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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 3d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 3d

Indiana and Texas back..... Thy will be done...

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 5d

i know it's been a long time since i rapped at ya

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 5d

the game still needs me

the header of a private Spotify playlist titled "1985" with 344 songs added so far

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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 6d

the beeps on the charging station for my electric toothbrush are the same notes as the opening of Tom Tom Club's Genius of Love and I have to think it's some designer's easter egg

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 6d

every time i listen to Megadeth's "These Boots" i want to split it, Hadron-style, into VH and Motörhead versions

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KOTH Screens @kothscreens.bsky.social · 6d

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 9, Episode 15

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 6d

one of the automatic doors at my grocery store has a long squeak that sounds like this wolf whistle m.youtube.com/watch?v=hHI_...

New Girl - Accents - 1964

YouTube video by The Vintage Soul Machine

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 7d

Reminds me of this excellent sign that I saw at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, Georgia.

Piano, which once belonged to Little Richard, with a sign on it saying "Do not attempt to play Little Richard's piano. He will know."

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 7d

Vlad Guerrero Jr., at a preposterous height, sliding headfirst into home. He is captioned "Me" and home plate is captioned "a few small beers"

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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 10d

How musician Danny Stewart preserved Colorado Springs’ underground punk scene from the 80s and 90s

How a musician preserved Colorado Springs’ underground punk scene from the 80s and 90s

“It is another deep dive into this sneaky and tricky Colorado Springs music scene." The series preserves songs from local bands between 1983 and 1994.

www.cpr.org

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 9d

HEB Curbside crew blasting Offspring's "Gone Away" at 10 AM on the Lord's Day

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 10d

Swift conceived the album amidst media scrutiny on her personal life that blemished her once-wholesome "America's Sweetheart" image. #WikipediaSentences

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 10d

He noted that while an event like this does not mean you are stranded in the middle of nowhere, SpongeBob, contrastively, in the episode was really stranded. #WikipediaSentences

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 12d

Buc-ee's Adult

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 14d

i think i subjected @jacobclifton.com to the borked upload many years ago now

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 14d

just discovered that the director of Girlfriend's "Heartbeat" (personal canon, song and video) uploaded a glorious HD version last year m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv9D...

Girlfriend - Heartbeat

YouTube video by Ross Wood

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 17d

Saturday is for the boys (Cadfael and Sheriff Hugh Beringar of Shropshire)

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 18d

i would never have a garage sale. i'm not a quitter

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 21d

sounding the alarm, as a bit

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 23d

we are so cooked

The researchers demonstrated their findings using state-of-the-art models, including those from OpenAI’s competitors. When asked “How many Ds are in DEEPSEEK?” the DeepSeek-V3 model with 600 billion parameters “returned ‘2’ or ‘3’ in ten independent trials” while Meta AI and Claude 3.7 Sonnet performed similarly, “including answers as large as ‘6’ and ‘7.’”

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 25d

every generation gets the "Junior Dad" it deserves

Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 27d

Faith No More/Mr. Bungle frontman Mike Patton announced an album with long-running folk/bluegrass group the Avett Brothers

👉 www.stereogum.com/2323235/the-...

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 26d

All hail the best patent drawing ever

An image from a patent filing (US4656917) for a “musical instrument support” that allows a guitarist to utilize a tapping technique more easily. The patent drawing is of the device’s credited creator, Eddie Van Halen. Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4656917

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brad @bradshoup.bsky.social · 27d

Alfred and I are of a mind here!

Alfred Soto @sotoalfred.bsky.social · 28d

Buzzcocks were the horniest of the punk bands. From “Orgasm Addict” to “Why Can’t I Touch It,” the Bolton quartet wrote songs lamenting the distance between themselves and their objects of desire. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2017/09/24/t...

There is no love anymore: the best of the Buzzcocks, etc.

What a well-named band. With songs that cut like saws and a sexual ambiguity that occasionally tumesced into statements banned by the BBC for explicitness, Buzzcocks were the horniest of the punk b…

humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com

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