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I don’t like a lot of things about the world we’re currently living in, but at least The Pineapple Thief have a new album out.

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 3h

I bet against the Colorado Rockies multiple times last season and you’d be amazed how many times I lost that bet

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 13h

After two nights of seeing my all-time favorite band again (which, according to my records, go down as Rush shows #7 & #8 for me), especially at this precise point in my life, I feel like something healed inside of me.

Rush performing onstage in Denver, Colorado on their Fifty Something Tour

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 8h

“Bravado” and “Time Stand Still” were both wonderful for me personally, but hearing the entirety of “2112” on night one was a real treat!

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Stoked for night two with the greatest band in the world!

A pre-concert setting, with rows of people scattered around an indoor arena. A handful of empty seats remain in pockets of the crowd, to be filled as more people arrive. Everyone is bathed in a deep blue light, and in the background is a large LED screen covered with a grayscale graphic showing a variety of illustrations of the number fifty. It’s Rush’s Fifty Something Tour in Denver. It’s gonna be amazing.

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’M SEEING RUSH AGAIN TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 06/10/2026

sorry. unfollowing now. i just wanted to support queer poc authors. i didn't know he committed seppuku after a failed coup to restore the emperor of japan.

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A funny exchange I overheard behind me last night at the Rush concert: MAN 1: An arena full of strange, intelligent men—it must be a Rush show! MAN 2: Yeah, except we all have prostate issues now!

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That was one of the most special concerts I’ve ever seen and I will remember it for a very long time, man. Anika Nilles is the absolute real deal taking over for Neil Peart, and the other Good Canadian Boys™️ can still rip it up. I almost can’t believe I’m seeing it again in a couple days.

Rush performing onstage in Denver, Colorado under a line of yellow lights

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Seated for night one of the greatest band in the fucking world.

A live concert setting from the floor of an arena. The surrounding audience is tinted a deep blue, while the large LED screen displays a graphic depicting multiple variations of the number fifty.

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Managed to hit the early merch line prior to the Rush shows in Denver tonight and Wednesday and picked up some fine goodies!

An enamel pin set featuring various Rush-related logos

The front of the exclusive Denver tour shirt, featuring a rendering of the Ball Arena and the Rocky Mountains in the background

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Love the contrast between your blue and the yellow surroundings!

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Shit, even purely *instrumental* music still has meaning behind it

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’M SEEING RUSH TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Shamelessly sharing this one

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Green Lady Lounge, though I believe right now they are temporarily closed (they had a fire a little while ago) so all their shows are at the Black Dolphin next door. Still highly recommended!

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Last time I was in Kansas City, I had an amazing meal and went to a killer jazz club afterward. This was all in one night!

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The air conditioner in THE BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER scared the hell out of me. Full-on running out of the room any time that part of the movie came around.

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Assembled the new bookshelf for my apartment, and now the real fun begins.

A newly assembled six-tier bookshelf in the corner of an apartment

Several stacks of books across the room, which now have to be arranged on the bookshelf in the other photo

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Did the nine albums thing. Tried to keep it only to stuff I first heard between age 12-16, as that was really the most formative time for me as far as discovering music on my own (though there are many other options I could have put here if I’d had more spaces).

My 9 Albums

System of a Down - Toxicity
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Tool - Lateralus
Rush - Roll the Bones
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn
Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon
Ravi Coltrane - Mad 6
Los Lonely Boys - Sacred

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Jac @dairyqueenslime.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

you can feel the Tao flowing through all of existence after 2 beers

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Putting together furniture while drinking a margarita and listening to black metal. We have fun on Saturday nights around here.

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah if that ain’t heat-related you must have pissed off a witch or something

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

An app filled with the most beautiful people to ever walk the planet? [extremely masculine voice] NOT FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My severance money from getting laid off over the summer finally hit and let’s just say I get to spend the next month revising my novel, and I’m super fucking excited about it.

A photo of a laptop screen showing the title of my in-progress novel

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"

Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.

Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The noise I just made when I found out Dave Weckl is playing at one of the jazz clubs here in town next month was like that reconstructed voice of the old mummy that just sounds like a scream.

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Currently imagining a shirtless John Cena solemnly announcing the death of Liberty Biberty the same way he did for Osama bin Laden during a live WWE broadcast and feeling a rush of pure adrenaline.

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Kind of a deep cut, but Dave Grohl made a full death metal record under the name Dream Widow as a tie-in with STUDIO 666 (the slasher horror movie starring the Foo Fighters) a few years ago, and it’s ridiculously good

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I always know when an idea really excites me when I start pacing around my apartment talking about it out loud to no one.

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today’s post-therapy self-care efforts include ordering a massive sandwich.

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Congratulations, Jessica!

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think you’re gonna love it!

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nothing like clearly defining a boundary to someone and then spending the next two god damn hours repeatedly asking them to respect said boundary when they won’t. Fantastic way to spend an evening, maybe even the best.

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finally got my tickets for the new Rush tour and I can’t believe I get to see my all-time favorite band live again in one week’s time.

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nothing beats coffee and a book on a rainy day, man.

An open novel rests on a table next to a mostly full cup of iced coffee.

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

PAC vs Orange Cassidy at the first Revolution PPV was the match that truly sold me on AEW. RIP to The Bastard.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Photography by Elliot McGucken

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s like the sixth henchman watching John Wick easily kill the five guys before him and thinking “ah, I’ve got this.”

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s like they should make a place that sells GAME that you would STOP at, but I’m not a branding expert, soooo

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This was fucking amazing, by the way. It’s called No Man’s Disciple, and if you saw the Rush doc from a decade or so ago (BEYOND THE LIGHTED STAGE) it’s basically a sequel to that made by the same team.

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Riley Fox @rileyfox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s time to pour myself a nice glass of The Macallan and watch the full rip of the new Neil Peart documentary that some guy put on YouTube, baby.

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