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Loren Heinold
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American expat in Beijing; craft cocktail company and Mexican restaurant group founder; fan of jazz & blues, Daoism, cooking at home, rock, reading to my daughter, and playing music whenever I can
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Vibe *and* look
Kim Jung Il singing “So Ronery” in Team America
November 25, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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R.I.P., Jimmy Cliff.

When your music makes a three year old halfway across the planet spontaneously break into dance and pick up an instrument every time it’s played, you’ve left something beautiful in the world.
Jimmy Cliff album and record player 3 year old girl playing the recorder while dancing to a Jimmy Cliff live album
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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They’re great
Orange cat stretched out and sleeping
November 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Apparently Musk would have dropped a much harder hitting track ("Launch 'Em Up") than Tupac had he been beefing with Biggie at the time; it would have been "the most tecnhically lethal, existentially terrifying, financially devastating diss in human history."

So why are his tweets so lame?
Grok responding to a question of how hard hitting a track Elon Musk would have dropped if he had been beefing with Biggie and Tupac.
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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The grass is always greener…and the faucet water is always tastier than water from the water bowl
#CatsofBluesky
Orange cat drinking from a faucet
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Thor doesn’t think outside the box. He doesn’t think inside the box, but he also doesn’t think outside the box, just a not a very smart cat.
#Caturday
Orange cat in a box
November 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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A minor guitar chord
November 15, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Felt unsettled watching “Death by Lightning”. Just a strange, through the looking glass feeling seeing an American President speak in full sentences and actually have an interior life and morals.
Poster of Death by Lightning TV series showing Michael Shannon and Matthew Macfayden
November 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Feeling safer knowing these babies are double stocked in my hotel room
#China
Filtration Fire Escape Mask boxes with an inferno in the background of the design
November 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Had to go to Paw Patrol to keep 3 y.o. entertained while Daddy watches baseball
#WorldSeries
Paw Patrol playing on TV in background with World Series playing on computer in foreground
November 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Squeaky and Loki wondering Where Did Our Love Go

#VinylSky #MusicSky #Vinyl #VinylCommunity #CatsOfBluesky
Two cats sitting on an electric piano whit The Supremes’ record plays
November 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Trick or treating in #Beijing
Waiting at door while trick or treating
October 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Our black cat finds the cat faced jack o’ lantern much scarier than himself.
Black cat sniffing at a kitty jack o’ lantern
October 31, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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If you see this post a vampire who isn't Dracula
Stephen Miller angrily pointing
October 26, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Introduced the three year old to Dark Side of the Moon

#Music #MusicSky #Vinyl #VinylSky #VinylCommunity #VinylCollectors #VinylRecords #NowPlaying #NowSpinning
Three year old looking on as Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon record plays
October 12, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Delicious Palestinian stew recipe my three year old daughter helped prepare…as a father I can hardly bear to look at the images but will suck it up and watch “Gaza Doctors Under Attack” albeit without my wife who understandably can’t deal

@zeteo.com #palestine
Bowl of homemade Palestinian Spinach & Chickpea Stew
October 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Dire Straits

#Music #MusicSky #Vinyl #VinylSky #VinylCommunity #VinylCollectors #VinylRecords #NowPlaying #NowSpinning
Dire Straits Brothers in Arms album behind record player
October 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Didn’t expect this statue in Wuhan to be carrying a Louis Vuitton bag and wearing an LV belt #China
Wuhan statue of a man with his daughter on his shoulders and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag LV logo on the statue’s bag LV logo on the statue’s belt
October 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Don’t worry about a thing

#nowspinning #vinylcommunity #vinyl
3 year old daughter watching Bob Marley’s Exodus on the record player
October 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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3 year old chose a Bob Dylan record, cat digs it

#nowspinning #vinylcommunity #vinyl
Bob Dylan record playing with cat sitting on piano and screaming
October 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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In September, for a while
I will ride a crocodile
Down the chicken soup-y Nile
Paddle once, paddle twice
Paddle chicken soup with rice
Maurice Sendak’s book Chicken Soup with Rice held up next to a pot of homemade chicken soup and a bowl of rice
September 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Late night emergency cat food delivery, cats didn’t mind the Meat Package or BARF®️ branding #China
Chinese cat food branded as “Meat Package” and “BARF”
September 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Loki, enjoying his blanket, blissfully unaware of the outside world
Black cat under a blue blanket on the sofa
September 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Cat digs Ella
Cat on sofa next to record player with Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook playing
September 20, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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3-yo wanted me to be a bridge between the sofa and coffee table, so we had an impromptu music appreciation session with Simon and Garfunkel
Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water album on vinyl with record player
September 13, 2025 at 6:04 AM