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🔗: https://www.al.com/news/2025/10/alabama-public-television-may-cut-ties-with-pbs-cutting-off-sesame-street-other-educational-shows.html 

Alabama Public Television is debating whether to sever ties with PBS, cutting off Sesame Street and similar programs.

Alabama Public Television may cut ties with PBS, cutting off Sesame Street, other educational shows APT board debates political and educational implications of ending the partnership that provides 90% of its content.

These fucking people, man

I think this is the most important part of any project.

Lightning Bolt are still good when they’re on a stage, in case you were wondering.

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One of the few “bigger” bands we did where we dealt mostly with the band, rather than management. Greg mixed it (sounds rad) and picked the songs, which is a thing we encouraged more bands to do, but almost no one did. Every step of this process was delightful. youtu.be/ll0ZP75tsjo

Also g*n to my head, this ^^^ is my all time favorite ep of this particular series. Lockdown anxiety/ennui aside, Meg is an absolute ripper and their band on this tour was 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻

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We shot this in like late Jan/early Feb 2020. It was the footage and audio I had on my hard drive when we all got told not to come in, so this is what I worked on in between reading CDC situation reports and noticing Andrew Cuomo’s nipple rings. Unbelievably surreal experience. youtu.be/6amwB7YSI_w

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This was always kind of the target. Not really a “punk” band, but definitely a pretty fully committed DIY band. Probably has an AudioTree session. “Known,” but not “famous” or whatever. Anyway, goddamn when the parachute lights up the first time. youtu.be/Auyr09PpAoU

We made the stuff we made because it felt important to us. It still does.

Anyway, I’m just gonna post episodes that liked a lot in this thread periodically until I get tired of doing it. All of this is a real kick in the pants and I feel weird semi-publicly mourning a job. But also…

The PBS/CPB/lifesaving foreign aid rescission bill from earlier this year yanked money from the funding stream that pays my salary, so that’s that. 10 other people from the station got it too, including said brother and 3 more of my closest coworkers.

A hand hold an orange backstage pass for the music venue, Saturn. In the space where they would write the name of the band, it says “subcarrier” and the date, which is 9/22. There’s also a dog having an episode in the background.

Filmed the last episode of maybe the coolest thing I’ll ever do in my life.

From the tail end of the Bush Administration until tonight, I made live music series(s) with my brother and some of my best friends in the world for the PBS station in Alabama. Insane thing to get to do.

A screenshot of the timeline window from Adobe Premiere showing a bunch of audio and video clips laid out in sequence

My last edit timeline for the place I've worked my entire life.

Trump take my job

Ah well shit

“UPDATE…”

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Why is Lionel Ritchie there?

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🫡🫡🫡 youtu.be/2z7h5BOZ2Hk

Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.

A google maps page for a business called “Vamphigher Vape,” which is presumably pronounced “Vampire Vape,” which is truly an A++ pun for a business name

Respect

I think Atlanta would be a lot better if it had a Diet Coke museum instead

Thanks!!!

I hope you like it!!

Dogs, by Cash Langdon 10 track album

Congrats to Cash, who steadfastly refuses to use non-evil social media, on his most glorious release day. Ive never been this pleased with a thing that I’ve worked on. cashlangdon.bandcamp.com/album/dogs

A road sign against a chain link fence in a parking lot that reads “SLOW DEATH IN FAMILY”

Stay safe out there everybody

A cast iron sculpture in a garden. The statue depicts a ring made of overlapping hands surrounding a hole in the center

Yeah, this one is going on the altar

Excuse me did you forget to buy peanuts?

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Everything is terrible right now, but this was the best show I've been to in years and years and I am extremely excited that I am able to share it with the 150 bots that follow me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvLc...

Me, back here filming the adult arts camp: I’m so free man. I have everything I need here. My phone. My laptop. All my shit from work