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Ned Raggett
@nedraggett.bsky.social
Hi! I write about music at various spots (@thequietus.com, @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, Shfl and my Patreon, also in the past @allmusic.com, @pitchfork.com, @bandcamp.com etc. etc.). Plus podcasting about #Tolkien with friends at @bythebywater.bsky.social
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Well, it's time for some honest to god Bluesky lore.

A year ago, the site was still invite only, and one morning I posted something random and didn't think much about it beyond my own amusement.

This is the story about the #ChristianSkydivingBaby and how it completely took over @bsky.app (1/x)
Given the very specific circumstances, I'd either check to see if I'm on drugs or if the baby is on drugs and if the latter find out where I could get some because clearly those are some gooooood drugs.
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No wonder K2 has a deep and abiding hatred of people.
TIL the first "serious" attempt to scale K2 included Aleister fuckin' Crowley and it all makes sense now
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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“Sisu” can be a thanksgiving movie if you want it to be. No law says it can’t, you can check.
November 27, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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You guys are laughing, but he barely has time to measure and log his son’s nocturnal emissions.
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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I've been exploring #shoegaze like an obsessed freak for years now and I am *still* finding great 90s bands I'd never heard of

love this genre
You Never
YouTube video by The Curtain Society - Topic
music.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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I stopped buying boar's head after that horrific shit dropped about how no one knew who actually ran the company bc it was just like a constant listeria factory
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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best we've got right now is Murdoch Mysteries, a detective show set in late 1800's Toronto, where the lead characters regularly invent modern technology by accident. Detective Murdoch created the Roomba. Tatiana Maslany's brother plays a gay jewish cop. It's incredible.
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Hell with it, I'm just going to post the whole thing here via screencap and alt text. It's Kaleb Horton, man, his writing always deserves the second read, especially since it could have just easily been lost forever like so much else. Read it, share it.
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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It's just a field trip picture. The kids are fidgeting, many with arms folded, some shielding their eyes from the sun, all with obedient smiles. They'd all be in their sixties now, but they'd remember where this road is. 2/2
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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I told my grandma about it when I got back to Bakersfield. She told me her Uncle Harold thought it was the prettiest road in America. And she showed me a picture of a Corcoran grade school class posing in the dirt with Grant and Hitchcock. 1/2
Hell with it, I'm just going to post the whole thing here via screencap and alt text. It's Kaleb Horton, man, his writing always deserves the second read, especially since it could have just easily been lost forever like so much else. Read it, share it.
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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This is a beautiful little piece of writing.

Place, memory, meaning —Cary Grant, James Dean, and the middle of nowhere.
Hell with it, I'm just going to post the whole thing here via screencap and alt text. It's Kaleb Horton, man, his writing always deserves the second read, especially since it could have just easily been lost forever like so much else. Read it, share it.
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Fantastic writing. Had no idea they filmed North by Northwest there, but the piece put me right back in the bench seat of my dad’s 1975 suburban, wishing the AC worked better and trying to remember when the next rest stop on the 5 would be.
Hell with it, I'm just going to post the whole thing here via screencap and alt text. It's Kaleb Horton, man, his writing always deserves the second read, especially since it could have just easily been lost forever like so much else. Read it, share it.
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Oh god I was approached for this reboot
Hell with it, I'm just going to post the whole thing here via screencap and alt text. It's Kaleb Horton, man, his writing always deserves the second read, especially since it could have just easily been lost forever like so much else. Read it, share it.
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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jesus, the man could _write_
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Hell with it, I'm just going to post the whole thing here via screencap and alt text. It's Kaleb Horton, man, his writing always deserves the second read, especially since it could have just easily been lost forever like so much else. Read it, share it.
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
A random FB memory turned up a Kaleb Horton piece I am sure I'd entirely forgotten, done for an attempted revival of _Liberty_ magazine on old Hollywood landmarks, from 2015. You'll need to scroll way down on the archived page, but it's there. cc @quartzcity.bsky.social @andyzax.bsky.social etc
A look at forgotten Hollywood landmarks
An inside look at some significant, though forgotten, Hollywood landmarks.
web.archive.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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go see this one in a theater if you can, friends!
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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WAKE UP DEAD MAN: still fantastic.

Josh O’Connor really nails it as the heart of the movie.
November 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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One of the most important American artists who ever lived, his influence up there with the great jazz & bluesmen - I mean what he did was totally new & unique to where he came from
“All I wanted to do was make people laugh.”—Charles M. Schulz⁠

🎂 Today, we celebrate the birthday of Charles M. Schulz, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 26, 1922. ⁠

Thank you, Mr. Schulz, for all the happiness and laughter.⁠

Photo by Michael Myers, c. 1954 © Schulz Museum.
November 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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we should replace "actually frankenstein was the doctor" with "actually there was a fourth guy in the three musketeers"
November 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Real 'Curtains for Zoosha?' vibes for me here.
This is a newspaper headline from Back to the Future 2 when Marty McFly travels to the Biff world.
November 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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THEY SAID YOU AINT ALLOWED TO DRINK MELTED DOWN YUM DINGERS WITH EVERCLEAR AND FLAT FAYGO WHILE YOU DRIVE A CHEVY LUV TRUCK THROUGH A LIVE TRACTOR PULL YOU NEEDED TO REGISTER FOR! WE’RE GONNA MAKE SURE THEY LET HER HAVE HER MEDICINAL GANDER MOUNTAIN PRIVILEGES BROTHER!
This is a newspaper headline from Back to the Future 2 when Marty McFly travels to the Biff world.
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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It's a weird week for calendaring but this week's @coyotemedia.org calendar has a fun spread: owls, fire, neurodivergent shibari, queer ocean camp, remastered film, and more www.coyotemedia.org/coyote-calen... GO DO STUFF
COYOTE Calendar: November 27–December 3
Some Thanksgiving alternatives, plant swaps, neurodivergent shibari, a COYOTE party, and more.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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If you’re going to eat dry turkey with your relatives and acquaintances, you might as well regale them with trivia about the Epstein files. How many times is Harvard mentioned? How much did it cost taxpayers to get the emails redacted? How much DOES Larry Summers hate women?
✍️ @soleilho.com
How to Shoehorn the Epstein Files Into Any Thanksgiving Dinner Conversation
Thanksgiving is for suckers. Here’s how to ruin it for everyone.
www.coyotemedia.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM