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Jeff Betten

@jeffbetten.bsky.social

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Mayor of the Pittsburgh music scene. HellbenderVinyl.com, Misra Records, ILovePghMusic.com, FixPittsburgh.com, and coming soon to a County Council race near you BettenForAllegheny.com

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Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · Aug 24

Thank you Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, and Western Pennsylvania ❤️

www.pittsburghmagazine.com/40-under-40-...

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Bill Bernstein @billbbillb.bsky.social · 4d

At today’s sold-out Monongahela Pop Festival at Gov’t Center Records, before the Frampton Bros. reunion folks are pumped for, Benefits (band I’m in) will play our new record BURNOUT 🫩 (& we’ll have copies, courtesy of @hellbendervinyl.bsky.social)
+ on Bandcamp
benefitspgh.bandcamp.com/album/burnout

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Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · 7d

Ask not for whom the vibe shifts, it shifts for thee

Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · 8d

Never forget that Leonard Cohen pretended to be Kris Kristofferson in order to sleep with Janis Joplin, which he then turned into the song "Chelsea Hotel No. 2"

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Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · 9d

We've only had one president named Abraham, and yet most people believe he did a very good job. Makes you wonder if our next president should also be named Abraham?

Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · 11d

RIP to one of the funniest writers that I ever found through social media

Brandon Kennedy @bicycleidiot.bsky.social · 11d

RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee.
You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11d

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

2025, So Far

I wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time and talk to my dad in 1988, just before I was born, and tell him what it’s like to live in the future. I’d tell him all the amazing things that a...

kalebhorton.ghost.io

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Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · 11d

Ok but AI art is lame

Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · 11d

Men named Richard don't go by "Dick" anymore

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Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · 13d

"If I had a gun with two bullets and I was in a room with Hitler, Bin Laden, and Toby, I would shoot Toby twice."
- Michael Scott

It's my belief that everyone has a Toby, and I don't trust anyone who says that they don't.

Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · 13d

Ma'am.

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chris walla, cricket command AS @calculizer.bsky.social · 14d

scorpio appreciation post

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The Doctor of Happiness @angrierfish.bsky.social · 14d

Quiz: Bob Nutting’s reaction to his win tonight -
1. Partying deliriously
2. Hugging his loved ones
3. Unaware the team was playing tonight

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bring on the headless horses @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 16d

we're going to a party music.apple.com/us/album/at-...

At the Bottom of Everything by Bright Eyes on Apple Music

Song · 2005 · Duration 4:33

music.apple.com

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Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · 16d

BLUESKY EXCLUSIVE! Posting it here first because I had the app open, and why not?

Can you help me make a wiki on MediaWiki? Reply or DM with your rate, because I want to pay you to do something that I'm too busy/dumb to do on my own!

Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · 17d

What if I was Romeo in black jeans?
What if I was Pikachu, no myth?

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Mother of Dragans @lindsaydraganpgh.bsky.social · 20d

When I used to shout down right wing nutjobs, there was one thing that would ALWAYS get to them.

“You can dish it out but can’t take it.”

It would always immediately put them on the defensive, they would clutch their pearls, they’d melt down.

The secret sauce is to call out their weakness.

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Jeff Betten @jeffbetten.bsky.social · 21d

If you choose to drive directly behind me late at night, you have to tell me if you're a cop. It's entrapment if you don't.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 26d

Nancy Mace tweet: Time to bring back the death penalty

superimposed on an image of Mr. Burns tenting his fingers as he talks to a crowd

Nancy Mace tweet: We truly belive if Tyler Robinson had ever sat down across from Charlie, the great debater, the man of faith and grace he was Tyler wouldn't have pulled the trigger

superimposed on an image of a chastened Mr. Burns speaking to the crowd about a different subject

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25d

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25d

Russian drones seem to have entered Polish airspace again.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 25d

"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you

"Cancel culture" = when you criticize me

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James Van Fleevil Dead @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 25d

Horror movie where the Child-Eating Cyclops Monster eats children every week, but because he wears a clean suit and tie and frames his desire to eat children as an academic thought experiment, the authorities allow the Cyclops to continue for the sake of civility.

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Jay Thurber Show @jaythurber.bsky.social · 25d

Same energy.

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Pittsburgh DSA @pghdsa.org · 26d

If you are looking to support the people displaced by the Squirrel Hill fire, some neighbors are keeping this document updated with various GoFundMes.

pfrd.link/sq-hill-fundraisers

An aerial shot of an apartment building that is billowing smoke with firetrucks and people standing nearby.

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