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gennisaisquoi.bsky.social
G's Inevitable Flash Sideways
@gennisaisquoi.bsky.social
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Poet | Pedant | Pissant

48yo pan poly enby

💜 prog rock | 💜 comics | 💜 local beers

#TransitTunes
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Cover of the 1983 R.E.M. album Murmur. A sepia-tone photo of kudzu with what is possibly a gate on the left hand side of the image, mid-frame. The band name and album title are in somewhat-transparent, all-caps, light blue, center-justified to the left half of the image.
October 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Sometimes, on #TransitTunes, I'll choose an artist I've just never quite grokked in hopes of discovering just what everyone else loves about them. This morning, listening to Matthew Sweet (born #OTD 1964), I was rudely reminded of how inexplicably anxious certain eras of pop music make me. But ...
Out-of-focus roadside brush through a rain-spattered windshield.
October 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Hell of a sunrise this beautiful fall morning! Happy October, BlueSky! For #TransitTunes today, we're rockin' the psychedelic sounds of Shocking Blue, the Dutch group from the 1960s/70s led by singer Mariska Veres (1947-2006), born #OTD.
Early morning. Exterior lights are still on at a cluster of county-owned farm buildings, viewed from across an e.pty road. Above them, the sky is beginning to lighten, and clouds lit from below a warm, salmon-y color fill the sky.
October 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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A lot is said about the trauma caused to my generation by the Artax scene in Neverending Story. But for my money, this is the most gutting moment. "These look like good, big, strong hands," Rockbiter says. "And for so long, that's what I thought they were. But my friends ... I couldn't save them." 💔
The Neverending Story plays on a TV. The Rockbiter is looking at his hands. Text across the bottom reads, "THE NOTHING PULLED THEM"
September 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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One of the top reasons I love the work I do: driving in the pre-dawn, window down, chill tunes, sleepy but satisfied. (photo taken while parked, obvi)

Today's soundtrack: The Ventures Hbd to drummer Mel Taylor (1933-1996). #TransitTunes
G, a brown middle-aged enby, stands by the Emergency Exit of their bus, view of a parking lot through the glass, with the night sky just starting to lighten in the distance. They have short, curly, brown hair and rainbow glasses, and they're wearing a black v-neck T-shirt. They have a neutral expression.
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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OK, today's #TransitTunes was a riot of joy for my earholes! Here's wishing a very happy 82nd birthday to drummer (& so much more) Jim McCarty, born July 25, 1943.
White paper sitting on a brown table reads: Friday, July 25 National Carousel Day 🎶🎵 Now Playing: Yardbirds, Renaissance, Box of Frogs, Stairway drummer JIM MCCARTY born on this date 1943 (82yo)
July 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Today on #TransitTunes I drifted further along memory lane by celebrating the 62nd birthday of Emily Saliers with a full day of the Indigo Girls. NOW. I don't know if you ever attended college in the 1990s. But the Indigo Girls were KINDA pervasive ...
#MusicSky 🧵
A handwritten note on white paper hangs on a gray bus dash. It reads: Tuesday, July 22 Spoonerism Day ~ 🎵🎶 Now Playing: Indigo Girls multi-instrumentalist EMILY SALIERS born on this day 1963 (62yo)
July 23, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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The guitar that kills fascists is a hard act to follow, but #TransitTunes is making a go of it by continuing this week with even more guitar! Today, we listened to Joe Satriani, born July 15, 1956. (Happy 69th!)

#MusicSky
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A handwritten note on white paper hangs on a gray bus dash. It reads: Tuesday, July 15 Celebration of the Horse Day ~ 🎵🎶 Now Playing: JOE SATRIANI born on this date 1956 (69yo)
July 16, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Me, to self: OK, you have to leave for work in 20 minutes!

My brain, suffering under extreme kitty paralysis: ... but how important is showering, REALLY??
A brown enby in a brown T-shirt sits in a blue recliner snuggling with an orange cat under a gray blanket. They look content.
July 15, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Kicking off this #TransitTunes week with a full day of the GOAT's GOAT, Woody Guthrie -- born July 14, 1912. There's no wrong time to blast the antifascist anthems, but now is a particularly good time, IMO.

#MusicSky
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A handwritten note on white paper hangs against a gray bus dash. It reads: Monday, July 14 International Nonbinary Peoples Day ~ 🎵🎶 Now Playing: WOODY GUTHRIE [[rudimentary drawing of a guitar with "THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS" written on it]] born on this date 1912 (d. 1967)
July 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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The wife, w/ got dayumned #StomachBook
Two beautiful, sweaty wimmin pose w/ peace signs up at Gabe's Iowa City after a kickass show.
July 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Today's #TransitTunes centered on the work of birthday boy Peter Murphy, born July 11, 1957. Apologies for the rain-stained image; I forgot to take the pic before getting off the bus to leave at the end of this rainy day.

