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maff @maff.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

In hindsight SRV was unfortunately too good and inspired a bunch of guys who didn’t have it like that to try it anyway

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pond wrote one perfect song and that’s all I need from them youtu.be/AlG0CghqE7E?...

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Waiting Around For Grace

YouTube video by Pond - Topic

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For the alternative history where Tame Impala doesn’t sell out and just does the psych rock thing forever, see Pond

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tame Impala kinda has the whole arc just within their career, from Psych Rock Revival to Big Tent RnB Popularism to Designed by Committee Festival Slopulism

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That’s right, Imagine Dragons

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey Matt, if you can answer - if you added up the user counts for these, are more people playing “single player” games in aggregate than online multiplayer, and multiplayer is at the top because that sector is more consolidated to fewer titles? Or do they also have the raw # too

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(The National voice) I was carried / to Ohio in a swarm of hornets

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Which when you boil it down, isn’t that what podcasting is all about

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That does affect the analytical value but it doesn’t change the narrative value because it still tells you something about how the public sees the game, i.e. the narrative

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Mr. Completely @brokensymmetry.art · 30/09/2026

Basic ass answer to a good bait prompt but the Dead going from baroque late 60s psychedelia to foundational half-acoustic roots rock with angelic harmonies is a canonical example Miles Davis did this, what, 5 times? 7? Herbie did it multiple times too, Coltrane as well, etc

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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

systematically muting every word in the lexicon for all known languages and, finally, using niche microblogging website correctly

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

rookie year numbers were a little better (101 for 410 & 5) but mostly he has a fun and unsustainable playing style. His ASU highlights are a blast though

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

also how I’ve felt getting into the Dead for the first time this year. Hey there’s 50 years of obsessive analysis of this stuff, they don’t need my input, I can just sit back and enjoy it

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In an alternate universe this song is beloved as an end-of-episode end-credits Sopranos needle drop. Great song. music.apple.com/us/album/blu...

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Blue by The Jayhawks on Apple Music

Song · 1995 · Duration 3:09

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 22/09/2026

What? A young knave, and begging? Is there not wars?

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have been informed that it was not clear that this post was a joke instead of a sincere fun fact so I am issuing a correction: the below is untrue. I made it up.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/09/2026

Every time I look online I see dumb shit that sucks

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fun Fact: Earth Wind & Fire actually wrote “September” about the Dead’s legendary 9/21/72 show at the Spectrum in Philadelphia!

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hope you’re celebrating the big September 21 music anniversary today: 54 years ago, the Grateful Dead played one of their finest shows, at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, culminating in an hour-long Dark Star > Morning Dew sequence as powerful as any music I’ve heard. music.apple.com/us/album/dar...

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Dark Star (Live) by Grateful Dead on Apple Music

Song · 2005 · Duration 37:08

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

employer side counsel sending work emails on Labor Day is praxis (derogatory)

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

54 years ago today (8/27/72): one of the great Dead shows ever played, and an important turning point in the history of probiotic yogurt and natural food in the US. music.apple.com/us/album/bir...

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Bird Song (Live At Veneta, OR, 8/27/72) by Grateful Dead on Apple Music

Song · 2013 · Duration 13:16

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

this sequence starting here thru Sing Me Back Home, man. just out of this world stuff. one of those moments when everything just slides into place perfectly for an hour. music.apple.com/us/album/dar...

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Dark Star (Bickershaw Festival, Wigan, England 5/7/1972) by Grateful Dead on Apple Music

Song · 2011 · Duration 19:49

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Beefing with the younger millennials demanding codeine raps

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

With a bullet: The Cure - The Last Day of Summer youtu.be/iNiUG33rSyY?...

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The Cure - The Last Day of Summer

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Phoenix is so sprawling that it limits what the light rail can be useful for, but it was very useful for getting from ASU campus or a couple spots near campus to downtown and the airport, which is about all a college student could need. My info is uh 15 years out of date though

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Curious where Reeves would rank among Cure guitarists. I haven’t sat down and ranked em but I’ve really liked what he’s brought to their live shows.

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Jacob Evans @vumpire.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The prologue of every Stephen King novel published between 1975 and 1988: Under thy shadow by the piers I waited Only in darkness is thy shadow clear. The City’s fiery parcels all undone, Already snow submerges an iron year...--Hart Crane We've got the biggest balls of them all --AC/DC

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

As is my custom, I climbed some more mountains this summer and wrote a little photoblog about it. And I only brought up the Grateful Dead where thematically relevant. postmaff.com/maff-colorad...

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Maff Colorado 2026: Fire on the Mountains - Post Maff

Long distance runner, what you standing there for?

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

That’s wild. Colorado it’s usually between 10,000’ and 11,000’, can usually use it as a marker to estimate peak heights reasonably well

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

(This is not a pure regionalism; all the east coasters defending the honor of the Appalachians by pointing to the White Mountains have intuited this rule because much of the White Mountains have tree-free, snowcapped summits like proper mountains)

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Nothing against the Appalachians and Ozarks which are wonderful in their own ways I’m sure, but in my bones I do not consider you a mountain if you do not break treeline. If there are trees on top of you you are a hill, to me.

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ama Dablam and Machapuchare usually get my vote for Himalayan mountains, sub-8000m weight class

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Been a frequent Last Donut enjoyer for free for a while but I can’t pass up this deal

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A lot of people have gotten very far over their skis about What The Fellas Mean.

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I think this has to be the current answer

Photo of El Diente Peak (left) and its connecting ridge to Wilson Peak, with a lone hiker visible on an exposed section of the ridge underneath dark clouds.

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

per last fm, the Cure have finally been dethroned as my most-listened artist. It’s an obviously incomplete data set (missing an easy 1000+ GD listens on Relisten, Play Dead, and CD) but pretty wild to see a lifetime of listening matched by an 8 month deep dive that is still in the relative shallows

Screenshot of last fm listening data, showing the Grateful Dead with 3,124 listens and the Cure with 3,106

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Famously a job where you spend significant parts of the year on the road away from home anyway

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Ok but that’s the good kind of posting

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Checked in on the 2019 …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead album and it’s pretty good! Kinda straightforward for them but they’ve always been able to land hooks amidst the noise. “Don’t Look Down” could have been a minor 90s grunge radio hit (complimentary) music.apple.com/us/album/don...

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Don't Look Down by ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead on Apple Music

Song · 2019 · Duration 4:44

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

this week I climbed El Diente and completed the traverse to Mt. Wilson, one of the four great traverses on Colorado 14ers. bucket list climb I’ve been eying for years, basically had the place to myself. lived up to all the hype, definitely a step up from any individual 14er. very intense, very cool.

A narrow climb to the top of the El Diente-Wilson ridge. A distant bird to the left

A narrow section of the Diente-Wilson ridge, with Wilson’s summit visible

the same narrow section of ridge seen from just below Wilson’s summit, with a lone climber visible below dark clouds

El Diente and its ridge to Wilson, as seen from Mt. Wilson’s summit

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maff @maff.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Can never quit the Crestones

Crestone Needle (L) and Crestone Peak (R), from the east

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