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Josh @jminer.bsky.social · Nov 17
About Me.

My top 10 Musical Artists, in no particular order:
1. The Dear Hunter
2. The Decemberists
3. Bob Dylan
4. Mastodon
5. Unleash the Archers
6. Iron Maiden
7. Rush
8. The Cure
9. Zeal & Ardor
10. Between the Buried and Me
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Contrary to popular belief, metal can produce some of the most extraordinary art. @iotunnofficial.bsky.social’s Kinship captures beauty, pain, and aching loss. Soaring vocals, gorgeous lyrics, and layered, intricate music keep me returning to this one.

#metalsky

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Kinship - YouTube
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November 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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My 3-star review of the trilogy.

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Joshua's review of Daughter of Hounds
3/5: This year I started writing my (short) reviews of trilogies only after I'd finished them. This was primarily because they typically have an arc of 1. Good > 2. Meh > 3. Good, but not as good as 1...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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My 2-star review.

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Joshua's review of The Bewitching
2/5: I'm a huge fan of Moreno-Garcia, but this one was a letdown. There was less of her signature weaving in of Latin culture than others and Witches = Vampires? Cannibals, particularly of children fo...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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My 3-star review.

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Joshua's review of Horror Movie
3/5: This novel was mid, but finishes with a bang. Horror buffs will get a kick out of all the meta.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Well this is terrifying.

thehackernews.com/2025/10/new-...
New AI-Targeted Cloaking Attack Tricks AI Crawlers Into Citing Fake Info as Verified Facts
New SPLX research exposes “AI-targeted cloaking,” a simple hack that poisons ChatGPT’s reality and fuels misinformation.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…”

~Patrick Henry
October 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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AWS outages cripple business across the globe. What happens when one of the 5 winners of the AI war goes down - and there are no humans to manually fill in?

#AI
#bubble
#catastrophe
October 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Come on Folks, let’s make viral this photo @barackobama.bsky.social
Thank you SIR #NobelPeacePrize
@mlipsitt.bsky.social #Influencers
@dpsl.bsky.social #BlueVoters @tonyhq1985.bsky.social @terriresists.bsky.social
@sistergf.bsky.social @lemonadegirl.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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My 5-star review.

#booksky

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Joshua's review of James
5/5: Mark Twain was spent a lot of time on the subject of race and is as race aware as any Southern White Man in the 19th century could be. Certainly more than this middle-aged Gen X white male readin...
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September 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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The full 28-minute Jimmy Kimmel monologue. Please share.
Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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September 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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September 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
jminer.bsky.social
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Salt Lake City” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS Salt Lake City · No Kings
***In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** No Kings Salt Lake City is being hosted by Salt Lake Indivisible, in partnership with Green Wave, Our Revolution and national DemCast. Our peac...
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September 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Just said goodbye to this handsome boy.

RIP Harvey

#catsky
Tuxedo cat lying on a shoe.
September 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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And he applauds himself! 😂😂😂
victinibcn.bsky.social Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · Sep 7
Just now: Donald Trump is booed as he arrives at Arthur Ashe Stadium for the US Open men’s final
September 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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I discovered this album this year and I can’t begin to describe how great this album is. Epic Melo death concept album that I’ve probably listened to 50x or more.

#metalsky

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Throne of the Lunar Soul - YouTube
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September 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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This is a huge loss to metal.
August 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
jminer.bsky.social
Ruin a band by adding a letter
Oceans of Plumber

#metalsky
metalagedmom.bsky.social Metal-Aged Mom @metalagedmom.bsky.social · Aug 21
Ruin a band by adding a letter
Bowlbear

#metalsky
tigerofsudan.bsky.social Dave 🤘 @tigerofsudan.bsky.social · Aug 19
Ruin a band by adding a letter

Stool.
August 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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My 5-star review

#booksky

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Joshua's review of The River Has Roots
5/5: Mohtar is a force to be reckoned with. This novella exemplifies her poetic language and master storytelling. I look forward to reading everything she produces.
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August 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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My 4-star review.

#booksky

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Joshua's review of The Witchwood Crown (The Last King of Osten Ard, #1)
4/5: Great world-building, great characters, and an interesting plot. I hadn't realized this was a sequel to another trilogy. I read the first two in that series decades ago and will be pausing this r...
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August 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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My 3-star review.

#booksky

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Joshua's review of The Jennifer Morgue (Laundry Files, #2)
3/5: These novels are great fun, especially if you are a nerd. This one is James Bond meets Lovecraft. I highly recommend reading the afterword.
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August 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Hooboy! I’m only a few listens in, but I think Behemoth has lost the Polish Death Metal throne with this one.

#metalsky

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Dormant Ordeal "Tooth and Nail" (Full Album)
YouTube video by Willowtip Records
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August 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Interesting stuff for Prog Death fans. Sounds like something Echo and the Bunnymen might have done if they went full death metal.

#metalsky

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FLOATING (Sweden) - Exit Bag Song (Death Metal/Post Punk) Transcending Obscurity Records
YouTube video by Transcending Obscurity
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August 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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COVID-19 can also cause organ damage in individuals without symptoms, who would not fall under the current definition of Long COVID. This organ damage, whether symptomatic or not, can lead to various health impacts such as heart attacks and strokes…”

doi.org/10.1515/mr-2...
Review of organ damage from COVID and Long COVID: a disease with a spectrum of pathology
Long COVID, as currently defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other authorities, is a symptomatic condition that has been shown to affect an estimated 10 %–30 % of non-hospitalized patie...
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July 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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A U.S. family with a trans and a nonbinary child just got preliminary asylum in Canada. Asylum. From here. The “land of the free”. That’s how broken this country is. We used to take in the persecuted, now we are the threat people are fleeing. And the world knows it.
July 15, 2025 at 12:28 AM