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Adam Klein

@ajklein.bsky.social
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Lover of music; live, recorded, or both. Devotee/arm-chair critic of world cinema. Would otherwise prefer to be outdoors. Previously: V8, WebKit, Chromium.

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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 11h
Can’t tell if lack of baseball posting in my feed is just because the M’s are out, or if there’s genuinely not a team to root for as fun as last year’s Blue Jays
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 28/09/2026
i'm reminded that when "social media" started it was called "social networking," and i'd always thought the shift was arbitrary. but i recently realized it's because networking is concrete, it's a direct method for forming relationships. media is definitionally an abstraction of reality.
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
join me in the sky, beaming out new music & other delights on the frow show, from now 'til midnight ET on @wfmu.bsky.social. wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...
a pixelated lady's face sliced into four with text between: the frow show, tuesday 9pm-12am ET, wfmu.org/91.1 nj/91.9 nj
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Michael Calore @snackfight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Fun little census project: sunset-sign-census.github.io
sunset-sign-census.github.io
Outer Sunset Window Sign Census
A block-by-block count of the Outer Sunset homes showing a Prop G window sign, from 45th Avenue west to the ocean.
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
rip annie dillard
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
NFL’s New Overtime Rules

- First possession per team
- Which comes first: score or possession
- If coin flip is heads, elect to kick or receive. Same if tails, once possessions
- If a field goal is kicked on first possession, team on field must acquiesce

Designed by Jon. Share with your friends if you found this helpful!
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bootsriley.bsky.social @bootsriley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Come see our discussion
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Lookout Landing @lookoutlanding.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Naylor being like "oh. No thank you" here on this awful throw that set him up to get trucked at first is very much the experience of watching the 2026 Mariners
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
rise up into the perfumed evening with the frow show, 3 hours of new music, etc., from now 'til midnight on @wfmu.bsky.social. wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...
fractal-like clouds or cloud-like fractals in purple and blue and red
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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky on your camera roll...
two feet at the beach
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Andy Zax @andyzax.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I somehow managed to miss out for decades on Jon Hassell’s incredible Eno/Lanois-produced ECM album—spiraling minimalist ethno-chug of the highest order—so I am now urging you not to make the same tragic mistake.
Jon Hassell, Power Spot (ECM, 1986)
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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Spending the afternoon in Santa Monica to beat the heat before night 2/3 of Jeff Parker IVtet. LA: not bad! Especially thanks to rail transit (shout out to Metro A/D/E and Metrolink VC lines)
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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Wednesday at the Neptune! Also Friday at the UC Theatre in Berkeley, and I’ve got two tickets for that up for grabs.
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Rose City Band 🌹 @rosecityband.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
2 nights in SF this September 🌈✌️🌹 Tix: thechapelsf.com/calendar/?li...
Rose City Band poster for September 25 & 26 at The Chapel in San Francisco
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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
David Bowie wore the famous zig-zag ‘lightning bolt’ face make-up just once: for the Aladdin Sane album cover shoot in January 1973. Just that one time.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 12/08/2026
Again, woke 1 was not silly. None of the things that Black people asked for were inappropriate or unnecessary. Y'all just stopped listening to Black people, and started talking amongst yourselves about what you thought woke was. Then you called that silly. You listen to nazis over Black people.🤷🏿‍♂️
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Michael Calore @snackfight.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
People of the San Francisco Bay Area! My funtime dance party cover band @nascum.bsky.social is playing LCD SOUNDSYSTEM songs on Friday Aug 21 at Rickshaw Stop! We're performing with a Daft Punk tribute. All ages! Tickets here: wl.eventim.us/event/lcd-so...
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Robert Ham @robertham.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My newsletter continues this week with a piece asking some folks who play the music of Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia the question of why GD/JG connects with them and why the band is still connecting with people six decades on. www.isthisrealpdx.com/the-enduring...
isthisrealpdx.com
The Enduring Sound of the Grateful Dead
Happy Thursday to all you lovely subscribers and readers of Is This Real. Hope the day is treating you well. I'm watching hopefully for the wildfire smoke to dissipate in the outside air and praying f...
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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In many ways it could be regarded as the Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper".
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
transmitting from my headscape to yours via the medium of radio, 3 hours of new music & perfumed sounds on the frow show, from now 'til midnight on @wfmu.bsky.social. get in tune: wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...
distorted moonscape with Frow Show text
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Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Really good trolling would be to go see Picnic at Hanging Rock with some friends and then 35 minutes in get up and leave the theater and disappear and never be seen again by anyone in their entire life
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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A modest proposal, inspired by yesterday's Argentine ridiculousness: for each 10 shots on goal, a team is awarded 0.1 points
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 06/07/2026
I love this short little video montage of actresses during Charlie Rose interviews. No dialogue, just quiet reactions. Musical accompaniment by Laurie Anderson (O Superman). [instagram.com]
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"Hello? This is your Mother."
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A man says "I'm an adult! I can do anything I want!" he then bears a quizical expression and asks himself "Hey What DO I want?" He holds his position and ages for years and years until he is a skeleton.
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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Watching my first Fox World Cup broadcast after watching a bunch of games while in Ireland…oh god these commentators are terrible (and I don’t even know anything about this sport!)
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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
So happy the Frow Show is back on the airwaves/internets
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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
My favorite film so far this year!
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
thrilled that the frow show will be returning to @wfmu.bsky.social's killer tuesday night lineup, starting june 9th at 9pm ET.
Music of Mind Control w Micah 7-8
Vocal Fry w Dan Bodah
The Frow Show with Jesse Jarnow
Radio Futura sith with DJ Pedro Fumero Mid-3
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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
“The return of the imperial boomerang does not just feel factually inevitable, it feels morally inevitable as well. What would it mean if we lived in a world where the U.S. military could destroy so many lives, so wantonly, and not suffer any consequences?” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-the-b...
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
i reviewed the gorgeous new album by the north carolina improv trio setting for @pitchfork.com (with a shout to @longrally.bsky.social's theory of the gorp-jazz continuum). pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...
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Setting: Setting
Read Jesse Jarnow’s review of the album.
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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Caught both of these, with Martel & her cinematographer on OUR LAND at the Roxie a couple weeks ago. My second viewing of THE HEADLESS WOMAN; I feel I’m barely scratching its surface, yet remain enthralled
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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Post your warning sign
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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The Big Ship - Eno Sound and Vision - Bowie Rain - Beatles Ceremony - New Order Made-Up Dreams - Built to Spill Revelator - Gillian Welch Visions of Johanna - Dylan Change - Big Thief Strangers - Kinks This Must Be The Place - Talking Heads
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qntm @qntm.org · 28/04/2026
To give an idea of Sabastian Sawe's running pace, if you ran a marathon at that speed you would be finished in less than TWO HOURS
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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
OK gonna do a thread! OTOH, the idea of the "pirate" was used as the photo negative to define the idea of a legitimate sovereign in a developing international order, and express ambivalence. One of the most popular piracy memes from ~1550-1700 is an apocryphal tale from Cicero by way of Augustine.
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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Spent the last two magical evenings with Gillian Welch & David Rawlings (with Paul Kowert on bass, and Grahame Lesh joining for the encore on Friday) at the Fox as they channeled the Dead. Still levitating.
an empty stage viewed from the front of the balconyDave Rawlings, Gillian Welch, and Paul Kowert playingGrahame Lesh, Dave Rawlings, Gillian Welch, and Paul Kowert playingmarquee of the Fox
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Jeff Nichols @backwardsriver.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891
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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
my dentist now offers out his dog Molly as an emotional support animal during visits. she only left when he started up the noisy polisher
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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
If you have Hungarian friends, please check in on them. Netflix has nothing on this election campaign: a twisting spy scandal, Russian meddling, Orbán off the rails. And we still have four days left. I wrote a (still slightly incredulous) rundown 👇 brettoninthewoods.substack.com/p/inside-hun...
brettoninthewoods.substack.com
Inside Hungary’s Election Meltdown
If you have Hungarian friends, check in on them. These past few weeks have been bonkers.
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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Go Kurosawa tonight at Neumos: space rock, reggae, bossa nova and much more. Great show!
a five-man band onstage with colored lights
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
holy wow, just realized my book "heads: a biography of psychedelic america" came out 10 years ago this week. available from da capo press through fine independent purveyors of paper, electronic, & audio books! what a baffling time-dilated trip it's been? www.dacapopress.com/titles/jesse...
book on shelf, Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America
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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
in honor of my dad's birthday (he would have been 84) and his enthusiasm for public transit, taking my inaugural journey on the 2 line all the way out to Redmond
view of a bridge, lake, and bright blue sky out the window of a light rail car
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Ryan Cavanaugh @searyanc.dev · 25/03/2026
gnosis.church What? What.
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Gnosis Church -- Irreversibility Creates Being
A topology-first language where fork, race, and fold are the computational model. The void is not empty.
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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Caught Dirty Three last night at Neumos on Capitol Hill! Nearly three hours of swells, rhythms, and yelling (occasionally joined by the crowd). Warren Ellis spoke at length between songs, and dedicated the evening to Mark Lanegan, which garnered appreciative and bittersweet applause from the crowd
Warren Ellis, Jim White, and Mick Turner in blue light
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qntm @qntm.org · 14/03/2026
For the purposes of computing, we always need to approximate π. In JavaScript, `Math.PI` is the nearest 64-bit floating point number to the true value of π. My proposal is that for consistency and symmetry we should introduce `BigInt.PI`
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GitHub - qntm/proposal-bigint-constants: ECMAScript Proposal: BigInt constants for mathematics
ECMAScript Proposal: BigInt constants for mathematics - qntm/proposal-bigint-constants
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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
just booked the Empire Builder from Seattle to Wisconsin in July. I'm doing my part!
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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
so charmed they played my request for Powderfinger within the first hour that I filed a second request, for some Eno! keeping my fingers crossed for extra charms
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Adam Klein @ajklein.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Spent the last couple days touring the North Coast & Humboldt Redwoods with friends from out of town. Great to get out of the city for a few days, breathe some ocean air, and stare at big trees
a lighthouse on a cliff overlooking the ocean with a walkway leading to itoffshore rock formations with vegetation growing on topme standing under a drive thru redwood treevery tall trees
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Trees To Know @treestoknow.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Subalpine Fir "Subalpine is the only one of the true firs having tiny pockets of clear resin well within the thick bark."
illustration of a tree and the Eiffel Tower with text reading:
COMES TO FRAGILE POINT LIKE EIFFEL TOWER
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