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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 10h

yet another "wish I was born just a few years earlier" show.

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 14h

envious of Lebanon Ohio for going all the way with this when our city won't.

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 14h

today in out of context microfilm, which I'm pretty sure I found funny because I used to DJ at the same college radio station as the "Reverend Ivan Stang."

headline from newspaper that reads 'COMMUNISTS TO FIGHT BOB.'

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 17h

The current huge story about the gang rape at Cornell University, a crime originally brushed off and covered up by the administration, is SOLELY the product of the student paper, the Cornell Daily Sun, which doggedly pursued the story. Not the NYT or CNN. An independent student paper. #Cornell

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR | Cornell Won’t Listen, We Will

The Sun's Editor-in-Chief Sophia Dasser '28 calls on the Cornell community to share its reactions to the Chi Phi lawsuit and the University's response, on the record, for a permanent public archive.

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Mark Gaspar @markgaspar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is a very good ad and obviously has Tim Robinson’s approval. Now let’s get Detroiters back on the air.

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Flayin’ the Flannel @flanneloccluded.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

🚨 [extremely loud klaxon] 🚨

A better tomorrow movie painting in the environs of a cinema

You know the one, chow Yun fat lighting a cigarette with a 100 dollar bill , yeah that one

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change.

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I used to be able to see a friend's apartment building near the sea on Google Maps and then the whole aerial view disappeared for awhile, and now...

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Curiosity about things outside your orbit and being interested in other people and their interests is honestly the secret to so much of interacting with most people and having a rich life, regardless of what you majored in, or if you went to college at all.

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I see a lot of American lefties on here who don't make the connection between what's happening in Gaza and what's happened in Mariupol and what's happening in this city, meanwhile folks over there definitely see the same playbook being used in both places.

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

someone set off fireworks in the neighborhood when the Guardians won tonight and we were drinking porch beers and cackling at the inevitable Austin Hedges hot mic moment.

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am really tempted to ask the boyfriend what he thinks of this story because he works on older cars for fun and part of me thinks the dude just doesn't want to pay for the people with the know-how to do the work.

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The Barbarienne @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

now with alt-text

The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think part of every civics class in both high school and college should involve sitting in a courtroom downtown watching people's lives get ruined because the judge woke up on the wrong side of the bed that day.

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There is a weird estate sale in Fairview Park this weekend and I kind of want to put this Doberman velvet painting in my front window.

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of my old roommates played viola and looked like Lauryn Hill and was regularly pulled out of music class or moved out of her orchestra section when her college needed her for their marketing literature.

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The Scud Stud @thescudstud.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Greatest scene ever? bsky.app/profile/baum...

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

the "a certain singer has a Cleveland song now" put me in mind of this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4by...

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PJ Harvey - Why D'Ya Go To Cleveland?

YouTube video by ZZqezza

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hate that 'Canadian Bacon' bits just live rent-free in my head now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bXz...

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Born in The USA - John Candy - Canadian Bacon

YouTube video by gagarin777

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

my social security card and auto title were stolen this past week when my house was broken into and I was able to replace the title easily but at this point I'm very "well the SSN is already out there anyway so what is the difference."

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026

"On Monday, I can take a Zoom call from a Mexico City Airbnb that used to be a family’s house, and on Tuesday, I can send an email from a short-term rental in Bali that was once a women’s shelter. I bill my employer for the time I spend on my Instagram." buff.ly/CsWhmEy

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My Remote Job Gives Me the Freedom to Displace People All Over the World

“By working remotely, I break down boundaries. I’m a traveler and a worker, a learner, and a teacher. I’m a digital nomad and a real-life colonist.” 9/14/23 ...

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

walked past the Wild Eagle Saloon downtown on an errand. Usually the patio speaker are playing classic rock and 90s feel good stuff but someone was having a Monday and my favorite bummer songs of all time was blaring out onto Huron Avenue today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLi2...

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Alice In Chains - Down In A Hole

YouTube video by Niels Otterman

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

part of why everyone needs a religious studies class is that the local architecture group is debating where this church is and what tradition it's in and people keep saying it's Greek Orthodox because of the color because they've never been inside literally any Orthodox church.

church interior from a Facebook post with a white interior and blue trim. Definitely not a Greek Orthodox church.

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

shoutout to whoever's driving a white 90's Buick LeSabre around the west side with the shocks blown out and a license plate that just says 'U BUM.'

