J.P. Williams
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Writer. Reader. Religion. Books.
https://medium.com/@thephilosophe
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On soundtracks I enjoy despite having never seen the movies... It's a quick read, about 5 mins, but come on, you're just gonna scroll through, so what's to lose? Scroll and respond!
#music
#movies
#tango
#rock
#U2
#jazz
#MilesDavis
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thephilosophe.medium.com/for-the-love...
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For the Love of Soundtracks to Movies I’ve Never Seen
I enjoy this music anyway and maybe you will too
https://thephilosophe.medium.com/for-the-love-of-soundtracks-to-movies-ive-never-seen-7277b6c5385c
6 days ago
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Exactly my experience of Madonna’s Madame X. 👇
#music
#Madonna
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_...
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Another CD with a pronunciation guide! Turns out this one is actually the name of the album, properly written as a parenthetical remark complete with diacritical marks: (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)
#music
#LynyrdSkynyrd
#rock
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3 days ago
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Was just reading a debate about this article. One side was insisting such a bill is way overdue because farming octopi is cruel, and the other was saying most people eat farmed animals all the time, even intelligent ones.
#food
#octopus
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washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/washi...
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Washington may ban sales of farmed octopus • Washington State Standard
A bill to ban the possession and sale of farmed octopus in Washington advanced out of a House committee on Wednesday.
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/washington-may-ban-sales-of-farmed-octopus/
3 days ago
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The Associated Press
5 days ago
Animals at Rio de Janeiro's BioParque zoo received popsicles and frozen treats Tuesday as the city faced another day of extreme heat during Brazil's summer.
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Rio de Janeiro zoo animals are treated to popsicles as the city faces scorching summer weather
Animals at Rio de Janeiro’s BioParque zoo received popsicles and frozen treats Tuesday as the city faced another day of extreme heat during Brazil’s summer.
https://bit.ly/3NqZnko
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In the evenings, I tend toward metal. This isn’t for those too faint of heart for non-extreme metal. No fear!
#BVB
#music
#HeavyMetal
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5 days ago
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ᴡᴀɢɴᴇʀ & ʜᴇᴀᴠʏ ᴍᴇᴛᴀʟ
9 days ago
A rare occurrence amongst musicians, but not unique. With 'Psalm 130', Lili Boulanger wrote a requiem for herself (she died at the age of only 24). We can only bow in awe and amazement for the way Boulanger managed to put her dark fate into music.
youtu.be/gYj3nP6l6DA
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Lili Boulanger - Psalm 130 "Du fond de l'abîme" (1917)
YouTube video by Cmaj7
https://youtu.be/gYj3nP6l6DA
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On soundtracks I enjoy despite having never seen the movies... It's a quick read, about 5 mins, but come on, you're just gonna scroll through, so what's to lose? Scroll and respond!
#music
#movies
#tango
#rock
#U2
#jazz
#MilesDavis
🎵🍿 👇 👇 👇
thephilosophe.medium.com/for-the-love...
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For the Love of Soundtracks to Movies I’ve Never Seen
I enjoy this music anyway and maybe you will too
https://thephilosophe.medium.com/for-the-love-of-soundtracks-to-movies-ive-never-seen-7277b6c5385c
6 days ago
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"I read the news today oh boy..."
#news
#Beatles
#peace
#love
✌️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNs...
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The Beatles - The Beatles - A Day In The Life (Official Video)
YouTube video by TheBeatlesVEVO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNsCeOV4GM&list=RDusNsCeOV4GM&start_radio=1
6 days ago
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からびたき
7 days ago
誰のおちりでしょうか❓
#けつようび
#けつ曜日
#野鳥
#野鳥撮影
#野鳥写真
#birds
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Elsa grew up fast: eats and drinks on his (?) own now, handles his various perches like a pro, flies around in a special tent-net, and is beginning to make a variety of sounds.
#birds
#budgie
#parakeet
#pets
6 days ago
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"What? Do we become assholes or something?" --Marty McFly, Back to the Future I love how one of the worst things about the future that he can imagine is growing up to be an asshole, but I feel like we live in a world where most people seem intent on being assholes. Don't be an asshole.
#movies
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7 days ago
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Here’s another one. Sinéad O’Connor’s I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got is, in Japanese, Blue Whispers. The kanji for blue used here is a bit literary and can suggest deep blue, maybe a little green, and has various connotations such as quiet… 🤔
#music
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8 days ago
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Another instance of an album getting a variant name in another language. In Japanese, Warrant’s Cherry Pie becomes something like No Good Cherry Pie or Forbidden Cherry Pie. 😂 🚫 🍒 🥧
#music
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9 days ago
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Christian Century
19 days ago
“My advice to read the Quran is usually met with a mix of skepticism and surprise, as Christians are not used to looking outside of their tradition for meaningful reflections on their most sacred figures.” –
@revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social
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Reading the Quran at Christmastide
God seems more real to me when I encounter other traditions’ reflections on what God is...
https://www.christiancentury.org/online-columnists/reading-quran-christmastide
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Arthur David Spota
16 days ago
John Lennon ~ Gimme Some Truth (from Imagine, 1971)
#NowPlaying
#JohnLennon
#MusicSky
"I've had enough of reading things By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians All I want is the truth"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdJY...
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Gimme Some Truth (Ultimate Mix)
YouTube video by John Lennon - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdJYOrafB5g&list=RDSdJYOrafB5g&start_radio=1
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Always interesting when albums have different names in other languages. In Japan, the John Lennon album Mind Games is The Declaration of Nutopia.
#music
#Beatles
#JohnLennon
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10 days ago
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Jcomics
12 days ago
#JanCharacterCover
#comicsky
Day 7: Magik
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Better late than never. Purchased for pocket change. And this sucker’s still in the outer packaging. Which doesn’t mean much, b/c it’s just a CD. But still. I couldn’t even make myself open it today. Listened to the Stones instead, and I’m not even a huge fan. Anyway…
#GwenStefani
!
#music
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11 days ago
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I hadn't published anything in This Side of the Flood in a while, so here we go. This is about Bon Jovi and faith. Any Bon Jovi fans out there?
#music
#rock
#religion
#Christianity
#Judaism
#hallelujah
#BonJovi
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medium.com/this-side-of...
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Jon Bon Jovi’s Voice of Hope in Bitter Times
Can I get a hallelujah for this man of faith?
https://medium.com/this-side-of-the-flood/jon-bon-jovis-voice-of-hope-in-bitter-times-cb2d5bf2a33d
12 days ago
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Just a battery vending machine I pass sometimes.
12 days ago
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14 days ago
Happy National Bird Day! 🦩🐦🦉🦢🦜🕊️🪿🐦⬛🦆🦅 Consider donating today to the Audubon Society at
Audubon.org
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National Audubon Society
The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation.
https://Audubon.org
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CD, with pronunciation guide.
#music
#Sade
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13 days ago
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A little something I wrote: You can never know for sure what you've brought home from the music store...
#music
#heavymetal
#rock
#Jpop
#Japan
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My Favorite Album I’ve Never Listened To
Japanese band Luna Sea’s 1998 Album ‘Shine’ Is . . .
https://medium.com/@thephilosophe/my-favorite-album-ive-never-listened-to-ed9e3dbb2789
16 days ago
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I actually donated to this way back. For a while, it looked like it might never come to fruition, and then a few weeks ago I got an e-mail saying it was up. Coolest thing ever! 👍
#Detroit
#art
#Robocop
#movies
#crime
#justice
#scifi
www.metrotimes.com/arts/detroit...
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Detroit finally has a RoboCop statue - Detroit Metro Times
At long last, Detroit finally has its statue of RoboCop. The bronze statue depicting the eponymous cybernetic star of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 set-in-Detroit sci-fi satire was installed in Eastern Marke...
https://www.metrotimes.com/arts/detroit-finally-has-a-robocop-statue/
16 days ago
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Elsa has made it onto her low perch, and now the ring. She still falls off sometimes, but progress is progress!
#birds
#parakeet
#budgie
18 days ago
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Giving the Bible Daily Reading a try this year. One-page daily devotionals shouldn’t be too hard to keep up with.
#Bible
#books
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18 days ago
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A very little bubbly. 🍾 Happy New Year, folks of Bluesky
#HappyNewYear
19 days ago
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New Year’s Eve preferred drink: plum wine. Only two hours to go in this part of the world.
#NewYearsEve
#梅酒
19 days ago
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ᴡᴀɢɴᴇʀ & ʜᴇᴀᴠʏ ᴍᴇᴛᴀʟ
19 days ago
To the end, and to a new beginning. (clip: the end of Götterdämmerung, the end of the Ring cycle / Wagner Museum, Bayreuth)
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I left writing about
#HardRock
and
#HeavyMetal
to The Plague Nurse. She has a particular skill set for the heavy stuff. Her best discoveries of the year. 👇
#music
#melodeath
#deathcore
#prog
#rock
#Jpop
#thrash
#death
☠️ and
#MedicalScience
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The best
#music
in everything but
#HardRock
and
#HeavyMetal
that I disovered this year. From
#Lutheran
liturgy to stoner
#hiphop
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One Music Junky’s Year in Music 2025
All genres welcome but no metal allowed
https://medium.com/@thephilosophe/one-music-junkys-year-in-music-2025-dfee792f2621
19 days ago
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Voe, the Gecko
20 days ago
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places but still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater." - Gandalf, J.R.R. Tolkien
#photography
#nature
#love
#jrrtolkien
#books
#hopecore
#hope
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Some light and fun (and eventually a bit dark, I assume) reading for the week ahead.
#StarWars
#books
19 days ago
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turquoise🕊4.
20 days ago
おはようございまsparrow🪶
#sparrows
#雀
今朝の屋根チュン 大晦日もよい一日を🍀(•'ө'•)໒꒱
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Moby Dick
20 days ago
these marvels (like all marvels) are mere repetitions of the ages
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We now have a budgie. Meet Elsa, as in “Let it go, let it go” Elsa, because of her icy colors.
#birds
#budgie
#parrot
#Frozen
20 days ago
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I was feeling dirrrty, so I revisited 80s and 90s hard rock and metal of the pop-glam-sleaze-hair variety. Have any favorites from this list? Any not on the list?
#HardRock
#rock
#HeavyMetal
#music
#80s
#90s
🫦🎶🫦🎶🫦🎶🫦🎶🫦🎶🫦🎶🍒🥧
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A Baker’s Dozen of Scuzz Metal Albums You May Have Forgotten
About the time I was in kindergarten, I remember my parents complaining about the house across the street. The man there would work on his…
https://medium.com/@thephilosophe/a-bakers-dozen-of-scuzz-metal-albums-you-may-have-forgotten-db35f74b2aea
21 days ago
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My parents have been giving me
#StarWars
ornaments for almost 30 years now. We have two trees, one just for Star Wars ornaments. This year’s latest additions.
21 days ago
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A great band I didn’t discover until this year.
#NowListening
#music
#rock
22 days ago
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Frederik Hornung
25 days ago
NEXT COMIC ANNOUNCEMENT! Get read for CRYPTID KAIJU #1: THE REIGN OF THE MOTHMEN! 32 pages of cryptid mystery, daikaiju terror and eerie bug horror, written and drawn by Yours Truly, coming to Kickstarter in MAY 2026!
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Yuzu liqueur tonight. ゆずのリキュール。
25 days ago
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#Christmas
#PopeLeo
#Catholicism
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Pope Leo calls for kindness to strangers and the poor in Christmas message
Refusing to help those in need is tantamount to rejecting God himself, says pontiff during Christmas Eve mass
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/24/pope-leo-christmas-message-kindness-strangers-poor
25 days ago
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#Christmas
#Gaza
#Israel
#peace
⭐️
www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
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Bethlehem’s midnight mass places Gaza at centre of Christmas prayers | The National
Cardinal Pizzaballa told worshippers that Christmas carried a message of renewal for Gazans
https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2025/12/25/bethlehems-midnight-mass-places-gaza-at-centre-of-christmas-reflections/
25 days ago
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The nativity scene at church. Merry Christmas, people on Bluesky! 🎄 🎄 🎄
#Christmas
#MerryChristmas
25 days ago
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I did not know this. 🤯
#life
#animals
#wildlife
25 days ago
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I’ve mostly gotten my butt killeded this month ☠️, but it’s Christmas Eve 🎄, so I might as well listen to some holiday
#music
. 🎵
#Christmas
27 days ago
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The best heavy music the Plague Nurse discovered this year. 👇 What was the best heavy music *you* discovered this year?
#music
#HeavyMetal
#rock
#prog
#deathcore
#DeathMetal
#thrash
💀💀💀🤘 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉🎵
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The Plague Nurse’s Year in Heavy Music 2025
In which she palpates the grody supperation in the fleshy cavity of a humongous carcass
https://medium.com/@thephilosophe/the-plague-nurses-year-in-heavy-music-2025-2ab319755e2b
27 days ago
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Open Culture
28 days ago
Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, the Most Troubling Christmas Film Ever Made
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Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, the Most Troubling Christmas Film Ever Made
Those in search of non-standard Christmas movies to watch this holiday season will have long since tired of hearing recommendations of Die Hard.
https://www.openculture.com/2019/12/stanley-kubricks-eyes-wide-shut-the-most-troubling-christmas-film-ever-made.html
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Revisited one of my favorite war films. The front half is still something more than you would think possible from mere mortal art: a perfect balance of Malick meditative, stunning visuals, and action.
#movies
#film
#cinema
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The Thin Red Line | #TBT Trailer | 20th Century FOX
YouTube video by 20th Century Studios
https://youtu.be/WHHAcqZMlqA?si=jwAtj7rV4u8JVQ_6
28 days ago
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Haven’t listened to this one in a while, but why not?
#metal
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about 1 month ago
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