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Hester Pangs
@hesterpangs.bsky.social
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Clevelander.
Relapsed Catholic.
Into good music, good books, works of mercy.
Currently enjoying punk rock semi-retirement.
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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · Dec 3
I've been "exploring" random cities on Google Maps instead of doomscrolling and am finding all sorts of amazing things (ongoing thread)

Jaws Corner, Zanzibar:
www.google.com/maps/place/J...
Photo of man in front of Jaws mural on a Zanzibar street corner.
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lchupacabra.bsky.social
Canadian syrup thieves gotta start upping their game
November 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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theeferringer.bsky.social
Holy moly stay away from 480 and 271 right now. Absolute amateur hour on the roads with the first snow storm happening on a major holiday
November 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
hesterpangs.bsky.social
I found this in the dollar section at Half Price Books almost a decade ago and this weekend it finally hit right for me.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRxe...
Big Bad Days
YouTube video by Die Kreuzen - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
hesterpangs.bsky.social
I am not a "take the dog to the record store" person but when your friend the owner says she should come by sometime, it's the perfect way to spend a Thanksgiving Eve giving her all the pets and watching her run around the aisles sniffing everything.
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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scottjohnson.wtf
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zacharylipez.bsky.social Zachary Lipez @zacharylipez.bsky.social · 3d
Happy to report that, at least in this present moment, AI will not be taking my job.
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 AM
hesterpangs.bsky.social
MRR callout ads and MRR apologies makes me realize how little changes besides the medium.
IN THE OCTOBER ’88 issue of MRR, I placed a classified ad stating that numerous people owed me money. Amongst the names included was The Accused. I was wrong in including their name, because they do not owe me money. I wish to express my apologies and point out to the public that The Accused helped Subcore get its start and thus I am forever indebted to the band. I wish to point out to the Accused that I am still a loyal fan of yours, wish you the best of luck in the future and ask that you accept my apologies. Sorry guys I was mis¬ taken- Dave Subcore.
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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samueltwain.bsky.social
Charles Burchfield, from the journals
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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ihavethatonvinyl.com
alan dershowitz, who cried when he couldn't get pierogies
thelincoln.bsky.social Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 3d
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"

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Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate “charismatic” figures such as Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch who reflect “where the vast majority of Americans actually are.”
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
hesterpangs.bsky.social
every time I think about this song I think about how a dispatcher friend got a 911 call from an extremely rich exurb about a kid on the roof yelling death threats and when the cops showed up, it turned out that he was just singing along loudly out of tune to the chorus of this song.
nikostratis.com Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 2d
impossible to describe how it felt in the mid-90s when "Possum Kingdom" was on the radio in good rotation, at work trying to mop up the glass/acid spill of a cartload of pickle boxes crashed on the floor while someone screams "Do you wanna die?" from a speaker cut into the drop ceiling.
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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helldude.bsky.social
so if i understand this correctly, gaines has made her career by publicly calling trans athletes predators and threats to women while completely failing to ever mention even once that her mentor/college swimming coach was sexually assaulting and harassing women on the team while she was there?
motherjones.com Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4d
Riley Gaines climbed the MAGA ladder by vilifying trans women in sports. Now, teammates are speaking out about the real problems on her team: abusive coaching, sexual harassment, eating disorders. ow.ly/o3wq50XuCzp
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
ow.ly
November 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
This is heartbreakingly cruel and hypocritical. The same admin that has redefined refugee status to cover white South Africans is now going to drown thousands of refugees already approved for their status in red tape, potentially even seeking to strip some of their status and deport them.
bruzzone.bsky.social Mario Bruzzone @bruzzone.bsky.social · 3d
Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
hesterpangs.bsky.social
My mom makes this every year and it's wonderful.
oldenoughtosay.com madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com · 3d
British edition: my non alcoholic mulled cider recipe for if you’re serving mulled wine, for whoever wants it.
Big stock pot. Two litres pressed apple juice, 2 L cranberry juice, 500 mL lemon squash. Put about 30 allspice berries, 30 whole cloves in a loose leaf tea bag.
karenho.bsky.social Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 4d
I do not drink because I have almost no tolerance for it anymore (one margarita is too much).

If you are hosting a party, I recommend also stocking:
-fancy ginger beer
-coconut water
-premium juices like lychee and guava
-apple cider with cinnamon
-Italian sodas
-sparkling water

