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Bob Spillin' @jenkinscolby.bsky.social · 23h

This @sad13.horse bridge is a favorite - chromatic guitars go upupup. Love a bridge 🖤

youtu.be/jOojs565Dbs?...

Buck Me Off

YouTube video by Speedy Ortiz - Topic

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Bob Spillin' @jenkinscolby.bsky.social · 8d

No one needs permission to get a little bitchy with friends, it's usually fun & doesn't need defending

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Bob Spillin' @jenkinscolby.bsky.social · 8d

Funniest micro-segment of academia is people who have apparently dedicated their career to rescuing the reputation of gossip.

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Bob Spillin' @jenkinscolby.bsky.social · 9d

The righteous autotune effect in "Believe" isn't featured in any of the first few choruses, it's only on that final one till it fades out. My memory had it that it was basically nonstop.

Bob Spillin' @jenkinscolby.bsky.social · 9d

Don't quietly weep during the last verse of "I Never Knew You from the Sun" challenge :: impossible

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Bob Spillin' @jenkinscolby.bsky.social · 16d

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Bob Spillin' @jenkinscolby.bsky.social · 16d

Why did they make this jealous child look like a smoldering actor?

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Bob Spillin' @jenkinscolby.bsky.social · 28d

I *wish* Mark was somehow the source here - this is a worldwide phenomenon

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Bob Spillin' @jenkinscolby.bsky.social · 29d

What's square one for younger readers thinking Notes from Underground is thee Dostoevsky? Like obviously there's some tiktokker, I'm looking for the thing just before that.

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Bob Spillin' @jenkinscolby.bsky.social · Sep 15

Tragically Skarmory is a cunt, but I love the bastard

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Bob Spillin' @jenkinscolby.bsky.social · Sep 14

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holden m. accountable @noahs.bsky.social · Sep 6

[ancient egyptian standup comic] see guys from the upper kingdom, they observe funerary rites like THIS. but us guys from the lower kingdom, we observe funerary rites like THIS. See this guy knows what I’m talking about [pointing at man with the head of a bird]

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Bob Spillin' @jenkinscolby.bsky.social · Aug 21

Blonde Redhead

I'm missin something there

libby watson @libbycwatson.com · Aug 16

what is the band that is most like the stuff you like that you nevertheless hate. or dislike. for me it’s Fleet Foxes. seems obvious i should like them but i DONT

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Nebraska Examiner @nebraskaexaminer.com · Aug 19

WORK ETHIC ALCATRAZ? Nebraska’s version of the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center appears to be headed for the southwestern part of the state, Red Willow County.

From Examiner staff:

Is next 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration detention center headed to SW Nebraska? • Nebraska Examiner

Is the next 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration detention center headed to Nebraska's McCook? A story on federal documents says yes.

buff.ly

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Bob Spillin' @jenkinscolby.bsky.social · Aug 13

Tuppence None the Richer

Braaaaaaaaains Spears @briankspears.bsky.social · Aug 12

Slightly diminish a band: About as Good as Ezra

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Bob Spillin' @jenkinscolby.bsky.social · Aug 8

Conduits

That was a good band

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Daxc...

#69 Conduits: The Wonder

YouTube video by Love Drunk

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Bob Spillin' @jenkinscolby.bsky.social · Aug 8

'Walker Percy' in huge letters at the top of the cover with the actual writer's name microscopically situated on the spine $$$$

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Bob Spillin' @jenkinscolby.bsky.social · Aug 8

Has anyone reached out to Saul Bellow's kids to get a Tom Clancy style dead-writer's-name-as-brand continuation going?

Major upside here, no one is tapped in.

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