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Jon Amadeus Markley

@xjamarkleyx.bsky.social

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retired hipster / RnR blogger / record collector former spiritual advisor at yr local record shop currently a cat herder and ecommerce guru living in (and from) chicago IL zen one breath at a time. positive vibes only

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Jon Amadeus Markley @xjamarkleyx.bsky.social · 12h

More stress awaits tomorrow’s game !

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FLY THE W FLAG !

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Yes. That’s what keeps you hooked !

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This is all too stressful

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Jon Amadeus Markley @xjamarkleyx.bsky.social · 13h

Listening to the cubs game on AM radio in my backyard, just perfect!

GO CUBS GO !

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Jon Amadeus Markley @xjamarkleyx.bsky.social · 15h

by Michael Neno in Nix Comics Quarterly #10

Still some copies of the limited Vicar Collection from a few years back!
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Collected Vicar | Nix Comics

The Collected VicarLimited edition of 10052 pages colorCollects the Vicar stories from Nix Comics Quarterly issues 1-8 and the Vicar Mini comic. Includes pin-ups by guest artists and back matter on de...

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Sasha Darling PHD, MD, DSL @sashadarling.bsky.social · Dec 24

I made a gingerbread panopticon

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Allan Teramura @ateramura.bsky.social · 1d

Early mural by my 1st year studio prof Winston Leathers now turning into a ghost sign, posing a #conservation question: let it fade away like many others around it or restore its original 70s pop intensity? #modern #heritage

Photo of faded supergraphic mural on the Burton Cummings Theatre in Winnipeg

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Bride of Funkenstein @malicew.bsky.social · 16h

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16h

Federal officers are firing so much tear gas at protesters outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, that some nearby community members who aren’t even protesting are struggling to breathe when they leave their homes to run errands.

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

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I Heart Noise @iheartnoise.bsky.social · 22h

Crazy to think Tower Records had a Frank Gehry designed five-story building in Boston at one point 😱

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Tower Records Building // 1918 & 1986

New England is home to just three projects by world-renowned (and sometimes maligned) architect Frank Gehry. To me, architecture is best when it makes you stop, look, critique, and comment on it. A…

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Alternative Tentacles Records @alternativetent.bsky.social · 21h

LOOK WHO’S COMING TO OUR SHORES, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER!!!
One of the top, most beloved and influential OG ‘77 Punk bands EVER - formed in a vacuum in Brisbane, Australia, clear back in ‘73!!

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 22h

The wish to try to prevent negative circumstances and suffering and to cause positive circumstances and happiness for all beings is important within the karmic system because it creates the seed of pure compassion and the right point of view.

~ Thinley Norbu

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Marcel Duchamp @mduchamp.bsky.social · 22h

Disks Bearing Spirals https://www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp/disks-bearing-spirals-1923

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