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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 8h

If you want "personalized music" made just for you pick up a fucking guitar. Or else break the heart of someone who already has.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 9h

Had an early medical appt.; doctor asked if I minded if she used AI to take notes, I politely expressed my preference in the negative and didn’t go on a single extended rant, please clap

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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 9h

Comic I drew back in January... www.noncanon.com/comics/2026-...

PANEL 1: A duck and a dog are listening to music. DUCK: "Whoa! Is this a demo or alternate cut of this song I know well?" DOG: "Nope! Just my LP PAL!"

PANEL 2: The record player and receiver with an inobtrusive smiling box wired to it. DUCK (off panel): "HELPY PAL?" DOG (off panel): "No, LP PAL--it's the fun and friendly box that sits between my stereo and speakers!"

PANEL 3: Diagram of the line out flowing through the LP PAL then to audio out. DOG (off panel): "As it receives any audio input, it processes it using an A.I. trained on all recorded music ever, then it produces new verses, new solos, sometimes whole new tracks--all optimized to human engagement metrics!"

PANEL 4: We return to our duck and dog. DOG: "So now EVERY album is an ACTUAL WORLD OF SOUND!" DOG: "It's an experience of reality that I pay a machine to mediate FOR me. So I can get back to doing WHAT REALLY MATTERS!"

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They’ve been jacking up dead rat prices at the store all summer, maybe I’ll give this a whirl instead

Sketchy white van with “dead rats 4 low prices” in red paint with a rough pic of a dead rat on the side.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My favourite venue in NYC. I had some soul-scorching experiences there and I hope the new spot carries on that tradition, perhaps less death-trappy though.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As an uncle it is my privilege, my joy, my solemn duty to give my nephew at least one annoyingly noisy gift each year, under the auspices of encouraging the child’s creativity. Have I ever truly forgiven my sister for periodically smashing my Lego models? Who’s to say?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

nothing is funnier to me - a person with zero children living in my home - than the suffering of people who DO have a child in their home who believes with all their tiny heart that they are playing a musical instrument successfully and are incorrect it's the greatest genre of comedy known to man

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If the Cubs and/or Sox make it to the World Series please can I have an invite to someone’s home and/or non-shitty bar to watch the critical game and/or games, with the understanding that you will need to explain a lot to me and put up with my snark and/or ignorance

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know what? Gonna come out and say it: it sucks that Michigan gets to have the sunset side of the lake. What good’s a sunrise? I just wanna see a shimmering orange orb gracefully cross the watery threshold of the far horizon, I don’t much care in which direction, just make it a convenient hour.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We would do well to remember the rage at technology acting on us without our consent

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You know how when you move to a city, you’re always 5-10 years too late? Because everyone you meet is 5-10 years older now, and because cities change, and we fetishise nostalgia, and nostalgia is almost immediate now, you always have just missed out on a golden age…

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Is Pelican actually Chicago’s greatest band?

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Refreshing myself on an older piece in preparation for the unthinkable - an acoustic Weaklung song. Minor sixths abound. Second half is all crescendo. Lyrics obliquely pointing out the laughable insignificance of personal troubles in the face of climate collapse. Y’know. Weaklung shit.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Stop. Behold. Then go about your day

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

France: “our cuisine is renowned across the globe and our chefs are the envy of the world” Also France: “we just finished building a bridge, wrap that lump of sheep in some paper and throw it in tar for an hour or so”

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Gigot bitume - Wikipedia

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My playlist from @chicritmass.bsky.social tonight. Lemme tell you, feels good to roll around Daley Plaza blasting John Williams’ greatest hits before a big bike ride.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh fuck yeah the Bimbo show has Babe Report and NUDE on the bill next Friday. Unbelievably stacked lineup. Michigan’s finest sandwiched between two killer locals. Fuck, you guys… just make a plan to get to the show already, yeah?

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Steve Albini the cat was not happy about the volume I was playing side C of Mogwai’s Government Commissions; he is a disgrace to his name.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pulp film very good. Less prime dreamboat Jarvis, more English professor who is far too self-conscious/-aware as to do anything so trite and predictable as have an affair with a student Jarvis. Who is also great! We like all our Jarvii.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’ve got a spare ticket for the Pulp documentary at Alamo this evening at 7 if anyone is interested. One night only! Where my Britpop peeps at?

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hell yeah Bimbo, we love the Bimbo sibs, get that Bandcamp hype.

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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 24/09/2026

New & Notable: Mathy art rock from a Michigan brother-sister combo.

bimbobimbobimbo.bandcamp.com

The Bimbonacci Sequence, by Bimbo

8 track album

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Dr. Owen Brazas @owenbrazas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

HBD to Janet Weiss truly one of the top 5 drummers I have ever seen in my life.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ugh I can’t believe you have to wait until 2027 to understand why I just said “it’s coffee time!” to myself and laughed my ass off for precisely thirty seconds

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m not much of a completionist but I do enjoy finding rare cuts by artists I admire. Simon Joyner’s playing the Hideout next week so I’ve got the rare opportunity to get him to sign my Why You All So Thief? 7” that John Darnielle was kind enough to sign at Reckless last week.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every day is bike the drive if you’ve got enough pals @bikegridnow.org

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The worst men alive all absolutely love AI and hate trans people. Huh. Probably no lessons for me to learn there.

