Rep. Rashida Tlaib will reintroduce the Living Wage for Musicians Act this September. This bill is a real, concrete way to make payouts fairer for musicians on Spotify and across the streaming economy. @reprashida.govpeeps.us
musically.com/2025/08/19/l...
Here's duh bandcamp link if you wanna throw me some bones:
sailorboyfriend.bandcamp.com/album/til-im...
This year, for my birthday (which, I cannot stress this enough, is also Snoopy's):
Consider checking out a *brand new* @sailorboyfriend.bsky.social remix of @sunkin.bsky.social we put out this week! Perfect for watching headlights on the parade…
Available/streaming wherever your data is sold 🫡
"Look for the Helpers"
- Fred Rogers
Broken clock is better
i often think about when an xAi representative went in front of the community they’re destroying with how how much pollution they create to operate grok and just lied to the entire town
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The largest union in America, the three million member-strong National Educators Association, has voted to *cut all ties* with the Anti-Defamation League, citing the ADL’s opposition to Palestinian rights and antiracism.
@labornotes.bsky.social has the story: www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
happy 50th birthday to sufjan. sometimes it feels like, every time I sit down to write a song, I'm trying to make something as good as "too much": www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OQS...
@totom.bsky.social did you ever make a boot of the human league's "don't you want me" and nin's "the hand that feeds" ?
I fondly remember this existing, but can't seem to find it on my backups, nor google/internet archive. figured it wouldn't hurt to ask the NIN Bastard Pop Legend™ about it, thx!
imagine if someone told you in 2003 that Dave Matthews would have better politics than Radiohead
Kenny G for millennial graphic designers
This has been a great week for my business, actually, where we make graphs of stock prices
Boat named Sayler in the old school Slayer font
laughed pretty hard at this boat
The community organizing against this Manhattan public school parents' council that adopted an anti-trans resolution last year—showing up to hearing after hearing, sharing their rage and disgust and love—is one of the more compelling things I've seen in a minute. hellgatenyc.com/fighting-tra...
look. you Know I adore d*vid b*rne – his voice, his work - so so much
…And, with all the love in my lonely hunter heart, I type out with no real authority: he Needs to start saying no to live, televised gigs until he can (a) sing reliably in key or (b) find a good, subtle pitch corrector
I will accept any excuse to repost the handmade placeholder card I drew for MONSTER in my record store days.
seeing oreos locked up behind glass at CVS is particularly fu*king me up; they're meant to be my reward for the calls [plural] I made [varying hold times] to successfully transfer my zoloft script here… whaddya mean I gotta talk to ANOTHER customer service rep for my Lil' Treats
A supergroup consisting of Les Claypool, Isaac Brock and Colin Meloy that only plays songs about being a fisherman or a sea captain
I Don't remember Writing This
what good is migrating to a new social media platform if it won't let me post my flash fiction [see attached screenshot]
People are understandably feeling scared as Trump unleashes his torrent of attacks on vulnerable populations. But some in the grassroots are fighting back, piece by piece. @rebeccaburns.bsky.social burns and I documented one such effort in Chicago disrupting Trump’s mass deportation plans.
they are trying to overwhelm us. don't let them. we wont give up. we're gonna win. it's going to take awhile, we're gonna get our asses kicked around a little, but we're gonna win. don't let the darkness of the moment blind you from the light of the future (it's so bright! i swear).
mutual aid los angeles network (MALAN) has a megalist of resources across the southland: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
and they’re collecting donations in chatsworth: www.instagram.com/p/DElevTEyzVD/
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
Alot of discussion has been spurred since the arrest of Luigi Mangione, including the nature and costs of incarceration. Given his crowdfund rapidly approaching $500,000, both critics & supporters are asking how others behind bars can be aided
My latest: tinyurl.com/55jtwe2x
ok here we go. i'm listening to your favorite songs of the year, for the rest of the year, and i'm blogging about them on I Enjoy Music. let's kick things off...
Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 7, Episode 5
