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I remind everyone, again, that they tried year-round daylight saving time and stopped it because it got bunch of kids got killed in just a few weeks

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Steve Reynolds @reynoldstop20.bsky.social · 23h

I meant to post my weekly playlist earlier today because I wanted to shout out @mikeduquette.bsky.social for his writing on the latest Prince debacle for The Second Disc. That inspired the 3 hours of Prince box set highlights that has a bit of a weird title. figgsrock2.substack.com/p/prince-tra...

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Prince Tracks From the Coffee Table

Geez, the people in charge of the estate are just clowns, aren’t they?

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I actually get my information from people who understand exactly what it is and why it’s a fucking autocorrect slot machine that does nothing but extract. This is hot garbage. Just because I have ethics and a spine doesn’t mean I don’t also engage critical thinking. Slop boosters don’t.

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Knicks owner Jim Dolan built himself a private surveillance state. Now he's spending millions to give New York a governor who supports Flock, ICE, and AI data centers. My latest in @wired.com ... www.wired.com/story/madiso...

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Madison Square Garden’s James Dolan Is Spending Big on New York’s Governor Race

James Dolan has put surveillance at the center of his sports and entertainment empire. Now he’s getting involved in GOP politics by backing a candidate who supports Flock, ICE, and AI data centers.

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Steve Reynolds @reynoldstop20.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Stayed out of the "texas" duscourse for my own sanity, but @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social is absolutely spot on here.

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Steve Reynolds @reynoldstop20.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I guess Steve Martin and Carl Reiner were ahead of the curve…

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026

find me a mainstream news story on the flimsy Paramount settlement that even hints at the fact right wing oligarchs are waging propaganda warfare on an informed electorate and that owning CBS, CNN, and TikTok is central to Ellison's vision of it

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

With plenty of room.

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Steve Reynolds @reynoldstop20.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I was traveling yesterday so I didn’t get a chance to post my weekly playlist, which is definitely one of my favorites from this year. figgsrock2.substack.com/p/sophisti-a...

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Sophisti-alt 1978-1993

A mix inspired by a dumb title from Spotify’s Daylist feature.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Foods are making people sick in numbers not seen in recent memory because FDA is not inspecting food bc they fired their food inspectors, yet for some reason this same FDA is still fixated on trying to deny 46 years of evidence that mifepristone is safe, including 4 major FDA reviews finding it safe

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Questions and Answers on Mifeprex

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Steve Reynolds @reynoldstop20.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not gonna lie—watching Campbell, Lynch, Tench and Blair together for the first time since the Heartbreakers Rock Hall induction has me all in the feels.

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Steve Reynolds @reynoldstop20.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

<Turns on season premiere of Jeopardy and sees first commercial break> Where the hell are all these politicians running for office?

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

a take I saw that rang true for me today is that the GOP, which spends the other 364 days of the year talking shit about NY (and they did this back then, too, lest they peddle some "we loved it then" story), wants, once a year, to front like they love New York. Nah man. Everybody already heard you

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8 Matts in a Duffel Bag @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

this was true on 9/11 and has remained true every day since 9/11. fuck you assholes for making my home your excuse for bloodshed

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Steve Reynolds @reynoldstop20.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

These all night 60th anniversary Star Trek marathons on H&I has freshened up my “can’t sleep in the middle of the night so watch some classic TV” rotation, that’s for sure.

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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026

I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.

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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.

Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 10/09/2026

We've got a Muslim man running the most multicultural city in the world and making space for all the people in it. That's what cultural victory over fundamentalism looks like, it's a shame that there's a part of the population that couldn't identify a cultural victory if it slapped them in the face.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The worst part of all this is Hancil Rincon was making his major league debut when Eddings humiliated him for no reason. Waited his whole life for that moment and can never get it back. MLB needs to suspend Eddings. Baseball is a game that is supposed to be joyful, not Pete Hegseth’x military.

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log̷o, respawned dad @loxophile.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's so grimly funny that the NYT is both *this* dedicated to ratfucking the mayor and so unable to come up with anything worse than "can you believe that the mayor dares take credit publicly for all the good stuff he's doing?!?"

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Steve Reynolds @reynoldstop20.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The last of my Stuff for Summer ‘26 playlists is out, and it’s another long run of tunes! (With a shout out to @efd.bsky.social for inspiration on some of them.) figgsrock2.substack.com/p/stuff-for-...

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Stuff for Summer ’26 Vol. 03

I ended up with a lot of lengthy songs here.

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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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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Look, let's not be irresponsible in our rush to trash Arte Moreno. Sure, he made a roughly 2000% profit on his investment, but it's only like 1,100% once you account for inflation. bsky.app/profile/cpto...

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Steve Reynolds @reynoldstop20.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Spot on take from @sterlewine.bsky.social. What a shame that the clown in charge of the estate is going to botch it all.

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Surely it can’t get more embarrassing, you think. Wrong, posts estate co-executor Londell McMillan, on his Instagram account “makemillions_mcmillan”

Instagram story from Londell McMillan (@makemillions_mcmillan) sharing a post from @nomusicnoparty, which reads, in the same design scheme as the new Prince album:

“Prince: TIMELESS - The New Album

THE NEW PRINCE ALBUM IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN ALL THE PRINCE HATERS
MADE IT OUT TO BE BEFORE THEY EVEN HEARD IT.

SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO LET THE MUSIC SPEAK FOR ITSELF.”

Incidentally, the post is synced to a clip of “Calabama,” the song with posthumous horn overdubs.

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Mike Duquette, the “gotta have it guy” @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So the horns on one of the tracks from Prince’s new “album” of outtakes have been confirmed by one of the players as recent additions. So when the estate says they’re “learning” from the Michael Jackson estate, that begs the question: learning WHAT, exactly?

Facebook post from former NPG horn player Greg Boyer sharing Prince’s “Calabama,” a track on the new posthumous collection TIMELESS

Comments on said post:

Marco Cafagno
@Greg Boyer horns recorded in 2003, as on liner notes? So before Musicology?

Greg Boyer
@Marco Cafagno recorded a couple of months ago in my basement studio. I haven't read the liner notes

Marco Cafagno
@Greg Boyer so, this is a posthumous addition to the song. Liner notes say yourself, Adrian Crutchfield and Lynn Grissett. Song recorded in January 2003

Jonathan Craig Walmsley
@Greg Boyer Horns were added to this track that weren't on the original recording?

Greg Boyer
@Jonathan Craig Walmsley correct

Rolling Stone headline: “PRINCE ESTATE CO-MANAGER L. LONDELL MCMILLAN ON ‘TIMELESS,’ FAN COMPLAINTS, LEARNING FROM ‘MICHAEL’”

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

genuinely congressional Democrats are some of the dumbest people alive

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Update your priors, when you see "Johns Hopkins" you shouldn't think "good school" or "medical research," you should think "hedge fund that lives off taxpayer money and drops its claimed standards to collaborate with fascists" because that's what the school decided to make itself.

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Conservative Scholars Are Rare. Johns Hopkins Wants More of Them.

Ronald J. Daniels says the ideological imbalance is bad for the academy and for the country.

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The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Please say this louder for the people who still do not understand this

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Steve Reynolds @reynoldstop20.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Sweet Jebus. I agree with @mikeduquette.bsky.social on all of the points he raises about this clown who’s in charge of the estate. (That being said, I actually like Timeless, against my better judgment and knowing that many of the tracks could be placed in set with proper context.)

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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Not going to weigh in too deeply on MLB's latest proposal. I just want to restate the point that the "exciting" free-agent periods of the NBA and NFL are because the players are fighting each other for a limited pile of money. It's just another anti-labor effect of a cap system and house unions.

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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 26/08/2026

Wanna know something I think would be crazy? It would be crazy if XX-XY Athletics, the apparel firm stoking outrage against the WNBA, had a secret, Koch brothers-aligned, oil rich family fortune behind it. But that would be crazy, right??? www.foiaball.com/p/xx-xy-athl...

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The oil money lurking behind the WNBA outrage

XX-XY Athletics has an interesting paper trail.

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Steve Reynolds @reynoldstop20.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Oh shit! Of course @fluxblog.bsky.social has to drop this on a day I need to listen to catalog stuff for an interview!

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We need to stop calling them anti-vaxxers and start calling them pro-plague.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Wrote about the proposed Paramount-WBD merger and why it is bad across the board.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Loser behavior from a guy who’s clinging like a shriveled old barnacle to a sport he doesn’t actually care about in a desperate bid for relevance. Do not cede one inch to him or anyone who acts this way.

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Howard Megdal @howardmegdal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

You ban him. You give exactly as much energy and attention as is required to the task and nothing more.And then you never think about or talk about him again. #wnba

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It ain’t about trans people. It’s about middle aged men’s egos.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE

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Bryan Teoh || Score Slinger 🎹 @bryanteohmusic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Dude, X-Files had 24-25 episodes come out each season, reasonably high production values, and they didn't take a 2-3 year gap each season. Pretty cool that execs used to order ahead based on the strength of their conviction instead of waiting to see how people responded to reach release.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"I'm calling for all parties to come to the table?" Respectfully, either you're for the merger or you're against it. Any version of this merger is bad for Hollywood and bad for your constituents, several thousand of whom will permanently lose their jobs.

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Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I've been moonlighting as a DJ this summer and I noodled this together and was told there are hundreds, perhaps thousands of middle aged men who need to hear it L.D.O.B. Outkast x @tedleo.bsky.social (mixed live) www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpme...

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DJ Cutie Snackey - L.D.O.B.

YouTube video by Emily Yoshida

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