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Good news: daughter finally found a job in NYC. Bad news: the whole chain folded right before her first day. But she got a quote in Gothamist out of it, at least. gothamist.com/news/astoria...

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Astoria-born Chip City announces sudden closure days after former CEO sues

The company blamed ‘macro-economic headwinds.’ The co-founder is suing over compensation.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 03/10/2026

Some personal news: please welcome Charlie, a 7 month old rescue pup. It's been almost a year since @lisafybush.bsky.social and I lost our beloved Sadie, and uncertain times are a little easier to take with a friendly face and a waggy tail.

Who's the best boy? This brown and white dog with a pinkish nose and a majestic demeanor, at least in the moments when he's not already claiming the sofa as his own.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 28/09/2026

I had a great time at the #ROC Fringe Fest, both as a performer and in the audience. Human creativity and connection beats AI every time. Now comes the hard part: finding new ways to keep the creativity flowing in the darkening days ahead as seasonal depression rears its ugly head...

Scott on stage, balancing uncomfortably on his bum leg while wearing his usual black shirt and jeans as he tells the story of how and why he abruptly quit his public radio gig after 20 years.

You shoulda been there.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 27/09/2026

When you ask a former radio guy to give you five minutes on stage...

A smartphone stopwatch display showing 04:59.72

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 26/09/2026

Tonight at the Rochester Fringe Festival, I will be telling the true story (possibly for the only time in public) of why I abruptly left my job in public radio, what I regret about it, but also why I ultimately needed to do it. It's part of a great "Catharsis Time" storytelling show.

Poster for "Catharsis Time" at the School of the Arts, 7 PM Sat 9/26

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 25/09/2026

My hometown Rochester Red Wings won the International League championship tonight on the road in Memphis, for the first time since '97, but we watched on the screen at the ballpark . Here's me with my son in the seats where I sat with my late dad 29 years ago. (29 was his favorite number.)

Scott, wearing his dad's old jacket and Red Wings gear, with teenage Eli in a Wings hat and a blanket.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 23/09/2026

Remember when the dictator of Turkmenistan started naming entire calendar months after himself?

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 16/09/2026

Hey, #ROC, whatcha doing tonight at 7? I'm part of a great comedy science game show with the RMSC, a secret guest meteorologist and @lisafybush.bsky.social, too! Tickets are selling fast and we'd love to see you there tonight!

Purple poster with RMSC@The Fringe Festival and a photo of Rochester's cloudy eclipse sky

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 15/09/2026

Dad brag break: having somehow successfully raised this adorable baby to adulthood, @lisafybush.bsky.social and I can look on with pride as Ari celebrates her 23rd birthday as a grad student living her best life in NYC.

Ari as a smiling happy infant in a little sweater

Ari as a college graduate in her robe, hoisting a celebratory drink at a Brooklyn restaurant

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 11/09/2026

I have been chronicling the rebuilding of the broadcast infrastructure in NYC since the days immediately after 9/11. It has taken a long time, but there's finally stability and a good set of backups, so this is likely my last update. A deep dive... radioinsight.com/blogs/372603...

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RadioInsight - 9/11 Plus 25: How New York’s FMs and TVs Found New Stability

Scott Fybush looks at how New York broadcasting infrastructure has regained stability a quarter-century after the 9/11 attacks.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 10/09/2026

I'm hoping that @luxalptraum.com's cat is also feeling better today...

A prescription bottle of gabapentin, which apparently works for both humans and pets

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 08/09/2026

The only voices I'm interested in hearing and amplifying on the 9/11 anniversary are those of the families and the survivors. There's nothing that any politician or pundit has to say that's going to interest me. Which won't stop the whole thing from becoming an ugly sideshow, alas.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 02/09/2026

This is illegal, like so much of what he's getting away with. It made me so sad at the big coin convention last week in Pgh to see the US Mint running a booth that was selling these, and to see a long line of dealers waiting to grab them and sell them for a profit. I still love the hobby, but...

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 28/08/2026

If you get caught between the moon and Willie Stargell... (enjoying the lunar eclipse while in Pittsburgh and staying across the street from the ballpark)

Bronze statue of Pirates baseball star Willie Stargell appearing to hit the moon in a state of near total eclipse

Lunar eclipse as seen through a phone camera from Pittsburgh

Lunar eclipse seen over the Roberto Clemente Bridge and downtown Pittsburgh

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 26/08/2026

Mourning Tim Curry along with @lisafybush.bsky.social, who introduced me to RHPS in college. And as we remember all his brilliant roles, I am especially fondly remembering going to Chicago for the previews of Spamalot, where he overacted like hell as King Arthur.

Lisa as a college student in Boston dressed as Columbia from Rocky Horror in a sequined top hat, bowtie, leopard print leotard and shiny blue shorts. We were all so young once. And hot.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 25/08/2026

I haven't quite been *everywhere*, man, but I've covered a lot of ground. I have spent enough time in Indiana, especially, to almost count it as "lived," with Nevada right behind. I have never spent a night in AR or MS. Also 8 of 10 provinces, missing SK and NL.

Map showing the states where I've been, with 48 at least visited, lived in 3, spent a while in about half.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 23/08/2026

I strongly believe that if you show up at the 🇨🇦 border and the guard says, "I left my house this morning," that if you respond with "it was a little after 9" and proceed to sing all of Bobcaygeon correctly, automatic citizenship should be conferred at that point.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 23/08/2026

Showing my solidarity with Canada in the best way possible (until my bum leg gets better and I can come spend my $ there) - watching the #TragicallyHip farewell concert 10th anniversary special on the CBC.

Screenshot of the late Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip on the CBC

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 17/08/2026

So much "what could have been," and the community is poorer because of it.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 01/08/2026

Sometimes if you travel the same road a lot, you find a piece of music that just perfectly matches the drive. For me, it's Van Morrison's sublime "Saint Dominic's Preview" and the lonely beauty of Route 17 through the Catskills filling me with beauty and emotion. What's yours?

View out the car window of NY Route 17 up in the mountains near Roscoe. You can't hear Van Morrison blasting out the car stereo

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 29/07/2026

Of all the days to be working out of Buffalo...

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 27/07/2026

Your reminder that the NY State Broadcasters Association is set to induct this man into its hall of fame this fall.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 26/07/2026

My old newsroom continues to actively use X and has no presence here. Very disappointing.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 23/07/2026

Rochester folks! The weather and air quality look good for another edition of Comedy on Deck on Friday! DM me or @lisafybush.bsky.social and we can give you all the details.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 21/07/2026

You just kinda wasted my precious time, but don't think twice, it's alright.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 19/07/2026

Come cheer on your favorite Bald Springsteen Dad in the Roast Battle Tournament of Champions tonight, Rochester!

Poster for the Roast Battle Tournament of Champions, Danny Smith vs. yours truly, tonight at 7 at Comedy at the Carlson

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 15/07/2026

Sunday night! Come see how far I can get in the first-ever Roast Battle Tournament of Champions at the Carlson!

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 15/07/2026

Sunday night! Come see how far I can get in the first-ever Roast Battle Tournament of Champions at the Carlson!

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 12/07/2026

Me, waking up in a hotel room for 3am pee: "nghhhrghh" Wife, checking phone: "Lindsey Graham died, they just announced it" Me: "You do mean Mitch, right?" (repeat several times) Me, several hours later: "oh, that actually happened" (I've been having weird dreams lately. Can't be too careful)

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 07/07/2026

I am so much more interested in hearing forward-looking thoughts about how we get 51 solid Senate votes against Trump nominees and for subpoenas, than in hearing I-told-you-sos and recriminations about the mess in Maine. Four months till the (latest) most important elections ever. Stay focused.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 05/07/2026

The highest form of patriotism is calling out the ways in which our nation isn't living up to its ideals. Here's to the anniversary of this speech, from just a few blocks away from the site where it happened. (It deserves a much better memorial.)

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 04/07/2026

Some semiquincentennial thoughts while listening to the stuff that gives me hope on a day such as this... The America I'm celebrating today is the America of the artists, the writers, the singers. 1/

Bruce Springsteen sings in Washington DC in front of an on-screen US flag, May 27, 2026

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 02/07/2026

Anyone want a 🧵 with some actual facts about the antennas atop the #EmpireStateBuilding?

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 02/07/2026

One of the adult kids mentioned in this post actually *liked it.* She is still in my house.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 01/07/2026

There are too many people in my house. I love my adult kids dearly but... There are too many people in my house.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 28/06/2026

I had a really nice final night at the #Rochester jazz festival, and I am going to miss the creative charge I've been getting out of writing these reviews/observations for @jazz901wgmc.bsky.social. Your feedback is always appreciated! jazz901.org/45711/scott-...

Kyle Roussel, a young Black pianist wearing a flowery suit and glasses, plays a Steinway grand piano at the Rochester International Jazz Festival

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 27/06/2026

It's the final day of the jazz festival here in sunny #Rochester, and it was another really great night last night covering all the music for @jazz901wgmc.bsky.social. I hope you've been enjoying these at least half as much as I've been enjoying writing them! jazz901.org/45711/scott-...

Sasha Dobson, a dark haired woman in a denim jacket, plays guitar on stage

Big Lazy, a three piece jazz ensemble, plays on stage at the Little Theater

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 26/06/2026

Two more nights left at the #Rochester jazz festival, which means 2 more fun nights of enjoying music and writing about it before I go back to being just the engineer for @jazz901wgmc.bsky.social. Here's my report on Thursday's fun. Let's catch up at the fest! jazz901.org/45711/scott-...

Singer Tessa Souter performs at the jazz fest

A full stage of performers at the Burt Bachrach tribute

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

HOW TO LOOK AT ART by Lynda Barry

In the first panel, a dog-headed woman, a mother, looks at a painting in the "Madonna with Baby Jesus" vein. A small blobby child is standing next to her.

Mother: IM NOT SURE HOW TO LOOK AT ART.
Child: WHATS SPOSTA HAPPEN?

In the second panel the dog-headed mother holds up her hands (paws?) trying to explain to the child.

Mother: SOMETHING BIG. A REVELATION.
SUDDENLY YOU JUST UNDERSTAND.

In the third panel dog-headed mother goes back to looking at the painting. The child holds up their arms to be lifted.

Mother: NOT SURE HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
Child: HOW BOUT LIFT ME UP SO I CAN SEE BETTER

In the last panel, the dog-headed mother is holding the child, their position mirrored by the Madonna and baby Jesus in the painting.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 25/06/2026

I don't have a traditional background to be either a music reviewer or a broadcast engineer. Thankfully, @jazz901wgmc.bsky.social lets me loose anyway on its gear and on the #Rochester jazz festival. I was kind of proud of this one last night. jazz901.org/45711/scott-...

The bassist and saxophonist for Dolphin Hyperspace stand on a stage at the Rochester International Jazz Festival, their faces obscured by medium-sized inflatable blue and white dolphins.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 24/06/2026

Would have been interesting to see what would have happened if we'd had an actual campaign against Morelle, like with ads and campaigning and news coverage and stuff, and not just a gushing flood of dirty PAC money. I kinda miss democracy.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 24/06/2026

Last kid escapes from high school today. He also voted for the first time, and hopefully not the last. I'm glad this is the last we have to deal with this school district. It's been a long ride since I started here 49 years ago. And that was the most generic speech I've ever seen a sup't give.

Eli stands in his blue cap and gown on the high school turf field that nobody wanted, and which will have to be redone very expensively because it is covering toxic waste

Eli tips his head to show his cap covered in political buttons and pins

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 22/06/2026

The nice folks at @jazz901wgmc.bsky.social keep letting me loose each night to write about the #Rochester International Jazz Festival. Night 3 gave us Arturo Sandoval and so much more. Here's my review. jazz901.org/45711/scott-...

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Scott Fybush’s Daily RIJF Reviews – Jazz 90.1

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 22/06/2026

You know you're from #Rochester when the autocomplete on your phone immediately adds "5" as you're typing "Parcel."

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 21/06/2026

Settling in to my annual gig reviewing the #ROC jazz fest for @jazz901wgmc.bsky.social - here's my night 2 coverage. jazz901.org/45711/scott-...

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Scott Fybush’s Daily RIJF Reviews – Jazz 90.1

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 21/06/2026

Do we know which Monroe County this is that sent sheriff's deputies to DC to, um, patrol the reflecting pool? Because if it's Monroe County NY, this taxpayer has some questions about how our employees are being used. Have you seen this, @rachbarnhart.com??

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 20/06/2026

I haven't been a journalist for a couple of years now, which has probably saved my mental health. But every year, I get to do some writing for @jazz901wgmc.bsky.social at the Rochester Int'l Jazz Festival, and it's always a nice reminder that I can still do this! www.facebook.com/share/p/1BRF...

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 17/06/2026

I am so glad my college days were 35 years ago and not now. (he says, with no end of worry about his own kids now pursuing higher education)

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