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Matt Helgeson @matthelgeson.bsky.social · 18h

It's extremely rare in the year of our Lord 2026 to see a true first ballot hall of fame custom van like this.

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Jon Solomon @jon.wprb.com · 02/10/2026

It is Bandcamp Friday, the perfect opportunity to pre-order a copy of Comedy Minus One’s Silkworm “Firewater” 2xLP + CD reissue (or another release of your choosing). comedyminusone.bandcamp.com

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

new favourite Smaug dropped

the 1968 "pleasure in reading" edition of the hobbit featuring an adorable bright pink Smaug torching the inhabitants of lake town

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elguardduck.bsky.social @elguardduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

While we’re on the subject of Hamm’s , I feel you need to know it’s mentioned in this amazing Guttermouth song “perfect world”… youtu.be/z2xUM9iFDc8?...

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Perfect World

YouTube video by Guttermouth - Topic

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Matt Helgeson @matthelgeson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So apparently there must be non-functional Hamm's can that is larger

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KFAI On-Air Playlist @kfai.fm · 25/09/2026

Now playing on Roar of the Underground: "Wasted Years" by Iron Maiden - Released 40 years ago this week! UP THE IRONS

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Matt Helgeson @matthelgeson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Still at the airport. Question: is "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" by Billy Joel prog rock?

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Matt Helgeson @matthelgeson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There are like 25 online men's clothing brands that will charge you $200 for these coats

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Matt Helgeson @matthelgeson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

At the airport, they are playing "All This Time" by Sting, never really pinged with me how much of a Paul Simon song this is

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The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Maybe Meta is using David Bowie’s “five years” in an ad as a threat.

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 10/09/2026

i was a kid raised by video games and i just assumed that i would run into a lot more whole cooked turkeys just kind of lying around

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026

Looks like OpenAI may have stolen another mathematicians work.

Screenshot of an X post by user Valerio Capraro (@ValerioCapraro) featuring text followed by an embedded photo of a man in glasses and a dark sweater against a forested outdoor background.
The post text reads:
"BREAKING: OpenAI might have stolen another major proof.
In a detailed Mastodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAI may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working on Gromov's soficity conjecture, one of the ten problems OpenAI later announced Astra had solved.
I know Andreas. We met several times early in our careers. He is an exceptional mathematician, a leading expert on sofic and hyperlinear groups, and one of the most respected scholars in the field. He has spent two decades working on this problem.
If his account is correct, this is not a minor dispute over attribution. It would mean that unpublished human work was absorbed into a model and then presented to the world as a breakthrough by the model itself.
And if the allegations raised by Levent Alpöge, Tristan Buckmaster, and now Andreas Thom are all substantiated, we are no longer looking at isolated incidents.
We may be looking at one of the greatest intellectual scandals in the history of science.
AI is not discovering new mathematics.
AI is stealing human discovery."

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The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It is very important for music, nerds and film nerds to watch the doors every eight years or so just to remind themselves that something can be completely terrible and very entertaining at the same time

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Matt Helgeson @matthelgeson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"he was my partner, you understand?" youtu.be/qSARDlHh-Mg?...

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

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J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

even now, she's still teaching us

screen on car radio reading:
Dolly Parton
Love is Like A Butt
(it should be Butterfly but the last part couldn't fit on the screen)

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Matt Helgeson @matthelgeson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Dust a rapper off like furniture

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

What Pablo Torre did was ridiculously impressive. Uncovered a conspiracy between rich guys, withstood a propaganda campaign by one of the richest guys in the world with a pretty good reputation, didn't buckle or panic, and just kept reporting. That's some Pulitzerin' right there.

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 28/08/2026

pothole is just short for potato hole

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Racket @racketmn.com · 26/08/2026

thank you to our friends at @smartset.bsky.social for making us look beautiful

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Matt Helgeson @matthelgeson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"I walked on ice and never fell" -DMC, the Hemingway of hip hop

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 24/08/2026

Watch @haleyfax.bsky.social go on the BEST TRIP OF HER LIFE as @sarahpodz.bsky.social guides her through Tokyo and Kyoto with the new MinnMax Spotlight. youtu.be/4c4d85dFsoU

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Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️ @arif.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

disappointed in ben gibbard

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Matt Helgeson @matthelgeson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

From clips I've seen, looks like Motley Crue got severely outclassed by openers Extreme and Tesla at Mystic Lake Amphitheatre last night

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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

NoU didn’t have valid passports so couldn’t go north for the Canada leg. My friend called the Dischord house to book Fugazi. (An) Ian that picked up the phone, and booked a show that fell into his lap. Nation of Ulysses played for a bunch of really confused (and some upset) South Dakota hicks

A flyer reading

DUE TO BAND And Booking
COMPLICATIONS, APPEARING TONIGHT
WILL BE-
•*NATION OF ULYSSES

UP FRONT
THE DREAD
Mr. Magoo

$4 still

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Mpls Music History @mplsmusichistory.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The ticket stub posted on the Fugazi Live Series page. “The world’s fastest (& funniest) hypnotist.”

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Matt Helgeson @matthelgeson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I was not familiar with John-Ivan Palmer, seen here as a special guest with Fugazi, looked him up and it looks like he was a......hypnotist?!?

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Joel/Mike, Tom Servo, and Croooooowwww

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Matt Helgeson @matthelgeson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Put one on and crack open a Pepsi! www.dixxon.com/products/sui...

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Matt Helgeson @matthelgeson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Sorry poseurs listening to TRV metal

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Matt Helgeson @matthelgeson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

So blessed to live in the same neighborhood as the Riverview Theater. We saw The Odyssey last night: 3 tickets, one large popcorn, one large Sprite, two slushies=$38

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Pete Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I think the thing I resent most about gen AI- and this is a selfish thing to say but it’s true- is that it’s put an asterix on my sense of wonder. What I mean is that now when I see an amazing or beautiful image I can’t have that initial “wow!” reaction. I doubt. I have to verify. I hate it.

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Soft Abuse @softabuse.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Coming soon from Soft Abuse: Nowhere Flower! So thrilled to release Lila’s amazing third LP, Peace Channel, in September. Stream “Hollowed Out” on the platform for yr choice, including Bandcamp. And give @nowhere-flower.bsky.social a follow while yr at it.

Nowhere Flower: Peace Channel LP record cover

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Matt Helgeson @matthelgeson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Got excited that Kool Moe Dee had a Pitchfork acclaimed new album there for a second

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Matt Helgeson @matthelgeson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

They are so unassuming it's easy to overlook them, but factoring in overall quality, consistency, and longevity you could make a strong case that Yo La Tengo is the greatest American rock band

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Xopher Besinger @xopherbesinger.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

So the air quality in Mpls ain't great right now

Ryan Gosling in hazy dust of Las Vegas in Blade Runner 2049 is he a replicant god who cares?

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Matt Helgeson @matthelgeson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I got too much fuckin shit on me

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Matt Helgeson @matthelgeson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

If I had a time machine I would go back and stop whichever documentary film maker decided we all need to see a "candid shot" of the interview subject sitting down and messing with their hair and microphone before the interview starts, such a waste of time

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Matt Helgeson @matthelgeson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Loved reading these books to my daughter when she was young

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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

loathsome

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

accidentally typed "repo baby" and now I want to see that movie

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Matt Helgeson @matthelgeson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Tubi is the greatest thing that ever happened in media

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

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Matt Helgeson @matthelgeson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

So apparently David Lee Roth recorded an alternate version of his debut solo album Eat Em and Smile entirely in Spanish?? youtu.be/VqNNm2ak0tw?...

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DAVID LEE ROTH - SONRISA SALVAJE (Eat´em and smile en español) FULL ALBUM

YouTube video by Micky Roldan

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/07/2026

At this point, I imagine working at meta to be one long meeting about what exactly they can do for the sex pest community

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🌲tristan b☔️ @tristanb4.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

they replaced the ability to simply react to a photo on Pixel phones- you used to be able to long press a photo and just do a little react that has been replaced, for a while, with a stupid "REMIX" button that I never want to use it's the little things man but AI's ability to shittify every corner

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