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Also, actually playing the music is a very joyous, human thing to do even if everybody hates it and you suck because not all music-making is or ought be about audience pleasing, money making, fame/respect obtainment, demonstration of technical mastery, or production of some lasting artifact

Calvin in bed with Hobbes: "Nothing spoils fun like finding out it builds character."

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

When your annual synth budget is in the thousands of cents

A Yamaha portasound pss-80 stacked on a Yamaha portasound pss-130. The pss-130 is an older model so the 80 actually has significantly more features

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Good morning to the the creepies and/or crawlies

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh shit shoulda waited for the zoom out

A shot from further back in the same production, showing the full array of dangling microphones

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don't know who the sound engineer is here, but I respect the hell out of 'em for doing the best they can with what they got

A still from a bengali production, where the sound guy has just hung every sm-58 style mic in the house from the rafters by their xlr cables

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Morning gastropod derby, courtesy of underneath the recycling bin

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Truly galaxybrained to post about your fear of invasion and desire to protect the british race underneath the handle "Craigus Decimus" Like, "Hello, I'm Hamdrew "Rockbarrier" Jacksonson, I'm here to talk to you today about landback"

User "Craigus Decimus" pitches buck standard replacement theory nonsense. Quote: That is your opinion Sarah and I respect it. But at least try and understand that many of us simply oppose the level of immigration and see Farage as the only way to stop the demographic replacement of the British race. Would you really, honestly want this in your community? End quote. Below, a depiction of 350 Piddington residents in a field compared to "1250 migrants being moved there."

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I was just enjoying some beverages from under the kitchen sink and goddamnit

A recall notice from the Consumer Product Safety Commission website for Clorox Puerto Rico's Mistolin and Lestoil multipurpose scented cleaners, which may contain bacteria including Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"I want the CEO with the biggest chin you have ... "

Hans Moleman from the Simpsons, in a phonebooth with broken glass and birds flying aggressively around. The punchline is "No, that's too big."

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I saw Jurassic Park at just the right age to be severely traumatized by guy getting chormped off the toilet

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"But Sirhey is a dude's dude, who really knows what dudes want to hear when they're imagining talking to a chick!"

John Ennis from "Mr Show with Bob and David" over a phone number 1-800-55-GYRLZ, providing a testimonial for Glenn Peterson's sex hotline operating skills from Season 4 episode 3 "Rudy Will Await Your Foundation"

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Presently at the America 250 planning bunker:

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Obviously an early form of leech storage, a la another post going around:

A bright green ceramic urn with a perforated lid, labeled "LEECHES" in gold painted print

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Milwaukee is a pioneer in the field:

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Recent video of SecDef Hegseth

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Mono courier, all caps anything more is vanity

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

THERE IS NO CEILING, ONLY STRONG FLOOR

Dana Barrett in Ghostbusters (1984) professing there is no dana, only zuul.

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

That's why you ALWAYS leave a vote

The one-armed man from Arrested Development frequently employed by George Sr. to teach his sons lessons

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

To answer my own question... yes!

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

A time traveler walks among us...

Side by side comparison of Malcolm Cowley, pictured in the linked article, and Paul F. Tompkins, looking like the spitting image of same.

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

They're taking my office toaster oven

Milton Waddams from Office Space, who suffered a mental breakdown partially precipitated by removal of his favorite piece of office equipment

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

If you're around the Milwaukee area, stop on by Vegga's Pub on June 8, have a drink, play some dice with the bartender, and listen to a song or three performed by Hunter Park (She Returns From War) and the inimitable Lily Slay (of the Royal Tinfoil). These ladies never disappoint!

A poster advertising a show at Vegga's Pub in Milwaukee: She Returns from War and Lily Slay, Sunday, June 8th, 5 pm, ages 21 plus.

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

It's always fun to be reminded that amidst all the truly amazing and delightful students we have the pleasure of teaching, there are some truly sociopathic little shits that I usually just try to forget exist

The Policies and Resources for Instructors page summarizes vital information to support you and your students at the end of this semester. If you are assigning any F grades this semester please pay special attention to the ‘F’ Grade Policy, accurate recording of student F-grades is critical, as failure to document participation can result in substantial financial liability for UWM.

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

63 years later, their closing paragraph has pretty much come true. Sure, you have to steal all the world's literary output and boil off a few rivers, but you can yell at a computer and it'll talk back now.

Another page of text, titled "How A. B.'s poems are written." The article reveals that A.B. is an "auto-beatnik", an early foray into the AI space, and the poems are essentially procedurally generated from word lists.

Another page of text, the continuation of the A.B. article. The final paragraph: "We believe that a computer can be programmed to write meaningful and relevent sentences in proper English. And we hope to tackle the problem of conversing with a computer in purely natural speech, as we would with a person. At first, of course, the "talking" will take place by means of an electric typewriter, but eventually a true man-machine dialogue should be possible."

The cover of the magazine containing the A.B. article: Horizon, May 1962

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Found in a 1962 issue of Horizon: some uncanny poetry.

A page of text: "A new American Poet Speaks: The works of A. B."

A page of text, consisting of nine poems. One of them is titled "Bassoons" and reads as follows: Ah, so apologetically did their small rowdies cringe beside a tramp.
Beneath a ballad, should a rooster harangue like the prostitute?

The remaining poems are of similar quality.

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

How I think I look when teaching / How I actually look

Charlie from Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia in front of his mailroom conspiracy wall

Barry Zuckercorn, the lawyer from arrested development, making airquotes and saying I'm not quote super prepared unquote

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Prior to the inaugural balls, plural?

A man in a suit says "Those are balls." It is a scene from the television show Arrested Development featuring The Fonz as Barry Zuckercorn, the family lawyer for the Bluths.

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Alright, Judge Merchan, you know what to do

A pair of legs with a comically large boot, from the Simpsons episode "Bart vs Australia"

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

All thanks to the Stonecutters

A scene from The Simpsons, wherein the Stonecutters are at a table hoisting steins and singing a song about all the conspiracies they are involved in. The verse shown is "Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star?" which is followed by "We do! We do!"

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

MLK Jr Blvd a few minutes ago... Somebody's getting yelled at for this one #MKE

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Heh, good luck with that. Maybe it'll stick, but the current lingo is pretty sticky already.

An anonymized interaction claiming the local terminology for posting here on bluesky is "flutters" and "reflutters"

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

And the number nine is.... pretty specific...

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James Linzel @jlinzel.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

I don't know or want to know what his voice sounds like in real life, but in my head, all these quotes are read in "Ross Gellar in his most annoying moments" voice

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