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I get paid to talk about Jesus, so I wouldn’t trust a word I say.

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Something very fitting in Bobby mixing up the PITB verses the very first time he sings it with the “standing on a tower” verse.

10.03.2026 00:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Road Trips vol. 1 no. 3 if you insist on an official release.

10.03.2026 00:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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1971-07-31 Grateful Dead 1971-07-31 Grateful Dead Yale Bowl, New Haven, CT

This show absolutely smokes. The energy on the BRB is unbelievable.

jerrybase.com/events/19710...

10.03.2026 00:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Living my whole life for the 5 minutes I can lay in bed at night and read before I fall asleep.

18.02.2026 04:00 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers Return to the sprawling, Hugo Award-winning universe of the Galactic Commons to explore another c...

The best book about the experience of Covid times?

app.thestorygraph.com/books/49dd60...

06.03.2026 16:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Really not looking forward to watching mayor Pete rebrand quadrennially for the next 30 years.

03.03.2026 21:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Charles Francis Adams Jr. - Wikipedia

Maybe the best illustration of the south winning the war of history is a damn Adams bowing to the lost cause.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles....

03.03.2026 13:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Might do the Europe ‘72 day by day thing this year.

03.03.2026 01:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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City of Bones by Michael Connelly When a dog unearths evidence of a murder in the Hollywood Hills, Detective Harry Bosch must tackl...

I’m being pretty strict about social media limits, so less book posting lately. Follow the storygraphs. One think I love about Bosch books is the contending with bureaucracy as part of an investigation. Joe Pickett books do this really well too.

app.thestorygraph.com/books/916dbf...

02.03.2026 20:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m sure it will pay off, but so far the Wizards part of this is so much stronger than the Rincewind stuff. The latter is basically Pratchett taking the R stories to the limit, which is fine but not amazing. I could read about wizards on a magical beach all day though.

01.03.2026 01:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett The twenty-second Discworld novel and sixth in the Wizards series - revamped with a fresh bold lo...

The travel books (witches abroad, interesting times especially) are the main Pratchett books I have trouble with and that haven’t aged the best. That said, this one is worth it for the Mad Max parody.

app.thestorygraph.com/books/e40c89...

28.02.2026 14:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Man, this Psalm 10 page in my Bible is getting pretty worn.

28.02.2026 12:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Shout out the the 7/13/89 show with Hornsby. Absolutely smoking Stuck Inside of Mobile.

27.02.2026 01:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Extremely normy list here, but off the top of my head:

Franklin’s Tower
MH-SUT
Ripple
Touch of Grey
UJB

26.02.2026 00:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo’s lyrics belong in Hunter’s top 5

26.02.2026 00:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Overjoyed and saddened to see a dude working at Walmart reading Nickeled and Dimed. Honestly an act of bravery bringing that into work.

23.02.2026 16:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami From Laila Lalami—the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a “maestra of literary ...

Not really posting about every book anymore (follow the SG). This is great, I’m here for any modern One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. It’s not trying to disguise a critique of the present, but the present is kind of beyond parody anyway.

app.thestorygraph.com/books/89a733...

23.02.2026 12:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I know JS about the NBA but hearing the complete incredulity about abolishing the draft on Group Chat is making me nuts. It is just absolutely nuts to think that a couple big teams will stockpile players. It’s underrating how much guys want to actually play and have a role in winning.

21.02.2026 15:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’d like to read a popular history book arguing that the US actually never stopped fighting the Civil War.

21.02.2026 01:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy Ash Wednesday. Ignore the lib Christians trying to just make it fluffy feelings. Fasting and abstinence are good actually.

18.02.2026 14:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Living my whole life for the 5 minutes I can lay in bed at night and read before I fall asleep.

18.02.2026 04:00 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Assuming we can’t defund the police, how about we just pay the librarians and teachers on the same pay scale.

17.02.2026 15:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It should have been a more obvious connection but I think there’s a clear corollary between appeasement and the modern Democratic Party. Always negotiating to get more negotiations instead of achieving actual aims. Hopefully possibly with less outcomes.

17.02.2026 13:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“One pictures Neville Chamberlain in hell, sitting at one end of a table with Satan at the other, each checking off items on his agenda, and a slow, awful expression of comprehension crossing the late PM’s face as he realizes that he has just traded his souls for a promise of future negotiations.”

17.02.2026 13:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Pretty sure I knew we’d be one and done with kids the moment I had to deal with my kid pulling pages out of books. Just a deeply upsetting experience

16.02.2026 20:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Obviously the Nazis are the first villains but a strong British leadership against them could have prevented the actual execution of Nazi plans.

In short, Horace Wilson should have been tried at Nuremberg.

16.02.2026 14:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’ll have to read more by genuine scholars to fully for an opinion, yet it’s hard to read this account in any other way than that a great deal of the blood of WWII (at least in Europe) can be laid at the feet of the Chamberlain government.

16.02.2026 14:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Not to mention they should have been busting through the Siegfried line the minute the Germans went into Poland!!

16.02.2026 13:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

To name the clearest: if the British don’t allow Hitler to rearm, if they don’t allow him to seize territory without even fighting, if they form the triple alliance in 38 or 39.

15.02.2026 01:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I was always taught that wwii was a forgone conclusion after Versailles. The truth is much more important, which is that there were steps all along the way where it seemingly could have been avoided.

15.02.2026 01:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0