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Jon Hall @hallcommajon.bsky.social · 17h

I Am a Camera is one of my favorite songs of all time.

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Jon Hall @hallcommajon.bsky.social · 17h

Magazine. John McGeoch’s band before Siouxsie and the Banshees. Can’t believe I only found out about them this year.

Jon Hall @hallcommajon.bsky.social · 1d

My bandmate Paul made an ad for our new album. It’s just about the classiest shit I’ve ever fucking seen.

Rave reviews for The Big Cats' "Tell Me Where to Go"

YouTube video by The Big Cats

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Jon Hall @hallcommajon.bsky.social · 1d

One of the worst things the 24-hour news cycle did was convince millions of people that dressed-up assholes shouting at each other around a table was the news.

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Jon Hall @hallcommajon.bsky.social · 1d

One of my most persistent stupid thoughts is a made-up classic-rock band called the Farm Boys that has a “best of” album called “Cornography.”

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Jon Hall @hallcommajon.bsky.social · 2d

Worth it, though, to experience all the culture and scenery of Lubbock.

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 2d

Cities with a higher violent crime rate than Chicago:

Houston
Dallas
Lubbock
Amarillo
San Antonio
Corpus Christi

Jon Hall @hallcommajon.bsky.social · 2d

“Go fuck yourself, Aunt Carol.”

CNBC @cnbc.com · 2d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

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Jon Hall @hallcommajon.bsky.social · 2d

Random line break. Really hitting the typo jackpot today.

Jon Hall @hallcommajon.bsky.social · 2d

If you use the dollar sign, you do not then need to use the word “dollars”
or “bucks.”

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Jon Hall @hallcommajon.bsky.social · 2d

“Give up them up”? Goddamnit.

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Jon Hall @hallcommajon.bsky.social · 2d

Pursue a hobby other than video games and computer. You don’t have to give up them up, but add something else in. Learn guitar. Get into model ships. Restore old typewriters. Crochet. Whatever. Interact with the physical world in some way that’s positive and fun.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

The bizarre phenomenon of the last decade, in which a cabal of RWers, lazy media pundits, and reactionary centrists convinced everyone that the *left* are the censors, that the *left* is coming for your freedom, was always, always, always about softening the ground for fascism.

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Jon Hall @hallcommajon.bsky.social · 3d

It really boils conservative dipshits’ piss that an autistic Swede named Greta is cooler than they’ve ever been and ever will be.

Clever Mia @readvesna.com · 4d

greta ily what an outfit

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Jon Hall @hallcommajon.bsky.social · 3d

What is it with the right-wing shitwads and those blueberry-colored suits?

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Jon Hall @hallcommajon.bsky.social · 3d

This is such a terrific performance and Elizabeth Fraser is so cute that I can’t stand it.

Cocteau Twins - Wax And Wane (De Meervaart, Amsterdam 29th January 1983) [Soundboard Sync]

YouTube video by rp61productions

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Jon Hall @hallcommajon.bsky.social · 3d

The name of the movie “Licorice Pizza” annoys the hell out of me. Yes, I know it’s a slang term for a record. That just makes it more annoying.

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Jon Hall @hallcommajon.bsky.social · 3d

The spectacle of agents of the state repeatedly breaking the law with impunity is incredibly corrosive.

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 3d

If you can hear this image, it's probably time to schedule your colonoscopy. If you can sing the whole song, it's also time to get your shingles vaccine.

Time for Timer on a red background. Next to him, the phrase "When my get-up-and-go has got up and went, I hanker for a Hunk O' Cheese!"

He looks at you with this blank stare, daring you to tell him you tried to make sunshine on a stick in the freezer but the toothpicks never stayed up straight. He knows you won't say anything because you're embarrassed. You know he knows. He knows that you know that he knows. And yet, he just stands there, hankering for a hunk o' cheese like it isn't fucking impossible to get plastic wrap to stay taught on an ice cube tray.

You want to ask him for a wagon wheel, from his stacks of snacks, but you can't bring yourself to say the words, because now you, too, are hankering, hankering for the last hunk-o-cheese, and you both know you'll have to fight for it.

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Jon Hall @hallcommajon.bsky.social · 4d

Horrible recording session last night playing bass—which I’m not very good at to begin with—on a poorly set-up instrument—which I had attempted to set up myself. My left hand just kept absolutely giving out before I could complete a take. Maddening.

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Jon Hall @hallcommajon.bsky.social · 4d

Can’t wait to hear more about how liberal coastal-elite types are insufferably condescending.

jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 4d

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.