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@derekcooper.bsky.social

Third place advocate, social impact activist, artist and musician. He/him. Tea lover. Bike life. Your friend that has a fountain pen. I know. Ableton Live, Sensory Percussion, AUM

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While babysititng/hanging out with the neighbor's 13 y/o grandkid, I told him that "Social Studies is extremely boring until you become an adult and then it's the most interesting thing in the world"

25.07.2025 17:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

fascists are always the dumbest fuckers b/c they're completely incurious about anything save the delusional mythologies they imagine, they never react out of an accurate assessment, it's all just fear and hatred

25.07.2025 23:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think of the housing shortage as a giant, billion-dollar, industrial scale machine that produces homeless faster than the people trying to help can get people out of homelessness

25.07.2025 00:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 56    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Every day I imagine an alternate world where the powerful donโ€™t spend every waking moment doing whatever they can to defend their power.

I imagine the sheer enormity of the resources that would be available to us without that systemic defensiveness.

We can all imagine such a world, then build it.

25.07.2025 14:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump signs an executive order to make it easier to remove homeless people from streets The White House directive calls for prioritizing money for programs that require sobriety and treatment, and for cities that enforce homeless camping bans.

Trumpโ€™s new homelessness executive order isnโ€™t about careโ€”itโ€™s about control. Cloaked in fake compassion, it opens the door to mass institutionalization, criminalization, and forced confinement of unhoused people. Weโ€™ve seen this before. It doesnโ€™t work. ๐Ÿงต

26.07.2025 00:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

One of the stupidest, most ridiculous, yet incredibly impactful things about this era is how many peopleโ€™s politics is little more than โ€œI donโ€™t like some replies I see on social media.โ€

06.07.2025 23:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1453    ๐Ÿ” 172    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16
Three New Zines & Workshop

Our recent newsletter is out! You can read it here and we suggest subscribing through our website so you can get the updates directly! :)

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23.04.2025 18:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

once the major wave of unemployment hits, right as it gets warm - I predict much larger protests

17.02.2025 20:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Look at my music industry dawg we ainโ€™t never getting the benefits of seeking out an aristocratic patron class of generations past that in the very least understood the need to fund education and the arts bc they cared about seeming like they were cultured individuals themselves ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ

18.02.2025 22:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

A lot of the ads also seem to imply that people have no one in their lives they can just ask for basic advice.

10.02.2025 03:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 173    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

The Chiefs can still win if Mike Pence has enough courage

10.02.2025 03:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1425    ๐Ÿ” 139    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Tragic team

08.02.2025 05:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

really starting to feel like that trevor martin skit is getting to be a risky post

01.02.2025 23:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

goddamn love cilantro all cilantro haters go to hell and die

01.02.2025 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is the second reference Iโ€™ve seen to it today, whatโ€™s going on?

20.01.2025 06:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I got the same dude.

11.01.2025 05:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Very cool that Spotify, Netflix et al have transformed the vast cosmos of art into โ€œslop that people keep paying for while theyโ€™re asleepโ€

10.01.2025 21:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

browser extensions can help with this

09.01.2025 21:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I bet you could solve a lot of problems with a really good hammer

08.01.2025 18:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 132    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

Might fuck around and grossly underestimate or wildly overestimate how long anything will take me to do, for the rest of my life

08.01.2025 03:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is the passage of time supposed to feel like getting dragged through gravel

08.01.2025 01:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Happy New Year or else

01.01.2025 09:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Threat to New Music - David Rowell - Music Production Podcast #388 โ€” Brian Funk David Rowell is a veteran music journalist who has worked as an editor and writer at the Washington Post for over 20 years. Stewart Copeland of the Police said "David Rowell is the kind of critic that...

Latest episode from the podcast: David Rowell, Washington Post music journalist, talking about his new book "The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music."

20.12.2024 17:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One weird trick to avoid giving unsolicited advice is to not know anything about anything at all, for your entire life

Ask me how I know

18.12.2024 23:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

you have to do some punk shit once in a while. for your mental health

15.12.2024 21:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hell yeah brother

12.12.2024 03:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

do you ever drink water out of a mug for that particular kind of thrill

10.12.2024 03:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

asking my auto mechanic in a leading way if he is familiar with the Japanese art of kintsugi

05.12.2024 19:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What if there was an NYPD/FBI operation that would stop at nothing to catch the culprit whenever a poor person one mile north of midtown was left waiting to die by a bogus insurance claim denial

05.12.2024 13:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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