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I feel like 20 year old me would not have understood certain decisions I made when it came to love and religion but would've been into knowing that I got a cool job, met Ian Mackaye once, and fulfilled my adolescent punk dreams of playing in bands that actually put things out and toured.

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was around homeschooled kids for the first 20 years of my life and seeing a more expensive version of that look show up now that they're well-subsidized by their donors is not something I want to see again.

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Getting all creeped out again because I was in the backyard and apparently the dude who broke into my house pulled a lawn chair up to the back window but the material on it split so he gave up on that idea.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 17/09/2026

dudes rock

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anybody know a handyman who can repair a door frame? I am striking out on the people I called about this kind of thing.

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Cleveland out here with this data center survey saying "you can only pick 3 things you're mad about." www.clevelandohio.gov/city-hall/de...

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Data Center Public Survey

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

well my house got broken into and my front door jamb is wrecked but it looks like the neighbor's dog started freaking out and dude bailed before he could steal anything so I am unusually "glass half full" about this.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." --Tom Lehrer

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 15/09/2026

it’s a good piece but the basic takeaway is: class solidarity. wealthy liberals running elite institutions realized standing up to trump would cost them $ and make their boards mad at them and they cared much more about that than whatever they pretended to care about during the first term

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 01/10/2025

people talk about a Brayan Rocchio statue but we would also embrace a Brayan Rocchio rain garden.

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

honestly wondering if going to the cheap gas station by the highway because it's like 40 cents cheaper is worth it when a guy claims you cut him in line and proceeds to yell at you the entire time you're filling up.

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I wish tddayton was still on here because he's the only other person I know who's probably into this amazing late-period Carly Simon / Nile Rodgers jam. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Uf...

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Why (12" Version)

YouTube video by Carly Simon - Topic

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If any of my fellow ethnics can tell me I'm wrong here, I'm still very weirded out by this nostalgia for eastern bloc housing because someone saw a museum with a cool photo of it. Also, like, Warsaw is not in the USSR come ON.

screenshot from x showing a kitchen from the "Museum of Life under Communism" in Warsaw and the text "half the country has been fundamentally priced out of what was free in the USSR in 1960 and dudes working 40 hours a week to share a 2 bedroom gray box in Dallas will look you dead in the eye and tell you communism is the root of all evil."

side note: Does the OP know that Warsaw is not in the USSR?

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the amount of truly evil stuff being pushed in the magazines my parents subscribe to makes me think about how concerned their generation was about us getting into "antisocial" music while these creeps gleefully advocate shredding social fabric & safety nets everywhere.

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

anyways, one of our friends posted this today.

Screenshot of Mr. Lebowski yelling "Your 'season' is over, Mr. Haslam! Condolences! The Browns lost! My advice to you is to do what Modell did: MOVE TO ANOTHER CITY, SIR. The Browns will always lose-- do you hear me, Haslam? THE BROWNS WILL ALWAYS LOSE!"

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the amount of cackling we did this afternoon while eating cookout food and watching the dumbest football team in America somehow achieve a whole other level of disaster.

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I found about about this book recently and it was a heck of a thing to be reading it as an American on the weekend of the 25th anniversary of 9/11.

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

apparently his daughter has taken over the shop, and for a significant time in my life, Timeless Guitars was a happy place for me and I spent a lot of time and money there. Clyde never made me feel stupid to be into what I was into and I really appreciated that. www.buschcares.com/obituaries/C...

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Obituary information for Clyde Deubel

View Clyde Deubel's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I opened for Jucifer once and had to go outside. The dude opened for a 2-piece band whose name I can't remember but they were also on that decibel level. I also played in a band at the time that set off some car alarms during soundcheck. I don't miss that kind of overcompensating.

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Meanwhile my boyfriend who lives in Jerry Cirino's district keeps getting ads from this dude claiming that he's FIGHTING EXTREMISM unlike that Sherrod Brown who can't 'renounce the extremists in his own party."

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 11/09/2026

Saw a movie about one of those farcical-but-serious episodes of Finnish history: the kidnapping of (former) president K. J. Ståhlberg and his wife Ester, who wouldn't be left behind, by hapless far-right goons. The movie was very much "inspired by a true story," so here's my version. A THREAD:

A black and white photograph of president Ståhlberg of Finland and his wife, listening to an old guy speaking outside.

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's going to be a Bruce Cockburn today probably. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6s6...

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The Trouble With Normal

YouTube video by Bruce Cockburn - Topic

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