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Restless GenXer and community radio lifer. Program host at WFMU. Student advisor for WPRB. Former engineer at WNYC. Quick spells at East Village Radio and WRSU back in the […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://c.im/@mlupica, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12h

Chris Knox mini-doc from 1995 just uploaded to YerTerb. Nice WFMU shirt!

https://youtu.be/VQjvic02S8M

#chrisknox #newzealand #flyingnun #wfmu

Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 2d

I cannot begin to tell you how much it infuriates me when educators -- people who claim to enjoy working with young people and who should be setting good examples as thoughtful and responsible leaders -- can be such brazen hacks. Literally locking students out of their own radio station which […]

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Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Last night's radio show was the best time I've had in a while. Re-live the magic* right here with new and old sounds from Pôt-Pot, Kraut, Gushes, Ian Dury, Flat Duo Jets, The New Eaves, Faust, Pyrolator, the Sedition Ensemble, Mark Stewart, and MORE.

Gif-studded […]

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Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Fedi-friends, tonight is my first show for WFMU's October Hellraiser. It's a month-long quiet-sorta fundraiser, minus all the pomp and circumstance of the FMU marathon in March. DJs are asked to come up with special programming themes for at least a couple of the […]

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Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 5d

How it started / how it’s going.

Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 5d

As if there wasn't enough to be infuriated about.

https://www.ideastream.org/community/2025-10-03/cleveland-state-radio-flips-to-jazz-under-deal-with-ideastream-public-media-students-express-shock

#freeformradio #wcsb #cleveland

Cleveland State radio flips to jazz under deal with Ideastream Public Media, students express shock

The deal, announced Friday, gives Ideastream operational control over the nearly 50-year-old station.

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Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Hey Fediverse, I'm looking for songs sung by women that contain memorable and magnificent utterances of the word "fuck". (Or any variation of the word -- "fucked", "fucker", etc.)

Here are two examples of what I would consider memorable and magnificent utterances of […]

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Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Tonight vibes.

Looking forward to some therapeutic radio times, so why not join me in the Starlite Lounge at 9 PM on the WFMU Drummerstream? Three hours of freeform sounds to astound.

Listen || Live Playlist || Chat: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156468

#wfmu #freeformradio #communityradio

Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Random yard #fungi

Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12d

It’s taking everything I’m made of to not call them and ask if they can make the spheres slightly larger. #smallspheres

Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12d

I really appreciate the attention to detail on this takeout menu. #smallspheres

A menu description of meatballs: “ground meat rolled into small spheres”….

Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Winning Ian MacKaye pullquote from the new Die Kreuzen oral history book.

A quote from Ian MacKaye in which he details the existence of a phone number list popular with 1980s touring punk bands. It contained a list of folks who had gig-booking connections on the fledgling DIY circuit, and also a phone hacking trick for avoiding long distance charges. (Charging the calls to corporations or published numbers for hate groups.)

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Mark Hurst @markhurst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

NEW: My view of the future vs. Peter Thiel's.

Thiel seems to believe we're in the Last Days, that people who work for a more just society are somehow allied with the Antichrist.

I see the oligarchs and their power - from surveillance, from monopoly - as the problem […]

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Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 13d

Part of my work in community radio is training young people on both studio tech skills and programming philosophy. Teaching the tech part is easy, even for people who've never used an audio console before. In my experience, 45 minutes of hands-on guidance in an off-air […]

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Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 13d

Still there! https://www.evolution-control.com/sounds/nuggets/evolution-control.com%20-%2010-%20Steve%20Marshall%20-%20Snowy%20Day.MP3

Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 13d

@bourgwick @WFMU These were huge for me! I used to routinely air one that the Evolution Control Committee found which was some little kid talking about his school being closed due to snow.

Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 15d

Remember to put extra food out for your cats in case u get raptured.

Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 16d

This AI summary of my time as a zine editor is hilariously riddled with errors. (Most spectacularly, I am not the same guy as the sportswriter who shares my name.)

Also, LOL at "youth scenes".

Screencap of an AI overview of my time as a zine editor in the early 1990s. While some of the details are reasonably correct, it blurs my identity with that of a famous sports columnist with the same name, rendering the entire summary useless.

Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 16d

It's a fine morning to tap your keyboard along with the archive of last night's radio show. Italian gangster soundtracks, wonky Aussie hip-hop, plus new stuff from Prolapse, Chicago Underground Duo, Alien Dub Orchestra, and the Cosmic Tones Research Trio. (And if older […]

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Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 17d

Warming up in the bullpen for tonight's radio program, during which many death-defying stunts shall be attempted. In hour two, I shall cue up a Jerry Orbach 45 while dangling over a pit of live snakes. 9 PM - midnight on the WFMU Drummerstream. Listen || Playlist || […]

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Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 18d

I’m sitting at a bar in Brooklyn getting some food before tonight’s Linton Kwesi Johnson doc screening/poetry reading and the AC is SO INTENSE it turned my Impossible Burger and fries cold in under five minutes.

Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 19d

The quiet joy of watching your teenage kid’s facial reactions to their first viewing of Twin Peaks.

Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 19d

https://www.bam.org/linton

This is sold out, but I'm beyond thrilled to be attending Linton Kwesi Johnson's appearance at BAM tomorrrow night. LKJ was a very key early discovery for me when I got into college radio in the 1980s. He's ultimately what got me interested […]

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Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 19d

One recent thing I'm deeply grateful to Mastodon for is my feed being devoid of vapid, corporate brand-affiliated 9/11 "never forget" posts. 24 years ago, I watched the towers collapse and volunteered at ground zero the following day. Believe me -- that's something I would *LOVE* to forget, but […]

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Circuits @mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 22d

Wife and I just watched this incredible 1950s cold war scare flick, the whole time making jokes about the teenage son looking like Frankie Avalon.

Spoiler: It WAS Frankie Avalon!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_in_Year_Zero!

Movie poster for Panic in the Year Zero. A giant mushroom cloud looms over a destroyed city in the background The subtitle is: "An orgy of looting and lust!"

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