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Lawrence Lanahan

@llanahan.bsky.social
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Host/producer of REARRANGED, an Osiris Media documentary podcast about music arrangers. Author, THE LINES BETWEEN US: TWO FAMILIES AND A QUEST TO CROSS BALTIMORE'S RACIAL DIVIDE. Reporter, radio producer, adjunct, researcher. www.lawrencelanahan.com/music

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Baltimore Magazine @baltimoremagazine.com · 17h
Two centuries before the Trail of Tears, English colonists drove Maryland's Indigenous tribes from their land. The Piscataway Nation wants people to know their story. "We're still here," says tribe member Gabrielle Tayac. #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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We’re Still Here: The Still-Evolving Story of the Piscataway Nation
Two centuries before the Trail of Tears, English colonists drove Maryland’s Indigenous tribes from their land. Piscataway descendants want people to know their history.
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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 19h
On this national holiday, make sure to pause in your leisure to listen to the soundtrack to Columbus Day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdg3...
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The Great Nations Of Europe (Album Version)
YouTube video by Randy Newman - Topic
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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 19h
I had myself listed as "thought follower, influencee" on there for a couple minutes once, but chickened out because I was job hunting.
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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 19h
All time YouTube comment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfTp...
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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ruin a book by adding a word to the title The Old Man and the Sea Monkeys
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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What do I care?
Man's mind being read but he's a dumb music guy (me) and he's asking what if Todd Rundgren had produced Dylan's "Oh Mercy" and Daniel Lanois had produced XTC's "Skylarking."
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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Have you ever tried to hang your hat on a *pillar*? I threw my back out trying that one time, can’t imagine trying to hang one hat on multiple pillars at once.
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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
beep boop dad-dy loves you AI isn’t becoming more like humans; humans are becoming more like AI.
Twitter posts, @alvinsng:

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?

Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.

My wife: But then it won’t be in your voice.

Me: I can train a voice model.

Parenting hits different when you work in AI.

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(with picture of mom, baby, and apparently robot dad): 

After spawning so many agents, it was about time to spawn a human.From Twitter, post and reply:

@anirudhology
Shouldn't your first instinct be to read your baby a book willingly as a father and to spend more time with your baby.

If it wasn't, I guess it's time to think deeply on what you will lose if you trade your emotions for technology.

Just a friendly advice
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Alvin Sng

@alvinsng
I do want to spend time with my baby. There’s even a chance I’ll choose to retire early and spend all my time with my kids!

I’d just rather spend that time cuddling, feeding, and playing, and automate the things I don’t need to be around for.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bet he won’t accept bad things happening to his company if its product creates widespread damage.
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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Baltimore's Starlings release their album with two sets at 1919 (Fells Point) tonight. Great tunes! Glad Pulses opens with a set at 8:30pm. Come on down. thestarlingscharmcity.bandcamp.com/album/in-thi...
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in this loving time, by starlings
14 track album
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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.”
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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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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You have articulated a feeling I’ve had for the last couple years. I actually woke up this morning thinking about Supertramp.
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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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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Incredibly pathetic decision at @baltimoresun.bsky.social to run this. editorialcartoonists.com/an-open-lett...
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An Open Letter to the Publisher and Editors of the Baltimore Sun from the AAEC - AAEC
On September 4, 2026, The Sun published what can only technically be called an “illustration” it intended its readers to accept as an editorial cartoon.  Whatever the intent, the only message The Sun ...
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Treble @treblezine.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Our Album of the Week is The Tubs' 'Hard Life'
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The Tubs : Hard Life | Album review | Treble
Lowering the stakes a bit on third album 'Hard Life', The Tubs retain their high bar of uncommonly good indie pop
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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 · 04/09/2026
I was taking MARC to DC while the sniper was at it and would always freak out a little bit when we passed through a town where he'd just shot someone!
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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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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
slick hed, took me a sec!
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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The letter from MTA to Poly says there is supposed to be an inbound 30 from Hollander Ridge to Poly. apptegy-alerts-attachments-production.s3.amazonaws.com/6a6e2112-674...
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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Why is the S7 brochure missing the inbound timetable for Poly students taking the local 30 bus? s3.amazonaws.com/mta-website-...
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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Let's see if the driver gets charged with anything at all. www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/hist...
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Can Anyone Stop Baltimore City’s Most Dangerous Drivers?
Crashes have killed nearly 500 people in Baltimore City over the past decade, and safety advocates say leaders have left tools on the table.
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brandon soderberg @bsoderberg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/a...
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The Rediscovery of Country Original Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart spent a few years on top, but was largely forgotten after his tragic death in 2003. Now a new generation is rediscovering the onetime “king of honky-tonk.”
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 17/07/2026
ICE officer who shot Colombian man in Maine has history of threatening behavior and mental illness, family and court documents say.
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AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to close relatives who spoke to The Associated Press.
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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 · 11/07/2026
Literally asking myself this minutes before I saw this link as one sole person yelled “O!” during an anthem at my kid’s camp. Good stuff.
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Lawrence Lanahan @llanahan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
[in a Baltimore accent]: choral Horse Lords horselords.bandcamp.com/track/eureka...
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Eureka 378-B, by Horse Lords
from the album Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!
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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 · 05/07/2026
It was 1-0 at the end. But AI seems to be getting cocky!
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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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