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The Quiet Norm

@whosyrhoosier.bsky.social

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Army Vet. #NoKings Af-Am.Theater Artist. ❤️ my East Bay & U.S. enough to believe it can do better & share its best w/ all. Those reduced to insults probably don't have btr arguments. No Starter Packs pls! I'm content to gain just a few followers at a time

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The Quiet Norm @whosyrhoosier.bsky.social · Jan 6

#365DaysofOakland
Like many I am not satisfied with the current state of things. Not in my city, my country, the world.

It is easy to focus on the immediacy of this dissatisfaction, all the things that feel 'wrong'.

Worse, it is easy to allow that to define our reality, to focus only on pushback/1

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The Quiet Norm @whosyrhoosier.bsky.social · 3h

A Weekly favorite!

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 21h

We’re back tonight at 11pm on HBO Max/11:10pm on HBO! And we’re off next week! So yes, John will spend his usual 14 days at the desk by himself, missing the studio audience. And the at-home audience! But the studio audience provides him with “human contact” or whatever he’s always begging for. Diva.

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KPFA Radio @kpfa.org · 21h

From Alcatraz to the world —
KPFA broadcasts the Indigenous Peoples Day Sunrise Gathering live from Alcatraz Island.
October 13, 2025 | 5–8 AM | 94.1 FM | kpfa.org
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #KPFA #Alcatraz #History #Decolonize

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The Quiet Norm @whosyrhoosier.bsky.social · 3h

If yr having trouble wrapping yr head around this concept, you might be exactly the type of person who'll most enjoy this...

Central Works Theater @central-works.bsky.social · 21h

We'd love to see you soon at Dada Teen Musical: the Play!
We open Saturday, October 18 (nearly sold out!) centralworks.org

The Quiet Norm @whosyrhoosier.bsky.social · 3h

Once more, with feeling

Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 20h

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 18h

Guys, we’re switching to being Antiki. So when they come looking for Antifa, we’ll say, “Uh, who??” Pass it on.

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Howl by Allen Ginsberg @howl-bot.bsky.social · 14h

angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,

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Naturally Nude @naturallynude.bsky.social · 12h

This should be my Halloween costume. I would only wear the mask and nothing else.

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Cartoon Movement @cartoonmovement.com · 9h

Going home (or what's left of it). Today's cartoon by Mahmoud Rifai. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com

#Gaza #ceasefire

Cartoon showing a stream of people waving Palestinian flags; together the make up the shape of an arm with a hand making a peace sign.

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The Quiet Norm @whosyrhoosier.bsky.social · 19h

#bdayseason2025 -
The Life of an Artist

The Quiet Norm @whosyrhoosier.bsky.social · 19h

So far it's been very nice! Today I have rehearsal for a show I'm in, tonight I'll see my wife play, then we'll do a nice dinner. concerts.jazzschool.org/electric-squ...

Electric Squeezebox Orchestra - The Jazzschool

The Electric Squeezebox Orchestra (CJC Resident Artists) is a 17-piece big band led by Erik Jekabson and features many of the best players and arrangers in the Bay Area!

concerts.jazzschool.org

The Quiet Norm @whosyrhoosier.bsky.social · 19h

So far it's been very nice! Today I have rehearsal for a show I'm in, tonight I'll see my wife play, then we'll do a nice dinner. concerts.jazzschool.org/electric-squ...

Electric Squeezebox Orchestra - The Jazzschool

The Electric Squeezebox Orchestra (CJC Resident Artists) is a 17-piece big band led by Erik Jekabson and features many of the best players and arrangers in the Bay Area!

concerts.jazzschool.org

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The Quiet Norm @whosyrhoosier.bsky.social · 19h

Good catch! That's exactly what's going on, the same old racism in new sheepskin...

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

Finally realized what the freakout over Mamdani becoming mayor reminded me of, and it's the freakout over the first black mayors in southern cities.

New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS:

"Too Young to Die"

As the seemingly endless NYC mayoral campaign enters its final weeks, the howls of the Democratic establishment in the city are only getting louder. They've really convinced themselves that the elect...

campaign-trails.ghost.io

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#OneHitWondered @onehitwondered.bsky.social · 23h

#Interestingly "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" was written & recorded by studio musicians Gary DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer, & producer Paul Leka. The song’s success surprised everyone, and Paul Leka had to throw together a touring group to support the hit single. #PaulLeka #OneHitWondered

1969 HITS ARCHIVE: Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - Steam (a #1 record--mono 45)

YouTube video by AnotherProf

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Chris Rywalt @crywalt.bsky.social · 23h

A new Matthew Inman comic has been making the rounds and everyone is like HELL YEAH but I'm here to throw some cold water on that. 1/6

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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KALX Berkeley @kalxberkeley.bsky.social · 23h

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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 2d

📻On this week’s show: @gregsargent.bsky.social on Stephen Miller’s plan to “sleepwalk” America into authoritarianism; @pemalevy.bsky.social on the highest court citing the "dual state;" & @jakelahut.writes.news on the rise of the Ellisons' tech-media dynasty. https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky

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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks to @onthemedia.bsky.social for a great conversation about how the Supreme Court is facilitating a “dual state” form of authoritarianism!

On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 2d

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

You break it, you own it. Kudos to @akalhan.bsky.social.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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The Quiet Norm @whosyrhoosier.bsky.social · 22h

On my birthday!

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The Quiet Norm @whosyrhoosier.bsky.social · 1d

I was reading her books when Roberta Gregory 1st went 'off the reservation' (kinda like Richard Pryor did)

She made me so proud, making comics which somehow still continue to be relevant -despite the insane trends continuing well past any sane justification...
duckduckgo.com?q=Gregory%20...

Gregory feminist cartoonist at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

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The Quiet Norm @whosyrhoosier.bsky.social · 1d

My 66th birthday... 😢

Train Songs Central @trainsongscentral.bsky.social · 3d

'From an uptown apartment, to a knife on the A train
It's not that far'

Remembering Kirsty MacColl today on what would have been her 66th birthday

The Quiet Norm @whosyrhoosier.bsky.social · 1d

"16 Dead Americans..."

Wasn't there a time, not too long ago, when our leaders world have railed against this?
#DJTDailyfollies
#TrumpsAmericaSucks

The Quiet Norm @whosyrhoosier.bsky.social · 1d

Hopefully their loved overs will feel the same...

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 1d

226 years ago, on the 12th of October 1799, Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin (née Labrosse) was the first woman to parachute. She was an apprentice (and later wife) of pioneer balloonist Jacques Garnerin. She first ascended to an altidude of 900 metres in a gondala attached to a balloon. #otd #history🗃️

Monsieur and Madame Garnerin (Christoph Haller von Hallerstein [de], c. 1803)

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The Quiet Norm @whosyrhoosier.bsky.social · 1d

They must know we'll bring it back, once they're gone

The Quiet Norm @whosyrhoosier.bsky.social · 1d

Yup. The occasional clip is tempting tho...