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OG_McDuck

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Setting my hair on fire for fun and profit. Disabled in a particularly shitty way. I know everything about everything, plus some other stuff. They/them. Also, I'm a duck. Cash app: $OGMcDuck Paypal: [email protected] (☝️☝️Search my feed for cancer $$)

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OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · Mar 9

Journalism is about objectivity, not neutrality. Neutral "journalism" is a canard.

Neutrality and objectivity are not the same. Objectivity is a slave to facts in pursuit of the truth. Neutrality is the art of presenting fact and fiction as equal.

Neutrality evelates lies. It's de facto bias.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12h

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, an activist who took part in Stonewall and remained an advocate for the decades that followed, including caring for AIDS patients & pioneering needle exchange & defending the rights of incarcerated trans people on both coasts, passed away. www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 12h

DAUGHTER OF DAWN (1920) is an independent production with an entirely indigenous cast, Kiowa and Comanche, shot on location in Oklahoma

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OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 12h

But here is Meryl singing Ray Charles. She only sings part of it, but I love it. Great song and a really great movie. Goddamn do i miss Carrie Fisher.

Postcards From The Edge - Meryl Streep Sings

YouTube video by FilmFantastic0

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OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 12h

Screw it, two more; an original and half a cover. This doesn't really fit, as it was written by Shel Silverstein (yeah, that Shel Silverstein) for Meryl to sing in the movie. But I'm dropping it here bc i love turning people on to this song. Just ask my neighbors when I'm mowing the lawn.

Meryl Streep I'm checkin out full song

YouTube video by Meryl Louise Streep

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OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 13h

Wait, one more. Incredible vocals by Dan Tyminski.

I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (With Band)

YouTube video by Soggy Bottom Boys - Topic

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OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 13h

Let's wrap it up for now while Bob Dylan eats his heart out

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower (Official Audio)

YouTube video by JimiHendrixVEVO

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OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 13h

This one is dedicated to the late great Magic Sam (and the late great Matt "Guitar" Murphy)

The Blues Brothers - Sweet Home Chicago - 1080p Full HD

YouTube video by Juanjo de Goya

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OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 13h

Just some great covers in that movie

The Blues Brothers (1980) - Everybody Needs Somebody to Love Scene (6/9) | Movieclips

YouTube video by Movieclips

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OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 13h

The definition version of Rowdy Yates' Rawhide (in A, a good country key)

Blues Brothers - Rawhide

YouTube video by holmleighnyd

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OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 13h

Speaking of someone taking someone's song and making it her own. Originally this was an Otis Redding song. Not anymore tho.

Aretha Franklin - Respect (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by Aretha Franklin

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OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 13h

You may know this one

Proud Mary

YouTube video by Tina Turner - Topic

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OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 13h

I almost went with David Cronenberg's Grand Budapest Hotel

OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 13h

Going to drop a few others, including Johnny Cash doing Nine Inch Nails

Johnny Cash - Hurt (Logan Version)

YouTube video by J Tan

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OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 13h

Lol. Would watch

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 13h

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 16h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 13h

They meant the third course at their dinner party

OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 13h

Stop exaggerating. That extra hundred will buy two beers.

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OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 13h

He's a psychopath and a nazi whom so many people are desperate to normalize him that they will jump on any excuse, even a bullshit one like this

OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 13h

Linda Ronstadt's Willin', originally written and recorded by Lowell George and Little Feat

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OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 14h

David Cronenberg's Downton Abbey

Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 18h

John Carpenter's Clueless

OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 14h

Since the vast majority of what i write, be it here or in longer form, is what i think issues humorous, i do think a little purple adds some spice. But sometimes i look at it later and think, "Back the fk up and erase."

OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 14h

I just love to do it. I enjoy it personally. But then i go back and try to tone it down. Well, sometimes i try to tone it down.

OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 14h

I struggle to keep the purple out of my prose, and i fail at it a lot.

OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 14h

NPR never ceases to lower my opinion of it, witch is impressive considering it's now only a few miles from the center of the planet

Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 17h

Small detail re: the former station reporter now FPropagandist who complained NPR "inserted" the word racist into a headline. I was an NPR correspondent covering race. I had to fight tooth & nail to call objectively racist things racist.

I was also told that systemic racism was a "contested topic"

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

John Oliver is good at his job

youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 14h

I'm impressed by the editing

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