Charlie Athanas

Deepfake Detected – Online Gig October 2025, by Penfriend 18 track album

Just 5 hours to go til this album disappears from public view!

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"Deepfake Detected" is a full, friendly, live gig experience featuring 8 songs from my catalogue, old and new xo

Hey all! It’s #MusicMonday and I have a Patreon that’s been going almost a decade now. Times are very hard, please consider joining, following for free, and or sharing!

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#WomenInMusicProduction #NYC #MusicSky #SupportArtists #Composer #Author #Producer

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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CATS ON FILM (kindle or paperback)
"possibly the greatest book ever"
"one of the finest pieces of specialist film scholarship published in recent years”
“Bonus: includes My Day by Jones, AKA Alien from the cat's PoV. Fun!”
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Hey, Josh! Are you following @vproceart.bsky.social ? I believe you should, if you aren't.

What the hell are we doing?

😎🪴🌵 I understand if you volunteer to work a cash register and check out your own groceries or work on the truck dock unloading semis you might get most of the Thanksgiving meal you've been cheated out of

Just got sent a pretty wild job offer I’m looking to pass along. Without revealing too much, they want a “world-class engine/rendering programmer and wizard who knows Unreal Engine like the back of their hand.” Full time. Remote.

This you? DM me.

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.

Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

ATTN: If you were on the Sandwich Guy jury and you'd like to chat, my Signal is in my bio. I'll keep you anonymous! Please share this post!

Scarily that makes perfect sense.

Sigh.

No One Wanted to Finance Their Stadium. Now Every Game Is a Sellout. Building a professional women’s soccer venue was seen as brash. Now the Kansas City Current’s is a blueprint for others.

The stadium for the Kansas City Current -- whose construction 40 banks refused to finance because there had never been a professional stadium built for a women's team -- just finished its second consecutive season of sold-out games.
www.wsj.com/sports/socce...

Ugh, that's no good. Take good care of yourself. Heal quick.

They are all too busy editing. (With any luck, I will be joining this conversation soon.)

Donate to Support Mike Melton's Stroke Recovery Journey, organized by nicole dougherty My amazing brother-in-law, Mike Melton, sadly experienced a massive str… nicole dougherty needs your support for Support Mike Melton's Stroke Recovery Journey

This one is close to my heart. Mike and Monique were and still are a huge part of my life. They were the directors of the ballet company I was once part of, previous to my career in music. I toured all over the world with them.
Mike has had a massive stroke. They need support.

gofund.me/957784b7c

He wants to kill Obamacare, but has no other plan. He is not satisfied with his deportation operation because his ICE agents are not abusive enough. He plans to continue murdering people in the Caribbean Sea because the law and these humans are of no concern to him. All this thanks to John Roberts.

"It became necessary to destroy the town to save it."
–U.S. military officer during the Vietnam War

Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability The arrest of Dayanne Figueroa highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. She was released after a few hours without charges.

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.)
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

Speaker Johnson: Federal employees aren’t being paid. Nutrition cuts may cause children to go hungry. Millions are seeing their health premiums soar.

End the 6 week paid vacation you’ve taken. Join your Democratic colleagues and negotiate an end to this shutdown.

Super green!

If you’ve read the book recently, you’d know that the topic of conversation at last night’s White House ‘Gatsby Party’ was probably very similar to what Fitzgerald wrote in 1925.

There’s a party tonight. See you at the cemetery gates, everyone. #LeighBardugo and I will meet you there. 🕯️💀 #TheInvisibleParade #DayOfTheDead #DiaDeLosMuertos #DiaDeMuertos

THE INVISIBLE PARADE featured at The Twig Book Shop in San Antonio, TX.

THANK YOU to everyone who scored THE INVISIBLE PARADE yesterday @ The Twig Book Shop signing. Started the day w/ several tall stacks & almost all sold out. 10 books featured here. As of now, only 8 remain. 👀 All are signed! Get yours TODAY from The Twig. Yes, they ship!

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In the past month, a serial child rapist has murdered 100 people in the Caribbean, destroyed the East Wing of the White House, neutralized our Congress, & stolen food from 20% of American children.

We pay him, house him, drive him, fly him, and pay for his bodyguards.

Call your reps
202-224-3121