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Post of the Day (PotD). 🎧
Random thoughts. 🧠
Bits of joy. 😹

Geeking out: Open Source. Writing. Books. Movies. Podcasts. Music. VO/Narration. EVs. Cycling.
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This weekend I went on the New Bedford (MA) Underground Railroad Walking Tour. Our NPS Park Ranger was amazing - knowledgeable and passionate about a community which historically prevented slave catchers from succeeding in their nefarious work.

#inspiration
#blacksky
#fuckice
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A mural on a building in New Bedford, MA depicting various moments in the history of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment. This was the regiment of Black Union soldiers whose history was portrayed in the 1990 film Glory starring Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman. 5 panels depict recruitment advertising, recruit sign up, cannonade training, Battle of Fort Wagner, surviving soldiers reuniting with family. 54th Infantry Regiment C seal in granite slab surrounded by bricks showing the names of regiment members. Soldiers commemorated here include two sons of New Bedford resident and famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The seal marks the spot in downtown New Bedford where recruits signed their names to the roster officially joining the 54th Regiment.
August 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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🎶 Newport Jazz Fest 2025: Day 1 Recap, pt. 5

After Raye all but burned down the stage I could think of 1 group that even stood a chance to follow her. Thankfully that was the baddest band in all the land, The Legendary Roots Crew! Nuff said!!

#newportjazz
#musicsky
#blacksky
#theroots
August 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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🎶 Newport Jazz Fest 2025: Day 1 Recap, pt. 4

Raye is a revelation and a powerhouse. Holding down a long line of soulful British songstresses from Dusty to Shirley to Grace to Sade to Amy to Adele. And now RAYE!! IYKYK. Mercy upon those who follow her!

#newportjazz
#musicsky
#blacksky
#raye
The sultry songstress Raye on stage at the 2025 Newport Jazz Festival. Her drummer and saxophonist from her incredible horn section flank her to the rear. They killed it! An impossible act to follow!
August 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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🎶 Newport Jazz Fest 2025: Day 1 Recap, pt. 3

Preservation Hall Jazz, Sofi Tukker, Cato Miller and Scoffield, and The Philadelphia Experiment spanned the range from jazz preservation to get the party started music on through global jazz and jazz's future!

#newportjazz
#musicsky
#blacksky
August 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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🎶 Newport Jazz Fest 2025: Day 1 Recap, pt. 2

Living legends! Photographs don't do them justice. To quote the fabulous Raye whose set came later in the day, "Music is Medicine." Theirs was nutrition, inoculation, and all-around panacea.

#roncarter
#newportjazz
#musicsky
#blacksky
August 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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🖼️PotW: ICE and Superman | John Jennings

www.patreon.com/posts/131203...

A picture's worth a thousand words.
Two masked figures wearing fatigues with ICE emblazoned on their chests flank the Man of Steel whose head is down and is wearing green kryptonite manacles as they lead him away to be disappeared like so many other of our neighbors, friends and loved ones.
June 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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🎧PotD: Ffff | The Allusionist (44m)

www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/...

Well fuck.

The prevailing mood (for me anyway) since at least last November. For some much needed levity, enjoy this enlightening discussion of that Swiss Army Knife of the English language: fuck

#podcastrecommendations
Image courtesy of theallusionist.org. A boggle game board - an orange plastic tray gridded into cubes 4 rows tall and 4 columns wide. The grid contains cubes showing the following: - the letters F and C in the first and 3rd spaces of the 1st row - the letters U and K in the 2nd and 4th spaces of the 4th (bottom) row.
May 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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🎧PotD: Seeing White | Scene on Radio Podcast (14 episodes)

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A semiannual reminder that if you haven't listened Scene on Radio's season 2 series Seeing White, what the actual fuck!? Er, I mean, do give it a listen. Highly recommend. 10/10.

#podcastrecommendations
Cover art for Episode 1: Turning the Lens of the Scene on Radio Season 2: Seeing White series. A black and white photo of a figure in the distance stands before the base of a waterfall. His back is turned to the camera as he looks upon the falling water. The figure is in shadow, black contrasted against the bright white wall of water foam and mist that fills the frame. He has turned his lens and is seeing white and is dwarfed by the roiling and churning spectacle before him.
May 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Seconding Samurai Champloo! Best intro and outro! 🎶
RIP Nujabes
Animated gif of Meujen and Jin from Samurai Champloo. Each shown in profile in shadow rising out of a field of fallen swords. Orange background with a bright yellow setting sun. Meujen in the foreground faces left wears his robes loose and his hair wild and blown out like he's been through a whirlwind. His sword slung casually over his shoulder. Jin in the background faces right, forelocks over his face and glasses and ponytail tied neatly in the back. His katana is in its sheath at his hip and his sword hand on its hilt ready to draw.
May 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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🎧PotD: Ryan Coogler says 'Sinners' inspiration felt 'like a bolt of lightning' | Fresh Air NPR

www.npr.org/2025/04/23/n...

Sinners! Even better the second time around. See it with an audience, on IMAX if you can. It's a paean to music itself.

#podcastrecommendations
#blacksky
#filmsky
#musicsky
Cover art for the Sinners motion picture soundtrack. The image shows the main film cast including Michael B. Jordan (as his twin brother characters), Miles Caton, Wunmi Mosaku, Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O'Conner, Delroy Lindo, Li Jun Li, and Omar Miller. The cast is shown in period costume (of pre-WW2 Mississippi) super-imposed over the image of a ruddy setting sun.
April 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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🎧PotD: The Very American Roots of Trumpism | The Ezra Klein Show (76m)

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/o...

Black folks have been calling this out for way too long. These times are NOT unprecedented. It's who "we" have been.

#podcastrecommendations
Cover art for the Ezra Klein Show: a color photo of Ezra Klein (40s-ish white American man) showing head and torso-only, leaning forward slightly as if seated, eyes looking into the camera. Klein is wearing a black polo-style short-sleeved shirt, stylish grey tortoise-shell patterned glasses, neatly coiffed greying hair and clean-shaven but for the 2 o'clock shadow on his jaw. The show title appears next to his head (to his left) and above the NY Times logo in white text, all of which appears over a grey gradient lit background.
April 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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📱PotD: Dr. Brian Register Explains 3.5% Rule #handsoff ATX 04/19 | Austin 50501 on IG

Part 1: www.instagram.com/reel/DIrMjyt...
Part 2: www.instagram.com/reel/DIriSH8...

Apologies for the IG post but worth seeing all the way through.

Build community. Keep up the fight.

#instarecommendations
Color image still from video. A man (white male middle aged, close cropped greying hair with trimmed beard and moustache wearing dark blue t-shirt and khaki cargo shorts) stands at microphone set up in a field. Small groups of spectators can be seen in background behind the speaker. The blue starred field of an American Flag can be seen draped over a table behind him. In front of him are a black microphone stand and a music stand. He holds a book in his left hand. Text superimposed over the bottom of the image reads: "Dr. Brian Register Explains 3.5% rule #handsoff ATX 4/19".
April 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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🎧PotD: Zora Neale Hurston + Langston Hughes: Best Friends Forever | Our Ancestors Were Messy (55m)

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The buddy roadtrip movie we so desperately need. Especially with all their ups and downs, their stories keep giving life! Part 1 of 2.

#podcastrecommendations
#blacksky
White drop shadowed text over a grey background stylized like a classic 30's hollywood film's title card the podcast title: "Our Ancestors Were Messy: a Black History Comedy Podcast".
April 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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The highlights of #Pintastic New England this weekend. Michael Metallica complete with needledrops from McDonald (of course), Christopher Cross, and Loggins & Messina. Hilarious! 🤣 Other favs incl. a vintage Harlem Globetrotters, a homebrew Warhammer 40k, and Ninja Eclipse from Turner #Pinball!
April 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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🎧PotD: The Last of Us Creator Neil Druckmann | The Writers Panel

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With #TheLastofUs S2 upon us, listen back to @benblacker.bsky.social and Druckmann discussing stories in videogames, adaptions and more.

#podcastrecommendations
#writersky
In black text over pumpkin orange background "The Writers Panel with Ben Blacker".
April 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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🎧PotD: Inside the Tesla Takedown Protests | The War on Cars

thewaroncars.org/2025/04/08/e...

This new era of protest and resistance is long overdue. The emperors stay naked. Let's make some real clothes.

#podcastrecommendations
A yellow warning traffic sign that reads "The War on Cars".
April 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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🎧PotD: How Books Get Made from Start to Finish | Afronauts Podcast (1h)

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Features deep-dive conversation with editor Ashley Imanë Fields about book publishing, advice for writers and thriving while Black in the publishing industry.

#podcastrecommendations
#blacksky
Afronauts Podcast logo depicting a just black woman in profile facing right wearing white astronaut helmet with purple linework. At the neck of the helmet is the stylized title "Afronauts Podcast". The profile is superimposed over a field of stars as the woman looks forward through her helmet visor with determination.
April 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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🎧PotD: Is "Off the Wall" Michael's True Masterpiece | You'll Hear It (59m)

pca.st/episode/7808...

Geeking out over Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones? Throw in a little Diana Ross, Greg Phillinganes, Sir Paul and Stevie? Sounds like a Saturday to me!

#podcastrecommendations
#blacksky
#musicsky
Hosts Adam Maness and Peter Martin in profile before mics flanking the iconic cover of Michael Jackson's Off the Wall album. A ~20 year old MJ wears a black tuxedo with bright white shirt and signature dazzling white socks showing above glossy patent leather black loafers. Michael stands tall face front with feet planted wide in a freeze stance mid "Rock with You" hip sway before a brick wall. Up and to the left "Michael Jackson // Off the Wall" is scrawled on the bricks with white chalk in all caps.
April 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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🎧PotD: "I am your permission" - Leon Johnson | Layer 8 Podcast (45m)

open.spotify.com/episode/7hRC...

This is the show for anyone interested in #cybersecurity!

Also, coming soon: layer8conference.com

#podcastrecommendations
#blacksky
Image of the Layer 8 Conference logo: a black 8 ball from a pool game with "Layer 8 con" in the ball's white dot where the ball number (8) appears in the center. Below the logo is the episode title "Episode 127: 'I am your permission' - Leon Johnson".
April 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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🎧PotD: The Powell Memo | Master Plan (54m)

www.levernews.com/master-plan-...

For a better understanding of how and why we are in our current political state, listen to this episode then the entire series.

See also: John Birch vs the PTA reccomended a couple months ago.

#podcastrecommendations
Image of Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell buttoning up his robes. Superimposed over the corner of the black and white image image Powell who's colored in with a green glow is being watched over by the green eye of George Washington from the dollar bill etching - perhaps representing capitalism itself.
April 3, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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🎧PotD: Comic Bill Burr | Fresh Air w/Terry Gross (1h)

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Bill Burr's surprisingly introspective "angry" comedy is regularly imitated poorly by his lessers. Terry Gross and Burr both struggle with his comedy and the man himself and it's fascinating!

#podcastrecommendations
Comedian Bill Burr (bald middle-aged white man with red facial stubble wearing a dark blue long-sleeved crew neck shirt and blue jeans) stands on stage holding a microphone and leaning casually with one arm draped over the mic stand. He looks out at the audience (unseen in photo) wearing a mischievous grin.
March 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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PotD: The Origins of Abundance | The Ezra Klein Show (1h 15m)

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Post 2 of 2: Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson discuss their new book Abundance. Thinking about the world we could have: Supply-Side Progressivism.

#podcastrecommendations
#yimby
Cover art for the Plain English with Derek Thompson podcast. This is the podcast for which this conversation was originally recorded.
March 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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PotD: Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson: Less Obstruction, More Government | On w/Kara Swisher (66m)

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Part 1 of 2 posts about Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson's new book Abundance. This is the conversation we all need to be having YESTERDAY!

#podcastrecommendations
#yimby
Cover image for On With Kara Swisher podcast. Includes following excerpt of episode description: Scarcity is a policy choice — one liberals need to reject and replace with abundance, according to journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson in their new book, Abundance. They say that by building a wall of bureaucracy in front of growth, Democrats have created an affordability crisis, hindering their own progressive goals and leading voters to flee blue cities and states. Kara talks to Klein and Thompson about concerns around equity and access; the tech industry’s culpability in all of this; which Dems are best positioned to pursue an abundance agenda; and how pursuing abundance can help fight the Trump-Musk agenda of cruelty.
March 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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🎧PotD: Louis Armstrong's Weed Dealer Transformed Jazz | Great Moments in Weed History (51m)

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Incredible stories of the great Louis Armstrong and jazz music! Also check out the amazing Armstrong documentary on AppleTV+ (youtu.be/o5jbSeBHVTQ).

#podcastrecommendations
#blacksky
Photograph of Louis Armstrong (Black American man middle aged, close cropped dark hair wearing a suit and bowtie) seated, very relaxed and smoking a rolled cigarette. Leaning in over Armstrong's left shoulder clarinetist and sax player, sage of the gague and lord of the lid, Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow (Jewish American man also middle aged, close cropped grey hair wearing a suit and tie square wire framed glasses).
March 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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🎧PotD: Hit Him in the Pocketbook! | Vibe Check

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It's just a relief to hear folks in the know saying the damn thing out loud. This is like the news opinion equivalent of a therapy session.

#podcastrecommendations
#blacksky
March 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM