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AC Newman

@acnewman.bsky.social

A good guy.

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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

09.12.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 13868    πŸ” 3940    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 194

Someone needs to do something about Biden!

07.12.2025 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Sticky Fingers is easily the best Stones album, yet Some Girls is my favorite. Curious.

07.12.2025 05:00 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

People thinking Labi Siffre's 'Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying' is a Peach Pit song, it feels almost like stolen valor to me. Not PP's fault, I know

The simplest elegant mesmerizing arrangement, perfectly structured short story. Even has a twist at the end that makes you listen again in a new way.

06.12.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is an ethnic cleansing campaign

03.12.2025 00:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3686    πŸ” 1520    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 26

'Taxes' isn't even in the top 5 songs on 'Getting Killed', Pitchfork!

SMDH

Not sure they listened to the album.

02.12.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Harry Potter was never any good. That anyone above the age of 12 read those books is still shocking to me. The movies were a lot of great talent doing their best in service of mediocrity.

A long way of saying I support the trans community and a certain billionaire children's author can F off.

02.12.2025 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
Mozes and the Firstborn - I Got Skills
YouTube video by TopNotch Mozes and the Firstborn - I Got Skills

Had a dim recollection of a song I loved 12 years ago. All I could remember was they were from the Netherlands.

I found it. Enjoy.

youtu.be/CfhMdBez4b4

26.11.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am from the original Star Wars generation, even held my nose + tolerated the prequels, but all the ill conceived (non-Andor) series have decimated the brand. It seems to be the work of one man. Impressive in its way.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

26.11.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Straight Lines   Letting Go HQ with Lyrics in Description
YouTube video by Southern Rocker Straight Lines Letting Go HQ with Lyrics in Description

Anyone going through a breakup? I found a great song! Enjoy!

youtu.be/MpV8KMZtnQ4

26.11.2025 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It's fun to have a new favorite band. It's been awhile. Not trying to preach anymore, though, not trying to convert, just quietly shaking my head in disbelief at non-believers. Sure, go enjoy your inferior rock and roll music. Godspeed.

24.11.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Udo Kier

film should not be streamed on Netflix. envelop yourself I. the darkness of the movie hall and submit to the artist's vision

Udo Kier film should not be streamed on Netflix. envelop yourself I. the darkness of the movie hall and submit to the artist's vision

RIP Udo Kier, a true original
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his one and only social media post:

24.11.2025 07:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2770    πŸ” 645    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 27
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Remote Becoming Holy by Flora Hibberd on AppleΒ Music Song Β· 2025 Β· Duration 3:51

Flora Hibberd.

Very easy on the ears.

music.apple.com/us/album/rem...

24.11.2025 04:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Code by Flora Hibberd on AppleΒ Music Song Β· 2024 Β· Duration 3:13

This is new to me and I really like it.

Flora Hibberd

music.apple.com/us/album/cod...

24.11.2025 04:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

and MJ Lenderman. Forgot about that one.

24.11.2025 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My 2025 band of the year is....

Are you kidding me?!? Clean sweep! ...

Geese!

A big year for Geese.

23.11.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

My 2025 album of the year is...

No surprise here and well deserved!...

'Getting Killed' by Geese.

A big year for Geese. Here's looking forward to 2026.

23.11.2025 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My 2025 song of the year is...

'Au Pays du Cocaine' by Geese.

Well deserved! Congratulations to Geese!

23.11.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

All the gigs I went to this year:

Nick Lowe
Courtney Barnett
Maya Ongaku
Minami Deutsch
Memorials
Shintaro Sakamoto
Geese

All brilliant. Day 2 of Woodsist also brilliant but that's a festival as compared to a gig. Levon Rambles as well but that's more of a hootenanny.

Happy new year to all.

23.11.2025 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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A video captured of Maria a Street Vendor reunited with her
Autistic 15 yr old son after he was wrongfully detained for 50 days.

23.11.2025 03:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3977    πŸ” 1715    πŸ’¬ 261    πŸ“Œ 208
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High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.

Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied β€œI don’t care.”

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

23.11.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 8932    πŸ” 4202    πŸ’¬ 301    πŸ“Œ 221

On the last night of SXSW the Dung Beatles used to play, maybe they still do. A feces-themed Fab 4 cover band playing hits like 'It's Only Dung', 'She Loves Poo' and the classic 'Felch!'

What made me remember that?

22.11.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

on this day we were warned that:

Swastikas and nooses do not betoken hate
&
Reminding the military to abide by the law is punishable by death.

g’night

21.11.2025 05:02 β€” πŸ‘ 543    πŸ” 117    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 4

One other person there. So close.

Lanthimos is not a horror director but he keeps you on edge constantly. The levels of unease crossed with the absurdity. Like the final scene of 'The Lobster'.

The way he sets up the 2 antagonists in Bugonia, it filled this guy with dread. Anything could happen.

20.11.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communitiesβ€”and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.

19.11.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3297    πŸ” 1107    πŸ’¬ 68    πŸ“Œ 71

Going to a 1:30 screening of Bugonia. Hoping for that rare 'only person in the theater' experience.

19.11.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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β€œTicking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

NEW:

In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.

She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.

Then she died.

www.propublica.org/article/texa...

19.11.2025 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2413    πŸ” 1246    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 122

Pamphleteers were a big part of the last American Revolution. It's time has come.

19.11.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'Like A Horror Movie': The New Pornographers' A.C. Newman Talks Ex-Drummer's Child Porn Arrest New Pornographers founder A.C. Newman gives his first interview about the shocking arrest of the band's former drummer on child pornography charges

It's my dog Banjo.

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

18.11.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0