Rob
@thedeathsiren.bsky.social
Noise trailer https://youtu.be/nUBxn3Mv7k0?si=LidCdFrNoTHlOjAu
You might remember me but I changed my name and avi again and I stopped posting for a year.
I generally block all Nazis, zionists, and other fascists.
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You might remember me but I changed my name and avi again and I stopped posting for a year.
I generally block all Nazis, zionists, and other fascists.
South Philly
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Rob
@thedeathsiren.bsky.social
· Aug 7
Final/best part of @notreallyjcm.bsky.social and me talking to the godfather of punk cinema, Jon Moritsugu. More on his productions/releases, James Duvall, Gregg Araki, Hawaii, and we both talk some about our mom’s dying in the last year.
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If you love zines and are in NYC between now and Dec. 12, consider checking this out! I wish I could, I think I'm just barely missing it in December 😭
centerforbookarts.org/exhibitions/...
centerforbookarts.org/exhibitions/...
Paper Cuts
Paper Cuts: Independent Publishing in the United States, 2000–2025 examines twenty-five years of independent publishing in the United States through a collection of more than 600 zines and small-press...
centerforbookarts.org
September 15, 2026 at 9:57 PM
If you love zines and are in NYC between now and Dec. 12, consider checking this out! I wish I could, I think I'm just barely missing it in December 😭
centerforbookarts.org/exhibitions/...
centerforbookarts.org/exhibitions/...
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There’s a bizarre contrarianism in the Democratic Party, where, if an idea catches on with the base it’s treated as presumptively unreasonable forever. Not even an effort to *appear* to be supportive. Politicians used to pander!
September 14, 2026 at 5:53 PM
There’s a bizarre contrarianism in the Democratic Party, where, if an idea catches on with the base it’s treated as presumptively unreasonable forever. Not even an effort to *appear* to be supportive. Politicians used to pander!
Flattered to have been included in Arvo Zylo’s 13 Questions interview series even though I mostly talked about the Grateful Dead and Agnes Varda
substack.com/@13questions...
substack.com/@13questions...
13 questions #41: Rob Marvin
Rob Marvin creates experimental music under the name Gray Romantics, often incorporating soft synths and field recordings into different patterns; rhythmic or otherwise.
substack.com
September 14, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Flattered to have been included in Arvo Zylo’s 13 Questions interview series even though I mostly talked about the Grateful Dead and Agnes Varda
substack.com/@13questions...
substack.com/@13questions...
My Bloody Valentine when they played You Made Me Realise
What’s the loudest concert you’ve ever been to?
September 14, 2026 at 1:40 AM
My Bloody Valentine when they played You Made Me Realise
Spanish sounds better with an Italian accent
September 9, 2026 at 4:59 AM
Spanish sounds better with an Italian accent
All of the commercials in Mexico look like AI
September 6, 2026 at 7:08 PM
All of the commercials in Mexico look like AI
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What’s the best/worst way a show has handled a show’s pregnancy? For me…
Best: It’s Always Sunny, with a shout-out to X-Files
Worst: Frasier and it doesn’t seem close. And Fraser is one of my all-time favorite shows ever.
Best: It’s Always Sunny, with a shout-out to X-Files
Worst: Frasier and it doesn’t seem close. And Fraser is one of my all-time favorite shows ever.
September 4, 2026 at 11:42 PM
What’s the best/worst way a show has handled a show’s pregnancy? For me…
Best: It’s Always Sunny, with a shout-out to X-Files
Worst: Frasier and it doesn’t seem close. And Fraser is one of my all-time favorite shows ever.
Best: It’s Always Sunny, with a shout-out to X-Files
Worst: Frasier and it doesn’t seem close. And Fraser is one of my all-time favorite shows ever.
It is bandcamp Friday and I have a bandcamp with some things of varying levels of effort and quality.
grayromantics.bandcamp.com
grayromantics.bandcamp.com
September 4, 2026 at 5:27 PM
It is bandcamp Friday and I have a bandcamp with some things of varying levels of effort and quality.
grayromantics.bandcamp.com
grayromantics.bandcamp.com
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this stuff loses a lot of regular people like me, wins no one on the right, and undermines efforts to build unity in a coalition that go back to AOC backing biden. with elections right around the corner, does the dem party have a toxic centrist problem?
New From the Hater and Losers Caucus of the Democratic Party:
September 1, 2026 at 2:30 AM
this stuff loses a lot of regular people like me, wins no one on the right, and undermines efforts to build unity in a coalition that go back to AOC backing biden. with elections right around the corner, does the dem party have a toxic centrist problem?
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One of these two candidates if elected will vote to give the Egyptian junta 3 billion dollars of free weapons every single year and the other one is the Egyptian-American.
Mike Rogers describes Egypt as "home" for Abdul El-Sayed
(El-Sayed was in fact born in Michigan)
(El-Sayed was in fact born in Michigan)
August 31, 2026 at 7:28 PM
One of these two candidates if elected will vote to give the Egyptian junta 3 billion dollars of free weapons every single year and the other one is the Egyptian-American.
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Whenever I see a poll like this I always like to remind people that approval for interracial marriage in the US did not cross the 50% mark until 1994, when I was already in my twenties.
Pew Research Center poll on “transgender athletes competing on sports teams that don’t match their birth sex”:
• 27% of American adults are somewhat/very/extremely comfortable with it
• 73% are not comfortable with it
Democrats are also NOT comfortable with it: 55-44% margin.
• 27% of American adults are somewhat/very/extremely comfortable with it
• 73% are not comfortable with it
Democrats are also NOT comfortable with it: 55-44% margin.
August 31, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Whenever I see a poll like this I always like to remind people that approval for interracial marriage in the US did not cross the 50% mark until 1994, when I was already in my twenties.
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The fact that Hasan isn’t going anywhere and will still likely be supporting and campaigning for DSA candidates in 2028 only proves that libs are well aware the only thing they’re doing is helping Republicans win in Michigan and there really isn’t a non-racist explanation why they’re doing that.
One of the things that scrambles lib brains w re: Hasan (and you saw this dynamic w Chapo also) is they have precisely no leverage over him
Libs Trying To Last Even an Hour Criticizing Hasan Without Revealing They’re Just Racists Challenge, difficulty level: impossible
August 31, 2026 at 4:24 PM
The fact that Hasan isn’t going anywhere and will still likely be supporting and campaigning for DSA candidates in 2028 only proves that libs are well aware the only thing they’re doing is helping Republicans win in Michigan and there really isn’t a non-racist explanation why they’re doing that.
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No manager to complain to to get them fired and in fact their audiences both like it that libs hate them.
One of the things that scrambles lib brains w re: Hasan (and you saw this dynamic w Chapo also) is they have precisely no leverage over him
Libs Trying To Last Even an Hour Criticizing Hasan Without Revealing They’re Just Racists Challenge, difficulty level: impossible
August 31, 2026 at 4:30 PM
No manager to complain to to get them fired and in fact their audiences both like it that libs hate them.
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Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it may ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.”
Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment.
No questions asked.
No proof required.
Pass it on.
Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment.
No questions asked.
No proof required.
Pass it on.
August 31, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it may ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.”
Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment.
No questions asked.
No proof required.
Pass it on.
Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment.
No questions asked.
No proof required.
Pass it on.
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Even worse in context. The thing about philosemites is that they love Jews precisely up to the point where you stop validating their fantasy version of Judaism, and not one inch further.
August 30, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Even worse in context. The thing about philosemites is that they love Jews precisely up to the point where you stop validating their fantasy version of Judaism, and not one inch further.
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As a general rule that applies not only to charitable giving but to many areas is that reducing transaction costs is by default good. A flaw of libertarianism is the assumption that government adds transaction costs when it's actually a powerful reducer of them when used correctly.
The reason you want an actual humanitarian aid system and *don’t* want to force everybody to rely on online mutual aid is because online mutual aid *forces people experiencing horrific trauma* to perform on the Internet for survival.
August 29, 2026 at 1:00 PM
As a general rule that applies not only to charitable giving but to many areas is that reducing transaction costs is by default good. A flaw of libertarianism is the assumption that government adds transaction costs when it's actually a powerful reducer of them when used correctly.
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it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house
Tur: It’s not just the media, and I reject that framing. 6 in 10 Americans don’t know who he is. I’m not saying he’s the most important person in the world, but...is it worth losing votes you need to win?
AES: 10 in 10 Americans agree that they can’t afford the things that they need in their lives.
AES: 10 in 10 Americans agree that they can’t afford the things that they need in their lives.
August 28, 2026 at 8:45 PM
it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house
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Reactionary centrists pretend to be saying "disavow Piker to make this all go away, so it doesn't hurt your electoral chances," but they know as well as we do that 1) "disavowing" does not make anything go away, it keeps it in the news, and 2) they don't *want* it to go away! It's all a farce.
This only "becomes a political and moral crisis" if reactionary centrists relentlessly frame it as one.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
August 28, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Reactionary centrists pretend to be saying "disavow Piker to make this all go away, so it doesn't hurt your electoral chances," but they know as well as we do that 1) "disavowing" does not make anything go away, it keeps it in the news, and 2) they don't *want* it to go away! It's all a farce.
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The process of printing these and getting them out the door begins shortly. Response has actually been nuts so they'll be going out in segments. I will get them all in the mail by Sept. 8! Thanks to everyone who has preordered, it's a huge list. I had to buy way more paper 🙏
I have two zines up for pre-order: one is about the X-Men (#1 in a series) and the other is about some very odd movies that Elizabeth Taylor starred in. Each is over 60 pages and done in the format of a personal essay 💗 sara-century.square.site for this and my previously released film zines.
August 28, 2026 at 4:36 PM
The process of printing these and getting them out the door begins shortly. Response has actually been nuts so they'll be going out in segments. I will get them all in the mail by Sept. 8! Thanks to everyone who has preordered, it's a huge list. I had to buy way more paper 🙏
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If you have a minute, please check out my post about our interview with the one and only Jon Moritsugu. (The interviews are at the link, too.) It's all free.
Getting real with Jon Moritsugu
On our latest Platonic Polyamory episodes, we dived into the works of the godfather of punk cinema. What we learned was so much more than that.
dirtbagchristian.substack.com
August 28, 2026 at 1:26 AM
If you have a minute, please check out my post about our interview with the one and only Jon Moritsugu. (The interviews are at the link, too.) It's all free.
New season of Futurama is surprisingly good again
August 28, 2026 at 3:03 AM
New season of Futurama is surprisingly good again
The idea that Hollywood and tv will be replaced by hyper personalized ai shows people make for themselves. People want to share and talk about things they like and I already fast forward through 10 seconds of the garbage reels friends send me, hell if I’ll watch 3 hours of their slop.
August 27, 2026 at 3:53 AM
The idea that Hollywood and tv will be replaced by hyper personalized ai shows people make for themselves. People want to share and talk about things they like and I already fast forward through 10 seconds of the garbage reels friends send me, hell if I’ll watch 3 hours of their slop.
It’s wild we went from ticketing services not telling you how much fees are to not telling you how much tickets cost before they go on sale. City Winery will give you the option to sign up for a waiting list for *sold out* shows and still not tell you how much they cost.
August 21, 2026 at 3:10 PM
It’s wild we went from ticketing services not telling you how much fees are to not telling you how much tickets cost before they go on sale. City Winery will give you the option to sign up for a waiting list for *sold out* shows and still not tell you how much they cost.
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