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Living Wage for Musicians Act to be reintroduced in US Congress Rashida Tlaib's Living Wage for Musicians Act aims to support artists with new streaming royalties. Learn more about it.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib will reintroduce the Living Wage for Musicians Act this September. This bill is a real, concrete way to make payouts fairer for musicians on Spotify and across the streaming economy. @reprashida.govpeeps.us
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Til I'm Whole (Sailor Boyfriend Remix) - Single, by Sun Kin, Sailor Boyfriend 2 track album

Here's duh bandcamp link if you wanna throw me some bones:

sailorboyfriend.bandcamp.com/album/til-im...

This year, for my birthday (which, I cannot stress this enough, is also Snoopy's):

Consider checking out a *brand new* @sailorboyfriend.bsky.social remix of @sunkin.bsky.social we put out this week! Perfect for watching headlights on the parade…

Available/streaming wherever your data is sold 🫡

Let Us Now Salute NYC's Most Legendary Synth Doctor Jeff Blenkinsopp toured with Pink Floyd and Vengelis, repaired instruments for the Smiths and the Beastie Boys, but his greatest legacy might be his willingness to share his craft.

Let Us Now Salute NYC's Most Legendary Synth Doctor

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"Look for the Helpers"
- Fred Rogers

Broken clock is better

i often think about when an xAi representative went in front of the community they’re destroying with how how much pollution they create to operate grok and just lied to the entire town

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Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universi...

The largest union in America, the three million member-strong National Educators Association, has voted to *cut all ties* with the Anti-Defamation League, citing the ADL’s opposition to Palestinian rights and antiracism.

@labornotes.bsky.social has the story: www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

YouTube video by SharingEmotions 02 Too Much - Sufjan Stevens

happy 50th birthday to sufjan. sometimes it feels like, every time I sit down to write a song, I'm trying to make something as good as "too much": www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OQS...

@totom.bsky.social did you ever make a boot of the human league's "don't you want me" and nin's "the hand that feeds" ?

I fondly remember this existing, but can't seem to find it on my backups, nor google/internet archive. figured it wouldn't hurt to ask the NIN Bastard Pop Legend™ about it, thx!

imagine if someone told you in 2003 that Dave Matthews would have better politics than Radiohead

Kenny G for millennial graphic designers

This has been a great week for my business, actually, where we make graphs of stock prices

Boat named Sayler in the old school Slayer font

laughed pretty hard at this boat

Fighting Transphobia Every Month at Manhattan's District 2 Community Education Council Meeting A local parent's advisory body passed an unpopular anti-trans resolution. A year later, the movement to repeal it is big and beautiful.

The community organizing against this Manhattan public school parents' council that adopted an anti-trans resolution last year—showing up to hearing after hearing, sharing their rage and disgust and love—is one of the more compelling things I've seen in a minute. hellgatenyc.com/fighting-tra...

look. you Know I adore d*vid b*rne – his voice, his work - so so much

…And, with all the love in my lonely hunter heart, I type out with no real authority: he Needs to start saying no to live, televised gigs until he can (a) sing reliably in key or (b) find a good, subtle pitch corrector

I will accept any excuse to repost the handmade placeholder card I drew for MONSTER in my record store days.

seeing oreos locked up behind glass at CVS is particularly fu*king me up; they're meant to be my reward for the calls [plural] I made [varying hold times] to successfully transfer my zoloft script here… whaddya mean I gotta talk to ANOTHER customer service rep for my Lil' Treats

A supergroup consisting of Les Claypool, Isaac Brock and Colin Meloy that only plays songs about being a fisherman or a sea captain

I Don't remember Writing This

what good is migrating to a new social media platform if it won't let me post my flash fiction [see attached screenshot]

“Don’t Open the Door”: How Chicago Is Frustrating ICE’s Campaign of Fear Months of know-your-rights work has Trump’s border czar complaining.

People are understandably feeling scared as Trump unleashes his torrent of attacks on vulnerable populations. But some in the grassroots are fighting back, piece by piece. @rebeccaburns.bsky.social burns and I documented one such effort in Chicago disrupting Trump’s mass deportation plans.

they are trying to overwhelm us. don't let them. we wont give up. we're gonna win. it's going to take awhile, we're gonna get our asses kicked around a little, but we're gonna win. don't let the darkness of the moment blind you from the light of the future (it's so bright! i swear).

MALAN Fire & Wind Storm Resources

mutual aid los angeles network (MALAN) has a megalist of resources across the southland: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

and they’re collecting donations in chatsworth: www.instagram.com/p/DElevTEyzVD/

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

5 Ways to Directly Give Aid to Incarcerated Citizens (Besides Luigi Mangione) Thanks in part to the now infamous alleged killer, the American public is learning just how much incarceration costs.

Alot of discussion has been spurred since the arrest of Luigi Mangione, including the nature and costs of incarceration. Given his crowdfund rapidly approaching $500,000, both critics & supporters are asking how others behind bars can be aided

My latest: tinyurl.com/55jtwe2x

ok here we go. i'm listening to your favorite songs of the year, for the rest of the year, and i'm blogging about them on I Enjoy Music. let's kick things off...

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 7, Episode 5