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Gär Force One

@garyruschman.bsky.social
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Wielder of the Mighty Musical Hacksaw® Composer, Conductor, Performer Minneapolis

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Bob ArdKor @bob.ardkor.com · 07/10/2026
At long last, we have created the Space Corridor from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Space Corridor.
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David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Well, I have to say that Cleveland indeed rocks!
The members of Rush perform in Cleveland, OH.
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Someone I follow here has signed copies of their book in a bookstore in Cleveland. Who is responding?
book with a question mark on the cover
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
alright: last call for Tales of Hoffmann! JD Rivers Children's garden in Theo Wirth, Sunday, 3pm! Don't miss this mashup of Grunge and French grand opera!
a colorful cast of opera/rock performers in front of a decorated trailer set.
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Last chances to see this extravaganza of opera and rock! Catch us in West St. Paul, Faribault, St. Paul, and Theo Wirth park. Tales of Hoffmann wraps on Sunday! mixedprecipitation.org/summer-2026/
Audience review: "So Fun! The dirtbag art scene is alive and well in the Midwest!" A group of performers holding out a high note together
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Come back, baby: Rock & Roll never forgives
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Patrick Stewart as Picard: Make It So
Alt: Patrick Stewart as Picard: Make It So
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 31/08/2026
Career Advice | A University Is Not a President's to Remake A recent Inside Higher Ed interview describes in unusually candid terms an increasingly popular—and problematic—view of the president's role. By Judith Wilde: bit.ly/46wc4R8 #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
A person in a graduation gown with the word "President" visible on the sleeve holds a degree in hand
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Help, I’m in the pokey
Staying at a unique airbnb venue on tour
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Saint Dolly Parton
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.
Comic page depicting how the did the scene in the Muppets Movie with Kermit playing the banjo in a swamp
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Hoffmann (+grunge) rehearsals mixedprecipitation.org
Rehearsing Tales of Hoffmann (man in glasses with guitar in foreground, opera singers being choreographed in the room)
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John Hudgens @johnhudgens.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Fascinating story about the unfortunate new normal on the web...
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What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all
If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not.
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
youtu.be/yin-O5mslbw?...
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BBC FIFA World Cup 2026 Closing Montage
YouTube video by Ken Fang's Sports Channel
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Tabs Out Cassette Podcast @tabsout.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
You fought in the Behringer Clone Wars?!
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Hey, #patent folks: y'all up to speed on Fender's folly? yamahamusicians.com/fender-widen...
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Fender widens its Stratocaster fight to take in Yamaha
It had to happen eventually. Fender's Stratocaster copyright campaign has spent months working its way through boutique builders, retailers and the odd househol
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Irene Fernando @hennepind2.com · 08/07/2026
Rail is permanent. It changes how a community builds for future generations. Our neighbors have waited generations for rail — let's fulfill our promises and build this train. Go to BlueLineExt.org and help keep our promise. 5/5
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METRO Blue Line Extension - Metropolitan Council
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Oy vey, pausa de hidración
A pint of stout
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
pausa de hidracion
A flight of beers at Wicked Wort Brewing
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Goalkeepers, man. Goalkeepers.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Back of an automobile with "Gary Force Toyota" on the hatch.
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Have opted this time for Telemundo coverage of the Copa, which graciously takes blind and radio-listening folks into consideration. Passes tracked between players, and commentary is limited. Tried listening to a match on Fox's SIRIUS channel while driving and it was utterly useless-No information!
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Currently sporting my Casino Salzburg 93/94 scarf while I watch this match
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Vinnie D. @antibunny.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I know we're not supposed to police what is punk, but I beg the punk collective to grant me this statement. AI is most un-punk. The most hot topic, store bought, mall goth is still infinitely more punk than AI.
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I need ideas about turning singing opera into a soccer-styled competition. Hit me.
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.
Hi, thanks for posting! We do appreciate you thinking of us even though we have to moderate.

Our stance on all AI generated content (Images, Video, Voiceovers, and whatever else LLM based AI gets up to in the future):

At best, they are approximations of street fighter characters as the AI has no clue what it is trying to create. Because of this, there is no street fighter content so they are not allowed. (rule 1)

Also, they aren't allowed per our source rule. As AI sources cannot be tracked, we must assume that they use uncredited sources in the learning data. (rule 5)

Finally, AI images, video, text, and voiceovers are barely any different than posting a screenshot of a google search. The level of effort is so low that we consider it spam (rule 3).

Because of these reasons, AI art and other AI content is not allowed.

If you would like to contact the moderators about this removal, you can do so here.
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Cursing French Grand Opera (just let me get it out). WHY does there always have to be six freaking versions??!!! #arrangersnightmare
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Lulu-La'Croissant Mawari @lululacroissant.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Twitter post by user @slimefiend: thinking about the time I went to a planetarium and somebody booed when they showed Earth.
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Someone (actually a few people) posted last night's Rush kickoff show. I tried to buy tix for me and my sister, but they sold out too quickly. I'm sitting here in tears having watched it. They were my first rock concert ever. Easily the most influential band on my own music making.
The Rush band logo from the first album, but with the C from my last name in it.
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
There's a version of musical success almost nobody on the internet talks about anymore, and it's the most common one in human history. You make music with your friends. You record your songs. You play the local bar on Friday and the church on Sunday and the festival in the park in July.
You teach a kid down the street how to hold a guitar. You write something that gets sung at a wedding. You die having made beauty for the people who shared your life. That is success. That has always been success. Most musicians who have ever lived have lived exactly that life, and most of them were not unhappy about it.
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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Merry Orthodox Star Wars Day to all who celebrate
Crowds amassed for the May 25, 1977 premiere of STAR WARS at Mann's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I guess we are doing this this morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa3k...
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Ashes Are Burning
YouTube video by Renaissance - Topic
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
We should have let Y2K win
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
www.subvert.fm/gary-ruschman Launch day for new artist-led coop Subvert. An alternative to other outlets with 0% platform fees and what looks to be a quality community!
A man with wind-blown hair posing amid superimposed images of pink and yellow flowersNot Alone album cover-Downtown Minneapolis view from southbound interstate 35W
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
There’s no Rush
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xi8...
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Tracy Bonham - Mother Mother
YouTube video by TracyBonhamVEVO
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
again, I always enjoy watching the New York City Marlboro's highlights.
them smokestacks look like cigarette filters, don't they???
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
"Is there a name for the feeling when you all you want out of life is to hunker down and eat pizza and watch movies but you also want to break new ground in your profession but you also want to quit society to live in the woods but you also want to go explore the world forever?"
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
OG Star Wars pillowcase, featuring the droids, Leia, Luke, Han, and Vader
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Today, handing it to Colin Hay, for some of the most compelling upper octave singing in the last verse.
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Gär Force One @garyruschman.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Well, the sea songs program was a hit! So proud of this ragtag bunch of community college kids, punching above their weight belting out shanties and a newly commissioned vocal jazz piece.
outline of an old timey ship
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Someone said recently that the creepy experience of using AI and having it tell you all your ideas are great is the actual real-life experience of people with a billion dollars. I think that sums it up.
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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
You may know me from such plan cancellations as "I totally forgot about that other thing at the place, sorry."
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