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Nate Krenkel

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Rhizome Radio at WMPG. TEAM LOVE and OYSTERTONES. Words at nathanielkrenkel.com No Bigger Than A Nickel pod. (he/him)

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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“What I’m trying to say is, I wonder if in twenty or fifty years, if anyone’s still around and we have electricity still—shit like that—I wonder if folks will watch Ted Lasso and be like, Jesus fucking Christ, those assholes sure did phone a lot.” thebittermelonreview.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/w...
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Watching TV With Florida | Nathaniel Krenkel
“What’s this?” Florida¹ asks. “Ted Lasso? We tried it before, you didn’t like it because of the guy’s mustache.” “Really? I don’t remember. Can we try again?” “Sure.” I hit play. We watch Ted Lasso…
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Team Love Records @teamloverecords.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
new from OYSTERTONES: first single off the new Stacey MacLeay, a beautiful cello meditation from Scotland: oystertones.bandcamp.com/album/landsc...
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Landscape Artist, by Stacey MacLeay
9 track album
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No Bigger Than A Nickel Podcast @nobiggerthananickl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Half Man Half Biscuit, plus yoga, allergies, and mid tempo mediocrity: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Episode 28 | Back in the DHSS
Podcast Episode · No Bigger than a Nickel · September 22 · 1h 7m
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"...He asks me for my account number. I tell him, no idea, bud, buddy-o, o-friend-of-mine. Does he know about Kate Wolf? Reckon not. He asks for my billing address. I give him my address. He says, nope, wrong address." letmetellthisstory.substack.com/p/let-me-tel...
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Let me tell you a story about a Compromised Fuse
A flash fiction about the frustrations of aging and tech, as a father navigates PIN numbers, phone trees and Kafkaesque obstacles to get his daughter’s phone working in Paris.
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No Bigger Than A Nickel Podcast @nobiggerthananickl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
MAGMA: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Episode 22 | Attahk
Podcast Episode · No Bigger than a Nickel · July 19 · 1h 5m
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No Bigger Than A Nickel Podcast @nobiggerthananickl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
latest episode: #NirostaSteel podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Episode 26 | My Skyscraper
Podcast Episode · No Bigger than a Nickel · August 31 · 1h 7m
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"With Nat, one step in David Sanborn’s direction meant all bets were off. She would look at me, and her face would say, you’re not funny, nor clever, nor cute. All fair and good. But part of me still thought, why don’t you like Al Jarreau?" fishbarrelreview.wordpress.com/2024/07/31/n...
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NATHANIEL KRENKEL
Guns, Al Jarreau, and Dreams Downstairs, I put on an Al Jarreau record and remember doing a cheesy dance for Nat while she emailed and sent text messages and tried to make plans for the kids’ socia…
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
new Nickel: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Episode 26 | My Skyscraper
Podcast Episode · No Bigger than a Nickel · August 31 · 1h 7m
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"A woman in a torn pink jacket pushing a shopping cart is singing Nothing Compares 2 U toward the airport which is dark apart from a string of sleeper-mode runway lights. I ask her if she’s seen a funny little round creature with one arm and she says, “maybe..." www.darkwinterlit.com/post/missing...
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Missing Space Alien by Nathaniel Krenkel
I’ve lost my stoned alien, but I am over my panic attack. I realize it’s later than I’d thought, virtually the middle of the night. [...]
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
played some TCS's on the radio this week: #RHIZOMERADIO #JohnDouglas
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
new episode of the podcast where we talk about MAGMA: #FrenchProg #MAGMA podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Episode 22 | Attahk
Podcast Episode · No Bigger than a Nickel · July 19 · 1h 5m
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"I kept crayon shavings in a cigar box. I’d listen to The Muppet Movie, picture families falling from wires and the man in black, and run my fingers through crayon shavings." nudebrucereview.com/wp-content/u...
nudebrucereview.com
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"I stared at the TV and tried not to rub my eyes. Allergies. Pink rims, micro-toxics, puffers at the ready, the wind a gunshot. The air, nothing shy of poison. THE ODD DUCK, written in someone’s finger in dirt and grime." sinkingcity.as.miami.edu/triptych-meep/
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Triptych Meep – sinking city
A television, propped against a tree. Black and rectangular, by my standards, oversized; a bit of a monster really, bordering on obscene—the notion itself of the home theater not much different than that of a home sports arena, or home ski-slope—another absurd display of the decadence breaking the world, and our minds.
