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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 · 4h
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
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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 4h
"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 · 14h
#JohnPrine #FuckCOVID #April7th2020 #ChicagoFarmer
Chicago Farmer - April 7th
YouTube video by David Schipper
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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 14h
Lotsa data and AI centers outside of Reno. This should send electricity prices skyrocketing.
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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 14h
@feistywaters.com take note.
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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 · 1d
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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Tom the Dancing Bug
Super-Fun-Pak Comix
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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 1d
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
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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 1d
A remorseful stinger.
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joan crowe @cowandstrangeman.bsky.social · 1d
wasp in sleeve
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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 1d
The Rutgers professor and his family were able to leave the country last night.
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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.
Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats
www.nytimes.com
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Max Doubt @maxxxdoubt.bsky.social · 2d
– Max's Mandalas –
#mandala #kaleidoscope #digitalart #kaleidoscopic #generative #generativeart #confirmed #imagemagick #energize

Arbor Knot
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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 2d
Rock soup?
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joan crowe @cowandstrangeman.bsky.social · 2d
Strangeman performs the assist for lunch cook
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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 2d
The Expanse.
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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 2d
Ramble on.
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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 2d
Priority seating by Wiley Miller.
Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 6, 2025 | GoComics
Read Non Sequitur—a comic strip by creator Wiley Miller—for today, October 6, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!
www.gocomics.com
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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 2d
"Quartervax Sneak" - a Blast From the Past by Ruben Bolling. @rubenbolling.bsky.social
Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for October 9, 2025 | GoComics
Read Tom the Dancing Bug—a comic strip by creator Ruben Bolling—for today, October 9, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!
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Désespérer @decervelage.bsky.social · 2d
Saigon Surf Rock:
youtu.be/n2HkL5CBDbo
Nếu Có Xa Nhau
YouTube video by Phương Tâm - Topic
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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 4d
My wife and I just got our flu vaccines at Hy-Vee.
Now it’s time for some shopping…
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Rob LaRocque @roblarocque.bsky.social · 4d
Meanwhile, inside Stephen Miller’s crypt.
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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 4d
We only got an inch overnight here in Peoria. This was the first significant rainfall since the beginning of August.
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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 4d
V for two and two for V
Me for you and you for me alone
--V. Youmans
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Diane 🏳️‍🌈 @mmmadcccow.bsky.social · 5d
Here comes the sun.

I had to take the photo in vertical to get the contrail. And Venus is off to the right. 😊
Sunrise October 6th, 2025. Early dawn with a silhouette of a house and trees. There is a jet contrail going straight up on the left of the picture and Venus is shining just to the right of the top of the trees.
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Désespérer @decervelage.bsky.social · 5d
I have vowed to defy this Age of Enshitification by modeling my social behavior after Gomez Addams. Thank you, Chris Schweizer.
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Welcome to Night Vale @nightvaleradio.bsky.social · 5d
Be careful what you wish for. Because it might not happen and then you'll be Sad.
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