Lots of options!
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
hesterpangs.bsky.social
my love of weird classified / personal ads didn't quite prepare me for just how weird and occasionally sketchy the Maximum Rock and Roll ones were going to be especially because I remember reading a friend's copies in high school & not feeling puritanically punk enough.
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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revoltoftheapes.bsky.social
Dude, sorry I said
That your band has three riffs and
Seventeen t-shirts
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
hesterpangs.bsky.social
Big Ja Rule tweeting THIS IS NOT A SCAM about the Fyre Festival vibes here.
danglinghemmie.bsky.social skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 3d
it's happening dot gif
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
hesterpangs.bsky.social
This piece is so good.
silverlightzoi.bsky.social series of gj tubes @silverlightzoi.bsky.social · 4d
just found out that the Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving painting was originally published alongside an anticapitalist essay by a then unknown Filipino-American writer and labor organizer (Carlos Bulosan). damn www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/12/carl...
Freedom from want by Norman Rockwell painting shows an aproned matriarch presenting a roasted turkey to a family of several generations,[9] in Rockwell's idealistic presentation of family values. The patriarch looks on with fondness and approval from the head of the table,[10] which is the central element of the painting. Its creased tablecloth shows that this is a special occasion for "sharing what we have with those we love", according to Lennie Bennett.[8] The table has a bowl of fruit, celery, pickles, and what appears to be cranberry sauce. There is a covered silver serving dish that would traditionally hold potatoes, according to Richard Halpern,[11] but Bennett describes this as a covered casserole dish.[8] The servings are less prominent than the presentation of white linen, white plates and water-filled glasses. The people in the painting are not yet eating, and the painting contrasts the empty plates and vacant space in their midst with images of overabundance.[12 Freedom from Want Originally published March 6, 1943 If you want to know what we are, look upon the farms or upon the hard pavements of the city. You usually see us working or waiting for work, and you think you know us, but our outward guise is more deceptive than our history. Our history has many strands of fear and hope, that snarl and converge at several points in time and space. We clear the forest and the mountains of the land. We cross the river and the wind. We harness wild beast and living steel. We celebrate labor, wisdom, peace of the soul. When our crops are burned or plowed under, we are angry and confused. Sometimes we ask if this is the real America. Sometimes we watch our long shadows and doubt the future. But we have learned to emulate our ideals from these trials. We know there were men who came and stayed to build America. We know they came because there is something in America that they needed, and which needed them. We are the sufferers who suffer for natural love of man for another man, who commemorate the humanities of every man. We are the creators of abundance. We are the desires of anonymous men. We are the subways of suffering, the well of dignities. We are the living testament of a flowering race. But our march to freedom is not complete unless want is annihilated. The America we hope to see is not merely a physical but also a spiritual and an intellectual world. We are the mirror of what America is. If America wants us to be living and free, then we must be living and free. If we fail, then America fails. What do we want? We want complete security and peace. We want to share the promises and fruits of American life. We want to be free from fear and hunger. If you want to know what we are - we are marching!
November 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
hesterpangs.bsky.social
I've done three Friendsgivings this month and I'm so thankful for the people I've reconnected with and met for the first time at each one.
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
hesterpangs.bsky.social
was definitely at a party last night giving my usual "Grant's songs are my favorites" opinions.
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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nanjala.bsky.social
You’re not always arguing with a bot.
Sometimes you’re arguing with a 24 year old from Myanmar who was trafficked to Cambodia on the promise a decent job only to be held hostage and forced to produce and monetise click bait. And what drives the most traffic on these sites? Racism and misogyny.
November 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
hesterpangs.bsky.social
I knew crunchy/conservative women who lost kids unnecessarily to home births & to take away even the basic guardrails from THAT process to whatever this is truly gives me chills. Maybe if we weren't such an expensive country to have kids in, this wouldn't be as much of a thing people turn to.
November 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
hesterpangs.bsky.social
It still blows me away that things are way crazier in my boyfriend's red-blooded American manufacturing workplace than they are where I am.
November 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
hesterpangs.bsky.social
a friend from my old church posted this article and it is BANANAS.
The sudden success of an AI-generated artist on the Christian charts has sparked an online conversation about the ethics and theology of computer-generated art. After Solomon Ray’s EP took the No. 1 spot on the iTunes chart, Forrest Frank (who also released a Christmas single last week) weighed in on social media. “At minimum, AI does not have the Holy Spirit inside of it,” Frank said. “So I think that it’s really weird to be opening up your spirit to something that has no spirit.” The real person behind the character of Solomon Ray is Christopher “Topher” Town, a conservative hip-hop artist involved with Veterans for Trump, who performed at a rally that coincided with the January 6 storming of the Capitol in 2021. Following the event, Town’s song, “The Patriot,” was removed from Spotify, and Instagram banned him from going live on the platform. In a video posted to Instagram on November 19, Town called himself “the man behind the machine.” He disagreed with Frank’s claim that Solomon Ray’s music has “no spirit,” saying, “This is an extension of my creativity, so therefore to me it’s art. It’s definitely inspired by a Christian. It may not be performed by one, but I don’t know why that really matters in the end.” Town said that God can use any vehicle to reach people, even AI, and accused Frank of doing “more gatekeeping” than “uplifting.” The real Solomon Ray chimed in on Frank’s video. “Should Forrest and I reclaim Christmas from the robots?” he asked.
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
hesterpangs.bsky.social
Mine is always that Mariah Carey and her friend recorded a fun little pseudonymous grunge album in 1995.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6qV...
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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chimerror.blacksky.app
When you say "we need to cut off the red states" these are the people you're cutting off, not just your imagined swathes of undeserving yokels
jackjenkins.me Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 7d
NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews.

At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
As ICE descends on Charlotte, faith leaders draw on other cities' actions to aid immigrants
(RNS) — As many as 500 people, a mix of clergy and other volunteers, have appeared at the training sessions on how to counter ICE.
religionnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
hesterpangs.bsky.social
reminded that I learned this past weekend at the Arab American Museum in Dearborn that there were Syrians homesteading in North Dakota.
news.prairiepublic.org/show/dakota-...
November 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM