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Bob Makichuk 🇨🇦

@bobmakichuk.bsky.social

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Edmonton guy in Ottawa. Also a hack guitarist, reformed journalist, and GC head of comms. Views expressed in posts are mine.

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Bob Makichuk 🇨🇦 @bobmakichuk.bsky.social · Nov 18

Making the pivot from the dirty bird. Bear with me while I boot up this feed. Appreciate follows as I reconstitute ten years in the other place and revel in some sanity here.
You can always catch the more professional side of my life over on Li. @BobMakichuk

a cartoon of snoopy and woodstock saying welcome home !!

ALT: a cartoon of snoopy and woodstock saying welcome home !!

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 10h

47 years ago today

It is so easily forgotten, she was daughter, friend, human. Died on this day 1978 at Chelsea Hotel, New York City under circumstances not perfectly clarified.

Rest in peace Nancy Spungen

📸 Chalkie Davies

#punk #nancyspungen #history #punkrockhistory #otd

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

Reese Witherspoon on Diane Keaton hiring her as a fresh-faced girl from Nashville. #RIP

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MakesMeWannaUke🇨🇦 @makesmewannauke.bsky.social · 11h

Happy Thanksgiving Canada

Be thankful for the little things, for they are the most important.

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David Hollingsworth 🏳️‍🌈 @daveyh39.bsky.social · 8h

Remembering legendary and award-winning novelist, short story author and screenwriter Elmore Leonard on his 100th birthday.

#BOTD on 10/11/1925

"I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck."

📷 by Marc Hauser, 1990

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 1d

This is absolutely the last time I call an escort service and say “I’m not picky.”

Photo taken through a doorway into a room with two beds, one of which is occupied by a standing sheep.

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 11h

Happy 79th birthday to Daryl Hall, born on this day in 1946. The golden voice of Hall & Oates, a master of blue-eyed soul, and the host who turned jam sessions into Live from Daryl’s House.

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 11h

I don't object to former Prime Minister Trudeau canoodling with pop star Katy Perry. I do object to him vacationing in the United States. Elbows up, Mr. Trudeau.

TVA Nouvelles @tvanouvelles.ca · 12h

Justin Trudeau et Katy Perry aperçus en train de s'embrasser en Californie

Des photos de Katy Perry et Justin Trudeau en train de s’embrasser portent à croire qu’ils se fréquentent bel et bien, selon le Daily Mail

www.tvanouvelles.ca

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Horizon to horizon, nothing but mistakes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @pewtergod.bsky.social · 18h

Before Born Under A Bad Sign was a Cream classic, it was written for Albert King by Booker T. Jones (of & The MGs)
Music that doesn't suck #MutualMusic #OutOfOrder
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Py3...

Albert King - Born Under A Bad Sign

YouTube video by englishnbloodyproudo

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

Echoes of a very dark past.

From the Chicago Sun Times: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Far Left Lunatic @farleftlunatic.bsky.social · 20h

This is Anne Frank type shit.

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Air @madmaymermaid.bsky.social · 20h

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 11h

You'll notice that the further away from the United States, the greater the interest in pursuing a science doctorate. As proximity to the United States increases, interest diminishes.

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Bob Makichuk 🇨🇦 @bobmakichuk.bsky.social · 19h

I just caught the King Records doc on @pbs.org and it is everything Bob Lefsetz says.
I knew about Hank Ballard and Wynonie Harris - thanks CKUA! - but Cincinnati's place in the music biz was foreign to me. The city missed out not promoting its own history.
Must see TV.
lefsetz.com/wordpress/20...

The King Records Documentary

“King of Them All – The Story of King Records”: I could watch this sh*t all day long. I love to learn, and I learned a lot watching this documentary. From the very first time I me…

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 14h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17h

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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Clint Worthington @clintworthing.bsky.social · 17h

Jesus. Diane Keaton. RIP to a legend who managed to carve out a lifelong career in an industry that frequently robs women like her of dignity and status once they hit 40.

Diane just threw on a turtleneck and said "fuck you, I'm still going."

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Bob Makichuk 🇨🇦 @bobmakichuk.bsky.social · 16h

Reminds me of how I loved Stripes when it first came out. Saw it again a few years ago after a several decade gap.
Wish I hadn't.

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TCMFanatics @tcmfans.bsky.social · 17h

Diane Keaton at The Schwab’s Pharmacy counter in 1983.

Farewell to one cinema's greatest legends Can’t believe we’ve lost her. Such a shock. Rest in peace Diane Keaton. “La-dee-da, la-dee-da” forever.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 17h

RIP Diane Keaton
My favourite picture of her where everyone else is giving it their best Blue Steel & she looks like she’s just wandered in off the street looking super cool.
She was allowed to wear her own clothes & her wonderful personality shines out.
What a unique talent & human being.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16h

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 16h

The first film Diane Keaton directed was Heaven (1987), an exploration of people's beliefs in, or hopes for, a paradisical afterlife, intercut with depictions of heaven from the movies, Just sayin'.

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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 16h

I’m heartbroken about Diane Keaton’s passing. She was fierce in her feminism, funny in her honesty, and incredibly beautiful, in every way. She aged fearlessly, reminding women everywhere that strength and beauty don’t fade, they evolve. What a woman.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 9d

everything is terrible so here's the Muppets channeling Hamilton and bringing me untold joy (via the brilliant brettevansmafrog on insta)

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