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Jamila Woods plays a gorgeous new song for Kaveh Akbar 7/3 Songwriter, poet and activist Jamila Woods writes a performs a brand new song in response to a poem written for her by her old friend Kaveh Akbar

Thanks, Richard! @radiorobreinhart.bsky.social sent me your post and I wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your kind words.
If you’d like to hear more about Jamila’s gorgeous song, you can check out the full episode here: SongWriterPodcast.com/kaveh-akbar-jamila-woods

New episode of SongWriter ft a poem from Kaveh Akbar and a brand new song from Jamila Woods! SongWriterPodcast.com/kaveh-akbar-jamila-woods

Amazing to be back in Chicago, which *effortlessly* puts NYC to shame (How much is it to clean up vomit in a yellow cab??? We don’t even know!)

Thank you to Jamila Woods and Kaveh Akbar for giving me a delightful excuse to visit one of my absolute favorite cities 🌆❤️

SongWriter: Kaveh Akbar + Jamila Woods | Metro Chicago Tuesday, November 25 SongWriter: Kaveh Akbar + Jamila Woods$25 Adv. / $30 Day of / All Ages / Doors: 6pm / Show: 7pmA portion of proceeds will benefit A Long Walk Home In this live recording of the So...

One month from today! @kavehakbar.bsky.social + Jamila Woods @metrochicago.com! metrochicago.com/event/songwr...

SF showing up for #nokings

It’s easy to predict the future when you’re as smart as we are

An astonishing mosaic in Brighton!

Wrote a song for the good people of the Tees Valley! Looking forward to finally getting back to play at the R n B with @jackhedgesmusic and the wonderful @mrpaulmosley on 12/4 - hoping they’ll sing this one with me! “Singalong” streaming now - link below!

Thanks for (re-)sharing this, @swartzmark.bsky.social!

A Songwriter’s Story: Ben Arthur on “Love Your Enemy” Ben Arthur shares the writing and recording process behind a track from his album “If You Look for My Heart.”

A songwriter's story: @benarthur.bsky.social on "Love Your Enemy" with #AesopRock popdose.com/a-songwriter...

Every dad gift ideas list is like: Scotch rocks, socks that are also a knife, bacon wallet, hammer subscription

My wording might not be precisely the same, but this pretty much sums it up.

The Shipping Industry May Have Accidentally Done Some Geoengineering One possible explanation for the extremely hot temperatures of recent years: removing the sulfur dioxide from shipping fuels.

Welp -- no good deed goes unpunished.

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Another bad thing about Spotify is sometimes you'll go into a coffee shop and hear Jessica Pratt or Vashti Bunyan playing and be like oh wow what a cool place this, I wonder who put this on? And then realize it's probably just a playlist called "rainy day vibes" and all the employees ignore it

Cognitive dissonance re: fact that people love this guy, which is that he might milkshake duck and turn out to be a white supremacist or something and we are living in really fucking strange times when my passing thoughts are "people shouldn't stan the assassin he might end up being a bad guy."

The wisdom of middle age!

Brushed a dog’s worth but somehow he’s still here

It’s listening to Low in the bath with a beer o’clock

What doesn’t kill you only causes PTSD and chronic health problems.

Earlier this year I wrote a Mastodon bot that, using Google Books as a corpus, completes the sentence "I hope this email finds you." The results are sometimes bizarre, sometimes silly, sometimes nonsense, occasionally hilarious. This evening I ported it to Bluesky. Two posts daily.

I had a blast at Conclave, which I thought was delightful, surprisingly funny, and a legit throwback to the More And Better Movies era, but also my wife has roasted me for several days now because I said "hell yeah" during a brief scene where you see some tasty-looking tortellini being made.

Gonna share this article with anybody who tells me they want to create an LLM-powered chatbot for their website.

Math problem. I have three apples and am traveling towards you at 17mph. It's not really a problem, more of a warning. Apple time, bitches.

Tonight!

SF friends! Friday at 8pm KQED is airing the live SongWriter show of @wkamaubell.bsky.social + Las Cafeteras on their PBS station. It was such a pleasure to work with Dr. Shira Gabriel, with Hector, Denise, and the band, and especially @templetonworld.bsky.social!

In the new episode of SongWriter, Turkish journalist and author @aslieperker shares a story she wrote for SongWriter, scientist Dr. @ErhartItir talks about art and empathy, and Turkish rock star @kiremitciev performs a brand new song. Listen in: https://buff.ly/3Odpjxd

As a child, I assumed the electric carving knife was going to be a big part of my adult life. Yet another lie. Not as serious as "you'll eventually stop getting zits" but right up there.

Hallmark Christmas movie idea: A small town embraces fascist ideals since eggs are expensive & then they decide to hire a sex trafficking circus peanut as the chief of police. He is found rubbing one out on the 20 ft tall Christmas tree moments before the lighting ceremony. That’s all I have so far.

This time around, the Kennedys are assassinating us.

Anyone want to place bets on the date of Adams's "I didn't leave the Democrat Party, the Democrat Party left me" speech when he announces he's running for reelection as a Republican?