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J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 9h

At the end of the day, it’s you who needs to live with shitting your pants. It’s not our problem.

J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 9h

This nation’s vice president is someone who would shit their pants and then say “oh you don’t like how that smells snowflake?”

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J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 9h

Just the worst person you know. The person everyone else dreads getting pulled into a conversation with.

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J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 9h

A rancid person on all fronts.

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 10h

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Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 9h

A large amount - possibly a majority - of 'Irish folk songs' are in this category.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9h

also of course we are now getting to the point where the music of a 60 year old grandparent's young years is from the mid-80s.

J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 9h

My favorite genre is “songs you thought were a hundred years old but were written in your parents’ lifetime.”

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9h

there are some songs which feel so much like traditionals that it's a little alarming when you find out someone wrote them in the 20th century. Long Black Veil was written in 1959!

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J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 9h

My favorite genre is “songs you thought were a hundred years old but were written in your parents’ lifetime.”

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9h

there are some songs which feel so much like traditionals that it's a little alarming when you find out someone wrote them in the 20th century. Long Black Veil was written in 1959!

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J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · Sep 5

J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · Sep 3

JESUS ETC ~ NORAH JONES live at Ancienne Belgium 2010

YouTube video by BB Chow

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 10h

Imagine devoting your entire life to prostrating yourself before this man and when you die trying to further his movement he eulogizes you by saying "lmao skill issue git gud"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · Jul 25

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot pretty good album

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J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 10h

One of this year’s major events for me.

J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 10h

Maybe it’s a Long Island thing I don’t know

J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 10h

Billy Joel haters don’t want you to know how deep the line “Bill, I believe this is killing me” cuts.

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Hourly Videogame Box Art @vgboxart.bsky.social · 15h

V.I.P.

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J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 19h

All my takes are hinged.

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Cloud's Strife @jmgreene28.bsky.social · 22h

begging people to understand the barbarism, that was health insurance in America pre-ACA www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

Sick Around America | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series

FRONTLINE travels the country examining America's broken health care system and exploring the need for a fundamental overhaul.

www.pbs.org

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 21h

Rescission: it was really really fucking bad.

NARRATOR: Much of what we know about rescission has surfaced thanks to the reporting of
L.A. Times reporter Lisa Girion. Insurance companies say the basic justification for rescission
is to protect them against fraud.

LISA GIRION, Los Angeles Times: Fraud means that an individual knew something, was
aware of something, and didn't put it down. They were trying to put one over on the
insurance company. But that is not what typically is happening in these rescission cases that
I uncovered. It would be something where individuals would fill out an application and the
question would be, "Do you have a mental illness?" And they would say, "No, I'm not
mentally ill." And the thing that they get rescinded for is being on Prozac for six months after
their father's death 10 years ago. You know, a brief period of grieving didn't seem to be, you
know, the answer to the question, "Are you mentally ill?"

NARRATOR: Most insurers practice rescission. It turned out that Jennifer Thompson's
insurer, Blue Cross, has an entire department dedicated to investigating people who had
filed substantial medical claims. Girion's reporting revealed that another California insurer,
Health Net, took it even further.

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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 23h

Autumn in Berlin

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J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 2d

Muddy Waters fucking rules, man. One of the best to ever do it.

J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 2d

youtu.be/iE-RSQKDTnI

Mannish Boy (feat. Muddy Waters) (Concert Version)

YouTube video by The Band - Topic

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J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 2d

youtu.be/iE-RSQKDTnI

Mannish Boy (feat. Muddy Waters) (Concert Version)

YouTube video by The Band - Topic

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J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 3d

Which means Rubber Soul season is imminent.

J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 3d

It’s beginning to feel like Blood on the Tracks weather.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 3d

sir, this is the comment section for the soundtrack to the 2006 animated children’s film “over the hedge”

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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 5d

Remember the thing about how younger Gen X and elder Millennials were somewhat inoculated because we got to absorb Internet at the right age and at the right intensity, more or less? But that boomers and younger folks were utterly vulnerable and went insane? They didn't have the antibodies?

tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 5d

Oh hell ya someone got Trump into the weird anti-circumcision stuff. Keep talking about baby dicks sir! People will love that!

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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J. Westerby @jwesterbyhsb.bsky.social · 6d

Difference between my old drug dealer and legal dispensaries: my drug dealer never sold me vape pens that didn’t work.