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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

New Didjits retrospective does them justice. What a great band.

Front cover of Strictly Dynamite the Best of the Didjits, featuring their mascot, a green-skinned boy in a Hoolie Ghoulie costume, a giant pointed-teeth grin and bulbous eyes, pupils radiating swirly lines on a mustard yellow background

regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

Hey I heard you like Monarch butterflies or the head of a stolen mesoamerican figurine so I put that on your coffee. That'll be $6.80 please.

coffee stain in the milk foam of a fluffy coffee resembling a butterfly, or let's say the head of a stolen mesoamerican stone figurine, for which I want $6.80.

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

Milwaukee's own Alice Cooper witnessed me voting. His politics are trash but he kept Dennis Dunaway off the streets. #dis-

Voting sticker on a T-shirt from the 90s milwaukee band dis- next to a rendering of Alice Cooper in stage makeup

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

Not as incredible as Chad Bentz playing college football *after* retiring from professional baseball.

screenshot of Chad Bentz's Wiki, "In 2010, Bentz joined the football team at Castleton State College in Castleton, Vermont. His weight then up to 265 pounds, Bentz was a running back for the NCAA Division III program. He appeared in nine games that season, gaining 29 yards on 12 carries and scoring twice.[2][3] Bentz did not return to the program for the 2011 season."

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

Had to bump him for a one-handed relief pitcher from Alaska named Chad Bentz, who pitched in the NL and so had to take a few ABs, and had a hands-adjusted lifetime batting average of 1.000.

hitting stats for one-handed pitcher Chad Bentz, showing 2 career at-bats, 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 RBIs, 0 BB

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

Gilligan-hat Hunter S Thompson has just snatched a bat out of the air with his upside-down right hand.

Zoomed-in on the background guy in an AI image, looks like a malformed Hunter S Thompson backhanding something in his "right" hand that sorta looks like he snatched a bat out of the air

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

Oh damn she killed that guy he is just dead now.

Guy makes a prediction about how dark matter will be seen in the future with a more complete understanding of astrophysics, and cosmologist Katie Mack just sons him to death and he is now dead forever.

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

One little detail I liked about Big Black's shirt was that the US and UK ones were photographic negatives of each other:

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

Without downloading anything new what's your energy going into 2024

Frame from the impossibly-rich early 20th century newspaper comic Krazy Kat by George Herriman (an African American who "passed" as white) where Ignatz Mouse zips a brick at Krazy Kat, who remains smitten with him despite (possibly because) he is indifferent (even hostile) to her affections, while stating "Every day my mind grows keener, my good arm stronger...My silly enemies more futile..."

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

Gonna live skeet some. Kevin Dorff in first improv, set in pharmacy, "The fun of being a pharmacist is guessing."

poster for Letters to Santa 24-hour show at Elysian Theater in Los Angeles

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Will be talking about the Letters to Santa show in LA this weekend.

poster for Letters to Santa 24-hour benefit show Saturday Dec 16-17 at Elysian theater in Los Angeles.

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Screaming Females were a terrific band, lovely people and an inspiration in DIY music. I admired them tremendously. 🎈

drawing of a punk fish, kind of halibut-shark type deal, crying, with the start and end dates 2005-2023 in memoriam of the band Screaming Females

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

DICKS HATE POLICE YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE YOU CAN'T FIND JUSTICE IT'LL FIND YOU

George Santos in a press scrum shouting.

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

There is a large graveyard filled with my enemies. Graveyard, yep, real big. I do not wish to add to it but will if given no choice. Wanna see it? The graveyard? He has a graveyard.

two adorable quokkas, the smaller one I imagine as a sidekick

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Me on my way to pray some shit on Bluesky

cheetah running real fast with her legs all in the same spot mid-stride a little blurry

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

Letters to Santa is the best thing I ever get to do, and this year the benefit show is crazy good. Information about the charity and the event at letterscharity.org

poster for the Letters to Santa benefit show December 5 at Convene Chicago with John Mulaney, Martha Plimpton, Chris Kattan, Chris Redd, Dave Helem and somehow steve albini. information and tickets at letterscharity.org

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

This link should work but screenshot if not. forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php

screen shot of a lot of text sorry, link in post

screen shot of a lot of text, link in post

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Elon Musk recreating the head-popping scene from Scanners wearing a backwards cowboy hat so the front (back) of his hat is splattering apart. That'll be $6.80 please. The shadow makes it plausible I am wearing a cowboy hat myself, but that's just my phone.

coffee stain in the foam of a fluffy coffee (cafe latte with cinnamon in the coffee and maple syrup in the milk). It sort-of looks like a cowboy hat with the front blowing apart, but since this is Elon Musk wearing a backwards hat, it's the back of the hat on the front of his head. I'm resisting the obvious macabre image and instead making it camp by referencing the famous scene in the film Scanners where Michael Ironside (what a name!) has his head explode from psychic energy.

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

St Bernard puppy is surprised at the little marionette falling off his strings. That'll be $6.80 please.

Coffee stain on the foamed milk of my fluffy coffee, a maple and cinnamon cafe latte. The stain resembles a surprised St Bernard puppy. There's another little stain, looks kind-of like a little puppet acrobat but I realize that's a stretch.

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 09/09/2023

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy -- no selfies.

bare hand as puppet with little googly eye stuck to it, white teeth like a shark made out of white paper tape making a menacing grimace.

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 10/08/2023

Travis Bean Designs/Electrical Guitar Company makes an uncanny reproduction of my guitar.

Travis Bean Designs / Electrical Guitar Company TB500 styled after Old Ironsides, the battle-scarred TB500 played by steve albini since 1992 or 93, whenever Shellac started.

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

IT'OFF! TELL HIM IT'S OFF, NO DICK CONTEST, IT'S OFF!

screenshot of twi tweets where Elon Musk calls Mark Zuckerberg "a cuck," and then challenges him to s "literal dick measuring contest."

screenshot of a headline announcing the death of a billionaire during penis enlargement surgery

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 08/07/2023

The turning radius is Austin, a city in Texas.

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

Mister I'm sure your soups are great but I've bought cars for that.

Wikipedia article about "three grand soups" a term used in Japan to describe three really good soups... well four actually because there's some confusion about the third one. But "three grand" could mean $3000 so that's why this post is funny, that's the tension, that there's a soup somewhere that costs $3000.

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 21/06/2023

Here for Pogo. Deacon Mushrat ever relevant

The Deacon, anti-liberal crusader muskrat tries to convince Pogo to betray his friends for a blacklist.

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 19/06/2023

I stole this picture so I can write funny captions for it but the picture is magnificent all by itself.

Picture of an orca partially out of a pool resting on the rim, a human arm reaching in out of frame with a microphone as though interviewing the orca for broadcast.

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 04/06/2023

I learned about espresso-tonic about five years ago from our Czech tour guy and have indulged every summer since. The perfect drink.

Picture of a perfect shot of espresso, thin film of crema, next to a small bottle of tonic water and a short glass with ice and a wedge of lemon, prepared to make an espresso-tonic.

picture of the assembled perfect drink, espresso-tonic, partially obscured by my thumb

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regular steve albini @electricalwsop.bsky.social · 10/05/2023

This motherfucker thinks what we need is more vectors of harassment, spam, phishing and other unsolicited contact. That it will somehow be better if Chudward8759013 can call his stalks for free to shout three slurs and a Baba Booey.

image of tweet from Elon Musk, imbecile owner of Twitter, announcing that DM functions will soon expand to voice and video calling, opening users up to new levels of unsolicited contact, spam, phishing, scamming, abuse and harrassment

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