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Cyclops
@cyclopsofmars.bsky.social
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Fugitive from academia. Currently plying the Pacific.
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Now spinning, The Clash, London Calling. 2013 reissue. A good pressing, i think, though never an audiophile record. But what a way to usher in the 1980s. Now, these guys would've been a great show.
#vinylsky
#musicsky
#vinylcommunity
A copy of the album cover atop a speaker. A turntable sits to the left and a rack of records stands to the right.
February 17, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Now spinning Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mother's Milk. 1st pressing, direct metal master from Europe in near mint. A great find!
#vinylsky
#musicsky
##vinylcommunity
A copy of the album atop a speaker. A turntable sits to the left and a rack of records stands to the right.
February 16, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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Cloudy skies over the back deck cleared off equipment and cargo. Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.
#blueskyartshow
#wood
#photography
#westcoastkin
#maritime
The wooden deck of an offshore supply vessel under cloudy skies.
February 14, 2026 at 9:05 PM
cyclopsofmars.bsky.social
#blueskyartshow theme for today in #wood. Drift wood log on the shore of Puget Sound in Washington.
#photography
#westcoastkin
A drift wood tree on a beach.
February 14, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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Now spinning Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Inner Mounting Flame. This shit is so heavy. Makes me think of King Crimson, Red, which came out 3 years later.
#musicsky
#vinylsky
#vinylcommunity
The album cover atop a speaker.
February 10, 2026 at 3:03 AM
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BOOM!! Seahawks!
February 9, 2026 at 2:29 AM
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Now spinning, Jimi Hendrix, Electric Ladyland for the Seahawks in Super Bowl LX! Go Hawks!!
#vinylcommunity
#musicsky
#vinylsky
#superbowlLX
A copy of the album cover atop a speaker. A turntable sits to the left and a rack of records stands to the right.
February 8, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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Now spinning Billy Joel's Glass Houses. I loved this album cover as a kid, always intrigued by the lives implied here.
#Billyjoel
#vinylsky
#musicsky
#vinylcommunity
A copy of the album cover atop a speaker. A turntable sits to the left and a rack of records stands to the right.
February 8, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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joshchafetz.bsky.social
The existence of these implies the existence of Phenomen-O’s
February 8, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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For the theme of #sunlight in this week's #blueskyartshow, here is a sunset along the Washington coast.
#photography
#westcoastkin
#pacificocean
The silhouette of a woman standing against a sunset over looking the Pacific ocean.
February 7, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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Now spinning Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane. A reissue from 2013 of this pivotal work. I can only imagine what it must've been like to hear this stuff live at The Five Spot Café in 1957.
#vinylcommunity
#musicsky
#jazz
#vinylsky
A copy of the album cover atop a speaker. A turntable sits to the left and a rack of records stands to the right.
February 5, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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Now spinning Lambrini Girls, Who Let the Dogs Out. My wife seems to be into punk rock these days. A fine spin!
#vinylsky
#musicsky
#vinylcommunity
#cuntology101
A copy of the album cover atop a speaker. A turntable sits to the left and a rack of records stands to the right.
February 3, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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Now spinning David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. A 2012 remaster of this classic. I think the pressing is pretty good. Never saw Bowie. That must have been one hell of a show.
#vinylcommunity
#musicsky
#vinylsky
#glamrock
A copy of the album cover atop a speaker. A turntable stands to the left and a rack of records sits to the right.
January 30, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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Out in the Fernglade, spinning Nirvana, Nevermind! Go #seahawks!
#vinylcommunity
#musicsky
#vinylsky
#nowspinning
#nfc
A copy of the album atop a speaker. A turntable sits to the left and a basket of records sits to the right.
January 25, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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Greenland from 35,000 feet. A land that belongs to the people who live there. I hope to see it closer someday.
#blueskyartshow #cold
#Photography
Snow covered peaks from the window of an airplane at 35,000 feet.
January 24, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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Now spinning Leonard Cohen, I'm Your Man, from '88. I first heard of him around that time when I headed off to college. Better late than never! "You loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win."
#vinylcommunity
#musicsky
#vinylsky
#80s
#cocktails
A martini sits before the album cover atop a speaker. A turntable sits to the left and a rack of records stands to the right.
January 23, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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Now spinning Sleep's Holy Mountain. Foundational stoner doom! Extra heavy metal! Nothing like a Thursday.
#vinylcommunity
#vinylsky
#musicsky
#stoner
A beer sits before the album atop a speaker. A record player to the left plays a white record. A rack of albums sits to the right.
January 23, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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Now spinning John Prine's debut. An incredible, must have album. "We blew up our TV/ Threw away our paper/
Went to the country/
Built us a home."
#musicsky
#vinylsky
#vinylcommunity
#johnprine
A copy of the album atop a speaker. A turntable sits to the left and a rack of records stands to the right.
January 22, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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Mississippi fiddle and guitar duo the Nations Brothers (Shelton on fiddle, and Marshall on guitar) recorded 10 songs for ARC in Jackson, MS in October 1935. Session data now online.

adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/ma...
January 21, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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Now spinning this 1st pressing of Boston's debut. The cover is worn, but is graced by these magnificent hype stickers and the original K-Mart price of $4.67! I remain puzzled by the bar code on the shrink. But that might've been added by a later reseller.
#vinylcommunity
#vinylsky
#musicsky
A copy of the album atop a speaker. A turntable sits to the left and a rack of records stands to the right.
January 20, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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Now spinning an early 1st-ish (late 78/early 79) pressing of Van Halen's debut. I grew up listening to this on cassette and I gotta say, this first run vinyl is the way to go.
#vinylsky
#musicsky
#vanhalen
#vinylcommunity
A copy of the album atop a speaker. A turntable sits to the left and a rack of records stands to the right.
January 18, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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#nowspinning a 1st pressibg of Captain Beyond's debut. A pristine copy of this great prog/space (or whatever) rock album from '72 formed from members of Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly, and Johnny Winter. Found at Beat Box Records in San Diego. A great selection there!
#vinylsky
#musicsky
A copy of the album cover atop a speaker. A turntable sits to the left and a rack of records stands to the right.
January 14, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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Home from the boat and spinning Bright Eye's I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning. A great album from 2005. I think of that opening track every time I fly home.
#nowspinning
#vinylsky
#musicsky
A copy of the album atop a speaker. A turntable stands to the left and a rack of records sits to the right.
January 12, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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Christmas on the boat. Far from home. #holiday. #blueskyartshow.
#photography
A small Christmas tree sits atop a table covered with a white sheet. A string of Christmas lights stretches across a back wall above a vinyl couch.
December 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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alxluck.bsky.social
Right, I am off work (yes some of us "soldiered" on during Christmas), so got some time to put down coherent thoughts on a range of events. First of all, the Trumpian battleship. Which as part of Trump's "Golden Fleet" even got its (her) own website. 🧵
www.goldenfleet.navy.mil
December 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM