Chris Phillips

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If you just refuse to answer questions, you risk that becoming the headline.

But if you’re an aggressively petulant jerk about it? “Fiery exchanges”!!

“We love you. You’re very special people.”

Bruce Springsteen’s protest songs still hit where it hurts Springsteen has repeatedly turned moments of violence and injustice into songs that demand moral reckoning.

For nearly 60 years, Bruce Springsteen has used his music to confront war, racism, state violence, economic anxiety and threats to civil liberties.

@carynrose.bsky.social looks back at 10 of those protest songs.

post a photo from your camera roll no one else has ever seen

“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.”

"Okay I get that," Meg whispered back, "but I've been angry for over a decade straight and my arteries are basically solid carbon fiber at this point. Do I ever get a freakin' break?"

No contact, ever, with a convicted pedophile is not too high a bar to be expected to clear

FUCKING YESSSSSSSSSS :) I am very proud of this book, very proud of my own work generally, very proud that this would be my third go-'round if I made it. Please buy my book, it's worth it.

Aging indie/punk people, romance people &zine people, activists ofc too, all kinds of creative & resourceful people, we're talking & having ideas & doing the thing. "Who's paying for this" wingnuts scream. LOL babe that's cute. we're used to doing something cool for no money, powered partly by spite

Both Charles Manson and Sharon Tate had an equal obligation to avoid violence

Republicans: everyone must be able to carry any gun at all times,
up to and including high powered rifles, to protect themselves against tyranny

also Republicans, without batting an eye: carrying a gun is unquestionable justification for federal agents to shoot you dead in the street

Interesting how all the gun rights absolutism melts away in defense of federal death squads -- who are allegedly the reason for gun rights absolutism.

It's the don't-tread-on-me, smaller government, let the states decide, individual liberty, tea party party until they get power and then it's full-on fascism.

this is just someone trying and failing to remember the lyrics to a song from Hamilton

Dick Laurent is dead

Ruin a band by changing one letter:

Black Flan

Two pictures of David Lynch from his YouTube series during lockdown. In panel one he says "good morning, everyone. It's..." In panel two he looks to the side in slightly aggrieved perplexity and the caption reads "It's an absolute shitshow out there, today." Thanks to @sadpeaks on IG for this!

On this day one year ago, #DavidLynch left us for places wonderful and strange. Rest in Peace.

David Lynch saying "the art life is a great life."

That’s fuckin’ crazy, man

Resisting the Hivemind: Pluribus, Generative AI, and Empire - Reactor While its creator tell us that Pluribus is not about advent of generative AI, it's difficult not to spot the many places where the fledgling tech and extraterrestrial hivemind overlap.

I found the ep in PLURIBUS where Carol--white, American--meets 5 non-white, non-American survivors of the hivemind off-putting, but in a way that made me curious to see where Gilligan was going. Now that I have, I wrote about how empire, privilege, genAI, & resistance converge in the show's subtext:

Whoa!!

Catch you with my death bag! Wait that’s my gaffer tape bag

Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.

not my house, but I know my way around

If I can’t have M-E Lad, Element Lad is a close second. Viva Trom!

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or AiC

“I was born a White Protestant with some prejudices that I am continuously trying to eradicate,” Rockwell said in 1962. “I am angry at unjust prejudices, in other people and in myself.”