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September 25, 2026 at 8:45 PM

Slow Dumb Show 💿🕊

@laugh-tracks.bsky.social

#REMTop30 #MusicChallenge
7. Half a World Away

This could be the saddest dusk I've ever seen....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWiB...

September 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM

Sweet Southern Girl

@swmontessori.bsky.social

Morning, ya'll. Happy Diet-Friday...love this song.

We really need some kindness now. Go share yours🌞

"Half a World Away"

R.E.M.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWiB...

June 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM

Raelle

@jazchaz.bsky.social

#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#SoftRockSummer2025

Day 15: Half A World Away -R.E.M
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWiB...

July 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM

misheleneous Handmade Gifts | Home & Hound

@misheleneous.bsky.social

My Hammer Time post got me thinking and I headed straight for the #music cabinet

So behold one of the greatest #Albums ever made
'Out of Time' by R.E.M in 1991

My Top Track: m.youtube.com/watch?v=AWiB...

#WeekTforTime #AlphabetChallenge #MusicSky #90sMusic #VinylCommunity #DOTD #VinylSky #Records

Colour photograph of an orginal copy of vinyl album 'Out of Time' by R.E.M bought in 1991. The cover is resting against the lid of the record player which has the 'memory side' on the turntable which contains my favourite track 'Half a World Away'. There is a houseplant in a pot to the right hand side

May 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM

Q. Pheevr

@q.pheevr.ca

#LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2024

Day 18: Forward

R.E.M., “Half a World Away”

“Blackbirds, backwards, forwards, and fall”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWiB...

November 18, 2024 at 4:21 PM

Bill Canacci

@billcanacci.bsky.social

#REMTop30
#MusicChallenge
Half a World Away

“The storm, it came up strong
It shook the trees
and blew away our fear
I couldn't even hear”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWiB...

September 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM

misheleneous Handmade Gifts | Home & Hound

@misheleneous.bsky.social

#DavidsMonthOfMusic

Day 12. A Song You Would Describe As Beautiful

Half A World Away by #R.E.M

A bittersweet classic I could listen to endlessly due to the blend of guitar, harpsichord, mandolin, organ, strings & Michael's voice

m.youtube.com/watch?v=AWiB...

#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #90sMusic

m.youtube.com

December 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM

reWOLFer 🦋

@rewolfer.bsky.social

Dobranoc?🌖

📕 Colon uważał, że Marchewa jest prostym chłopakiem. (…)
Ludzie jednak mylili się często, uznając, że prosty oznacza głupi.
Marchewa nie był głupi. Był bezpośredni, szczery, uprzejmy i honorowy we wszystkich swych działaniach.
Terry Pratchett, Zbrojni

🎶 music.youtube.com/watch?v=AWiB...

music.youtube.com

June 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM

O_RLLY band

@o-rlly.bsky.social

#REMtop30

Number 14.

Half A World Away.

An arrangement from another time, a subtle chord reordering between the first and subsequent verses which shifts the song from uncertain and ambiguous to more urgently regretful. Stately, dignified, beautiful.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWiB...

September 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM

Peeps

@pipo24.bsky.social

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic

Day 13. Song with great harmonic vocals

R.E.M - Half a World Away

m.youtube.com/watch?v=AWiB...

m.youtube.com

March 13, 2026 at 8:05 AM

Nicolás Alvarez

@nicolas17.xyz

Totally off topic to the main point of your article but:

"Other than art projects, has anyone ever deliberately chosen the wrong tool?"

I love those art projects so much. Bocker, cmake-raytracer, awib. Retr0id's AES in Scratch. Me making a hello-world iOS app in assembly.

March 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM

Cowboy Friday

@thotstream.bsky.social

if you or someone you know has been negatively impacted by this person's posts please donate to the Survivor's Fund

ko-fi.com/cowboyfriday

mirror selfie

I'm wearing a red bandana and a problematic t-shirt, concealing a CZ P10S cut for a Holosun 407KGr in a kydex AWIB holster.

This bit is actually getting a little bit embarrassing.

Knife by Michal Sisovsky.

I'll probably delete all traces of it tonight.

Jeans by Double RL.

September 20, 2023 at 6:13 PM

Acid Mouse Music

@acidmouse.bsky.social

Good morning Blueskyers 🦋

Saturday's #SongOfTheDay is my favourite track from Out Of Time.

Between 1:00 and 1:09 is my favourite part too.

🎵 Oh, lonely deep sit hollow
I'm half a world
Half the world away

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWiB...

m.youtube.com

May 17, 2025 at 6:19 AM

Carausius

@carausius286.bsky.social

They do indeed! The son was called Radjedef-Ankh ("May Radjedef live") and the daughter, his eldest, was Awib-Khufu ("Happy is Khufu"). His younger daughter (not shown) was Smeret-Radjedef ("Companion of Radjedef")

November 20, 2024 at 8:40 AM

Becc DishDawg

@yondishdawg.bsky.social

AWIB?

June 22, 2026 at 10:45 PM

Tina Olah

@kittensoft.bsky.social

I love this one so much:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWiB...

September 1, 2025 at 10:33 PM

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS

@waitmanwbeorn.com

29. A song that I remember from my childhood
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWiB...

Bruce Springsteen slams Donald Trump’s $1.8billion fund for "people who attacked" Capitol: "An American outrage" — NME

September 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM

Mappa Dan

@mappadan.bsky.social

Where we read that his son was called Radjedef-Ankh ("May Radjedef live"), his eldest daughter was Awib-Khufu ("Happy is Khufu") and his missing younger daughter was Smeret-Radjedef ("Companion of Radjedef").

May 4, 2026 at 5:34 PM

LOUISE Rose

@louise0202.bsky.social

Bruce Springsteen slams Donald Trump’s $1.8billion fund for "people who attacked" Capitol: "An American outrage" - NME apple.news/AWIB-mhVxQUC...

"There is no one coming to save us," The Boss warned. "We’ve got to do it ourselves"

apple.news

June 1, 2026 at 1:29 PM

Daniel Lundin

@dln.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

@naseer.eu Då kommer du säkert överens med gammal kollega som dök liiiite för djupt ned i det där. 😆

https://github.com/matslina/awib

GitHub - matslina/awib: a brainfuck compiler written in brainfuck

a brainfuck compiler written in brainfuck. Contribute to matslina/awib development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

March 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM

outfield

@outfield.bsky.social

I'd also put Half A World Away up there too. It's a fragile, homesick, timeless song. Plus it's rocking the harpsichord.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWiB...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWiB...

September 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM

LNVH - Dutch Network of Women Professors

@lnvh.nl

Meet Romy Gielings, the second of our two 2025–2026 AWiB Grant laureates. She researches marine meiofauna at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, tiny, abundant animals vital to food webs, yet still poorly understood. #LNVH #AWiB #MarineBiology #Biodiversity

September 11, 2026 at 7:01 PM

network engineer gone rogue obviously

@rogueneteng.bsky.social