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Dick Altavista
@dickaltavista.bsky.social
560 followers 260 following 590 posts
Husband, Father, Grandfather, CKCU radio host, Musician.
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Dick Altavista @dickaltavista.bsky.social · Jan 1
My 2024 “wrapped”
9543km on my bike(up from 5703km in 2023)
32 books read
2057 news articles read on my “lunch hour “ and at least as many during breakfast.
Over 70 live bands.
At least 157 hours of @ckcu931 content created.
Countless hours of musical instrument practice.
Welcomed one grandchild
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 8h
@warnock.senate.gov: "You know that it's a critical moment any time Raphael Warnock and Marjorie Taylor Greene are essentially saying the same thing. That doesn't happen often... She saw that the premiums of her own adult children will go up so much in 2026 that their healthcare is unaffordable."
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Dick Altavista @dickaltavista.bsky.social · 9h
Today’s reward for practicing (and do my fingers hurt!)
Old 97’s
FIGHT SONGS
I kinda miss 1999 when all we had to worry about was Y2K (IYKYK)
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14h
I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.
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Dick Altavista @dickaltavista.bsky.social · 11h
Today’s reward for sunny cycling celebrates living above the library.
Dion DiMucci
BLUES WITH FRIENDS
Great songs, amazing singers and world class guitar players.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h
really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that
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Dick Altavista @dickaltavista.bsky.social · 1d
Too impatient to wait for the FM broadcast.
Attic Thoughts streams Live and On Demand cod.ckcufm.com/programs/589...
Clifton Chenier Project, Both Kinds of Rawk: Soft & Harder - Attic Thoughts - 2025-10-07
Clifton Chenier Project, Both Kinds of Rawk: Soft(including NEW Emma Swift) & Harder(including NEW Birddog, Lynn Jackson, Acapulco Lips and Everett LaRoi).
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d
Oh look the party that screams “family values” every five minutes is silent when one of their megachurch darlings pleads guilty to child sex abuse. But they’ll trip over themselves to ban books and attack drag shows. Tells you everything you need to know.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d
Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.

As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.

Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d
#AZ07
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants
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Randy Barbee💙🇺🇲🇺🇦 @randylb.bsky.social · 2d
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d
This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.
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Dick Altavista @dickaltavista.bsky.social · 1d
Today’s reward for sunny cycling
@thearmoires.bsky.social
OCTOBERLAND
I do love me the power pop @bigstirrecords.bsky.social
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 1d
People trust podcasts more than social media. But is the trust warranted? theconversation.com/people-trust...

Analysis of 36,000 episodes found "nearly 70% contained at least one unverified or false claim."

"Research also shows political podcasts often rely on toxic or hostile language."
People trust podcasts more than social media. But is the trust warranted?
Just because you ‘heard it on a podcast’, it doesn’t mean the info is necessarily more trustworthy than a random social media post.
theconversation.com
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Dick Altavista @dickaltavista.bsky.social · 1d
Hitting CKCU FM airwaves right now with What’s This
93.1fm in Ottawa
Streaming Live and On Demand cod.ckcufm.com/programs/615...
Wailing Waylon - What's This? - 2025-10-07
Wailing Waylon: Songs from and written by Waylon Jennings
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Dick Altavista @dickaltavista.bsky.social · 2d
Today’s reward for sunny, big blue sky cycling is an excellent new release from Pony Gold
HIGH ROAD REVERIE
If you were a fan of Both Kinds Of Music on CKCU FM then you will love this album.
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Dick Altavista @dickaltavista.bsky.social · 2d
Hitting CKCU FM airwaves right now with Nothing To See Hear.
93.1fm in Ottawa
Streaming Live and On Demand cod.ckcufm.com/programs/461...
Big Starry Night - Nothing To See Hear - 2025-10-06
Big Starry Night: tunes from and covers of Big Star.
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SHOPFIRES @shopfiresmusic.bsky.social · 3d
Thanks to Steve Kirkland at CKCU FM and to @wallytbm.bsky.social
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Wallytbm @wallytbm.bsky.social · 4d
Great to hear @shopfiresmusic.bsky.social on the radio this evening on CKCU

@subjangle.bsky.social

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is goodbye the new hello? - Volume, Contrast, Brilliance - 2025-10-04
Featured The Promise Ring, Autocamper, Baba Yaga, Cerrone & Christine & the Queens, Teke Teke, The Sisters of Mercy, Roky Erickson, The Moles, The Polkadelics, Don Ross, Lebanon Hanover, Sparks, Silla...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d
A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Dick Altavista @dickaltavista.bsky.social · 3d
Too impatient to wait for the FM broadcast?
CKCU FM Roots & Rhythms streams Live and On Demand cod.ckcufm.com/programs/93/...
The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968 - Roots and Rhythms - 2025-10-05
The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968 In this episode we cover singles released between April 1962 and February 1963
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Dick Altavista @dickaltavista.bsky.social · 3d
Subscription canceled with good reason @washingtonpost.com
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d
behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d
My message to Kristi Noem is clear: Get out of Chicago.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3d
This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 3d
I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3d
Keep taking videos of what ICE is doing. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is right, document what’s happening. This is why they hate journalists so much.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 3d
Vaccine hesitancy = > nocebo response.

"...the more respondents were vaccine-hesitant respondents the more likely they were to report [adverse events] and to rate them as severe..."

COVID vaccine hesitancy & perceived post-vaccination adverse event www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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