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thatwordyguy.bsky.social
Mr. Zack
@thatwordyguy.bsky.social
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Raising money for Extra Life at extra-life.org/participants/AntagonistRelations

Nerd, former lit major, enjoyer of bitter drinks. MPLS Resident. He/Him.
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Eves always enjoys getting scritches while using the scratching post. #stretchscratchskritch #thedustballs #catsky #rescuecats
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Another week of listening down.

#WeeklyTunes

#LastFMCollage

#LastFM

#musicsky
A grid of album covers, 5 by 5. From left to right, top to bottom: Bog Wizard - Satanik Panik Lizzy & The Triggermen - Live at Joe's Pub Andrew Liles - MORAL NIHILIST PART EIGHT (THE END OF NOTHING) Lung - The Swankeeper Cold Specks - Light for the Midnight Kate Nash - 9 Sad Symphonies Zombie Zombie - Funk Kraut Nechochwen - spelewithiipi Andrew Liles - MORAL NIHILIST PART FIVE (SALVATION DELUSION) Andrew Liles - MORAL NIHILIST PART SEVEN (OBJECTIVE TRUTH) Andrew Liles - MORAL NIHILIST PART SIX (NEITHER DOES NOR DOES NOT REAPPEAR) BIG|BRAVE - OST Chris Connelly - The Lives and Loves of the Serial Homesick, Volume 1 Xordox - Terraform Sunn O))) - Eternity's Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential Andrew Liles - MORAL NIHILIST PART FOUR (A PLACE OF NOTHINGNESS) Andrew Liles - MORAL NIHILIST PART ONE (BELIEVE IN NOTHING) Andrew Liles - MORAL NIHILIST PART THREE (TRANSCENDENTAL ANNIHILATION) Andrew Liles - MORAL NIHILIST PART TWO (AT ONE WITH NIETZSCHE) Edward Ka-Spel - The Neon Weeps Tonight Lankum - Ghost Town Boris + Endon - EROS Alicia Cordisco - The Burden of I Seeming - Tomorrow Place Panopticon - The Poppies Bloom For No King (EP)
November 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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I am way behind on my prep for Extra Life this year, but Evie still thinks you should make a donation. Even a donation of $5 or $10 helps sick kids.

www.extra-life.org/participant/...
A photo of a floofy gray cat with a rainbow on her back with a wizard's hat, magic crystals and a floating skull.
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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It is the extra rare sisterly affection... #thedustballs #catsky #rescuecats
November 3, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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The same floofy grey cat as the last skeet, having turned her head to show her fashionable pretzel toy hat perched on top of her head.
November 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Nadja usually does not tolerate anything upon her floofy noggin but apparently this catnip pretzel toy is acceptable headgear... #theDustballs #catsky #rescuecat
A fluffy grey cat looking moderately displeased to have a felt catnip toy on her head like a hat, but no lt so displeased that she needs to shake it off...
November 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Evie is a very snoozy spiral this Sunday. #thedustballs #catsky #rescuecat
A very floofy gray cat snoozes with her little face tucked under the end of her tail on a white and red blanket.
November 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
thatwordyguy.bsky.social
Another week of listening down.

#WeeklyTunes

#LastFMCollage

#LastFM

#musicsky
A grid of album covers, 5 by 5. From left to right, top to bottom: Fini Tribe - The Sheer Action of the Fini Tribe 1982-1987 Frayle - Heretics & Lullabies Bradley Thomas Turner - Haunted House Party S Y Z Y G Y X - Sinner Bog Wizard - Satanik Panik The Post-Timey String Band - The Post-Timey String Band (2024) Panopticon - Laurentian Blue Dark Chisme - Dark Chisme Leaether Strip - All Hallow's Eve Agriculture - The Spiritual Sound Årabrot - Rite Of Dionysus Nina Nastasia - Songs for a World of Trouble Unwoman - Untitled Scary EP No. 1 Panopticon - Songs of Hiraeth The Night Terrors - Pavor Nocturnus Boris - fade Rojin Sharafi - Zangaar Chris Connelly - SHELTA Edward Ka-Spel - Songs Of Solitude Arklay Mountains - WHY ARE THE SKELETONS DANCING? The Legendary Pink Dots - The Legendary Pink Dots' Hallowe'en Special 2025 Transgressive - Remember Us to Death Non Serviam - Ne regarde plus les bombes tomber (Benefit EP) Piqsiq - Uiqqalaaq Pitch Black Manor - The Halloween Scene
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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What a Halloween delight to stop in at local treasure Ombibulous and hear Scott Walker + sunn o)))'s 'Soused' on the speakers.
The lit sign of Ombiblous, the best liquour store in the Twin Cities on a dreary October afternoon.
October 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Got a second mug of Hofbrauhaus Freising Fest since the first one was going down so well...
An almost empty mug of beer with a second full mug behind it on a blue checked table cloth.
October 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Grabbing dinner at Black Forest Inn before @ladychristyk.bsky.social & I go to "Lizzie: A Rock Musical" at Open Eye Theater with friends tonight.
A tall foamy mug of Hofbrauhaus Freising Fest beer on a blue checked table cloth.
October 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Finally, a mix of haunting and unnerving songs for a more atmospheric and decidedly child unfriendly evening of horror.

hwæt! Halloween 2025 - Haunted Mix

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10/15
A heavily distorted image of an illustration of a skull with a crown and a snake on it with the text "hwæt! Halloween 2025 - Haunted Mix" super-imposed upon it. The original source image can be found here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skull_Crowned_with_Snakes_and_Flowers,_The_Duchess_of_Malfi_MET_DP805749.jpg This image is the cover of a mix of songs with the following track list: Dorit Chrysler - Murder Ballad Sheet Ghosts - Nothing but the Night Seven Blood-Stained Orchids - The Devil in Amber FM Einheit - Hymne (Witch burn) The Night Terrors - Kuceli Woke Up In The Graveyard Young Fathers - Alpha The Wades - Sídhe Gazelle Twin - Fear Keeps Us Alive Giants of Discovery - Terror In The South Tower Rún - Such is the Kingdom Grey Frequency - Elegy for Vinegar Tom Lustmord & Zola Jesus - Prime Bretwalda - A Dread Soaking (Oh Lord)
October 30, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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And a mix of Halloween Adjacent Metal tracks, for those who want some seasonal head bangers. Definitely more on the adult end of things.

hwæt! Halloween 2025 - Metal Mix

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8/15
A heavily distorted image of a gothic painting of an imagined witch's sabbath with the text "hwæt! Halloween 2025 - Metal Mix" imposed over it. The original source image can be found here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Claes_J_van_der_Heck_Witches%27_Sabbath.jpg This image is the cover of a mix of songs with the following track list: Wolfmen of Mars - The Silent Panic Froglord - Cryptids Frayle - Boo Castle Rat - Nightblood GREEN LUNG - Templar Dawn Christian Mistress - Haunted, Hunted YRRE - Dustsceawung Witchcryer - Witchfinder General Molassess - Death Is Possessor - Bloodsuckers Faetooth - Death of Day BORIS + ENDON - Painkiller (Judas Priest) ÚZKOST - The Witch & the Tyrant (Featuring Whitney Moore)
October 30, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Followed by another Folky mix of murder ballads and other macabre songs in a more folk or traditional style. Probably just a little too intense at points to hand out candy while listening to.

hwæt! Halloween 2025 -Folky Mix

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6/15
A distorted image of a dark forest scene with the text "hwæt! Halloween 2025 - Folk Mix" overlaid on it. The original source image can be found here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:176_Jules_No%C3%ABl_All%C3%A9e_de_ch%C3%A2taigniers.jpg This image is the cover of a mix of songs with the following track list: Shirley Collins - Cruel Lincoln Lankum - What Put the Blood Unwoman - The Eldritch One, Jolene Forest Mountain Hymnal - Pretty Polly Myrkur - Den lille piges død (Live) Jeremiah Sand - No You Are Mine Ian Lynch - The Hunt The Post-Timey String Band - Wherewolf Marissa Nadler and Milky Burgess - The Bloody Gardener Emel - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath ØXN - Love Henry The Rowan Amber Mill - The Ballad of the Witchfinder General Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin & Ultan O'Brien - All Our Lonely Ghosts
October 30, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Then, another the Creepy Crawly Dance Party mix, a selection of vaguely sinister and monstrous to outright Halloween themed songs suitable for an adult costume party.

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4/15
A heavily distorted image of a woodcut of skeletons with instruments performing a danse macabre. The text "hwæt! Halloween 2025 - Creepy Crawly Dance Party" is overlaid on the image. The original source for the image can be found here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Imagines_mortis_the_dance_of_death_0506_Skeletons_making_music_The_pope_PK-P-127.377_-_recto.tiff This image is the cover of a mix of songs with the following track list: Black Market Dub & Wise Owl - No More Room In Hell RATPAJAMA - Danse Macabre Dark Chisme - Fangs Peter Aldrich featuring Jon Harman & David Williams - Dawn of the Dead Pitch Black Manor - The Halloween Scene Magic Sword - “Candyman” Theme Fini Tribe - Make It Internal (Integrity Mix) (2025 Remaster) Hazy Sour Cherry - Monster’s Party Witchboard - Supernaturals Fill The Floor w Grace Sings Sludge Frayle - Bela Lugosi’s Dead Suzi Sabotage - Love at First Bite The Legendary Pink Dots - The Light In My Little Girl’s Eyes Unwoman - Everyday Is Halloween
October 30, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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First another Candy Bowl Mix, a mix of slightly eerie, slightly silly songs that should be suitable to have on in the background while you're passing out treats to costumed children.

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2/15
A distorted image of a pumpkin creature and a little girl in a pumpkin costume with the words: hwæt! Halloween 2025 - Candy Bowl Mix overlaid on it. The original version of the image can be found here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mother_Earth%27s_Children_p.92.jpg This image is the cover of a mix of songs with the following track list: Bradley Thomas Turner - Spooky Season (in the Foyer) 8-Bit Arcade - Ghostbusters Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers - Graveyard Shift The Swingin’ Phillies - Frankenstein’s Party Putney Dandridge - Skeleton In The Closet Uncle Fido - They Find a Haunted House Mr. Basemen & The Symbols - Do The Zombie Hazy Sour Cherry - Zombilly Rave (till someone call police!) Mark Malibu & the Wasagas - Ghost Hunter New Mayfair Dance Orchestra - The Haunted House Baron Daemon & The Vampires - Ghost Guitars Earl Patterson With The Dars - Nightmare Hop The Fabulous Five - Janie Made A Monster
October 30, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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Amore is done with @ladychristyk.bsky.social's shit...
October 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
thatwordyguy.bsky.social
Another week of listening down.

#WeeklyTunes

#LastFMCollage

#LastFM

#musicsky
A grid of album covers, 5 by 5. From left to right, top to bottom: Chris Connelly - Eulogy to Christa The Bug - Absent Riddim Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Yarın Yoksa Panopticon - Laurentian Blue Boris - Heavy Rocks (2022) Edward Ka-Spel - Prints Of Darkness Faetooth - Labyrinthine Frayle - Heretics & Lullabies Agriculture - The Spiritual Sound Sir Richard Bishop - Hillbilly Ragas Froglord - Metamorphosis Melvins & Lustmord - Pigs Of The Roman Empire Rojin Sharafi - Kariz Panopticon - Songs of Hiraeth Rún - Rún Bretwalda - Dread Prayers I Holy Tongue meets Shackleton - The Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now Pig - Feast of Agony The Body - All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To Blood Midwife & Vyva Melinkolya - Orbweaving Thor & Friends - Heathen Spirituals dälek - Breathe Slow Sunn O))) - Eternity's Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential Andrew Liles - 27,000 SLUG TEETH Pharaoh Overlord - Louhi
October 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Saturday Scritches... #thedustballs #catsky #caturday #rescuecats
October 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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What's it like inside your head?
A still from Episode 14 of Season 4 of The Venture Bros "Assisted Suicide." Doctor Venture's mind is represented as a 1960s Super Science computer lab and the Mighty Monarch sits at the console, turning back in shock and horror as a horde of dead Hank and Dean clones invade to menace him.
October 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Taking advantage of the autumnal weather to visit the Arboretum. Here is @ladychristyk.bsky.social with a big mushroom before she got haunted by some scarecrows & the saddest Pooh face...
A smiling woman in sunglasses and a long plaid coat stands in front of a sculpture called "The Fungus Humongous" made of sticks cloth.
October 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
thatwordyguy.bsky.social
Another week of listening down.

