John Kress
@johnkress.bsky.social
Likes: Topo Chico & lime, okra blossoms, pedal steel Dislikes: Cantaloupe, interstates, facists
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I've always enjoyed Amanda Petrusich's writing and she's turned me on to a lot of great music but the assertion that Geese sounds like a New York band (however you define that) is baffling to me. They don't sound like they're from anywhere, which is part of the magic of the record.
December 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I've always enjoyed Amanda Petrusich's writing and she's turned me on to a lot of great music but the assertion that Geese sounds like a New York band (however you define that) is baffling to me. They don't sound like they're from anywhere, which is part of the magic of the record.
Things are so boring. Everything is going great. But we still have to fill column inches!
December 1, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Things are so boring. Everything is going great. But we still have to fill column inches!
Does anyone know what Greg Bovino's undergrad and graduate degrees are? Feels like this could be instructive.
November 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Does anyone know what Greg Bovino's undergrad and graduate degrees are? Feels like this could be instructive.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Dead Milkmen
Townes Van Zandt
Guadalcanal Diary
Fugazi
Uncle Tupelo
Dead Milkmen
Townes Van Zandt
Guadalcanal Diary
Fugazi
Uncle Tupelo
-Jeff Mangum at Jittery Joe’s
-U2/Public Enemy/BAD II
-James Brown
-The Fall
-saw Elliott Smith four times in four months without ever once meaning to
-U2/Public Enemy/BAD II
-James Brown
-The Fall
-saw Elliott Smith four times in four months without ever once meaning to
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
-The Pogues with Joe Strummer opening for Los Lobos
-REM for Fables, right in the pit
-The Unforgiven, The Beat Farmers and the Blasters
-X opening unannounced for Oingo Boingo
-Terrastock 1 (and 2). To say those were legendary is an understatement
-The Pogues with Joe Strummer opening for Los Lobos
-REM for Fables, right in the pit
-The Unforgiven, The Beat Farmers and the Blasters
-X opening unannounced for Oingo Boingo
-Terrastock 1 (and 2). To say those were legendary is an understatement
November 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to:
Dead Milkmen
Townes Van Zandt
Guadalcanal Diary
Fugazi
Uncle Tupelo
Dead Milkmen
Townes Van Zandt
Guadalcanal Diary
Fugazi
Uncle Tupelo
Can't believe that after all these years, I finally get to see Silkworm tonight.
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Couldn't You Wait?
Chronicling the music and the history of the band Silkworm and their unique 17-year-long career on the fringe of 'indie rock'.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Can't believe that after all these years, I finally get to see Silkworm tonight.
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got the kids back from trick or treating, I'm on the porch handing out the last of the candy. three teen boys just walked up in overalls and one immediately goes "the harvest has been real bad this year dog you don't understand"
November 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
got the kids back from trick or treating, I'm on the porch handing out the last of the candy. three teen boys just walked up in overalls and one immediately goes "the harvest has been real bad this year dog you don't understand"
These people have no moral center, nothing. They are nihilists.
I thought they said it was wrong for an administration to ask a social media platform to take stuff down.
October 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
These people have no moral center, nothing. They are nihilists.
No matter where you go in the world someone has A-ha’s “Take On Me” ready to go on the portable speaker or ukulele and that is that is because it’s a remarkable song.
October 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
No matter where you go in the world someone has A-ha’s “Take On Me” ready to go on the portable speaker or ukulele and that is that is because it’s a remarkable song.
Finally got a chance to catch @homeiswhereforever.bsky.social tonight. Love this band. Thank you @ekkoastral.bsky.social for the tip a while back.
October 11, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Finally got a chance to catch @homeiswhereforever.bsky.social tonight. Love this band. Thank you @ekkoastral.bsky.social for the tip a while back.
Between the Disney Adults and Gwar, I’m a little concerned we might be sending our strongest units to the front too quickly.
September 23, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Between the Disney Adults and Gwar, I’m a little concerned we might be sending our strongest units to the front too quickly.
Woke up this morning feeling pretty awful about things. So I made a list of 5 small, positive actions I could take today. Just crossed off #1:
It's bleak out there. But we're gonna do some good this week.
How I'd Fix Atlanta has partnered with Undue Medical Debt to help a bunch of ATLiens this week, and we need your help.
Give what you can. Tell everyone you know.
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How I'd Fix Atlanta has partnered with Undue Medical Debt to help a bunch of ATLiens this week, and we need your help.
Give what you can. Tell everyone you know.
unduemedicaldebt.org/campaign/whe...
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How I’d Fix Atlanta started as a free newsletter sent on a Thursday of most months in 2022. We’ve published 37 essays (and counting) since, put out a couple print zines, done some readings around the ...
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September 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Woke up this morning feeling pretty awful about things. So I made a list of 5 small, positive actions I could take today. Just crossed off #1:
Why are we arguing about the politics of the victim and the murderer instead of how we got to this place where there are too many guns and not enough access to mental health care?
We do not know that he was murdered by a groyper.
I continue to be shocked how people have jumped to this conclusion and stating it as absolute fact.
I spend hours every day monitoring Neo-Nazis and I’m not saying it!
I continue to be shocked how people have jumped to this conclusion and stating it as absolute fact.
I spend hours every day monitoring Neo-Nazis and I’m not saying it!
Only if they actually deep dive. Go over to YouTube now and dozens of vids deifying him. And the irony is he was killed by a further right groyper. And yet theyre demonizing the left.
September 15, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Why are we arguing about the politics of the victim and the murderer instead of how we got to this place where there are too many guns and not enough access to mental health care?
It's just so embarrassing at this point @jonbois.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 3:32 AM
It's just so embarrassing at this point @jonbois.bsky.social
September 14, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Guess the Gadsten Flag only applies in some cases. Strange how that works.
August 25, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Guess the Gadsten Flag only applies in some cases. Strange how that works.
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This is the drug that is a 100% effective treatment for HIV. this is the one you've been seeing in the news. I would LOVE to see an in-depth discussion of exactly what "clinical, financial, and regulatory factors" are keeping them from essentially carrying a cure to a deadly disease.
CVS Health will not cover Gilead's Yeztugo, generic name lenacapavir (LEN), citing "clinical, financial, and regulatory factors."
CVS Health denies coverage for breakthrough HIV drug, committing 'clear violation' of ACA
CVS Health will not cover Gilead's Yeztugo, generic name lenacapavir (LEN), citing "clinical, financial, and regulatory factors."
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August 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is the drug that is a 100% effective treatment for HIV. this is the one you've been seeing in the news. I would LOVE to see an in-depth discussion of exactly what "clinical, financial, and regulatory factors" are keeping them from essentially carrying a cure to a deadly disease.
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This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.
WKRP: Johnny Fever
www.awphooey.com
August 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.
I celebrated my 21st birthday at a Chuck E. Cheese in Durham, NC. Don't judge. Chuck E. came out to sing me Happy Birthday and five minutes later, through the kitchen doors, we saw a guy dressed just like him but with a human head cooking our pizza. Good times!
A Chuck E. Cheese employee in full costume was arrested by Tallahassee officers for credit card fraud
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July 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I celebrated my 21st birthday at a Chuck E. Cheese in Durham, NC. Don't judge. Chuck E. came out to sing me Happy Birthday and five minutes later, through the kitchen doors, we saw a guy dressed just like him but with a human head cooking our pizza. Good times!
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Well, I forgot my roommate from my summer 2012 apartment sublet in D.C. is now the Secretary of the Army, until tonight, when he told Fox News there is a troop on the moon
For those who do not have access or care to go to Twitter for the video, here is the video of the U.S. Secretary of the Army stating that there is currently a soldier on the moon:
June 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Well, I forgot my roommate from my summer 2012 apartment sublet in D.C. is now the Secretary of the Army, until tonight, when he told Fox News there is a troop on the moon
Give whoever did this a Nobel Prize.
Did you know someone reverse-engineered the Weather Channel computer system from the 80s/90s and now you can generate your own private weather channel for your location?
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weatherstar.netbymatt.com
May 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Give whoever did this a Nobel Prize.
@bcdreyer.social Please help. What would you say to a client who wants "punchy" writing but forbids (for god knows what reason) dashes?
May 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
@bcdreyer.social Please help. What would you say to a client who wants "punchy" writing but forbids (for god knows what reason) dashes?
Everything about this is so wholesome and great. sports.yahoo.com/article/long...
May 4, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Everything about this is so wholesome and great. sports.yahoo.com/article/long...
Within the last couple of months my 10-year-old daughter and 8-year-old have ridden public transportation -- at night -- in both Atlanta and NYC and loved it.
These so-called "Alphas" are the weakest, whiniest people on the planet.
These so-called "Alphas" are the weakest, whiniest people on the planet.
Sean Duffy: "The truth is, transit across America is dangerous. And these liberals -- liberal mayors -- they want everybody out of cars and into trains but they made the trains unsafe so nobody really wants to ride them ... even big men don't want to ride the subway at those times of night."
April 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Within the last couple of months my 10-year-old daughter and 8-year-old have ridden public transportation -- at night -- in both Atlanta and NYC and loved it.
These so-called "Alphas" are the weakest, whiniest people on the planet.
These so-called "Alphas" are the weakest, whiniest people on the planet.