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Alex Smith

@alexinnyc.bsky.social

Native New Yorker. Insufferable music snob. Laughably anachronistic blogger: https://vassifer.blogs.com

117 Followers  |  83 Following  |  17 Posts  |  Joined: 23.01.2025  |  1.9499

Latest posts by alexinnyc.bsky.social on Bluesky

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Manhattan Mosaic Mystery Okay, here’s a weird one. It could be purely a coincidence, … but I don’t know. See what you think. Back in October of 2008, my wife and I took our two little kids up to the Upper West Side...

Just a coincidence?

03.08.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Put Your Fucking Phone Away: The Recurring Concert Conundrum As just mentioned, my son Oliver and I went to go see DEVO on Tuesday night at the lovely Brooklyn Paramount, and standing amidst the sold-out throng of devotees, my view of proceedings onstage was ag...
08.05.2025 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Disco Dueling on 43rd & Third I hate to call her out on it (although she caught the error herself before the episode was over), but my friend Jessica, on this morning’s episode of the Desperately Seeking the `80 podcast, made a fl...

And now for something totally different...
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11.03.2025 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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RFK Jr. Is Officially in Charge of the Country’s Health The anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist is about to be the head of the Department of Health and Human Services.

The man is DEMONSTRABLY ill-equipped, IRRETRIEVABLY up his own ass and IN ABSOLUTELY NO WAY qualified to make authoritative decisions about anything relating to health. But we all knew this, and it still happened. This will have consequences, and it's your own fucking fault, America.

13.02.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Keith Haring mural at old NYC rec center featured in β€˜Raging Bull’ could be endangered by site demolition, advocates fear β€œThere has been no clear indication from city officials whether the mural is guaranteed to remain intact or if it might be affected by any future redevelopment plans,” said Gil Vazquez,…

It would be a bummer to lose that Keith Haring mural, although the headline misleadingly makes it sound like Haring's mural -- painted circa 1987 -- appears in "Raging Bull" (a film shot in 1980 set in 1941). Suffice to say, it does not. The rec center does (and, really, big whoop to that).

07.02.2025 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump is fucking garbage.

06.02.2025 02:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Word on The Street
03.02.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Poached Pics: Pieces of the Past There’s been a bit of an exodus, in recent days, of folks leaving Instagram and Facebook, put off by Zuckerberg’s brazen sucking-up to Trump. I, too, have courted the idea of leaving β€” which is saying...

Perched perilously on the precipice of leaving Meta platforms for good, I take a look back at other people's photographs on Instagram of my lost New York City... vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/20...

26.01.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Dead kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off
YouTube video by Antitodo Old Punk Dead kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off

Then, Now and Forever.

26.01.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Every morning, I scan the headlines and am astonished that this is the world we’re now living in.

26.01.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump is absolute sewage.

24.01.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump wants California to require voter ID to get disaster aid | CNN Politics President Donald Trump said he wanted California to require voter ID in order to get disaster aid for the LA wildfires.

Absolutely terrifying.

24.01.2025 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My only real grievance with Bluesky, thus far, is that it seems indistinguishable from the original Twitter format ... a platform I never really warmed to.

24.01.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Really Worth Sharing From the National Prayer Service on Tuesday, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde's words to Trump, literally speaking truth to power. This is some Punk Rock, right here. β€œLet me make one final plea, Mr. Presid...

This is already old news, but still worth sharing ....
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23.01.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Inaugural post. Hoping this turns out to be a good move. Increasingly put off by the shenanigans of Zuck and his vile ilk. Let's make it work.

23.01.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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