...
He's venturing into bold sonic terrain on his forthcoming LP ‘THE TIME OF OUR LIVES’ and follow-up ‘BLEACHED’ version of self-produced remixes.
Read: mixmag.net/feature/lanc...
Mixmag Lab: bit.ly/lanceymixmag...
November 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Via: LA Press Club rebuttal to the 2021 Echo Park after action report.
![At Echo Park in 2021, "These individuals claimed to be members of the press and oftentimes wore clothing, helmets, and other accessories with the word 'PRESS' affixed to them. Some of these community members engaged in unlawful and disruptive behavior, apparently using their self-identified press status to access restricted areas to commit crimes." [Page 4]
This appears to be an unsubstantiated and misleading claim that LAPD persists in making. For more than a year and on dozens of occasions, our coalition has asked LAPD for evidence of such crimes or even of false claims about being "press." None has been produced The only vaguely related example the Department has produced is a single video clip showing a person yelling an expletive toward officers from a substantial distance. This might not be considered professional journalistic behavior, but it's not a crime. This individual is known by
both police and professional press. They regularly attend protests with intent to inform the public without participating in the event, and to our knowledge have every right to do so - especially now under PC §409.7. We're unaware of any other evidence to support the department's bewildering claims.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vnsn3gjqvtaianuuziyiqxlx/bafkreihv6wj4mvru2wetcxlrfcozioyoql6hxcvqbcy3dwwwsp4xzss2qu@jpeg)
November 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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The origins of #wagerlkunst:
In 1937, supermarket owner Sylvan Goldman noticed customers struggling with heavy baskets, until a folding chair sparked an idea 🛒
Whole story: hidden in ALT
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In 1937, supermarket owner Sylvan Goldman noticed customers struggling with heavy baskets, until a folding chair sparked an idea 🛒
Whole story: hidden in ALT
@wagerlgarage.sfizzz.de
November 2, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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That's the idea of standardising it and having AI do it. It lowers the cost, not increases. When you standardise it becomes a single product mass produced lowering cost. If it's FIFA controlled it self learns from all the games past, present, and future everywhere. Look at hawkeye in tennis.
November 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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It’s magic!
A classic from 1974, produced by Alan Parsons:
Pilot
(self-titled)
EMI ST-11368
Jacksonville pressing
Recorded at EMI Abbey Road
#vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #NowPlaying
A classic from 1974, produced by Alan Parsons:
Pilot
(self-titled)
EMI ST-11368
Jacksonville pressing
Recorded at EMI Abbey Road
#vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #NowPlaying
October 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Robert Lostutter (1980)
!["Leaves..Snake..Leaves" colored pencil and pencil on paper
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Robert Lostutter (born 1939) is a Chicago-based artist. He was a member of the Chicago Imagists, a breakaway group of surrealist iconoclasts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who showed in the Hyde Park Art Center in 1969 and later.
Lostutter has stated that his human-bird hybrids, painted in meticulous water colors, are self-portraits that express the idea that people share traits with birds.
While painting, Lostutter works from light to dark and then recreates the image dark to light. He will repeat this process two to three times to reach this ideal look. These paintings would sometimes be accompanied by a poem of his that enforces the meanings behind them.
His artwork was inspired by the works of artists such as Richard Lindner and his teacher at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, John Rogers Cox. He produced a series based on the works from printmaker Toyohara Kunichika. He got the inspiration from seeing his prints being used as wrapping papers in a shipping container he received. Birds were a source of inspiration for Lostutter, which stemmed from his experiences with his grandfather and from different tropical birds he saw on a trip to Mexico in the 1970s.
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In 1964 Lostutter illustrated "The Things That Are", a book of poems for children by Adrien Stoutenburg, published by the Reilly & Lee Company of Chicago.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ewb37o2ftablnrgx3ma45l3b/bafkreihvzpevpf7birlichcyhiqyebprqfgx24v4w2idfxgada6i7b5bjy@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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On this day in 1973, John Lennon released 'Mind Games.' His first self-produced album, blending peace, reflection, and that unmistakable Lennon charm — proof that even inner battles can sound beautiful.
October 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Just love @jessedamiani.bsky.social’s pithy, deeply humble style:
“(Bryan Johnson is) a mirror of the system that produced him—a world that demands endless growth, endless self-optimization, endless extraction...the capitalist death drive disguised as vitality.”
open.substack.com/pub/damiani/...
“(Bryan Johnson is) a mirror of the system that produced him—a world that demands endless growth, endless self-optimization, endless extraction...the capitalist death drive disguised as vitality.”
open.substack.com/pub/damiani/...
"Don't Die"? What Bryan Johnson Gets Wrong
Bryan Johnson wants to live forever, but that kind of thinking is why life on Earth is at risk of extinction. Here's my humble proposal for the type of "don't die" we should consider instead.
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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What it'd cost for Europe to be self-sufficient in solar panels: +~20% to the cost of panels if produced from Chinese cells; +50% for European cells, +75% for European ingots and wafers. BUT even the last option is just +15-20% to the cost of utility-scale & +5% for residential.
October 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social: “it'd cost for Europe to be self-sufficient in solar panels: +~20% to the cost of panels if produced from Chinese cells; +50% for European cells, +75% for European ingots and wafers.
October 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Helpful to have a self-produced list of which Rabbis are total fucking racists
it's wild to me that we have a letter from 850+ rabbis denouncing zohran mamdani for things he never said and positions he never took while no such letter has been written condemning stephen miller for claiming to "defend jewish values" while being an utter fucking nazi and dismantling our democracy
it’s funny how the attacks levied last night against zohran mamdani by andrew cuomo more accurately describe stephen miller — totally inexperienced, deeply ideological, surrounded by antisemites, speaks like he’s talking exclusively to the internet, will bring about a policy nightmare, etc.
October 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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(2/2) I highly suggest that you check some of my new work under my new name. It's all entirely self-produced, and self mixed.. as opposed to what I did prior. I never gave up on music, I thought I would, but it's in my blood. I could never.
October 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Periodic reminder that the only worthy successor to all the good bits of Marx is the Bureau of Economic Analysis' "Concepts and Methods of the U.S. National Income and Product Accounts" and not anything produced by self-identified Marxists.
i think it's funny that there's a dynamic where people use marx to argue that luxury consumer goods undergoing labour-price driven inflation is bad
I'm beginning to think you should need special permission to read Marx, like a test that measures how tedious you'll be after you do
October 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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News of the World is the sixth studio album by Queen, released on October 28, 1977, in the UK (November 3 in the US). It reached #3 on the Billboard 200 Top LP's chart. "We Are the Champions"/"We Will Rock You" reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on the UK Singles Chart.
October 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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This week I went to the optometrist, got my biyearly* mammogram, and produced a poop sample for the “your colon was good at the last colonoscopy so this time we’re checking out your shit instead” test.
Please clap. This is the most physical self-care I’ve done in a very long time!
Please clap. This is the most physical self-care I’ve done in a very long time!
October 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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#MusicChallenge 30 years of Onyx "All We Got Iz Us." 2nd ever listen to their 2nd album? Dark and bleak, but of course still hype. Mostly self-produced, so the beats are well-suited for the occasion. Colors are muted, but soul elements keep things more lively. Love the unhinged soul here:
Summers, Onyx - Live Niguz
YouTube video by SummersVEVO
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October 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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A bit late for Tesla to be backtracking on it's "All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware" promise, no?
electrek.co/2025/10/22/t...
electrek.co/2025/10/22/t...
Tesla changes 'all cars have self-driving hardware' wording as HW3 lawsuits loom
Tesla used to promise "all Tesla cars now have Full Self-Driving Hardware," but in the face of new lawsuits, that language has changed.
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October 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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