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alaricthevisigoth.bsky.social
Recently landed into retirement from earth data science, Python (and Linux) to now be filled with music, modular synthesizers, cats, cycling, my ILoF friends in exile, and any others who’ll have me. Instagram: @thesesmallboxes
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TILT: One of the most important albums of the year! Kate Bush, Hans Zimmer, Annie Lennox, and Ed O’Brien are among the 1000 artists who contributed, co-writing the 12 tracks. It requires careful listening, and possibly, action!

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TILT The duet of Keith an Hollie Kennith began releasing dreampop as “Mint Julep” with this brilliant debut album “Save Your Season”. It is so well crafted; blending beats, shoegazery, and Hollie’s eerily hidden (at times) vocals. Their music has fed my need ever since the Cocteau Twins wrapped up.

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TILT Originally trickled out as a set of color EPs, Casey Crescenzo’s collected project is a monument of emotion, composition, and musical style. This is a delicious 2.5 hrs of “Do Not Disturb”! By the time you reach “Progress” you’ll wonder how you got there from “This Body”! TDH in their prime!

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A conversation with the inimitable Marcy Wheeler! (@emptywheel.bsky.social)

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TILT Only 7 mos apart, these albums were conjoined in my teenage ears. SotR establishes its “country” bona fides leaning on the pedal steel. That band fell apart, leaving McGuinn to carry on, keeping the pedal steel handy but also letting his rock flag fly! Many more than two sides to this band tho.

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A few bands I’ve seen live (a-z) Bloodrock Camel Capt Beyond Cat Stevens Curved Air The Creatures Bowie Dixie Dreggs ELP Zappa Gentle Giant Genesis Ponty Jeff Beck Tull King Crimson Led Zeppelin Manassas Moody Blues Focus Pink Floyd Radiohead Stones Santana Sugar Loaf The Who U.K. Wishbone Ash Yes

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TILT (Today I Listened To) “Threads” by “Now Now” is an indie album from 2012. It may sound a bit “young”, but is possessed of a strength + vulnerability via Cacie Dalager’s yearning vocals, about friends, lovers, sleep, all over chomping guitars and bashing drums, with a touch of dreampop.

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This Trump presidency will be a boon for self-help books, as all other forms of help disappear. The Ink has some title ideas. the.ink/p/riffs-self...

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“That this is an effort to break government, not fix it; it is part of a strategy to further convince America that government is inherently and unfixably flawed.” And they have never offered a plan for the ashes…

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Revolting mob rule, Stalinist, Maoist, fascist, call it what you want, it is disgusting, with the power of the state and social media to mobilize the US version of China's Red Guard to target civil servants, professionals doing their job. Gift article. Please repost. www.wsj.com/tech/musk-un...

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TILT (Today I Listened To) The beautiful 2007 “Fauxliage” album pairs Leigh Nash (Sixpence None the Richer) with Leeb & Fulber (of Delerium). Nash’s ultra-pure voice makes for a highly listenable, at times melancholy vibe. I’ve never regretted going back for another listen to this fine album!

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A national treasure of Norway.

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"Firing *every single federal employee* would save a whopping 5 percent of the budget. But the point of this isn’t reducing the national debt. It’s striking fear into the federal workforce in order to make them more compliant."

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www.livescience.com/technology/a... Remember, WE are the product!

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TILT (Today I Listened To): “Garden Shed” by “England”. A 1977 British prog rock album that eluded my ears until now. Hints of Gentle Giant and Yes, and, despite the heavy use of Mellotron (great side story about the one they used) it has their own sound overall. Melody lines weave nicely!

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This is Risky, a 15 yr old feral, scooped up off the curb of the I-10 bridge where it crosses the Mississippi River at ~4 wks old. We have only an arms’ length relationship, as she has remained a “scaredy cat” all her life and will not be held. She does crawl under the blankets on a cold night tho…

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So, a cat pic because who doesn’t love cat pics? This is Izzy, one of my housemates. She’s a fairly spry 13 yrs old and just wants to get her face as physically close to mine as possible.

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“Trump hates his own government so much, he makes himself an easy target for hostile governments and disloyal appointees.”

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youtu.be/LrkAORPiaEA?... Anything AI brings to the music industry, it will take in multiples…

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open.substack.com/pub/persuasi... tl;dr: humans DO affect the climate, but maybe not the way we’ve been told.

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