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Cybergranola @cybergranola.bsky.social · Sep 23

When CBS Canceled The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour for Criticizing the American Establishment and the Vietnam War (1969) www.openculture.com/2025/09/when...

When CBS Canceled The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour for Criticizing the American Establishment and the Vietnam War (1969)

Rigorously clean-cut, competent on the acoustic guitar and double bass, and seldom dressed in anything more daring than cherry-red blazers, Tom and Dick Smothers looked like the antithesis of nineteen...

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Cybergranola @cybergranola.bsky.social · Sep 18

Cool, EH?

Timmy in Toronto.

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Cybergranola @cybergranola.bsky.social · Sep 16

Cool, will do, thanks for the heads up. I'll post some pics after a deep clean.

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Cybergranola @cybergranola.bsky.social · Sep 15

Funny thing: picked one up at a garage sale years ago, just found it while de-cluttering over the weekend. The paint has been stripped but otherwise its in good shape. I'm going to put it up for sale shortly.

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Cybergranola @cybergranola.bsky.social · Sep 14

Cybergranola @cybergranola.bsky.social · Sep 2

Funny thing; surfing the web putting together a fiber optic hat for an upcoming gig thinking: am I too old to be weird on stage?

No, no I am not........

#YummyYummyYummy #SundayLunch

Cybergranola @cybergranola.bsky.social · Aug 31

My folks took me a screening of 2001, then bought the comic books. Nightmare fuel when your 9 years old, but brilliant comic book art 55 years later,

#jackkirby

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Cybergranola @cybergranola.bsky.social · Aug 14

Calculus in four dimensions.

Cybergranola @cybergranola.bsky.social · Aug 10

Heads In The Sky – Heads In The Sky
Illuminated Records (2) – IR 001 1981
#CanConProg
#nowspinning #PROG

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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · Aug 1

It gets better bsky.app/profile/kate...

Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · Aug 1

Russian state media totally not panicking

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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · Aug 1

Trump on Russia: "Based on the highly provocative statements…I have ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that"

A) don’t believe him, in the implied sense of fresh deployments
B) foolish

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Cybergranola @cybergranola.bsky.social · Jul 20

The Grateful Dead – Farewell To Winterland

Slipped Disc Records – SX-TT 979 France 1979

#nowspinning #TheGratefulDead #vinyl

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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · Jul 12

Your actions to support a free press that acts in support of reality and democracy:
-follow @adamzyglis.bsky.social + share his work (w/credit)
-send a message to the @buffalonews.com in support of Adam and their joint free press editorial freedoms

#PressFreedom
h/t👇
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
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text "if you see a country w/o editorial cartoonists or one where they are not creating tough pointed satire agains politicians and policies be aware" a silenced cartoonist is an indicator of an unhealthy environment for freedom of expression" editorial cartoonists are democracy's canary in a coal mine. cartoon by Ann telnaes journalist in a cage in a coal mine image.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · Jun 22

A hot war with dementia boy in charge has really been one of my top nightmares for this idiotic, unnecessary sequel, and here we are less than six months in, fucking hell

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badanalysis @badanalysis.bsky.social · Jun 18

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Cybergranola @cybergranola.bsky.social · Jun 15

The Kinks - Low Budget 1979

#nowspinning #vinyl #thekinks #superman #JamesGunn

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Cybergranola @cybergranola.bsky.social · Jun 14

I was 17 years old when I caught this tour at the University Of Vermont. Remember joining the pogo pit during Psycho Killer.

Talking Heads – Live In Seattle September 8th 1978

#nowspinning #bootleg #TalkingHeads

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Cybergranola @cybergranola.bsky.social · Jun 10

12:48 EST, getting funked up........

#slystone #nowspinning #vinyl #vinylcommunity #MaestroRhythmKingMRK–2

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Cybergranola @cybergranola.bsky.social · Jun 6

Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real?

Philip K. Dick

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Cybergranola @cybergranola.bsky.social · Jun 1

The Who Fillmore East April 6, 1968

#nowspinning #thewho #bootleg

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Cybergranola @cybergranola.bsky.social · Jun 1

Grateful Dead - Stony Brook University Gymnasium NY - 30/10/70

#nowspinning #psychedelicsaturdaynight #gratefuldead #bootleg

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Cybergranola @cybergranola.bsky.social · May 25

David Bowie And The Spiders From Mars – Last Stand: His Master's Voice - TAKRL 1935

#nowspinning #vinyl #bootleg #DavidBowie

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Cybergranola @cybergranola.bsky.social · May 25

Pink Floyd – In Celebration Of The Comet - The Coming Of Kohoutek TAKRL 1903

#nowspinning #psychedelicsaturdaynight #pinkfloyd

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Cybergranola @cybergranola.bsky.social · May 24

Currently cranked on my HighFi:
More Cosmik Messages CSR-004

#nowspinning #vinyl #vinylcommunity #HotTuna #TheGratefulDead #Bootleg

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Cybergranola @cybergranola.bsky.social · May 24

Friday night just before midnight.

New Riders Of The Purple Sage Columbia – C 30888 (original pressing)

#nowspinning #vinyl #vinylcommunity #TheNewRidersOfThePurpleSage

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