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**BREAKING**
Images of a Chinese merchant vessel with containerised missile launchers, radar/comms and close in defense are legitimate. Collaborated via other sources. Sobering.
Merry Xmas
Images of a Chinese merchant vessel with containerised missile launchers, radar/comms and close in defense are legitimate. Collaborated via other sources. Sobering.
Merry Xmas
December 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
**BREAKING**
Images of a Chinese merchant vessel with containerised missile launchers, radar/comms and close in defense are legitimate. Collaborated via other sources. Sobering.
Merry Xmas
Images of a Chinese merchant vessel with containerised missile launchers, radar/comms and close in defense are legitimate. Collaborated via other sources. Sobering.
Merry Xmas
When the vinyl you forgot you ordered makes it in time for Christmas 🎁🎅🎄 =💯
#nowspinning on #vinylsky
Magnolia & Johnson Electric Co. ‘Wooden Hart / Twenty Cycles To The Ground,’ Keeled Scales, 2025, 7”
#nowplaying #musicsky #vinyl #records #vinycommunity #recordcommunity
#nowspinning on #vinylsky
Magnolia & Johnson Electric Co. ‘Wooden Hart / Twenty Cycles To The Ground,’ Keeled Scales, 2025, 7”
#nowplaying #musicsky #vinyl #records #vinycommunity #recordcommunity
December 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
When the vinyl you forgot you ordered makes it in time for Christmas 🎁🎅🎄 =💯
#nowspinning on #vinylsky
Magnolia & Johnson Electric Co. ‘Wooden Hart / Twenty Cycles To The Ground,’ Keeled Scales, 2025, 7”
#nowplaying #musicsky #vinyl #records #vinycommunity #recordcommunity
#nowspinning on #vinylsky
Magnolia & Johnson Electric Co. ‘Wooden Hart / Twenty Cycles To The Ground,’ Keeled Scales, 2025, 7”
#nowplaying #musicsky #vinyl #records #vinycommunity #recordcommunity
Potter stole the damn money from Uncle Billy
December 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Potter stole the damn money from Uncle Billy
#nowplaying on #musicsky
I’m listening to Los Straitjackets - ‘Joy to the World’
by WOMR Live on my WOMR Community Radio app!
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I’m listening to Los Straitjackets - ‘Joy to the World’
by WOMR Live on my WOMR Community Radio app!
womr.org
December 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
#nowplaying on #musicsky
I’m listening to Los Straitjackets - ‘Joy to the World’
by WOMR Live on my WOMR Community Radio app!
womr.org
I’m listening to Los Straitjackets - ‘Joy to the World’
by WOMR Live on my WOMR Community Radio app!
womr.org
#nowplaying on #musicsky
I’m listening to The Beths - ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’
by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #CommunityRadio app!
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I’m listening to The Beths - ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’
by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #CommunityRadio app!
womr.org
December 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
#nowplaying on #musicsky
I’m listening to The Beths - ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’
by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #CommunityRadio app!
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I’m listening to The Beths - ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’
by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #CommunityRadio app!
womr.org
#nowplaying on #musicsky
I’m listening to The Incredible Casuals - ‘Merry Christmas Anyway’
by WOMR Live on my # #WOMR #Community Radio app!
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I’m listening to The Incredible Casuals - ‘Merry Christmas Anyway’
by WOMR Live on my # #WOMR #Community Radio app!
womr.org
WOMR – Outermost Community Radio | WOMR 92.1 and WFMR 91.3
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December 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
#nowplaying on #musicsky
I’m listening to The Incredible Casuals - ‘Merry Christmas Anyway’
by WOMR Live on my # #WOMR #Community Radio app!
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I’m listening to The Incredible Casuals - ‘Merry Christmas Anyway’
by WOMR Live on my # #WOMR #Community Radio app!
womr.org
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“The Holdovers” is a great, under-appreciated Christmas film — and it solidifies Giamatti as one of our finest screen actors. 💕
(Payne, 2023)
(Payne, 2023)
December 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“The Holdovers” is a great, under-appreciated Christmas film — and it solidifies Giamatti as one of our finest screen actors. 💕
(Payne, 2023)
(Payne, 2023)
#nowplaying on #musicsky
I’m listening to The Incredible Casuals - ‘Memories (New Years Eve Song)’
by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #Community Radio app!
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I’m listening to The Incredible Casuals - ‘Memories (New Years Eve Song)’
by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #Community Radio app!
womr.org
WOMR – Outermost Community Radio | WOMR 92.1 and WFMR 91.3
womr.org
December 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
#nowplaying on #musicsky
I’m listening to The Incredible Casuals - ‘Memories (New Years Eve Song)’
by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #Community Radio app!
womr.org
I’m listening to The Incredible Casuals - ‘Memories (New Years Eve Song)’
by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #Community Radio app!
womr.org
#nowplaying on #musicsky
I’m listening to Travis & Shook - ‘Mistletoe & Holly’
by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #CommunityRadio app!
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I’m listening to Travis & Shook - ‘Mistletoe & Holly’
by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #CommunityRadio app!
womr.org
WOMR – Outermost Community Radio | WOMR 92.1 and WFMR 91.3
womr.org
December 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
#nowplaying on #musicsky
I’m listening to Travis & Shook - ‘Mistletoe & Holly’
by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #CommunityRadio app!
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I’m listening to Travis & Shook - ‘Mistletoe & Holly’
by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #CommunityRadio app!
womr.org
#nowplaying on #musicsky
I’m listening to The Spampinato Brothers - ‘Tonight Santa Let Me Down’
by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #CommunityRadio app!
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I’m listening to The Spampinato Brothers - ‘Tonight Santa Let Me Down’
by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #CommunityRadio app!
womr.org
WOMR – Outermost Community Radio | WOMR 92.1 and WFMR 91.3
womr.org
December 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
#nowplaying on #musicsky
I’m listening to The Spampinato Brothers - ‘Tonight Santa Let Me Down’
by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #CommunityRadio app!
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I’m listening to The Spampinato Brothers - ‘Tonight Santa Let Me Down’
by WOMR Live on my #WOMR #CommunityRadio app!
womr.org
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If you have never heard his playing on “Maggot Brain,” you need to rectify that promptly
December 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
If you have never heard his playing on “Maggot Brain,” you need to rectify that promptly
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Since it’s official. Thanks 🙏 @newyorker.com. This feels pretty surreal.
December 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Since it’s official. Thanks 🙏 @newyorker.com. This feels pretty surreal.
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FWIW this ‘one tremendous weakness’ post was a creative experiment in prompting ChatGPT to recreate the key moment from an obscure black and white film from 1960 (in the style of a graphic novel), in which the crucial vulnerability within fascist dogma is exploited.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0054...
www.imdb.com/title/tt0054...
July 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
FWIW this ‘one tremendous weakness’ post was a creative experiment in prompting ChatGPT to recreate the key moment from an obscure black and white film from 1960 (in the style of a graphic novel), in which the crucial vulnerability within fascist dogma is exploited.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0054...
www.imdb.com/title/tt0054...
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No, the poverty line isn’t $140,000. It’s also probably not $30,000 either.
Sanity check from Nick Maggiulli
ofdollarsanddata.com/no-the-pover...
Sanity check from Nick Maggiulli
ofdollarsanddata.com/no-the-pover...
No, the Poverty Line Isn't $140,000 a Year
On how much you need to survive in America and why market prices don't tell the full story.
ofdollarsanddata.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
No, the poverty line isn’t $140,000. It’s also probably not $30,000 either.
Sanity check from Nick Maggiulli
ofdollarsanddata.com/no-the-pover...
Sanity check from Nick Maggiulli
ofdollarsanddata.com/no-the-pover...
#nowspinning on #vinylsky 🎄
#nowplaying on #musicsky
John Coltrane, ‘A Love Supreme,’ MCA Records
John Coltrane - tenor sax
McCoy Tyner - piano
Jimmy Garrison - bass
Elvin Jones - drums
recorded by Rudy Van Gelder on December 9, 1964
John Coltrane, ‘A Love Supreme,’ MCA Records
John Coltrane - tenor sax
McCoy Tyner - piano
Jimmy Garrison - bass
Elvin Jones - drums
recorded by Rudy Van Gelder on December 9, 1964
December 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
#nowspinning on #vinylsky 🎄
#nowspinning on #vinylsky 🎄
#nowplaying on #musicsky ‘Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet,’ Prestige Records, recorded 11/16/1955 at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in Hackensack, NJ.
Bass: Paul Chambers
Drums: “Philly” Joe Jones
Piano: Red Garland
Tenor Saxophone: John Coltrane
Trumpet: Miles Davis
Bass: Paul Chambers
Drums: “Philly” Joe Jones
Piano: Red Garland
Tenor Saxophone: John Coltrane
Trumpet: Miles Davis
December 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
#nowspinning on #vinylsky 🎄
🎄‘Battleground’ (1949) is a Christmas movie 🎅
Also see: “The Best Years of Our Lives” (1946) — the film that won best picture that year (ahead of ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’).
www.imdb.com/title/tt0041...
Also see: “The Best Years of Our Lives” (1946) — the film that won best picture that year (ahead of ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’).
www.imdb.com/title/tt0041...
Battleground (1949) ⭐ 7.4 | Action, Drama, History
1h 58m | Approved
www.imdb.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🎄‘Battleground’ (1949) is a Christmas movie 🎅
Also see: “The Best Years of Our Lives” (1946) — the film that won best picture that year (ahead of ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’).
www.imdb.com/title/tt0041...
Also see: “The Best Years of Our Lives” (1946) — the film that won best picture that year (ahead of ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’).
www.imdb.com/title/tt0041...
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#OnThisDay - 20 December - in 44 BC Cicero delivered his Third Philippic against Mark Antony, calling attention to Antony's 'outrageous' behaviour & priming the Senate to sanction action against him. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: RRC 480/22; MoFA Boston (67.1027). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
Image: RRC 480/22; MoFA Boston (67.1027). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
#OnThisDay - 20 December - in 44 BC Cicero delivered his Third Philippic against Mark Antony, calling attention to Antony's 'outrageous' behaviour & priming the Senate to sanction action against him. #AncientHistory 🏺
Image: RRC 480/22; MoFA Boston (67.1027). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
Image: RRC 480/22; MoFA Boston (67.1027). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...
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December 19, 2025
December 19, 2025
This past week feels like the final, chaotic days of a political era.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:15 AM
December 19, 2025
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Mississippi Fred McDowell & Johnny Woods, ‘Mama Says I’m Crazy,’ recorded 1967, Big Legal Mess Records, @fatpossumrecords.bsky.social
#nowplaying on #musicsky
#nowplaying on #musicsky
December 10, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Mississippi Fred McDowell & Johnny Woods, ‘Mama Says I’m Crazy,’ recorded 1967, Big Legal Mess Records, @fatpossumrecords.bsky.social
#nowplaying on #musicsky
#nowplaying on #musicsky
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“If the van breaks down tomorrow”
December 15, 2023 at 7:44 PM
“If the van breaks down tomorrow”
December 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM