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@exkclamation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Graphic designer, father, husband, San Franciscan. Loves music, art, design, and photographing the texture of life.

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exkclamation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
My 2025 listening stats are in 🎧 It was a very good year for new music (and lots of old music too)...

https://www.last.fm/user/exkclamation/listening-report/year/2025
Screenshot overview of my last.fm listen report. It reads: "exkclamation, 2025. 12,943 scrobbles. 38 days, 24 hours, 2,954 artists, 3,261albums, 8,826 tracks. Top artist: Aesop Rock, Top album: Nine Inch Nails TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), Top track: Pigeonometry by Aesop Rock, Top tags: electronic, hip-hop, ambient, funk, rock" There are photos of Aesop Rock, Nine Inch Nails, Lars Leonhard, and Tedeschi Trucks Band.
January 2, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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dale.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy
Happy New Year!

Have mostly been focused on trying to get my personal life settled this year but looking back still pinching myself about how lucky I am to do this and how many amazing bands I have seen / times I have had.

Thanks to everyone who has helped and […]

[Original post on toot.cafe]
Biffy Clyro on stage smiling Walt Disco singing Sister Madds singing Psychedelic Porn Crumpets on stage
December 31, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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kleen.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy
Looking for something fun to start the new year? Join artist Wendy MacNaughton and do the 30 Days of Drawing. 10 minutes a day. Great for people just curious or just starting to draw, great for people to refresh their drawing attitude. A wonderful community that […]

[Original post on sfba.social]
Hand-drawn poster with a pen lying beside it. STARTS JANUARY 1st! 30 DAYS of DRAWING * 10 MINUTES A DAY * CULTIVATE CURIOSITY, CARE and ATTENTION. * PROMPTS, LESSONS, INSPO & COMMUNITY! * TONS OF FRIENDS DOING IT TOGETHER = ACCOUNTABILITY, SUPPORT & FUN * 2026 THEME: LESS IS MORE 
and BREATHE (taking deep ones) * ALL LEVELS OF EXPERIENCE WELCOME (especially NONE!) Go to: Club.DrawTogether.studio
December 31, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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docpop.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
My favorite new albums of 2025
https://spectra.video/w/5zhUcBtS5PnRtfj5Tq4EHv
Favorite Albums of 2025
7 of my favorite albums of 2025: Data Cluster - Coalescence Grandson - Inertia Boko Yout - Gusto Tunde Adebimpe - Thee Black Bolts Upchuck - I'm Nice Now Wet Leg - Moisterizer Chris Casey - Buried ...
spectra.video
December 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
exkclamation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
#silentsunday #mosstodon
A photograph looking directly down at a round San Francisco public utility gas valve cover in the sidewalk, where the letters have filled in with a green mossy plants and grass growing up from beneath making the letters look mossy and green. It reads “PG&E GAS VALVE” but I think it should say “grass valve”. LOL
December 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
exkclamation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
@TheEddieShow happened upon this ranked list of #comedy specials from 2025 and think you may dig it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Standup/comments/1ozpa4e/i_ranked_the_comedy_specials_of_2025/?share_id=rGAuBlPbp3MM8fx0JAFhg
December 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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docpop.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Happy solstice. For folks who struggle with long, dark winter days, remember it only gets brighter from here. It’s subtle at first, but soon each day will be noticeably brighter than the last.
December 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
exkclamation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
#silentsunday
A dramatic backlit photo of a very tall outdoor Christmas tree at Calico Ghost Town, standing tall against a gorgeous sunset horizon. There are lots of glowing ‘bokeh’ orbs floating across the sky reflecting the colors of the sunset with brilliant yellows, muted oranges, fading into deep blues at the edges. And if you look closely, you can see the tree is decorated with a star on top and shiny ornaments reflecting the colorful scene. A very magical moment I lucked into capturing.
December 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
exkclamation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
“Well, hello there human… I didn’t see you standing there! Perhaps this calls for a delicious #caturday treat?”
An adorable precocious little orange and white tabby cat named Jesse James; poking his head through the wooden railing of the basement stairs and looking wide-eyed at the camera with a slightly surprised goofy expression. We only see his head and neck coming out at an angle as he leans into the frame. In the background we see wooden rafters and miscellaneous stuff stacked up as you would in a storage room.
December 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
exkclamation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
This is going to be a long shot, but here goes...

Does anyone know the backstory of the musician #jazebaqti?

This artist is absolutely prolific. Producing full albums of intriguing #music, often multiple times per month since 2012—two, just this week! The […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
The avatar for the artist Jaze Baqti from their Bandcamp page. The image shows a black and white line drawing of two faces overlapped, with the a watercolor wash for the hair and one closed eye with a small orange splash of color. Very peaceful and serene and beautifully rendered.
December 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
exkclamation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
#silentsunday
A stunning sunset photo taken at Seaside Beach, OR. We are looking out at a break in the storm over a beach and the Pacific Ocean—with deep royal blue and purple clouds fading into fiery red, orange, and peach colors over the horizon, reflected onto the distant water. In the foreground is a bright yellow lantern standing proud against the oncoming darkness.
December 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
exkclamation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Jesse James decided to step-up his #whiskers game this week for #caturday!

He hopes you are having a brilliant day! 🐈
We see an adorable orange and white tabby cat sitting down in “loaf-style formation” (if he was a human he would probably be squatting?) and looking to his right (our left). The photo is taken from floor-level we are right down on his level looking across the wood floor boards at his brilliant white whiskers which are shining in the natural warm light of the room. In the background is a bedroom scene with lights on in the distance, behind his head, backlighting his ears. Beside him is a blue catnip shark toy that he just finished playing with.
December 14, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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docpop.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
If you are a new yo-yoer, a comic book collector, or looking for a cool gift for a kid that might like yo-yos, check out my "Little Book Of Yo-Yo" set. https://doctorpopular.com/shop/the-little-book-of-yo-yo/
December 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
exkclamation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Check out this awesome awkward early #depechemode performance on German TV from 1983!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLDXspMqgbk
December 11, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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weddige.gruene.social.ap.brid.gy
As my wife @Oira hates promoting herself and would rather give up selling her art than tell people about it, I'll do it for her:

Her ceramics are sometimes beautiful, sometimes macabre, and sometimes both. The're often useful and always handcrafted with love […]

[Original post on gruene.social]
An mostly unglazed clay mask hanging on a wall. It depicts a woman's head with some fin like ears and snakes as hair. The heads of the snakes are glazed green and decorated with gold. And mostly unglazed clay pot hanging on some threads. The surface is ruff, reminding of sandstone. It depicts a elf's head, wearing a crown. The neck is severed and red beads, looking like blood, are hanging from it. A Christmas tree decoration in the shape of a mermaid. A cup in the shape of a head in a medieval helmet. The glaze looks metallic.
December 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
exkclamation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Heads-up #ipad music-makers: Bram Bos just released a new instant-jamming groove box called #battlestation and it looks really fun!

#brambos is known for making innovative audio-creation software and this looks just the same. Check out #jakobhaq's intro/review video here ...and it's currently […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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docpop.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I saw Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer for the first time as an adult and saw something I hadn't seen before #rudolphtherednosereindeer
December 25, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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antoinnesterk.cyberplace.social.ap.brid.gy
Dudok

#architecture #urban #photography
Taken from a "worm's-eye view," looking straight up toward the sky. On the far left and right edges, vertical brick walls frame the image. Protruding inward from these brick walls are dark, rectangular beams. They are arranged in four symmetrical pairs, and reach toward the center, leaving an open sky in the middle. Embedded within the underside of each dark beam is a rectangular light fixture. They emit a warm, amber-orange glow. The central negative space is filled by a cloudy, overcast sky.
December 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
HEADS UP that the FCC comment period for Reflect Orbital first hideously bright, ecology-disrupting satellite will open probably in mid- to late-January. I'm gonna need EVERYBODY to write in for that one.
December 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
exkclamation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
#silentsunday
A dramatic photo with Yosemite National Park’s granite monoliths as a backdrop. Taken from the popular Tunnel View overlook, we see an expansive view of Yosemite Valley, El Capitan, Bridalveil Falls, and Half Dome in the distance. In the foreground we see lush Manzanita bushes and trees providing color and texture to this historic South Entrance to the park.
December 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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dale.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy
Clt Drp - La Belle, Edinburgh

"It was difficult to guess when the guitarist walked on stage with a sparkly pantsuit that this was going to be half an hour of the dirtiest electro punk but here we are"

📸 and review @ https://www.isthismusic.com/lambrini-girls-clt-drp
Band on stage from behind crowd Guitarist in front of spotlight Singer looking into crowd Singer kneeling on stage
December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
exkclamation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Jesse James hopes you have a great #caturday! 😺

“Here, take my paw… we can get through this together!”
A retro color photograph of an adorable orange and white tabby cat laying on gray and white geometric-patterned bedding, with his left paw extended towards the camera. He is looking slightly down and to the right of frame with his ears perked up.
December 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM