Chuck
@chuckkreuser.bsky.social
Member of the Chicago jugband. Strictly Jug Nuts. Cohost and producer of @eqpod.bsky.social (which really kicked in starting season 3)
The intro on memory brings to mind a music memory: seeing The Zombies (or at least Blunstone and Argent) in concert. There was definitely a superfan there with a “Rose For Emily” sign. My brain really wants to fill in some gaps and give him a homemade towel/blanket cape à la Ignatius J. Reilly.
Beans on the table, boys! New episode now live!
Song 183: “Pinball Wizard” by The Who, Part 1: Always Playing Clean 🎸🫘
A first part of a multi-episode look at the song “Pinball Wizard” by The Who.
Available to listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and via the website: 500songs.com/podcast/song...
Song 183: “Pinball Wizard” by The Who, Part 1: Always Playing Clean 🎸🫘
A first part of a multi-episode look at the song “Pinball Wizard” by The Who.
Available to listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and via the website: 500songs.com/podcast/song...
February 13, 2026 at 1:31 PM
The intro on memory brings to mind a music memory: seeing The Zombies (or at least Blunstone and Argent) in concert. There was definitely a superfan there with a “Rose For Emily” sign. My brain really wants to fill in some gaps and give him a homemade towel/blanket cape à la Ignatius J. Reilly.
Something social media should fix is if I’m watching something and accidentally do something that causes the feed to refresh, the thing that i was watching disappears forever.
February 2, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Something social media should fix is if I’m watching something and accidentally do something that causes the feed to refresh, the thing that i was watching disappears forever.
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ten years ago today no one clapped
February 2, 2026 at 12:57 PM
ten years ago today no one clapped
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it isn't a lack of training. it isn't just feds. it's the cruelty the powerful compulsively inflict on the powerless.
On a night of life-threatening cold, a homeless person entered a Lansing bus station seeking refuge from the freezing temperatures.
Video shows police slamming them to the ground and pinning them with knees on their neck as they plead, "I'm here because it's cold outside, and I have nowhere to go."
Video shows police slamming them to the ground and pinning them with knees on their neck as they plead, "I'm here because it's cold outside, and I have nowhere to go."
‘I Have Nowhere to Go!’: Michigan Cops Caught on Video Abusing Homeless Black Person Who Entered Bus Station for Warmth During Freezing Temperatures
"Caught on video: Michigan cops brutalize homeless Black person seeking shelter in freezing temperatures. Shocking abuse unfolds at city'...
atlantablackstar.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:08 PM
it isn't a lack of training. it isn't just feds. it's the cruelty the powerful compulsively inflict on the powerless.
Hey #SNL sorry I know it’s already Monday night, but an idea for you: Some presentation of the purely evil middle management that must be in place at ICE to keep motivating these guys to be so horrible. Either pre-recorded or, if you’re really bold, perform a historic takedown of ICE fucking LIVE.
January 27, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Hey #SNL sorry I know it’s already Monday night, but an idea for you: Some presentation of the purely evil middle management that must be in place at ICE to keep motivating these guys to be so horrible. Either pre-recorded or, if you’re really bold, perform a historic takedown of ICE fucking LIVE.
It does feel nice and right to think of the people trying to destroy our civilization as barbarians.
I’m a big fan of civilization. Rule of law, public health, universities, science, all good things. Great stuff. It may not be ‘politically correct’ to say this but I’m also a fan of what civilizations have done to idiot barbarian hordes who attempted to trample on those things.
January 25, 2026 at 2:41 AM
It does feel nice and right to think of the people trying to destroy our civilization as barbarians.
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I’m a big fan of civilization. Rule of law, public health, universities, science, all good things. Great stuff. It may not be ‘politically correct’ to say this but I’m also a fan of what civilizations have done to idiot barbarian hordes who attempted to trample on those things.
January 25, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I’m a big fan of civilization. Rule of law, public health, universities, science, all good things. Great stuff. It may not be ‘politically correct’ to say this but I’m also a fan of what civilizations have done to idiot barbarian hordes who attempted to trample on those things.
If ICE isn’t stopped after this month, would it be stopped after a premeditated public execution?
January 25, 2026 at 2:33 AM
If ICE isn’t stopped after this month, would it be stopped after a premeditated public execution?
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I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength
you don't become a martyr because you were a saint, you become a saint because you were martyred
I agree that we can’t make Alex Pretti a Benedictine monk because that’s a trap, but we can talk about the good things we did because people will see and hear them and think “I do those things too”
January 25, 2026 at 12:27 AM
I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength
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Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.
January 24, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.
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All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
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At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
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ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.
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I made this the last time my anger about ICE boiled over but didn't know what to do with it. And here we are. #ice #fuckice #fucktrump #abolishice
youtu.be/8ZNkQPc4g1A
youtu.be/8ZNkQPc4g1A
Shame
YouTube video by at sign content
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January 8, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I made this the last time my anger about ICE boiled over but didn't know what to do with it. And here we are. #ice #fuckice #fucktrump #abolishice
youtu.be/8ZNkQPc4g1A
youtu.be/8ZNkQPc4g1A
As if I wasn’t feeling silly big bookstore nostalgia enough walking into a Barnes & Noble, they were playing Backwater by Meat Puppets outside the store and Change by Blind Melon inside. It’s like they were targeting my demographic down to the birth month.
January 7, 2026 at 2:50 AM
As if I wasn’t feeling silly big bookstore nostalgia enough walking into a Barnes & Noble, they were playing Backwater by Meat Puppets outside the store and Change by Blind Melon inside. It’s like they were targeting my demographic down to the birth month.
Look at the difference of what love means for a democrat vs a republican. Dollars to donuts, every single uniqueness of the republican definition is icky, outdated, and/or Tim Walz-style WEIRD.
January 2, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Look at the difference of what love means for a democrat vs a republican. Dollars to donuts, every single uniqueness of the republican definition is icky, outdated, and/or Tim Walz-style WEIRD.
Lin-Manuel Miranda after saying for the first time in his life the name Alexander Hamilton out loud: “Oh fuck yeah.”
December 31, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Lin-Manuel Miranda after saying for the first time in his life the name Alexander Hamilton out loud: “Oh fuck yeah.”
The whole Heart and Soul piano duet thing is pretty old school and the scene from Big is keeping it alive, because without that kids hear it from a) two people they know playing it together (kinda rare) b) YouTubers (maybe cool, but amongst thousands of other weird stunt piano duets)
December 31, 2025 at 5:40 AM
The whole Heart and Soul piano duet thing is pretty old school and the scene from Big is keeping it alive, because without that kids hear it from a) two people they know playing it together (kinda rare) b) YouTubers (maybe cool, but amongst thousands of other weird stunt piano duets)
Twenty years from now: “I shit you not, when I was growing up, we had USB1 plugs in our kitchen outlet.”
December 31, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Twenty years from now: “I shit you not, when I was growing up, we had USB1 plugs in our kitchen outlet.”
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Christ on a bike, this is brilliant.
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
December 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Christ on a bike, this is brilliant.
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
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Home Alone fans! Did you know that FIVE actors from the holiday classic Home Alone were guest stars on The Equalizer? Including Macaulay Culkin almost two years before Home Alone came out. Check them out, and Merry Christmas! #homealone
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Home Alone fans! Did you know that FIVE actors from the holiday classic Home Alone were guest stars on The Equalizer? Including Macaulay Culkin almost two years before Home Alone came out. Check them ...
Home Alone fans! Did you know that FIVE actors from the holiday classic Home Alone were guest stars on The Equalizer? Including Macaulay Culkin almost two years before Home Alone came out. Check them....
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December 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Home Alone fans! Did you know that FIVE actors from the holiday classic Home Alone were guest stars on The Equalizer? Including Macaulay Culkin almost two years before Home Alone came out. Check them out, and Merry Christmas! #homealone
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Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
December 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
Also, TV networks should start having ads for themselves like this. Thirty second spots with Ted Danson saying to the camera “Doesn’t it feel good to just sit at home and watch broadcast TV?”
That AMC ad for itself with Nicole Kidman that they play in the theaters… that should be replaced with Quentin Tarantino looking at the camera saying “You’re about to watch a fucking MOVIE, okay?”
December 21, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Also, TV networks should start having ads for themselves like this. Thirty second spots with Ted Danson saying to the camera “Doesn’t it feel good to just sit at home and watch broadcast TV?”
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This is the thing that really freaks me out about LLMs. I often don't know what I think about something until I've verbalised it. The process of writing is the process of clarifying my thoughts.
Writing and talking is how I get my thoughts and ideas in order and find myself with new ones I didn't have before.
It's weird that we have to say that.
It's weird that we have to say that.
December 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This is the thing that really freaks me out about LLMs. I often don't know what I think about something until I've verbalised it. The process of writing is the process of clarifying my thoughts.