Michael Yacavone
@notio.bsky.social
Psychoacoustics, psychoanalysis, photography, fiction, art, music. (Currently: New Hampshire USA)
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read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000
February 1, 2026 at 8:28 PM
read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000
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X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
January 30, 2026 at 8:14 PM
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
Been a minute since I registered a domain for a speculative project, but today was the day.
January 20, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Been a minute since I registered a domain for a speculative project, but today was the day.
Enjoyed the historical perspective here. www.equator.org/articles/hom...
Homeland Empire • EQUATOR
From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is creating a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity
www.equator.org
January 19, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Enjoyed the historical perspective here. www.equator.org/articles/hom...
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California introduces bill to legalize plug-in balcony solar www.pv-magazine.com/2026/01/09/c... - great news! In Germany about 1 GW of balcony PV has been installed in the meantime.
California introduces bill to legalize plug-in balcony solar
A new bill in California is designed to allow small plug-in solar systems to connect directly to household outlets by reclassifying them as appliances, removing utility interconnection and permitting ...
www.pv-magazine.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:35 PM
California introduces bill to legalize plug-in balcony solar www.pv-magazine.com/2026/01/09/c... - great news! In Germany about 1 GW of balcony PV has been installed in the meantime.
Loved this essay. blgtylr.substack.com/p/american-s...
american symbolism
an insane year (already)
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January 14, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Loved this essay. blgtylr.substack.com/p/american-s...
In case you’ve forgotten it exists…. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLV-...
Bob Weir ISOLATED GUITAR - Grateful Dead 8/19/89 Greek Theater, Berkeley, CA
YouTube video by cleantones
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January 13, 2026 at 7:12 PM
In case you’ve forgotten it exists…. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLV-...
@bradleeonbass.bsky.social Do you have any reccos for a good very basic music theory book for beginner piano? Want to get something for my wife learning Taylor Swift songs knowing nothing. All the ones I have are too much. Very hard to sort through search results lol.
January 10, 2026 at 3:57 PM
@bradleeonbass.bsky.social Do you have any reccos for a good very basic music theory book for beginner piano? Want to get something for my wife learning Taylor Swift songs knowing nothing. All the ones I have are too much. Very hard to sort through search results lol.
Jimmy Page with $3M in vintage guitars NEXT TO AN OPEN FIREPLACE!! Not the greatest humidity control situation.
January 10, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Jimmy Page with $3M in vintage guitars NEXT TO AN OPEN FIREPLACE!! Not the greatest humidity control situation.
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This year is going to be like the final boss for optimists
January 9, 2026 at 2:32 PM
This year is going to be like the final boss for optimists
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Yes. It is a maddening aspect of human psychology. System justification theory attempts to explain this, and I think does a good job. (If you have a frustration with people, I have a paper. sorry. It's my toxic trait.)
Anyone interested in system change should read:
as.nyu.edu/content/dam/...
Anyone interested in system change should read:
as.nyu.edu/content/dam/...
January 8, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Yes. It is a maddening aspect of human psychology. System justification theory attempts to explain this, and I think does a good job. (If you have a frustration with people, I have a paper. sorry. It's my toxic trait.)
Anyone interested in system change should read:
as.nyu.edu/content/dam/...
Anyone interested in system change should read:
as.nyu.edu/content/dam/...
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Here's all 8 pages of CO2 Newsletter Vol 1 no 1 (Oct 1979)
Geologist William N. Barbat published the Newsletter for 3 years (18 issues). They are incredible - detailed, precise and, ultimately, heart-breaking because they reveal how much was known, how many warnings were ignored.
1/8
Geologist William N. Barbat published the Newsletter for 3 years (18 issues). They are incredible - detailed, precise and, ultimately, heart-breaking because they reveal how much was known, how many warnings were ignored.
1/8
January 6, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Here's all 8 pages of CO2 Newsletter Vol 1 no 1 (Oct 1979)
Geologist William N. Barbat published the Newsletter for 3 years (18 issues). They are incredible - detailed, precise and, ultimately, heart-breaking because they reveal how much was known, how many warnings were ignored.
1/8
Geologist William N. Barbat published the Newsletter for 3 years (18 issues). They are incredible - detailed, precise and, ultimately, heart-breaking because they reveal how much was known, how many warnings were ignored.
