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I don’t post a lot of food pcs, but this French toast I had this morning from a restaurant called Palate in Downtown Vancouver was the most amazing I’ve ever had. I’m ruined for all others forever.

Theee very thick, crispy, golden slices of French toast on a round white plate with strawberries and blueberries around the bottom and topped with a Physalis (gooseberry)

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Sean Padilla (He/They) Will Write a Good Song About Anything @seanpadilla.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

So, I’m walking around Western Vancouver and this older guy with a long white beard takes one look at the comically large pack on my back and smiles and says “Enjoying the journey, eh?” I laughed and said I was, to which he replied “stay hydrated!”Sometimes people are great.

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Reading this article made me cry John Coltrane really changed the entire world for the better

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Spot the seagull. (Hey, I’m in Vancouver!)

A white seagull stand on the middle landing of wide, brightly-painted concrete stars.

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 23/09/2026

This lyric, from the track “Step Away Blues” has been replaying in my head all week: “I’m tired of taking off my skin/ so you can see my heart.” Like, damn. Yeah.

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Sylvia Plath said it best: ‘Everywhere, imperceptibly or otherwise, things are passing, ending, going. And there will be other summers, other band concerts, but never this one, never again, never as now. Next year I will not be the self of this year now…

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Amelia @theartfulldodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And if you are curious here is a stream of me drawing it and getting distracted by twitch mechanics and telling stories about a 70 yr old cockatoo www.twitch.tv/videos/28818...

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Amelia Draws and Chatters - ameliadraws on Twitch

ameliadraws went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Art VOD now.

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Someone buy Amelia a microphone! Her art is really cool and I want to watch her make it!

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m up super early for a flight, and this KUNZITE (Mike Stroud from Ratatat and Agustin White) album is really perfect for walking around an airport: mostly electronic instrumental, a little trippy, slick, but textured.

Listening to new Krallice and it’s great. I don’t always vibe with metal, but this hits just right. Their technical playing skills are undeniable.

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Scour Order, by Krallice

8 track album

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florgoth @florgoth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“…you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be…But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in.” Haruki Haruki Murakami from Kafka on the Shore:

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you.
So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others. And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in.
That's what this storm's all about.

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#JustListened I agree, this is absolutely wonderful! This is assembled from spoken word poetry, Hip-Hop, Calypso, Jazz, and a whole lot of other genres. The overarching theme of finding hope and joy in community is just amazingly well presented. Gorgeous all around! Highest recommendation!

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Carly Rae Jepsen - Motivation (Official Music Video)

I don’t like all mainstream pop misic- a lot of it is insipid and uninteresting, but I am a sucker for good hooks and catchy lyrics. What I’m saying is that this Carly Rae Jepsen album isn’t brilliant, and there are way too many tracks, but I’m kind of into it.

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YouTube video by CarlyRaeJepsenVEVO

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Jules 🦋 @julesk.me · 20/09/2026

Pov: passenger

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I spend my working hours telling other people that it’s ok to feel their feelings, that it’s ok to not be ok, that no feeling is final etc. etc., then I spend my day off silently screaming at myself “JUST FEEL HAPPY, DAMN IT!” Physician heal thyself/I am Pagliacci and so on…

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palmyratheband.bandcamp.com

Listening to the new EP from Palmyra and they are holding their spot as maybe my favorite alt-country/southern rock band working today.

Cheap Beer, by Palmyra

5 track album

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Kimber Johnson @kimberjohnson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you're interested, here is some more of my #poetry I hope you enjoy it.

The Quiet Tilt

The horizon loosens its fist
and spills a thin gold rumor
across the quiet stones.
Last night’s shadows,
those archivists of what was,
fold themselves back into the soil.
A single beam slips in,
soft as a new idea,
and the world tilts..
not loudly,
but with the hush of a page
turning itself.
And you,
still half‑stitched to yesterday,
feel the light rearrange your edges
until you fit the moment
that wasn’t possible
five breaths ago.
Nothing announces the shift.
It simply happens..
the way morning happens,
quietly rewriting everything
that thought it was permanent.

by Kimber Johnson

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jakexerxesfussell.bandcamp.com

Another beautiful album of interpreted folk music from the southern U.S, Jake Xerxes Fussell’s arrangements of traditional songs feel fresh and really satisfying.

The Old Beloved Path, by Jake Xerxes Fussell

9 track album

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rhiannongiddens.bandcamp.com

Long day, week, month etc, but damn if this isn’t a nice album. Rhiannon Giddens makes bluegrass songs with teeth. Beautiful, full-throated, both traditional and of-the-moment.

Hope is the Thing with Feathers, by Rhiannon Giddens

10 track album

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E.A. @eeeeaaaa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Now I’m feeling all nostalgic for that smoky, sticky, dark dive. Here’s a video I made in 2012 of local blues legend and good friend, Lola Gulley starting off her set. She tended bar on Thursday afternoons and did all the music for our wedding. She passed in 2022. Her memory is indeed a blessing.

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Lola Starts off the Blue Ladies

YouTube video by Aunt Jess

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Pez On The Boards @catchinzzs.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

I listened to this Emma Ruth Rundle album this morning and really liked it. The music is emotionally dynamic- from sweet sadness to howling rage, with instrumentation that swells at just the right moment.

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🚨 WEEKLY REVIEW: RELEASE WEEK ENDING ON 9/18/26 🚨 Expand your Library, check this thread: - IG: Catchinzzzs_ - Tumblr: cz-aesthetics - TikTok: Catchin_zzzs #BlackskyMusic

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Twelve albums I listened to last week.

Otro - SurVive
Ezra Collective - Here Because of Hope
Pretty Sick - Anarchy
halfway up a jagged hill - HUAJH
Sylvan Esso - Ow (infinity symbol)
Bonobo - Distance in Static
Melanie Baker - Somebody Help Me, I’m Being Spontaneous
Loraine James - It's Nothing Personal
Joshua Burnside - It's Not Going To Be Okay
Angela Autumn - Believer
Kacey Musgraves - Middle of Nowhere
Madi Diaz - Fatal Optimist (UN-unplugged)

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Here are some of the new releases out this week that I’m interested to hear. What am I missing that you all are excited for?

9/18
• Adam Wiltzie, Johann Johansson -
Friendship Survival Guide
• beabadoobee - pylon
• Beck - Ride Lonesome
• Camille Thomas - Philip Glass for cello
• Carly Rae Jepsen - Day and Night
• Jake Xerxes Fussell - The Old Beloved Path
• Krallice - Scour Order
• Kristin Hersh - Sugar on Blackstone
• KUNZITE - SECRETS
• Lizzy McAlpine - Angel
• Palmyra - Cheap Beer
• Rhiannon Giddens - Hope Is the Thing with Feathers
• Roomer - Staircase Made Of Rope
• Wasia Project - Nocturne
• Winter - Romantix Mixtape
• YENDRY - Como agua

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