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Cyclops
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Fugitive from academia. Currently plying the Pacific.
The #sky off the bow for #blueskyartshow. Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.
#video
#westcoastkin
#sunset
December 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This can't possibly be real.
🚨 BREAKING - New Star Trek: #StarfleetAcademy Poster!

The first season of the new #StarTrek live-action series premieres January 15th on Paramount+

🖖 Will YOU be watching?
December 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Harry Dean Stanton. Obviously.
The trick is to pick an actor that’s been in everything for a long ass time. Off the top of my head that’s Samuel L.
This is a Bill Simmons game, but you’re stranded on a desert island. You can only have one actor’s filmography. You get it all, including cameos. But just the one performer.

I’m taking Cate Blanchett: Talented Mr. Ripley, LOTR, Life Aquatic, Black Bag, Tár, Ponyo, Hot Fuzz, Eyes Wide Shut, Thor
December 1, 2025 at 4:41 AM
November 30, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Big Paychecks Can’t Woo Enough Sailors for America’s Commercial Fleet

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Big Paychecks Can’t Woo Enough Sailors for America’s Commercial Fleet
The U.S. faces a growing sailor shortage despite maritime jobs offering big pay and significant perks.
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November 30, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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teams should lose the designated hitter when the starting pitcher leaves the game
Tonight’s discourse bores me

what good policy would you pitch trump in a meeting that you think he’d half remember well enough to keep talking about it
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM
If they have the will to actually do it, it'll be great for the industry. (Also, did a deckie write this?)
Mariners Wanted: Six-Figure Salaries and Months at Sea
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I get adequate shore leave and feel pretty lucky in that regard, but so many mariners don't. They deserve better.
November 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Spinning Zep III and bringing order out of chaos out here in the Fernglade. Only executive decision on alphabetization was to stick Abba's Greatest behind Alice in Chains.
#vinylsky
#musicsky
#vinylcommunity
#nowspinning
November 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.

"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.

"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
November 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Fishing boats. Salmon Bay. Seattle, Washington.
#blueskyartshow
#autumn
#photography
#westcoastkin
November 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Hard to imagine a more sinister & dangerous argument, couched in euphemism & high-minded language. "This essay does not argue liberalism will collapse, only that [US] military officers should be intellectually (and spiritually) prepared for alternatives." warontherocks.com/2025/10/the-...
The American Military Officer After Liberalism
Across academia, government, and Silicon Valley, on social media, and in leading journals, intellectuals and political leaders are openly debating what
warontherocks.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Now spinning Porcupine Tree's Fear of a Blank Planet. A great pressing of this magnificent album. If you know Porcupine Tree then you know. If you don't know them, but you like Pink Floyd, then you need to find em!
#vinylcommunity
#musicsky
#vinylsky
#progrock
November 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Now spinning a 45rpm pressing of Fleetwood Mac's Rumors. This is one of those must have albums in my opinion, and the 45rpm version is absolutely stellar.
#vinylcommunity
#musicsky
#vinylsky
#70s
October 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
New cairn terrier puppy here at the Fernglade. His name is Starbuck, after the 1st mate in Moby-Dick. Quite a lot of personality! Will miss him when I'm at sea. Sadly, he cannot join the crew.
#dogsofbluesky
#cairnterrier
#toto
October 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Now spinning Old and in the Way, an incredible album that in it's way kept bluegrass alive for popular audiences through the 70s and 80s. This is a deeply important record in the grand scope of human history.
#vinylsky
#musicsky
#bluegrass
#vinylcommuity
#70s
October 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Now spinning Neil Diamond's Hot August Night, one of the best live albums out there. What a show that must've been! The mofi is a great pressing and, for a mofi, not expensive.
#vinylcommunity
#vinylsky
#musicsky
#70s
October 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Now spinning Michael Jackson's Thriller. Crate dive find. 1st pressing. NM. Cover still in the shrink, w/ "The Girl is Mine" hype sticker. One original price tag shows $8.98. Then it was marked down to $6.49. So, im guessing it was sold in '84. Sound is amazing.
#vinylsky
#musicsky
#80s #80spop
October 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Now spinning Paul Simon's Graceland. I think this might be the last truly perfect album from a 60s rock star/ pop star. There are plenty of great ones, dont get me wrong. Bowie's Blackstar? But Graceland was huge and spectacular and important.
#vinylcommunity
#vinylsky
#musicsky
#80s
October 20, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Go Mariners!!!
October 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Come on Mariners! Let's go!
October 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Go Mariners!
October 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Well, the Mariners lost, so there's nothing for it but to spin some Neil Young and pop a Rainier. Here's to Friday's game 5.
#nowspinning
#vinylcommunity
#vinylsky
#musicsky
#Seattle
October 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Now spinning this Nat Geo "Sounds of the World Recording" of sea shanties. Saw this at the record store and it was obviously coming home with me. Pristine condition! As if no one ever listened to it!?! If you need shanties (you do!) this is def a great option!
#vinylcommunity
#musicsky
#vinylsky
October 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Now spinning. Elvis Costello's debut. Clean early US pressing ('78-'80) with Watching the Detectives. I'm guessing this leaves the sound a bit thinner than the UK version, which I'd like to find. Probably makes a big difference here.
#vinylcommunity
#vinylsky
#musicsky
#newwave
#elviscostello
October 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM