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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 4h

If you missed it, you can always listen, purchase, and download over on the old Bandcamp site. "Rockwell's (for Rachel)" is there, with a gorgeous piano solo by Harri Davies, as well as all my other recordings. michaelmunnik.bandcamp.com/track/rockwe...

Rockwell's (for Rachel), by Michael Munnik

from the album Driving Through America at Night

michaelmunnik.bandcamp.com

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 4h

Check out internet radio committed to indies! (including me)

Untidy Radio @untidyradio.bsky.social · 4h

Now playing on https://untidyradio.com Rockwell's (for Rachel) by Michael Munnik.

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 5h

Fundamentals of journalism. This question should always be at the ready.

Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 6h

Does anyone know what happens if you ask Trump ‘what’s your evidence for that statement?’

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 1d

Those fantasy sequences?

And what 9yo me didn't realise bc who the hell is she anyway, it was much more a Lily Tomlin vehicle.

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, mate.

We're gonna need those bicycles.

A silver bike tarp draped over bicycles in a back garden. Before it, Centre of the image, is a spider on its web.

Close up of the spider on its web in front of bikes under a silvery tarp.

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 1d

Hey! Read through your guidelines - does the music need to be "new", whatever that might mean? I put out a full-length two years ago, but it's definitely still south of the radar. Thanks!

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 1d

I just watched 9-5 again this summer for the first time in YEARS and was blown away at how subversive it was. Kid me wrote it off as Dolly Parton fluff that my mom liked.

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amanda moore 🐢 @handle.invalid · 1d

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Courtney Howard @lulamaybelle.bsky.social · 1d

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 1d

Going with C, cause I know Calgary.

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 2d

I got time!

Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 3d

Stupid, misguided framing. Fine for Bluesky jokes, not serious journalism.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d

As the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, some Norwegians worried how President Trump would react to the decision and if there would be any potential repercussions to the country.

Norwegians worry about backlash as Trump misses out on Nobel Prize

After the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, the White House said the committee had placed “politics over peace.”

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 3d

Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems)

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems to join the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art.

elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com

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🎃 Boo-nas 🦇 Karlscream 👻 Ghåstrøm, 🕷️ PhD ☠️ @pigalopp.no · 3d

Americans to Norwegians right now

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Mike Flaherty @mflah.bsky.social · 3d

Oh thank goodness.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

#NobelPrize

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 3d

a woman with long hair is standing in front of a crowd of people and making a funny face .

Alt: GIF from the Princess Bride: a woman with long, scraggly hair is standing in front of a crowd of people and making a disapproving face. She says "boo" emphatically.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 3d

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @handle.invalid · 3d

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

Antifa expert at Rutgers University says he is moving to Spain because of death threats

An expert on anti-fascist groups who teaches at New Jersey’s flagship state university is moving his family overseas.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 4d

hahahahaha oh god

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 4d

Today’s mandatory faculty mental health slideshow, “Going Through the Motions: How to Function Despite the Fact Your Supervisors Hate You and Your Job Is Destroying You Spiritually,” has been postponed again.

The Faculty Mental Health Fair Has Been Postponed Again

Dear Faculty: Due to concerns expressed by the students, parents, and staff, you are invited to attend a mandatory emergency mental health fair in ...

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 4d

Not to rush to the defence of R4, but I was listening this morning and heard multiple references to "the Arab and Muslim world". It's an inelegant dodge to include Christian Arabs and non-Arab Muslims who care about Palestine. But that *may* account for what you heard.

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Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for the methodological smackdown! Well deserved here - journalists need to understand numbers! (Though maybe this starts with PR people at the orgs that send out press releases... I haven't looked into it, unlike your diligent work here. But still.)

Michael Munnik @michaelmunnik.bsky.social · 4d

The last concert of Cdn music giants The Tragically Hip was broadcast live, & they included the song "Tired as Fuck" from their latest (last) record, prompting staid & sober news anchor Peter Mansbridge to quip "late-breaking F-bomb on the CBC". (This was itself a reference to another Hip lyric.)

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 4d

Thing I just learned. “Lede” as in “bury the lede” is a deliberate misspelling of “lead”. It’s part of a lexicon of misspellings used for annotations by journalists and subs so that notes on copy are removed, rather than included in the body of the text by accident. Others include “dek” and “hed”.

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