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becca 🎗️ @magicjewball.bsky.social · 2h

Hi Zohran, first time caller here. This is my regular bus line and not only is it molasses slow but it often doesn't show up at all. The other day we had a 30 minute wait in the middle of Manhattan on a weekday afternoon. Thanks for your attention to this matter.

becca 🎗️ @magicjewball.bsky.social · 4h

#2 made me gasp, so probably that one.

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becca 🎗️ @magicjewball.bsky.social · 4h

But relieved to hear I wasn't the only one!

becca 🎗️ @magicjewball.bsky.social · 4h

It was a perfect choice for her, very in line with what she was doing at that time.

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becca 🎗️ @magicjewball.bsky.social · 4h

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LISTEN (Robert Plant) - You Better Run

YouTube video by Back to DELTA Channel

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becca 🎗️ @magicjewball.bsky.social · 4h

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The Young Rascals - You Better Run (May 30, 1966)

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becca 🎗️ @magicjewball.bsky.social · 4h

This song is so, so Pat Benatar. Just reeking in Patness. I'm still stunned.

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becca 🎗️ @magicjewball.bsky.social · 4h

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Pat Benatar - You Better Run (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by PatBenatarVEVO

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becca 🎗️ @magicjewball.bsky.social · 4h

I really thought I was beyond the age of "that's a REMAKE???" but this week I learned something most people probably know (?), that the second song ever played on MTV, from one of my favorite artists at that time, is in fact not by her. I am shook. Video in next post.

Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 8d

The new episode of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs is now up! This one looks at the formation of Led Zeppelin, and looks in detail at the inspirations behind the songs on their first album.

Song 180: “Dazed and Confused” by Led Zeppelin, Part Two — “Inspiration is What You Are to Me”

For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted, songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the first part of a two-episode look at the song “Dazed a…

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becca 🎗️ @magicjewball.bsky.social · 7h

Is this a NextGen train? Fun!

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becca 🎗️ @magicjewball.bsky.social · 7h

My first thought was, thank goodness it’s raining and maybe it doesn’t smell as bad today.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18h

Trump broke the union contract here. That's the only reason we need to even think about this shit! Stop worrying about norms. They stopped! He's taking a significant portion of your lunch money by doing illegal shit and we're supposed to say "that's fine, too bad for us"

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18h

Employers pay fed taxes on your behalf. The money doesn't magically appear. It's yours. They send it for you. Gov can tell local companies to put fed taxes in escrow (or whatever) and make Trump come sue for it. Get creative! But try something. Don't throw your hands up and say oh well.

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becca 🎗️ @magicjewball.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

becca 🎗️ @magicjewball.bsky.social · 1d

Forgot to say happy birthday to Matthew Sweet who I hope is recovering well and on his way to making music again.

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becca 🎗️ @magicjewball.bsky.social · 1d

I realize I've never used AI, not ChatGPT nor the image generator stuff, and I have it blocked on any app or site that allows you to do that. It hasn't been hard at all, although I do teach how it works.

(Not talking to anyone at WaPo about it, tho.)

Lisa Bonos @lisabonos.bsky.social · 1d

Do you abstain from AI? I'd love to hear about why you avoid it -- and how hard that might be getting. Send me a DM or Signal @lisabonos.18

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Judah Adashi @jadashi.bsky.social · 1d

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becca 🎗️ @magicjewball.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe spend more than 30 seconds????

I forgor my name lol @cheesecakechik.bsky.social · 1d

Like…?

A post by Aaron Rodericks: that second was a mod error and [Erin] has been released with an apology already. Mods make errors continually with hundred mods reviewing tickets in 30 seconds or less.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Unlike Jesus, I have returned.

Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 1d

The all-knowing bsky mods gave Erin Biba a 24 hour suspension for a months-old skeet about Christian Zionism, and I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this happened when she’s been vocally criticizing Jay

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 1d

Suspending Erin Biba, a Jewish woman for this skeet is nasty work. Between this and intentionally misreading Link’s use of a meme as a threat, bsky mods are more than willing to ban based on the Spirit Of The Law for *some* posters but never Jesse Singal.

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"All the Jews have to die or convert to trigger the rapture. Then our dead bodies surround Jerusalem and they climb over us to reach Jesus, who will bring them to heaven. It's why they're all Zionists obsessed with Israel.
Cause they need Jews to go there so we can die"

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Oh so now Erin is gone too.

Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 1d

Wondering where ‪@erinbiba.bsky.social is? Suspended. Officially, it's b/c 2 weeks ago, she posted an accurate description of the End Times scenario Christian Zionists believe in (all Jews convert or die), & typing this *apparently* encouraged violence or self-harm. Unofficially? Feels sketchy AF.

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becca 🎗️ @magicjewball.bsky.social · 1d

If one of my students said this to another, I would chastise them! And they are children.

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becca 🎗️ @magicjewball.bsky.social · 1d

Tangential to the big issues facing us, I don't know how we bring up young people when everything we tell them about how to be good, polite, caring humans is subverted by the examples they are being set.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump posts his first TikTok on his personal account since the election and says

“To all those young people of TikTok, I saved TikTok, so you owe me big….”

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becca 🎗️ @magicjewball.bsky.social · 2d

My students: why is it always so cold in this room?
Me, to a bunch of nine year olds: well, have you ever heard about David Letterman's studio?

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becca 🎗️ @magicjewball.bsky.social · 2d

That's no earthquake, it's just Uncle Walter turning in his grave.

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