Perception manager, tremolo specialist, macOS plumber. Wrench-turner at the Mount Wilson Observatory. http://chrisbarrus.com On-air everywhere all the time with @missabyss.bsky.social at @abyssradio.bsky.social. Listen: http://abyssradio.net
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Gupta […], summarized the current mood among young tech workers in SF as incompatible with the Burner sensibility: “The current vibe is no drinking, no drugs, 9-9-6 [work from 9a to 9p, 6 days a week], lift heavy, run far, marry early, track sleep, eat steak and eggs.” sfstandard.com/2025/08/30/b...
I recently learned that there was an active Model A club at Edwards AFB in the 1950s and the club photos 100% deliver Heads up @artofcoop.bsky.social and @highway62.bsky.social [1/2]
On this day in 1987, The Jesus and Mary Chain released their second studio album “Darklands” featuring singles "April Skies" "Happy When It Rains" and "Darklands"
Releases Sept 4th- 70s and 80s New Wave and Post Punk Almanac compiled from stories by those who were there by Michael Krilich I wrote a story about Robert Croker’s 24 hour party. 66bd606523e9d.site123.me Available from Amazon. #fypシ #newwave #postpunk #almanac #seventiesmusic #eightiesmuaic
Dennis Wilson & James Taylor in TWO-LANE BLACKTOP, Dwight Yoakam in CRANK, Lyle Lovett in THE PLAYER, Gary & Martin Kemp in THE KRAYS, Björk in DANCER IN THE DARK, Kris Kristofferrson in LONE STAR, and finally Elvin Jones in ZACHARIAH www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-IR...
Those who know, know: ILX (I Love Music/I Love Everything/etc) turned twenty-five years old this past Monday. There's something weird in that, and it's never been a perfect run, but still, something good about it all as welll.
New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...
The first large-scale Nazi book burning was on 6 May 1933, when Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was attacked by Nazi students. It would take decades for science to recover the knowledge about trans-affirming healthcare that was destroyed that day.
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I've said repeatedly that socially ostracizing these fuckers is one of the best non violent things that can be done. Ignore, don't engage, don't give them the satisfaction of engaging. Just act like they don't exist or a quick expression of disgust and move on. It will fuck them up so much.
IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction
I led a “punk science” activity for our incoming freshman biology majors at our orientation event. They made zines and fliers on any topic they chose. Here’s a sample:
I think we all should have been a lot more worried about the NJ drone mass hysteria; especially the way the military, police, politicians, and journalists all got completely sucked into it, absolutely detached from the reality in front of their eyes. People shot at and lasered obvious planes!
Can anyone identify the carving on this softwood platter, at least 90 years old? No idea how it was originally finished, as when found it was thickly lathered with what I imagine was silver radiator paint.
Daily unheard album: REMINISCENCES OF RAKTAKO: HUAYNO GUITAR FROM CUZCO AND AYACUCHO, 1930-1940 by Alberto Juscamaita Gastelú deathisnot.bandcamp.com/album/remini...
It's pretty weird how TikTok managed to revive the Home Shopping Network and make it hip for youths.
Jackson Tyler of Homemade Documentaries makes the best and most complete space history films out there. Full stop. He just released a new one on the Mariner missions and JPL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjx3...
When the Sylmar Earthquake rocked LA on February 8, 1971, it damaged the Olive View Hospital so badly, it had to be bulldozed. When the hospital's electric wall clocks were gathered, all of them (give or take) reflected the moment the quake struck: 6:01 a.m. and 42 sec.
Devo @ Santa Monica Civic 1980-08-23 https://ijwthstd.blogspot.com/2025/08/devo-santa-monica-civic-1980-08-23.html
I don’t really think that there’s any difference between calling human beings “NPCs” or calling them cockroaches or “human animals” or any other classic rhetoric of dehumanization and I find it pretty worrying that people who are otherwise concerned with respectability have adopted its use
"We didn't come here to listen to a load of stuff about famine and colonialism and genocide and being forced into exile, we came to hear some Irish folk songs!"
this feels like the place to drop in Doc Severinsen's amazing cover of The Court Of The Crimson King youtu.be/jBkTHskJcX0?...
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An unbelievable Friday night on Abyss Radio! abyssradio.net @abyssradio.bsky.social
From here. youtu.be/FG6beHNyc64?... If you go about 20 minutes in, you'll see Derrida walking around the outside of the Humanities Office Building on the UCI campus, a place where I spent many an hour, about a decade before this was shot. cc @nedraggett.bsky.social @quartzcity.bsky.social
Calling it now. Old: grand theft auto New: bricking your car until you pay a cryptoransom. All new variations on that PKD novel where the guy has to pay to use the front door of his apartment.
For years police have warned about relay attacks, where some tech essentially extends the range of a key fob, so thieves steal a car when in a driveway. This is different. It figures out what the next code from the key fob will be. There is no easy fix www.404media.co/inside-the-u...
New: inside the underground trade of Flipper Zero tech to steal cars. Right now it's $$$, but people are cracking software to make it free. When this gets out, it will supercharge car thefts. So many modern cars vulnerable. "Kia Boys will be Flipper Boys by 2026" www.404media.co/inside-the-u...
Got mine yesterday. Looking at the fine print I noticed that it was paid for by the son of the guy who wanted to build Kowloon Walled Dorm in the middle of UC Santa Barbara a few years back.
Tomorrow afternoon at the Observatory: MWO and LA Filmforum are presenting "Envisioning the Skies: A Short History of Astronomical Films" film list: www.lafilmforum.org/schedule/spr... tickets: www.mtwilson.edu/events/movie...
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90 Minutes of James Dobson Burning In Hell (2025)
@abyssradio.bsky.social is the coolest. They play a track and if there's a bandcamp link for the artist, they run that at the same time. Right now they're spinning some Emmalee Crane and you can go grab the record right now, should you be into it. abyssradio.net
There it is. The Golden Princess restorations are coming to The Channel on October 1.
Daily unheard album: WHISTLE AND I'LL COME TO YOU by Death And Vanilla deathandvanillamusic.bandcamp.com/album/whistl...
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when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe
Yeah! You tell 'em, Jacques!
guys I’m off this week … went to the norman rockwell museum. found the meme in real life — and his jacket
I’m in too. I’ve been wanting to see this also.
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found an interview with the cover designer for mason & dixon on a pynchon website and this really made me lol
Ronnie Rondell Jr: Veteran Hollywood stuntman set on fire for Pink Floyd album cover dies
How do you say “is Neil messing with us with this weird ‘Mr. Soul’ cover” in dog?
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Daily unheard album: Pink Floyd, June 10, 1975 - Capital Centre - Landover, Maryland www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs9d...
Too on-the-nose, universe. Too on-the-nose.
![I am simply asking for less-direct metaphors at this point ian bremmer @ianbremmer. 1d europe water levels are so low that sunk nazi warships are popping up in the danube Show this thread [Photograph of a half-submerged metal warship with some sections twisted and bent, and a sand bar behind it, both surrounded by bluish-green water]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i3mn5ca4oyiuy7vx2o6pnwza/bafkreibt4nb3avh7kjexr57la4obnhmkzv75uc4febilaz3vzbdznhkure@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Rod Serling would haunt me from the beyond if I framed this as a competition, but Mr. Serling was an Army paratrooper in the Pacific specifically New Guinea and the Philippines. He may not have killed more, but he prob saw more death first hand than many of the others mentioned.
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Just played! 📻 ✨👂 abyssradio.net 🎸🏕️ carambolage1.bandcamp.com/album/carambolage
Amazon War of the Worlds puts computer aliens into actual footage of bombings in Syria
Great thread
My complaints have not yet been resolved. medium.com/@steve.desch...
via Open Reel Ensemble "This is a trio performance on the “JIGAKKYU,” a traditional folk instrument made by stretching magnetic tape across bamboo" www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaG5...
Strong bumper sticker game
continue to be pleasantly surprised by Steve Wozniak managing to be one of the only big names in tech who isn't an enormous piece of shit
i have seen the best picture of ozzy osbourne and now so have you
ICE hit the nearby Home Depot in East Pasadena this morning, too.
HARD BOILED is objectively one of the greatest movies ever made. I'd start there!
"that reverb sounds like trash" "thanks!!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2e8...
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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
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Daily unheard album: LOST COAST: SOME VISIONARY MUSIC FROM CALIFORNIA, 1980–1992 goatytapes.bandcamp.com/album/lost-c...
Dizzying, delightful decorative features in the Mayan Theater forecourt, including Malibu tiles from the great Rufus Keeler. You can still catch a show at this incredible venue before the longtime operator pulls down the curtain next month!
In yet another salient post from @tannerfboyle.bsky.social, he observes how one-issue UFO enthusiasts shelve all other social significance for politicians & military figures who will so much as address UFOs, context be damned. tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/holding-ou...
If you have never read this profile of Eddie Palmieri you should. RIP Eddie Palmieri & thank you @fluentmundo.bsky.social for telling his story in the New Yorker
WWII arts world was wild, Warner Brothers got bullied into making a movie about Charles De Gaulle and hired William Faulkner, who turned in a 1,200!!! page script
Michelle Yeoh in WING CHUN (1994) She was BOTD in 1962
"The Web" starring Ella Raines - BOTD
🗃 Before the @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social “Psychedelic Noir: Dragnet 1967–68” screening August 9, UCLA Library Performing Arts Curator Miki Bulos will display a selection of related archival paper materials from UCLA Library Special Collections in the lobby. Free admission! Details: ucla.in/40DMiIr
Err when were you guys going to tell me about Bookland?? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookland
Just fake it. Show the big baby a good-looking 4K stream of a couple of satellites blowing up. Like he’s really going to know the difference.
Been thinking about Lewis Shiner’s first, FRONTERA. Lost in the fight over whether it’s cyberpunk or not is how it portrays end-of-state predatory capitalism. Governments have collapsed everywhere and private capital parts the whole works out. Someone bought NASA’s remains, some of which is occupied
this is a @joegross.bsky.social observation but it is really remarkable how they made grown up bobby hill look like every grown up hardcore dude i have ever known, including myself. the workshirt over the black tshirt, the haircut, it is Too Much
I miss when republics declined because of lead pipes or something. instead my culture got digital access to the entirety of human knowledge and went immediately insane
Daily unheard album: B1RD5TRIKING by Birdstriking maybemars.bandcamp.com/album/b1rd5t...
Daily unheard album: COLORS MAKE A SOUND by Pink Breath of Heaven pinkbreathofheaven.bandcamp.com/album/colors...
RIP Jonathan Kaplan. Here's a German poster for his spectacular coming of age film OVER THE EDGE (1979) Buried by the studio when it 1st came out, I'm not sure OVER THE EDGE has ever totally gotten its due for what a great movie it is, an influence on everything from DAZED AND CONFUSED to GUMMO
Over the edge (1979) Directed by #JohnathanKaplan Starring: #MichaelKramer #MattDillon #PamelaLudwig #VincentSpano #HarryNorthup #TomFergus Cinematography by #AndrewDavis Music by #SolKaplan Jonathan Kaplan (November 25, 1947 – August 1, 2025) #JonathanKaplan #RIP 😢
RIP. OVER THE EDGE obviously a big deal around here.
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Daily unheard album: MOISTURIZER (GOBLIN EDITION) by Wet Leg storeus.wetlegband.com/products/moi...
It always going to be wild to me that Iron Chef has better lighting than most 200+ million dollar Hollywood movies now.
*What are the odds that you're a techie and you got fired from the Facebook cult, and you're all alone, hungry and uninsured, and you come to realize that ChatGPT is your best friend, guru and spiritual salvation mashable.com/article/high...
I was at that gig! (and I think @chownoir.bsky.social was too?) Can confirm that description.
No daily unheard album today, you've got a couple hours left to take advantage of Bandcamp Friday. May I suggest something from here: bandcamp.com/quartzcity
anytime you make a post about how people should stop using Spotify because it fucking sucks, someone pops in from from the Discover feed about how there's no alternative and ignores that you can just buy music or use another streaming service that isn't doing this shit. Anyway, stop using Spotify
@highway62.bsky.social @quartzcity.bsky.social Look what's available!
Daily unheard album: PE'AHI II by The Raveonettes theraveonettes.com
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Dale Carnegie gets another acting gig so he never gets around to writing How To Win Friends And Influence People. Charles Manson, Trump, and hundreds of psychopaths since have to manifest something else
*In the capital of Finland, an entire year passed and cars & trucks didn't kill anybody yle.fi/a/74-20174831
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