David Locke
@david-locke.bsky.social
Reject imposed obligations, expectations, and roles.
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David Locke
@david-locke.bsky.social
· Mar 28
Our only hope is for counterculture to rise up, and take audiences from the technocracy.
living online is not living
October 14, 2026 at 11:53 AM
living online is not living
a coward can not be free
a coward can not lose
a coward can not win
a coward can not be
[ Amos Poe, "The Foreigner" (1978) ]
a coward can not lose
a coward can not win
a coward can not be
[ Amos Poe, "The Foreigner" (1978) ]
October 13, 2026 at 11:11 AM
a coward can not be free
a coward can not lose
a coward can not win
a coward can not be
[ Amos Poe, "The Foreigner" (1978) ]
a coward can not lose
a coward can not win
a coward can not be
[ Amos Poe, "The Foreigner" (1978) ]
existentialism as therapy for nihilism
October 12, 2026 at 4:19 PM
existentialism as therapy for nihilism
Never allow an algorithm to choose your playlists. Reject the scourge of AI.
Insist on genuine music, created by real artists, curated by real fans.
Mixtape 9: New Psychedelia [60 min]
open.spotify.com/playlist/1bB...
Insist on genuine music, created by real artists, curated by real fans.
Mixtape 9: New Psychedelia [60 min]
open.spotify.com/playlist/1bB...
new psychedelia
[ mixtape 9 ]
open.spotify.com
September 30, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Never allow an algorithm to choose your playlists. Reject the scourge of AI.
Insist on genuine music, created by real artists, curated by real fans.
Mixtape 9: New Psychedelia [60 min]
open.spotify.com/playlist/1bB...
Insist on genuine music, created by real artists, curated by real fans.
Mixtape 9: New Psychedelia [60 min]
open.spotify.com/playlist/1bB...
War is like an x-ray. All human insides become visible.
Good people become better. Bad people, worse.
Mstyslav Chernov
20 Days in Mariupol [ @pbs.org ]
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
Good people become better. Bad people, worse.
Mstyslav Chernov
20 Days in Mariupol [ @pbs.org ]
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
20 Days in Mariupol | Watch the Oscar-Winning Documentary | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series
Watch FRONTLINE & The Associated Press' Oscar-winning documentary on Russia's siege of Mariupol told through the lens of Mstyslav Chernov and two colleagues who documented atrocities and their own esc...
www.pbs.org
September 10, 2026 at 2:29 PM
War is like an x-ray. All human insides become visible.
Good people become better. Bad people, worse.
Mstyslav Chernov
20 Days in Mariupol [ @pbs.org ]
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
Good people become better. Bad people, worse.
Mstyslav Chernov
20 Days in Mariupol [ @pbs.org ]
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
It’s only in coming together that we can fight the isolating forces of the algorithm.
September 9, 2026 at 5:11 PM
It’s only in coming together that we can fight the isolating forces of the algorithm.
There’s no worse prison than the past.
September 8, 2026 at 4:24 PM
There’s no worse prison than the past.
The fiction writer who authored our current reality needs to do better.
September 8, 2026 at 12:27 AM
The fiction writer who authored our current reality needs to do better.
Why?
Why did we do this to ourselves??
“So, let me get this straight,” national security reporter David Rothkopf wrote. “[T]he US illegally attacks a country, kidnaps its president, threatens its government with massive military force, gets them to hand over to US control a huge portion…
Why did we do this to ourselves??
“So, let me get this straight,” national security reporter David Rothkopf wrote. “[T]he US illegally attacks a country, kidnaps its president, threatens its government with massive military force, gets them to hand over to US control a huge portion…
August 31, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Why?
Why did we do this to ourselves??
“So, let me get this straight,” national security reporter David Rothkopf wrote. “[T]he US illegally attacks a country, kidnaps its president, threatens its government with massive military force, gets them to hand over to US control a huge portion…
Why did we do this to ourselves??
“So, let me get this straight,” national security reporter David Rothkopf wrote. “[T]he US illegally attacks a country, kidnaps its president, threatens its government with massive military force, gets them to hand over to US control a huge portion…
Never allow an algorithm to choose your playlists. Reject the scourge of AI slop.
Insist on genuine music, created by real artists, curated by real fans.
Mixtape 8: Drum 'n Bass [60 min]
open.spotify.com/playlist/7fd...
Insist on genuine music, created by real artists, curated by real fans.
Mixtape 8: Drum 'n Bass [60 min]
open.spotify.com/playlist/7fd...
drum 'n bass
Playlist · false memories · 15 items
open.spotify.com
August 26, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Never allow an algorithm to choose your playlists. Reject the scourge of AI slop.
Insist on genuine music, created by real artists, curated by real fans.
Mixtape 8: Drum 'n Bass [60 min]
open.spotify.com/playlist/7fd...
Insist on genuine music, created by real artists, curated by real fans.
Mixtape 8: Drum 'n Bass [60 min]
open.spotify.com/playlist/7fd...
“There I understood that it was the middle class that was participating and that was tired, disappointed and had had enough. There I understood that this protest would be heard.”
"We do not accept this political class continuing in power."
This needs more publicity.
This should inspire all of us.
"We do not accept this political class continuing in power."
This needs more publicity.
This should inspire all of us.
Albania, the voices of the Flamingo revolution - OBCT
While the flamingos have given the Albanian protest its visual identity, drums and chants have given it a voice. In this report, we have collected some of the most well-known voices from the protests ...
www.balcanicaucaso.org
August 25, 2026 at 12:12 PM
“There I understood that it was the middle class that was participating and that was tired, disappointed and had had enough. There I understood that this protest would be heard.”
"We do not accept this political class continuing in power."
This needs more publicity.
This should inspire all of us.
"We do not accept this political class continuing in power."
This needs more publicity.
This should inspire all of us.
Ready to erase.
Louis Armand [ @louisarmand.bsky.social ]
Michel Delville
www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Louis Armand [ @louisarmand.bsky.social ]
Michel Delville
www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
August 24, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Ready to erase.
Louis Armand [ @louisarmand.bsky.social ]
Michel Delville
www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Louis Armand [ @louisarmand.bsky.social ]
Michel Delville
www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Theories are made to die in the war of time…
They may only be used if they're available when needed, and become obsolete constantly.
And must continually be replaced.
They may only be used if they're available when needed, and become obsolete constantly.
And must continually be replaced.
August 17, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Theories are made to die in the war of time…
They may only be used if they're available when needed, and become obsolete constantly.
And must continually be replaced.
They may only be used if they're available when needed, and become obsolete constantly.
And must continually be replaced.
Cinema:
A deranged imitation of a deranged life, skillfully designed to communicate absolutely nothing, whose purpose is to relieve 90 minutes of boredom with a 90 minute representation of the same boredom…
A deranged imitation of a deranged life, skillfully designed to communicate absolutely nothing, whose purpose is to relieve 90 minutes of boredom with a 90 minute representation of the same boredom…
August 13, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Cinema:
A deranged imitation of a deranged life, skillfully designed to communicate absolutely nothing, whose purpose is to relieve 90 minutes of boredom with a 90 minute representation of the same boredom…
A deranged imitation of a deranged life, skillfully designed to communicate absolutely nothing, whose purpose is to relieve 90 minutes of boredom with a 90 minute representation of the same boredom…
The News:
Imbeciles, presenting contemptuous hourly updates on the state of your own alienation.
Imbeciles, presenting contemptuous hourly updates on the state of your own alienation.
August 12, 2026 at 12:09 PM
The News:
Imbeciles, presenting contemptuous hourly updates on the state of your own alienation.
Imbeciles, presenting contemptuous hourly updates on the state of your own alienation.
The Paris Commune was defeated in isolation.
Network! Unity!
Network! Unity!
August 11, 2026 at 9:58 AM
The Paris Commune was defeated in isolation.
Network! Unity!
Network! Unity!
If different forms of the same alienation struggle against each other, this is because they are all based on real contradictions that are repressed.
#debord
#debord
August 10, 2026 at 12:41 PM
If different forms of the same alienation struggle against each other, this is because they are all based on real contradictions that are repressed.
#debord
#debord
We need to take care of ourselves.
We are fragile.
We are fragile.
August 7, 2026 at 12:53 PM
We need to take care of ourselves.
We are fragile.
We are fragile.
It seems like each time a repressed group wins respect, an institutional memory of elitism provides the rationale for *new* exclusive cliques to hurt and steal from exactly the same out-groups as before, as though no change ever occurred:
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-6-2...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-6-2...
August 7, 2026 at 12:42 PM
It seems like each time a repressed group wins respect, an institutional memory of elitism provides the rationale for *new* exclusive cliques to hurt and steal from exactly the same out-groups as before, as though no change ever occurred:
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-6-2...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-6-2...
Negation must have its own style.
Criticism is destruction, which must be expressed in a specific language — that is, the language of contradiction.
It must be expressed as conflicting voices, whose attacks on each another act to destroy the topic.
#situationalism #debord
Criticism is destruction, which must be expressed in a specific language — that is, the language of contradiction.
It must be expressed as conflicting voices, whose attacks on each another act to destroy the topic.
#situationalism #debord
August 6, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Negation must have its own style.
Criticism is destruction, which must be expressed in a specific language — that is, the language of contradiction.
It must be expressed as conflicting voices, whose attacks on each another act to destroy the topic.
#situationalism #debord
Criticism is destruction, which must be expressed in a specific language — that is, the language of contradiction.
It must be expressed as conflicting voices, whose attacks on each another act to destroy the topic.
#situationalism #debord
I have let time slip away.
I have lost what I should have defended.
I have lost what I should have defended.
August 5, 2026 at 12:14 PM
I have let time slip away.
I have lost what I should have defended.
I have lost what I should have defended.
There is talk about "liberating the cinema" — but what does that matter to us?
We want to liberate everyday life.
We want to liberate everyday life.
August 4, 2026 at 1:24 PM
There is talk about "liberating the cinema" — but what does that matter to us?
We want to liberate everyday life.
We want to liberate everyday life.
Ruling class monopolies on publicity for art these days have exiled artists from "official" cultural production.
Any art film about this era must feature the anonymity of its authors — as a central theme!
#situationalism #debord
Any art film about this era must feature the anonymity of its authors — as a central theme!
#situationalism #debord
August 3, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Ruling class monopolies on publicity for art these days have exiled artists from "official" cultural production.
Any art film about this era must feature the anonymity of its authors — as a central theme!
#situationalism #debord
Any art film about this era must feature the anonymity of its authors — as a central theme!
#situationalism #debord
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My story “Between Now and Forever” was recently published in the Flavor Town USA series at @hfr.bsky.social. A version of this piece will appear in my upcoming novel YELLOW MIKE; OR, THE IDEOLOGIST.
heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/05/26/n...
heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/05/26/n...
New Fiction for Flavor Town USA: “Between Now and Forever” by D. Harlan Wilson
I had never stolen anything in my life, not even as a child. I received no guidance from good parents, and to this day, my moral compass remains an elemental lump of shit. Taking things that weren’…
heavyfeatherreview.org
July 30, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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Reposted by David Locke
I am starting to stack some subs on Substack... anti-lectures & microlectures & underground lectures are forthcoming... for now: "Trust Your Electronic Flesh: Write with Your Gothic Soul"
Trust Your Electronic Flesh
Write with Your Gothic Soul
open.substack.com
June 16, 2026 at 12:23 AM
I am starting to stack some subs on Substack... anti-lectures & microlectures & underground lectures are forthcoming... for now: "Trust Your Electronic Flesh: Write with Your Gothic Soul"