JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Words and phrases I look forward to never hearing again (1/?): Siloes Iteration Scarcity mindset 170
JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Apparently Robert Musil has an essay in which he describes “the love for elegant thinking as ‘a complicated passion for thift’” and I have a new definition of my main taste in music 141
JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Always thought that the contrast between the lyrics of “Would You Believe It (I Have a Cold)” and the Clown’s rollicking style displayed a charming insouciance but this is next levelyoutu.beHeart TroubleYouTube video by Huey "Piano" Smith - Topic 020
JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I am not sure I fully understood forty years ago when I first heard this how goddamn tight it is, I was not ready, I might not be nowmusic.apple.comMercy, Mercy by Don Covay & The Goodtimers on Apple MusicSong · 1965 · Duration 2:26 020
Reposted by JLthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQyoutu.bePressure DropYouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic 211058362
JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A.J. Liebling on his father: “He had a very good idea of the value of leisure, not having had any until it was too late to become accustomed to it, and a very good idea of the pleasure afforded by knowledge that has no commercial use, having never had time to acquire more than a few odd bits.” 1101
JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“What hasn’t gone away in the four years Konigsberg last released new music is her sense of humor (“Play ‘Free Byrd’!” is a great bit already), tight harmonies, penchant for talky asides, and ear for catchy refrains”pitchfork.comLily Konigsberg: “Free Byrd”Read Lily Goldberg’s review of the track. 020
Reposted by JLQuahog.org @quahog-dot-org.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Postcards from Rhode Island: Newport: ”SURF FISHING ALONG OCEAN DRIVE, NEWPORT, R.I.” Undated. 031
JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Driving around your old hometown in the rain, thinking about people who are no longer there, you can’t pretend it’s still summer and you feel like you’ve hung around too long; a great early autumn recordlong-beard.bandcamp.comMeans To Me, by Long Beard10 track album 030
JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is everything that I need it to bewednesdayband.bandcamp.comElderberry Wine (DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ Remix), by Wednesdayfrom the album Bleeds Deluxe 021
JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Something like Tim, The Replacements Saint Dominic’s Preview, Van Morrison Cheating here, but the Atlantic Rhythm and Blues, 1947-1974 boxed set London Calling, The Clash Hounds of Love, Kate Bush 030
JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Isn’t it cruel how the summer fades?music.apple.comSummer's Over by Jordana & TV Girl on Apple MusicSong · 2021 · Duration 2:53 010
Reposted by JLold roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 21/09/2026day's cottages, north truro, massachusetts, 1984 558588
Reposted by JLSamira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Have spent the last three days at and around Monte Cassino. The Benedictine monastery was rebuilt after the war. 710312
JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 20/09/2026“I don’t need to tell you that this is equal parts rage-inducing and exhausting. But above all else, it’s fucking embarrassing. I’d like this country to go one minute, just one, not smashing a pie into its own face.”defector.comThis Is So Fucking Embarrassing | DefectorI guess the addled corpus of Lee Corso was the only thing keeping ESPN’s college football arm from shedding every last trace of dignity. Because if you tuned into the four-letter network’s College Gam... 061
Reposted by JLneil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Les heureux hasards de l’escarpolette, Wallace Collection #c18 #c18th #18thc 092
Reposted by JLneil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Madame de Pompadour by François Boucher (1759), Wallace Collection #c18 #c18th #18thc 072
Reposted by JLNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 19/09/2026Grocery stores should have a stage in the middle of them, right where the freezer aisles are. Every day there should be a 3-band bill starting at 4. On Thursdays the bakery department has a thrash band that plays . If you get fucked up in the pit you get 15% off all Dempsters bread products. 212211
Reposted by JLCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Asters and Apples J.E.H. MacDonald 1917 015136
Reposted by JLouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 18/09/2026clown ass diviner step aside; Shulgi the king is comin up to bat 142
JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Everyone talking about Nate Amos but some of us out here waiting for more Lily Konigsbergmyidea.bandcamp.comCrutch, by My Ideafrom the album CRY MFER 210
Reposted by JLSara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 17/09/2026BREAKINGtheverge.comNew cat just dropped.As New Scientist reports, researchers have named a new species of cat — the “tilcayo” — which lurks on the slopes of the Andes mountains in South America. It’s apparently the first new named species o... 091
JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Dude just got on the bus carrying a stack of frozen pizzas, respect 3250
JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026“I appreciate about this ad that it pretty well drops the façade of prediction markets being any sort of moderated or socially useful economic force, or anything really but a psychotic scramble for unprotected sums of other people's money.”defector.comLeBron James Wants Your Paycheck To Become His Paycheck, By Way Of Polymarket | DefectorThe new Polymarket ad spot opens with LeBron James stepping onto an elevator and pushing a button labeled “SPORTS.” This is not some AI-extruded, near-enough visual representation of a generic basketb... 020
JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026My brother compared me to someone from one of those ads about new homeowners turning into their parents and I had no reply 380
JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Not her most celebrated work but a great song and absolutely majestic performance 130
Reposted by JLCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Afterglow Florence McGillivray 1914 016929
JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I fell in love with This is Lorelei’s last record like a lot of people and I want to like the new one, but the main flaw of the last—almost every song is just a bunch of variations on one part—doesn’t seem to have been addressed and the hooks aren’t as good 000
JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Saving all the week’s emails that I don’t want to read until late Friday afternoon so I can go into the weekend feeling like shit 251
Reposted by JLJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I think we'd see a lot more urgency about regulating AI in Silicon Valley if the AI agents suddenly developed a sense of restorative justice, and instead of them threatening humanity with total extinction, they just wanted to redistribute wealth and reverse power hierarchies. 17446103
JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I would be perfectly happy if the new Sadurn record were a glossier, more muscular version of their first but it’s even better to hear that it’s more than thatsadurn.bandcamp.comcan't stop, by Sadurnfrom the album The Underworld 000
Reposted by JLHrag Vartanian @hrag.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I shared my post-9/11 story here. Never forget what a Brown University report says was over 940,000 people who were killed by direct post-9/11 war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan between 2001–2023.hyperallergic.comArtists Reflect on 9/11 and the Wounds of the “War on Terror”Shahzia Sikander, Wafaa Bilal, Rina Banerjee, and others share stories from the day of the attack and the vicious campaign of Islamophobia, racism, and surveillance in its wake. 1236
Reposted by JLJesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Christopher Nevinson, The Cat. 1900s, Aquatint and etching, 40.1 cm x 25.5 cm (The Cleveland Museum of Art) 0476
Reposted by JLIan Donnis @iandonnis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Radio excerpt of my One on One interview with PVD artist and activist Jordan Seaberry www.oceanstatemedia.org/one-on-one-w...oceanstatemedia.org‘Artists are unafraid to tell the truth’: Providence painter and activist Jordan Seaberry on the role of art in societyThe Providence painter and organizer says artists can play an integral role in movements for political and social change 062
Reposted by JLsophia ♥️🎂 @sophamir.bsky.social · 03/09/2026your honor, that's my emotional support 475 tabs 14314
JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I do love it when a piano-led small band lays into being pure rhythm section, the rumbling essenceyoutube.comStar Moles - Full Session | PasteYouTube video by Paste Magazine 000
Reposted by JLIan Donnis @iandonnis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Bullet holes in this tombstone at Moshassuck Cemetery in CF bear witness to how two strikers were killed by state militia there during the 1934 Saylesville Massacre 0144
Reposted by JLAidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026'Strange Beauties' - limiting myself to ten, but a bunch more I could easily have picked out. Well worth seeing if you're in/around Edinburgh between now and the New Year. I did my best on the alt-text here, but obviously much gets lost. 2256
JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Song is time bomb put out on the street at the end of summer and waiting to cause an unknown number of seduction attempts in the wintermusic.apple.comReverie for work by Asher White on Apple MusicSong · 2026 · Duration 4:23 000
JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Louis Monza Corn Eaters Reunion, 1944 Oil on canvas Harvard Art Museums 170
Reposted by JLWayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026listened to this and took the afternoon off to finally see it. the formal language from 2500 years ago is astonishing and the "Linen Book of Zagreb" may be one of the most historic things I've seen - a text cut up and stained because it was used to wrap an Egyptian mummy. 3126
