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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 8h

Ravioli is saying “go Nuno”

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 8h

Ends defender logging on

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 12h

Have you seen some of the lawsuits coming out of my country? I have no doubt your writing is better.

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 12h

I happened to be in a doctor’s office as Comey pled not guilty, and even the morning network anchors and reporters were having a hard time dressing the details of the case up as serious. “Can’t wait” to see how this one shakes out

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h

idk how many people there are who will throw down for jim comey, but there's a helluva lot of people who will throw down for tish james

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 12h

I think about this a lot; the amount of time I spent agonizing over social posts for catalogue labels and trying to get the most obscure fun facts before I realized, “you’re in this role because you know more than most; many aren’t gonna know this stuff”

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah it’s too absurd to get mad about imo

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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 13h

An especially silly example, but I see "[much-celebrated legend] is underrated/overlooked" WAY too much these days. IDK if you're young, or hang with the wrong people, or are just desperate for an angle, but this is a very boring (as well as inaccurate) way to discuss someone.

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 15h

wtaf are you talking about

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 15h

I’ve been without Bluetooth headphones most of the week so I haven’t listened yet but…hmm

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 17h

Just gotta poke at the lede a little: Kanin, as far as I know, had nothing to do with Friendship, which Tim of course stars in but Andrew DeYoung wrote and directed

New York Magazine @nymag.com · 18h

The new HBO comedy ‘The Chair Company’ finds Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin pushing their sensibility to the edge, testing whether the anxious, combustible energy of ‘I Think You Should Leave’ can hold steady in a longer, more fragile form.

The Chair Company Is a Rich Text for Tim Robinson Sickos

The new HBO comedy ‘The Chair Company’ finds Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin pushing their sensibility to the edge, testing whether the anxious, combustible energy of ‘I Think You Should Leave’ can hold steady in a longer, more fragile form.

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 18h

Let’s not discount Indiana Groans on the left hand side

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 19h

I can’t be the first to read “Travis Kelce mistook someone else for Greta Gerwig” and think “Frances Huh?” But if I can, I deserve at least $100

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 19h

Rolling Stone’s Record Guide apparently dinged Linda Ronstadt for having a “premature” greatest hits album, but it thus gives her a rare distinction of having two absolute banger compilations, so there’s that

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

I know, it's the Internet and we have to exaggerate, but I've seen this shared a few dozen times and I take offense at the use of "ruined." If JAWS or Beverly Hills Cop having "bad" sequels "ruins" the original for you, then you are unspeakably washed

Screenshot of a link to a Screencrush article headlined: "15 Great Movies That Were Ruined by Becoming Franchises"

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

Would DJ Ol’ Youngin’ go too

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

Rolling Stone headline: “There’s No Vaccine for Taylor Swift Derangement Syndrome”

Ruben Rabasa in I Think You Should Leave: “Oh my God, he admit it!”

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

I think a lot about the kid absolutely freakin’ it to “Superstition” and the girl who improvs so much melody over the riffs to “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” that Paul Simon looks like he’s going to explode if he can’t get to his vocal cue

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

(With massive unearned confidence) Crazy to do this while Jeese is playing on the Bluetooth

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao fuck

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like it, per the P-lines!

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

hoooo hoooo hoooo - Copper Blue one of my top 5 albums of the decade. All in all in

SUGAR @sugarcopperblue.bsky.social · 4d

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

The four singles from Copper Blue are getting collected into a 12" box for Record Store Day, and were just released as digital EPs last week (theseconddisc.com/2025/10/04/t...); their discography also moved from Merge to BMG (where Bob has a deal now). But if this is shows? See you fuckin' there

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 1d

Bob Mould's '90s band Sugar is teasing something

Bob Mould's '90s Band Sugar Is Teasing Something

After helping to define the sound of ’80s underground rock with Hüsker Dü, Bob Mould surged into the ’90s alternative landscape with a new trio called Sugar alongside David Barbe and Malcolm Travis. T...

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

Video art for the PSA “Be Cool About Fire Safety”

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

(My tastes aren't terribly indie *now*, other than making myself laugh for one minute earlier about what if I started pronouncing it "Jeese" to see if anyone was paying attention)

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

I subscribed to Spotify in 2011; my tastes weren't very indie then, so I doubt "nobody" was on there. I started working with Sony a year later, and they were absolutely a partner during my entire tenure. I don't know what 1989 and Reputation have to do with this discussion of two different albums.

Screenshot of my Spotify subscription purchase in 2011. I don't know if I didn't redact anything I should but if there are card numbers in there, they're long expired

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

And remember Adele took streaming out of the equation

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