Howdini!

@howdini.bsky.social

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ADHD BMF. Guitar/lap steel guitar player/singer in big-guitar band The Pineapples, audio engineer, jokester, Queens food proselytizer https://the-pineapples.bandcamp.com/album/done-looking-around

Photo of a vintage white gaf talking viewmaster
Cropped Screenshot: 1 like, 1 quote,1 save
Crop screenshot of the Make It Make Sense bluesky banner, with a drawn-in red circle around their pathetic 129 followers count
Crop of an AI image of a man in a dark grey hoodie with arms folded across his chest. Printed on the hoodie are the words REAL ART ONLY, but being AI it's put the words on his chest and sleeves, as if it's been printed on him while his got his arms crossed
Screen grab of three consecutive skeets that all say "we hebben een serieus peenalty keek probleem"
Harvey Korman, as Count de Monet in Mel Brooks' History of the World Pt. I, saying "don't get saucy with me, Bearnaise!"
Famous photo of Robert Johnson playing guitar. A cigarette dangles from his mouth.
Intro to Blind Blake's "Police Dog Blues" played on late 30s Kalamazoo KF-14
Late 30s Kalamazoo KG-14 with beautiful sunburst finish propped against a white wall, to the right of a cute black cat, sitting, facing left
The inimitable Dildo ring toss event
Photo of what looks like a construction site. In the center distance is a black water tower, leaning to the right like the Tower of Pisa. In the foreground are large, rusted-out white letters CERRO
Photo of a grey door in a tiled wall on a NYC subway platform. On it is a black rectangle on which is printed MANHOLE #144 718-243-4985
Pepe Silvia conspiracy meme from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Photograph of two cans of Alta Cucina canned plum tomatoes
Photo of Zohran Mamdani at the Jackson Heights Pride parade
Photo of Zohran Mamdani at the Jackson Heights Pride parade
Photo of George Santos wearing dark Ray-Bans
Photo of George Santos wearing dark Ray-Bans
looking down a street on a pleasant day in Queens NY, the left of the Photograph tree-lined, the right facades of apartment buildings with pride flags hung from them
Screen grab of notification that IG account bagelambassador pinned my comment on their post
Still of the half white/half black aliens from Star Trek TOS episode Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
B&W photo of a band (The Pineapples) playing outdoors. Emily Duff at the mic to the left, running her hand thru her hair, howdini to her left (our right), looking impossibly cool in striped pants, white shirt and dark blazer, five o'clock shadow, Ray-Bans sunglasses, curly dark hair. Mustachioed Kevin on the right of photo, standing in front of the drum kit, playing a white Gibson Firebird. In the background are trees just starting to bud.
Cartoon of a bald, bearded guy
Diptych of photo of Trump's face with O-shaped mouth, next to still of face of the salt monster from Star Trek TOS
Photograph of a first-gen Jerrold cable channel switching box
Photograph of a Marshall JCM900 amp head, in use, sitting atop an '82 JCM800 50W head (if you listen closely, you can hear the 800 sighing pityingly)
Video of my timeline, starting on Darth's post about dachshunds and then scrolling up to Derek Guy's post about a daschund in Spain dressed in a KKK-looking outfit
Clip from old TempTee cream cheese commercial: "A bagel? What's a bagel?"
A photo of Patrick Stewart (L) and howdini (R).
Snopes fact check Claim: The U.S. government banned the sale of lawn darts in the aftermath of a child's death in 1987. Rating: True On 2 October 2017, criticism appeared on social media about a lack of federal action on gun safety which invoked the U.S. government's response concerning the sale of lawn darts toys following a single child's death in 1987: "Just your reminder that after a girl was killed playing with lawn darts in 1987, the U.S. government banned them. Lawn darts."
Photo of guardrails in front of a NYC apartment building and going up its front stairs. At the base of practically every vertical bar is lockbox for an Airbnb
Screenshot of a post's lame numbers
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Photo taken at night of a black pickup truck on a NYC street. On the door there is a high-contrast image of Jair Bolsonaro's face, with the words Bolsonaro Presidente underneath it
Screenshot of a Josh Marshall tweet from 1/19/21: "And like that the window closes on a Greenland deal"
Trio of pikhali, Georgian vegetable spreads made with walnuts L-R Leek, eggplant, spinach
Wordlebot tells me "This guess wasn't my favorite. But no worries: You've narrowed it down to three remaining words and you still have two guesses left."
A tweet from Elon Musk that says "that is extremely concerning!"
Tweet from Brittney Bush Bollay @BrittneyBush 12/16/21 "Jews are all wealthy and always have been" yes that's why our most famous traditional foods are: -Scraps of Cheap Fish Glued Together -These Crackers We Made While We Were Running Away -Literally Just Potatoes
