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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 5d

Bandcamp Friday! Anyone out there got suggestions for artists resisting what’s happening out there? Who can we support today?

Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 6d

Phthursday Musings: A Claim of Ginkgo
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#ginkgo #tokyo #semi-modulars #rosalbavaldez #nathangraham #icirr #gummybears #baseball #flags #phthursday

Phthursday Musings: A Claim of Ginkgo

indeed many things claimed around here

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 8d

Running Around Illinois: Maple Park
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I found a race that spanned two counties! And finally posted about it a month later!

#running #illinois #maplepark #runningaroundillinois

Running Around Illinois: Maple Park

Romp in the Park 5K 8/30/25

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 10d

Silkworm: Night Four
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Report from the fourth night of the Silkworm reunion, this one coming from the very mysterious locale of Tolono, Illinois. (Posted after the fifth night but who's counting?)

#silkworm #dianogah #loosecobra #tolono

Silkworm: Night Four

Loose Cobra, 9/26/25

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 12d

Silkworm: Night Three
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Night three of the Silkworm reboot. Another recap with more silly attempts at deconstruction!

#silkworm #dianogah #sleepingvillage

Silkworm: Night Three

Sleeping Village, 9/25/25

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 13d

Pathetic weasels, fucking grifters, every last one

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 13d

Silkworm: Night Two
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Night two of the momentous return of the Worm. Night three tonight, same Worm time, same Worm venue.

And, yes, I managed to compare the members of the band to the four types of sentences.

#silkworm #sleepingvillage #gotobeds

Silkworm: Night Two

Sleeping Village, 9/24/25

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 14d

Silkworm: Night One
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Recap of last night's astounding return of Silkworm, with set list. Not a lot of pictures, I only got a few good ones.

#silkworm #chopshop

See you all tonight at Sleeping Village!

Silkworm: Night One

Chop Shop, Chicago, 9/23/25

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 15d

SILKWORM TONIGHT!

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 20d

Phthursday Musings: Villanelles and Catamounts
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#freespeech #telecommunicationsactof1996 #patrickleahy #berniesanders #vermont #burlington #joelrlphelps #silkworm #skwm

Phthursday Musings: Villanelles and Catamounts

See you at Silkworm week!

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 23d

Today is Roberto Clemente Day in honor of the great Hall of Famer and humanitarian and I hope you’ll all pause today and consider that this is what a hero looks like.

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 25d

META-SPIEL: It's Gonna Take a Lotta Love
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A different take on where we are and what it'll take to get where we need to be.

#neilyoung #courtneybarnett #nicolettelarson

It's Gonna Take a Lotta Love

or we won't get too far

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · 26d

Hey everybody, today's a great day to cancel your subscription to the New York Times, okay? You can play an equivalent of Wordle somewhere else.

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · Sep 5

Phthursday Musings: Pitchers, Soviets, Hurricanes
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#pitchers #tiraspol #transistria #neilyoung #likeahurricane #avnarolsky #tacoshells

Phthursday Musings: Pitchers, Soviets, Hurricanes

A little of everything at META-SPIEL

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · Sep 1

Running Around Illinois: Bolingbrook
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#runningaroundillinois #running #illinois #bolingbrook #parkie

Running Around Illinois: Bolingbrook

Parkie's 5K 8/23/25

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · Aug 29

Phthursday Musings: Ruby, My Dear
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#fifteen #anniversary #ruby #crystal

Phthursday Musings: Ruby, My Dear

Musings from a different Crystal Frontier

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · Aug 25

Who out there has a good example of how AI is helping you get your daily work done (in whatever way you define "work")?

Conversely, who out there has a good example of how AI is wasting their time or otherwise hindering getting work done?

Sincerely curious as to answers, not looking for a debate.

Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · Aug 25

There is no “crime crackdown”. Terrific example here of CNN complicity in normalizing fascist behavior.

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · Aug 25

@themountaingoats.bsky.social This piece I just published was spurred on in part by your Ozzy obituary which I thought was very profound, and I wanted to share this with you in turn. meta-spiel.beehiiv.com/p/maybe-we-s...

Maybe We Should Listen

High school and the politics of just trying to get by

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · Aug 25

META-SPIEL: Maybe We Should Listen
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This is a little differnet from most things I write. I try to tie together heavy metal and politics around a narrative of a former high school classmate. I hope it resonates with some of you.

Maybe We Should Listen

High school and the politics of just trying to get by

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · Aug 23

You all know hanging folders have plastic tabs with little papers inside the tabs so you know what’s in the folder. I just cut up old business card stock to make some little papers, and put tabs on 6 folders to identify which manuals are in each.

Let’s Kill Saturday Night

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Robbie Fulks - Lets Kill Saturday Night [Live at WAMU's Bluegrass Country]

YouTube video by Bluegrass Country Radio

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · Aug 22

Phthursday Musings: Doc and the Veterinary Hospital
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#doc #melloyello #veterinarian #jayhawks #urgeoverkill #rem #gieten #vortex #winnebago

Phthursday Musings: Doc and the Veterinary Hospital

riding that mower up and down the ditch

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · Aug 19

Ah well it’s Oracle SQL so it’s a bunch of nested queries using WITH clauses. If it were MSSQL I’d have probably tried a stored procedure instead but in our architecture that’s harder to do and especially hard to debug.

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · Aug 15

Phthursday Musings: Fishy Fragments
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#garda #tihany #mortonarboretum #grandparents #bow #paella #recovery

Phthursday Musings: Fishy Fragments

or, Let's go bowing

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Phil Huckelberry @huckelberry.bsky.social · Aug 9

The children of today have a new hero and his name is…

Bill Veeck

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