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
new episode where we talk about The Fall: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Episode 12 | The Infotainment Scan
Podcast Episode · No Bigger than a Nickel · April 27 · 1h 10m
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
played some willing-the-warm-weather tunes on @wmpg.org this morning: #RhizomeRadio
LPs by Golden (Icerink Records) and Hemlocke Springs
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"I move methodic, looking up every driveway, behind every shrub and fence. I return to the thought of calling friends over to help me rescue Florida from probing Feds in white lab coats, but the thing is, I don’t really have any friends." www.darkwinterlit.com/post/missing...
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Missing Space Alien by Nathaniel Krenkel
I’ve lost my stoned alien, but I am over my panic attack. I realize it’s later than I’d thought, virtually the middle of the night. [...]
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This week we talked about a favorite LP of 2026: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Episode 10 | Discombobulated
Podcast Episode · No Bigger than a Nickel · April 9 · 1h 4m
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Episode 7: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Episode 7 | Close to the Edge
Podcast Episode · No Bigger than a Nickel · March 19 · 1h 1m
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
"Back downstairs, Florida has finally found the show Pigs Go Boom. It consists of a group of pranksters placing explosive miniature pigs in unassuming places and then filming the reactions when the pigs explode into clouds of glitter and, apparently, foul stink." nudebrucereview.com/wp-content/u...
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
No Bigger Than A Nickel: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Episode 1
Podcast Episode · No Bigger than a Nickel · 02/18/2026 · 55m
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
"She’s a creepy clown; me, a frozen child. Florida’s arm launches from the top of his head, hinges 180 degrees until his palm is pressed firmly on the path before the statue, he lowers himself slowly to the ground, with the grace and exhale of a yoga master." www.darkwinterlit.com/post/missing...
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Missing Space Alien by Nathaniel Krenkel
I’ve lost my stoned alien, but I am over my panic attack. I realize it’s later than I’d thought, virtually the middle of the night. [...]
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
2025 Joy Of The Pen: joyofthepen.topshamlibrary.org#ficwinner
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Joy of the Pen | The Online Literary Journal of Topsham Public Library
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darkwinterlitmag @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The truth is out there. Cool new story Missing Space Alien by Nathaniel Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/missing...
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Missing Space Alien by Nathaniel Krenkel
I’ve lost my stoned alien, but I am over my panic attack. I realize it’s later than I’d thought, virtually the middle of the night. [...]
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
MISSING SPACE ALIEN: www.darkwinterlit.com/post/missing...
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Missing Space Alien by Nathaniel Krenkel
I’ve lost my stoned alien, but I am over my panic attack. I realize it’s later than I’d thought, virtually the middle of the night. [...]
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"The air around him turned into a sunset, an exploding garden, a slow stiffening leak. He fed more food into his mouth, but swallowing was no longer an option. His cheeks expanded and swelled until they touched the walls and filled the room." maniamagazineue.wixsite.com/mania-magazi...
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Congress Street
Congress Street
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
playing some of our favorite records of 2025 this morning on @wmpg.org #RhizomeRadio wmpg.org
LPs by CMAT and Hieroglyphic Beings
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
playing records at @wmpg.org 06:30-08:30 this morning: #RhizomeRadio stream on WMPG.org
LP bag with Work Money Death LP and a Talkin’ Loud comp
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
“Jackson loathes golf…loathes how it attracts a certain type of white male, the type who gift Niall Ferguson books, are still on Facebook, eye-fuck the babysitter. He hates golf like he hates modern country music with its lyrics about shitty beer, date rape, and…” iselemagazine.com/2024/12/30/s...
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Sports Ball | Nathaniel Krenkel
Jackson caresses his freshly shaven jawline and ponders whether or not the beard has become some kind of new fascist tell. He deliberates as he stands in the sporting goods store north of Stewart, …
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
playing records at @wmpg.org this morning: wmpg.org #RhizomeRadio
Mal Waldron, Candy Girl LP (Strut reissue)
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
“….I realized the Bros were meeting at a club, one of those preppy social affairs where everyone’s in kakis, polo shirts, braided belts, and salmon-colored sportscoats. I was wearing black cutoffs covered in paint splatter and a Stereolab t-shirt.” 100subtextsmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/07/issu...
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Issue 35 feature
Welcome to issue 35 of the literary magazine 100subtexts, with over 200 pages of the best and most diverse in contemporary writing and poe...
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
playing records at @wmpg.org this AM, 06:30-08:30… #RhizomeRadio
Rosalia, Lux LP, and Johnny Lytle, People & Love LP
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
“I hit PLAY. Seconds later The Psychedelic Furs are blasting out of the TV speakers. I’m rocking my head up and down. Florida is doing his towel-wave dance with his arm and kicking both his legs. All three limbs, growing.” thebittermelonreview.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/w...
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Watching TV With Florida | Nathaniel Krenkel
“What’s this?” Florida¹ asks. “Ted Lasso? We tried it before, you didn’t like it because of the guy’s mustache.” “Really? I don’t remember. Can we try again?” “Sure.” I hit play. We watch Ted Lasso…
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 30/10/2025
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
playing records at @wmpg.org this morning 06:30-08:30 @wmpg.org #RhizomeRadio
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
“Too bad you can’t smoke your phone,” Florida says. thebittermelonreview.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/w...
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Watching TV With Florida | Nathaniel Krenkel
“What’s this?” Florida¹ asks. “Ted Lasso? We tried it before, you didn’t like it because of the guy’s mustache.” “Really? I don’t remember. Can we try again?” “Sure.” I hit play. We watch Ted Lasso…
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
playing records at @wmpg.org this AM, 06:30-08:30, 90.9FM or WMPG.org #RhizomeRadio
the WMPG booth with LPs by Pretty Things and the Benin comp from Analog Africa.
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
“I am told to enter my PIN. I don’t think I have a PIN, and if I do, I’ve long forgotten it, so I say, yeah no yeah fuck, and the computer says, no problem.” letmetellthisstory.substack.com/p/let-me-tel...
letmetellthisstory.substack.com
Let me tell you a story about a Compromised Fuse
A flash fiction about the frustrations of aging and tech, as a father navigates PIN numbers, phone trees and Kafkaesque obstacles to get his daughter’s phone working in Paris.
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
playing records at @wmpg.org this AM, 06:30-08:30, 90.9 FM or WMPG.org #RhizomeRadio
a cup, a Yazz Ahmed LP, a sweatshirt from Pony (Montreal)
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
“….but swallowing was no longer an option. His cheeks expanded and swelled until they touched the walls and filled the room. Someone was trying to open the door, but this was no longer a possibility.” maniamagazineue.wixsite.com/mania-magazi...
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Congress Street
Congress Street
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Oystertones @oystertones.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
we all need more napps music.apple.com/us/album/ext...
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Extended Play Vols. 1-3 by Napps on Apple Music
Album · 2024 · 14 Songs
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
“I am told to enter my PIN. I don’t think I have a PIN, and if I do, I’ve long forgotten it, so I say, yeah no yeah fuck, and the computer says, no problem.” letmetellthisstory.substack.com/p/let-me-tel...
letmetellthisstory.substack.com
Let me tell you a story about a Compromised Fuse
A flash fiction about the frustrations of aging and tech, as a father navigates PIN numbers, phone trees and Kafkaesque obstacles to get his daughter’s phone working in Paris.
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
the stack:
stack of books including Balzac, Goethe,Stuart Murdoch, Elizabeth Hand, The Point Issue 35, Franz Hessel, Bebe Ashley, Edwin Frank, and Michael Pedersen
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
playing records at @wmpg.org this AM, 06:30-08:30, 90.9 FM or WMPG.org #RhizomeRadio
turntables at WMPG with LPs by Harold Alexander (Sunshine Man) and the Mr Bongo Comp, With Love Volume 2.
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
“This time in the SPECIAL INSTRUCTION spot, he wrote things such as “allergic to rice,” “left-sided cashews only,” “extra glue,” and “no egg whites no hippies no sadness no lost boys.” He filled the cart with $85 worth of lunch specials and appetizers.” maniamagazineue.wixsite.com/mania-magazi...
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Congress Street
Congress Street
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
“I pause. I give him an address from six years ago. He says, bingo-bango…Please and Thankyou and then a child in the background screams and a bus drives into an apple cart.” letmetellthisstory.substack.com/p/let-me-tel...
letmetellthisstory.substack.com
Let me tell you a story about a Compromised Fuse
A flash fiction about the frustrations of aging and tech, as a father navigates PIN numbers, phone trees and Kafkaesque obstacles to get his daughter’s phone working in Paris.
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
playing records at @wmpg.org this morning, 06:30-08:30, 90.9 on the Maine coast FM, WMPG.org for the stream:
green WMPG sign
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
“Everyone had beards, designer drugs, pants pulled too high, anti-capitalism slogans slapped onto the side of a pair of Vans or a shirt from H&M. These were dire times…” maniamagazineue.wixsite.com/mania-magazi...
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Issue Six | Mania Magazine
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
“I pause and frown. Am I boring my daughter? Or is she lightly amused? I have no idea. I do know that I have too few years left on this earth to waste any of it listening to bloody Beck.” www.wordswelljournal.org/thank-you-lo...
wordswelljournal.org
"Thank You, Lorde" by Nathaniel Krenkel
Nathaniel Krenkel
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Belfast:
an old converted brick mill in East Belfast, N.IrelandVan Morrison mural, painted on the back of his childhood home, Belfast
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Nate Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Berlin butterfly bush:
butterfly bush in Berlin
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