Bright Kelly

My music is not for bigots. That includes red hats and white hoods. That includes those who wield crucifixes as moral weapons. That includes TERFs. That includes genocide apologists. That includes bathroom police. This is not a safe space for hatred.

I sing for the intolerant left.

We’re being force-fed AI and I hate it. We’re teaching machines to dream and using them to bar humans from careers in creative fields. This is backward. Unsurprising, but downright dystopian.

Let me introduce myself. Alt-folk-soul, emotions on the bleeding edge of my sleeve. Sociopolitically awake and unapologetic about. Making music for people who punch Nazis and worship their beloved. Pretty, at least sometimes. Ugly when it’s called for. Listen, connect, be??

Pique a boux

I really want this app to be the one that succeeds.

Ooh, that looks better than my dinner!

This, both literally and regarding what it represents.

1) Ouch. Dark.
2) Buy this series and read it. Michael is a tremendous talent and what many call a mensch.

Generative AI is plagiarism. Let’s keep AI firmly in the “assistant” department, and pass laws banning scraping from non-consenting artists.

It would be simple enough to create some kind of learning database from royalty-free material for machine learning—there is no reason for this.

Olly olly oxen free.

So does telling them I opened for you (which is true for Eve6 AND Fitness, technically). I wanna do it again, too.

Who’s into vinyl and indie rock? I wanna try something.

A comment on a tattoo coverup of an actual hate symbol, gleefully supporting said hate symbol, without even the courtesy of clever misspelling, doesn’t go against Meta’s Community Standards.

That tells me that Meta HAS no standards.

I got error messages every time I tried to deactivate or even edit a profile.

What are the odds that, in the silence of the dark hours of the morning, even the Self-Tan Supervillain knows he done f**ked up and sits there worrying over how deep up his a*** the puppeteer’s hand has gone?

Then y’all need to get creative. It has never been more important.

I feel like @aoc.bsky.social could perhaps take the hint.

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Call it by its name: A coup. February 1, 2025

It’s a coup! Please read or listen to Robert Hubbell’s newsletter!
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I have to somehow keep promoting my art and paying my rent amidst all this chaos, so like … consider buying my albums and stuff, I guess.

The FBI’s core values, including integrity, compassion, fairness, and allegiance to the Constitution - and oh, yeah, diversity, are being painted over at the FBI Academy. Source: NYT.

This is terrifying.

At the very least.

Turns out the secret to a coup is just do it on Friday. The opposition will make strongly worded posts and see what they can do about it on Monday

A coup d’etat is an overt deposition of government by force.

A self-coup involves a legally elected leader KEEPING power through illegal means.

A constitutional coup occurs when power is expanded using semi-legal means such as loopholes or rule changes/suspensions.

All of these are possible now.

I want to believe you, Congresswoman. Tell us an action plan that prevents these madmen from suspending democracy and refusing to cede power. We have heard, from their own lips, that very intention. How do we save the USA—looking for concrete answers, not just hope.

Media purges have started.

If you’re keeping score at home yes, we’re on pace with 1933 level shit and speed

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

CDC Data Are Disappearing The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being
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