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David Vest

@davidvest.bsky.social

World's oldest living promising young pianist. Songwriter, poet, knuckleball-pitching bandleader. https://ffm.to/davidvest

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ICE Opens Fire (MPLS-USA 2026) -- Bill McGarvey
YouTube video by Bill McGarvey ICE Opens Fire (MPLS-USA 2026) -- Bill McGarvey

When Ice opens fire ...

youtu.be/kDPBNFHD6YU

23.02.2026 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I wish I could write all my posts in Moira Rose’s voice.

22.02.2026 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A big school in Texas has announced that it was only kidding when it called itself a "university."

21.02.2026 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Magativity.

14.12.2025 11:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Go on -- ask me one more time to prove I'm human.

16.09.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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16.09.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 37473    πŸ” 10096    πŸ’¬ 595    πŸ“Œ 420

If I have to close a popup window to read the text on your homepage, I hereby declare your site enshittified.

15.09.2025 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I need a search engine that will exclude pages written with AI.

12.09.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Repeat this phrase whenever someone touts AI: "Monsters from the id."

03.09.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I really love the new album by @ronsexsmith.bsky.social! Great new songs, brilliantly recorded.

29.08.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Pluralistic: Bluesky creates the world’s weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause (15 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net/2025/08/15/d...

16.08.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

inwardboundpoetry.blogspot.com/2008/05/662-...

10.07.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œIt’s my Party and I’ll lie if I want to, lie if I want to β€” you would lie, too, if it happened to you.”

07.07.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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There is great wisdom in Alabama, but you have to look for it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

28.06.2025 03:27 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

The line between corporate tracking and stalking on the internet seems to have vanished long ago.

17.06.2025 03:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"If we want to talk about what makes America great, we should talk about the Marshall Plan. No country in the world ever rebuilt the cities of its enemies, and that’s what we did after World War II." -- James Lee Burke

04.06.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy Jackie Robinson Day...

β€œA new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind β€” the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.”- Jackie Robinson.

15.04.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

"I like my toast burnt and scraped," he said. "Anything else is just warm bread."

15.04.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Living Blues Living Blues #295 Page 52 Living Blues #295 (March/April 2025) features harp player Wallace Coleman on the cover. Coleman had a surprising first job in the blues. He was hired by Robert Lockwood Jr. because of his skills as an...

Lovely review of CrissCross (latest album by Terry Robb and me) in the new Living Blues.
digital.livingblues.com/living-blues...

14.04.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œI see people who are supposed to know better standing around like furniture.”

31.03.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Let's be honest, everyone looks a little tragic on a Segway." (Ian Taylor)

25.03.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Told you once and I told you twice ...

youtu.be/0mbAsY8VXbA?...

01.03.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New Dawn, by Marshall Allen 7 track album

Marshall Allen has released his debut solo album at the age of 100, and it's the best new music I've heard so far this year in any genre.
marshallallen.bandcamp.com/album/new-dawn

14.02.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Gulf of Central America (fixed it for ya'll).

12.02.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Here are all the 2025 Juno nominees(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)(external link)...

Very cool to see friends and label mates win Juno nominations for Blues Album of the Year.
www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1...

11.02.2025 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Chiefs can still be named Super Bowl champions if Mike Pence has the courage.

10.02.2025 04:04 β€” πŸ‘ 27263    πŸ” 3373    πŸ’¬ 437    πŸ“Œ 202
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Black excellence: Twice as qualified, half as respected, and still passed over or labeled as a β€˜DEI hire.’

Black folks have always known this because we’ve seen it happen to our own family members. I know I have.

07.02.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 37435    πŸ” 11815    πŸ’¬ 1307    πŸ“Œ 543

Apparently we're not required to have an opinion on everything -- or to publish every opinion we have. Who knew?

02.02.2025 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great googly-woogly!

30.12.2024 05:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Big Walter Price and Albert Collins, If blues was money
YouTube video by Edith de Ronde Big Walter Price and Albert Collins, If blues was money

youtu.be/tAg12U6mMLQ?...

@davidgogoblues.bsky.social

29.12.2024 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0