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Greg Broom

@blueoystercat.bsky.social

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Member of Caught In The Rain, the world’s greatest “Pina Colada Song” tribute band. Gamecocks, Rams, Atlanta Baseball team. Nobel Prize winner for ShatGPT. Vinyl is now a luxury item. Keep on chooglin.

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Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · 6h

On potato chips?

Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · 6h

I commiserate…my tape deck, as usual isn’t working. Fortunately, like yourself, I have loads of choices in other formats and, I will be able to play the new Necks when it arrives.

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Defector @defector.com · 7h

Free Press reporter discovers that being an amoral dickhead can cost you friends: defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you…

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 1d

If you believe that coffee has "lots of functional substitutes" you don't fucking understand coffee. bsky.app/profile/thea...

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · 2d

MAGA?

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Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · 7d

Modern Nature modernnature.bsky.social Not a new discovery but great band that more should hear. Jack Cooper was in the great Ultimate Painting and this track reflects that sound more earlier tracks/albums.