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Meaningless Excitement

@smoothatonalsound.bsky.social
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Like a cross between a hurricane, and a ship that’s run aground. Phish, Grateful Dead, mountain biking, snowboarding, gardening in Brattleboro, Vermont. Sometimes using my doctorate to talk about Phish.

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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m so excited for this upcoming PS101!! I hope you’ll join us…always a hoot
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Really loving the upgraded sound on this MPP 85 show. The Shakedown is obviously a star, one of the if not the best ever. But the entire He’s Gone>Stella Blue is some ass kicking, face melting Grateful Dead. Space has a fantastic Phrygian sound, not as crazy dissonant, which goes perfectly >Other 1
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For you, @terrence.bsky.social #bananabread
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Holy shit this Tales story
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m so excited for this upcoming PS101!! I hope you’ll join us…always a hoot
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Dammit. I’m a City fan. Well this sucks.
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absolutely unreal, this mayor!! What an amazing way to share the arts
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New live bait: A ‘95 Reba (its best year) A ‘94 Antelope (arguably its best year) A ‘95 Tweezer (arguably its best year) More fall ‘99 Ok @shapsio.bsky.social, I see you!!
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New co-workers
Buncha alpacas grazing in a field with solar panels on a Vermont hillside.
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Really proud of myself for only eating 1 whole bagel tonight (2 halves)
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Jeb Bush's 'Please Clap' Moment
ALT: Jeb Bush's 'Please Clap' Moment
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Incredible time seeing Mikaela Davis at a house concert venue in rural Vermont last night. 100% of ticket sales go straight to the artist and the show is in the person’s living room.
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Student just came into the library and asked me what my single favorite year of live Grateful Dead is and I told him "hard pressed, I'd say 1973" and then he asked "better than '77?" and then we had a discussion about the relative merits of 2-drummer vs. 1-drummer Grateful Dead
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Jason Mendoza Says Go Jags, Obviously
Alt: Jason Mendoza Says Go Jags, Obviously
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
lol Pete Shapiro on the US Open broadcast
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Shana Tovah Umetukah
Bomb-ass noodle kugel
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I thought they were stopping socialism and government handouts also I’m not Barbara Magree
Text message reading President Trump just
authorized a $5K check for Barbara Magree - but you need to confirm your official approval in the next 10min: (link)
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Decided I’m going to start a thread of daily photos of this gorgeous tree outside my building, taken every day as I leave work #fall #foliage #vermont
Photo of a Tree starting to change colors
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As of now, you have not purchased any tickets and you are not guaranteed any tickets.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 08/09/2026
"Yeah, we know, we’re seen as boring and old and out of touch. But we’re hungry for progress. As long as it feels scripted and familiar. We’re ready to usher in profound change, abstracted into a focus-group-tested campaign slogan." buff.ly/tt1slzK
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These Exciting Progressive Candidates Who Might Lose Must Be Replaced by Boring Moderates Who Will Definitely Lose
“Yeah, we know, we’re seen as boring and old and out of touch. But we’re hungry for progress. As long as it feels scripted and familiar. We’re ready to usher...
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I love that Tiafoe went right to Michelsen after winning to give him a big hug. Class act
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Meap meap
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Road Runner from The Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner Movie
ALT: Road Runner from The Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner Movie
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ok this Free is oddly dissonant and murky sounding I love it
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Wow, Moma>GBOTT. So novel.
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Mebs ⭕️ @mebs.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’ve been singing WACTOOB all day. They need to bring it back
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My man looks like one of the goons Brad Wesley sent to trash the Double Deuce roadhouse
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A great example of a very good point supported by a very bad graph.
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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
John Cage was born on September 5, 1912
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Today I realized that my new job, which I love and which makes me so much happier than I was, means I’ll never go to Dick’s while still work here
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What is this fucking Temu 10th Ave. Freezeout that they keep playing during the US Open bumpers?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hard to believe that "centrism-for-centrism's sake" and "look, not everyone gets to be full citizens" weren't more compelling pitches to the Democratic base.
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Reprise downtown tonight, playing Stowe ‘93, which makes me very happy. Hopefully they’ll do some of that summer 93 weirdness! Also, don’t tell me anything about this show. I don’t know it and I don’t like to look at the setlist prior
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
El oh el
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I give you a photo of a Cybertruck crushing a no parking cone taken in the reflective windows of Pete Hegseth’s Christian nationalist Church next to the newly opened Jersey Mikes on Pennsylvania Avenue
A mirrored door and front window in a storefront. In the window you can see a cybertruck that has crushed an orange construction cone. You can see a construction barrier reflected in the door that shows a slightly different angle
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Noah_kahan_end_of_august.mp3
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Today I realized that Amanda Janoo could have a really good campaign song parody to Gotta Jibboo
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
At work, watching a cow give birth
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This set was one of the greatest concert moments I’ve ever seen. RIP to the legend. She’s an eagle when she flies… youtu.be/o0LlHqkNzXY?...
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Fall of the Berlin Wall
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Lucy from Duolingo definitely believes in pizzagate
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Wow it almost seems like firing half the FDA and lowering regulations across the food safety industry might have been a bad idea!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Shocked to learn that the political party led by pedophiles and dedicated to protecting pedophiles has created a police force filled with pedophiles.
A new report by the Ohio Immigrant Alliance, released today, pulls back the curtain on a stunning level of sexual criminal behavior within ICE and CBP. Out of 152 cases of identified immigration officials or contractors accused or convicted of criminal behavior, 131 of them, or 86.2 percent, were charged with sex offenses. Seventy-eight of them—51 percent of the entire cohort—"committed sex offenses against children—the single largest category on the list," the report states. Cases involving a CBP officer, the report finds, "are more likely to involve underage victims" than those of an ICE officer. Yet fully half of ICE officers accused or convicted of sex offenses (12 of 24) had a minor as their victim.
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I’m watching a bit of Brit Floyd on PBS playing “Dogs” at Red Rocks, and Coconut is barking at the TV because the song has the dog barking sounds
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Kevin’s on one again!
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
There’s nothing quite as awesome as the fresh pita @rosesarephree.bsky.social brings home from work the day she baked them
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I will not be getting tired of the view from my new job for a while
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I drive a fully EV that artificially makes the vroom sound. I think it’s silly but clearly they built that feature for idiots like this
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optimisticsoap.bsky.social @optimisticsoap.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Like a boss Wordle 1,881 2/6 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Reposting this again to see if anyone knows her! Someone on Reddit thought her name might be LZ (like Elsie?) and that she lives in Seattle.
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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I think I fell in love with baseball long before I fell in love with the Red Sox. I was a casual Sox fan, I knew Jim Rice and Dwight Evans but I wasn’t diehard or watching games. But my Red Sox love really blossomed with Nomar
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