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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"the spirit of massachusetts is the spirit of america..." www.boston.com/news/off-bea...

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

me: "Swift's TLOAS is probably my least favorite album of hers." also me:

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

for leather pride month mcdonald's should offer slappy meals

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

found some old live recordings on an external hard drive that was thought to be dead. four shows from a 2004 US tour with bran (...) pos and tarantism, one show from a 2006 Japan tour with LSD (Brian Labycz and Vadim Sprikut). vertonen.bandcamp.com

vertonen.bandcamp.com

vertonen live somewhere in the US (4/4), by vertonen

track by vertonen

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

consider how better the world would be had NIN performed "Hurt" in Chicago in 1994 and Trent sang “You could have it all / my empire….TODAY!” and then for the next nine beats the screens behind them pulsed with “5-88 2-300 EMPIRE” and then the entire arena erupted: “today!”

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

excited for the first art group that stages a replica of a closed strait of hormuz in the reflecting pool

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I am late to Bonnie Tyler's death. although the sleigh bells in "Total Eclipse..." are always gonna be gold for me, this will certainly be platinum: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrW0...

youtube.com

Best Drag Queen Entrance EVER!

YouTube video by Bryan Gruver

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

(scratching head): now what was it trump posted when robert mueller died?

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

if anyone can dig up who originally created this, LMK so I may give proper credit.

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I'm a few years late to this, but his various platforms are delightful. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_B...

en.wikipedia.org

Count Binface - Wikipedia

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

several degrees beyond thrilled to announce this release... four years in the making (!) ballastnvp067: The Hafler Trio: If Take, Then Take: Tricks, Half-Tricks & Real Phenomena (2 x CD, DVD, cards, and enamel pin in custom fabricated box) ballastnvp.blogspot.com/2026/07/ball...

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ballastnvp067: The Hafler Trio: If Take, Then Take: Tricks, Half-Tricks & Real Phenomena (2 x CD, DVD, cards, and enamel pin in custom fabricated box)

After more than four years in the works, I am beyond elated to announce the release of ballastnvp067: T...

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Swifties already demanding "Taylor and Travis's Wedding (Taylor's Version)"

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

if they didn't make t-shirts that read "I went to Taylor and Travis's wedding and all I got was an NDA" they *really* need to fire their managers.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I would kill or die for Larry

A small operation in Oregon that hunts truffles with a trained dog has added an unpaid trainee. A cat named Larry accompanies the handler and the truffle dog into the woods every outing, works a patch of ground a little apart from them, and digs with tremendous confidence in places where there is nothing.
The handler says Larry has never found a truffle and shows no sign of understanding the assignment. He does not use scent the way the dog does and he does not respond when the dog makes a find.
He simply digs his own holes nearby and then inspects them. "He thinks he's on the team," the handler said. "He is emphatically not on the team."
TRUFFLE DOG FINDS THE TRUFFLES -
'TRAINEE' CAT DIGS RANDOM HOLES AND FINDS DIRT

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Ben Lesnick @banditloaf.wcnews.com · 03/07/2026

If Taylor Swift really wanted a private wedding venue she should’ve considered the National Mall.

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

trawling through the "archives" (i.e., stuff I didn't know was on an external teradrive) and dug up this somewhat chaotic / sputtery vertonen set from the lovely camp gay (RIP) in chicago, 2004. www.subvert.fm/vertonen/tra...

subvert.fm

live camp gay july 2004 by vertonen - Subvert

recorded from my mixer at the absolutely stellar camp gay (2001-2005) in the fine city of chicago. a semi-chaotic set.

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

(VU's "I'm Waiting for the Man" plays sofly in the background)

a dirtbag's name gets removed from a building because that dirtbag's name should never have been ON the building.

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

saw my new favorite bumpersticker yesterday: "gatorade should be thicker"

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JS @cranksatori.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

1. HOLY SHIT 2. HOLY SHIT Z'EV with hair! 3. @bedwards314159.bsky.social did you know about this?!

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

playing tonight (5/18) as part of illusion of safety. dan said he wanted to go "old school power electronics," so, to paraphrase the sodality, "and so I shall!" hope to see some folks there!

flyer for show May 18 at burlington bar in chicago :pink background, yellow and red band names as follows:
illusion of safety, slow slow loris, dathon, and eXU-9

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

oh boy. so I'm leaning into the subvert.fm party with a "subvert exclusive" track (ooh la la!), but it's also free, so... it's a track I submitted to a beyonce remix competition in 2012. and why yes, I created a new genre, "making people sound worse than they are." www.subvert.fm/vertonen/tra...

subvert.fm

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

hey gang: I've joined subvert.fm as an online platform for digital vertonen output (and eventually as a way to sell physical copies of ballast releases). my page = www.subvert.fm/vertonen, and more will be uploaded there soon.

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southerngirlraven7.bsky.social @southerngirlraven7.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

And her daughter was born into a world with less rights than she had when she was born. Congratulations, Heritage Foundation and Donald Trump… You did that.

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

somewhere at elementary schools in Iran and the United States, you *know* kids have developed a game like red rover and are calling it the Strait of Hormuz

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

"back when" regional noise box sets were happening, it would've been awesome if someone relocated from place to place so they could appear on each release. I'm imagining by the fourth release some labelboss would be like, "look, you have to have residency for at least a year to be included."

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

ski jumping is the power electronics of skiing.

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

aside from the other leaps of reality that occur in the 1967-68 Speed Racer (and they are legion), at the very least Pops and Mom Racer should be charged with child endangerment re: Spritle.

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

last month I digitized three early vertonen releases, and then two days ago I learned that tomorrow is bandcamp friday. so...incoming! vertonen.bandcamp.com vertonen: sound knots & orchestrations c-90 (1991) vertonen: anastasia c-60 (1994) vertonen: there is peace in providence c-90 (1996)

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

in the spirit of social media as a platform for confession, I will admit I intentionally (and thus deceptively) exited a Lowe's this morning through the "pro" door.

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

yes, right, but what I'm saying is, can you truly say the movie Titanic is the "biggest influence" on your life if your knuckle tattoos don't read "JACK / ROSE"?

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

...and when Mike Muir sues him for plagiarism... www.ndtv.com/world-news/u...

ndtv.com

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Dear Sir Mix-a-Lot, To be fair, if Fonda *had* a motor in the back of her Honda, it could really only have been the Beat or NSX. Warmly,

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

it's nice to see chicagoans cooperating to clarify issues.

graffiti that says "love 4 all" on a utility box.

the same graffiti that says "love 4 all" on a utility box, but someone kindly added "except I.C.E." below it on a sticker.

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blake edwards @bedwards314159.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

the SWANS cover of "Pink Pony Club" is 33'27"

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