#WeeklyTunes

#LastFMCollage

#LastFM

#musicsky
A grid of album covers, 5 by 5. From left to right, top to bottom: Fini Tribe - The Sheer Action of the Fini Tribe 1982-1987 Panopticon - Laurentian Blue Frayle - Heretics & Lullabies Agriculture - The Spiritual Sound S Y Z Y G Y X - Sinner Panopticon - Songs of Hiraeth Castle Rat - The Bestiary Pig - Red Room Stereolab - Instant Holograms On Metal Film Abwärts - Der Westen ist einsam Faetooth - Labyrinthine Jack Phantom and the Exquisite Corpse Cabaret - Ghosts The Young Gods - Appear Disappear Boris - W Alicia Cordisco - The Burden of I Lustmord - Much Unseen Is Also Here Atman - Personal Forest Bretwalda - Bretwalda The Body - All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To Blood Of Monsters and Men - Fruit Bat Chris Connelly - LARGO 22 Jesu - Heart Ache (Remaster Deluxe) Transgressive - Remember Us to Death Edward Ka-Spel - On The Rebound ØXN - Cruel Mother
October 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Nadja is happy that it's snug season and sleeping hard after a very involved bath...

#thedustballs #catsky #rescuecats
A very floofy grey cat is curled up on a darker gray blanket on the feet of a man on a sofa. She has tucked her face into her front fluff and her peets are slightly akimbo.
October 15, 2025 at 3:39 AM
thatwordyguy.bsky.social
Another week of listening down.

#WeeklyTunes

#LastFMCollage

#LastFM

#musicsky
A grid of album covers, 5 by 5. From left to right, top to bottom: Fini Tribe - The Sheer Action of the Fini Tribe 1982-1987 Agriculture - The Spiritual Sound Daniel Blumberg - The Brutalist (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Purity Ring - Purity Ring Musidora Roux - Amour Sans Ombres S Y Z Y G Y X - Sinner Boris - NO Edward Ka-Spel - The Moon Cracked Over Albion Frayle - Heretics & Lullabies Matt Jencik & Midwife - Never Die Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld - Nerissimo Chris Connelly - Abandoned Premonitions Fire At The Plantation House - Southampton Insurrection ØXN - Cruel Mother Transgressive - Never Go Quiet Bretwalda - Bretwalda Scott Walker + Sunn O))) - Soused Various - Goths for Palestine vol. II Alicia Cordisco - The Burden of I Null Device - The Worst Men In America Schneider TM​ / NOHE NOSHE / ​Zappi Diermaier - Indoor Caravan Seeming - Tomorrow Place Stick In The Wheel - Dark Streets of London feat. Spider Stacy The Holy Mountain Orchestra - Song for JW Panopticon - The Poppies Bloom For No King (EP)
October 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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So @ladychristyk.bsky.social left her new Halloween decorative dish towels on the table, which meant by that Nadja had to make a nest of them. #rescuecats #thedustballs #catsky #caturday
A fluffy gray cat looking pleased to be on several decorative Halloween towels. She has her little paw perched on a rolled up towel and a black towel with ghost cats can be seen in the foreground.
October 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM