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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 13h

Vlad Guerrero Jr., at a preposterous height, sliding headfirst into home. He is captioned "Me" and home plate is captioned "a few small beers"

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 3d

How musician Danny Stewart preserved Colorado Springs’ underground punk scene from the 80s and 90s

How a musician preserved Colorado Springs’ underground punk scene from the 80s and 90s

“It is another deep dive into this sneaky and tricky Colorado Springs music scene." The series preserves songs from local bands between 1983 and 1994.

www.cpr.org

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 3d

HEB Curbside crew blasting Offspring's "Gone Away" at 10 AM on the Lord's Day

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 3d

Swift conceived the album amidst media scrutiny on her personal life that blemished her once-wholesome "America's Sweetheart" image. #WikipediaSentences

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 3d

He noted that while an event like this does not mean you are stranded in the middle of nowhere, SpongeBob, contrastively, in the episode was really stranded. #WikipediaSentences

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 5d

Buc-ee's Adult

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 7d

i think i subjected @jacobclifton.com to the borked upload many years ago now

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 7d

just discovered that the director of Girlfriend's "Heartbeat" (personal canon, song and video) uploaded a glorious HD version last year m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv9D...

Girlfriend - Heartbeat

YouTube video by Ross Wood

m.youtube.com

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 10d

Saturday is for the boys (Cadfael and Sheriff Hugh Beringar of Shropshire)

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 11d

i would never have a garage sale. i'm not a quitter

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 14d

sounding the alarm, as a bit

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 16d

we are so cooked

The researchers demonstrated their findings using state-of-the-art models, including those from OpenAI’s competitors. When asked “How many Ds are in DEEPSEEK?” the DeepSeek-V3 model with 600 billion parameters “returned ‘2’ or ‘3’ in ten independent trials” while Meta AI and Claude 3.7 Sonnet performed similarly, “including answers as large as ‘6’ and ‘7.’”

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 18d

every generation gets the "Junior Dad" it deserves

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 20d

Faith No More/Mr. Bungle frontman Mike Patton announced an album with long-running folk/bluegrass group the Avett Brothers

👉 www.stereogum.com/2323235/the-...

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 19d

All hail the best patent drawing ever

An image from a patent filing (US4656917) for a “musical instrument support” that allows a guitarist to utilize a tapping technique more easily. The patent drawing is of the device’s credited creator, Eddie Van Halen. Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4656917

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 20d

Alfred and I are of a mind here!

Alfred Soto @sotoalfred.bsky.social · 21d

Buzzcocks were the horniest of the punk bands. From “Orgasm Addict” to “Why Can’t I Touch It,” the Bolton quartet wrote songs lamenting the distance between themselves and their objects of desire. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2017/09/24/t...

There is no love anymore: the best of the Buzzcocks, etc.

What a well-named band. With songs that cut like saws and a sexual ambiguity that occasionally tumesced into statements banned by the BBC for explicitness, Buzzcocks were the horniest of the punk b…

humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 21d

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 21d

the question literally no one has asked: are you still making those playlists?

i'm not sure! i'm fucking around with 1985. we'll see how it goes

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Adam Aaronson @adamaaronson.bsky.social · 21d

Amazing things happening at Fenway Park.

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 21d

just now seeing this, extremely ska-coded headline

BrooklynVegan @brooklynvegan.bsky.social · Jun 24

Vampire Weekend announce 2 Wellmont Theater shows w/ Ezra's high school band Sophisticuffs www.brooklynvegan.com/vampire-week...

Vampire Weekend announce 2 Wellmont Theater shows w/ Ezra's high school band Sophisticuffs

The Wellmont shows will be Vampire Weekend's first in NJ in 16 years

www.brooklynvegan.com

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Hannah Jocelyn @hannahjocelync.bsky.social · 23d

As long as I’ve written for Pitchfork (six years!) I’ve wanted to dive into the enigma known as Twenty One Pilots. Meeting this band on their terms is like the final boss of poptimism, and I believe I was up to the task
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Twenty One Pilots: Breach

Read Hannah Jocelyn’s review of the album.

pitchfork.com

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 23d

"Bill Kristol quotes George Washington's condemnation of 18th century antisemitism to defend transgender people from scapegoating following the assassination of Charlie Kirk" is an actual sentence

Jews were then a tiny percentage of the population of the United States–something like 2,500 souls out of almost 4 million. But Washington wanted to emphasize that the members of this small and previously persecuted minority were entitled, here in the United States, to the same rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as everyone else.

Two hundred and thirty five years later, there is in this nation a minority group whose rights are under severe attack: transgender individuals. We have a presidential administration which seeks to curtail those individuals’ rights. We have a powerful political movement that wishes to make them afraid.

This is wrong. It’s also un-American. Other Americans don’t have to understand or sympathize with transgender individuals. But we ought to defend their basic human rights. We ought to do so out of a simple sense of justice. But we also ought to do so out of a sense of pride that our nation exemplifies an “enlarged and liberal policy” for mankind, and that here “there shall be none to make him afraid.”

One could call that American greatness.

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 24d

Aggies winning one for the fired English professor, you love to see it

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 24d

GIG. THEM.

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 26d

DNA Tape Me Please

New Scientist @newscientist.com · 26d

By combining the information storage capabilities of DNA with a design inspired by a cassette tape, researchers have created a storage medium that can hold 36 petabytes of data

DNA cassette tape can store every song ever recorded

By combining the information storage capabilities of DNA with a design inspired by a cassette tape, researchers have created a storage medium that can hold 36 petabytes of data

www.newscientist.com

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