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daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 5h

Your most earnestly supported not for profits do not *actually* conduct the activities they claim in their corporate objects, but some other more general purpose, part CCCLXII

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 27/09/2026

The previous owner of this album was bored I guess? I love the bonus DIY artwork.

The inner sleeve of Exciter's VIOLENCE & FORCE LP, with the front cover art traced in marker

The marked-up inner sleeve superimposed on the front cover of the LP, as a bored teenager likely did when tracing the artwork decades ago.

The front cover of Exciter's VIOLENCE & FORCE LP, which I bought for 99 cents at 2nd Hand Tunes in Evanston IL. It has appreciated in value, if you believe Discogs.

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 26/09/2026

Happy 5th anniversary (give or take) to my favorite album for a fall afternoon

A picture of the album LEAVING NONE BUT SMALL BIRDS by The Body and BIG|BRAVE.

A copy of FRAYED KNOTS by Luxurious Bags is also in the shot.

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 22/09/2026

The theme music choice for Willy's show is perfect, on multiple levels

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 21/09/2026

2007: visited the UK & saw a certain model of small, ½-length car everywhere Soon after: they are all over the place in the US too 2026: these cars are memory-holed so hard I can't remember the make or model name

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 20/09/2026

A rare sight last night: A 12 string parlor guitar and a Fender Bass VI

The band Contorno performing last night on the Judson & Moore distillery stage in Chicago

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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 17/09/2026

a lot of folks are asking how someone can do something so "stupid" as hard coding a secret token, and i'm telling you that you are holding software developers and companies on way too high a pedestal if you still think there's secure, quality code being sent out into the world

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 11/09/2026

genius.com/America-sand... This is the first song about 9/11 The Genius annotation says "the beginning does not seem to connect to the rest of the song" It does if the song is about 9/11, which it is It took 30 years for the world to catch up

genius.com

America – Sandman

The second track on the first album of the group, released in 1971, and then re-released again in 1972, this time including America’s first major hit – A Horse with No Name

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 10/09/2026

@1089thehawk.com I keep getting news alerts that are just excerpts from Wisp's memoir

Google news alert saying "Ozzy and I were in a bathroom peeing together…"

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 09/09/2026

I haven't paid *that* much to 1password or digitalocean over the years but it's fun to hear David Hamburger Helper getting a piece

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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 09/09/2026

if your bosses are making a thing that’s apparently going to kill people then literally what am i supposed to do that you don’t have more access to do? buy stocks?

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 09/09/2026

"dreamed I was E Bloom, but I woke up Joe Bouchard"

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 07/09/2026

What's the most cursed record in your collection? For me, it's this Dave Major & the Minors LP, signed by Dave himself. He would go on to murder two people, and die during a police shootout afterward.

The front cover of the 2nd album by Dave Major & the Minors

A portion of the back cover of my copy of the 2nd Dave Major & the Minors album, showing Dave's autograph. He signed it to someone named Ruth and doodled a trumpet or some other kind of horn under his signature.

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 02/09/2026

Apple caved but "nobody" inside supported it? Really? Did dveryone up and down the chain refuse to make the change, forcing Tim Apple to log in and do it himself? MapQuest is holding strong: www.mapquest.com/us/lake-onta...

mapquest.com

Lake Ontario, US - MapQuest

Get more information for Lake Ontario in null, null. See reviews, map, get the address, and find directions.

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 31/08/2026

$GOOG uses whatever names USGIS tells them! Their hands are tied! This remains true when an executive order renames it "Sundar Pichai Sucks Lake" It's the policy!

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Josh Kantor @jtkantor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The super amazing @magicbeans.bsky.social turned me on to this song ten years ago, and I still go back and re-listen to it every few months in a never-ending quest to determine whether or not the bass part is more deranged than the guitar part. Proceed with caution, but do proceed.

youtube.com

Electric's Theme

YouTube video by Rhythm Rockers - Topic

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pee Wee Herman & Dolly Parton singing a duet? Here ya go...

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Shermerville @shermerville.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Incredible photos. I've seen this fox in my neighborhood but never this close.

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 22/08/2026

A list of greatest greatest hits albums (soft rock division) should include BEST OF BREAD, but only side 1

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21/08/2026

Terribly sorry for the grief all 'round, but we're necessarily evolving out of a very childish view of techno-capitalist "progress" that was embodied by Elon Musk at his heights: the avatar of "we can do good and do well at the same time." How did that work out? Still wonder why the vibe shifted?

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 18/08/2026

(a lot more in the alt text)

The picture shows a man is about to knock over a domino, which will knock over increasingly large dominoes. The smallest domino has the label "Re/Search publishes INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC" and the largest one has the label "NPR plays 'Stormy Weather' when stocks are down.

That thing where NPR plays "Stormy Weather" or "We're in the Money" or "It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)" depending on the stock market situation has been going on for years and it really blows. It's like they wish their listeners are all 27 year old men smoking cigars.

The dominoes in the middle might include:
* Dan Clowes' Lloyd Llewellyn comics
* "Cocktail Nation" (Urge Overkill)
* "Cocktail Nation" (Combustible Edison)
* "Cocktail Nation" (Squirrel Nut Zippers)
* "Cocktail Nation" (the movie Swingers)
* "Cocktail Nation" (Gap commercials with Matrix-style "bullet time" swing dancing)
* Mancow telling Anthony Bourdain about his 3 "S"-es: sex, Sinatra, and "this sandwich" that he was eating

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U2 iPod @nmarkowski.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I did the work so y’all don’t have to.

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 17/08/2026

I had a similar situation, but they were more into Van Hagar. Still fun. As a non-fan, I can provide some conversation topic tips: * The artwork for the final Van Hagar LP BALANCE is hideous; Sammy fans probably agree! * One of Rick Springfield's biggest hits is a Hagar cover and it's a good one!

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Bruce Adams @bruceadams.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Imagine there’s no heaven.

Recipe card with ingredients and directions for Lime Horseradish Jello.

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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

As someone who is desperate for photos from a particular family branch, hell yes you can sell them to me. I already have ebay searches set up in their names. #genealogy nymag.com/intelligence...

nymag.com

The Strange Business of Selling People Their Own Family’s Lost Photos

This online niche sometimes feels like a scam. Is it?

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 15/08/2026

no law is enacted or changed without political process. laws are mutable. laws are not the arbiter of what is morally correct, only what the power structure believes is permissible or not in our society

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 15/08/2026

I rarely say nice things about Naperville but Record Swap in the mid-90s was unbeatable If this is about Blue Skies in the mid-80s (when it was on Jefferson) I can dig it, but RS was something else

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 15/08/2026

Back in April 1991, months before Tim Berners-Lee publicly released his WWW software, we already understood how dumb the internet could be Here's the Mother, Jugs & Speed newsletter archive, given a modern sheen thanks to @optikhog.bsky.social: www.pickletreats.com/mjs/

pickletreats.com

Mother Jugs & Speed Digest (1991 Archive)

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 12/08/2026

It had to be an XML-based API since it would violate the license if they used JSON

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Graveyard Snoop @graveyardsnoop.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Oh good--a sensitive treatise on the subject of immigration. I'm sure this won't be cringey. Detroit Free Press, May 20, 1906.

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DJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Let the great unmuting begin of ‘26 begin. Prepare to reconnect with your all your friends who have just garbage rt game.

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 04/08/2026

@1089thehawk.com Loved this Hawk Rock Talk episode! It made me remember how the Ides of March followed up "Vehicle" with one of the best worst swing and a miss retreads ever youtu.be/4umSgPmc55E

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Superman (Remastered Version)

YouTube video by The Ides Of March - Topic

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Per various posts and things I've seen, looks like a new collection along the lines of the Aadam Jacobs Chicago-and-elsewhere live audience tapes is starting to emerge at @archive.org -- the Jeff Lazar Audio Collection, focusing on NYC/NJ shows over the years. Good stuff up already!

archive.org

The Jeff Lazar Audio Collection

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 31/07/2026

This is only my vibe in the sense these probably make the year hard to guess: Afrobeat autosave fan art self-identify spike protein

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 30/07/2026

Who built this? Can you imagine the internal slack chats? A leaked recording of this project's retrospective or even just the jira stories would do numbers on linkedin

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 28/07/2026

Ramones LEAVE HOME 1. "Nice Price" reissue LP with "Carbona Not Glue" replaced with "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" 2. CD combining LEAVE HOME with the debut ("Carbona" still missing) 3. Used first pressing LP with "Carbona Not Glue" 4. Rhino deluxe reissue CD with "Carbona Not Glue"

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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 19/02/2025

looks like we are upon the annual “discover that david hamburger helper is a dumbass” and someone shared this breathtaking exchange from back in 2016 - these were what i coined back then the “woke dhh” years

Paul Graham tweeting on Oct 11,2016 “If Trump wins, I'm joining the Resistance.” And to that dhh replied “Mission one: Get his surrogates. Like business partner Thiel” and to that, Paul Graham said “Peter is eccentric, but earnest. He seems to have a blind spot about Trump's character, but he is no surrogate.“

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 25/07/2026

Blabbermouth dot net is strangely silent about Jizzy Pearl quitting Quiet Riot

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"Danny" Rench @dren.ch · 23/07/2026

Happy 74th birthday Janis Siegel

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Osmose @osmose.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Firefox makes a single return post on X and immediately Nikita Bier shows up and offers them money to stay because he knows it legitimizes their fascist project. Utterly predictable outcome of a stupid move.

@firefox on Twitter: "We took time off of X, but we're back. The internet is changing again, so we're here as an independent voice for our users and the open internet."

Reply from @nikitabier: "Hello, would you like us to enable creator monetization on your account"

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