Joe Bethersenton
@kirbychawkins.bsky.social
North Carolina native, band bass clarinetist
Oh, I'm quite pleased, thanks for asking. ##bassclarinet
January 7, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Oh, I'm quite pleased, thanks for asking. ##bassclarinet
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“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”
~John Adams, 1765.
Image: National Portrait Gallery.
John Adams laying out my 2026 resolutions 260 years ago.
~John Adams, 1765.
Image: National Portrait Gallery.
John Adams laying out my 2026 resolutions 260 years ago.
January 1, 2026 at 2:14 AM
“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”
~John Adams, 1765.
Image: National Portrait Gallery.
John Adams laying out my 2026 resolutions 260 years ago.
~John Adams, 1765.
Image: National Portrait Gallery.
John Adams laying out my 2026 resolutions 260 years ago.
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SNL gives you a more accurate look at Brigitte Bardot than the NYT will.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ku-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ku-...
Weekend Update: Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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December 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
SNL gives you a more accurate look at Brigitte Bardot than the NYT will.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ku-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ku-...
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A holiday for the rest of us
December 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
A holiday for the rest of us
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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If Mamdani invites Trump to Gracie Mansion and serves him 1980’s surf-and-turf and chocolate cake with a chilled can of Diet Coke in a graciously appointed dining room, we might be able to get Medicare For All.
Dream big.
Dream big.
November 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
If Mamdani invites Trump to Gracie Mansion and serves him 1980’s surf-and-turf and chocolate cake with a chilled can of Diet Coke in a graciously appointed dining room, we might be able to get Medicare For All.
Dream big.
Dream big.
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Vulcan Elements is investing nearly $1 billion and creating 1,000 jobs in Johnston County!
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Vulcan Elements is investing nearly $1 billion and creating 1,000 jobs in Johnston County!
Bruckner - Symphonie Nr. 5 | Christian Thielemann | BRSO
YouTube video by ARD Klassik
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November 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Huge and true. Catch me at Dunkin any time I step out of the house for more than 20 minutes.
i worked in hifalutin coffee shops for many years, i know all about bespoke coffee types and methods, roasts and gadgets, all that stuff, and that means you can listen to me when i say none of that shit is as good as a dunkin drip coffee with cream + sugar
November 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Huge and true. Catch me at Dunkin any time I step out of the house for more than 20 minutes.
I purchased his biography of Dietrich Boenhoeffer when I was in college (baptised and raised ELCA) and was disappointed in so many ways as I realized - some time ago - that Metaxas is a whack job. I parted with that book soon after.
The Big Damp Guy is obsessing about death like a socially awkward teen who just read Sylvia Plath for the first time
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I purchased his biography of Dietrich Boenhoeffer when I was in college (baptised and raised ELCA) and was disappointed in so many ways as I realized - some time ago - that Metaxas is a whack job. I parted with that book soon after.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Band is playing a new arrangement of "The First Noel" by Yukiko Nishimura, and it's one of the loveliest pieces I've had the privilege to read. youtu.be/CbHdTMcMF70?...
The First Noel - arranged by Yukiko Nishimura
YouTube video by Excelcia Music Publishing
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Band is playing a new arrangement of "The First Noel" by Yukiko Nishimura, and it's one of the loveliest pieces I've had the privilege to read. youtu.be/CbHdTMcMF70?...
I hope Shohreh Aghdashloo is having a good day.
November 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I hope Shohreh Aghdashloo is having a good day.
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Trump’s gold bling in the WH reminded me of a clip I posted 5 years ago of Charlie Sheen in the UK telling a story of the time Trump gave him a wedding gift.
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Trump’s gold bling in the WH reminded me of a clip I posted 5 years ago of Charlie Sheen in the UK telling a story of the time Trump gave him a wedding gift.
Been on it. Honestly, unbeatable motivation.
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Been on it. Honestly, unbeatable motivation.
Oh, absolutely.
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Oh, absolutely.
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I have another reason to live?????!!?!?!
October 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I have another reason to live?????!!?!?!
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This mf’er is a hugely unpopular lame duck and people and institutions with actual power are out here acting, for eight months straight, like he’s some goddam immortal emperor. Fuck that noise.
September 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This mf’er is a hugely unpopular lame duck and people and institutions with actual power are out here acting, for eight months straight, like he’s some goddam immortal emperor. Fuck that noise.
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The Cleveland Orchestra mourns the passing of Music Director Laureate Christoph von Dohnányi, who led the Orchestra with distinction from September 1984 to August 2002. Dohnányi passed away on September 6 at the age of 95.
September 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
The Cleveland Orchestra mourns the passing of Music Director Laureate Christoph von Dohnányi, who led the Orchestra with distinction from September 1984 to August 2002. Dohnányi passed away on September 6 at the age of 95.
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Paperback books are like velveteen rabbits — ours to be loved and squeezed and read and stuffed into shoulder bags and left in the sun and read and read again until there's nothing left but memories from something real
July 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Paperback books are like velveteen rabbits — ours to be loved and squeezed and read and stuffed into shoulder bags and left in the sun and read and read again until there's nothing left but memories from something real
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I have thought on it and prayed about it, and I have decided: I am running to be the next U.S. Senator from North Carolina.
July 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I have thought on it and prayed about it, and I have decided: I am running to be the next U.S. Senator from North Carolina.
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whennnnnn you lock up your ship
to a buoy or slip
that’s a mooring
to a buoy or slip
that’s a mooring
July 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM
whennnnnn you lock up your ship
to a buoy or slip
that’s a mooring
to a buoy or slip
that’s a mooring