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Matt
@championhands.bsky.social
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Music, education, comics, containing multitudes.
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championhands.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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bobsmyusername.bsky.social
Who has made this 🤣
Buster from the tv show ‘Arrested Development’ holding an arm full of plushies while he looks at his mother Lucille, saying, “these are my awards, mother, from FIFA.“
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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tavie.bsky.social
The kings and queens of Christmas.
Aimee Mann and friends at the Aimee Mann & Ted Leo Christmas Show Aimee and her guitar singing at the Aimee Mann & Ted Leo Christmas Show Aimee, Paul F Tompkins & Ted Leo at at the Aimee Mann & Ted Leo Christmas Show Santa and Nellie McKay at the Aimee Mann & Ted Leo Christmas Show
November 30, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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jeffparker.bsky.social
find it; axe it
November 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
The irony is rich.
Screenshot of a tweet by Melanie D’Arrigo on X.com that reads: “It’s literally the whole reason why we celebrate Thanksgiving.” Beneath it is a Homeland Security tweet saying: “This Thanksgiving, there is no room at the table for invaders.”
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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iniquitousfish.bsky.social
Dad: 'Why are horror movies so popular again?'
Me: 'We need a place to put all our dread.'
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social
When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.

Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?

My own colleagues are silent.
September 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
championhands.bsky.social
My current guitar set up.
September 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
championhands.bsky.social
September 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
championhands.bsky.social
20 Miles - I’m a Lucky Guy
This is a long sought after record for me. Fitting that I found a copy from New York City with a water damage line across the cover while the slab inside is mint.
Judah Bauer is one of my favorite guitar players. #judahbauer
August 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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econaturalist.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
championhands.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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lazarus-comic.bsky.social
- For Immediate Release to ALL Domains -

LAZARUS Fallen #1 is available tomorrow, 25 June, at your local comic store

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June 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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shawnfarrell.bsky.social
Quiznos? Cosi? Subway? Jimmy John's? Jersey Mike's? Any sub shop I visit from this day forward will be judged not only on the taste & value of its sandwiches, but their weight, velocity, & stability of their wrapping.
August 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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mplsmusichistory.bsky.social
Big news posted today by Numero Group on their Instagram! #huskerdu
www.instagram.com/p/DLkVe0wOM4...
HÜSKER DÜ JAN. 30, FIRST AVE PT.1 thenumerogroup The rumors are true. On January 30, 1985, Hüsker Dü recorded a peak high performance to 24 track tape at Minneapolis's Firat Avenue club in front of their hometown massive. This performance was supposed to come out as a live album later that year, but the band's rapid upward trajectory caused priorities to shift. The tapes were shelved - thought to be possibly lost in the same 2011 house fire that consumed a precious portion of the Hüsker Dü archive. Nearly 40 years later, these tapes have been rescued from the abyss, and we've tasked the team at Steve Albini's Electrical Audio on the transferring and Beau Sorensen at Tiny Telephone for the mixdowns. Today we are dropping the first batch for your listening pleasure alongside a limited '85 era tour shirt available this week only. We have a bunch of boxes of ephemera, photos, and tapes to go through so sit tight; we're in the midst of a miracle year.
July 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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alexcallinicos.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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charlessoule.bsky.social
I was an immigration lawyer for about fifteen years. The people I met… the way they wanted to give their absolute best to this country, and then DID.

Skills, ideas, beauty, culture… that’s what they bring.

America is a nation of immigrants, and immigration is what made America.
June 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
And there you have it. ICE didn't target migrant workers in Kristi Noem's farms or Sarah Huckabee Sanders' meatpacking plants because they wanted to create a riot in LA as a pretext to declaring martial law. They don't care about undocumented migrants, they only care about controlling US citizens.
June 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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colettearrand.bsky.social
Been such a crazy week that I didn’t even get to share the bio I wrote for @superchunk.bsky.social’s new album, SONGS IN THE KEY OF YIKES. It’s a monster — top three Superchunk record in my book.

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The cover of Superchunk’s “Songs in the Key of Yikes,” in which a skellington is reclining on the beach, doomscrolling on their cell phone as the sun sets on the horizon. “Bruised Lung.” “No Hope.” “Care Less.” “Climb the Walls.” “Everybody Dies.” Scanning the tracklist of Songs in the Key of Yikes, one is given to wonder: Is Superchunk okay? In a world that’s arguably darker than the one that greeted Wild Loneliness in 2022 or What a Time to Be Alive in 2018, are any of us okay? “It’s always been the case that everyone is going through something that you may not be aware of,” notes Mac McCaughan. “This is currently more true than ever—but also the case that we are all going through some things together. In the face of that, what good is art and where is happiness found? (Spoiler alert: I don’t know.)” In seeking an answer, Songs in the Key of Yikes unleashes a sound that is triumphant and bright in the darkness, Majesty Shredding in overdrive. Lead single “Is It Making You Feel Something” sets the tone early with the band—McCaughan, Laura Ballance, Jim Wilbur, and Laura King—building an anthem out of the potential for joy, diving into slop-polluted waters (“now fakes are faking everything / that once made your poor heart sing”) and emerging with a pearl. “No Hope” is similarly resilient, McCaughan’s lyrics painting a crushing scene before entering its titular refrain. He repeats the phrase nine times, pauses a beat, and transforms its sentiment entirely, breaking the chant with the line “and here we are singing.” The lyric is sharp, at once a simple observation and a profound statement of being, the song’s crushing nights and endless days no less so on its account but McCaughan’s voice finds a certain sweetness in having endured, and continuing to do so. Paradoxically, the energy of Songs in the Key of Yikes borders on and sometimes spills into euphoria, as in “Stuck in a Dream” which emerges like a mirage-born oasis between “Everybody Dies” and “Train on Fire,” a full-sprint crowd pleaser suitable for pogoing in the pit. “Care Less” is a dark, comic mirror to that energy, a garage-y jam in which an acid-tongued McCaughan seeks refuge from the storm by pretending it’s not raging right outside his door. This strategy doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t. It’s a song on a Superchunk album, and Superchunk albums are arguments against insularity, parties large enough to host everyone. This one, in addition to welcoming Laura King into the fold after two years as their touring drummer, features contributions from Rosali Middleman (“Bruised Lung” and “Everybody Dies”), Bella Quinlan and Holly Thomas of Quivers (“Cue”), and touring bassist Betsy Wright (“Care Less”). The album was engineered by Paul Voran (The Menzingers, Hurray for the Riff Raff) and Eli Webb, and mixed by Mike Montgomery (The Breeders, Protomartyr). Together, they reach no conclusions on what good art is in the face of crisis. They also make great art. Songs in the Key of Yikes is a signature Superchunk album: visceral and timeless and catchy as hell—a cathartic balm for these oppressive times that will feel even better once we’ve figured our collective shit out.
June 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
championhands.bsky.social
Aesop Rock - Black Hole Suprette
June 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
championhands.bsky.social
King Tuff Was Dead!
June 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Dean: When did we have a trade surplus?

Lutnick: About 100 years ago

Dean: It was the Great Depression.
June 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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jonbois.bsky.social
this happened on wheel of fortune tonight
June 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
championhands.bsky.social
I love the tone of the Fender Telecaster and the Fender Blues Deluxe amp.
June 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
championhands.bsky.social
Playing some fuzz bass with a new EQD Chelsea pedal.
June 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM