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Scott @smadin.net · 04/10/2026

✅ Somerville Homeless Coalition 5K ✅ Medford Oktoberfest ✅ @winterhillbrewing.bsky.social Wurst Fest ✅ Fuzzstival ➡️ collapse

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Scott @smadin.net · 04/10/2026

(with apologies to @themountaingoats.bsky.social) 🎶25 tight minutes each band on the bill, Ten bands without a break, At Fuzzstival🎶

The Fuzzstival 2026 lineup projected on the screen. Bands are on 30 minute time slots. Friday starting at 7pm: Dinos, Intac, Pew Pew, Spirit Ghost, Hélène Barbier, Major Stars, babybaby_explores, and Dino Gala. On Saturday starting at 6pm: Jonny Tex, Gollylagging, Main Era, Animal Piss It's Everywhere, CS Cleaners, Pink Lids, Jean Mignon, Winkler, Warmachine, and Deerlady.

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Scott @smadin.net · 04/10/2026

Didn't remember until they got on stage that I've seen Pink Lids before! They opened for Weakened Friends at the Sinclair last year! They're great.

Pink Lids, from Wareham, MA, on stage at Fuzzstival 2026

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Scott @smadin.net · 04/10/2026

Featuring such bands as

The Band Animal Piss, It's Everywhere, from North Adams, MA, playing at Fuzzstival 2026

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Scott @smadin.net · 25/09/2026

ok, that's it. it's friday and we don't have to live like this.

adding "iced coffee" to my muted terms for 7 days

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Scott @smadin.net · 18/09/2026

Your Holiness, please do not look directly into the Orb

the guys in suits presenting the orb to the Pope but instead of the orb it's an alien egg from Alien

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Scott @smadin.net · 18/09/2026

anyway this was the OP

I don't want to be dismissive of any of the massive concerns people have about AI, but "literally everyone who works on AI safety is in a cult" is just not true man

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Scott @smadin.net · 14/09/2026

Yesterday's @themountaingoats.bsky.social This Year Youtube Book Club entry was "The Ballad of Bull Ramos", one of my favorites from _Beat the Champ_, and the source, via a discontinued patch, of one of my earliest tattoos

A circular embroidered patch promoting the Mountain Goats' album Beat the Champ. It depicts a large red bell as might be used at a wrestling match, and above in a curved frame is the text "⭐ NEVER DIE NEVER DIE⭐ ".

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Scott @smadin.net · 13/09/2026

A pretty good deal at seven bucks, if only I had a VCR

Original VHS release of Return of the Jedi along with several other '80s and' 90s action and sci-fi movies, on the shelf in The Newsagent's, a store in Raleigh.

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Scott @smadin.net · 12/09/2026

Talked into Malört shots! At the Crank Arm day party

A pink sign reading "$6 specials: Fireball, Bushmills, Malört, Fernet"

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Scott @smadin.net · 12/09/2026

Well right on walking in I can tell this bookshop and café is good (Blackbird Coffee & Books in Raleigh)

Display stand right inside the front door of Blackbird Coffee & Books in downtown Raleigh, NC, with Unmasking AI and The AI Con on the top shelf.

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Scott @smadin.net · 12/09/2026

I felt Robert Mitchum's presence in the room with us. #hopscotch2026

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Scott @smadin.net · 12/09/2026

Taking a brief A/C break in the hotel room (it is beastly hot even after sunset) and I swear to god this is real

Dish network channel guide on hotel TV. The programming block on CBS from 8pm forward is listed as "CBS News 9/11: We Remeber". That isn't my typo. It's in the screenshot.

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Scott @smadin.net · 10/09/2026

Who? no, seriously, that's his legacy: a resounding "Who?"

Boston Globe email subject line: "Today in Opinion: Charlie Kirk's legacy".

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Scott @smadin.net · 09/09/2026

ah, blocked. just so it's clear what I was responding to, the slopfondler's claim was:

"I have been thinking a lot about Wait Calculations. Especially in mathematics and biology, there is high likelihood that models now in development can make serious gains (with or without human help) on hard problems.

You may save time by just not doing the work for a few months"

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Scott @smadin.net · 09/09/2026

potentially very useful reaction image courtesy of @jamellebouie.net's youtube channel this morning

a youtube short video thumbnail of Jamelle Bouie side-eyeing the camera, titled "it's just racism"

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Scott @smadin.net · 04/09/2026

ok, since we're all doing this. wow, it's almost like I grew up in Massachusetts with Californian parents. mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

dialect heat map based on the linked quiz. my reddest (closest to how I speak) areas are the northeast, the California coast, and Hawaii, and my bluest (least like how I speak) area is the Dakotas.

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Scott @smadin.net · 02/09/2026

"lol," as the kids say, "lmao."

NBC projects Markey beats Moulton. with 2.9% reporting, Markey has 75.9% to Moulton's 24.1%.

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Scott @smadin.net · 31/08/2026

you know what's good, ribs are good

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Scott @smadin.net · 30/08/2026

Sundays are for barbecue

A three pound rack of pork spare ribs from Walden Local Meat

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Scott @smadin.net · 25/08/2026

what? there must be a mistake. I've been paying attention all season and that simply isn't a Lynx game score. they should do a recount.

Monday, August 24, 2026, final score, Golden State Valkyries 80, Minnesota Lynx 66

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Scott @smadin.net · 21/08/2026

Time to take the sage advice of Curtis Hall at Tufts University

A red sign with white lettering on a brown door. It reads, "NO POSTING ALLOWED".

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Scott @smadin.net · 18/08/2026

Here's tonight's pies, they're a little ugly but they were super tasty.

Two irregular, oblong thin-crust pizzas on baking sheets, topped with mushrooms, peppers, and pepperoni

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Scott @smadin.net · 14/08/2026

Oh shit, idly opening the Shudder app to browse for things I might watch later is how I just learned Reggie Bannister died five days ago

The carousel at the top of the Shudder android app, highlight _Phantasm_ remastered, with a subhead of "RIP Reggie Bannister (1945-2026)"

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Scott @smadin.net · 08/08/2026

And there was love in the air, and all the money was there, and in a chest in the closet in my brother's childhood room…was Candlebox

A somewhat beat-up CD jewel case of Candlebox's self-titled 1993 debut record

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Scott @smadin.net · 07/08/2026

Well, here's the sign outside one of my locals a couple weeks ago, I thought it was funny

A chalkboard sidewalk sign reading "We've got our own 'Jimothy' here on Winter Hill, but it might just be a rat with a bird in its mouth."

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Scott @smadin.net · 07/08/2026

You know, this one

Still from The X-Files, it's a 3-way split screen. Scully, Mulder, and Skinner are on the phone together, each in their respective bath.

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Scott @smadin.net · 04/08/2026

things we love to see: this

WNBA top 10 standings as of 2026-08-03:
1. MN Lynx, 25-6
2. LV Aces, 20-9, 4 GB
3. GS Valkyries, 20-9, 4 GB
4. Atl Dream, 18-10, 5.5 GB
5. Dal Wings, 19-11, 5.5 GB
6. IN Fever, 19-11, 5.5 GB
7. WA Mystics, 16-12, 7.5 GB
8. NY Liberty, 17-13, 7.5 GB
9. LA Sparks, 11-17, 12.5 GB
10. Chi Sky, 11-18, 13 GB

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Scott @smadin.net · 03/08/2026

well, 1 out of 2 ain't bad, as I think the song goes

ProtonDB results for 'divinity original sin': Divinity: Original Sin (Classic) and Divinity: Original Sin 2 (Definitive Edition) are ranked Gold (runs perfectly after tweaks) and Divinity: Original Sin (Enhanced Edition) is ranked Platinum (runs perfectly out of the box).

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Scott @smadin.net · 31/07/2026

well, that explains the quality of the fundraising emails.

email from Democrats.org with subject line "We're getting hammered."

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Scott @smadin.net · 29/07/2026

That's so true, tesla charger in the East Somerville Stop & Shop parking lot.

The back of a tesla charging station. Someone has scribbled on it in heavy black marker,
"Fuck Tesla
Fuck Elon Musk
Pheh! [unclear, maybe 'Pbuh'? I took the photo from across the street]
Free Palestine"

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Scott @smadin.net · 28/07/2026

anyway as usual it's

April 30, 2024 tweet by @hotgirlhala reading "'this does not help your cause' - guy who hates you and your cause"

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Scott @smadin.net · 27/07/2026

Also apparently they're hiring 12 year olds now?

A split screen on ESPN sportcenter; the person on the left side of the screen is an adult but the person on the right side looks like a boy of twelve or thirteen. I think they're discussing football.

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Scott @smadin.net · 27/07/2026

Apropos of nothing in particular, but filed under "things we love to see": this #GoLynx

The current top 5 of the WNBA standings with the MN Lynx in first at 22 and 6, 2.5 games ahead of the 19-and-8 second-place Golden State Valkyries. Las Vegas is 18 and 8, Dallas is 18 and 9, and the Indiana Fever are 17 and 10.

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