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Michael Frasca

@frasca.bsky.social

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Retired doc, but still teaching. Taping live music. Movies. Reading SF/fantasy. Playing gowf. Fishing with wife. 3 grown kids. He/him. Live Music Archive page: archive.org/details/@frasca

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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · Sep 5

#ShoeFest 2025 Day #3
Here is my audio recording of headliners #SamGrismanProject featuring #PeterRowan. It was a truly special moment for me. The highlight, of course, was the set-ending Midnight Moonlight with the 1st quarter moon low in the southern sky. Made me verklempt.
#LiveMusic #Bluegrass

Sam Grisman Project Live at Camp Shaw-Waw-Nas-See on 2025-08-31 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

ONLY SET 01. Dust Bowl Children 02. Cold Rain and Snow 03. The Hobo Song 04. Lonesome L.A. Cowboy 05. Kissimmee Kid 06. Knockin' On Your Door 07. Panama...

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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 39m

Festivalll!
#LiveMusic this afternoon at Blue Ridge Community Farm in Chillicothe, IL.
Featuring Sarah Marie Dillard (Toastmistress), Lauren Fitzanko, The Roundstone Buskers, Still Shine and Chicago Farmer.
Music starts at 2 PM. Admission is free.
See you there!

Concert poster showing a red barn and a windmill on a green hill. There is a llama playing fiddle in the foreground.

Text:

GROWING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THOSE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

BLUE RIDGE
COMMUNITY FARM
Fall Concert Series 2025
21529 North Blue Ridge Road, Chillicothe, IL

Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 1h

Dull Care = comfortably numb.

Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 1h

ICE can park wherever they want apparently.

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Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social · 8h

A vintage halloween postcard that is somehow... off.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 1h

The right-wing consolidation of corporate media continues.

Who Is Bari Weiss? Pro-Israel Pundit to Head CBS News as Billionaire Ellisons Expand Media Empire

We speak to journalist David Klion about the Trump-affiliated right wing’s increasing grip on mainstream news media, as “anti-woke” pundit Bari Weiss takes the helm as the new editor-in-chief of CBS N...

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Désespérer @decervelage.bsky.social · 13h

Although Karloff and Lugosi are still household names, few sadly remember Todd Slaughter, England’s first cinematic horror icon.

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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 18h

A scary movie a day until Halloween. Name the film and director, and provide an image.
Film: Onibaba (1964)
Director: Kaneto Shindō
#Filmsky #KanetoShindō #MovieSky #HorrorMovie #MovieChallenge #FilmChallenge #HorrorSky #HalloweenSky #Noh #hannyamask #yome-odoshi-no-men

A woman fleeing a person wearing a hannya mask of a demon with horns.

Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 18h

Home improvement by local contractors Bernstein, Sondheim and Laurents, Inc., Iowa City, IA.

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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 18h

Screen shot from 2001: A Space Odyssey showing the black monolith being unearthed on the Moon.

Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 1d

Here is Part 2 of #enshittification on @democracynow.org

“Enshittification” Author Cory Doctorow on Technofeudalism, “Bottom-Up Resistance” Apps & Mo

Watch Part 2 of our interview with Cory Doctorow, writer and tech activist, whose new book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, is out this week.

www.democracynow.org

Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 1d

"Enshittification" - Cory Doctorow was on Democracy Now! yesterday discussing the degradation of many aspects of modern life, including “Donald Trump’s election represent(ing) the ultimate triumph of enshittification in the political realm.”
Here is Part 1 of #enshittification on @democracynow.org

“Enshittification”: Cory Doctorow on Why Big Tech Sucks, Keeps Getting Worse & What to Do About It

Writer Cory Doctorow returns to Democracy Now! to discuss his new book Enshittification, which explores the term he coined in 2022 to describe how online platforms like Facebook degrade over time as c...

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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 1d

#JohnPrine #FuckCOVID #April7th2020 #ChicagoFarmer

Chicago Farmer - April 7th

YouTube video by David Schipper

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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 1d

Lotsa data and AI centers outside of Reno. This should send electricity prices skyrocketing.

Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 1d

@feistywaters.com take note.

Welcome to Night Vale @nightvaleradio.bsky.social · 1d

YOLO - you oughta love oatmeal

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 2d

This week's comic is now up on @contrariannews.org .
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Super-Fun-Pak Comix, feat. Lester the Jester and more!
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contrarian.substack.com/p/tom-the-da...

Tom the Dancing Bug

Super-Fun-Pak Comix

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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday was a #BoxOfBooks day courtesy of The Folio Society. @foliosociety.bsky.social
Three gorgeous books:
- Endless Night by Agatha Christie
- Octopussy & The Living Daylights by Ian Fleming
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Book cover showing a woman seen through a shattered window. The color scheme is purple.

Text:

AGATHA CHRISTIE

ENDLESS NIGHT

Book cover showing a prone man on a rifle range aiming at targets with a sniper rifle.

Text:

OCTOPUSSY & THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS

IAN FLEMING

Slipcase with a cutout showing a new moon. The color scheme is purple and yellow.

Book cover showing a city landscape with two moons in the sky. Someone is on a balcony looking through binoculars.

Book spine has a butterfly on the top with text below it.

The color scheme is purple and yellow.

Text:

HARUKI
MURAKAMI

1Q84

VOL
2

Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 2d

A remorseful stinger.

joan crowe @cowandstrangeman.bsky.social · 2d

wasp in sleeve

Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 2d

The Rutgers professor and his family were able to leave the country last night.

Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 2d

Remember the #IronCurtain the USSR put up around all the Warsaw pact nations? It was difficult for foreigners to get in and, for citizens, nigh impossible to get out.
From the Atlantic to the Pacific, an #OrangeCurtain has descended around the United States.
Free article from the NY Times.