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Flash Strap @flashstrap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & @gtdradio.bsky.social: A Sparrow Spectacular to celebrate the extraordinary artistry of one of the greatest Calypsonians of all time, The Mighty Sparrow, who passed away this week. Fete the man with me: 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 29/09/2026

I still think my favourite example of company leadership not understanding the customers was when I worked in a bookshop and they tried to get us to approach folk and attempt to engage them in conversation

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ɢʀᴇᴇɴʜᴏʀɴ ꜰᴏᴏᴛᴘᴀᴅ @colourmode.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

When you’re at the hardcore gig and everyone stops playing except for the bass, you need to find shelter immediately. You are going to die.

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Brad T. Jonas @bradtjonas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

hooray, thoughts

p1: “Finally, some time alone with my thoughts.”

p2:

p3:

p4: “This is horrible.”

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Live Tapes @livetapes.heads.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

The Feelies- Liberty Lunch, Austin Tx 4/18/91 transfer from master audio cassette Complete Set www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgSw1SjBFJI

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Ben Hellmann @benji-mayo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is the Doom Patrol era that I read and loved as it was being published. The hatred for it in the letters column was maddening.

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User with this avatar just got blocked @avijustgotblocked.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

An account with this avatar was just blocked.

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LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Here's how to support unhoused Angelenos during LA’s hottest week of the year: Frozen water bottles can help unhoused people fend off heat illness, and advocates and that encampment sweeps should be paused during dangerous heatwaves. lapublicpress.org/2026/08/how-...

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How to support unhoused Angelenos during LA’s hottest week of the year

Frozen water bottles can help unhoused people fend off heat illness, and advocates and that encampment sweeps should be paused during dangerous heatwaves

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Ben Hellmann @benji-mayo.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Joyful reunion! I thought that I left this in Providence when I moved away last year, but today I found this Craig Horky pin in a small pocket of my backpack.

A cloisonné pin that is a mashup of a cobra from comic book ads and the cat that used to be on fireworks back in the 80’s

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pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

AMERICAN GRAFFITI fails to be anything more than a warm, nice, draggy comedy, because there's nothing to back up the style. The images aren't as visually striking as they would be if there were a mind at work behind them. (1973)

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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Tonight! Miracle Nutrition with Hearty White presents a traditional Golden Girls style Kabuki play, Don and the Magic Key. The whole theme is friendship and its value. Your friendship means the world to me. We take watch out for one another! @wfmu.bsky.social at 6pm eastern.

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Negativland @negativlandland.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Lakoff / Johnson

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Ben Hellmann @benji-mayo.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Pretty much every day on here someone I follow and/or admire posts a thing that makes me think “I have no idea what this is about or in reference to,” and I keep scrolling without replying. For my age cohort (mid-Gen X, 1973), I realize that I am an outlier and should be awarded a medal.

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Ben Hellmann @benji-mayo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

30 years ago, a great Pittsburgh band put out three marvelous singles. I know they recorded more. If anyone knows how to find out, it’s @iheartnoise.bandcamp.com youtu.be/cD5nU2Aqruw?...

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SWOB - Tragus (full Ep)

YouTube video by Noise r'us

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Ben Hellmann @benji-mayo.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

1/2 More than a dozen years ago, I was walking into my local convenience store as another dude was exiting. A confused look on my face must have come across as mean, because the guy froze in his tracks. After a beat, it came to me: @andykindler.bsky.social ?

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Ben Hellmann @benji-mayo.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Reading @adriandaub.bsky.social, and it struck me how “outrages” pop up all the time from the right these days, and how the ends won’t be the end

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

anyway here's Akira Kurosawa gazing lovingly at Toshiro Mifune on the set of Seven Samurai

b&w photo of Akira Kurosawa (far right of the frame) standing, seen from the knees up, smiling at Mifune who is on the far left of the frame, seen from the waist up in side view with katana over his left shoulder, Seven Samurai village in background

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

News from my Seder: Pharoah is full of shit.

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byron coley @byroncoley.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

shockingly good piece on the minutemen from the nyt. no firewall www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/a...

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D. Boon’s Death Shook Punk Rock. 40 Years Later, Minutemen Look Back.

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Ben Hellmann @benji-mayo.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I'm mad at myself that it was only a few minutes ago that I realized I need to block the word "hellsite" too. Seriously, folks: stop crossposting from there. If I cared, I'd be over there.

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Ben Hellmann @benji-mayo.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

As far as Marx Bros movies go, Animal Crackers still delivers. I was in my twenties when I finally caught the "weekend/weak end" joke

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Ben Hellmann @benji-mayo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I will Wang Chung when the mood strikes me, thank you very much. I am not your puppet.

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Ben Hellmann @benji-mayo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Switched to this Mal Waldron record from Six Finger Satellite on my personal media server, and I remembered that dumb “How do I find music without Spotify?” article. By building a collection, dipshit.

The cover image of the Mal Waldron album “The Quest.”

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Ben Hellmann @benji-mayo.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Started watching Rockford Files recently because of @heartywhite.bsky.social, on air with the estimable Kevin Nutt tonight for the @wfmu.bsky.social marathon. This is from Season 5, Episode 7. I will send a LUDES patch to anyone who provides proof of pledge during the Hearty/Kevin shift.

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Ben Hellmann @benji-mayo.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

My “Make Everybody Die For Oil Again” hat is selling hotter than white phosphorus now. This is what the people voted for, right?”

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Ben Hellmann @benji-mayo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I was looking for this Burroughs recording for a project and could only find it on the popular video site. I was delighted that two ads for car insurance popped up before I could access a nonsense poem www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFST...

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Mr. Bradley, Mr. Martin, Hear Us Through The Hole In Thin Air

YouTube video by William S. Burroughs - Topic

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Ben Hellmann @benji-mayo.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Re: Platner. I’m 52 and have a lot of tattoos. The only one I feel a need to defend is the Steelers diamonds. “It was before Big Ben and Aaron Rodgers. It’s more about representing the ‘Burgh.”

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another morgan @mheslin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Comedy friends will recognize bits and pieces of this album because Craig Wedren sampled it to make the theme song for The State

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014). Brilliant talent gone too soon.

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Ben Hellmann @benji-mayo.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Five concerts you’ve seen with women lead singers. Midnight Creeps Tyrades Dog Faced Hermans Texas Terri and the Stiff Ones Jenny Toomey This was a bummer, as I had to wrack my brain for the list. Plenty of women drummers, horn players in ska bands, and bass players. Not a lot of frontwomen.

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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

You can't live forever, but you can outlive your enemies, so never underestimate the healing power of a good grave-top dance.

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Clever Resistance @cleverresistance.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Rapid responders need dash cams in the Twin Cities. Wishlist linked below.

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Lake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live · 05/01/2026

Current* conditions near Superior, WI:

Traffic cam looking NW above the Richard I. Bong Memorial Bridge traversing an inlet between Superior and Duluth. // Image captured at: 2026-01-05 07:47:33 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: windy.com // Current Temp in Superior: 22.48 F | -5.29 C // Precip: fog // Wind: N at 0 mph | 0 kph // Humidity: 96%

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

What a friendly thing to say. Very generous to of you to think of us during our most recent mass shooting and share news of your better one. Thanks for this friendly message, friend. I don’t think any of us were aware there could be such laws or indeed a better way of living. Good lookin’ out

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Ben Hellmann @benji-mayo.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Something bitchin this way came. I'm not sure if it was @artofcoop.bsky.social or @pattonoswalt.bsky.social who brought this to my attention, but it's in my house and I am jazzed.

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Ben Hellmann @benji-mayo.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Introduce yourself with five concerts you attended Dog Faced Hermans Arab On Radar Slim Cessna’s Auto Club Don Caballero Bob Seger

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Released 49 years ago Crime "Hot Wire My Heart" b/w "Baby You're So Repulsive" In November of 1976, this debut single by the San Francisco band was the first punk rock single to emerge from the U.S. West Coast #punk #punks #punkrock #crime #punklegends #history #punkrockhistory

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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

The first thing you see when you walk inside the Harry Ransom Center is the Gutenberg Bible. Keep going and you’ll encounter another marvel: one of the boxes from SNL's “Dick in a Box.” www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertain…

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Live From Austin: Behind the Curtain of ‘Saturday Night Live’

The Harry Ransom Center's exhibition is a treasure trove of archival material.

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Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Seen in the wild in Portland, Oregon!

Two bumper stickers that say:

ASK ME ABOUT MY
RICH INNER LIFE

KEEP HONKING!
I'M LISTENING TO JOHN CAGE'S 4:33 AND YOU'RE A PART OF THE PIECE NOW

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