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Jon Fairbanks

@thirdmango.bsky.social

Media and Cultural sociologist. “Locally professional” comedian. I play whatsamusic streams and write about media. Twitch.tv/thirdmango Letterboxd.com/thirdmango

175 Followers  |  153 Following  |  72 Posts  |  Joined: 18.10.2024  |  1.6969

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Three months ago I had a string of crazy news back to back which landed me in the hospital. Since then I’ve done a complete overhaul of my life and I’ve officially lost 48 lbs. I still have another 150 to go but this first 48 still feels really good.

26.10.2025 16:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thirdmango - Twitch CRASH ROUNDS WAM, LAST STREAM FOR ABOUT A WEEK, COME IN AND SAY HELLO!

www.twitch.tv/thirdmango THURSDAY WAM, CRASH ROUNDS WITH THE LETTER P, COME ON IN AND SAY HI IF YOU WANNA

04.09.2025 22:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Thirdmango - Twitch Thursday WAM: I've lost 30 pounds so far in 5 weeks!

Ever wanted to try music pub quiz from your own home? We're playing whatsamusic the best music quiz app around, come by at www.twitch.tv/thirdmango

28.08.2025 22:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

For all my Bsky friends who don’t watch wrestling the last time Hulk Hogan appeared in WWE he was there to promote his beer and he was booed so loudly he couldn’t be heard. He eventually just left.

24.07.2025 17:37 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ozzy's last public appearance - saying goodbye to 45,000 people and millions online while raising £140m for worthy charities. Hogan's last public appearance - getting booed out of the building at the racist wrestling company for being too overtly racist, shilling his shit racist beer.

24.07.2025 16:38 — 👍 766    🔁 229    💬 2    📌 5

Woke up to a Charlie horse that was so bad my first thought coming out of sleep was “this feels like a coordinated attack! Someone wants me gone!”

10.07.2025 12:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

South of Midnight is very good I think you’ll like it

08.07.2025 16:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The way Veo 3 is working already for one to two days it shows how AI is going to take over. The ability for spreading misinformation and lies is incredible. A year from now we are going to be cooked.

24.05.2025 21:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My new favorite pass time is reading conservatives argue with grok on x and keep failing to convince the AI that their conspiracy is reality.

22.05.2025 11:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

we both hit huge follower goals at the same time! Congrats you deserve it!

07.05.2025 02:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Pretty big milestone for any streamer! I’ve hit 1k followers! #twitch

06.05.2025 08:41 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

The amount of times the dems just adopt conservative messaging without even thinking about it is wild. It blows my mind how often liberal media parrot conservative media talking points and this is the perfect answer to that.

03.04.2025 17:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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One pack and done already. I won the card game. #shinycharizard #shinyex #pokemontcg

27.03.2025 06:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good luck you’re gonna do great!

05.03.2025 17:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My favorite songs of 1969:

1. China Cat Sunflower - The Grateful Dead
2. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
3. Pinball Wizard - The Who
4. Evil Ways - Santana
5. Down on the Corner - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Any songs I’m missing? What’s your favorite songs? #music #musiclists #topsongs1969

13.02.2025 05:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My favorite songs of 1968:

1. Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
2. Cream - White Room
3. The Band - The Weight
4. The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
5. Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride

Am I missing any? What are your favorites? #musiclists #music

11.02.2025 22:59 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

On social media they’re saying they were as surprised as the public but there’s evidence 10 months ago of people speculating on snap getting taken down due to the connection so I think their media strategy was just hoping they wouldn’t be affected and then do damage control if they were.

19.01.2025 17:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Second dinner the company that runs marvel snap has been losing a lot of favor lately due to very greedy decisions and so allowing people to still make real money purchases minutes before the ban without the warning they might go down is incredible.

19.01.2025 17:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Truly incredible that Marvel Snap was banned in the TikTok ban. Also the creators feigning they had no idea. What an incredible little story this is.

19.01.2025 10:51 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I like to think of the tellitubbies as the weird uncle to Pokémon. They speak like Pokémon by only saying their name and every time they come around they bring their weird baby sun.

04.01.2025 01:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That feeling when you are trying to become someone who’s job is to understand the meta of each social media platform and you’ve yet to figure out that meta so you post on that social media to say you haven’t figured it out yet.

29.12.2024 09:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

On the last day of class my students all became bats and flew away and then I still had to drive home in traffic. Even my dreams keep me from being magical!

18.12.2024 10:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Gonna go see wicked tonight and then tomorrow is the day for the birthday music trivia stream! I’m going to have lots of media facts about all these years including movie and television history. If you’re a media buff it’ll be a fun time of music trivia!

06.12.2024 17:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I discovered whatsamusic in June of this year so it makes sense that it hasn’t completely reinvented my tastes yet. Every year I have different bands on my top 5 because I often like to deep dives. Electric Callboy’s We Got the Moves is definitely my favorite song I discovered this year.

04.12.2024 20:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My parents weren’t big on popular movies but my aunt would send free preview hbo vhs tapes to me so one of my childhood shows was fraggle rock because of this. An incredible show that still holds up today.

03.12.2024 03:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Incredible article on the state of music in this current age. So much of the arts industry has become on the artists to breach the new media economy as so much of the industry doesn’t understand the new trends taking over. The audience is also just not able to pay for music in its current form.

29.11.2024 14:56 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great insights. I think also like a lot of the arts the industry is stuck in the past and just promoting without comprehending new media. So it has become on the bands to try and breach new media through the same means as content creators which is rough for the current music system.

29.11.2024 14:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s a week and a half out but my partner made me this amazing flyer and I have to show it off!

27.11.2024 19:28 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Hundreds of Beavers is the best representation of the silent film era and cartoon culture of the early 20th century put into a video game film and slapstick comedy. Truly incredible art and a movie which never feels long and is funny in every moment. Truly impressive.

27.11.2024 01:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Coming to the end of the day I walk to my office pull out my keys, grab my car key and push the unlock button and look at my door confused as to why it’s not open and then realize I’m a dumbass.

26.11.2024 23:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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