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@calexander.bsky.social
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45 he/his hippie-married/boo’d up? Chicago living, NJ grown. Major Depression and stuff; no cop city, 🇵🇸 , socialism or barbarism, loves cats, etc. Fender guitars and amps. New York Mets, others
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Uncle Sam rolls up his sleeves and grabs a wrench/spanner the size of an oak tree as he sees tiny cowering Nazis and klansmen. “You Again?!” The image is contemporary but it borrows from WWII US propaganda paintings and Unc looks sick as fuck. Like badass and buff sick, not as in poorly.
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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I read this too fast and thought “what does the famous Roland Space Echo unit have to do with Twitter?”

(It’s a portable tape delay unit from the seventies - you plug your instrument in and the tape records and replays simultaneously with the output. Think Dub Reggae.)
Vintage RE-201 Space Echo with the chassis off to reveal the tape delay system. Popular with Pink Floyd and other contemporary guitarists, it creates delay or “space echo”when activated. (It does this by recording the instrument’s output onto a short length of tape with one recording tapehead - think the stylus on a record player- then repeats on one or several playback tapeheads milliseconds later. Those subsequent heads are mixed in with the instrument’s signal to create a reverberating effect.) This form of delay/echo was a mainstay in recording studios (think rockabilly guitarists, Elvis’ early vocals, etc) but impractical to use in concert until the RE-201. Durable, relatively compact, and with far more features than even many studio-grade units thanks to its transistor preamp, the device caught on like wildfire until smaller and even more portable and versatile digital delays became available in the early-mid eighties. It then fell into disuse until the familiar pattern of nostalgia and vintage rediscovery in the nineties. Examples of its use can be found on OK Computer (“Subterranean Homesick Blues,” “Let Down,” “Climbing Up the Walls,” “Lucky,” etc) and Dark Side of the Moon (“Time” guitar solo) and Lee “Scratch” Perry dub mixes (choose one) among many others. This IS the short version.
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
calexander.bsky.social
I missed a few but I can at least see the big red flags:
Andrew is a white male, 38, closely groomed wavy hair and a mustache. Ordinarily you can see a voter’s personal views, but sometimes life throws you a living cartoon, or at least someone who insincerely dithers before voting Republican for the eightieth consecutive time.
October 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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I did very poorly but I am patting myself on the back for this one:
Andrew, white male, 38, mustache - stop the fight, this man was born to insincerely hem and haw before voting Republican.
October 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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The poster for The Immortal Science that is Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism. The artist(s) has detourned a USSR poster that foregrounds a young Russian man of military age (in a worker’s uniform workshirt and overalls) in a proud, familial embrace of an elder, goateed man probably about fifty years old in a scientist’s white jacket and the Party beret. Both are in awe of the flight of a CCCP space rocket (helpfully painted red and labeled on the shell) as it flies out beyond the horizon: the young man in a wide smile, the elder with a quieter but satisfied look that doesn’t show his teeth. On the poster the artist has written in Pac-Man style font with rainbow colors, staggered one line at a time and with margins stepped in descension: “FULLY” “AUTOMATED” “LUXURY” “GAY” “SPACE” “COMMUNISM.” Solidarity.
October 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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“Bro Hymn” by Pennywise, 1991
Box Score from Game 3 MLB WS 2025, no runs scored from the ninth through the seventeenth. The final three columns shows the game’s final score of LAD6 - TOR 5
October 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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“Bro-Hymn” by Pennywise (1991)
No runs scored after the seventh through fifteen innings.
October 28, 2025 at 5:58 AM
calexander.bsky.social
Another reason to hate Biden and mainstream Dems is they gave this profoundly wicked man the ambassadorship to Japan. He should have been lucky to be a janitor at sea.

Oh but he was out of the way , it’s not like he could embarrass us as an ambassador - ope.
Wikipedia excerpt: “On August 7, 2024, it was announced that he would skip attending a memorial ceremony to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki because Israel was not invited to the ceremony.” He brings shame to our city and this Country and knowing of him makes me tired.
October 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
calexander.bsky.social
"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
Inner gatefold photo of Bob Dylan and The Band’s Basement Tapes. The musicians are intermingled with characters from the songs on the tapes (and other showbiz archetypes) in a crowded basement.
October 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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If he can go on, we can go on.
An even happier Mr Cool Ice a few years or so later. In a New York black shirt with white pin striping, he now has ear plugs and a happy skull and crossbones wearing shades. His forehead is adorned by a row of three skulls, with a letter on each scalp spelling I C E. It can’t be overemphasized how happy, brilliant and posi he looks here. I still probably wouldn’t vote for him but this picture cheers me on dim days. The famous Mr Cool Ice with a megawatt smile and even more Mr Cool Ice tattoos on his arms and neck. He also added some three dimensional shading to Mr Cool Ice across the top of his chest.
October 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Hell yeah, revenge for the Cadaver Synod!
Picture is a copy of Cadaver Synod, Pope Formosus, and Stephen VI, by Jean-Paul Laurens c. 1870. The painting, which goes unbelievably hard, depicts, from left to right: a man in soldier’s attire is pointing accusingly to the figure at the left; behind him a council of Roman Cardinals are backgrounded under an arch in the building; a man in black stands in a podium on an elevated stage, complete with long black hair and beard, and looks at the accuser; and at right, the accused, a skeleton dressed in full papal regalia on a throne underneath a cross. This shadowy, moody painting depicts a real event from the ninth century that really needs to be read in full; search Wiki for “Cadaver Synod”
October 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Now this really should be in the @thelouvreof.bsky.social (once thumbnails work again)
Good Samaritan tries to boost fundraiser that has been officiously deleted.
October 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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The green led lights works best for me for the classic UX, but I’d be lying if I said this didn’t look very handsome:
Winamp Nucleo UX skin set up like a seventies chrome stereo (Pioneer, Marantz, etc - linear EQ adjustment and circular buttons instead of rectangular)
October 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
calexander.bsky.social
Jeez
Ratio on quoted post as of 6:53 CST 10/6/25. All the repost are quote posts and nineteen comments vs one like. The technical term for this is “not what you want.”
October 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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The cocaine made them feel invincible and brilliant, but hoovering up Thiel money made them full fash. My understanding of the timeline.
Marilyn Manson now going door-to-door trying to shock people.
October 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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He’s mad because Witt came with an All Time No Scope No Sweat Match Point on his tech overlords:
Excerpt from Emily Witt’s (fantastic and essential) article in The London Review of Books reviewing books on Andrew Tate and the “manosphere” generally. The discussion turns to Elon Musk’s support of the red pill and his anti trans positions, describing himself as “red pilled” from the manosphere despite it being a metaphor created by closeted transgender women: “Elon Musk wants to put a computer chip in your brain and to colonise Mars, yet sees no value in using technology to alter secondary sex characteristics, and is estranged from his trans daughter. That the futurists who want to break the bounds of mortality are the ones most committed to the immutability of gender says something about how useful the concept is to them. Their insistence on masculine hegemony is an insistence on order and hierarchy.” The entire thing can be found here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n16/emily-witt/do-you-feel-like-a-failure
September 26, 2025 at 5:16 AM
calexander.bsky.social
On second thought, maybe the touch up makeup is the right call. He should use more of it.
A real live 79 year old hand getting all the blood it needs at the time it needs it (zoom-in from OP photo to Trump’s hand, with his skin in extremely poor, purplish condition).
September 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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I understand why people would think (hope?) this is talk to text, but I direct your attention to the grammar marks around “Partner.”
Screen grab of the candidate’s hate mail, where this tough guy or gal makes numerous elementary errors of speech, word usage, etc. I’ve highlighted how they write “Partner,” as in so-called partner, or just partner as either gay slur or even hatred against unmarried cohabitation. They’ve capitalized the P all right, but it begins in one quotation mark and ends in two (or “inverted comma/s” for English speakers outside North America). This casts doubt on whether this was typed to text, but does suggest the sobriety of the writer was lacking.
September 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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I never shoulda smoked that shit,
Zoom-in on OPs screengrab of AI tribute video to Captain James T which, as usual, defies description, but I will try. What seems to be a concert in heaven to welcome Cap’n is zoomed in, past the angel choir and to stage left (our right) into the cello/bass section of the orchestra. In poor resolution, one cellist is revealed to have one leg; more importantly, the musician is dressed in what can be a be described as a ninja top, obscuring all but a grimacing mouth. Their head is perfectly sliced to about a 35 degree angle, and this perfect sphere is the base of some sort of crane/pulley that is attached to his bowing hand. Their fretting hand is either so elongated that it is easier for the player to slide pitch to pitch, or, just as likely, their hand has been stabbed through by the instrument’s neck, with the headstock and tuning machines reassembled after bisecting this very large hand. Also the fretboard seems to taper off with paint drippings and the bow is very uneven and wobbly. A man is behind this player with an impossibly cinched jacket and some similar device from the headstock to his head.
September 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Announcing my new Think Tank (found a copy in the stacks, hell yeah my 21 y/o self thinks I’m cool)
Album cover: Think Tank by Blur. The image, by Banksy, is a black and white stencil spray painting of a man and a woman in an embrace, seemingly in formal wear. His hands are around her hips. The woman holds the back of the man’s neck in her right hand, and a tulip in her left hand as she goes to touch the man’s face. Both figures are wearing divers’ helmets from the early twentieth century (the woman has a pony tail sticking out of the back). This surreal and faintly apocalyptic imagery is further embellished by the urban wall of the canvas, with stains and scratches and years of wear and abuse, and by the spray painting itself, the black and white bodies dripping down into rivulets and finally nothing. The album’s title is written in transparent red.
September 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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The news this evening:
September 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Hannibal Burress “hahaha this sucks man” meme
September 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Apologies, as I don’t speak the language, but is this an encouraging description?
This picture narrows the OP’s comment to a specific sentence fragment. I don’t speak German, but “cringe und weird” seems to be easily translated, if unpromising.
September 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Your last saved photo is your moral philosophy.
Edwin Diaz takes the mound. You blink. There are now 45 runners in scoring position. A base hut or sac fly will lose the Mets the game. Bam. He strikes out the rest of the side. What were you worried about, you fool? Never a doubt. Never a doubt at all.
September 7, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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As Armageddon approaches, I’m grateful the human tendency to make up a guy to get mad at will not go meekly into the night.
A quote tweet of Wesley Morgan stating the Trump administration’s recklessly violent actions against the world: — 1k+ air strikes in Yemen (spring 25) — 65+ air strikes in Somalia — 5 air strikes and 2 JSOC ground raids in Syria — 1 night of B-2 strikes on 3 sites in Iran — 1 air strike in Iraq — 1 air strike in the Caribbean Sobering stuff. But one poster decided the real culprit was leftists: “fucking obscene and I do not blame certain centrists getting mad at how little certain people care”
September 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM