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Used to do those things, now I do these things. Still do some other things.
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Crucial Track for November 16, 2025: "Jacking the Ball" by The Sea and Cake

#CrucialTracks

https://app.crucialtracks.org/profile/em_j/20251116
November 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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rincewind.run
Paul Krugman only reads blogs and that is why he, unlike everyone else who has been in punditry for decades, has never lost his mind
getwired.com Wes Miller @getwired.com · Nov 13
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 15, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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northernfutbol.bsky.social
Been there, done that.

#CanPL
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
protoplanetary.cloud
Canadian Premier League final in Ottawa. We do things differently here in Canada…
November 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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paulisci.bsky.social
A Brief History of Baseball is Dying

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October 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
protoplanetary.cloud
Came across this Halloween display while out for a walk yesterday.
October 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
protoplanetary.cloud
I really like Rudy Rucker’s thoughts on shopping malls here:

"Cyberpunk suggests, once again, that SF really can be about the world and not just about the author’s mind. For me, the best thing about cyberpunk is that it taugh... https://matt-jay.micro.blog/2025/10/17/i-really-like-rudy-ruckers.html
October 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
protoplanetary.cloud
Now playing: 猫 シ Corp. open.spotify.com/album/76KbLy...
Palm Mall Mars
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October 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
protoplanetary.cloud
Now playing: Sebastian Schütze open.spotify.com/album/5sXknn...

#morningmusic
Five Short Images
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October 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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338canada.bsky.social
The latest 🇨🇦 federal polls, male voters only: 338canada.com/polls.htm

🔵CPC +11, Nanos
🔵CPC +6, Pallas Data
🔵CPC +2, EKOS
🔵CPC +1, Liaison
🔴LPC +1, Pollara
🔴LPC +1, Research Co.
🔴LPC +3, Angus Reid
🔴LPC +4, Abacus Data
🔴LPC +4, Léger
🔴LPC +7, Ipsos
April 12, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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338canada.bsky.social
The latest 🇨🇦 federal polls, female voters only: 338canada.com/polls.htm

🔴LPC +7, Abacus Data
🔴LPC +9, Léger
🔴LPC +11, Liaison
🔴LPC +16, Research Co.
🔴LPC +17, Angus Reid
🔴LPC +17, Pollara
🔴LPC +19, Ipsos
🔴LPC +19, Pallas Data
🔴LPC +22, Nanos
🔴LPC +29, EKOS
April 12, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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tomscocca.bsky.social
That's the inflation-adjusted budget of Alien (1979)
April 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
So from my uniquely weird perspective after living in the UK through Brexit, being in India during Modi's demonetization, and living in Brazil when the real tanked during the Bolsonaro administration, I can confidentally say that Americans do not and can not understand how bad this is going to be.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Apr 9
Every damned word of this 4-graf brief, except “By WSJ Staff,” should scare the bejeesus out of you this morning.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
= WSJ Dollar Confidence Crisis Is Here, Deutsche Bank Warns By WSJ Staff The broad selloff in U.S. stocks and bonds, and the continuing decline in the dollar, represents a "simultaneous collapse in the price of all U.S. assets," analysts at Deutsche Bank said Wednesday. They warned that "unchartered territory" lies ahead. • Markets are dedollarizing, they said, citing the lack of evidence that investors are hoarding dollar liquidity- a dynamic that in previous market routs fueled Treasury and U.S. dollar rallies but this time is leading to declines in the prices of both. • The administration is encouraging the Treasury selloff, they said, in a bid to bring down U.S. asset valuations-a decision they said now is exposing the fact that "reducing bilateral trade imbalances is functionally equivalent to lowering demand for U.S. assets as well." • A financial war with China could lie ahead, they conclude, contending that "there is little room now left for an escalation on the trade front" and that "there can be no winner to such a war."
April 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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bjcolangelo.bsky.social
We all feel insane because we're the ones actually mainlining the Bad News while the overwhelming majority of people who voted this colossal piece of tumefied excrement into power sincerely have NO idea how much he's breaking things beyond repair.
April 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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atrupar.com
“That really is his understanding of what a deal is: getting something over on the other guy. And that’s what we see here. To the extent there’s any plan it’s basically a power play; Trump is pulling on the economic powers of the world to bum rush them into a newly subservient global trading regime”
WTAF is Going On? In Search of the Plan Behind Trump’s Global Economic Crisis
Everyone in the country at the moment, albeit from different vantage points,...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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isthisstrikergood.bsky.social
First Post: On Tom Cannon and that transfer fee:
isthisstrikergood.substack.com/p/tom-cannon...
Tom Cannon - Is This Striker Good?
I had the idea for this blog (are we still calling it that?) pretty much directly on the back of Tom Cannon’s move to Sheffield United in January.
isthisstrikergood.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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monteiro.bsky.social
Last week’s newsletter was about organizing your books, but where do all those books come from? This week we talk about how you make a book. And how to eat. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...
How to make a book
This is Give Trans People Drugs and Money. Just finished it. It’s made of wax and razor blades and feelings. It’s 46x30. It’s born of the idea that we are...
buttondown.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
If the Democrats don’t make an absolute buffet out of this group chat national security scandal, primary each and every one of them. It’s literally on a silver platter.
March 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
SignalGate Is Bad; But OPSEC Isn’t Even the Worst Part Of It talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signa...
SignalGate Is Bad; But OPSEC Isn’t Even the Worst Part Of It
I haven’t had time to comment on the Jeff Goldberg’s story about...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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maryscottoconnor.com
I mean... holy shit.
From Rasmus Jarlow, Danish politician: "I don't know if there is a kill switch in the F35's or not. We obviously can not take your word for it. As one of the decision makers behind Denmark's purchase of F35's, I regret it. The USA can certainly disable the planes by simple stopping the supply of spare parts. They want to strengthen Russia and weaken Europa and are showing that they are willing to do tremendous damage to peaceful and loyal allies like Canada just because they insist on existing as a country. I can easily imagine a situation where the USA will demand Greenland from Denmark and will threaten to deactivate our weapons and let Russia attack us when we refuse (which we will even in that situation). Therefore, buying American weapons is a security risk that we can not run. We will make enormous investments in air defence, fighter jets, artillery and other weapons in the coming years, and we must avoid American weapons if at all possible. I encourage our allies and friends to do the same."
March 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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nytimes.com
On Aug. 12, 1958, Art Kane gathered 58 jazz notables in front of a Harlem brownstone for a group portrait.

Only one of its subjects is still alive: the saxophonist Sonny Rollins, 94, who spoke about the historic image.
58 Jazz Musicians Were Photographed for ‘Harlem 1958.' Only One Remains.
Art Kane’s “Harlem 1958” gathered giants of the music. Sonny Rollins, 94, looks back at the historic picture.
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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4hundredblows.bsky.social
Philomena, 93 years old from Limerick, has just turned to me and said “Up the fucking reds”
December 1, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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iainrb.bsky.social
If Back to the Future was set today, Marty would go back to 1994. The kids in the past would be listening to Nirvana. Marty would amaze and confuse them with White Stripes and Radiohead songs, and intimidate his dad by pretending to be Neo from the Matrix. He'd be baffled by the lack of wifi. 😜
April 3, 2024 at 2:20 AM
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rob-sheridan.com
Hard to believe NIN's classic The Downward Spiral is 30 years old today! Here's some detail photography I took of the original album cover painting by Russell Mills for the 10th anniversary deluxe edition release I designed back in 2004.

More photos and thoughts: www.tumblr.com/robsheridan/...
Detail photography of Russell Mills' original painting (more of a collage, really) that was used as the cover of Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral in 1994. Photo taken by me for the TDS 10th anniversary re-release in 2004. Detail photography of a moth on Russell Mills' original piece that was used as the cover of Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral in 1994. Photo taken by me for the TDS 10th anniversary re-release in 2004. Detail photography of teeth on an original Russell Mills art piece that was used in the internal artwork of Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral in 1994. Photo taken by me for the TDS 10th anniversary re-release in 2004. Detail photography of feathers on an original Russell Mills art piece that was used in the internal artwork of Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral in 1994. Photo taken by me for the TDS 10th anniversary re-release in 2004.
March 8, 2024 at 8:34 PM