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Jeff Economy / Snackpoint Charlie Radio @snackpointcharlie.bsky.social · 13h

Viva Tom Wilson

Jeff Economy / Snackpoint Charlie Radio @snackpointcharlie.bsky.social · 4d

I’m not a lawyer but I don’t see a single ethical barrier to posting a photo of a person who was threatening people in a public place where there is zero expectation of privacy

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Jeff Economy / Snackpoint Charlie Radio @snackpointcharlie.bsky.social · 6d

…and just like that, it’s Snackpoint Charlie time again. Our erudite listeners know that those words mean two hours of beguiling and sophisticated international global music sounds for the discerning radioteur. Download the latest via WGXC.org at wavefarm.org/wf/archive/5... & snackpointcharlie.net

Jeff Economy / Snackpoint Charlie Radio @snackpointcharlie.bsky.social · 17d

As the sun sets lower than we ever imagined possible, the light still emamates from elsewhere and beyond. Are you ready for what’s next? Contemplate with our latest ep feat. Ata Kak, Yusuf Mumin, Yalla Miku, Zig-Zag Band, Yara Asmar, Half Rot & more via wgxc.org at wavefarm.org/wf/archive/s...

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Jeff Economy / Snackpoint Charlie Radio @snackpointcharlie.bsky.social · 20d

I would report more but the music got too loud to make out much. Ten minutes later though I heard the name “Tyler Durden” invoked

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Jeff Economy / Snackpoint Charlie Radio @snackpointcharlie.bsky.social · 20d

The guy at the next table is mansplaining Blade Runner to his date. “I didn’t say you’d like it, I said it was a foundational text.” He’s getting worked up but she sounds unimpressed. Oh god now he’s on to Fight Club

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AndreaaaHHhHHHHhHHhhh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 28d

somebody remind me what the New York Yankees tribute to Heather Heyer looked like

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Jeff Economy / Snackpoint Charlie Radio @snackpointcharlie.bsky.social · Sep 8

In my local pharmacy I just heard “Mr. Roboto” which is not one I would have bet on, but I have to admit is timely:

The problem's plain to see
Too much technology
Machines to save our lives
Machines dehumanize

Jeff Economy / Snackpoint Charlie Radio @snackpointcharlie.bsky.social · Sep 4

Now on Snackpoint Charlie: a conversation with sound artist Gayle Young and Pere Ubu's Robert Wheeler on the occasion of their album FROM GRIMSBY TO MILAN. Spontanous music, Hugh LeCaine’s Sackbut, and the wisdom of the animal world at WGXC wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/s... / snackpointcharlie.net

Robert Wheeler and Gayle Young perform on the EML ElectroComp 101 and the Amaranth

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Jeff Economy / Snackpoint Charlie Radio @snackpointcharlie.bsky.social · Sep 2

That story is wild, and Grafton Libertarians were idiotic. We get bears in our backyards here in the Catskills, they’re sometimes a nuisance but they mostly keep to themselves with a minimum of due dillgence

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Jeff Economy / Snackpoint Charlie Radio @snackpointcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 31

Poor kid, by the time he’s old enough to become a morally rudderless tech titan there won’t be enough of value in the world left for him to ransack

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Jeff Economy / Snackpoint Charlie Radio @snackpointcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 29

I dream of a day when everyone can see how toxic narcissism is, and also stop venerating psychopaths

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Jeff Economy / Snackpoint Charlie Radio @snackpointcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 27

“Your majesty is like a stream of bat’s piss”

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Jeff Economy / Snackpoint Charlie Radio @snackpointcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 25

Cruise was completely unbelievable as a feckless blue collar single dad in Spielberg’s War of the Worlds

Jeff Economy / Snackpoint Charlie Radio @snackpointcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 21

“I know it’s not much, so just… you know, write nice stuff”

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Jeff Economy / Snackpoint Charlie Radio @snackpointcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 21

Don’t Worry Be Happy or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Snackpoint Charlie. Featuring: the world premiere of two more tracks from Peter Jefferies' DUIT ON TUESDAY, his EP of Harry Nilsson songs. Download from WGXC.org at wavefarm.org/wf/archive/h... w/playlists at snackpointcharlie.net

Jeff Economy / Snackpoint Charlie Radio @snackpointcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 8

On the latest Snackpoint Charie: the world premiere of two new tracks from Peter Jefferies' forthcoming EP of Harry Nilsson songs DUIT ON TUESDAY! plus new music from Group Inerane, Habibi Funk, Gayle Young & Robert Wheeler, Arachnid Doom + more downloadable via WGXC at wavefarm.org/wf/archive/5...

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Jeff Economy / Snackpoint Charlie Radio @snackpointcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 5

I was once working on a film shoot in Texas and one of our local crew mentioned that his dog had died recently. We asked if he’d buried his pet and he said “no, I fed it to the wolves.” Some on our crew were taken aback, but he shrugged and said: “Wolves gotta eat too.”

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Jeff Economy / Snackpoint Charlie Radio @snackpointcharlie.bsky.social · Aug 2

“Kill the Messenger” is one of the hallmarks of the shittiest kings

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Neal Parikh @nparikh.org · Aug 1

Even this description does a disservice to how gross this was. This shit kid, Farritor, overrode Rubio and personally destroyed lots of USAID when he was ordered not to. And Elon was utterly confused about what the agency even was, the Bond villain narratives in the replies are too generous.

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · Aug 1

"Before January 2025 there had been no—zero, zilch—interest in killing off USAID. It wasn't something Trump ran on. It wasn't envisioned in Project 2025. It was only once Elon Musk decided that USAID was evil that destroying the agency became a policy goal for the Republican party."

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People

What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

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Jeff Economy / Snackpoint Charlie Radio @snackpointcharlie.bsky.social · Jul 27

The kompromat on this feckless weasel must be sooooo juicy

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · Jul 16

This was Vin Scully's call of Henry Aaron's 715th home run. Tonight Major League Baseball cut off the first sentence, starting it with the "What a marvelous moment" part because they don't want to anger the white supremacists who run our country and of whom Rob Manfred is an ardent supporter.

"A Black man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol. What a marvelous moment for baseball. What a marvelous moment for Atlanta and the state of Georgia. What a marvelous moment for the country and the world.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jul 13

Watch this to the end.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jul 13

Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.

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Jeff Economy / Snackpoint Charlie Radio @snackpointcharlie.bsky.social · Jul 13

If by “changed” you mean “meaner, stupider and more deeply into his dementia,” then sure

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Jeff Economy / Snackpoint Charlie Radio @snackpointcharlie.bsky.social · Jul 13

Gonzales is the guy who finds his best friend sleeping with his wife and puts a gun to his head saying, “don’t laugh, you’re next”

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