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Textbook editor | Fiction writer | Long-suffering prequel apologist | Ask me about my Kate Bush records | 🏳️‍🌈 | he/him | Instagram: RabbleHauser

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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Doing Chicago stuff...
Also just took a shot of malaria
Malort

Malaria, lol
I just laughed really hard
I don't know which is worse
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I did it. I broke the world record.
Two men in black shirts, one in a polo and other in a Smashing Pumpkins shirt taking a shot of malort
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I went to this marlot event as a joke and the governor showed up to pour shots!
A man in a blue and white checkered shit behind a bar pouring shots
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
It's a relic from a more civilized age.
Photo from Star Wars subreddit of a translucent piece of plastic that was packaged with an Episode 1 action figure. It has a picture of Boss Nass in it. The text of the image reads "Found in a bargain bin at a convention for a dollar. Uhh what is it? It is boss nas but what is Boss nas contained within?
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
If you truly love me, you'll buy me a Cocteau Twins world cup jersey
A man in a blue and pink plaid jersey sitting on a pink motorcycle. Text reads 4AD debuts world cup themed Cocteau Twins jersey.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Pleased to report they still serve Old Style at Wrigley
A hand holding up an Old Style can and a cup of beer
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
What Star Trek meme or still best describes the current political moment?
Captain Janeway looking haggard and saying, "15 minutes of sleep is really all I need."
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Oh yeah this is a Pynchon movie
A teen girl in a leather jacket saying to a middle aged man in a red flannel shirt, "There's a quinoa casserole with frosted flakes in the oven." Next to them is a teen boy in a wool lined jean jacket.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Martin Dupont at Sanctum. Perfection. 🥰
A woman in a blue dress, two men behind synthesizers, and another man in white playing guitar under the pink neon Sanctum symbol.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
David Byrne is the best.
Twelve musicians in blue onstage playing various instruments.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Working hard and hardly working
A brown and white beagle laying on a gray couch in a bundle of blankets and a man in a blue shirt with white stripes typing on a laptop.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
👀
Sonic Youth's Instagram page shows a white washing machine with the year 2026 on a blue background.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Got to see Spoon for the first time in many years. Still as great as ever!
Blue lights shine above musicians playing guitars, drums, and a keyboard. Fans in the foreground.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
NIN tonight!! Say the line, Trent!!!
Classroom of students staring eagerly at the camera. Trent Reznor saying we're here to have a bad time. Then it says synthesizer playing. The whole classroom cheers.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The corporate geniuses who chose to bribe Trump rather than fight the world's stupidest lawsuit are now canceling the top-rated network late night show to bring you this inspired logo. Oh, but wait for more details before forming an opinion on the merger, folks
Proposed merger of Skydance Media and Paramount Global. Image shows the Skydance and Paramount logos prior to the merger and the new Paramount logo, which just reads "Paramount" in the same boring typeface as the Skydance logo with a line under it.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Badass cover
Cover art for Thomas Pynchon's forthcoming novel, Shadow Ticket. It's a black and white vintage photo of a downtown street with many lights and electric signs.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
So we just finished Buffy season 4...
Images of Vince McMahon becoming increasingly intrigued until his eyes glow. Text boxes read, "A secret military lab on a college campus. They're creating a super soldier. The lab is under a frat house. The frat house has horny ghosts."
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Alison Moyet was spectacular last night. My favorite show of the year so far.
Alison Moyet in all black surrounded by smoke with red lights
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Live shot from inside the conclave
Glowing red undead pope-looking guy with a staff surrounded by heavy-set undead deacons with candlesticks
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Will this be enough to get me through 15 episodes of Andor? Let's find out...
Three bottles of red wine and a 2-liter of diet Pepsi in a shopping basket
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I just think they're neat!
Old man telling his version of why Shelbyville doesn't have a lemon tree anymore. He and some local children celebrate Shelbyville's banishing of the lemon tree with a cool glass of turnip juice.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
She stole my pillow
Hera the dog napping on top of a comforter and a pillow
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
DEFTONES!!!
The Deftones at the United Center. There are cool blue vertical lights.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🤔
Bilbo saying, "After all, why not? Why shouldn't I buy tokens for a ttrpg I'll never play?
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Tracked down some pierogi in Dublin!
Smaczne...go! in an underground food mall off Parnell Street in Dublin.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Don't mind me, I'm just running down to the tesco's for a lucozade
It's a bottle of zero sugar lucozade. It's very orange.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We're doing touristy stuff!
A view of the Atlantic Coast along the Ring of Kerry
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Found this big boy ❤️
An Irish wolfhound
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
This was super special for me. We caught Hank Wedel and his band playing at Charlie's in Cork. I used to listen to him and Ray every Monday when I lived there. 🥹
Hank Wedel and his band playing rock n' roll at Charlie's in Cork
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Enjoying a flight of beers at Smithwick's Experience in Kilkenny
A flight of Kilkenny Cream Ale, Smithwick's Pale Ale, and Smithwick's Irish Red Ale beside a Smithwick's pint glass
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I found Firelink Shrine! The crow is normal size tho.
A ruined church at Glendalough
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I finally made it to Bewley's!
Entrance to Bewley's Grafton Street in DublinInterior of Bewley's in Dublin with its iconic stained-glass windowsBewley's traditional Irish breakfast: poached eggs, bacon, black and white pudding, sausages, brown bread, beans, and tomato. A more recent stained-glass window at Bewley's
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
When I voiced my concerns about Musk/DOGE to Dick Durbin, it took him two weeks to respond with this boilerplate drivel. (Duckworth didn't even send a response.) I guess having co-equal branches of government was fun while it lasted... 🤷‍♂️
Sen. Durbin,

I implore you to stop voting on Trump nominees and bring ordinary Senate business to a halt until citizens can be assured that the US Treasury Dept payment system (through which $6 trillion flows each year) and databases housing millions of Americans' sensitive data (including Social Security Numbers) are protected from unconfirmed, non-government employees. 

I shouldn't need to inform you that this is a dire national security threat, no matter how benign you might think Trump's or Musk's motives are. Individuals without security clearance or understanding of government systems should not be allowed to create backdoors into secure systems that can later be exploited by hackers and state actors. This threat is more important [than] any routine business before the Senate. Please do the right thing. 

Your constituent, Dear Brian:

          Thank you for contacting me about nominations to serve in President Donald Trump's Administration.  I appreciate hearing from you.

          Since President Trump won the 2024 presidential election on November 5, 2024, he has made several high-profile nominations to head executive agencies and serve in his cabinet. 

          The United States Senate has the constitutional role of advice and consent on presidential appointments.  The nomination of people to serve in the administration is one of the most important decisions made by the president.  Administration officials work to implement policies in their roles as representatives of their respective federal agencies.  They set the tone and direction for the federal government's interaction with the public in a variety of ways.

          President Trump also should allow the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to conduct background checks on his nominees, just as prior Presidents from both parties did before him.  It is not too much to ask that the people at the highest levels of government do not have background issues that jeopardize their service to this nation.

          On December 3, 2024, President Trump's transition team announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Justice, allowing the transition team to submit nominees to the FBI for background checks and security clearances.  

          As the Senate carries out its role of advice and consent, I will be sure to review each nomination carefully and keep your views in mind.

          Thank you again for contacting me.  Please feel free to keep in touch.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Ministry's playing the synthpop hits! Tix onsale Friday. This is not a drill!!!
Ministry tour poster. Performing songs from the albums With Sympathy and Twitch. Openers: Nitzer Ebb, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, and Die Krupps.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
With psn down, now's a good time to play something pixilated and mechanically incomprehensible. When you win, you'll have no idea why or how, but maybe that's life? Reject modernity, etc.
Ellen walking around in Old Pidona in Romancing SaGa 3.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
We're listening to jazz!
Two jazz afficionados having a great time
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
A badass demon woman with wild hair and a grotesque Ozzy beast with giant wings in front of a mushroom cloud or possibly volcano erupting.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Lemme state for the record I'll have nothing to do with this bullshit
Rosemary Clooney singing in White Christmas but looking like she's taking issue with something.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Changed my mind. I like blue corn best.
New proposed flag for Illinois. Four light blue lines. And four dark blue lines, which represent the three major rivers and Lake Michigan. 7 corn kernels representing agriculture and a gear representing industry form the state flower, a daisy.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I'll make the case for why this one *isn't* terrible. The high schoolers who made this did a pretty good job. It's a clean design with good IL colors. Schoolkids also chose the monarch as state insect in '75, so it becomes a symbol of the future. Also, the Dreamers/DACA butterfly, an Obama policy
IL flag design number 4321. It's an orange monarch butterfly with 21 orange stars on a dark blue background.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Fairly predictable responses to this
Divine being asked by a reporter for their political beliefs and responding, "Kill everyone now."
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The only surprise for me is that Dio isn't on here. Probably if they pooled all his bands together, he would be.
My top artists on Spotify this year were Magdalena Bay, Cocteau Twins, Jessie Ware, Ariana Grande, and Prince.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
We survived the Freedom Trail!
Five social studies fiends in front of the Paul Revere statue
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I'm in Boston for a conference. Having my first lobster roll!
A lobster roll in a basket
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Interpol was so good. Couldn't have asked for a better setlist. First time seeing them in 22 years!
Silhouettes of the band members of Interpol with bright lights behind them
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
First time seeing Deafheaven last night!
Lead singer of Deafheaven stands before the crowd with his arms outstretched
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 02/11/2024
Anyone care to find out what it looks like when thousands of Republican insiders suddenly shit and piss their pants?
Final Ann Selzer poll of the cycle suddenly has Harris up 3 in Iowa.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Teamwork!
Hera, Jacob, and I put our hands together to celebrate teamwork. Hera is also licking our hands because she's weird.
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Lazybones
Hera the dog lying on a bunch of blankets on the couch
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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
So Cruel World always has an amazing lineup and New Order is my favorite band, but I'd like to point out that Til Tuesday hasn't played a show in 33 years
Cruel World (in Pasadena, California) lineup includes New Order, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Go-Go's, Devo, OMD, and Til Tuesday
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