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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

“I’ve had a rough night and I hate The Eagles, man” -The Dude

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... O’Leary is the literal Once-ler

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

It’s kinda startling how you can’t reliably use the open internet to find information anymore. The AI generated response is up top, then it’s 2-3 pages before finding a back up source that isn’t an AI website. Simply wondering ‘how long does homemade infused olive oil last’ is such a headache now.

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Finally gave the new Scowl album a few full play throughs. Pretty extreme genre leap for the band. Best way I can describe it is that it sounds like a less polished Garbage album (not really a criticism, it’s nearly impossible to out-polish Butch Vig).

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Freaking shout it from the rooftops, I haven’t agreed more with a paragraph in a long time. The Benson Boone Crumbl Cookie and Our Ultraprocessed Culture www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/o...

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Doing a neighborhood tie dye party this year instead.

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

This was honestly the most Late-Stage Capitalism event I’ve ever witnessed, barely edging out that crypto Super Bowl from a couple years ago

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

slate.com/news-and-pol...

$The judges are surely aware of the fragility of their own authority in the face of outright defiance by a rogue executive, particularly in a moment when Congress has shown no disposition to defend constitutional separation of powers. For that reason, judges may be reluctant to deploy their contempt power assertively. But this is not the time for judicial timidity. With each passing day, America's constitutional regime and the capacity of its government erodes further. And with each passing day, the practical ability of the courts to stop, or even materially hinder, the catastrophe diminishes. If there is to be a test of wills between law and Trumpism, it must come now, or it will be too late. That said, the rest of us need to understand that if Trump successfully defies the courts, the only remaining obstacle to dictatorship will be public revulsion, national popular protest, and the hope that such a reaction would cause Trump to retreat and, at long last, recall some fraction of the Republican Party to its constitutional duty.$

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Our word of the day is sadopopulism

Sadopopulism - a political strategy or occurrence in which a leader appeals to people by harming them but making them believe that people they hate are at fault and/or are being harmed worse.

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

This is the crux of many face to face conversations I’ve had with people over the last few weeks. Dem or Rep, if they haven’t been paying attention, are still under this belief.

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

500,000 tons of food designated for humanitarian aid is just sitting at sea in limbo now. Cool cool cool.

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

‘By its very nature, a Super Bowl Halftime Show is for everybody. But this one? This one wasn’t really for everybody. This was for the people who kept up, who paid attention.’ Certainly my favorite SB halftime show ever!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 07/02/2025

I'd like to see more writing on how the Musk/Trump junta feels like a frontal attack on the entire concept of virtue, in even the most traditional senses. They are actively demonizing and punishing everyone who doesn't worship Mammon.

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

30+ years later, still the doom archetype

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

2. The effort to "eliminate DEI" is just a code to avoid talking explicitly about white power But Darren Beattie, just hired for a senior State Department role, made the point explicitly last October "Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work"

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Rewatched Major Payne last night for reasons still unclear. But man this movie is funny. One of my favorite scenes in a 90s comedy. youtu.be/0T7huuYNEBA?...

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Major Payne (1995) - The Little Engine That Could Scene (6/10) | Movieclips

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Love when a project goes well, I fixed my favorite AKG’s! The person soldering these things at the factory must have been paid by the headphone though, nearly every solder in these things is a cold joint 😬

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Big Blustery Beach under Blue sky Hobbit Beach, Oregon #alphabetChallenge #BisforB

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

This pedalboard was, unfortunately, only useable by those with tiny toddler feet. I do think these keeley workstations sound cool though. The harmonic trem on the mod workstation is killer, if I can ever remember how to find it #musiciansky #pedalboard

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

the acceleration of the carceral state in my lifetime has aided only the corporations who have benefited therefrom and done so at immense human cost, and we see it in policing, prison, military — in schools too. a profound human evil. somehow we must organize and act around this

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Why is this so funny, I’ve watched it 10 times

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

My favorite live show of the year has to go to the Japanese punk band Otoboke Beaver! Best rhythm section in punk atm, and honestly I don’t think it’s close.

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Don't Light My Fire | Otoboke Beaver at SXSW Online 2021

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Sick pedalboard at a model train expo. I think the American Flyer Diesel Horn is a muff variation?

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Well, watching the nfl pregame guys announce President Carter’s death was surreal

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

One of the (many) empty stores in our local mall randomly turned into a giant model train display. Crazy the amount of detail that went into this

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 29/12/2024

they should cast Bob Dylan as Wonka

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I think about this quote every time someone asks something I’m knowledgeable about.

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

The one that got away. Loved this pedal but didn’t gel with the amp I was using at the time. Really shouldn’t have sold it. Anyone have a similar story? #pedalboard #guitar

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Always liked these guys, reminds me of 70s proto punks like Television

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Couple more pics of this one. Quite enjoyed not having a ‘modulation’ pedal (is the data corrupter a mod or fuzz?), just lots of gain staging and delay. Used the King of Tone’s multijacks for pre-gain and post-gain boost. #pedalboard #musiciansky

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

This was a superb pedal. Quacktastic autowah with a tube drive. Probably would have had a permanent place on my pedalboard if not for the weird proprietary power plug in the side of the pedal. #pedalboard #musiciansky #guitar

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

The Clash release “London Calling”, their 3rd studio LP, today in 1979. “Punk rock isn’t something you grow out of,” Joe Strummer said. “Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is, ‘Give us some truth.’” “Train in Vain”

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Shout out to the engineers on this one, wide stereo image. Gotta say, Bonnie Guitar is false advertising though. No shredding at all. And ‘Last Christmas’ use a drop to get the pit going. #vinyl #musicsky

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Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Just four months after his release from Russian prison, Evan Gershkovich has the lead byline on an incredible story about the ultrasecret Russian agency behind his kidnapping. He and the Journal identified the precise individuals involved. Astonishing. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

DKRO leaders also enjoy rare access to Putin himself. One of the few Russian officials privileged enough to play ice hockey with the president is the head of the FSB’s first service, which oversees DKRO, Lt. Gen. Vladislav Menschikov. He personally briefed Putin before and after my arrest, the Journal reported while I was incarcerated. Barely known outside a small circle of Russia analysts, the spy chief previously ran the presidential directorate responsible for Russia’s nuclear bunkers.

His subordinate, who runs DKRO itself—the goateed Lt. Gen Minaev—has a hands-on role in selecting which Americans to arrest, and which Russians to trade them for. Awarded the prestigious Hero of Russia medal for bravery during Russia’s war in Chechnya, he is described by intelligence chiefs who have met him as frighteningly perceptive. “He understands everything about his environment—everything,” said one Western officer who has met him several times. “He knows immediately who is a shark and who is a pussy.”

Minaev usually stays in the shadows, but he was present from the beginning to the end of the Aug. 1 swap. I first saw him when I was escorted from the Lefortovo prison onto a gray coach with other prisoners on the morning of the exchange. At 10:30 a.m., Minaev climbed aboard and stood at the front, resting his arms on the backs of two seats on either side of the aisle. He was a representative of the FSB, he announced, and we prisoners were gathered for an exchange. He didn’t give his name.

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

This was a fun pedalboard setup. The analogman was worth the wait, it has the multi-jack, high gain addons. Deco is a goated always-on pedal. Data Corruptor is hilarious, it’s like Bowser in a box. #guitarsky #musiciansky #audiosky #pedalboard

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

“The reality was that none of the people allegedly working for the Ashland Daily Tidings existed…” Fascinating article!

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Well damn, Meet Me In St. Louis is funny as hell. Shout out to Tootie and turn-of-the-century Halloween, shit was basically The Purge. And someone is going to have to convince me that they aren’t eating their homemade ketchup as soup.

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ændra. @aendra.com · 06/12/2024

This feed sorts posts by popularity to give a sense of what's currently trending. For the original, reverse-chronological 📰 News feed, please visit: bsky.app/profile/aend...

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

When it rains in December, you’re allowed to adapt your Christmas rotation #music #musicsky #vinyl

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Josh🥁 @joshgriff.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

lmao allowed my drake hate to make my top 5

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