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Joe B. Wall

@kantoendrato.bsky.social

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This is the personal/musical account for Joe Wall (pro account elsewhere) Raconteur, writer, musician, bricoleur, flanneur, enthusiast of French automobiles, plywood, manual typewriters, electric fans, and avoiding hats, golf, skiing, and cruise ships.

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Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · 4d

I have to be honest & admit that I use my teasmade in a manner not envisioned by its designers. Rather than wake with a machine boiling water next to my bed, I keep mine next to my desk, set to 11:00 AM for a little pre-luncheon kick.

#teasmade #teasmades #offbookuses #tea #repostfrommyMastodon

Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · 6d

The animals are free-ee-ee-ee!

Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · 10d

He really rocks the monocle.

Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · 10d

It's so weird how that insipid American far right spent the past forty years shrieking about jackbooted thugs and tyrants in power and yet here we are, and who's wearing the jackboots?

Oh dear.

inflatable frog protester facing MAGA Gestapo in Portland

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Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · 13d

Are there any non-ill portents these days?

Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · 16d

I find difficult conversations about contemporary issues easier when, instead of using synecdoche to simplify things (Israel v. Gaza, for example), I speak in specifics (Likud v. Gaza). Works for a lot of things and staves off the gotchas you get from people who just want to dig in and not ponder.

Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · 25d

I contend that Ryuichi Sakamoto was the only person in the history of our species who didn't look stupid in a long coat.

#everyonelooksstupidinalongcoat #longcoatssuck #badfashion

Photo of Ryuichi Sakamoto not looking stupid in a long coat

Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · 25d

I'm reminded of something.

youtu.be/p_g5Zjnp520?...

Bananas 1971 The Communist Dictator Is Crazy

YouTube video by Z3P3G3

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Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · Sep 5

What is the point of a 300-character limit? Particularly when Mastodon gives me 500-characters so I can express a complete thought now and then, it's just stupid.

Fuck this stupid same-as-Twitter non-Twitter.

#badasTwitter #blueskysucks

Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · Sep 4

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · Sep 4

I tend to hope this encourages the DIY pattern community.

Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · Sep 4

You're welcome to come collect our Waschbärs, because they're assholes trying to starve my cat.

Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · Aug 28

It's still commerical and therefore destined for enshittification, but this is still (at the moment) better than the other one. If we can establish ourselves as social media nomads, bailing out of dead communities for new ones, there's hope.

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…

arstechnica.com

Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · Aug 18

I officially coin "psnake oil salesman" to denote anyone selling faux psych self-improvement nonsense because the world needs this portmanteau.

#coinage #portmanteau #psnakeoil #schlock

[ reposted from my Mastodon: mastodon.social/@rakontisto ]

Joe B. Wall (@[email protected])

748 Posts, 96 Following, 111 Followers · Generalist, writer, raconteur electronique, musician, mosaicist, ursine scootician.  I tell stories, make music with electricity, teach mosaic arts at nonprofi...

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Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · Aug 4

The nice thing about being a stand-up autobiographer and reliably unreliable narrator is that I'll never have to sit down and write out my memoirs.

#standupautobiographer #raconteur #unreliablenarrator #writing

Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · Jul 25

My physical therapist found it intensely amusing that my primary fitness goal is to be able to do a flawless slickback step.

#PT #physicaltherapy #fitnessgoals #slickback

Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · Jul 22

I contend that Philip Johnson's twee Glass House is the story of the emperor's new clothes rendered as architecture, or possibly that it's the box his ego came in.

#glasshouse #philipjohnson #twee #architecture

[reposted from mastodon.social/@rakontisto]

https://mastodon.social/@rakontisto]

Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · Jul 21

The Incredible Adventures of Jack Flanders is a fantastic intro to ZBS.

Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · Jul 21

All these so-called "AI" summaries just remind me of how annoying it is to have some dumb five-year-old try to tell you what a movie they saw was about. It's all just a lot of words, "and then and then and then" and honestly I'd rather just read the damn thing.

#AIhype #fakeinnovation

Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · Jul 19

9 things I own a sufficient quantity of:

• Bicycles
• Mechanical pencils
• Synthesizers
• Manual typewriters
• Small blank notebooks
• Electric fans
• Antique escritoires
• Tape recorders
• Woks

#inventory #objects #collections #myjunk

Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · Jul 19

It's 2025 and movies, even loaded to the gills with CGI and "AI," still can't begin to touch the depth of visual imagery possible in radio drama. Give me #ArchOboler, #DirkMaggs, and #ZBS over glossy blockbuster schlock any day. #audiodrama #radiodrama #HHGTTG #deepsound

Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · Jul 19

There's no better predictor that a hurricane of bullshit is heading your way than a Hollywood writer citing Schrödinger's Cat, quantum mechanics, or "multiverse." Best hunker down, y'all. #badwriting #scifisucks #lowstandards

Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · Jul 17

This is true.

Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · Jul 17

Yeah, the White Album is a pretty unassailable choice. So many moods and textures to explore.

It's also inspirational, considering it was recorded on an 8 track deck, which shames so many slushy overwrought 24-track+ records. If you can't make magic with 8-tracks, it's you, not the gear.

Joe B. Wall @kantoendrato.bsky.social · Jul 17

To say nothing of my fervent adoration of the abominable 1978 Sgt. Pepper's movie, which I saw in the theater at 10, and to which I had the soundtrack and played the vocoder-heavy "Mean Mr. Mustard" until I nearly wore it out. I think it made me love the Beatles, synthesizers, and campy atrocities.

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