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Geoffrey D. Wessel @gdwessel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hey hey hey! Today is $10 Day for the @chirpradio.org Fall 2026 Pledge Drive! Just 8 donations of $10 puts me at my goal, OR consider a $10/month Signal Booster sustaining membership for community radio! Thanks! chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/fundraiser/g...

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if you know the color of their eyes it’s already too late @bridgetgordon.gay · 22/09/2026

when I first read this poem in April w/ Weaklung and Vacancy Chain I felt like it was missing something turns out the answer was: power chords

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sorry, insomniacs. Sonic equivalent of jerking awake because you thought you were falling.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The thing with human children is you’ve got to spend 18+ years broadcasting developmental/socio-cultural milestones across social media. With cats, you get like a year of that then it’s just anecdotes about your weird roommate. Way more entertaining.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You ever think about how much incredible music you could be discovering but aren’t because instead you’re just listening to Ocean Songs by Dirty Three again, and again, and again?

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Rainy Sunday is a good time to go back through yer 45s, yer 12” singles, yer lesser-played platters and by god, does this Springtime EP go Extremely Fucking Hard

spring-time.bandcamp.com

Night Raver EP, by Springtime

3 track album

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Geoffrey D. Wessel @gdwessel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thursday AND Friday's @chirpradio.org sets, including Friday's All-1st-hour All-Chicago set. We are still doing our Fall 2026 Pledge Drive, PLEASE give at the link below. Back Thursday for FOUR hours, 6-10pm See you then. chirpradio.app.neoncrm.com/fundraiser/g...

Love & Rockets - It Could Be Sunshine
Desire - Under Your Spell
My Bloody Valentine - Off Your Face
Neptune's Core - Tethered
Chat Pile - Same Rules
Sharp Pins - Face Of Youth Today
Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer
Spread Joy - Abolish Chance
Las eras - Como animales
Les Rita Mitsouko - Les Histoires D'a
Mirror of Venus - Unlock The Door
Bonobo - Always on Your Side (feat. Joy Crookes)
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
Dead Can Dance - The Carnival Is Over
Cocteau Twins - Pitch the Baby

Depeche Mode - Sea of Sin (Sensoria Mix)
The Cure - Never Enough
Sex Mask - Sweat
Squirrel Flower - Cleveland
Crying Laughing - Crocodopolis Theme
Chumbawamba - On The Day The Nazi Died
Taleen Kali - Viper
Black Marble - Missing History
David Bowie - Fashion
T. Rex - Telegram Sam
Hollow Star - Fall
French Police - REPTILE
Animal Panic - Hurricane Touchdown
Julee Cruise - Into The Night

Pixel Grip - Insignificant
Acid Horse - No Name, No Slogan
Afrofuturistics - One Whole Song
Big Black - Ready Men (Muncie, IN, 5/17/1986)
Kate Renegade - Farewell Dracula
Fantasma Negra - Bliss
Neptune's Core - Lemon Car
Cameron - Apartment
French Police - SUPER OVER DRIVE
Open Mike Eagle & Kenny Segal - Schrödinger's Green Room (There but Uninvited)
goodkitty - The Right Kind
blood club - anoche ¿qué tal?

Depeche Mode - The Sun & The Rainfall (Cyborg Remix)
Tones On Tail - O.K. This Is The Pops
Blind Yeo - Hourglass of The Eye
Elanor Moss - Again, My Love
Caitlin Edwards - WMD
Twin Temple - Haunt Me
Fontaines D.C. - Marianne
Teenage Fanclub - Day In The Sun
Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You
Bayonne - Oxygen
Oh, Pierrot! - Runaway
Russian Circles - E2

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CHIRP 107.1 Playlist @chirp-playlist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Song: Prisencolinensinainciusol Artist: Adriano Celentano Album: Nostalrock (1973) Label: Clan Celantano Time: 12:49 PM DJ: Wags — chirpradio.org/djs/wags

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cobra Lounge has 86’d their al pastor french dip sandwich. I never even got to say goodbye.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Everything my cats do is made more hilarious by the fact they have regular people names. Like obviously someone named Squiggles is gonna sit in the sink and bat the plug around, but Brian? Come on man. Nobody is surprised when Mister Floofy is rolling around like a cutie, but Steve? Holy shit adorbs

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Play a bit of guitar before bed; it’ll keep the sads at bay in the dark bit before sleep

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When you’ve got a crew and the couches are open in the back corner of Simon’s and you’ve got some bills for the jukebox

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A confession: whenever I am in a car on DLSD and I see a sign with the full name I will sing this song, and do the French accent, except the words are, “Jean-Baptiste-Pwan-Duh-Sabluh-Lake-Shore-Drive… ooohWEEooh-ooh”

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Except Argyle St in Uptown which smells like weed and pho.

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Matt Serwe @serwewx.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well, we had a good run. Insect overlords have arrived in Omaha.

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josh terry @joshterry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

like quitting drinking or taking up running, spending less time on social media is really one of those "ugh jesus christ you're right" moves you can make for your health

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Man I really want to talk more about the songs we just recorded but I feel like I should wait until closer to release date.

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Tom from Weaklung @perefex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This isn’t Bob Mould but I like it

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