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Graham Friday
@gfriday.bsky.social
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The sea refuses no river/
Remember that when the beggar buys a round
Loc: Kern Children's Bible Prison
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Comic by Dan Melchior, portraying him as the selfless genius behind the Velvet Underground, somehow.
November 22, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Elvis Costello's Blood and Chocolate (and King of America was great, too!)
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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The people ought to be concerned.
People also ask What does Ege Bamyasi mean?
November 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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So fun seeing our daughter play for a home crowd in Richmond!
abbyhuston.bandcamp.com
Abby Huston sings, plays her guitar Abby Huston sings, plays her guitar
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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That guy on the Blue Jays?
#30 Kirk at bat for the Toronto Blue Jays.
October 31, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Haha represent, Baltimore
October 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Heeeeyyyy, Bob Dylan...
Some of the artists here had pretty colorful – and sometimes checkered – histories. What do you think about the current debate separating the art from the artist? Do you think a “weakness of character” can hold a songwriter back? People of weak character are usually con artists and troublemakers; they aren’t sincere, and I don’t think they would make good songwriters. They’re selfish, always got to have the last word on everything, and I don’t know any songwriter like that. I’m unaware of the current debate about separating the art from the artist. It’s news to me. Maybe it’s an academic thing.
October 21, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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(to) Earth Atomizer Let's Go
October 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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The final Dodgers-Phillies game was almost a minute and a half late! (yes, you made me look)
This game was announced to start at 6:08. The first pitch was at 6:09.25.
October 11, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=11ge...
From the Microsoft Word 1.0 manual (1983): What You Need To use Microsoft Word, you need : 1. An IBM Personal Computer or an IBM Personal Com- puter XT with at least 128K of memory 2. At least one disk drive
September 30, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Marshall Allen, Sun Ra Arkestra, 101 years of age
September 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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"Known as the Sun". Popular Mechanics is unaware of the keeper and protector of the true name of the Sun, the star registry of a small planet orbiting Proxima Centauri.
The swirling ball of hydrogen and helium gas known as the Sun is a fiery cauldron responsible for all life on Earth, but it can also be a source of…
September 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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It's Hollis's birthday! This singing implement has so much reverb I'm going to teach her some Lee Perry and "Frankie Teardrop".
Hollis serenades her cousin Ave with "Defying Gravity"
September 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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This translation of The Magic Mountain walks a fine line.
"Ah, stupidity. There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst. Hello! Why, I think I've just coined a phrase, a bon mot. How do you like it?" "Very much. I cannot wait for your first collection of aphorisms. Perhaps there is still time, however, to ask you to take into account certain observations we have occasionally made concerning the misanthropic nature of paradoxes." "It shall be done, Herr Settembrini. Absolutely—shall be done. No, in this bon mot of mine, you do not see me in hot pursuit of paradoxes. I was merely trying to point out the great difficulty one has in defining 'stupidity' and 'cleverness.' It is so hard to keep them separate, they are so intertwined. I know very well how know very well how you hate any sort of mystical guazzabuglio and are a man who believes in values and judgments—value judgments—and I quite agree with you. But the issue of 'stupidity' and 'cleverness' is at times a complete mystery, and it must be permissible to concern oneself with mysteries, always presuming it is an honest attempt to get to the bottom of them, if possible." —Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain; English trans. by John E Woods
September 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Attn @1089thehawk.com
The other day, a sign caught my eye. I almost turned around but thought "Nah, couldn't be."
Tonight, I saw another one:
A sign advertising "FUNERAL FLOWERS", Northern Virginia
August 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Doing maintenance at the most Springsteen of addresses:
E St. @ New Jersey Ave NW
July 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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R.E.M. — Life's Rich Pageant Sonic Youth — EVOL (I admit I didn't buy this one 'til after Sister ('87) Elvis Costello and the Attractions — Blood and Chocolate The Smiths — The Queen Is Dead
July 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Mary vs. the Movies was live in Philadelphia tonight!
Dennis and Mary in their let's-go-down-the-shore-already attire. The screen background is so stark someone could easily edit Reggie in there.
July 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Who is the all-time creepiest singer?
July 19, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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@jonwurster.bsky.social Relevant to your interests:
A "haunch" diagram from an engineering document, labeled "Typical Haunch" This haunch is tapered!
July 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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What does it mean when *all* of the wind is pouring into a hole south of Middleburg?
My wind direction app, all flows targeting Hickory Tree Farm Lake.
July 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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@therachel.bsky.social Such a clean cat
Cat licking everywhere (1) Cat licking everywhere (2)
June 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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June 15, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Random rotating desktop tile that just popped up (credit: @jtotheartist.bsky.social‬)
Tiled image of Brian Wilson, drawn by Jeff T. Owens
June 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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I drove *all* this way, @1089thehawk.com 😑
Oh well, #LunchAtSharney's
When you find the rug emporium instead of the Mug Emporium
May 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM