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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It just isn’t a Peaches show unless there is vagina headgear. This was absolutely a Peaches show 🍑🖤

Peaches standing center stage on a platform looking glorious, flanked by two dancers wearing vagina masks/hats

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Peaches, in the middle of an all-time great show

The performer Peaches, on top of a platform, wearing a "trans rights now" onesie and sneakers with six-inch high bubble soles. One of her dancers is barely visible in the bottom left corner

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Photo is of the sky seen through the open roof at a concert in Baltimore last night.

Grey night sky opposed to grey building with black accents, framed by a warmly glowing roof

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Axl Maxl the Ottobear, c.7/15/2010?–8/11/2026. He was loved and lovely and will be missed.

A smiling Australian shepherd in a garden

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

New EP out today: videoout.bandcamp.com/album/two-of...

Album cover of "Two of Wands" by Video Out. Art is Florentine card from a Minchiate card deck depicting the two of wands.

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Today is Bandcamp Friday. You might be interested in this: videoout.bandcamp.com/album/dark-m...

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Dark Matter, by Video Out

2 track album

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Medusa but her hair is an anaconda

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. She wears a grey chiton and stubbornly strides to the left, dragging the heavy snake, which trails sullenly along behind

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. It is completely coiled around her, leaving only her angry yellow eyes visible, and a single hand lifted to flip off the world

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. She wears a grey towel and is scrubbing the snake. A bar of soap sits in a small puddle off to the left

Medusa with a single anaconda for hair. She sits, drumming her fingers impatiently, while in the background the anaconda digests some large prey

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Hey @500songspodcast.bsky.social. I love your podcast and am up to Ep 165. Just a heads-up that Steve Reich pronounces his last name Reish, not Reik.... (I know you care deeply about getting everything right, including pronunciation.)

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Some of my favorite books that I read in the first half of 2026 (in order of my encountering them), part 1 of ... Daniel Kehlmann, Tyll (& The Director) Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone Olivia Laing, The Silver Book @tkingfisher.com Nettle and Bone @pennyvixen.bsky.social The Grief of Stones

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

New EP just dropped: videoout.bandcamp.com/album/dark-m...

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Dark Matter, by Video Out

2 track album

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Catching up on @charliejane.bsky.social's back catalog and, as a professional musician/music professor, must say that her description of a post-apocalyptic madrigal fad in All the Birds in the Sky was some of my favorite writing about music ever. Made me remember the Gregorian chant fad in the 90s

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Just finished the stunningly beautiful "Sour Cherry" by @natalia-theodoridou.com. I cannot possibly recommend this book more highly and I can't wait to see what he does to follow up this debut.

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Bad news: One last illness of the semester. Good news: If I get this grading done before I heal, I can record that Bob Dylan/Barry White/Tuvan Throat Singing mashup

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Here's a wee video from the first song played at Helectron's first performance (on Sunday):

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Helectrons is planning to helectrify tomorrow (Sunday), at Le Mondo. 3pm start (and we're on first). Our set will last about 25 minutes, as part of a show organized by the wonderful David Carlton Adams More info here: www.lemondo.org/.../music-ba....

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

ICYMI: Helectrons' show tonight is cancelled due to an illness.

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

If you're coming to Helectrons' debut performance next Friday at the Hargrove, the venue asks that you register at this Eventbrite link. Tix are still free www.eventbrite.com/e/helectrons...

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Helectrons, Sam Pluta, Sudario

Come see Helectrons, Sam Pluta, and Sudario.

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I read 135 books in 2025 (gave up all of my streaming services and didn't travel at all). Most of them were fantastic. In the comments below, I'll list my 10 favorite and then some others that nearly made that top 10, in the order in which I read them. Here goes:

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

@nin.com was as spectacular as ever last night in Baltimore, both musically and visually.

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Great article by Paula Maust. Come for the insights. Stay for the best contextualization of older currency ever "A single subscription ticket ... cost two guineas, which at the time equaled the cost of approximately 106 chickens or 12 barrels of beer." www.earlymusicamerica.org/emag-feature...

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Telling Her Story » Early Music America

As we discover more about historical women musicians and share their stories with a 21st-century audience, writes keyboardist and theorist Paula Maust, we must create a narrative that does not put the...

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Today is Axl's 8th Adopteversary. He's nearly 15 years old and is learning new tricks. This is the physical therapy regimen that he does every night. He believes that after all this time he has trained me to give him after dinner treats. He thinks I'm starting to get with the program. Finally

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The other night, Axl asked to borrow my hat. He looked dapper a.f.

Australian sheepdog staring longingly at the camera while wearing a hiking hat.

Australian sheepdog with head entirely engulfed in a hiking hat.

Australian sheepdog telling a great joke (in his opinion) while wearing a hiking hat.

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I have a new band, Helectrons. (Pic is of our logo, a devil's throne with an H embedded into it within atomic ovals, with the word "helectrons" surrounding it in an evil font.)

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Just finished The Feast Makers by @sapphomancer.bsky.social. Totally recommend this series! Start with the Scapegracers. Writing is utterly delightful. Story gets more and more beautiful as it goes along.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Valentine's Day, especially to anyone who might identify with one of the letters in LGBTQ, particularly the day after someone Trumpy stripped the letter T and then the letter Q from the National Park Service website for Stonewall in New York City.

Image of seven of my books with Haymarket, Hope in the Dark (black), Whose Story Is This (violet), Men Explain Things to Me (blue), Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, coedited with Thelma Young Lutunatabua and including 20 amazing writers from around the world (green), No Straight Road Takes You There (yellow), The Mother of All Questions (orange), and Call Them By Their True Names (red).

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I ended up reading 10 books in January. Here are some highlights:

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

From a quiz that I gave my students: A Classical era movement with compound form: a) is in 6/8 or 12/8 meter; b) has subsections in addition to sections; c) has additional sections appended to the beginning or end; or d) is shaped like a prison or a school.

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Vid @vid-smooke.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Hello, bluesky folx. This is my doggo, Axl, who is now 14. Pic was taken a few months ago when Johns Hopkins did cognition experiments with him that mainly involved giving him treats. #dogsofbluesky

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