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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

* this guy spends 11 years in politics and nearly six years in office “This guy isn’t who I thought he was.”

Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Baltimore music lovers! Starlings have an album release show Saturday night at 1919, and Glad Pulses opens. Sean Lally’s Telecaster slinging is reason enough to come. And Pulses have some brand new songs for you, one of which trashes the 21st century. See you there. www.facebook.com/share/18vcDF...

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

all literature is stink lines coming off the alphabet

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Does a master’s in Sociology make me a “social scientist”? If so, here’s a controversial truth: if you give people lots of money, they’ll tell you what you want to hear. Bonus: this is one reason journalists don’t pay sources.

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No music no nothing—Fair stage is rained out.

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ah well. Too rainy and windy for our gear…no Glad Pulses, but I’ll do a solo acoustic set at 4pm if it’s safe up there.

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NE Baltimore! You can see Glad Pulses this Saturday, 9/26, at the 40th Annual Lauraville Fair. We play 4-5pm. Free, Harford Rd. @ Argonne Dr. www.facebook.com/events/14768...

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.

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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees

Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Realized today this netting has been on the courthouse for years. I always thought it was for construction, but I don’t think so. Is it just to keep stuff from falling on people?

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In the parking garage elevator chatting with another juror. Tall white guy, salt and pepper beard, like me. I notice we’re wearing the exact same thing: short sleeve button-down dark blue shirt, gray khakis. His floor comes, the door opens, and at the exact same time, we both say, “Take it easy.”

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As someone who appreciates a well-structured story, you gotta appreciate wrapping up the human race story back at the Tree of Knowledge. Handful of men in quarter-zips gorging themselves on apples: unforgettable image.

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 05/09/2026

we have strayed so far from god's light

an image of an RCA cassette to 3.5mm jack audio adapter

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Barbara Samuels @bsamuels72.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Short thread: Its no accident Baltimore Co URDL passed right after 1968 Fair Housing Act. From outset, its purpose was as an “urban growth boundary” outside Beltway to replace the “protection” racial covenants & County border provided to keep new single family subdivisions & apartments all white. 1/

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Has The Onion started running deks with their heds? Extremely low stakes criticism here, but it feels like hearing someone explain their joke. No deks in satire!

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 25/08/2026

don't forget that the first film from Sandollar, Dolly's production company (which would soon after launch Buffy the Vampire Slayer), was COMMON THREADS: STORIES FROM THE QUILT (1989) — at a time when most Americans were still laughing at AIDS jokes www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAT4...

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Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989) - FULL DOCUMENTARY

YouTube video by zyppy

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Make a novel smaller Finite Jest

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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

When I found out my former editor Kelley Benham French was helping w/a story on the most infamous photo from July 4, I knew it would be special. Read this amazing piece on how a photo, taken in a troubling moment, reveals so much about truth and assumption in today’s media. loom.ly/-kUCN40

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The Woman in the Photo Wanted to Be Alone. Instead, She Went Viral.

America saw what it wanted to see on the face of its newest icon. And everyone saw it wrong.

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

“fiddle when I can, work when I should”

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

John Zorn, Downbeat Blindfold Test, Dec. 1985 h/t Noël Akchoté

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Distracted while reading a passage of Freud: “ah crap, I don’t think I put it on the Google Calendar that I rescheduled that dinner with Mom and Dad”

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

O’s are winning at floppy hat night but I’m more interested in the common green june beetle that somehow landed on my head in the upper deck.

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

HED Turkey: Trump Dumps Air Force One Two for Air Force One One DEK With only enough artillery to shoot down one plane, Iran has been had

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

AI, with at least 10 minutes left in the game.

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Stop what you’re doing and put on Argentina v Cabo Verde.

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It’s a great song title, but I have the good sense not to write “100 Degrees on Trash Day.”

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This is very sad news. Susan Goering had a way of seeing and parsing the structural roots of racism and inequality, and she had the skill, deterimination, and patience to make sure change came.

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The rhyme scheme for the chorus of REO Speedwagon’s “Can’t Fight This Feeling” is A A A A A A A A A A.

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JOE MACLEOD 666 @joemacleod666.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

LOL C'MON BALTIMORE SUN @baltimoresun.bsky.social THAT'S A PICTURE OF THE OTTOBAR

[HEADLINE] "Baltimore's beloved 8×10 club gets new lease on life — literally" [PHOTO OF THE FLOOR VIEWED FROM IN FRONT OF STAGE AT OTTOBAR AND CAPTION] "The 8x10, Baltimore's beloved music venue, announced on Monday that it has found new owners, staving off a planned June 30 closure. Abigail Jansens and Brian Shupe, who have owned the club for nearly half of its 43-year existence, will be retiring. STAFF FILE"

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The question Americans can’t stop not asking

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Mixing the first run-through of new Glad Pulses tunes by Eben Dennis, Chuck Rainville, and myself from tonight’s rehearsal. So fun to start to think through the right arrangement for other writers’ great tunes, then watch them get your song on two legs. Here’s to bands with multiple songwriters.

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Would have been less messy if NYT had done the 30 greatest dead songwriters.

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Glad Pulses plays a set Saturday 6pm at the HART Festival in Hamilton, NE Baltimore, just blocks from my front door. Lots to see and do that day: www.facebook.com/events/13302...

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I’m confused. Was this family not offered a pre-k seat at another school? Did they not know about the choice policy that might prevent them from getting a spot at the school they wanted?

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

NYT let the word “small” ride in front of fortune.

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"The charging documents filed in Alexandria, Va., still leave a lot unanswered about his recent conduct."

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Come on out to BCPL Catonsville at 3pm on Saturday for a free talk from @llanahan.bsky.social about @rearrangedpodcast.bsky.social!

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

If you, like me, became a data fiend in the 20th century only to become horrified by all things 21st century, I suggest this pairing of The First Measured Century with @marionf.bsky.social and @kjhealy.co's The Ordinal Society, a fine angle on the second measured century.

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Join me at 3pm Saturday, BCPL Catonsville, for a free talk about @rearrangedpodcast.bsky.social! I'll get into musical creativity and originality in the AI age, why Gil Evans rules, and why arrangers have been belittled, insulted, and sued for over 200 years, from Franz Liszt to Public Enemy.

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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

So much fun to talk to Eblis Álvarez about Colombian music, music technology, and the elaborate process behind his mesmerizing Meridian Brothers albums. Great story about their @npr.org Tiny Desk Concert, too.

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