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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

1/2 My top concert memory ever is Dolly in the Sunday afternoon “Legends” slot at Glastonbury in 2014. I thought I was happy ~250 feet from the stage, but after turning around to see, hear & feel a crowd that was denser than for the Friday & Saturday headliners (Arcade Fire & Metallica)…

Panorama from the rear of 200k people hypnotized by Dolly Parton, Glastonbury 2014.

Dolly Parton on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury 2014, picture from a few hundred feet back from the stage

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Just watching a little Moonlighting and having an @sitcompeople.bsky.social moment as young Tim Robbins fights the bar owner from Murphy Brown…

Scene from Season 1, Episode 2 of Moonlighting featuring a fight in a hospital between a young Tim Robbins (on the left in a green army jacket) and Pat Corley (on the right in a hospital gown), who I remember as Phil the bar owner from the sitcom Murphy Brown.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you

A print ad for the short-lived 1983 ABC sitcom Condo starring Maclean Stevenson. The ad features caricatured drawings of two middle-aged men staring each other down (the lanky white man is also wagging his finger at the shorter Latino man) while their smiling wives look on (the white wife is sloshing her martini glass while the Latino wife brandishes a wooden spoon dripping with some sort of sauce). Meanwhile, two young people near the bottom of the ad appear to be in love. Text of the ad: Comedy Premiere! Meet two All-American families…The Kirkridges and The Rodriguez’s. They share a terrace, a common dislike for each other…and two lids who are falling in love. Condo. It’s wall-to-wall laughter.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Uh oh, what if he’s getting The Six Million Dollar Man treatment? "We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better . . . stronger . . . faster."

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Given the discourse today, I’m now wondering if that‘s the frame for some sort of permanent National Bounce House.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I put my money on @spockresists.bsky.social to win The Contest, but forgot to check where he was in his Pon Farr cycle. Lessons learned.

An episode title card from Star Trek TOS, but displaying the title of the Seinfeld episode “The Contest”

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This old picture of the Swedish king and a former Finnish president awakened something strange in me: a desire to see Shaft rebooted as a Nordic Noir police procedural set during the Cold War.

A screenshot from a Finnish news photo-retrospective celebrating the Swedish king’s 80th birthday. In the photo, which appears to be from the 1970s, the king stands on the left dressed in a greenish hunting coat over a dress shirt and tie, with a houndstooth driving cap. The then-president of Finland stands on the right in a large fur hat, and a black leather coat with a fur collar over a cream turtleneck. Both men are looking into the middle distance with grim looks on their faces.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

tfw setting my music on shuffle dusts off a still-relevant classic and sends me down a rabbit hole that leads me to a version I hadn’t heard before. #Shuffledipity?

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Jarvis Cocker / Running the World / Great performance at French TV

YouTube video by LaFrenchConnexion

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

There is a non-zero chance that the Trump Admin response will be “DOJ is looking into stripping the University of Michigan of the basketball championship.”

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Fun fact: “Race Communism” was the working title of the Elvis movie “Clambake” in which Elvis played a wealthy playboy who swapped identities with a working stiff (Bill Bixby) and went on to win a speedboat race.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Did Michael Flynn promise not to build a wind farm?

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

How long until ICE rebrands as the Trump Revolutionary Guard Corps?

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Wiarton Willie is dead. Long live Wiarton Willie. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In the soft light of a September morning, a white(ish) groundhog looks forlornly from his cage, a single claw hanging from one of the bars. Several groundhog generations ago, this fella held the title of Wiarton Willie, the Canadian groundhog used to predict the end of spring. In memory of the most recent Wiarton Willie who passed away March 10, 2026.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

One a dockworker (with a couple of interruptions to fight Soviet invaders). The other a sailor (sometimes literally on commercial sailing ships, which feels so ancient to me) before becoming a carpenter.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

(sotto jerry voce) Oh, so you hate pancakes?

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

This picture gives off such "Retired volunteer tasked with staffing the check-in desk on the last day of a small conference" vibes.

President Trump seated at a desk that is draped in black crepe, in a room that looks like the foyer outside a hotel ballroom.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Putin and Trump are both such legendary pranksters that I can’t figure out who snuck the DEI policies and training into the draft Ukraine plan.

A screenshot of point 20 from the draft US-Russia plan for Ukraine, which reads:

“20. Both countries undertake to implement educational programs in schools and society aimed at promoting understanding and tolerance of different cultures and eliminating racism and prejudice:

-- Ukraine will adopt EU rules on religious tolerance and the protection of linguistic minorities.

-- Both countries will agree to abolish all discriminatory measures and guarantee the rights of Ukrainian and Russian media and education.

-- All Nazi ideology and activities must be rejected and prohibited.”

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

this seems like the sort of thing you do to expand an internal revolt already in progress rather than to try to start one

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Got email confirmation that my ballot (voting YES on #Prop50) was received. For everyone who hasn’t done this duty yet, California makes voting so easy. This includes convenient ballot boxes so you can avoid using the Postal Service. I dropped mine at my local library a few days ago.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

If he really needs a ballroom, can’t he just go to IKEA or fill Melania’s unused bedroom with balls?

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

Louis Jourdan dressed in a suit and raising his hand to bid on a Faberge egg in the Bond movie “Octopussy”

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Front page of the main San Diego paper, with articles covering multiple protests throughout San Diego County, including the small protest at the main gate of Camp Pendleton (where Vance and Hegseth went to bathe in testosterone). #NoKings

A screenshot of the front page of the San Diego Union-Tribune on Sunday, October 19, with a prominent abone-the-fold story and picture about the No Kings protests.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The math maths here in San Diego (or I guess the rest of the world would say the maths math).

A protest sign reading “KID ROCK PLUS TRUMP EQUALS NICKELBACK”

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

The Regime still manages to surprise: who knew that Russell Vought had D’Angelo in his sights?

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Bluesky lists and labels seem to say more about the creators (bless their hearts for teaching me about my inner “piss-drinking Nazi”) than the people on them, but I am genuinely miffed about this one...

Screenshot showing a Bluesky list titled “Louvre of Bluesky Followers”

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Time to flood the Nobel Peace Prize committee with non-Trump nominations for next year’s prize. I’m drafting a passionate letter nominating the Inanimate Carbon Rod from when Homer Simpson went to space.

A screenshot from the Simpsons episode in which Homer went to space, but his feat was overshadowed by the inanimate carbon rod that saved their lives. The screenshot is of Homer’s hand holding the rod on the cover of Time magazine, with the headline “In Rod We Trust”

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Kudos to whoever picked this picture for the intro to a piece about the Hegseth all-call. I award it 5 eyerolls. From the Tuesday evening national news on Finnish tv.

In a screenshot from the Tuesday evening national news on Finnish tv, a news anchor is standing to the left of a picture of US Secretary of Defense Hegseth. Hegseth is show from the waist up, with his fists clenched at mid-chest and in the middle of a yell, as if he were demonstrating his patented doggy style technique.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I’m pretty sure that was the first time I’ve walked out of a show saying “How fucking great was that trombonist?” #Spiritualized #musicsky

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

At the Orpheum LA for tonight’s Spiritualized show. My 12th time since they blew my mind opening for the Jesus & Mary Chain in 1992 (eek!). Picture is from my fave of those, a 2016 show at the London Barbican playing the best album of 1997 in its entirety.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Garrett from community was on Jeopardy tonight?!?!

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Trump needs to get the National Guard to Memphis ASAP. The Jumpsuit Liberation Front apparently hit Graceland and released this into the wild:

New York Mayor Eric Adams gladhanding at a Rosh Hashanah service while wearing a dark blue robe with significant gold trim of a Jewish flavor. Other people in the photo are dressed much more simply.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I have to admit that, until today, I hadn’t wondered whether Tom Homan is named in the Epstein File. Thanks to the news about that bribe and the administration’s reaction to it, I’m starting to suspect.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

The model for the rest of Kimmel’s ABC contract should be how Norm Macdonald doubled down on OJ Simpson jokes when (allegedly) facing pressure from NBC execs friendly with OJ. Always brutal and willing to make audiences very uncomfortable.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

BINGO (as if I went out on a limb with that prediction)

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

It feels weird to say I’m ”eager“ to watch Bill Maher tomorrow night, but I really want to know how quickly he’ll make Jimmy Kimmel’s situation about him. I guarantee he’ll remind us that he’s the original victim for his 9/11 controversy, and that his fall opened up the ABC slot for Kimmel.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

“We can do this the easy way or the hard way“ is ridiculously unprofessional language for a supposed public servant like Brendan Carr. Even worse, any regime toady would cry and call the cops if someone said it to them in opposition.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

It’s fitting that Andor is the last show I finished on Hulu/Disney+ before this Kimmel news. Service cancelled. #IHaveFriendsEverywhere #JeSuisJimmy #VivaGuillermo

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Feels like the set-up to a Yakov Smirnoff punchline. But worse.

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

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Kári Tulinius @kattullus.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

News from Finland. A 9-year-old lost an especially good stick he’d had since he was 2. He hung up 20 posters. A few days later it was returned. It had been found by a 2-year-old, who wanted to keep it for herself, but her mother made her return it. She got toys, flowers and candy as a reward.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I don’t know who I miss more, Leslie Nielsen or Diefenbaker (the wolf-dog, not the long-ago Canadian PM)

An ad for the 1990s tv show “Due South.” The ad shows two Canadian Mounties (one of which is played by Leslie Nielsen), a wolf-dog named Diefenbaker, and an Italian-American Chicago cop. The four figures appear before a railroad crossing with the Chicago skyline in the background.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Timeline cleanse, melting heart edition: While a friend and I chat, my dog Ruska (left) and her dog nap with their rear feet touching.

Rear paws of two dogs sleeping while facing away from each other. The paws are touching.

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

How long until Dear Leader sends Special Forces to Brazil to extract his buddy?

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Kip 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇮 @kipkantelo.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Yes, that explains why he first went after the much more culpable Sackler family in the same way. Amazing how the entire clan was extrajudicially wiped out by that drone strike on their yacht when they were enjoying a 4th of July jaunt off of Rhode Island.

A screenshot of a tweet rationalizing JD Vance’s support of extrajudicial killings as “extremely personal” because his mom was a drug addict.

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