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@atcl.bsky.social
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Fan of music, cargo bikes, the #EastBay, and humor. Not a fan of the seemingly inexorable slide into fascism. #ShoupPilled. Follow me if you want to have far too many song-a-day #MusicChallenge posts sliding into your timeline.
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“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”

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Quote attributed to Michael Douglas: "I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work."
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”

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Quote attributed to Fleetwood Mac songwriter/keyboardist Christine McVie: "You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away."
November 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Quote attributed to arch cynic H.L. Mencken: "It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for any public office."
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Well somebody obviously watched BRAVEHEART last night.

Source: www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
Mike Johnson quoted in a S.F. Chronicle story on passage of Prop 50 saying: “We’re going to fight like warrior poets in California.”
November 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”

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Quote attributed to singer and activist Nina Simone: "I CHOOSE to reflect the times and situations in which I find myself. That, to me, is my duty. And at this crucial time in our lives, when everything is so desperate, when everyday is a matter of survival, I don't think you can help but be involved."
November 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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How is your Halloween going?
November 1, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Oh, OK
October 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Just like the stores are already taking down their Halloween stuff and getting up their holiday displays, it's time to start thinking about next month's cover song #MusicChallenge. Start lining up now for #5CoverSongsBlackFriday.
#5CoverSongsBlackFriday #NewMusicChallenge Post a cover song each day from 11/26/25 - 11/30/25. Each song should feature something related to -buying/selling -a store or mall -waiting in line in the artist name/song title/lyrics
October 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”

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Happy Halloween, folks!
Quote from the novel DRACULA by Bram Stoker: "How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
October 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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LOL
YouTube comment by @JohnCachero: “(In honor of the top comment on the original upload that always made me laugh) ‘Not enough acoustic guitars.’”
October 30, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”

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Quote from FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley: "I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
October 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”

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Quote from Arthur Miller's play, THE RIDE DOWN MT. MORGAN, with a photo of the playwright: "Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
October 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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But my cultural cachet!
VHS copies of the original Star Wars trilogy.
October 24, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Regina George says, "So you agree it's an impeachable offense."
October 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”

Read 📚 & Play🎶
Quote attributed to trailblazing self-help author Dale Carnegie: "You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
October 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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For October's #ArtistFaveLP, I'll be ranking and counting down 10 tracks from Beck's MIDNITE VULTURES.

This album baffled critics and fans alike when it came out in 1999. Was it a sleazy, irony-laden send up or a real attempt at a funk & soul pastiche? The answer, of course, is: Can't it be both?!
Album art for MIDNIGHT VULTURES by Beck, featuring a florescent green back ground, a ... clown? in shiny pink leather pants and white jacket, a close up of the pink pants, and a neon white squiggle conncting both pants' crotches.
October 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Alameda showed up. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Quote attributed to Stephen Colbert: "If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself."
October 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Our best decoration.
Black cat oddly draped on a ledge in front of of a row of Halloween decorations.
October 17, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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The 12-year-old made this, but says she doesn’t want to take it to the rally, but it was OK for me to share it with the random Bluesky dot com masses.
October 17, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Mrs. ATCL says my #NoKings sign is too busy and needs a simpler, more direct message. And she is right, of course. But I wanna say ALL THE THINGS.
October 17, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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No mentions of Teenage Fanclub that I saw. A lot of folks would cite BANDWAGONESQUE before GRAND PRIX, but those folks are wrong.
The shitty album art for GRAND PRIX by Teenage Fanclub. I think that's like 33% of the reason this album never got/gets the love it deserves.
October 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”

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Quote attributed to Frank Lloyd Wright: "A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines."
October 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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The Grail Knight from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade holds his hand aloft as the temple collapses around him, with the caption: “Way to go, assholes.”
October 13, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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It’s not “Kid Rock” Big or “Tron” Big, but SB 79 becoming law is still pretty Big.
October 11, 2025 at 4:51 AM