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Splitcoil

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Luthier, writer, musician. Hearing impaired. The whole show at Crowfoot Electric Guitars. Currently writing & recording with Last Valley. Queer. He/him. San Diego, CA. This is my personal account. Opinions expressed here are mine alone. crowfootguitars.com

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · Jan 30

The arc of history bends toward fuck these guys

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Sera @serageranium.bsky.social · 13h

There's nothing wrong with Hooters per se, but only a deeply sexually repressed society would be capable of producing Hooters. It's wild that it existed alongside Applebee's and Chilli's. Yeah man let's go to the psychosexual chicken wing place.

"I want to watch sports and eat chicken wings but I also want to constantly be aware that every waitress in this restaurant was hired for her fat tits. No I want them to be clothed the whole time. I just wanna know that like, in the background."

Any upstanding pervert could come up with a strip club. That's good honest fun. But even a normal pervert couldn't come up Hooters. You gotta be a pervert who doesn't even know you're a pervert.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12h

VA Gov debate:

Spanberger: my opponent has previously said that she does not think that gay couples should be allowed to marry

Earle-Sears: That's not discrimination

Spanberger: she thinks it's okay for someone to be fired from their job for being gay

Earle-Sears: that's not discrimination

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Haystack West 🤠 @go-los.blacksky.app · 18h

Pointing out that America never been shit aside, he got that shit on, bubba.

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 22h

In 1857, Thomas Howland became Providence, RI's first Black elected official.

Later that year, he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife & daughter after the Dred Scott case denied Black people protections of U.S. citizenship. He was denied a passport.

Thomas Howland, 1856
John Blanchard

Portrait of a distringuished Black man from the 19th centrure wearing fine clothes, including high collar and tie of the day.
Museum Text:
Thomas Howland, the subject of this unusually expressive portrait, was a dock worker in Providence, Rhode lsland, In 1857 he became the city's first Black elected oficial when he was amed warden of its Third Ward. However, that same year he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wite and daughter, perhaps in response to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case that denied African Americans the protections of U.S. citizenship. Because of this decision, Howland's application for a passport was denied, despite his status as a free man with the right to vote in his home state (he did eventually make it to Liberia). Howland's confident posture echoes that of the earlier Portrait of a Gentleman shown nearby, the fashionable attire of both sitters serving to reinforce thelir self-possession.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 20h

I am dealing with a “thorny problem” right now, today. It is hard and scary because IT IS ALWAYS HARD AND SCARY. But it is also where you do your best work. It is where stories go from “meh” to “WOW”. When I fix it - because that is the job - I will be that much closer to something worth reading.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 6h

Dolly Parton — Annie Leibovitz, 1991

Of in a white glass and being held up on the shoulders of some soldiers in fatigues who are all laughing and smiling along with Dolly she's on a visit to some troops in Texas to entertain them in Wartime behind is an airplane with a shark's mouth painted on its nose

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Pank 🦑 @pankraru.bsky.social · 14h

Patrick Cosmos
@veryimportant.lawyer
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer • 23d
"I'm strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm" of course you do. You're twelve.
"I don't want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal" hell yeah homie you're twelve. "Maybe if there's crime we should just send the army" bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 16h

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

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Team Radar Love @midnightdorifto.bsky.social · 13h

howdy folks - just had the need to be adorably pragmatic today

www.carsensor.net/usedcar/deta...

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 13h

Baby in a placenta I know I know, it’s serious

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 13h

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 1d

Photo of a vintage book cover featuring Dracula dropping gold coins onto his pile of gold coins, he’s smiling as he clearly is a greedy individual. A full skeleton lays on the pile of gold, perhaps it is one of his girlfriends. A naked woman looms in the background for some reason. Copy and title read:

HOW DID DRACULA GET RICH?

Selling Frankenstein’s Feet Pix Online
By Herman Baldsack

Dracula made a fortune off of Frankenstein's feet without his permission and he is a disgusting piece of garbage for that

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Frightening McQueen @lettuce.bsky.social · Feb 1

Using some of my limited time on this beautiful planet staying informed about some of the stupidest shitheads in history

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 3d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 4d

I am so tired of being told that I, a person who got a significant portion of my diet out of dumpsters in my early 20's, hold elitist & "luxury" beliefs by people who have been Professors of Thinking at Harvard since before I was born.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4d

If your considered analysis is that everyone has gone completely mad except for you, then is it likely that’s what happened? Or is it you that is the arse here.

Rob Henderson © @robkhenderson • 11h
"the left has allowed itself to become shackled by unpopular luxury beliefs: abolishing the police, opening the borders, the corruption of female-only spaces. Everyone has gone mad...associated with the observable decline in literacy across the rich West"

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not even a vegetarian/vegan. I'm just a reducetarian. It's very rare for me to eat meat more than once a day, and some days, like yesterday, are totally meat free.

Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 3d

I suck at cooking tofu. Love it from restaurants, haven't figured it out at home. But I am a big fan of the Morningstar Farms people. Their fake chicken is mostly soy. Dinner last night was brussels sprouts, brown rice, and Morningstar nuggets, with ponzu-mustard sauce. Yum.

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Tamper Proof Lid @readuction.bsky.social · 3d

If I turned into a werewolf because of the full moon I would simply Post about it

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning from Harlem

#GoodMorningFromHarlem

Looking through an arched window ninety minutes after sunrise the blue sky is filled with bands of complex, chunky, white clouds, with an orange tinge at the horizon. Pointed roofs of Harlem brownstones are silhouetted across the street, and a taller apartment building can be seen in the distance. The window is grimy on the bottom.

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Sylvia Lilith 🏳️‍⚧️ @estrogenandspite.bsky.social · 3d

Putting aside everything else he’s done, Charles Xavier’s dream from day 1 has always been “if we appease the people in power hard enough and also hyperpolice our own community, maybe one day the ruling class will like us,” and then people are surprised queer people prefer Magneto.

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Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Robin Kimball @robinkimball.bsky.social · 3d

I would rob a bank for Black Swine (1994), I love them so. #RootHogOrDie

Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 3d

#MonochromeMonday :
Huang Yongyu 黄永玉 (Tujia; China, 1924-2023)
Black Swine, 1994
Ink on paper, hanging scroll
#ChineseArt
www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/...

Illustration of a black tusked boar with Chinese text above
“signed HUANG YONGYU, dated jia xu, 1994, the twelfth lunar month, inscribed, with a dedication to Shen Weichuang, and five seals of the artist”

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 4d

I'm an ideas guy.

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 5d

that's not a very nice way to refer to London museums

Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 6d

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts.
www.popsci.com/environment/...

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 4d

Crazy idea here, guys. Trade war fuckery has our soybeans rotting on the ground, and beef prices going way up. We could, you know... eat the soy instead of the beef.

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Splitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 4d

This is gonna suck.