Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social)
Ani Difranco - Phase #Musicsky youtu.be/7_euHPOJVqU?...
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Ani Difranco - Phase #Musicsky youtu.be/7_euHPOJVqU?...
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social)
Crush With Eyeliner - R.E.M. #Musicsky youtu.be/ibhSmrmHYhM?...
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social)
The dB's - Amplifier #Musicsky youtu.be/COieJDpJdn0?...
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social)
Time Machine - the Windbreakers #Musicsky youtu.be/56ddob8oAz8?...
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social)
Ring True - Let's Active #Musicsky youtu.be/nUtogfhs7J4?...
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social)
Trail of Tears - Guadalcanal Diary #Musicsky youtu.be/sB0mlQn3RFk?...
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️ (@sophianyx.bsky.social) reposted
Without saying Losing My Religion, fav R.E.M. Song?
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
Pretty Persuasion
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September
Yell In a War (@jelenawoehr.bsky.social) reposted
you criticize me for letting someone live rent free in my head? oh so you hate public housing huh…
CJ NOW+ (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) reposted
The Great Tommy Emmanuel: “The Wide Ocean” (Ossipee Valley Music Festival 2025) #blogpost
Hackaday (@hackadayofficial.bsky.social) reposted
Robotic Canoe Puts Robot Arms to Work
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
How about something useful like a robot bidet 🤖
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
My ex-wife looked like she was thirteen into her forties Her 50/60’s were a rude awakening 🙂
Mary Gillis (@marygillis.bsky.social) reposted
This is incorrect on the face of it, but I've always thought it was weird to be a fan of a team composed of athletes who never lived in your city until a billionaire hired them to temporarily move there. Plus all teams are ships of Theseus. Being a fan of particular athletes makes way more sense.
Jack Tripper (@chadstanton.blacksky.app) reposted
lol they actually did it
Heather Buchel (@heather-buchel.com) reposted
Engineers when you point out flaws in their DX that affects maybe 5 people ever on that team: yes absolutely we should fix this, this is 10x engineering when you point out systemic accessibility issues: wow maybe in a perfect world we could fix this 🙄🙄🙄 there has to be balance!!!!
alexis simpson (@amutepiggy.bsky.social) reposted
ignoring something unpleasant until it goes away works, right? RIGHT
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
You don’t have to watch every tree burn down to know it’s a forest fire 🔥
Anne Lutz Fernandez (@lutzfernandez.bsky.social) reposted
"I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response."
Heather Buchel (@heather-buchel.com) reposted
The tech world just generally sucks right now if you have any amount of principals (has for a while, but even moreso now). Like I hate to be dramatic. But the same sorta tools are suicide ideating hitler machines???? Hello????? Lets use them to also write code? What are we doing here!
Dinner is 6 pm (@internethippo.bsky.social) reposted
One reason for Democrats to ditch their reflex to say "You have a point" to the other side is the right wing hasn't had a good point about anything in most of our lifetimes
Brendel (@brendelbored.bsky.social) reposted
You’re a real power user if you get this and recognize it as the boon it represents
Brendel (@brendelbored.bsky.social) reposted
The flaw in everyone who makes a Bluesky bad post is that they come to the conclusion that making the site better involves importing people with centrist politics to talk politics when the actual truthful answer is that we need less politics and more goofs but that’s difficult when the world sucks
Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social) reposted
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
Brendel (@brendelbored.bsky.social) reposted
I was already pretty done with the news media but seeing clips yesterday from the Sunday shows where an anchor is like “but what if living in a Police State does reduce car jackings? Why would you be against that?” probably was the end
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
That's AI slop bullshit Larry Carlton on working with Steely Dan #Musicsky youtu.be/sEZ_WWj8iIo?...
Lyz (@lyz.bsky.social) reposted
Don’t worry, RFK is using leeches to balance his humors
Joy-Ann Reid (@joyannreid.bsky.social) reposted
Sorry, but the scariest places in America aren’t Black neighborhoods, it’s towns like Vidor, where historically, Blacks (and Asians, Jews & Italians) could be lynched w/o consequences. There’s literally no equivalent the other way. Thank God these young men weren’t harmed. youtu.be/Px_P0bRkbfU?...
Anil Dash (@anildash.com) reposted
They normalized calling for the death of innocent Black men. They normalized the fact that they can’t stop sexually abusing children. They normalized a traitorous violent assault on the capitol of the United States. And these motherfuckers want to pretend *word choice* is the issue? Please.
Jack Tripper (@chadstanton.blacksky.app) reposted
Weeks of offering target lists show fruit. Great job everyone.
alexis simpson (@amutepiggy.bsky.social) reposted
they need to make a new NFL, one with a football the players can eat
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
They could play with one of those toddler footballs and you can’t tackle anyone until you figure out who has the ball
Jack Tripper (@chadstanton.blacksky.app) reposted
Frankly what we’re seeing with this entire Newsom campaign is the logical outcome of the effort to pre-blame the left during the last campaign. They don’t support trans rights and so we get a sweaty effort to make support for trans rights unreasonable.
A.R. Moxon (@juliusgoat.bsky.social) reposted
I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s hard to argue with someone that pulls all their “facts” right out of their ass 💩
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
There was dancing in the streets when he lost the election 💃🕺🏿
Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger.bsky.social) reposted
People, please stop ruining my "he could be dead" party. Sure maybe JD can control a cult while being controlled by an in-fighting committee of trillionaire shadow POTUS bros. I don't think so. But even so, he'll still be very dead. Dead is good. We have to find joy where we can.
Jack Tripper (@chadstanton.blacksky.app) reposted reply parent
Did you think they wouldn’t aim violence at people in Houston, New Orleans, Shreveport, St. Louis, Memphis, and the like? We’ve seen them doing it all our lives?
Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) reposted
10/10 🎯
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social)
Senri Kawaguchi + Felix Jazz Orchestra #Musicsky youtu.be/OVcBIJHl_1A?...
Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow (@tomtomorrow.bsky.social) reposted
hey I was thinking what if we outsourced our economy, health care system, world standing and just about anything else you can think of to a malevolent, addled dementia patient on death's door, that would be fun right
Mary Gillis (@marygillis.bsky.social) reposted
AI's best use case will always be scams. It's scamtech, top to bottom. Everything about it is crooked. Its bedrock is theft and its legacy is the destruction of the environment, both physical and virtual. Even most of its 'legitimate' uses are a form of lying. "I wrote this." "I created this."
Pookleblinky (@pookleblinky.bsky.social) reposted
It was always obvious for the past decade that the never Trumper grifters would begin consolidating with the vote blue no matter who grifters, and all the warnings that this was very extremely obviously happening got ignored by the miserable dipshits.
Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew.bsky.social) reposted
“bluesky has no pull” we had the world thinking the president was dead, we’re becoming more powerful than they could ever imagine
Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social) reposted
it is so profoundly weird, yet in character, that she’s decided to die on the hill of “not letting kids scroll TikTok brain rot in math class”
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
She’s on the Brianna Wu track
John Shirley (@johnshirley2024.bsky.social) reposted
Am I misunderstanding? It sounds like they're saying no one can get the new covid vaccines unless they have these certain serious conditions. It's like they don't know there were 1,226,351 confirmed deaths from covid & many others who are sick with long covid). Most did not have these conditions.
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
They want more people of color deaths like they were promised
A.R. Moxon (@juliusgoat.bsky.social) reposted
Next step: make the president think the president is dead.
Funky16Corners (@funky16corners.bsky.social) reposted
Talk About the Passion, These Days and Disturbance at the Heron House
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
The first ep
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
I have thirty years of stories like that. People can be cruel and stupid
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
We were pealing the hair off of a badly matted sheepdog and ran into maggots. The dog died because the infection was so deep.
Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social) reposted
the Reddit dog grooming sub is full of amazing content
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social)
Old Men - Shane Theriot #Musicsky youtu.be/D3yAtq5yVSc?...
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social)
Shrimp Boots - Shane Theriot #Musicsky youtu.be/WVbFZaQo9xU?...
Marco Rogers (@polotek.bsky.social) reposted
Telling strangers that they are supporting fascists and eugenicists when you haven't made sure you understand them first. That is absolutely harassment. Anytime your politics are telling you to berate other people you just met, that should give you pause. It took me a while to learn this lesson too.
Rich Burroughs (@richburroughs.dev) reposted
“If the Democratic Party receives the majority of your ire, then our aims are not the same, and you may go ahead and block m…” Cool, done.
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
I want it to be front page news
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
This needs to be the question of the day every day
molly conger (@socialistdogmom.bsky.social) reposted
the haters and losers will say it's foolish to indulge in wild speculation but you can't deny it's extremely funny that they have to write headlines like this
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
My family tree is a stump somewhere in Arkansas
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s dead in our hearts ♥️
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social)
Nick Govrik & Tom Bukovac - Clyde #Musicsky youtu.be/QkZXP430jPw?...
cait (and adonis) (@cait.bsky.social) reposted
while my sister and I were on the train yesterday, we heard an older couple mention it was the husband's birthday, and a lady with a little boy chimed in that it was his birthday also, and then I was like "um it is my birthday also?" it was very cute but also a little weird
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
Josh W. Comeau (@joshwcomeau.com) reposted
"In the future, when someone wants to play a video game or listen to a song, AI will generate brand new media for them, tailored to their exact interests." Does this actually appeal to you? Like, would you want to listen to a song that is essentially a random composite of all your favourite songs?
Solomon (@solomonmissouri.bsky.social) reposted
People be like “RFK jr is out of step with the medical mainstream” HE IS NOT A MEDICAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
2010 the start of the big media death spiral My newspaper friend in Kentucky took a buyout and started a western swing band
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
she said that “black” with a hard r
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
I was in a homeless shelter for a while. One of the guys in there with me was the editor of a newspaper in Arizona
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social)
Egg Plant Pizza - Jimmy Bruno Trio #Musicsky youtu.be/AvA-D0T-yg8?...
Brendel (@brendelbored.bsky.social) reposted
Mark Cuban passive aggressively complaining about this website’s user base by reposting people applauding a random older lady who constantly ratios him for bad healthcare takes is a certified Bluesky moment
darth™️ (@darthbluesky.bsky.social) reposted
it is a little weird to read stuff like “this place used to be great once” i mean it’s only been a little over two years and a portion of that was just twenty people posting alf memes lol
Missing The Point (@missingthept.bsky.social) reposted
Pentagon to reinstall in West Point Library a 20-foot painting of the Cracker Barrel logo.
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social)
Nankai TRIO - Go for a Wander #Musicsky youtu.be/6fisZw9Q8N8?...
Jack Tripper (@chadstanton.blacksky.app) reposted
Watching the “we’re not obsessed with race like you Americans” people do the whole redlining, wannabe lynch mobs, and state violence all out in public.
bring on the dancing horses (@ihavethatonvinyl.com) reposted
today on the blog: i wrote about the need to define myself as a writer, but the lack of confidence in my place to do so. who determines if you are a writer? who gets to call themselves that? michelecatblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/t...
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
You’re a writer. I’ve been reading your stuff for years
Susan Despres (@susandespres.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Kakistocracy • noun 1. Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. 2. Government by the worst men. 3. Government under the control of a nation's worst or least-qualified citizens. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
darth™️ (@darthbluesky.bsky.social) reposted
the harsh realization that every single administration hire is one of the shittiest unqualified mediocre people in the world
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social)
Juna Serita Electric Jazz Trio #Musicsky youtu.be/eF-gsqWbBaw?...
kottke.org (@kottke.org) reposted
I Am An AI Hater. “But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.” [anthonymoser.github.io]
CJ NOW+ (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) reposted
FLUORIDATION How can this idiotic conspiracy theory be returning to bite us in the ass so many years later? I remember people freaking out about this when I WAS A KID. My mom, a nurse, set me straight on it very early. Why is this shit back in my life again? ARGH.
George Chidi, Evil Reporter (@neonflag.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
The street dangles the prospect of connection with the music industry as a mechanism to control poor, young, Black men. It uses the potential for money and fame - which almost no one achieves - as a lure, telling them that the crimes they commit will be fodder for song and prove that they're "real."
Tom K (@samvega.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
"Give light," God said, and a lot of bullshit then commenced.
Yell In a War (@jelenawoehr.bsky.social) reposted
In the vet lobby and the front desk just called out, “For Mack Daddy Woof?” with a completely straight face and a football player looking guy in a ballcap got up to hand over his Bichon Frise
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social) reply parent
I named my tea cup chihuahua King Kong
mean things I say to myself (@meantomyself.bsky.social) reposted
My friend said she doesn't like the taste of avocado because it reminds her of a freshly scrubbed penis and I laughed so hard it cured my depression
Share Charting the Way Forward 📊🧭⏩ (@danancona.bsky.social) reposted
Holy moly this @monicapotts.bsky.social story. "The Democratic Party has handcuffed itself with data rather than use it to their advantage." THAT. That, in one sentence, is precisely what I and @waytowinus.bsky.social have been trying to solve for since 2018. 🎯🎯🎯 newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Comfortably Numb (@numb.comfortab.ly) reposted
this is who runs this account
Yell In a War (@jelenawoehr.bsky.social) reposted
i do not understand why people are still being rude on this, the app of the nuclear block, I am not going to go back and forth with someone when I have a thanos snap button that erases them from my plane of reality
NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) reposted
The rise of a fascist leader in Germany led to genocide and a disastrous war that killed millions of Germans, but only 25 years later, Germany had regained its standing as a prosperous industrial power. Could the same thing happen here?
Bob Booten (@bobooten.bsky.social)
You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive - Ruby Friedman Orchestra #Musicsky youtu.be/4xpf4utm25g?...