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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 27/09/2026

Tonight: Philadelphia Orchestra performing Brahms and Bernstein. Love having easy access to one of the best orchestras in the world.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 25/09/2026

This thread rings true to how my son and I think of these things. Also: my son turns 30 next week.

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TMB(ot)G @tmbotg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hey!

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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm just saying, if you see every example of someone with unconventional clothes/hair/mannerisms/language as a sign of utter civilizational collapse, there might be medications that can help you

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 18/09/2026

I spent the summer of 1981 as a counselor at a music camp that was located on the campus of Bard College, in the Hudson Valley. It was a mix of really talented young people and really rich NYC kids whose parents wanted them gone for 6 weeks. (1/n)

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 10/09/2026

I spent 6 years going to college in Miami and I can only remember a lot of people coked out of their gourds and regular discoveries of hacked up body parts in Biscayne Bay and the Dadeland Mall parking garage. Also many, many tiny lizards. He must mean the lizards.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 07/09/2026

> a Nathan Fielder documentary about Thomas Pynchon "The Kenosha Kid" only in theaters this November. "You?" "Never did!"

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 02/09/2026

RIP Cassandra Wilson -- listening to the first track I ever heard her on: www.m-base.org/sine_die_mp3... www.wbgo.org/music/2026-0...

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 02/09/2026

Happy "all seasons of SCTV are now available on Netflix" Day to those who etc etc etc. If you need me, I'll be watching the NASA and the Buzz Aldrin Players performing TS Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral"

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Proposal to replace the tired phrase “silent killer” with the punchier “murder mime”.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 01/09/2026

My traditional first listen on 9/1 every year: David Sylvian, "September," from "Secrets of the Beehive" (1987). The separation between listens keeps getting shorter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOWY...

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David Sylvian - September

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 31/08/2026

Artiphon, the company I was working for at the time, was officially headquartered in Nashville, but like many tech companies did, started to welcome remote workers after the pandemic, and by the time I joined in 2021, the team was fairly widely... bgporter.net/posts/misc/mystery-1

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Mystery #1

Puzzling out the path taken by some old vinyl

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 31/08/2026

I worked at Spec's in Coral Gables FL when I was in grad school (88-89). The best. Foreign/art film collection was deep enough that other stores would send us customers. Cast of Miami Vice were regulars. Dave Barry's wife yelled at me! Gary Hart's friend (?) Donna Rice was a customer.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 28/08/2026

My first SXSW was in 2014 and it was filled with people who kept talking about how much it sucked compared to the old days and now I'll be able to do the same thing. (Yes, I'm still a bit sore that I didn't get to give my talk scheduled for SXSW 2020)

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 28/08/2026

"Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 28/08/2026

By presidential decree: "Sullivan's Travels" starring Veronica Lake America.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)

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Bear Claw Billie (1590/5000) @bearclawbillie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

HEY THIS IS JUST A PAINTING OF A THEATER SHOWING COYOTE VS. ACME

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 27/08/2026

Happy birthday to Alice Coltrane -- John's centennial is getting the rest of the year; we can afford one day for Alice. (not my car, seen randomly in a Philadelphia grocery store parking lot)

Car bumper with stickers:
- "Keep Honking! I'm listening to Alice Coltrane's 1971 Meteoric Sensation 'Universal Consciousness'"
- "My other ride is the extra-terrestrial energy generated by the cosmic transmissions of the SUN RA ARKESTRA"

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 26/08/2026

Farewell to delightful, charming, insouciant Jaye P. Morgan. ❤️

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Pirijan @pketh.org · 25/08/2026

Your only career goal should be "How do I get a cool job where I'm just making a cool thing with cool people?"

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 20/08/2026

A few years back I met a current administrator from the music school I attended in the 80s and asked what it was like now; he said (excitedly!) "We are ALL IN on AI!" and was confused when my response was anger and confusion. Someone's paying $90K a year to have their kid NOT learn to make music?

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TMB(ot)G @tmbotg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Make way make way and stand aside The crowd takes up the cry He comes he comes

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 16/08/2026

Good news: Just got all my knives back from being sharpened, and they are perfect. Bad news: Can't stop visualizing the first 2 minutes of "Un Chien Andalou."

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 12/08/2026

Drove from Philly to Manhattan to hang out with Kiley and bring home some bins we had loaned for her recent move. The Whitney Biennial seemed especially interesting this year, including a surprising piece that namechecks my new neighborhood. bgporter.net/posts/insta/nyc-trip

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NYC Trip

Annual summer city/museum trip with Kiley

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Happy 808 Day to all those who celebrate it.

A roland tr-808 rhythm composer seen from above. Black box with gray text, assorted knobs and programming interface.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 05/08/2026

In the spirit of ARST ARSW

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Happy “There Will Come Soft Rains” Day to all who celebrate. users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Do...

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 03/08/2026

Bugs: "If my friend Rocky was inside this stove with the gas turned on, would I throw this lit match in there?" *boom* Officer Clancy: "Alright, rabbit, you've convinced me. I'll go and look for Rocky in the city..."

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 29/07/2026

(Don Fontaine voice) "In a world...where memory and desire mix... It's....'The Cruelest Month'! Coming this April!

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 26/07/2026

At some point it will be less of a surprise to open the front door and see 30 folks on horseback riding down the street in front of the house. Not today, though. bgporter.net/posts/insta/cowboys

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Cowboys

Fletcher Street Riding Club in the neighborhood

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Autodidacts Anonymous @inittowinit.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

What do we have to do to never see Alexi Lalas on TV again. I'm open to serious investment, like a couple % dock on my investments returns.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 17/07/2026

Back in college, I only remember having two conversations with the head of the jazz piano department. One was after a big band piece of mine had been played, and he looked at me and said “interesting. bgporter.net/posts/insta/deadmau5-f…

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Deadmau5 @ FIFA Fan Festival

Live(ish) in my neighborhood

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I did a tonne of research so you don't have to. I talk about masking, air filtration, and air quality rating systems, & I give concrete suggestions to help you keep yourself and your loved ones safe. If you don't have this information yet, it's time to get educated. Wildfires don't respect borders.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 14/07/2026

I've only lived in Philadelphia for a year or so but that's long enough to know that the correct and idiomatic answer is CALL IT CENTER CITY, DICKHEAD. No need to check this map.

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Thomas Fuchs 🫯 @thomasfuchs.at · 30/11/2023

If we’d speak more ill of the dead, maybe it would remind the living not to be assholes.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 12/07/2026

Enjoying a walk almost back to New Jersey from our new adopted country of Philadelphia. I’m not sure whether that’s the real Ben Franklin or not. bgporter.net/posts/insta/bridge-ann…

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Bridge anniversary walk

Car-free day on the Ben Franklin

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TMB(ot)G @tmbotg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Don't blame the chaos, blame the planned

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 10/07/2026

Obviously if you accelerate bismuth to relativistic speeds things like this will happen. Irving Berlin told us this 80 years ago in that song, "There's no bismuth like slow bismuth" I'll show myself out.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 10/07/2026

BRB, gonna go check the neighborhood Facebook group to listen to them complain about this new kind of gentrification.

This image shows a real-time safety alert for "Loose Goats on Street" displayed on the Citizen app interface.

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