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Grant Alden

@shocko606.bsky.social

Recovering music critic, grunge survivor, No Depression co-founder, book seller, writer of unpublished speculative fiction. Also, goats.

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I didn’t think he’d been renewed. Shaq, that is. Not sure he’s depth anymore.

21.02.2026 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not bragging if you can do it. Pay the man.

21.02.2026 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Really, the Supremes are just saying to their king, No, you have to do it this other way.

21.02.2026 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I can be a fan of both. AFC and NFC. See y’all in the Super Bowl.

20.02.2026 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You might try the earlier incarnation, the English blues band with two and sometimes three Elmore James acolytes, the band who first wrote and recorded "Black Magic Woman." When they were good, typed the old guy in the room.

20.02.2026 11:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And the street date is?

19.02.2026 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But you COULD be!

18.02.2026 02:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you

17.02.2026 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

😭

16.02.2026 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 207    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Back when I was a music critic and the internet was new, awash in money, I got paid well to write reviews. For maybe two years. Then free content took over and expertise ceased to matter. Same as it ever was.

16.02.2026 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone else think it's weird that a regime which so tightly embraces eugenics is simultaneously opposed to abortion rights?

I mean, I know I'm slow here, but...

...and hatred isn't built on logic...

12.02.2026 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But we probably have to pick one…

11.02.2026 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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FAA abruptly closes El Paso airspace for 10 days over unspecified security concerns | CNN The Federal Aviation Administration abruptly issued a temporary flight restriction that immediately grounds all flights to and from El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days β€” a shutdown that...

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This seems like a big deal.

11.02.2026 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Need?
What has need to do with it?
There's always room for one more.

11.02.2026 02:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My brother in paranoia, you are not wrong, I fear.

10.02.2026 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If, as a reader, I'm expected to be familiar with the byways of Manhattan, can I, as a writer, presume readers have some familiarity with rural life?

Maybe they teach it better now than they did in the '70s.

10.02.2026 12:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks, y'all. Your work and time is very much appreciated out here in Eastern Kentucky.

09.02.2026 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well that’s adult behavior.

09.02.2026 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Actually don’t want to see him gone. Couple ill timed penalties and got beat after…he’s going to get paid, by someone. I fear it’s not us.

09.02.2026 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Instead of Riq? I thought Riq might've played himself out of a Hawks contract, but...

09.02.2026 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Those SB AI commercials, "take the afternoon off."

Yeah, how's that actually work. PTO?

And do you have a job the next day?

It's a threat, not a promise.

It also fundamentally misunderstands that building the spreadsheet is about understanding the numbers. Not just completing the task.

09.02.2026 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What if there are no [legal] consequences attending to release of the Epstein files?

What if the intended message, instead, is, "This is how the elite behaves, and you silly mudsills are not entitled to question it"?

01.02.2026 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We cannot keep responding to naked power with subtle logic.

01.02.2026 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bookseller, here. That is one of the most impressive books I’ve read. And I’m old.

31.01.2026 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But can he teach Dart not to lead with his head?

28.01.2026 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Let me rewrite the headline: No civil rights.

27.01.2026 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So we're going to modify an unacceptable policy to make it slightly more acceptable, rather than acknowledging the, I dunno, inherent racism and fascism of the entire project and trying to uproot it?

27.01.2026 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They're going to back off. Poke at something else for a moment.

Next time will be worse.

And they'll be better prepared, more intentional.

27.01.2026 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's not a [expletive deleted] debate.

25.01.2026 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So, β€œoriginalist” actually means β€œbefore the Bill of Rights.”

25.01.2026 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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