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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Late Friday grid: one new track and she’s back on top

4 x4 grid of record covers by Star Moles, Asher White, Rubber Band Gun, Lex Walton, Sam and Louise Sullivan, Sen Morimoto, Josaleigh Pollett, Sadurn, Wednesday, Greg Freeman, Land of Talk, Touch Girl Apple Blossom, Bassvictim and Worldpeace DMT, Twisted Teens, Sacred Heart Academy, and The Femcels

JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Board lunch! Seated at the end of the table and next to a no-show so basically eating alone in a room full of people, not at all awkward

View of a table with one finished plate, a man’s leg underneath the table at that seat, and a partial view of an empty chair to the left

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Eastman Johnson October , 1873 Oil on canvas mounted on board Worcester Art Museum

Painting of an older man with white hair sitting outside against a tree with a walking stick against his leg and a large book in his hands on his lap. He’s falling asleep, the sun is starting to set, and the changing leaves and grasses around him, with some few colorful standouts, are fading into an autumnal glow

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Friday grid confirming that while it’s been a horrible year in so many ways it’s been a very good one in music

4 x 4 grid of covers of records by Asher White, Lex Walton, Rubber Band Gun, Star Moles, Sam and Louise Sullivan, Sadurn, Sen Morimoto, Touch Girl Apple Blossom, Land of Talk, Wednesday, Bassvictim with Worldpeace DMT, Greg Freeman, Josaleigh Pollett, The Femcels, Adrianne Lenker, and Smerz

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yabu Chosui Portrait of a Rabbit, 1867 Color woodblock print; surimono Art Institute of Chicago 🐰🐰

Color woodblock print of a large round rabbit with pink eyes facing the viewer set against a pink background. There’s a large inscription in Japanese characters on the rabbit’s large, soft tummy and its cute tiny feet peek out from under its mass

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Rhode Island at its finest

Providence was to be her first port of call in the United States, and she went by way of Genoa, Naples, Palermo, Madeira, and the Azores-nineteen days. This was the direct express route; other Fabre liners had more circuitous itiner-aries. When I got back to Providence, I was met by a fellow worker on the Journal, who helped me smuggle five botles of champagne and several of cognac past the customs men and prohibition agents. I knew I was home again.

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Millie has returned to spending the nights in bed now that it’s gotten cooler and she needs someone to keep her warm

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s a collection of his New Yorker essays reminiscing about eating in Paris across his lifetime, and more broadly a love letter to France. It’s delightful

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pippa is just beside herself wishing you and Pretzel a great day

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend

A brown tabby cat with a white nose, bib, and feet standing outside in a bare patch surrounded by grass. Her green eyes are big and wide with excitement

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Pippa says let’s cook beans and watch football

A brown tabby cat with black feet and a caramel tum lying asleep on a brown sofa with front legs folded and her tum showing

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’ll always associate this song with the months after Katrina when I listened to it over and over and looked at Giovanni Martinelli’s Death Comes to the Banquet Table, on loan from NOLA to Worcester at time of the storm and kept in a closed gallery for months until it could return

17th century Caravaggesque painting of a group of revelers seated around a richly laid dining table reacting in horror as the skeletal figure of death appears at right, apparently coming for the male figure nearest to him, for whom he is offering to pour a glass of wine

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Greeting a beautiful Friday evening like

A brown tabby cat with a white nose, bib, and tum sitting like a loaf in the grass on a harness and pink leash looking grumpy

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Louis Monza Corn Eaters Reunion, 1944 Oil on canvas Harvard Art Museums

Modern painting in a sort of naive, almost cartoonish, style of five men wearing hats sitting indoors around a table eating corn. There’s a platter of corn, jugs, and cups on the table and a dog underneath. The walls behind them are golden brown and tge frame is painted with what looks like autumnal floral decoration

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Why you gotta hit me like that

A page from Autumn by Ali Smith reading as follows:

A minute ago it was June. Now the weather is September. The crops are high, about to be cut, bright, golden.
November? unimaginable. Just a month away.
The days are still warm, the air in the shadows sharper. The nights are sooner, chillier, the light a little less each time.
Dark at half past seven. Dark at quarter past seven, dark at seven.
The greens of the trees have been duller since
August, since July really.
But the flowers are still coming. The hedgerows are still humming. The shed is already full of apples and the tree's still covered in them.
The birds are on the powerlines.
The swifts left weeks ago. They're hundreds of miles from here by now, somewhere over the ocean.

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A girl who understands the power of persuasion

A very excited brown tabby cat with a white nose and feet wearing a harness and pink leash standing in grass

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Star Moles displaced from the top spot of the Friday grid for the first time since March

4 x 4 grid of covers of records by (in order) Asher White, Lex Walton, Star Moles, Sam and Louise Sullivan, Rubber Band Gun, Sacred Heart Academy, Sen Morimoto, Sadurn, Twisted Teens, The Femcels, Bassvictim and Worldpeace DMT, Greg Freeman, KitshipLex Walton again but the image is missing and there’s just a black square, Touch Girl Apple Blossom, and Kitty Craft

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Keisuke Serizawa September, 1975 – Pitcher with Grapes and Seashells (1974) Hand stencil-dyed prints, ink and color on handmade kozo paper Worcester Art Museum

Calendar for the month of September, 1975 with images of a bowl of grapes and sea shells below it

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Not only or exactly thinking about this part of the Lex Walton interview but also not not thinking about it

There's a lot of these people that are content with making placid and beautiful things-and that was fine sometimes. But right now, how can you look at what's going on around us and be content with use all this money and all this platform to make placid, beautiful, detached things? Has it not been enough for you? Have you not gotten fed up with everything around you yet? Do you need to see more people get killed for you to feel something other than a wristwatch at the himbo dome, or whatever fucking bullshit?
What are you doing? Luckily, some of these people are very good writers, but there are a lot of people who are incredible songwriters who relish in this vagueness and unspecificity.
But I'm seeing them make a move towards more specificity, and that has been very heartening. That song that Cam Winter did for that charity compilation, "Warning"-that's fantastic. It makes you want to do things that, I probably shouldn't mention over the phone to people that deserve it. That's somebody that's has that same kind of platform and is using it for work that expresses the awful nature of our current moment.

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I’m not like that colleague who wouldn’t stop looking at changes in air traffic in the days after we attacked Iran, I played it cool

And then getting surprised when the chokepoint gets choked and nothing much happens. In actual fact, my experience with professional logistics people is that they bloody love it when supplies of something vital are interrupted.
Scrambling around to secure alternatives is the fun part of the job, when they get a chance to demonstrate how clever and indispensable they are. It's a welcome distraction in a career that is otherwise basically trucking.

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A few very specific things happening in today’s Friday grid

4x4 grid of covers of records by Star Moles, Sam and Louise Sullivan, Hot Machine, Rubber Band Gun, Camera Obscura, and the Ramones

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Important reminder to reread in advance of so many future meetings

Or maybe there's a genration of entrepreneurs who've caught Al brain. Chatbots are the C-suite's ultimate yes-men - able to buttress egos
by condensing information their users don't care to fully understand while avoiding questions they don't want to consider. They'll never say the plan is dumb.

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

No waves and too much seaweed 🙁

Sandy beach with a few people sitting in beach chairs and a view of the water under a cloudy sky

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One of the few personal books I keep on the shelf at work

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The dad energy flowing through this article on amateur solar advocates could power another 10,000 homes

change. "Making money is not why I got into this. Lowering the cost [by converting his finder's fee to a discount] for people drives adoption, and if I was taking a fee, how could people trust my recommendations?"
Screwvala is not the only person dispensing free advice for those seeking to electrify their homes. Chris, a Hamp-shire-based engineer in his fifties, has posted more than 23,000 comments on Money Saving Expert as QrizB (a sense of anonymity he prefers to maintain), after installing PVs on his roof in 2012. "I was the first person I knew with rooftop solar; over the years I've helped friends and family with solar, heat pumps and EVs," he says.
Jonathan Saunders, an actor in east Kent, helped design solar projects for his daughter's school, a local church and a community garden before retraining as an electrician and PV specialist in
2025; he frequently provides free advice to those who have installed systems but can't get them fully working.
"I've been doing a fair bit of troubleshooting and upgrading systems that

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Pippa says birds are welcome in her gilded cage

A brown tabby cat with a brown nose, white bib, and black feet lying on a perch inside her catio seen from the other side of wire fencing as she looks at the camera

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I was reading this interview with Sam and Louise Sullivan and suddenly it got too real

SAM: I Irish-exited Providence, where I was living, just because I was like, "I need a job.
My health insurance is running out." I was 24 or something. And then I got a job working as an English teacher. I'm a failed poet. So I was teaching English and stuff. And then I got a job, like a legit job teaching high school English lit at this prep school that I work at now, the Quaker school. It was all money-related. I was biking around Providence trying to go get a check for something I'd already done. I was putting my bike on the front of the RIPTA. It was snow and ice and just like crusty dogs everywhere, and I was like, " gotta get out of here."

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Takeshi Nishijima August, 1974 – Products of Summer: Vegetables and Dried Fish, 1973 Hand stencil-dyed print, ink and color on handmade kozo paper Worcester Art Museum

Print of the calendar for August, 1974, surrounded by images of vegetables and fish

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Late Friday grid reveals that I didn’t listen to enough records to complete a 4 x 4 and all but one came out of Historic New Jersey Recordings

Three by four grid of album covers (or blank spots representing them) by Star Moles, Sam and Louise Sullivan, Hot Machine, Rubber Band Gun, and then one random old Richard and Linda Thompson record

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I thought I might sit on the sofa but Pippa had words

A brown tabby cat with black feet sitting on a brown sofa and looking at the camera with her mouth partially open as if giving a warning

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JL @juggleduck.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Unknown Maker, Persian Wall Tile with Horse and Rider, 18th century Earthenware with pigment and glaze

Same tile, shot professionally from above

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