1/8
Wook Flu has nothing to do with the glow stick worm lol. Viruses are airborn. Wearing a mask solves it, most people don’t want to. Choices, consequences.
January 5, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Wook Flu has nothing to do with the glow stick worm lol. Viruses are airborn. Wearing a mask solves it, most people don’t want to. Choices, consequences.
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January 5, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Aging Gratefully, by Bill Lemke and @dgans.bsky.social is absolutely amazing. Cannot recommend it highly enough for OG Deadheads, and people who wished they'd been on that bus. The photographic quality is phenomenal, and the text stories are exceptionally heartfelt. billlemke.com/deadheads-bo...
Aging Gratefully: Deadheads Then and Now
This beautiful hard cover, coffee table book is filled with black and white portraits of touring Deadheads taken between 1988 and 1991, as well as many who were found and re-photograph between 2015 an...
billlemke.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Aging Gratefully, by Bill Lemke and @dgans.bsky.social is absolutely amazing. Cannot recommend it highly enough for OG Deadheads, and people who wished they'd been on that bus. The photographic quality is phenomenal, and the text stories are exceptionally heartfelt. billlemke.com/deadheads-bo...
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“Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.” - Mark Twain
January 1, 2026 at 4:14 PM
“Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.” - Mark Twain
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all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...
The year politics became brainrot
You don’t bring a persuasive argument to a gunfight.
www.theverge.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...
Co-signed. “Accepting what is” means sit in the seat you got, or at least be the best concert citizen ever if you’re going to be a nomad.
Idk what people don’t understand but if you try to squeeze into my row and you’re ruining everyone’s experience around me, I *will* tell you to leave and go sit in your own seat bc that is how ticketing works and also I have zero patience for you.
December 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Co-signed. “Accepting what is” means sit in the seat you got, or at least be the best concert citizen ever if you’re going to be a nomad.
This could be America, but Big Oil says no.
When it saves you money and improves your life to put solar on your roof. You put solar on your roof (South Africa edition).
"Today, solar and battery systems are deployed across a variety of businesses — auto factories and wineries, gold mines and shopping malls. "
"Today, solar and battery systems are deployed across a variety of businesses — auto factories and wineries, gold mines and shopping malls. "
Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa
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December 31, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This could be America, but Big Oil says no.
WHAT in the absolute FUCK is this new iOS keyboard?? This is Apple’s “Translate” app.
December 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
WHAT in the absolute FUCK is this new iOS keyboard?? This is Apple’s “Translate” app.
Not dunking on the poster — who I don’t know but seems lovely! — but I solved this problem by bringing a baggie of these hearing protectors on every flight. Kid starts screaming, stand up and hand them out all around the kid. Everyone overjoyed. www.amazon.com/Moldex-6604-...
December 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Not dunking on the poster — who I don’t know but seems lovely! — but I solved this problem by bringing a baggie of these hearing protectors on every flight. Kid starts screaming, stand up and hand them out all around the kid. Everyone overjoyed. www.amazon.com/Moldex-6604-...
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i've come around to the utility of the livenation-owned setlist.fm, but i still way prefer a loving fan-made setlist/chronology page. i wrote a bit about why & made a list of a few dozen favorites that i return to often (or just thought were swell). what did i miss? jessejarnow.com/2025/12/a-pe...
December 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
i've come around to the utility of the livenation-owned setlist.fm, but i still way prefer a loving fan-made setlist/chronology page. i wrote a bit about why & made a list of a few dozen favorites that i return to often (or just thought were swell). what did i miss? jessejarnow.com/2025/12/a-pe...
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the problem with dedicating campaign funds toward charitable endeavors is what if you lose and then all you’ve done is helped people in need in your community?
December 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
the problem with dedicating campaign funds toward charitable endeavors is what if you lose and then all you’ve done is helped people in need in your community?
Wild quality on these new Dylan soundboards from November. Not perfect, but fantastic listening. www.flaggingdown.com/p/the-glasgo... (FLAC downloads provided at the bottom of the piece.)
The Glasgow Soundboards
The first soundboard tapes of the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour!
www.flaggingdown.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Wild quality on these new Dylan soundboards from November. Not perfect, but fantastic listening. www.flaggingdown.com/p/the-glasgo... (FLAC downloads provided at the bottom of the piece.)