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brucy

@brucy@heads.social

Data guy into weird music.
Overuser of "awesome".
Really good at making charts for money.
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אני מדבר עברית, ‏אבל לא טוב
Dad, biker, city lover, somewhere in MA - it's complicated, veggie eater, dog owner.

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brucy, to random
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Damo Suzuki has made the jump to hyperspace. RIP to an absolute legend.
Can live at Bataclan, 1973

https://youtu.be/gIpzlS2xsUc?si=hyufJDoVTinqcCPN

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Same

brucy,
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@mrcompletely I love this.

brucy, to random
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A lot of classic sci-fi books are basically "Don't taxes suck? Also lasers".

brucy,
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@mrcompletely Filling holes in reading this year, incl Heinlein and friends. Trying to get more scifi overall, started on Three Body Problem audio, made a note on your names too.

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Earthside, out of CT, Brighton Music Hall

brucy, to tech
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companies need to stop trying to put crap on our faces and get back to their core business of selling my private information.

brucy, to random
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Bob Weir is a dirty dirty liar.

brucy, to random
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Another fun story. The Texas National Guard got so pissed about being sent to the border involuntarily, they formed a union. In case you're concerned about Civil War II.

https://www.tpr.org/border-immigration/2022-02-21/texas-national-guardmembers-hold-their-first-union-meeting

brucy, to random
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Iowa v Ohio State is on Peacock, if you have it. Will be a great game.

dankennedy_nu, to random
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As a liberal university professor who's also a regular church-goer and who had to work in person (and take public transportation) throughout the pre-vax months of the pandemic, I find this stereotype-riddled defense of Trump voters in the Boston Globe deeply offensive. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/01/19/opinion/working-class-democrats-trump/

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@dankennedy_nu I love who it's written by a Rev, not an actual working person.
And blaming Dems for the culture wars in the same paragraph where he mocks DEI? Perfection.

andrew, to vinyl
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A clean record is a happy record. 🤓

What’s your method? Mine is distilled water, vacuum, then cleaner, vacuum, then distilled water with a different brush, vacuum.

#vinyl #VinylCollection #VinylRecords @vinylrecords

brucy,
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@andrew @vinylrecords Top rack, no heat dry

brucy, to random
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Take at look at this latest tech dystopian nightmare.
There's a knob to turn off the rest of the world ffs. We already can't see a foot in front of our faces as a society - now it's only like three inches.

From: @dimillian
https://mastodon.social/@dimillian/111721009736571978

brucy,
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@dimillian There's a mute button right there.

brucy, to books
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Doing a pinned thread of my reading for 2024. Goal is 40 books, which is for sure low, but I also believe in playing games on "easy" mode. Audiobooks count, sorry.
Feel free to mute this if not your ball of wax.

Book stuff, but in app form.
Goodreads :
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/20783138
Story Graph : https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/brucy
@bookstodon

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Book 1/40
The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté.
Self help and psychology. 5*

I start a lot of self help books but they are all usually a blog post stretched to 225 pages (If Books Could Kill gave me that). This one really hit home with research and genuine compassion. Deals with trauma of all kinds and in different spaces without giving easy answers. I genuinely got a lot from this to help me. Of course YRMV.

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Book 2/40
The City-State of Boston by Mark Peterson
History, city biography. 4.25*

I love a good city biography (different from a history as it treats the city as its own entity) and this one was super interesting. Learned a bunch, occluding that New England almost broke away from the US in 1814, but were stopped by the surprise victory at the Battle of New Orleans. As good as Montefiore's book on Jerusalem.
@bookstodon

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Book 3/40
The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr (audio, RBTA)
Work, capitalism, food. 4*

My Dad worked in grocery all his adult life, so this had particular appeal. Learned a bunch about trucking scams and pay, berries, Trader Joe (the person), Trader Joe's (the Aldi company), the Whole Foods Bowery seafood counter, and enough about shrimp and slavery for a while. It is almost too much, as any of these could be its own book.

@bookstodon

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Book 4/40
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Fiction, War On Vietnam, 5*

A great story about a communist spy during the War On Vietnam and immediately after. Compelling tale of war, how we see people, how we see ourselves, and the divisions inside us. The writing style is amazing and I bomb-ran through the last 50 pages. Looking forward to the series.

@bookstodon

JuliusGoat, to random
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Rufo: I believe Black people in places of influence have their places illegitimately
Media:

Rufo: I'll smear Harvard's president
Media:

Rufo: I'll target her specifically because she is Black
Media:

Rufo: The media will help me; they have no guard against such manipulation
Media:

Rufo: Hey media here's the smear
Media: 700 STORIES A DAY ABOUT THIS FOR SOME UNKNOWABLE REASON

Rufo: haha one down, more to come
Media: congrats stranger; would you like an op-ed?
Rufo: sure, I'll use it to brag

brucy,
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@JuliusGoat
I hate it here

sethadam1, to Phish
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I took ratings offline on @phishnet today. First time since we introduced ratings. I'm at a loss for words - people were brigading old shows to get their new fave to the top. Time to rethink how ratings work

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@mrcompletely @sethadam1 @phishnet There was a GD book I had when a lad (found it - Goin Down The Road by Blair Jackson) that had great/important shows from each year indexed in the back. It was so helpful in b&p days for choosing shows to get. Something similar would be great for Phish - even for someone like me who's heard a lot.

chopaganda, to Phish
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& late stage concert capitalism in a nutshell. Damn. https://shakedown.social/@LostReflector/111692111097745661

brucy,
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@mrcompletely @mielcarz @drewphish @chopaganda @justinbruce @LostReflector @rowjimmy
I didn't know this existed, but:

https://phish.net/faq/charitable-causes

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Some to end the year
Agitation Free - Live '74

https://youtu.be/-ua_YyQb2U0?si=0rHEFhgQmBQXrS2f

brucy, to random
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The Mrs gave me a cold and I called her Thai Food Annie.

chopaganda, to random
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Current Vegas Odds on the New Goose Drummer:

+260 Aaron Sterling
+800 Adrian Tramontano
+1200 Cameron LaForest
+1500 Jeff Arevelo
+1800 Kris Myers
+2000 Alex Bailey
+3000 Jay Lane
+3300 Joe Russo
+3500 Jay Weinberg
+3700 John Molo
+4000 Sam Altman
+5000 Alan Hertz
+5000 Rodney Holmes
+7000 Billy Kreutzmann
+9900 Scotty Zwang
+150 Field (anyone not listed)

The Goose Bird GIF by Bare Tree Media

brucy,
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@chopaganda Need to put Chris Tomson (Tapers Choice, Vampire Weekend) on the board. Dark horse.

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