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Marlon Rando

@sonnyphoenix.bsky.social
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Method lurker/gig worker/stuff liker/real person. To quote a wise man, “Rock and Roll don’t grow on trees” Views are not necessarily the views of my employer or any other group that would have me as a member.

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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A senseless loss to the Bay Area concert community. Please give if you can. #Warfield #BearDavis www.gofundme.com/f/helping-be...
gofundme.com
Donate to Helping Bear Davis's Family in Their Time of Need, organized by Ice Pao
Hey Everyone This Go Fun Me is Bear Davis. The man I knew for over 15 y… Ice Pao needs your support for Helping Bear Davis's Family in Their Time of Need
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A month old skeet about beyond the valley of the dolls
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The click to back up 10 seconds has been taken away. It buffers all the time and logs me out for fun. Damn it. It’s basically all I watch.
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hate to say it, but Criterion channel’s UI seems to have been enshittified. @criterionchannl.bsky.social
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𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧 @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
This sweet princess angel baby told y’all what was what and some of you bitches still failed me, her and everybody else so ain’t it fun living in the real world; the hell some of yall chose. Can’t go crying to ya mama 🙄
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
MmmMmmmm. Hoosier tenderloin.
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Patriarchy purt near smashed.
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Weird Guitar of the Day @weirdguita.rs · 30/09/2026
Pignose PGG-TWIN
I found this Pignose PGG-TWIN in the same catalog I found yesterday's guitar in, and I thought it was too good not to post right away.

You might know Pignose from their small travel amps. Frank Zappa had one that he heavily modified and took everywhere, for example. What you may not know is they also made travel guitars in the late 90s and early 00s that were kinda a competitor to the Fernandes Nomad line. The normal guitar was a single-cutaway design, but I've also seen one shaped like a Flying V. The PGG-TWIN is the weirdest one of the bunch, though.

It's a 12/6 doubleneck guitar, and each neck is set up the same way: a hot rails-style pickup jammed next to the bridge and a speaker for a built-in amp. (Yes, this guitar has two amps. No, I don't know why.) There's a volume knob that's also a push/pull power button and a toggle switch for each amp. You can even have both amps on at the same time if you want. Each neck has 22 frets. The top one has a 6/6 headstock, and the bottom one is a 3/3.There's a label between the Strat-style hardtail bridges that shows you how to use the volume knob. It reads:

Power & Volume Knob
Pull: Power-on
Push: Power-off
Full Volume -> Feedback!
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
OK, here’s an original. Q: How many sound engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: Two. 1☝️, 2✌️. TWO.
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I started a joke…. Then I couldn’t come up with one.
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hell yes.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the thing about the "you're out of touch if you haven't heard this song" discourse is that radio has been dead for well over a decade. it's extremely normal to listen to a lot of music but still never hear the songs at the top of the charts.
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band THE MOVIE (1978)
The Bee Gees and George Burns as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Mr. Kite
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Daisies (Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, 1966)
The two lead actresses from Daisies sitting in a luxury booth laughing their heads off at the pageant of respectability
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ
youtu.be
Pressure Drop
YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Eric A of Jane’s Addiction, back in the day. He is playing a black bass guitar.
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Attn: Chris Wood
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The world does not need another “Americana” band.
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Häagen-Dazs- We believe in NOTHING!
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Häagen-Dazs. He world’s most cynical ice cream.
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yep, that was pretty good.
Black and white image from Nadja with subtitles that read
“Baby sharks from Mexico” doo doo doo doo doo doo
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Bay-bee SHARKS doo doo doo doo doo doo
Black and white movie still from Nadja (1994). Man in bed and two at his bedside. Subtitle reads “Baby sharks from Mexico”
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Every washer should have a setting that just says “towels”. #laundrycore
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thanks!
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 20/09/2026

“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.”
Octavia Butler, “Parable of the Talents
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That clearly is a hatchet.
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@nytimes.com still going…
Today’s missive from the NYT: again, five dudes standing by a wharf, one of whom seems
to have a boner.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 19/09/2026
this tweet is NINE years old and is still the best trans rights policy advice out there
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@nytimes.com Still going! I think it’s four days of every email that you send me starts with this picture. Pretty sure that everybody gets this picture.
Four dudes standing by a wharf. One appears to have a boner.
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hey @nytimes.com ! This is still going down. Am so the only one?
Five dudes standing by a wharf. One of them seems to have a boner.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 17/09/2026
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is a great thread!
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hey, @nytimes.com this is still happening. Do you maybe think you’d want to do something about that?
Five guys standing by a wharf. One of them appears to have a boner.
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Picture of five dudes hanging near a wharf. One of them seems to have a boner. This picture has been at the top of every breaking news email I have gotten all day.
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Picture of five dudes hanging near a wharf. One of them seems to have a boner. This picture has been at the top of every breaking news email I have gotten all day.
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Picture of five dudes hanging near a wharf. One of them seems to have a boner. This picture has been at the top of every breaking news email I have gotten all day.
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Picture of five dudes hanging near a wharf. One of them seems to have a boner. This picture has been at the top of every breaking news email I have gotten all day.
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Picture of five dudes hanging near a wharf. One of them seems to have a boner. This picture has been at the top of every breaking news email I have gotten all day.
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Picture of five dudes hanging near a wharf. One of them seems to have a boner. This picture has been at the top of every breaking news email I have gotten all day.
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Picture of five dudes hanging near a wharf. One of them seems to have a boner. This picture has been at the top of every breaking news email I have gotten all day.
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@nytimes.com this is still happening. Gotten this non-sequiter picture like 7 times today.
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@nytimes.com has everybody gotten this picture as the lead in every breaking news story email today?
Picture of five guys standing by a wharf, one of whom seems to have a boner.
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is bleak. And on the nose.
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 14/09/2026
All the stuff about greedy Ticketmaster and scalpers and all the rest is true but a distraction. Gig tickets used to be much cheaper because the shows would boost sales of the real product. A lot of huge artists would make a loss on the actual shows, but make stupid money from record sales.
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Looks more like Mel Gibson than Bruce Willis.
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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Move over, pumpkin spice: September belongs to the BOG HARVEST. While many flock to apple orchards, the world’s peatlands are hitting their peak. Far from muddy swamps; bogs are the secret agricultural powerhouses you didn't know you needed. Join me in protecting these undervalued landscapes! 🧵 1/
Photograph of ripening cloudberries on a bog surface.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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Marlon Rando @sonnyphoenix.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Whoozat? Helluva forehead.
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More Movies @moremovies.co.uk · 03/09/2026
Orphée (1950) dir. Jean Cocteau 🧵🎬 Using a huge vat of mercury, Cocteau creates the effect of a mirror becoming liquid-like, enabling Orpheus to move through it in order to enter the underworld. #filmsky #moviesky #artsky
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