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📍Midwest. Proud Gen-X. Aged out Army brat. Recovering scenester. Seasoned sad bastard. Stroke survivor. Touch me, I’m thicc.

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JB @xbiggiesizedx.bsky.social · Nov 24

Looking for mutuals, I suppose.

❤️: Vinyl records
❤️: Indie rock
❤️: Post rock
❤️: Power pop
❤️: Breakfast
❤️: Burritos
❤️: Pie & Coffee
❤️: Horror movies
❤️: Blaxploitation movies
❤️: Tiki/ dive bars
❤️: The Renaissance
❤️: The Pac NW
❤️: Deejaying
❤️: English bulldogs

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Of course fucking interest rates rise around the first time I start looking for a place to buy. 7% on a mortgage is fucking ridiculous. Guess I’m going back to my plan of no retirement and keeling over at work.

September 16, 2026 at 7:53 PM

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Surprised in the first place that Meta AI used Bowie for its ad in the first place and not Jock Jams.

September 15, 2026 at 1:50 PM

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Got to talk to & listen to two of my musical heroes today (and yesterday). Daniel & Elizabeth are two of the kindest & funniest people you’ll ever meet. So many songs played from all over the Ida catalog. Thank you @undertowmusic.bsky.social for making it possible for me to finally see them. 🙏🏼❤️

September 15, 2026 at 4:21 AM

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Sheeran should have said cool beans and cancelled the stadiums and went to 3 night runs at small theaters. He still would have gotten paid and the stadium owners would be standing there with their dicks in their hand. And no money.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran.

Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

September 14, 2026 at 11:24 PM

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Visited @lovegardensounds.bsky.social before going to Ida. Glad to see Chardonnay is still holding down the fort. #cats

September 14, 2026 at 12:46 AM

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Thanks @undertowmusic.bsky.social .
I finally get to see some of my favorite songwriters perform tonight and tomorrow. I’m so excited that I put my flair on! #Ida

September 13, 2026 at 5:41 PM

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Guaranteed this is what everyone’s current spending money is going towards now. Now we will literally just be working to live. Hope this pisses the those “undecided” voters into finally picking a side.

September 13, 2026 at 5:36 PM

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4 years ago today. Miss you, Rosie❤️

September 11, 2026 at 10:32 PM

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Yuuuuup…

September 10, 2026 at 12:59 PM

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Introduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve seen live:

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
Iron Maiden
The Muffs
Anal Cunt
Godflesh
Public Enemy
The Lemonheads
Fear
Paradise Lost
The Prom

August 31, 2026 at 1:02 AM

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Days of Thunder 2: Electric Boogity-Boogity-Boo. And theaters wonder why people aren’t lining up to see movies anymore.

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 18d

First tease at ‘DAYS OF THUNDER 2’.

• Starring Tom Cruise and Anne Hathaway

• In theaters on June 2, 2028

August 29, 2026 at 7:00 PM

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#MusicChallenge
#AZSongsAugust
#MusicSky

All songs from my record collection

Day 28 / Letter Z

Zhané - Groove Thang (Official HD Music Video)

YouTube video by Classic Motown

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August 28, 2026 at 4:00 AM

@xbiggiesizedx.bsky.social

#MusicChallenge
#AZSongsAugust
#MusicSky

All songs from my record collection

Day 27 / Letter Y

Yumi Zouma - Southwark (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Yumi Zouma

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August 27, 2026 at 4:28 AM

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#MusicChallenge
#AZSongsAugust
#MusicSky

All songs from my record collection

Day 26 / Letter X

XTC - Mayor Of Simpleton

YouTube video by XTCVEVO

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August 26, 2026 at 2:13 PM

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#MusicChallenge
#AZSongsAugust
#MusicSky

All songs from my record collection

Day 25 / Letter W

So glad to have grown up in high school when the Pinchers were around.

Billy the Scab

YouTube video by Warlock Pinchers - Topic

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August 25, 2026 at 4:18 AM

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#MusicChallenge
#AZSongsAugust
#MusicSky

All songs from my record collection

Day 24 / Letter V

Velocity Girl - Crazy Town (Official Video)

YouTube video by Sub Pop

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August 24, 2026 at 4:29 AM

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He took on members of The Hand in the new movie. Glad he’s upping his game and taking out Nazis.

Ron Marz @ronmarz.bsky.social · 25d

Jake Lang getting his Nazi ass beaten by Spider-Man in Minneapolis today is the ray of sunshine I needed.

August 23, 2026 at 3:54 AM

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#MusicChallenge
#AZSongsAugust
#MusicSky

All songs from my record collection

Day 23 / Letter U

undertones-get over you

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August 23, 2026 at 3:47 AM

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#MusicChallenge
#AZSongsAugust
#MusicSky

All songs from my record collection

Day 22 / Letter T

One of my favorite bands.

The Thrills - Big Sur

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August 22, 2026 at 4:52 AM

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#MusicChallenge
#AZSongsAugust
#MusicSky

All songs from my record collection

Day 21 / Free space

Been listening to Duster’s “In Dreams” any chance I can this past week. I guess I’m pregaming for Fall.

Starting to Fall

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August 21, 2026 at 3:27 AM

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#MusicChallenge
#AZSongsAugust
#MusicSky

All songs from my record collection

Day 20 / Letter S

Great power pop from Seattle. A newer band I can’t get enough of!