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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I’m reviewing some old photos tonight and found this back when I was transcribing my grandfather’s journal about his adventures in the Yukon and Northwest Territories circa 1898. A television pilot followed, a damn good one which took me three years total from start to finish.

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

This is real. P.S. I love the Scots.

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Gavin Newsome is just the best…

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

This seems apropos to the times.

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

With no sense of irony I will say “Amen” to that.

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

This album was recorded in 1972 and it’s still considered one of the finest recordings of this particular classical work. I believe it was my Christmas present as an 18-year-old young man in early 1973. #Thorens #turntables #vinyl #MichaelTilsonThomas

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Tesla stock is down 14% and falling. Blessed be the fruit!

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I’m totally on board with this. Anybody else?

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

At least he’s getting a free trip home.

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

If only we could all be this compassionate.

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

A little Harry Nilsson gracing the old Thorens TD-124 on a Tuesday evening.

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Good night, MAGA truly is losing it’s shit.

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It’s almost as if it was written especially for him.

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

We’re now referencing the Iraq War. I love it.

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

If it drops nearly 4000 points in two days does that get you a beheading?

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

This lunatic lives in an alternate universe.

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Some time out from our oligarchic republic for a little jazz piano by the great Bill Evans.

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

It’s beginning to look a lot like 1930s Germany. And @timothysnyder.bsky.social is one of my favorite historians and media figures.

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Spending Monday afternoon with a classic. This record was recorded in 1959 and sounds brilliant. The instruments sound like they’re in the room with you and the pressing on this reissue is exquisite. Dead quiet with no clicks or pops, you’d swear you were listening to a CD.

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Boycott Tesla. Not just domestically, but internationally. Elon Musk is trying to destabilize other European democracies as well as the U.S. Hit him where it hurts.

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Boycott Tesla. Not just domestically, but internationally. Elon Musk is trying to destabilize other European democracies as well as the U.S. Hit him where it hurts.

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Great essay, enjoyed it thoroughly. It’s fun watching someone younger go through the turntable experience. My current turntable is based on what I lusted for in my late teens. I now own an Empire turntable because it was what I wanted way back in 1972. Back then I settled for the entry level Dual.

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Tesla stock price is crashing. Good.

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

A hot bath while the Bill Evans Trio finishes off a lazy Sunday afternoon. #billevanstrio #jazzpiano #vinyl #empireturntables

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

He is a bottomless pit of stupidity.

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

It’s hard to believe that this brilliant recording is 65 years old. This was my vibe tonight. #vinylcommunity #records #jazz #empireturntables

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Great sentiment. I’m already there I think.

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I keep coming back to this, and why not? Fifty years ago Isao Tomita created an amazing reimagining of Debussy that still holds up. It pulsates and invades your senses with a shimmering quality that charms and delights. This is my benchmark for Debussy. #empireturntable #vinylrecords

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

“Librarians are generals in the war on ignorance”. George Needham

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Unbelievable. The NFL is bending the knee in a very big way. Brown-nosing, bootlicking sycophants. I hope there’s enough of an outcry that they put it back and add “Fuck Trump”.

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This is where we are right now. Decapitate academics, stop scientists from sharing information, destroy public education. This is what religious fanatics do when given the reigns of power. Knowledge, or anything that undermines their religious propaganda must be destroyed. Welcome to Project 2025.

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Thom Pintello @thompintello.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Bible quotes are all he’s got? Is that his plan to oppose project 2025? He needs to go on the House floor and encourage everyone to delete Twitter, cancel the Washington Post subscriptions, and to hit the oligarchs where it hurts. He’s not the person to lead the resistance. This is now obvious.

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