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Stop Calling Me Frank

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Working up a fever in a one-horse town. Somerville garage-punk-pub-rock band on Rum Bar Records. The music stuff is the band’s; the politics, crap takes, & lit crit mumbo-jumbo are mine. stopcallingmefrank.bandcamp.com/tra…

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Lisa @footenotes.bsky.social · 4h
"The celebration of life will include a joyous, simultaneous cremation and Lisa-fired pizzas" My obit probably
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CromDeluise @cromdeluise.bsky.social · 4h
imagine eating salad while the pizza cools
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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 4h
Someone needs to take a look at Mary’s pizza ovens.
4 older people eating pizza and smiling at a table:

COMPLIMENTARY LUNCH -
Cremation Preplanning Seminar
MARY'S PIZZA SHACK
3084 Marlow Rd • Santa Rosa, CA 95403
SESSION 1
SESSION 2
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9
LUNCH • 11:30 AM
LUNCH • 11:30 AM
Seats are limited.
smart cremation
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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 9h
Noelle Kocot, “I Am Like a Desert Owl, an Owl Among the Ruins”
I Am Like a Desert Owl, an Owl Among the Ruins
The alpha You. The omega You.
My grandmother's ghost, its girlish snafu
Basking in the waters of urgency.
But I want the coolness of snow.
I want pairs of hands that speak to me cleanly, Sutras to resuscitate what reigns
Over warped celluloid and heirlooms I can't touch.
There are no family photographs.
Once I was ordinary.
I rattled around with arms, with legs, With a damp remembering that served me well.
Then, a little sleep, a little slumber,
A little folding of the hands to rest.
I asked myself, don't you just love it?
And then, why don't you just love it?
And then, from what grace have I fallen?
As I Sisyphus with his mtue rock
Unsettling the topsoil, dissolved now
Into brandied battle shouts and pages that breathe like people?
There are hazards here, more so than before The Furies struck and scarved the white night sifting
The bright waterlights blinking And grieving over a mash of ice.
Like them, I wanted only to die, moon-dark, blessed,
Poised beneath the driest arrows of my suffering, Far from the flocks of burning, singing gulls, Face to face with the God of my childhood.
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Charismatic Frontman @westerberghs89.bsky.social · 10h
Free Title: Extreme Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 10h
Vegetarians have emerged as major opponents of eating meat
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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 10h
Sen. John Kennedy holding a poster card that says 

Joe Flacco is an elite quarterback.

With a picture of Joe Flacco
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 12h
Peanuts is still on this Title IX kick, and it's getting weirder, in case you were wondering
First panel of a Peanuts strip. Peppermint Patty is turned around in her desk at school, saying to Marcie, who is sitting behind her, "If you don't help me work for women in sports, Marcie, I'll never introduce you to Billie Jean King!"
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freecialis @freecialis.bsky.social · 12h
me listening to Bob Dylan “Tangled Up in Blue”: pretty good but how about instead of being a poetic metaphor for the twists and turns of life this was about my difficulties in sending attachments that are over the Outlook file size limit
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 29/09/2026
Here's a $20 million order, paid for by CBP's Office of Public Affairs, awarded to LMD Agency for a national media campaign starting on Sept. 20. The first pro-Trump ad aired on Sept. 23. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...
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70B06C26F00001137
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(11 months remain)
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Awarding Agency
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Recipient
LMD AGENCY, INC.
5950 SYMPHONY WOODS RD STE 500
COLUMBIA, MD 21044-3592
UNITED STATES
Congressional District: MD-03
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CONT_IDV_70Z02323ACGRC0001_7008
Dates
Today
Start Date
Sep 20, 2026
Current End Date
Sep 19, 2027
Potential End Date
Sep 19, 2027
$ Award Amounts
$20.0 Million
Current Award Amount
$20.0 Million
Obligated Amount
$20.0 Million
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Outlayed Amount
$0.00
Obligated Amount
$20,000,000.00
Current Award Amount
$20,000,000.00
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54 : Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
5418: Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services
541810: Advertising Agencies
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R: SUPPORT SVCS (PROF, ADMIN, MGMT)
R7: MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SERVICES
R701: SUPPORT- MANAGEMENT: ADVERTISING
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12h
up next eric schmitt is going to confront billionaire bruce wayne and make him admit that he is secretly superman
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h
Also their position is that it is not just ok but *constitutionally required* that the president have the authority to rig DoJ if he wants. bsky.app/profile/dave...
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Having one of those days today.
In the Park
 
In the park,
the tall trees are waving
in the morning breeze.
 
I wave back
only to realize they are waving
at the person behind me.


Brian Bilston
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Tim Waits @ironweed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Along The River Of Men
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John Lurie & Tom Waits - River Of Men
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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s cap’n Zevon, the fishin’ musician
Warren Zevon holding a fishing rod by a lake
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Surlysimon @surlysimon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’d like to see trump doing more of this sort of thing like Mussolini
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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 05/09/2023
The most important thing to remember about Somerville social media is that most of Somerville is not on Somerville social media.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith explains that the phone records for some members of Congress "corroborated evidence that we had that the president, President Donald Trump and his co-conspirators were seeking to exploit the violence on January 6th in furtherance of their criminal scheme." www.youtube.com/live/zNc5VMP...
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LIVE: Jack Smith appears before Senate Judiciary Committee
YouTube video by Associated Press
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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh, Frank
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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here’s one of the precedents for GOP’s bullying, bad-faith Calvinball: they “debate” and govern in the same shameless, finger-in-the-eye, “heads-I-win/tails-you-lose” spirit as literacy tests. jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/question/201...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I dropped off a couple of cans this morning and found the pantry nearly empty. I'm going to try to swing by more regularly.
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Only In Boston @onlyinbos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Downtown Boston is gridlocked right now because someone decided to leave their car double parked... 🙃 📹: @vanessageauxinue_
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
from The Shining by Dorothea Lasky
RED AIRPLANE
I am surrounded by light
In the middle of the morning
We are going somewhere
Back to the West
I had only known what palm trees
Looked like and now here I am again
There is snow but it's not cold
In fact I am so warm in this place
The red velvet interior
Making a home of me
I have almost gotten this far before
Now I look again at the time
We will land in no way ever
Everything is stuck here
I could write a letter or worse yet
I could keep looking off into the distance
No one knows my name in the land of ecstasy
It's spring again and no one knows my name still
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That's our Donald!
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Homer when they're lowering Frank Grimy Grimes into his grave
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 28/09/2026
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has, once again, infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress.
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Trump administration revokes $810M approved by Congress for refugee aid and more
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has, once again, infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress.
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 28/09/2026
I listened to the first verse and chorus of "Choosin' Texas" and now I think maybe all the people saying they've not heard it just actually have no memory of doing so because it has absolutely no memorable qualities whatsoever.
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Marc Hirsh @spacecitymarc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Just a stacked series of Bluesky posts, beginning with Stop Calling Me Frank (@stopcalingmefrank) posting a photo of "Don Knotts with wife Loralee Czuchna (1979)" yesterday. The latter is a full-on smokeshow. That was quote-skeeted by Jordan Harper (@jordanharper.bsky.social) with a screenshot of a tweet from Back up now donald boat (@laserboat999) from Nov 14, 2021 that reads "nice 400lb squat bro she just let me hit cuz i'm goofy"
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Blame The Singularity @blamesingularity.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
From the old site, I miss old "Stop Calling Me Frank" because he was nice and funny as hell. And yes, folks to call me such things as "Serbian Justice" and "Instant Karma" mostly because my tolerance for bullshit is very low
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Real Gone @realgonerocks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There's a new Boston Round-Up, just gone live at Real Gone. Check in to stream new and recent tracks by Tad Overbaugh, Muck and the Mires, The Rupert Selection, Stop Calling Me Frank and more, while you read some of our opinions! www.realgonerocks.com/2026/09/real... #MusicSky
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Real Gone Presents: A Boston Round-Up, September 2026 | Real Gone
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Worbler @worbler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
now playing on uncertain.fm » Stop Calling Me Frank, "Good Enough"
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
who do they think is eating all those sad desk salads exactly
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Actual headline in today's WaPo.
Headline: At every turn, Trump's ideas for aiding US consumers run into resistance.
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They like Trump and want him to win
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Of course this is what Trump wants. Because Trump works for Putin.
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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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A Tesla in a parking lot. Its California license plate reads "DELEUZE"
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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026
Desiring machine
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𝕮𝖗𝖔𝖜 𝖔𝖋 𝕮𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 @discrowpanik.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Meet me at the bugfuck cafe
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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“You will be haunted by three spirits . . .”
Dave Grohl, Krist Bassguitar, and Pat Smear on stage at the VMAs
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Patricia @powermacuser1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Right-wing tech billionaire Peter Thiel on supporting Trump: “You’ve got an admin staffed by not very smart, but very loyal people. And so, there are all sorts of ways it can be criticized… There are a lot of things I got wrong. He was crazier than I thought. More dangerous than I thought.”
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seven possums in an AFI hoodie @volare.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Okay I recognize the man in front with the cameras but I can’t get my brain to cough up his name or where I knew him from. Anyone? #Boston #JesseJackson
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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
People say our best days are behind us, but I say America is at the beginning of a new golden age.
Liquid Death/Mr Beast peanut butter cup-flavored seltzer collab
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Stop Calling Me Frank @stopcallingmefrank.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jessie Jackson speaking at Boston’s Franklin Park during the Third World Walk for Liberation, 10/11/1971 Photograph: Bearley Collection, Boston Public Library
Jesse Jackson speaking to a group in a park
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So is he just going to keep running ads until election day and then courts rule they are illegal sometime in December?
Frame from another illegal Trump ad featuring his constipated face in black and white and captioned Paid for by the US Government.
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 27/09/2026
No signs that this was a band on the verge of splitting up at all. The "Robin" at the end of every line is merely implied, rather than actually sung. "You think that you can stand and lie? (Robin) It makes me laugh, you've got no friends (Robin)" etc
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You'll Never See My Face Again
YouTube video by Bee Gees - Topic
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 27/09/2026
I'd forgotten just how Dukes of Stratosphear Maurice Gibb's "Suddenly" is. Just needs a varispeeded Laughing Gnome vocal at points. "How can you tell humans are real/How can you tell you like what you feel?"
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Suddenly
YouTube video by Bee Gees - Topic
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Marc Fagel @marcfagel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"When you're around me, I'm somebody else..."
youtu.be
Teenage FBI
YouTube video by Guided By Voices - Topic
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie
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