#MusicSky
A handwritten note on white paper reads: Friday, July 11 National French Fry Day ~ 🎵🎶 Now Playing: Bauhaus, Dalis Car, & solo PETER MURPHY born on this date 1957 (68yo)
July 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Today, #TransitTunes sends wishes for a happy 55th out to Beck, born July 8, 1970 (ouch! right in the aging!). Now, if you'd asked me 48hrs ago who would be more accessible to my riders, Mahler or Beck?, I'd have guessed Mahler in a heartbeat. I'd have been so wrong. 🧵 #MusicSky
A handwritten note on white paper sits on a gray bus seat. It reads: Tuesday, July 8 National Video Game Day ~ 🎵🎶 Now Playing: BECK born on this date 1970 (55yo)
July 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Yesterday, #TransitTunes celebrated Gustav Mahler, born July 7, 1860. I love Mahler, but even I can admit it was a poor choice. 🧵 #MusicSky
A handwritten note on white paper sits on a gray bus seat. It reads: Monday, July 7 International Peace & Love Day ~ 🎵🎶 Now Playing: GUSTAV MAHLER born on this date 1860 (d. 1911)
July 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Before/after pics of ya guyle. Context: The TKD dojang my family attends marches in the 4th of July parade every year, doing board breaking & other demos along the route. There was very little cloud cover. I am seriously fried -- but glad it's over! Anyway, happy Destroy-Tyranny Day errbody.
A skeptical G questions the wisdom of their life choices as they wait for the parade to begin. The photo is a high-angle selfie; the hand that's in frame is above their head, shielding their eyes from the glare of the sun. G is a brown-skinned enby. They wear rainbow glasses, a black T-shirt with a yellow belt tied around their waist, and white uniform pants that are hardly visible. G smiles hugely in this extreme close-up selfie. There is still sunscreen on their face. Their dark, curly hair is splayed out onto a pillow in a brown case, and their shoulders are bare. They are happy that the parade is over!
July 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Yeah, mine's similar, but completely overlapping. Just figured out that I can do it by switching to floating instead of fixed keyboard, but I deeply hate it.
Screen shot of the bottom sliver of my phone screen, showing the app controls and the phone nav superimposed.
June 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Get in losers, we're posting lock screens
A screenshot of my lockscreen. Image is a close-up of a screenshot of Alastor from Hazbin Hotel. All that's visible are his eyes and teeth. It's 11:03 am, on Monday, May 5. The phone is on the CREDO Mobile network and is at 53%.
May 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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K, #TransitTunes, it's been a minute. Sorry for the gap. I've been drivin' & groovin' but not writin' heh. As recompense, here's a rare glimpse of my worksona. I plan to get back to regular posts this week.
G, a 47-year-old brown enby, shoots the camera a goofy grin in this selfie of them at the wheel of a bus, taken while safely parked, they promise. Their dark hair is loose and curly. Their lanyard is adorned with copious pins. They wear a blue T-shirt and gray sunglasses with purple lens tint.
May 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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40Plus Bluesky, tap in with a pic

(47 bb)
G, a 47-year-old brown enby, makes a kiss face at the camera in this selfie. They have a mess of curly dark brown hair hanging over their rainbow glasses, & they are wearing a black T-shirt & sitting in bed. In the background, their CPAP is visible. You know, for old person cred.
April 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Why yes, I AM sitting in my car in my driveway after taking my kid to school in my pjs, doomscrolling and procrastinating, desperately wishing I didn't have to function today. How's your morning??
Car selfie of G, a brownish enby. They are making a scrunched-up, tongue-out, "fuck this shit" kind of face. Their glasses are pushed up onto their dark, curly, kinda scraggly, unwashed hair. They wear a cream-colored T-shirt with an illustrated poster for the Mirror Mirror episode of Star Trek (TOS). The interior of their car is light gray.
April 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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If you see this, post your favorite Lucifer

(Look, I know it's a dangerous time to praise anything even tangentially related to NG. But 🥵.)
Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer in the 2022 TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics. A formidable white woman with wavy blonde hair leans forward with her hands on a mahogany table. She wears a bright red silk bathrobe (dress?) and sports large vinyl-looking black wings.
April 9, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Heyo! My giant forehead & I got some new regular specs & prescription sunglasses!
G, a brownish enby w dark curly hair going white, is walking outside & taking a cell phone selfie, close on their face. They are smiling. They wear square-ish glasses patterned in rainbow colors. G is inside taking a cellphone selfie, close up on their face. They wear lavender-tinted sunglasses, dark gray, big and round and not their usual style, in a good way.
April 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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What in the white-cis-hetero hell is THIS shit?!
Close up of a shelf on a grocery case with beer singles. The beer shown matches the ad visible: Garage Beer is the brand name. The slogan is, "Beer Flavored Beer" and the ad shows a bearded white guy in a gray Hoodia & jeans, looking like he doesn't care about anything. Except maybe how his beer tastes.
March 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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I always thought stories were hilarious & classmates thought I was weird, b/c they were interpreting straightforwardly while I read sarcasm & irony into literally everything. Is that what's happening here? Is this brand genuinely chasing the Marlboro Man demo & I'm inferring false humor? (2/2)
Description on a can of Liquid Death water: "This ruthless tallboy of flavored sparkling water has a twisted plan to use natural agave and exploding bubbles to murder your thirst and recycle your soul." Front of a large can of Liquid Death Severed Lime Flavored Sparkling Water. The can is green with gold writing (the brand name is white outlined in gold). Beneath the identifying text it a gold skull, facing the top of the can & dripping/dissolving downward.
March 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Heads up, calling these Morrissey sticks from now on.
Four mozzarella sticks sit on a plate on a kitchen counter next to a little ramekin of red sauce.
March 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM