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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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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 16h

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

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17h

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.

Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · 2d

MAGA?

Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · 2d

Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · 6d

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.

Modern Nature - Pharaoh (Official Video)

YouTube video by bellaunioninc

Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · 10d

Wet Tuna-Sound Dimension FMB #nowplaying

Wet Tuna-Sound Dimension FMB #nowplaying

Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · 13d

It’s Rocktober!!!!

Cat shouting “Rocktober”!

Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · 14d

First Concert: Frozen Lettuce (1982)
Best Concert: Apostrophe Smell (1991)
Last Concert: AI Crimewave (2025)

Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · 15d

Springfield

Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · 16d

Definitely a family favor type of show.

Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · 16d

Trans-Siberian Orchestra or Spinal Tap or Drake

Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · 18d

Looks like the unathletic Manning, Starch Manning.

Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · 27d

Jeff Fisher

Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · 27d

The answer is be rich.

Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · 28d

youtu.be/LvzH0_LgbLg?...

Terminal Cheesecake - Angels in Pigtails [Full Album]

YouTube video by low ceiling

Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · Sep 14

Excellent first hour!

Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · Sep 8

Bailter Space-Robot World

Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · Aug 31

Beautiful song

Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · Aug 30

Can’t stand the Tess.

Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · Aug 29

Ruins-Stonehenge (Shimmy-Disc 1990) #CDFriday

Ruins-Stonehenge (Shimmy-Disc 1990) #CDFriday

Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · Aug 28

Replace the word “seemingly” with “specifically” or “pointedly” or better “obviously”

Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · Aug 27

This you in NYT? Yet no merely mechanical object has ever talked somebody into suicide before.
That is evidence of an extraordinary new power, no?

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · Aug 24

Again, the "democrats use too many woke words" thing is completely made up. It's gamergate bullshit that broke containment ten years ago

Greg Broom @blueoystercat.bsky.social · Aug 22

Matthew J. Rolin-Sea of Stars (Husky Pants 2022)
#CDFriday

Cd cover of Matthew J. Rolin-Sea of Stars

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Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · Aug 16

“Rocky Mountain Way?
That groove you can’t get with ProTools - That’s that sound of a bunch of guys playing together”
- Joe Walsh