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Jeff Betten

@jeffbetten.bsky.social

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Mayor of the Pittsburgh music scene. HellbenderVinyl.com, Misra Records, ILovePghMusic.com, FixPittsburgh.com, and coming soon to a County Council race near you BettenForAllegheny.com

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Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · Aug 24

Thank you Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, and Western Pennsylvania ❤️

www.pittsburghmagazine.com/40-under-40-...

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The Marriage Braggart @bombsfall.bsky.social · 1d

Something I love that was especially precious pre-widespread internet adoption is moments where you got into some kind of important books/ movies/ music/ art in general that was otherwise unavailable from you. Like a friend who made you That One Mixtape, your random video rental one time, etc

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 1d

Thelonious Monk & Nina Simone

📸 Pannonica de Koenigswater

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Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · 1d

unsolicited tick pic

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chris walla, cricket command AS @calculizer.bsky.social · 3d

just learned that alvvays buys their used equipment on revverb

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Tanisha @tanishaevonne.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday, Pittsburgh City Council Member Erika Strassburger tried to gut the inclusionary zoning bill by sneaking in amendments that no one in the public nor her fellow council members had been given sufficient time to review or read.

Inclusionary zoning fight erupts in Pittsburgh City Council, dispute with Gainey looms

As Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey’s term enters its final three months, a battle over one of his administration’s signature affordable-housing initiatives — mandatory inclusionary zoning — boiled over in ...

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Bill Bernstein @billbbillb.bsky.social · 7d

At today’s sold-out Monongahela Pop Festival at Gov’t Center Records, before the Frampton Bros. reunion folks are pumped for, Benefits (band I’m in) will play our new record BURNOUT 🫩 (& we’ll have copies, courtesy of @hellbendervinyl.bsky.social)
+ on Bandcamp
benefitspgh.bandcamp.com/album/burnout

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Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · 10d

Ask not for whom the vibe shifts, it shifts for thee

Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · 11d

Never forget that Leonard Cohen pretended to be Kris Kristofferson in order to sleep with Janis Joplin, which he then turned into the song "Chelsea Hotel No. 2"

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Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · 12d

We've only had one president named Abraham, and yet most people believe he did a very good job. Makes you wonder if our next president should also be named Abraham?

Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · 14d

RIP to one of the funniest writers that I ever found through social media

Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 14d

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee.
You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14d

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

2025, So Far

I wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time and talk to my dad in 1988, just before I was born, and tell him what it’s like to live in the future. I’d tell him all the amazing things that a...

kalebhorton.ghost.io

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Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · 14d

Ok but AI art is lame

Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · 14d

Men named Richard don't go by "Dick" anymore

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Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · 16d

"If I had a gun with two bullets and I was in a room with Hitler, Bin Laden, and Toby, I would shoot Toby twice."
- Michael Scott

It's my belief that everyone has a Toby, and I don't trust anyone who says that they don't.

Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · 17d

Ma'am.

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chris walla, cricket command AS @calculizer.bsky.social · 17d

scorpio appreciation post

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The Doctor of Happiness @angrierfish.bsky.social · 17d

Quiz: Bob Nutting’s reaction to his win tonight -
1. Partying deliriously
2. Hugging his loved ones
3. Unaware the team was playing tonight

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bring on the headless horses @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 19d

we're going to a party music.apple.com/us/album/at-...

At the Bottom of Everything by Bright Eyes on Apple Music

Song · 2005 · Duration 4:33

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Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · 19d

BLUESKY EXCLUSIVE! Posting it here first because I had the app open, and why not?

Can you help me make a wiki on MediaWiki? Reply or DM with your rate, because I want to pay you to do something that I'm too busy/dumb to do on my own!

Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · 20d

What if I was Romeo in black jeans?
What if I was Pikachu, no myth?

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Mother of Dragans @lindsaydraganpgh.bsky.social · 23d

When I used to shout down right wing nutjobs, there was one thing that would ALWAYS get to them.

“You can dish it out but can’t take it.”

It would always immediately put them on the defensive, they would clutch their pearls, they’d melt down.

The secret sauce is to call out their weakness.