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Both my kids are on academic paths to become librarians and archivists and I could not be more proud of them. I look forward to spending my last years just learning obscure stuff from both of them.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 21h

Oh no!! Worst that happened to me was moving from Boston back to Rochester to work for a news director I idolized. He was canned at the end of my first week on the job.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 21h

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...

gothamist.com

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 · 04/10/2026

Around here, plenty, but I'm in an older inner-ring suburb with lots of walkable density within a mile of the schools. But also, school starting times have been pushed so early that the kids are already walking in the dark anyway.

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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 · 02/10/2026

It was a battle I fought from the day I had to jump in after Bob had his stroke. I brought them a list of best practices from other stations and it fell on deaf ears.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 02/10/2026

It's not just the host. Doing a show like this the right way requires a pretty significant production team behind the scenes, and two hours of show a day with just two producers is a huge strain. Even getting that minimal a staff was a struggle. Bob Smith did the show with no producer at all.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 02/10/2026

This is actually something I pushed for even before Evan. Very few public stations do 2 hours a day of local talk, and if they do it's with a MUCH larger staff than the 2 people plus Evan who produce Connections. It's an unsustainable workload and this should result in tighter, better shows.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 01/10/2026

Pretty sure they've fixed it, and the great part is that the fee for Nexus also covers Pre and Global Entry.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 01/10/2026

It's a game changer. And the process to get it moves pretty fast now, too.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 30/09/2026

Or the one that finally clears our schedules for some long overdue drinks and trivia?? 😂

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 30/09/2026

FFS if I want something done automatically for me it's going to be my laundry or my dishes or my bills, not my vinyl or my coin collection or my comedy or my books. These people aren't human.

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

Agreed! It had its time but nobody wants to hear that voice anywhere anymore. (Which is also what I tell my teenage son when he's constantly walking around the house doing his - excellent, but annoying - Trump impression.)

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

School of the Arts, Ensemble Theater. We're so lucky to have SOTA here in town!

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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 · 26/09/2026

I'm so, so, so sorry. It's been almost a year since we lost our Sadie almost as suddenly and it's still so painful.

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

Most of the team's personnel were in Memphis, but Spikes hung out with the fans to celebrate the win. Now it's on to Las Vegas for a one-game AAA championship on Saturday.

Scott and Eli with the Wings mascot, Spikes, a large red bird.

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

There were only a couple hundred diehard fans in the park and it was 53 degrees out, but there is nowhere else I would rather have been. It was electric at the end as the Wings retook the lead in the 8th.

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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 · 24/09/2026

I was going to go catch the last few innings on the big screen at the ballpark after a talk I was giving last night, but looked at the score and decided I could go home instead. But I will be there tonight for game 3!!

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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 · 23/09/2026

Very excited to share the news with my 4'9" mom that she's 1 in 100!

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

We're having fun here at the ballpark!

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 22/09/2026

Or with your 18yo (just to give you something to look forward to!)

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 22/09/2026

This has been a known problem and a huge complaint from listeners for YEARS and they've never done anything about it. They do their streaming in house, which means they don't get the more advanced features that the professional streaming companies provide.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 22/09/2026

I will laugh my ass off if it's a big wave election and instead of ending up as the 51st D vote, Fetterman is the 53rd and nobody cares if he defects.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 21/09/2026

What the actual fucking what?!?!?

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 20/09/2026

Yay! Hopefully I can catch you after tomorrow's show if we're back in time.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 20/09/2026

Hope today's show was great, too!

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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

She's hard to tag, but you can follow her at @ari-infinityyy.bsky.social, though she's not very active here.

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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 · 15/09/2026

Yes, but I was replying to Ken's comment that he can't think of another city where media is as obsessive as Philly with the Eagles. Buffalo is just as intense.

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

You've never watched Buffalo TV or read the newspapers there or here in Rochester during Bills season, I see.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 14/09/2026

Many of them have joined the @washingtonsun.bsky.social, which is an outgrowth of several existing media outlets in town but is really going hard now for the former Post audience.

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Scott Fybush ♥️🇨🇦 @fybush.com · 14/09/2026

I helped to build a radio station there (Rochester Free Radio) and then had to take it apart to move it to the Kee-Lox Building to make room for luxury apartments that of course were never built.

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

I made it to four of the shows, including a magical night in the pit in DC, and even though it was the same setlist every time, it was such a cathartic, uplifting experience I would do it again and again if I could.

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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...

radioinsight.com

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

Fair point. His approval rating keeps testing new lows.

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

I'm improving, and sending best wishes for a smooth vet visit. Is the sedative for you or the cat? 😉

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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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