Joe Wall
@joewall.bsky.social
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Writer. Shipwrecked traveler. OZ/NZ/FJ. Cat bloke.
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Sturgill Simpson, aka Johnny Blue Skies, did his thing for 3 hours last at a steamy Knoxville hockey barn last night. My clips don’t do him just justice but here’s a bit of ‘Living the Dream’.
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12 months ago
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The Tennessee Holler
about 4 hours ago
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@justinjpearson.bsky.social
: “GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY… we convict the Tennessee general assembly of exploiting Black people and attempting to dilute Black political power. Governor Lee is guilty. Cameron Sexton is guilty. White supremacy is guilty.”
#Jimcrow
#WeThePeople
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R. Souissi
about 7 hours ago
It's amazing how quickly White politicians in the South rushed to PROVE exactly why we needed the Voting Rights Act!
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Impotent shitheel, aka 'white Tennessee male'.
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about 11 hours ago
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Every single facet of life in Tennessee is driven by white hatred for and fear of black people. Period.
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about 13 hours ago
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The FBI used to chase bootleggers. Now a hooch fiend runs the joint.
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1 day ago
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More Perfect Union
3 days ago
Today, the day of the Met Gala, the unionized workers of the Met posted this image to their Instagram.
www.instagram.com/p/DX64ioYjecG/
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Zeke Radford
3 days ago
I present, the preening, cosplaying clown who has never been in combat...yet has two bronze stars (the participation trophy version).
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My ears are still ringing from the last time I saw Sugar. 32 years ago.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
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90s rock icon Bob Mould: ‘When Cobain died, I pulled the plug – there was nothing worth saving’
Mould’s fearsomely loud power trio Sugar rode the wave of grunge, but called it quits when the scene lost its innocence. Now the band are reuniting – before it’s too late
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/apr/16/sugar-reunion-bob-mould-interview
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A true NYC character with a stentorian voice and unrivaled work ethic, Sterling "... called 5,060 consecutive games from Sept 1989 to July 2019 – every at-bat of Derek Jeter’s career, every inning of Mariano Rivera’s, and many more." RIP John Sterling, Yankees legend.
www.mlb.com/yankees/news...
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John Sterling, beloved longtime Yankees radio voice, passes at 87
John Sterling, who broadcast more than three decades of Yankees games and was famously celebrated for his booming baritone, sing-song inflections and signature home run calls, has passed away. He was ...
https://www.mlb.com/yankees/news/john-sterling-passes-away
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Justin Sherin
4 days ago
Saying this now, just in case - - New Yorkers hated Giuliani on 9/10, couldn't wait to get rid of him - Giuliani was in the street on 9/11 bc the Command Center at 7WTC was destroyed (he put it there to be near Judi Nathan) - Giuliani killed 343 firemen by forcing cheap radios on them
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Woke up with this song in my head. From another lifetime.
youtu.be/XgdY_s1LsZc?...
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Haule Haule - Full Song | Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi | Shah Rukh Khan | Anushka Sharma | Sukhwinder Singh
YouTube video by YRF
https://youtu.be/XgdY_s1LsZc?si=bcO7dzktExsw0jAz
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Japan's tourist torrent.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/w...
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In the Foothills of Mount Fuji, the Fight Is On Against Unruly Tourists
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/world/asia/japan-fuji-tourism-cherry-blossoms-overtourism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.flA.3nf5.g5A5MrAkpXd7&smid=url-share
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Reading the news is like sitting beside the asshole uncle at Thanksgiving. Only I'm in no position to pull an Irish exit.
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Human Rights Campaign
5 days ago
Anne Hathaway, you will ALWAYS be that girl. 💙💛
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Wow. ‘Chevy Van’ was definitely not on tNYC AM playlists in 1975.
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I guarantee there’s no algorithm that would back-to-back John Denver and that Bertha butt band. Thanks,
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I know I always do this -- but the Jayhawks cover version is simply superior. Give it a listen post
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=CprL...
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Bad Time (Album Version)
YouTube video by The Jayhawks - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CprL7Wtf5x8&list=RDCprL7Wtf5x8&start_radio=1
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Among many things I learned as a wildlife rescuer in Australia is that cockatoos and magpies are REMARKABLY smart (and cheeky) creatures. The findings of this study are no surprise.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/s...
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What’s Safe to Eat? Birds of a Feather Learn Together
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/science/whats-safe-to-eat-birds-of-a-feather-learn-together.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fVA.rMRq.mim2rjbVhAAf&smid=url-share
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Miracle 3 Wordle 1,772 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
11 days ago
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A crazy one. Wordle 1,771 2/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
13 days ago
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Granite Man
14 days ago
Losing a parent to dementia is the longest, and saddest goodbye.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
15 days ago
AOC is all sensible Americans right now, Americans who have completely lost patience with the wildly incompetent, lying loons currently running things who undermine our sanity, wealth, and wellbeing.
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RIP Dave Mason. Gift article penned by the unmatched
@jimfarbermusic.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/a...
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Dave Mason, Songwriter Who Co-Founded Traffic, Dies at 79
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/arts/music/dave-mason-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.c1A.zhie.WbooRqOSGVJn&smid=url-share
16 days ago
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Toby 🇵🇸
17 days ago
[overheard] *tinnitus*
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Tom Nichols
17 days ago
If you walk past a newsstand in New York, that’s exactly what it is, except the guy who works at the stand doesn’t have to listen to you whining
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Holy fuck … this is priceless.
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17 days ago
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"The convicted felon president is using the formally independent DOJ to rewrite his history of felonious behavior." Fixed it for you,
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. Gift article.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
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"It's all. Just. Fuckin'. Bullshit." Jeff Pearlman builds on his legend as a go-fuck-yourself-sportswriter.
#truth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lxp...
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Mark McGwire Was The Biggest Phony In MLB History!
YouTube video by Press Box Chronicles with Jeff Pearlman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lxp5LP-KBc
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Wordle 1,764 2/6* ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Obie, a neighbour’s cat I’m looking after this week.
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AI Slop is the new Michael Scott.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they’re drowning in ‘workslop’
Workslop refers to AI-generated work that seems polished but is flawed and in need of heavy corrections
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/14/ai-productivity-workplace-errors
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Mina Kimes
24 days ago
The contrast in tone between the quotes their digital marketing company gave when bragging to Billboard (“We know how to go viral. We have thousands of pages“) and the ones they give here downplaying their work is pretty telling
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Trump is Covid x 1 billion. "This funny feeling – of needing to know what is going on right now, of the 3am wakings, of the impacts felt here in Australia, the browser refreshing, the doomscrolling – is most reminiscent of the early days of the Covid pandemic."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The world is gripped by 3am dread thanks to an unhinged US president. Can someone turn the history machine off? | Brigid Delaney
Amid the daily horror show in the Middle East is the realisation the so-called adults in the room are insane or powerless or just as bewildered as you are
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/13/the-world-is-gripped-by-dread-trump-unhinged
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The Tennessee Holler
25 days ago
CARDINAL CUPICH: “We’re dehumanizing victims of war by turning the suffering of people and the killing of children and our own soldiers into entertainment. It’s sickening.” No wonder Trump lashed out at the Pope today.
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RIP Asha Bhosle. After a career spanning 8 decades it’s incredible to hear her distinctive voice near the end of a Gorillaz song released this year.
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Gorillaz - The Shadowy Light ft. Asha Bhosle, Gruff Rhys, Ajay Prasanna, Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash
YouTube video by Gorillaz
https://youtu.be/P0gLOXQM6-c?si=Ck4TkrIQXIUyF-0U
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ChaserBaybe 💙🌊🦋🇺🇸
26 days ago
Let’s hope Sue never has food insecurities. 🤬
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Shoot this riff from Tedeschi Trucks Band into my motherfucking veins. Pass me a pencil before I lose my mind I'm evidently trying to waste your time There's a bomb in the building but we don't look back Well, they want it on paper but we got it on wax
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Tedeschi Trucks Band “Future Soul” Live on the Stern Show
YouTube video by The Howard Stern Show
https://youtu.be/n88v8iR8SIE?si=445WCsgWth6AxOWn
25 days ago
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Pink Floyd incoming … from another album I knew every psychotic word to.
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26 days ago
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I knew every word to Steve Martin’s first 2 albums. Poco? Not so much.
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26 days ago
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As an Aussie resident for 14 years I can vouch for their enthusiasm at shows. As I can of their enthusiasm for booze.
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26 days ago
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Mina Kimes
27 days ago
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
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In praise of tired, dirty hands …. and the lies AI addicts tell themselves.
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“…In 2020, he could confabulate about the election result or babble about treating Covid with injections of disinfectant. But he could not translate his fantasies into reality …In the 2nd term, by contrast, institutional psychosis has been on display since Day 1.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/o...
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Opinion | The Trump Administration Is in a Psychotic State
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/opinion/trump-iran-psychotic-state-institutions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z1A.ouOW.7zbZft5lbytT&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Aaron Rupar
27 days ago
"For other countries, negotiating with a personalist strongman like Trump is a fool’s errand. His decisions aren't deliberate ones taken in conjunction with experts. It’s just his whims and grievances creating international chaos whenever the mood strikes."
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America learns about "personalist regimes" the hard way
Truth Social posts are no way to run a country (or war).
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-personalist-regime
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Thread of the day.
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30 days ago
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Because I'm so fucking fed up with lunatics. Listen to Billy Preston honour good friend George Harrison at the Concert for George in 2002.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EOR...
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Billy Preston - My Sweet Lord (Live)
YouTube video by GeorgeHarrisonVEVO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EORbL8N-R8
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Here’s a chuckle as we await the genocide of millions of innocent Iranians by a serial pedophile: One very stupid-ass good ol’ boy.
www.wvlt.tv/2026/04/06/g...
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‘God, you’re hot’: School board member under review for comments he made to student during meeting
A school board member in Tennessee is under review for comments he made toward a teenage student during a board meeting.
https://www.wvlt.tv/2026/04/06/god-youre-hot-school-board-member-under-review-comments-he-made-student-during-meeting/?fbclid=IwZnRzaARCMLVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeHZDWxaKU5ifgk2-xx7qaUpFWjotI8qTpJRYGXPS6FUSXh59kbWCh_o3fm44_aem__FHzCwpaIb-cuaC20ZzMOQ
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This sick fucks delights in public threats of unimaginable cruelty. Imagine what he’s done in private … or, simply read the Epstein files and listen to his on-the-record victims.
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about 1 month ago
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
about 1 month ago
what will he screw up today?
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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What will he screw up today?
As always, if you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, � Sparky’s List! � You can get it in your inbox or read it on Patreon,
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/6/2376459/-What-will-he-screw-up-today?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_1&pm_medium=web
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News
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That‘s the headline: “Donald Trump telegraphs war crimes in profanity-filled Easter Sunday Iran threat”
www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
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Donald Trump telegraphs war crimes in profanity-filled Easter Sunday Iran threat
The president warned that there “will be nothing like it,” in an Easter Sunday social media message invoking Allah.
https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-iran-truth-social-profanity
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