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Tommy's Perpetual Motion Flotsam Generating Machine
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Music. Books. Coffee. Code.
44 trips around the sun.
Married w/ 2 kids (all way cooler than me).
Process Ontology nerd.
Longing for a world where everyone can thrive.
Collective Liberation is the goal we're aiming for.
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Tommy's Perpetual Motion Flotsam Generating Machine @tommy.flotsam.wtf · Apr 8
I finally took the time to write up my thoughts and put together a mixtape for the month of March. This is "In the Underworld of the Long Dark" and I hope you enjoy it if you end up giving it a read and a listen!

#musicsky
#metalsky
#coresky

www.tommyokeefe.com/blog/mim-03-...
Month in Music: March 2026 Listening | Tommy O'Keefe
Mixtape made from my top played albums in March with some brief thoughts attached.
www.tommyokeefe.com
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Got some thoughts up about my anxious brain and the need to narrow my scope of focus. Give it a read if you're interested in that sort of thing.

www.flotsam.wtf/posts/circle...
TFW My Circle of Concern Is Actually The Entire Universe
fleeting serenity. overwhelming anxiety. acceptance requires a narrower scope.
www.flotsam.wtf
September 13, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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I’ve had the Slint boys in the algae filled reflecting pool for a hot minute now 😂
My lock screen - it’s the cover of the Slint album Spiderland photoshopped to look like the boys are in the reflecting pool on the national mall and the water is ecto-cooler green
August 5, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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If you don’t listen to NØ MAN you should start immediately.
July 30, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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I’m seeing Jejune & Ethel Meserve with my 17 year old tonight and I’m so excited!

I was a big fan when I was younger, so it was wild to see her discover them via social media and tell ME about the show (asking if I had ever heard of them 😂)

Props to Numero Group for ensuring this music lives on!
July 12, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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The new Snag record has me fired up

snagmke.bandcamp.com/album/all-th...
All The Cages Holding Us Will One Day Turn To Dust, by snag.
11 track album
snagmke.bandcamp.com
July 11, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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FROG MALLET!

frogmallet.bandcamp.com/album/consum...
Yoshi Bonk
Alt: Yoshi smashing with a mullet
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July 10, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.
theferocity.bsky.social Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · May 20
I’m coming to understand that maintaining hope is radical.
June 27, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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I'm part of the very specific fragment of the population for whom this image is the best joke of the week.
June 21, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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“Mirth is the mail of anguish” - Emily Dickinson

“I grieve saying, “you’re killing me!” when I meant to say “you are killing me.” I have died right in front of you so many times; my grief is my plus-one tonight.” - Saeed Jones

Excerpts from 2 poems I read today separated by 132 years.

#poetry
June 7, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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⚡️L⚡️👊⚡️R⚡️
⚡️T⚡️👊⚡️O⚡️
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May 31, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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Another Sunday morning with The Innocence Mission! Today we’re listening to Befriended, the album I have the deepest nostalgic ties to. It came out the year before I got married and is tied to so many good memories. Here’s my favorite song from the album:

youtu.be/Akzt9236myc?...
One For Sorrow, Two For Joy
YouTube video by Innocence Mission - Topic
youtu.be
May 31, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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After a series of meetings finally free to hit play on something else - “Through Zero” from Elder.

Really solid proggy psych stuff.

beholdtheelder.bandcamp.com/album/throug...
Through Zero, by Elder
6 track album
beholdtheelder.bandcamp.com
May 29, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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Started my day with the new Monolord record. It was an excellent choice!

monolord.bandcamp.com/album/nevere...
Neverending, by Monolord
8 track album
monolord.bandcamp.com
May 29, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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I’m guessing reactions will be a bit mixed but I am REALLY loving the new David Eugene Edwards album.

davideugeneedwards.bandcamp.com/album/mercur...
Mercurial Silence, by David Eugene Edwards
12 track album
davideugeneedwards.bandcamp.com
May 22, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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Started the day off spinning The Appleseed Cast’s “Low Level Owl (vol 1 & 2) on the turntable. What a fantastic record. 10/10. One of my all time favorites. Is there a better album at the intersection of emo and post-rock?

deepelmdigital.com/album/low-le...
The Appleseed cast’s low level owl album cover sitting on top of my amp and cassette deck The first of 3 records from the low level owl vol 1+2 release on my turntable.
May 18, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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I feel this in my soul

“…I have a finite time on this earth that I mostly want to spend interacting with other human beings. I don’t want to be the person arguing with a robot, or wasting my time reading something that a real person couldn’t be bothered to write.”

www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...
Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain
AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.
www.404media.co
May 11, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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This morning the cats were like “WTF is wrong with him” while I made coffee & gyrated wildly to the new Darkthrone. Siberian Thaw got these hips all loose.
mmmmmmuhh.bsky.social mmmmmmmmm @mmmmmmuhh.bsky.social · May 8
if the music makes you spontaneously act like a freak when you hear it the first time it’s good music
May 8, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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I keep coming back to this one over and over. Melodic and harmonic sensibilities are at absolute peak here, especially for something that falls under an “extreme metal” banner.
posttim.bsky.social Timothy™️ (Not Tim) @posttim.bsky.social · May 3
Listening to The Silver, one that’s moving toward the top for me in what is already a crowded field of releases this year.
Looking Glass Hymnal Blue, by The Silver
8 track album
thesilver.bandcamp.com
May 4, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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Another Sunday morning with The Innocence Mission. Today we have Brave from the 1995 album Glow.

“And I always go to pieces
And I have it in my mind
That the sky is tall and heavy
When I could be
Brave
Brave”

#musicsky

youtu.be/tPzQ0oVCPbc?...
"Brave " by The Innocence Mission (live from Borders SF)
YouTube video by Keith Abbott
youtu.be
May 3, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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“How possible everything is
in this wondering,
endless wait.
And how sure is joy, and safe.
In May I will say,
I am sorry and glad together
now”

Sunday morning with the Innocence Mission - today is the nostalgic “Sorry and Glad Together” from 1991s Umbrella.

#musicsky

youtu.be/DdTZcCVG5ME?...
Sorry And Glad Together
YouTube video by The Innocence Mission - Topic
youtu.be
April 26, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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The Trump cabinet trying to explain 6th grade math challenge (impossible)
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 23
RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'"

Trump: "Right"
April 23, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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I think this new Failure single that features Hayley Williams healed something inside me.

youtu.be/YusKvwuV3pA?...
Failure - "The Rising Skyline (feat. Hayley Williams)" [Official Music Video]
YouTube video by FAILURE (band)
youtu.be
April 23, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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This Shaking Hand cover of Badly Drawn Boy’s “The Shining” feels like a well placed nostalgia bullet straight to my sad bastard heart. 11/10!

#musicsky

shakinghandband.bandcamp.com/album/the-sh...
The Shining, by Shaking Hand
1 track album
shakinghandband.bandcamp.com
April 22, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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More sage wisdom from Francis Weller:

#booksky 📚💙
Restraint moves contrary to the goals of acquisition and accumulation. It is, rather, a value that serves the commons, arising as it does from our long story of mutual survival. It is rooted in an embedded truth that we have endured together. Our survival is possible only in collaboration with the many others with whom we share this stunning world. In the Absence of the Ordinary Francis Weller
April 19, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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On Sunday mornings I often reach for the music of The Innocence Mission. Today is a “Mercy” day.

“There are no fires of hell, there is only mercy.”

#musicsky

youtu.be/L2glRLOysp4?...
Mercy
YouTube video by The Innocence Mission - Topic
youtu.be
April 19, 2026 at 1:46 PM