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Ghcgrain
@ghcgrain.bsky.social
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Retired: farmer, wood finisher, librarian, historian, manufacturing engineer. Songwriting | Photography | Sci Fi | Synthesizers | Film | Music | Physical Media | Environmental History | Architecture | The Built Environment | PNW | no DMs
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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 8d
The map is not only not the territory. It’s not even a map.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4d
Delighted that Cory is having a moment with "Enshittification," because it's an accurate word for what's happening in tech and he's the right person to describe it.

(Gift link)

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A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech
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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 2d
Kate Bush — The Kick Inside — 1978

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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 3d
“Almost,” quit saying almost and get back to us when you’re ready to actually provide an opposition
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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 3d
Oscar Peterson — Night Train — 1963

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Image of the front of a sleek, mid-century modern train. Beside a red turntable with spinning record.
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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 3d
Neil Finn was built for David Bowie covers.

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Neil Finn - "Heroes" (David Bowie cover, live from home)
YouTube video by Neil Finn
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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 3d
Sure seems that way
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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 4d
Scratch a libertarian find a racist. “Don’t tell me who I can’t hate” is in their marrow.

Am I overgeneralizing? Maybe a bit. But only.
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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 4d
The Who — Who’s Next — 1971

They don’t make em like this anymore

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The Who members standing out in the middle of nowhere next to some sort of monolith made of cement. Beside a red turntable with spinning record..
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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 6d
And that the Supreme Court says it’s OK to just do it based on their skin color, so fundamentally anti-constitutional.
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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 6d
Going to war over health care costs is the wrong battle right now. The government shutdown should be 100% about federal troops in our streets and the daily erosion of our civil rights.
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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 7d
Jeff Tweedy — Twilight Override — 2025

Triple album Jeff Tweedy tour de force. Early takeaways: timely, some of his best lyrics ever, and the opening song on disc three Lou Reed Was My Babysitter is pure genius.

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Jeff Tweedy standing against a backdrop of a diffused white globe. Beside a red turntable with spinning record.
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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 7d
The Dave Brubeck Quartet — Time Out — 1959

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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 7d
OK, but you do realize android is Google and Google bends their knee just as much as Apple. We don’t really have a lot of good alternatives in phones right now.
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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 8d
The map is not only not the territory. It’s not even a map.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 8d
What I.C.E. and this Administration are doing to brown-skinned people is a crime.
It’s a sin.
It's inhumane.
It's not pro-life.
It’s not Christian.
It’s not making America great.
It's wrong by any measurement decent people use.
And it’s time we said it.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-ice-at...
The I.C.E. Atrocities Should Be the Final Straw for Decent Human Beings.
This should be the final straw for us, America.
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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 8d
Their own teachings basically say the antichrist is so smart and diabolical that they will all follow the antichrist, not knowing he is the antichrist. Yet not one of them seem to have that lightbulb moment that maybe they are choosing to follow the wrong person.
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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 8d
You left out the part where he assured his wife he would get treatment to become a female.
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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 9d
Gaffe? Sounded pretty truthy to me.
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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 9d
The Delines — Mr. Luck and Ms. Doom — 2025

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Dry rural scene in a gravel parking lot with what looks like a coyote standing to be photographed. Beside a red turntable with spinning copper colored record.
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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 9d
My favorite bumper sticker from years ago: “Republicans claim government doesn’t work and when they get elected they prove it.” And boy have they ever…
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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 9d
To Lenny Kravitz, I say, what are you doing there man?
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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 9d
Followers of an openly treasonous president are treasonous.
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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 10d
I keep waiting for that decisive moment Winston Churchill talked about, when Americans do the right thing after exhausting all other options.
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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 10d
There’s no such thing as permanent, only trends that are longer or shorter.
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Ghcgrain @ghcgrain.bsky.social · 10d
It’s interesting that these other songwriters who made a point of telling Joni she was writing too personally that they were almost always men. Was it really less personal when Bob Dylan wrote Blood on the Tracks? More metaphors, but everyone knew he was talking about his wife.
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