My coffee setup on a granite kitchen counter: Baratza Encore grinder, Hario V60 pour over
Pineapples 1993 ALL FOR WHAT 7" single cover. A woman's face from lower left corner. Only her nose and mouth are visible. She wears a clip-on nose ring, and emerging from her mouth is a tiny pineapple. NME awarded it #1 Single Of The Week April 24, 1993
Phone Charging station in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. E. 5th between 1st & 2nd NYC, right across the street form the 9th Pct. house.
Cars parked at a NYC bus stop
Skeets from pixelated boat: It's weird how electoral strategy arguments on here always focus on actual policies and not what lies would trick those stupid pigs into voting the right way Seems obvious that everything should begin with the fact that most voters are complete morons you should have nothing but contempt for
COEXIST bumper sticker where the letters are made up of religious icons next to a photo of two bagel quarters side by side, one pumpernickel (black), the other plain (white)
Filmmaker: I was recently at the ADL offices in Manhattan. We interviewed Oren Segal, the director of their counterterrorism and intelligence unit, and some of his young staff. They are doing great work tracking white supremacist platforms and the raging antisemitism and racism that is flourishing online (Jews are responsible for orchestrating white genocide and great replacement since Black people and immigrants are too stupid to do it themselves). Along with charting the ubiquitous, almost casual hate expressed on places like Steam, the big gaming platform. As Segal says, what's waiting for your children online is a 24/7 Klan rally. "Imagine opening up the gates of hell to your kids." Me: It's so hard to square the good work they do with the kind of stasi-like shit detailed in that article...serious cognitive dissonance FM: It's bizarre. It's like the ADL leadership lives in a different universe from the analysts and researchers on their own staff Me: Yeah that's exactly it A different moral universe, certainly FM: Unfortunately and sadly
Pineapples B&W promo photo from ~1991, with me shirtless in a fringe suede vest, surrounded by the rest of the band who are pulling my arms
Ridiculously massive ratio on Shadi Hamid's post criticizing Twitter users who moved to bluesky
Early 60s DynaKit MKIII amplifier
K PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS RESTORING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ENDING FEDERAL CENSORSHIP The White House January 20, 2025 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Purpose. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution, an amendment essential to the success of our Republic, enshrines the right of the American people to speak freely in the public square without Government interference. Over the last 4 years, the previous administration trampled free speech rights by censoring Americans' speech on online platforms, often by exerting substantial coercive pressure on third parties, such as social media companies, to moderate, deplatform, or otherwise suppress speech that the Federal Government did not approve. Under the guise of combatting "misinformation," "disinformation," and "malinformation," the Federal Government infringed on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the United States in a manner that advanced the Government's preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate. Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society.
The Free Press turns to Andy Ngo for analysis of Tyler Robinson
Chris Ballew talks about Beck wearing his shirt that he (Chris) also used for the back cover of the first PUSA album
icyww, "Walking In Memphis" is still a piece of shit song
Top image: Fred from Scooby-Doo, but with Donald Trump's face with his "fuck yeah" expression, reaches over to unmask a fake ghost (the mask has left wing iconography on it (Dem donkey, pride flag) Bottom image: Now Trump wears an "oh no!" expression, because under the mask is pepe the frog
Headline from a Free Press editorial, "Je Suis Charlie," with Charlie crossed out and "this guy" handwritten in
Flyer for F*Bomb tribute to Spinal Tap with special guests THE PINEAPPLES, Friday 9/12 at Lucky 13 Saloon in Gowanus, Brooklyn
NYT headline/summary paragraph: Trump's Reference to Sending Troops to Chicago Draws Illinois Leaders' Ire The Trump administration has been working on plans to deploy hundreds of homeland security officers to the city as part of an immigration enforcement effort.
Fb post from October 27, 2024 that says C'mon Joe: nationalize the everloving shit outta SpaceX
Photo of display of Eli's Tortilla Chips from Zabar's in Grand Central Terminal. They sell for $11.99/5oz bag
Famous dril candles tweet wint @dril Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Candles $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying