Aaron Read
@aaronread1.bsky.social
Co-owner, Jack of All Trades, and Intrepid Engineer of L&R Broadcast Services...based in Providence RI. Possessor of many opinions about radio, esp public radio. www.landrbs.com
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Aaron Read
@aaronread1.bsky.social
· Nov 14
L & R Broadcast Services
Welcome to The Engineer's Corner
www.LandRbs.com
Wow, I suddenly picked up a bunch of followers! Thank you! :) Uhh, well, I currently work at The Public's Radio (WNPN 89.3FM) but I'm leaving to pursue my broadcast engineering consulting firm (www.LandRbs.com) full-time in February 2025.
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Btw we already had someone to do 11.7% of work tasks, they were called "a secretary" and the suits decided it was cheaper to make everyone do their own emails and schedules.
But you can add up any number of secretaries and still not get one programmer, or architect, or nurse.
But you can add up any number of secretaries and still not get one programmer, or architect, or nurse.
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Btw we already had someone to do 11.7% of work tasks, they were called "a secretary" and the suits decided it was cheaper to make everyone do their own emails and schedules.
But you can add up any number of secretaries and still not get one programmer, or architect, or nurse.
But you can add up any number of secretaries and still not get one programmer, or architect, or nurse.
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So we all get to yell QUIET, PIGGY to all the cosplay ICE agents now, right?
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
So we all get to yell QUIET, PIGGY to all the cosplay ICE agents now, right?
I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret • Kansas Reflector
A handful of county-level officials who were involved in a small-town Kansas newspaper raid in 2023 will pay a cumulative $3 million to three journalists and a city councilor.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Breaking: Marion County agrees to pay out $3M for newspaper raid, express regret kansasreflector.com/2025/11/11/m...
I'm going to bet @jayrosen.bsky.social & @dankennedy.net are aware of this brilliantly damning essay...but just in case...
Thx to Celeste for sharing it, too. 👍
Thx to Celeste for sharing it, too. 👍
"Every email said more or less the same thing: Can you explain how reading certain things can turn a person into a socialist—and, possibly, a terrorist-sympathizing antisemite?"
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I'm going to bet @jayrosen.bsky.social & @dankennedy.net are aware of this brilliantly damning essay...but just in case...
Thx to Celeste for sharing it, too. 👍
Thx to Celeste for sharing it, too. 👍
I find this a bit trite but hard to deny the fundamental accuracy behind it. @dicknixon.bsky.social
Anyone who has experience in an abusive household, or who has worked with people in them, or has read a lot about them, will be familiar with a particular dynamic:
Dad is full of loud passions & intense moods, sweeping through like a thunderstorm, unpredictable, volatile, often violent. He is ...
Dad is full of loud passions & intense moods, sweeping through like a thunderstorm, unpredictable, volatile, often violent. He is ...
November 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I find this a bit trite but hard to deny the fundamental accuracy behind it. @dicknixon.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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ladies and gentlemen...we got him
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
All good things...
Dropping off the talented, brilliant and lovely Ann Alquist at TF Green for her flight back to Fargo after a few days in RI. I talk to her on the phone two or three times a week but DAMN it's nice to see your friends in person. 💖
Dropping off the talented, brilliant and lovely Ann Alquist at TF Green for her flight back to Fargo after a few days in RI. I talk to her on the phone two or three times a week but DAMN it's nice to see your friends in person. 💖
October 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
All good things...
Dropping off the talented, brilliant and lovely Ann Alquist at TF Green for her flight back to Fargo after a few days in RI. I talk to her on the phone two or three times a week but DAMN it's nice to see your friends in person. 💖
Dropping off the talented, brilliant and lovely Ann Alquist at TF Green for her flight back to Fargo after a few days in RI. I talk to her on the phone two or three times a week but DAMN it's nice to see your friends in person. 💖
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Any idea what's up @vineyardgazette.bsky.social? This was the Monday 6:15pm from VH to WH. They stayed with us all the way to the dock. No obvious police presence on the ferry itself. Couldn't tell if they were actual police or USCG.
@wychstreet.bsky.social my ferry home from the Vineyard has a three-boat police escort. 😳 Send lawyers, guns and money!
October 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Any idea what's up @vineyardgazette.bsky.social? This was the Monday 6:15pm from VH to WH. They stayed with us all the way to the dock. No obvious police presence on the ferry itself. Couldn't tell if they were actual police or USCG.
@wychstreet.bsky.social my ferry home from the Vineyard has a three-boat police escort. 😳 Send lawyers, guns and money!
October 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
@wychstreet.bsky.social my ferry home from the Vineyard has a three-boat police escort. 😳 Send lawyers, guns and money!
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"Just becoming partisan is not a long-term strategy. Personally, as a journalist, I also find it an uninteresting strategy."
So much to say about this, but first let me tell you what it is. Thomas Evans, NPR's editor in chief, interviewed by Carolina Abbott Galvão in @columjournreview.bsky.social
So much to say about this, but first let me tell you what it is. Thomas Evans, NPR's editor in chief, interviewed by Carolina Abbott Galvão in @columjournreview.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"Just becoming partisan is not a long-term strategy. Personally, as a journalist, I also find it an uninteresting strategy."
So much to say about this, but first let me tell you what it is. Thomas Evans, NPR's editor in chief, interviewed by Carolina Abbott Galvão in @columjournreview.bsky.social
So much to say about this, but first let me tell you what it is. Thomas Evans, NPR's editor in chief, interviewed by Carolina Abbott Galvão in @columjournreview.bsky.social
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The corporate oligarchy enshittification continues apace.
Stop & Shop in RI is firing all its pro drivers and packers for grocery delivery (formerly Peapod), with trucks, refrigeration boxes, and dollies.
Pushing to Instacart, which forces gig workers to "personal shop" in personal cars.
Stop & Shop in RI is firing all its pro drivers and packers for grocery delivery (formerly Peapod), with trucks, refrigeration boxes, and dollies.
Pushing to Instacart, which forces gig workers to "personal shop" in personal cars.
October 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The corporate oligarchy enshittification continues apace.
Stop & Shop in RI is firing all its pro drivers and packers for grocery delivery (formerly Peapod), with trucks, refrigeration boxes, and dollies.
Pushing to Instacart, which forces gig workers to "personal shop" in personal cars.
Stop & Shop in RI is firing all its pro drivers and packers for grocery delivery (formerly Peapod), with trucks, refrigeration boxes, and dollies.
Pushing to Instacart, which forces gig workers to "personal shop" in personal cars.
Your Intrepid Engineer has a long history of being something of a packrat. And part of that is having a car full of, well, stuff. Mostly tools, but also just random parts and supplies that came in handy. When I started working for L&R full-time, I wanted to organize things better. Here's how I did!
L&R Mobile Engineering Setup
When you’re a contract engineer driving 60+ minutes to locations all over your region, it pays to keep a little bit of everything with you. But it really pays to have a way to keep it all org…
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September 4, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Your Intrepid Engineer has a long history of being something of a packrat. And part of that is having a car full of, well, stuff. Mostly tools, but also just random parts and supplies that came in handy. When I started working for L&R full-time, I wanted to organize things better. Here's how I did!
WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days?
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July 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
@mvyradio.bsky.social was anyone from the staff nearby when it happened? That must've been god-tier to watch in person! :)
Love moments like this. Public Enemy meets Mavis Staples ❤️
July 27, 2025 at 2:41 AM
@mvyradio.bsky.social was anyone from the staff nearby when it happened? That must've been god-tier to watch in person! :)
Same deal here in Watchemoket Square in East Providence.
July 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Same deal here in Watchemoket Square in East Providence.
@askamanager.org Re-reading this post, I own my own business, but in the last six months I've had people ask me what it would take to hire me at their company. In all cases, it would be to do the work I do for my own firm, just concentrated at their company to the exclusion of my firm. I always say
should I ignore job postings that don't list the salary?
A reader writes: I am currently looking for a new job because I am currently being taken advantage of … again (being given more and more work because I am skilled enough I handle it, but no pay increa...
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July 24, 2025 at 4:40 AM
@askamanager.org Re-reading this post, I own my own business, but in the last six months I've had people ask me what it would take to hire me at their company. In all cases, it would be to do the work I do for my own firm, just concentrated at their company to the exclusion of my firm. I always say
This is a real blow, both personally and professionally. Greg was not just a hell of an employee at WEOS & WHWS-LP (the first, and so far only, FT employee I've managed!) but a hell of a newsman, and a hell of a radio guy. And a hell of a friend, too. 😭
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FLX Local Media Mourns the Loss of Longtime Newsman Greg Cotterill - Finger Lakes Daily News
FLX Local Media is heartbroken to share the passing of our beloved colleague and veteran morning news anchor, Greg Cotterill. For decades, Greg was a […]
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July 24, 2025 at 3:14 AM
This is a real blow, both personally and professionally. Greg was not just a hell of an employee at WEOS & WHWS-LP (the first, and so far only, FT employee I've managed!) but a hell of a newsman, and a hell of a radio guy. And a hell of a friend, too. 😭
www.fingerlakesdailynews.com/local/flx-lo...
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Well that's not good. Car-be-que at the Shaw's East Providence (Taunton Ave) this afternoon. @wpri12.bsky.social
July 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Well that's not good. Car-be-que at the Shaw's East Providence (Taunton Ave) this afternoon. @wpri12.bsky.social
@aidanryan.bsky.social WBUR pulled a nifty slight of hand on their festival revenue numbers. $3.7 million in gross revenue is nice, but they only said it "turned a profit"? Well how much? $1mil was an anon gift; that's not replicable. So unless the NET revenue was at least $1mil? It lost money.
June 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
@aidanryan.bsky.social WBUR pulled a nifty slight of hand on their festival revenue numbers. $3.7 million in gross revenue is nice, but they only said it "turned a profit"? Well how much? $1mil was an anon gift; that's not replicable. So unless the NET revenue was at least $1mil? It lost money.
Something I've been meaning to do a writeup on for some time now is something my partner Michael LeClair has *also* wanted a writeup on: how to do an EPM for an FM radio station. Ergo, here it is! :)
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Equipment Performance Measurements
Required by the FCC, good for knowing what your signal is doing! Here’s the basics about how to perform an EPM on an FM radio station.
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May 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Something I've been meaning to do a writeup on for some time now is something my partner Michael LeClair has *also* wanted a writeup on: how to do an EPM for an FM radio station. Ergo, here it is! :)
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It's just a jump to the left: Memories station moves a touch down the AM dial
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#WJIB #oldies #YesAMRadioStillExists
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#WJIB #oldies #YesAMRadioStillExists
March 24, 2025 at 4:43 AM
@danmcgowan.bsky.social I wonder how the East Providence "success story" of getting back to pre-2019 levels has been influenced by the opening of the new high school that opened in 2021. It's quite nice in there.
February 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
@danmcgowan.bsky.social I wonder how the East Providence "success story" of getting back to pre-2019 levels has been influenced by the opening of the new high school that opened in 2021. It's quite nice in there.