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Berkeleyan. Lover of groovy music (jazz and rock).#BillsMafia 🦬, Buffalo Sabres, formerly Oakland A's. Math nerd, programmer. Crossword junkie. Part-time 🐈cat bed. Reader.Modified free-form bocce player. Also @[email protected]
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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

submitted 12 hours ago • 223 comments

Got Toffee a new catnip mouse and now she is

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Sabres trying to build a lead big enough that even they can't blow it.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Before he formed Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page played a prom, in 1968, with his previous band, the Yardbirds, at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati. The president of the school's junior student council at the time tells David Owen about the experience.

submitted 17 hours ago • 8 comments

If you see this, post a skeleton

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I was feeling stressed out yesterday, not sure if I was even in the right mood to enjoy a concert. It turned out @eggymusic.bsky.social was just what I needed. Tore it up from start to finish. What a great live band. #eggy

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

If you leave the history stuff out of it though, Silver is tiptoeing toward the accurate point that he personally is very good at getting high scores on artificial abstract reasoning tests while being a colossal ignoramus and dumbass about actual life

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

An opportunity to post my favorite map

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Happy to see the East Bay's @replsimon.bsky.social on this list. Now where are @padilla.senate.gov and @schiff.senate.gov ?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

#OTD in 1979, my favorite era of Grateful Dead history ends as Keith and Donna Godchaux play their last show with the band. (To tie this in to what everybody else is chattering about: This was about three months after the Dead's first appearance on SNL.)

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

an important trend that elaborates on a point I often make—the right understands “intersectionality” better than the left

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

A Q. & A. with Peter Beinart, whose new book, “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning,” argues that many American Jews who defend Israel have lost their moral bearings.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

@kpfa.org's Dead to the World will broadcast the first set of Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country show live from the Cornerstone in Berkeley at 8pm PST tonight, Wed. 2/12/2025.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The Bills must have softened 'em up.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The 2025 KPFA Grateful Dead Marathon is happening Saturday, March 1, 9am-12mid PST! Tell everyone you know! It will be over the on KPFA FM Berkeley, and streaming at kpfa.org, nugs.net, and gdradio.net. (Amazing graphic by D.Brenner Art & Design!)

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943. Only one cat has ever received the award. This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25

submitted 200 days ago • 44 comments

Today's bandcamp purchase. The cover art and the two cover tunes, Mingus' "Fables of Faubus" and Ayler's "Truth is Marching In" give a pretty good idea of where this release from last year is coming from, both musically and politically. littleimusic.bandcamp.com/album/guilty

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Bills Mobile: Josh Allen Reacts to Heartfelt MVP Video youtube.com/shorts/P1YeF...

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

This is the 23 year old who currently has access to the entire Treasury payment system, by the way.

submitted 16 days ago • 240 comments

Just one of the many lessons relevant to our present time that Bob Dylan tried to teach us in "Idiot Wind."

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

From a NYT article about the things research scientists in Antarctica do to keep up with their favorite football teams: ”Jim is a Bills fan because he grew up in upstate New York, and Meredith inherited the condition from him.” #BillsMafia

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

submitted 17 days ago • 1105 comments

The absolute glee some are displaying in blaming Palestinians, and people who protested on their behalf, for their own ethnic cleansing is a strategic error (obvs you target the decision maker), a political error (obvs you need those votes), and a moral error (obvs fix your hearts or die).

submitted 18 days ago • 45 comments