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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#JackNicholsong #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 26 A song with a name in the title The video of this (more) Africanized cover version starts with Manu Dibango impersonating the African continent and includes backing vocals from Peter Gabriel.

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Manu Dibango - Biko (Clip officiel)

YouTube video by Wagram+

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#JackNicholsong #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 25 A song with a name in the title. "They say that afterlife’s an afterglow. I’m gonna wait ‘til John Lee Hooker says so."

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Garland Jeffreys - Till John Lee Hooker Calls Me

YouTube video by Kolja Schwarten

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Streaming Michigan-Lithuania hoops. Wonder if the Euro stepping Michigan guys realize they are playing against the son of the originator, Sarunas Marciulionis?

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#JackNicholsong #MusicChallenge Day 23 Song with a name in the title LKJ's searing tribute to Walter Rodney ("blown to smithereens in the miggle of a dream")

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Linton Kwesi Johnson - Reggae fi Radni (Live 2001)

YouTube video by Dread Moon

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Warsh's next proposal: smoke signals on the solstices.

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A tennis hypothetical: Your serving and returning stats are around pro tour averages, as are your opponent's. Before a match, you are offered a 5% (pp) increase either in your first-serve pct or in the pct of points you win off your opponent's second serve. Which should you choose? 🎾 🧵1/4

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Rubio may be a closet Poulantzian: "Markets are crashing because markets are based on the stock value of companies who today are embedded in modes of production that are bad for the United States." -- Remarks at NATO headquarters, 4 April 2025

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Miliband set to meet Rubio amid Trump fury at his Foreign Secretary appointment

Miliband also called for calm in the conflict between Iran and the US, as Trump threatened to ‘bomb and destroy’ bridges and power stations

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The imbattable force vs. the unblunderable wall. #fifa #bronze #musicsky

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Limited Texas experience (besides black ice on the I-40 in Amarillo in January 1995, one of the scariest moments of my life), but this monologue is classic.

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TRUE STORIES - Texas Joke (Spalding Gray)

YouTube video by SpecialProjectsFor

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Generalissimo Mitch McConnell...

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Man, that Moby Dick quotation bot really jumps in quick with the commentary.

Screenshot of successive Bluesky posts: 1. Trump shares photo of Canada, Greenland as part of US in map; Moby Dick quotation: "it seems to me that you must be damaged in the head".

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

One thing I like about all the Czech players, women and men, is that they seem to be products of a coaching system where ridiculous grips are simply not tolerated. 🎾 #wimbledon

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Infantino later today: Belgium's appeal accepted retrospectively. Game must be replayed without Balogun.

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Memecastle United FC @memecastleunited.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

DR. Congo will see you now 🩺

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

During the England-Ghana World Cup game last night, the British commentator said, "Ghana and England have a long history: Ghana's first national coach was English." And I was thinking the history is a lot longer than that.

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

If that's Bad Homburg the Good one must be amazing. #tennis

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Don't mess with Doctor Congo!

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Shamelessly pushing anti-doze ideology.

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

No NBA player has ever lost a playoff game 7 on his birthday. So my WCF MVP goes to the Spurs' Harrison Barnes (b. 30 May 1992) -- with apologies to Wemby.

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Monfils needs the James Brown cape guy after every long rally. #TennisSky

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

At this stage in his career, Harden needs zero good defenders on him (to score) or two (to assist). Put one good defender on him and he's not going to do much. #Knicks doubling him in the first three quarters put the D immediately in scramble mode.

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I see Charles is leaving the day before No Kings.

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Cavs-Raptors shooting 27.8% combined field goal percentage after three quarters, just off the worst game in NBA history. And that was in 1948, when guys were just learning how to shoot.

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 27: A song you understood only later in life. 1/2

"The Joker" came out when I was in early primary school. My friends and I didn't understand that "I'm a picker and a grinner" was about playing guitar. We formed a completely different mental picture of Steve Miller "picking and grinning" -- and thought it was hilarious that he would make such an embarrassing confession in a song on the radio non-stop. I still have flashbacks every time I hear this classic.

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I'd love to see the minutes of the national meeting where Australians chose their accent. #AO2026

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Day 25: A song that changed your opinon of an artist. "Toto, I don't think its a party-party weekend anymore." Even Che seems to have raised an eyebrow.

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Hey gringo « no pasaran »

YouTube video by Joe King Carasco - Topic

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Rod Alence @ralence.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

#MusicSky #MusicChallenge #IsmuasMonthOfMusic Day 20 - Song that introduced you to a new genre West African highlife (the song is still a Mother's Day staple on Nigerian radio, I'm told)

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Prince Nico Mbarga Sweet Mother

YouTube video by visualito

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