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Fuck all Nazis. Mixes, since 2008. (Plus urbanism, cats, silly Lego robots, anti-fascism, photography, veganism, anti-cars, my music, etc.) http://musicophilia.wordpress.com https://ianmanire.bandcamp.com https://flickr.com/planetrobotica
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If you might be interested in a copy of my book of Lego-based robots 'Planet Robotica,' please drop me a message. They'll be sold at cost (inc. tax and shipping). 8.5"x8.5" hardback, 276 pages. If I can get 20+ copies, the cost will be +/-$45 shipped. Here's a PDF: flickr.com/photos/plane...

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"To me, this is one of Lynch’s best films. Richard Farnsworth and Sissy Spacek are incredible in it. And then it’s got the best one scene performance of all time, right at the end, with Harry Dean Stanton." #RichardDawson on The Straight Story (dir. #DavidLynch) buff.ly/vGeqfcJ

I know Susan knows this but this is why abortion destigmatization is critical. The boundary between "abortion" and "birth control" is way fuzzier than people want to admit and when you do "abortion bad/birth control good" you are just asking for birth control to be defined as abortion.

The Vice President of El Salvador has told US Senator Van Hollen that the reason they are still holding Kilmar Abrego Garcia is due to the Trump regime paying them to do so. Trump needs to be arrested and brought up on human trafficking charges. #3E

If you get the chance to see 'Secret Mall Apartment,' do. If you were ever a participant in any underground scene that was more about kindness than being cool--music, art, theatre, activism--you'll feel at home. Really funny and poignant, with some pithy critiques: m.youtube.com/watch?v=B9OC...

Some stats from 100 days in on congestion pricing: - Complaints about car-honking are down 70% - The Holland Tunnel has 65% fewer delays at rush hour; time to get thru it is down 48% - 6 million fewer cars - Half as many traffic-related injuries - 1.5 million more visitors to BIDs year over year

Thoughtful, moving review of my latest Arthur Russell project @thequietus.com @calcash.in 🙏

pretty crazy watching the american president on live tv in the oval office planning the construction of concentration camps in a foreign country to house americans

This is it people. This is the moment of the camps.

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

POTUS is telling another world leader he's going to start deporting native-born Americans, and to build more concentration camps for the inflow. This is shocking, even for Trump. I'm sure MAGA will tell us that it was just some jokey chit chat. It's not at all.

Today, Trump with Bukele, Oval Office: They love you. They love what you do. I want'em to do yeah home grown criminals next. [Louder] I said home growns are next. The home growns. You gotta build about 5 more places. [laughter] It's not big enough. link: x.com/nayibbukele/...

JUST IN! 'A City Drowned in God's Black Tears' by Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals The experimental hip-hop duo deal in sharp lyricism and innovative beatwork, linking influences as far afield as Ice Cube and KRS-One to Sade and Max Richter. www.normanrecords.com/records/2076...

If you might be interested in a copy of my book of Lego-based robots 'Planet Robotica,' please drop me a message. They'll be sold at cost (inc. tax and shipping). 8.5"x8.5" hardback, 276 pages. If I can get 20+ copies, the cost will be +/-$45 shipped. Here's a PDF: flickr.com/photos/plane...

Transmissions 11 is now LIVE on Kickstarter! A new 40-page, A4 suzed softcover collection of curious robots experiencing the quiet wonder of the world. www.kickstarter.com/projects/mat...

these days if you tell me you’re into “wellness” i assume you are too stupid to breathe

Imagine if we were planning on tearing down freeways instead of giving ODOT billions of dollars to expand them? bsky.app/profile/gett...

So they claim they can kidnap anyone, of any status, for any reason, ship them overseas--then say they've been arrested by El Salvador (or Russia, Hungary, Turkey, Israel) and so they have no power to retrieve them. Outsourcing their concentration camps and gas chambers. Perfect corporate Nazis.

Managed to park in the no-parking loading zone, and the crosswalk. A Porsche, but spiritually a Cybertruck

Submitted these Classic Space Baby Mechs I designed to the Lego Ideas "A Twist of Nostalgia" challenge. This means they theoretically have a tiny chance of being selected to be voted for to become a real set. beta.ideas.lego.com/challenges/5...

True in 1945, still true in 2025. The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

Absolutely terrifying. “Legal experts agree that sending American citizens to prison in El Salvador would be flagrantly illegal under both U.S. and international law — and that the idea itself is shockingly authoritarian, with few parallels in our nation’s history.”

RSD is entirely about anything but the reasons I love independent record shops (music, music geeks, curation, community, supporting artist) and all about the things I hate about music-adjacent consumerism (raw capitalism, scarcity, "investing," "collectors," major labels cosplaying indie). Sad shit.

”white supremacist book purge” is exactly right. it goes along with the segregationist purge of the service academies.

[REDACTED]. musicophilia.wordpress.com/2025/03/07/r... Infinity Knives & Brian Ennals. Killing Joke. Clipping. N.W.A. Gang of Four. Bob Dylan. Public Enemy. Nnamdi. Labi Siffre. Portishead. Moor Mother. B L A C K I E. Crass. Low. Paris. Mark Stewart. Bill Fay.

"The focus on fetishized rarity, and artificial scarcity, feels all too consistent with other despairing trends in music culture, like bloated reissues conceived to remonetize an artist’s back catalog, or astronomically priced concert tickets packaged with artist meet-and-greets..."

Let me know when they do CD store day