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Rebecca Colesworthy

@rcolesworthy.bsky.social

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM

Pete Larsen

@thatpetelarsen.bsky.social

Pick your fave. Or both!!

September 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM

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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

I think that since the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender men, we should take their guns first.

September 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM

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Kumail Nanjiani

@kumail.bsky.social

You know that Twilight Zone episode where the kid has amazing psychic powers and can make people disappear with his mind and the entire town is hostage to him and has to cater to his every whim? That’s us right now.

May 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM

Pete Larsen

@thatpetelarsen.bsky.social

The results of a rather serious system update since last fall. New vpi TT, Arcam CD5, and the Lumin P1 Mini. I am so thrilled with all of them!!
#audiophile
#vinyl
#nowplaying
#vpi
#lumin
#nowspinning

April 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM

Pete Larsen

@thatpetelarsen.bsky.social

The adventure continues. California Saga. I love this album!! vpi is rock steady and dead quiet.
#nowplaying
#nowspinning
#thebeachboys
#vinyl
#audiophile

March 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM

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Eric Swalwell

@ericswalwell.bsky.social

People keep asking me if Dems are divided between left and center of party. Nope. We are divided over old and new ways of fighting. That 20th Century playbook ain’t stopping a dictator.

March 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM

Pete Larsen

@thatpetelarsen.bsky.social

New turntable day! The vpi Prime is set up and dialed in. I’m thrilled. Dynamic, black silent background, pace. Very musical!!
#Nowplaying
#vpi
#Nowspinning
#Vinyl
#Records
#Nowlistening
#audiophile

March 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM

Pete Larsen

@thatpetelarsen.bsky.social

For my literally TENS of followers, especially those in the vinyl community, I’m happy to say a turntable upgrade will arrive tomorrow. I’ve wanted a vpi for so long, and now the dream comes true!
#Nowplaying
#Nowspinning
#Vinyl
#Records
#Nowlistening
#classicalmusic
#turntable
#audiophile

March 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM

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Mark Hamill

@markhamillofficial.bsky.social

His track record speaks for itself. While we continue to resist, we should take comfort in that he is deeply incompetent, not very bright & his policies are hurting even his most devoted supporters. Let's not get in the way of his inevitable self-destruction.

March 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM

Pete Larsen

@thatpetelarsen.bsky.social

We could have (SHOULD HAVE ) had Kamala right now

February 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM

Pete Larsen

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February 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM

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Patton Oswalt

@pattonoswalt.bsky.social

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 28

GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.

ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

February 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM

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Mrs. Betty Bowers

@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

We could have had Kamala Harris. Instead, we have the most immature, petulant, stupid, needy, incompetent dipshit to ever enter American politics.

What a tragically stupid country we are.

February 4, 2025 at 6:17 AM

Pete Larsen

@thatpetelarsen.bsky.social

Donald Fagen’s love letter to 1961. From the birth of the digital age-the vinyl playback seems to smooth out the harsh edges
#Nowplaying
#donaldfagen
#Nowspinning
#Vinyl
#Records
#Nowlistening
#audiophile

January 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve

January 31, 2025 at 3:15 AM

Pete Larsen

@thatpetelarsen.bsky.social

I’m with Papa Haydn here, although I will (radically) include works even to the present day!

The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · Jan 30

Since DT's inauguration, I've preserved my sanity by paying minimal (but not no) attention to the news, and mainlining 18th-century symphonies into my ears instead. So far it's working brilliantly, not just because I'll have a #ContemporariesOfHaydn series ready by the time #A-Haydn-A-Day is done.