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“Evergreen” from Threnody, my second volume of poetry available now for pre-order at http://nihtgengapress.com

Books are coming in on Saturday and will be mailed out first thing Monday!!!

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#Poetry #Books #Independent

S5384
A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to reduce the standard workweek from 40 hours per week to 32 hours per week, and for other purposes.

📢 Introduced in Senate

https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5384

#S5384 #congress119 #senate #independent #congress #newbill

Triple threat powers Iowa’s Best Burger Cafe https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/10962/ #community #financial #foodservice #HumanResources #IceCream #independent #Iowa #IowaDining #IowaFood #IowaGroceryStores #IowaRestaurants #labor #News #retailers #Sandwiches

Triple threat powers Iowa’s Best Burger Cafe https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/9528/ #community #financial #foodservice #HumanResources #IceCream #independent #Iowa #IowaDining #IowaFood #IowaGroceryStores #IowaRestaurants #labor #News #retailers #Sandwiches

Triple threat powers Iowa’s Best Burger Cafe https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/9528/ #community #financial #foodservice #HumanResources #IceCream #independent #Iowa #IowaDining #IowaFood #IowaGroceryStores #IowaRestaurants #labor #News #retailers #Sandwiches

Triple threat powers Iowa’s Best Burger Cafe https://www.diningandcooking.com/us/9528/ #community #financial #foodservice #HumanResources #IceCream #independent #Iowa #IowaDining #IowaFood #IowaGroceryStores #IowaRestaurants #labor #News #retailers #Sandwiches

"Tysma's light touch on the piano's skin and a faint, cautiously optimistic, ambient awakening, echoing real-life affairs of the heart"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/andert-tysma-savoy-for-rajshri-ambient

Find Trysma in the Slow Ambient Playlist: https://www.submithub.com/links/slow-ambient-playlist

#ambient #piano #music #alternative #independent #artist #berlin

"Tysma's light touch on the piano's skin and a faint, cautiously optimistic, ambient awakening, echoing real-life affairs of the heart"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/andert-tysma-savoy-for-rajshri-ambient

Find Trysma in the Slow Ambient Playlist: https://www.submithub.com/links/slow-ambient-playlist

#ambient #piano #music #alternative #independent #artist #berlin

"Tysma's light touch on the piano's skin and a faint, cautiously optimistic, ambient awakening, echoing real-life affairs of the heart"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/andert-tysma-savoy-for-rajshri-ambient

Find Trysma in the Slow Ambient Playlist: https://www.submithub.com/links/slow-ambient-playlist

#ambient #piano #music #alternative #independent #artist #berlin

"Tysma's light touch on the piano's skin and a faint, cautiously optimistic, ambient awakening, echoing real-life affairs of the heart"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/andert-tysma-savoy-for-rajshri-ambient

Find Trysma in the Slow Ambient Playlist: https://www.submithub.com/links/slow-ambient-playlist

#ambient #piano #music #alternative #independent #artist #berlin

"Tysma's light touch on the piano's skin and a faint, cautiously optimistic, ambient awakening, echoing real-life affairs of the heart"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/andert-tysma-savoy-for-rajshri-ambient

Find Trysma in the Slow Ambient Playlist: https://www.submithub.com/links/slow-ambient-playlist

#ambient #piano #music #alternative #independent #artist #berlin

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“Devour” from Threnody, my second volume of poetry, available for pre-order at http://nihtgengapress.com

Thank you for supporting an independent poet 🖤✨

#Poetry #Books #Independent

“Devour” from Threnody, my second volume of poetry, available for pre-order at http://nihtgengapress.com

Thank you for supporting an independent poet 🖤✨

#Poetry #Books #Independent

“Devour” from Threnody, my second volume of poetry, available for pre-order at http://nihtgengapress.com

Thank you for supporting an independent poet 🖤✨

#Poetry #Books #Independent

“Devour” from Threnody, my second volume of poetry, available for pre-order at http://nihtgengapress.com

Thank you for supporting an independent poet 🖤✨

#Poetry #Books #Independent

“Devour” from Threnody, my second volume of poetry, available for pre-order at http://nihtgengapress.com

Thank you for supporting an independent poet 🖤✨

#Poetry #Books #Independent

Ein ausgelegter Flyer in der Markthalle Hamburg besagt, dass das #ZILLO zurück ist. Ältere Semester und Gothic Fans erinnern sich noch an das Independent Musikmagazin der Schwarzen Szene. 🎶🖤👋👀 #SchwarzeSzene #Musikmagazin #Gothic #Musik #Music #Magazine #Independent

https://facebook.com/zillo1989
https://www.instagram.com/zillo_1989/

Ein ausgelegter Flyer in der Markthalle Hamburg besagt, dass das #ZILLO zurück ist. Ältere Semester und Gothic Fans erinnern sich noch an das Independent Musikmagazin der Schwarzen Szene. 🎶🖤👋👀 #SchwarzeSzene #Musikmagazin #Gothic #Musik #Music #Magazine #Independent

https://facebook.com/zillo1989
https://www.instagram.com/zillo_1989/

Ein ausgelegter Flyer in der Markthalle Hamburg besagt, dass das #ZILLO zurück ist. Ältere Semester und Gothic Fans erinnern sich noch an das Independent Musikmagazin der Schwarzen Szene. 🎶🖤👋👀 #SchwarzeSzene #Musikmagazin #Gothic #Musik #Music #Magazine #Independent

https://facebook.com/zillo1989
https://www.instagram.com/zillo_1989/

Ein ausgelegter Flyer in der Markthalle Hamburg besagt, dass das #ZILLO zurück ist. Ältere Semester und Gothic Fans erinnern sich noch an das Independent Musikmagazin der Schwarzen Szene. 🎶🖤👋👀 #SchwarzeSzene #Musikmagazin #Gothic #Musik #Music #Magazine #Independent

https://facebook.com/zillo1989
https://www.instagram.com/zillo_1989/

Ein ausgelegter Flyer in der Markthalle Hamburg besagt, dass das #ZILLO zurück ist. Ältere Semester und Gothic Fans erinnern sich noch an das Independent Musikmagazin der Schwarzen Szene. 🎶🖤👋👀 #SchwarzeSzene #Musikmagazin #Gothic #Musik #Music #Magazine #Independent

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https://www.instagram.com/zillo_1989/

Hana Stretton - tiarn (Lima Limo)

"field recordings that might have sounded tired and detached in more traditional ambient work, but which here are a living, breathing part of the compositions"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/hana-stretton-tiarn-ambient-folk

Find Stretton in the Slow Folk Playlist: https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-folk-playlist

#ambient #folk #fieldrecordings #music #alternative #independent #artist #australia

Hana Stretton - tiarn (Lima Limo)

"field recordings that might have sounded tired and detached in more traditional ambient work, but which here are a living, breathing part of the compositions"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/hana-stretton-tiarn-ambient-folk

Find Stretton in the Slow Folk Playlist: https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-folk-playlist

#ambient #folk #fieldrecordings #music #alternative #independent #artist #australia

NOW ON VERDANT SQUARE RADIO ==

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NOW PLAYING == The Ralph Nader Show 9/12/26 Episode 654 - Citizens Impeachment/Stopping Corporate Abusehttps://youtu.be/S2kEDJg23ng?si=_S7i2KydQISiPWqx#news #uspol #politics #consumer #RalphNader #history #corporatecrime #SteveSkrovan #DavidFeldman #HannahFeldman #independent #activism #greenparty #education #LearnSomething #radio #vsn #progressive #left #publicradio https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/117260314453595840

NOW PLAYING == The Ralph Nader Show 9/12/26 Episode 654 - Citizens Impeachment/Stopping Corporate Abuse

https://youtu.be/S2kEDJg23ng?si=_S7i2KydQISiPWqx

#news #uspol #politics #consumer #RalphNader #history #corporatecrime #SteveSkrovan #DavidFeldman #HannahFeldman #independent #activism #greenparty #education #LearnSomething #radio #vsn #progressive #left #publicradio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist #SupportPublicMedia

"subwoofer-testing bass, lazy, stripped-back but swinging beats and a taste of Lebanon permeate all the cuts"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/dj-plead-please-beats

Find Plead in the Slow World Playlist. Playlist:https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-world-playlist

#beats #lebanon #music #alternative #independent #artist #berlin

SLAU - Here we are
NEW SLAU-SINGLE THIS FALL, short teaser
More Slau on Spotify. Video: EB © Slau 2026
#slau #denhaag #ICE #minneapolis #livemusic #Albumrelease #vinyl #Independent #indierockbands #indierockmusic #britpop #politics #usa #trump #Pretti #Good #antiice #noking
https://youtube.com/shorts/N6Jt2lxMCrs?si=_pi92gPTuE8WRaP2

#Trump Fired the #Watchdogs. Their Replacements Have a Different Mission.

Trump is installing his allies in the offices of #InspectorGeneral, which are meant to provide #independent #government #oversight.

#GiftArticle

#law #corruption #RevengePolitics #LegalEthics #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/us/politics/trump-inspector-general.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7lA.mZJ-.CdEXIhVgqg4R&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Pablo Starr on AI Filmmaking, BoredSpace and Hollywood's Future | Comic Crusaders Podcast #747
P.A. Lopez, aka Pablo Starr,...
https://comiccrusaders.com/watch-listen/pa-lopez-ai-filmmaking-boredspace-brain-poison-studios/
#AI cinema #AI Filmmaking #AI video #Al Mega #artificial intelligence #BoredSpace #Brain Poison Studios #comic crusaders podcast #creator-owned IP #cyberpink #filmmaking technology #future of Hollywood #generative AI #independent film #indie filmmaking #p.a. lopez #Pablo Starr

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Since #Trump easily won #Kentucky in the #2024election you wouldn’t *think* that the state has ‘sore loser laws’, but it does.

So #ThomasMassie is barred from running as an #Independent after losing the #KY4 #Republican primary to a #Trump stooge. https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/19/politics/thomas-massie-whats-next-impact

But he *can* endorse and campaign with any Independent of #Libertarian candidate that he feels like. 🤷🏻‍♂️

#Resist #kakistocracy in #USpol with #ElbowsUp 💪!

If you follow #Firefox news at all, you will have seen the recent announcement of Mozilla's new CEO. And being a Fediverse denizen, you probably experienced a wave of disgust, nausea, betrayal, anger, and / or shame, because the new idiot is all-in on "AI" / LLM integration in Firefox.

The best brief summary of the announcement I've seen is this:

https://mamot.fr/@ploum/115730935437271047

If you prefer your hot takes a little saltier, this is another entry in the apparently unending series of self-inflicted injuries:

https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/115732207063445044

As others have noted, it's one of the clearest examples of a company getting their own customers' wants completely ass-backwards ever seen. And that includes topping all the "AI" announcements #Mozilla has made over the last couple of years, so it's really saying something.

There are community/volunteer #forks of Firefox that remove the #LLM #junk, but many people, including me, don't believe that's a particularly #sustainable model.

1/x

#browser #community #independent #NoAI #NobodyWants #AntiFeature

"encourage you to pay more attention to life's ambient soundtrack as you go about your business"
https://www.theslowmusicmovement.org/post/lia-kohl-voting-line-downtown-chicago-dauw-ambient-field-recordings

Find Kohl in the Slow Ambient Playlist:
https://www.submithub.com/link/slow-ambient-playlist

#ambient #fieldrecordings #whistling #music #independent #artist #chicago

Record(s) o’ the Month – May 2025

By Angry Metal Guy

There are months when the Record(s) o’ the Month feels like a sacred duty. It is the noble, worthwhile culmination of rigorous listening and passionate discourse.1 And then there’s May. May, a month in which Dr. A.N. Grier tried to vote for a band called… SEXCAVE or some shit four or five different times using different pseudonyms (but the same IP address), and where Dolphin Whisperer almost made me rage quit by making a single comment about “sky-tearing tonalities,” which, like… what kind of pretentious fucking bullshit is that? Do you people even listen to music, or do you just sit around all day making up stupid poetic ways of saying absolutely nothing?2 But if we’re fair, he wasn’t entirely wrong. Sometimes a record arrives that doesn’t just demand attention, it seizes it like an Aztec death deity grabbing the sun.3 So for the first time in a while, the best album in May came from an unsigned band. And not just any unsigned band. It came from a band proficient in bull riding!

The beauty of the Unsigned Band Rodeö lies in its chaos. No expectations. No promo sheets. No preconceived narratives. Just music dropped into our laps like cursed artifacts.4 On Nikan Axkan, which was self-released on May 2nd, 2025 [Bandcamp], Kalaveraztekah weaponizes its vision of death metal through the lens of pre-Hispanic culture and indigenous cosmology. There’s no sense that these Hidrocálidos are some kind of novelty act. They aren’t a Mexican Eluveitie, just playing Dark Tranquillity riffs while putting a Ritual Death Flute over it for 40 seconds in every song.5 Rather, Nikan Axkan is a muscular, seething, and deeply rooted record that radiates conviction from every grinding riff. The percussion rumbles like a procession of drums echoing through stone temples, fusing to a brutal core of death metal that just fucks. There’s a Blood Incantation-like spaciness that offers a counterbalance to all this brutality and adds unexpected depth. After spending the better part of a week in what my physician has called a “ritualistic fugue state,” I managed to pull myself out of the netherworld to write that when Kalaveraztekah’s two pillars—the atmospheric otherworldly and the brutal death metal—meet, “they crash into each other like storm fronts, creating something beautiful and terrible to behold. Nikan Axkan is simultaneously brutal and thoughtful, grindy and melodic, atmospheric and immediate,” and it’s the Record o’ the Month.

Runner(s) Up:

…and Oceans // The Regeneration Itinerary [May 23rd, 2025 | Season of Mist | Bandcamp] — …and Oceans is having an Amorphisesque second act and I am here for it. They’ve always walked the line between symphonic grandiosity and black metal chaos, and with The Regeneration Itinerary, they’ve engineered their third very good platter in 5 years. The record combines sharp, Emperor-style riffing with theatrical synths, industrial flourishes, and ruthlessly precise pacing. “Demonstrating a degree of evolution in their craft” and with “exceptional [performances] across the board,” …and Oceans have once again hit that sweet balance—and ever-more unique sound in this current black metal soundscape—that makes their revitalization so welcome. But it’s not just that it’s a good continuation, I feel like they are continuing to refine and revitalize the launch with each new album they release. It’s always fun to watch bands defy Angry Metal Guy’s Law of Diminishing Recordings™, and while The Regeneration Itinerary isn’t their best record yet, 30 years after their debut, …and Oceans is still releasing vital music that’s impossible to overlook.

Jade // Mysteries of a Flowery Dream [May 9th, 2025 | Pulverised Records | Bandcamp] — Mysteries of a Flowery Dream is an atmospheric death metal record that unfolds like a guided hallucination. It’s melodic. It’s moody. It’s weirdly elegant. And it doesn’t care about my riffs-per-minute quota. It takes things slow and keeps them dreamy. Jade trades bludgeoning immediacy for textured dream-logic, and while it takes a few listens to understand what’s happening, once it clicks, it’s hard for listeners to shake. And yet, it balances out the problem that atmospheric records rarely feel heavy, because they’re too busy padding the sharp edges with “atmosphere.” But Mysteries of a Flowery Dream accomplishes its heaviness by feeling oppressive, dense, claustrophobic, and crushing—leaving the listener feeling like they’re in an experimental submarine on their way to see the Titanic.6 And while it’s not the easiest record to penetrate, Owlswald wants you to know that “those who actively immerse themselves in Jade’s expansive world will be handsomely rewarded. The excellent songwriting, replete with its cohesion, balance, and dynamism, is impressive, steadily shifting my initial apathetic impressions to genuine appreciation. So don your finest headphones, sit back, and let Jade immerse you in their dreamlike world.”

#AndOceans #2025 #AMGSUnsignedBandRodeo #Amorphis #DarkTranquillity #Eluveitie #Emperor #Independent #Jade #Kalaveraztekah #May25 #MysteriesOfAFloweryDream #NikanAxkan #RecordSOTheMonth #RecordsOfTheMonth #SelfReleases #TheRegenerationItinerary

Another reason why #Scotland should be #independent, avoid being part o' shituations like this...

#AreYouYesYet

@br00t4c https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/112699645336831063

RT by @ECRepMalta: 6 years ago #DaphneCaruanaGalizia was murdered.

Today we think of her, her family and all #independent #journalists around the world who risk their lives to bring us the #truth.

#MediaFreedomAct
#StopSLAPPs
#SLAPPs

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/VeraJourova/status/1713922277547401726#m

[2023-10-16 14:18 UTC]

Der #unabhängig​e #Journalismus sei in #Gefahr;

#Hinweis auf #Novaya #Gazeta als einer der letzten #national #signifikant​en #Zeitung​en #Russland​s.

Eine der #Gefahr​en sei der #Bankrott durch #digital​e #Disruption.#Corona als #möglich​er letzter #Tropfen, der das #Fass zum #überlaufen bringt, weil dadurch #Einnahme​n durch #Werbeanzeige​n wegbrechen.

#Gefahrenmeldung; #Werbung

#NewYork #Times, 11.12.2021, #Opinion, S.8, Maria #Ressa, Mark #Thompson - #Independent #Journalism is at #risk..