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Charlie @theuptownfive.bsky.social · 37m

Girlllllll I got that

Charlie @theuptownfive.bsky.social · 40m

There is something comforting about Bob Mould's daily selfies from tour.

Charlie @theuptownfive.bsky.social · 42m

But this is going to bother me.

Charlie @theuptownfive.bsky.social · 42m

I can't find my copy of the Garden State soundtrack and I'm confident enough in my filing system that I'm no longer 100% sure that I own it.

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Charlie @theuptownfive.bsky.social · 1h

Missed a guess of Fred McGriff as a Gold Glove 1B on Immaculate Grid today but feel justified because of all of those ads for the videos with Tom Emanski.

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Charlie @theuptownfive.bsky.social · 1h

Is that the watchdog?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6h

Vets could be made to publish prices after UK watchdog investigation

Market ‘not fit’ for purpose and must be modernised, CMA says, with pet owners paying 16.6% more at large groups Vets in the UK could be forced to publish their prices and whether they are part of a larger group after an investigation by the markets watchdog into claims chain-owned surgeries have left pet owners with dwindling choice and higher bills. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) found pet owners pay 16.6% more on average at large vet groups than at independent vets and called for a market that is “not fit” for purpose to be modernised. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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correcting typo and derailing riff @stefanheck.bsky.social · 9h

I would honestly rather read a handwritten note from my parents in which they say they regret ever adopting me

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 11h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Charlie @theuptownfive.bsky.social · 10h

I think Snell could have and should have thrown a CG last night too.

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Charlie @theuptownfive.bsky.social · 10h

D’Angelo was a big enough deal that I remember my local (that once vowed to me that they’d never sell CDs) selling Black Messiah on CD in the period before the vinyl came out. Had the CDs right up by the register.

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 19h

Guys it pains me to say that the party of Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond and William F. "The White Race Deserves to Rule the South" Buckley has turned cartoonishly racist.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 19h

The party of Lee Atwater explaining how to message that black people are no damn good and the War on Drugs being a War on Blacks from the Nixon Administration and Obama birth certificate mania and shithole African countries has now taken a dark racially tinged turn.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 19h

so what's in the news today

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 20h

D’Angelo & Questlove at Brooklyn Bowl on March 4, 2013. on.soundcloud.com/KIgBoovzswqJ...

D'Angelo & Questlove at Brooklyn Bowl, 3/4/13 | Complete

SETLIST: 01) Go Back To The Thing / Let Me Have It All (Sly & The Family Stone) 02) Cosmic Slop (Funkadelic) 03) Woman’s Gotta Have It (Bobby Womack) 04) The Line 05) You Caught Me Smilin’ / Af

soundcloud.com

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20h

one of the realest tributes to Prince anybody did after he died. Somebody major needs to get on TV and do for “The Charade” what D’Angelo did here

youtu.be/FeV7A6VWjL8?...

D'Angelo ft. Princess Sometimes It Snows in April

YouTube video by samuel

youtu.be

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Charlie @theuptownfive.bsky.social · 20h

OK, now this sucks. 51's too young. I kept thinking he'd drop in with another masterpiece.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21h

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

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Charlie @theuptownfive.bsky.social · 21h

it's a reminder to live life like you'll someday have news of your death broken on Baller Report dot com.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 21h

I am going to wait on beleiving the D'Angelo news until I see it reported by somewhere other than Baller Report dot com

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Charlie @theuptownfive.bsky.social · 21h

no way. noooo way.

Charlie @theuptownfive.bsky.social · 21h

Aw man, I've forgotten the title, but does this have the song that you played at the house show with Lee Bains that you told me you thought could be "the next DB single?"

Excited to check this out.

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Charlie @theuptownfive.bsky.social · 21h

Nothing they've done in the eight years since has made me regret it.

Charlie @theuptownfive.bsky.social · 21h

Quit Spotify back when "they pay artists the least and Apple Music works better with my devices" was the main thing.

Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 1d

Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE and their owner is helping to develop military AI. Maybe hit that "cancel my account" button?

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 21h

"We're saving God."

Roll that phrase around your head. Consider the theological and cosmological implications.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Charlie @theuptownfive.bsky.social · 22h

The establishment Democrat resistance has had the opposite effect for me.

Charlie @theuptownfive.bsky.social · 22h

I find him inspiring. Maybe that's because he's been packaged specifically to do so, but tbh, I even appreciate the effort at this point. I want more people his age that look and sound like him to take larger roles in our country.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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