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πŸ’œ Chicagoan educated @ Medusa’s & WAXTRAX! ☒︎ Ally ☞ music keeps me alive on 🌎∞ 30+ w/my bride ⌱ β€œEveryday takes figurin’ out all over again on how to fuckin’ live” ~ Martha Jane Canary πŸ’œ

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Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi 12 track album

Their economic acumen is such that they are making $0 on these Steve Albini sessions that they just released. If you want to know how In On the Killtaker would have sounded with Steve at the panel then you'll need to help transform disadvantaged peoples' lives

fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

07.03.2026 06:35 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

People forget that the average Minor Threat ticket was $2,735. That’s why they could afford the $5 fugazi ones.

07.03.2026 00:23 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Upside down Guy Picciotto from Fugazi thoughtlessly damaging a basketball hoop

Upside down Guy Picciotto from Fugazi thoughtlessly damaging a basketball hoop

I wish I could enjoy this photo, but I was playing basketball at that gym the next day and missed a free throw because the hoop was slightly bent. That was the end of my NBA dreams.

18.08.2024 04:24 πŸ‘ 1377 πŸ” 90 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 2
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March 6, 2026 The Reverend Jesse Jackson died on February 17, 2026, at age 84.

March 6, 2026

07.03.2026 04:46 πŸ‘ 626 πŸ” 191 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 20

Brilliant album full of top songs that I bought on its release day and still regularly play.

Here’s my UK vinyl version album and inner sleeve cover.
#SLF #punk

07.03.2026 07:22 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

"I love Boston, man… It's a town full of assholes. And I'm an asshole. And I like asshole towns.”

05.03.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

march the 4th be with you haha

05.03.2026 00:36 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The best news!!!

03.03.2026 21:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Ministry - In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up (live concert) (4k Remastered)
Ministry - In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up (live concert) (4k Remastered) YouTube video by Stephen Tures

36 years ago today. Drove through a snowstorm from Chicago to Indiana skipping skool to see Ministry for the 2nd time (first was NYE at the RIV) on β€˜The Mind is A Terrible Thing to Taste’ Slept in the β€˜76 Pontiac Catalina after the show was over. Life altering. Here it is:

youtu.be/O_hBtq-OGCw?...

22.02.2026 17:04 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Gary Gygax and Gabe Newell invented the Linux kernel while working at NeXT, named that because they enjoyed popcorn so much. Steve Jobs tricked them into giving it away for free by saying it was Opposite Day, but in the process invented the GPL license used later for wegovy.

21.02.2026 08:06 πŸ‘ 182 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

So I kind of figured it’d be amazing to watch but man this really is different. She’s so relaxed. She’s visibly having so much fun. She’s not fighting for a medal here. She’s just playing her favorite game

21.02.2026 04:43 πŸ‘ 2540 πŸ” 362 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 12
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Ray Manzarek with X

Besides his work with The Doors, Manzarek produced the first four X albums.

Sidestep -> Manzarek would have turned 87 the day before yesterday.

#punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #punklegends #x #xtheband #punkrockhistory

14.02.2026 05:13 πŸ‘ 144 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I want to see you live again with @irenaeusaf.bsky.social either in DC or his new home in Puerto Rico! Right now!

14.02.2026 05:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy 70th Birthday to Hooky, from all of the band & crew!

Feel free to leave your own messages in the comments below…

13.02.2026 07:33 πŸ‘ 97 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 3

But it wasn’t at CBGB’s, so it doesn’t count bruh…

13.02.2026 04:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wait a second. @peterhookthelight.bsky.social’s Hooky & @henryrollins21361.bsky.social share the same date of birth? And start their trip around the sun the same day of th year!

Happy Birthday boys!

13.02.2026 03:55 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hooky!!!

13.02.2026 03:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It lives rent free in my head. That was the third time I’ve seen them and they just keep getting better and better. Cannot wait to see them again in DC on 2/27!

11.02.2026 23:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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52 years ago

February 9, 1974: Iggy Pop & The Stooges played their last concert at the Michigan Palace in Detroit.

Pop taunted and insulted the audience throughout the entire show and was pelted with ice cubes, eggs, and beer bottles.

The band broke up for the first time a few weeks later.

10.02.2026 03:49 πŸ‘ 135 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Age verification?

I remember when airplanes had a haze of cigarette smoke in the cabin.

10.02.2026 03:25 πŸ‘ 198 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

Age verification?

I used to watch H.R. Pufnstuf and The Banana Splits reruns…

10.02.2026 03:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧡

09.02.2026 12:25 πŸ‘ 11567 πŸ” 7424 πŸ’¬ 197 πŸ“Œ 827

β€œI’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”

my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

09.02.2026 05:46 πŸ‘ 18218 πŸ” 4511 πŸ’¬ 399 πŸ“Œ 414
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A worn box with a green printed label: "15 day course / VITA RADIUM SUPPOSITORIES / Guaranteed to contain Real Refined Radium and to be perfectly harmless. / The Home Products Co. Denver, Colorado."

A worn box with a green printed label: "15 day course / VITA RADIUM SUPPOSITORIES / Guaranteed to contain Real Refined Radium and to be perfectly harmless. / The Home Products Co. Denver, Colorado."

A brown glass vial with a cork and a label that reads, "RADITHOR / CERTIFIED RADIOACTIVE WATER / Contains Radium and Mesothorium in a Triple Distilled Water"

A brown glass vial with a cork and a label that reads, "RADITHOR / CERTIFIED RADIOACTIVE WATER / Contains Radium and Mesothorium in a Triple Distilled Water"

Every time I see "AI" being crammed into another consumer product I think of how in the 50s we put radium in suppositories because "the atom" was the snakeoil hype of the moment

09.06.2024 14:33 πŸ‘ 2433 πŸ” 849 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 30
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09.02.2026 02:19 πŸ‘ 3902 πŸ” 504 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 16

Seems about right. I’ll take it.

09.02.2026 06:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

08.02.2026 22:59 πŸ‘ 7205 πŸ” 2160 πŸ’¬ 659 πŸ“Œ 4581

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

08.02.2026 22:23 πŸ‘ 17926 πŸ” 5443 πŸ’¬ 245 πŸ“Œ 257
Image of Bad Bunny giving his Grammy to young Liam from Minnesota.

Image of Bad Bunny giving his Grammy to young Liam from Minnesota.

Cause that's what heroes do.

09.02.2026 01:35 πŸ‘ 4632 πŸ” 833 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 196