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Abundant tweets about civil liberties & national security. "Has a longer memory than an elephant & keeps more records than Jim Comey.” Legendary potty mouth.

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    1. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 3

      emptywheel Retweeted emptywheel

      Name the Styx lyric that best serves as a theme song for a Russian honeypot. Go.https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1025532161867309057 …

      emptywheel added,

      emptywheel @emptywheel
      The Russian NRA Spy: "Just Remember that It's a Grand Illusion" https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/08/03/the-russian-nra-spy-just-remember-that-its-a-grand-illusion/ …
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      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 3

      Old lady confession: There was a Styx 8-track* in the car I learned to drive in. *This is a music delivery medium you've never heard of, little boys and girls.

      5:34 PM - 3 Aug 2018
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        2. Heidi Finan‏ @hkfinan Aug 3
          Replying to @emptywheel

          Let me guess, stick shift? Back in the day you had to pay extra for automatic

          2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
        3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 3
          Replying to @hkfinan

          Nah. Didn't learn stick until I moved to SF.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. Andy Farquhar‏ @andy_farquhar Aug 3
          Replying to @emptywheel @hkfinan

          SF is a hell of a place to learn to use a clutch.

          2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
        5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 3
          Replying to @andy_farquhar @hkfinan

          I lived just outside the Presidio at the time and had a path home from the Marina that involved flat stops until I really learned.

          2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
        6. Andy Farquhar‏ @andy_farquhar Aug 3
          Replying to @emptywheel @hkfinan

          I learned in the hills just east of Pittsburgh. I'm thankful my dad was patient & had nerves of steel.

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        7. End of conversation
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        2. Debra Wexler‏ @DebraWexler_ Aug 3
          Replying to @emptywheel

          The first “album” I bought was Donna Summer’s “On the Radio” — on 8-track.

          1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
        3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 3
          Replying to @DebraWexler_

          Oh, that was the first record I bouht, I think. But it was vinyl.

          2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
        4. Claudia Kincaid‏ @ClaudiaKincaid_ Aug 3
          Replying to @emptywheel @DebraWexler_

          Me too! And 8-track — I switched to vinyl soon after, once I saved enough to buy a record player, but at that point relied on my parents’ 8-track player. I still get annoyed thinking about when a track would switch mid-song.

          0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
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        2. Julie Jackson‏ @jude11066 Aug 3
          Replying to @emptywheel

          Old lady confession: I bought Styx Pieces of 8 on 8-track.

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 3
          Replying to @jude11066

          You must have been friends with my brothers, who did the same.

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        4. End of conversation
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        2. Brett Frazer‏ @frazer_brett Aug 3
          Replying to @emptywheel

          You can’t be that old.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel Aug 3
          Replying to @frazer_brett

          If I'm the girl in the bicentennial picture don't I by definition have to be that old?

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        2. Coffee Creamer  🎃Spice Is NOT a Coffee Flavor‏ @CrankyOldBats2 Aug 3
          Replying to @emptywheel

          I had an AM radio in my '64 Ford. Another music delivery medium.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. John‏ @udarnik Aug 3
          Replying to @CrankyOldBats2 @emptywheel

          We had an FM/AM with push button favorite selectors that physically moved the knobs & the red needle that pointed to the frequency in the 63 Galaxie. It also had an 8 track. People forget Madonna’s so old her first album or 2 had 8 track versions.https://www.discogs.com/Madonna-Like-A-Virgin/release/5807865 …

          1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
        4. Coffee Creamer  🎃Spice Is NOT a Coffee Flavor‏ @CrankyOldBats2 Aug 3
          Replying to @udarnik @emptywheel

          John, still rubbing it in that you had the upscale Galaxie to my Fairlane?

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        5. John‏ @udarnik Aug 3
          Replying to @CrankyOldBats2 @emptywheel

          All the youngsters going “Galaxie? Fairlane? They made cars with those names?” 🤣 Bust speaking of ancient comms devices, I also grew up listening to Radio Moscow on a Zenith shortwave. And my dad knew Bill Lear, the inventor of both the 8 track and the Lear jet.

          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        6. Coffee Creamer  🎃Spice Is NOT a Coffee Flavor‏ @CrankyOldBats2 Aug 3
          Replying to @udarnik @emptywheel

          Imagine the synapses in his mind evolving from from 8-track to jet!

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        7. John‏ @udarnik Aug 3
          Replying to @CrankyOldBats2 @emptywheel

          Other way round- he wanted turbulence proof music for the jet, and reel to reel didn’t cut it.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        8. Coffee Creamer  🎃Spice Is NOT a Coffee Flavor‏ @CrankyOldBats2 Aug 3
          Replying to @udarnik @emptywheel

          Well, after-market 8-track didn't cut it either. Rear-ended on the way home, the passenger's (me) primary injury was the dislodgement of the 8-track player onto my foot.

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        9. End of conversation
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        2. James Petruzzi‏ @Hawaiianimages Aug 3
          Replying to @emptywheel @msbellows

          I had a reel-to-reel tape deck in my home when I was 8. : )

          2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
        3. Plumb Bob‏ @bob_melusky Aug 3
          Replying to @Hawaiianimages @emptywheel @msbellows

          I have a 1967 Tandberg tube deck that works perfectly. A late friend of mine bought it brand new.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        4. M.S. Bellows, Jr.‏ @msbellows Aug 3
          Replying to @bob_melusky @Hawaiianimages @emptywheel

          Are you trying to make me take photos of my early-'80s Krell KSA-100 gold-nameplate one-button amp? Are you? Because I WILL DO IT.

          3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
        5. Plumb Bob‏ @bob_melusky Aug 3
          Replying to @msbellows @Hawaiianimages @emptywheel

          Do it. My amp world awareness stagnated after buying new McIntosh in 1976.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        6. M.S. Bellows, Jr.‏ @msbellows Aug 3
          Replying to @bob_melusky @Hawaiianimages @emptywheel

          Actually, I was bluffing. It's blocked by Thing2's crap from moving back in. Which is a hell of a good metaphor for that phenomenon, actually. But it looks like this + weighs something like 100 lbs.pic.twitter.com/fBv9JrCI3Y

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        7. Plumb Bob‏ @bob_melusky Aug 3
          Replying to @msbellows @Hawaiianimages @emptywheel

          Sadly, my midrange is a victim of the folly of a misspent youth and most of my music comes from mp3s and $10 earbuds.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        8. M.S. Bellows, Jr.‏ @msbellows Aug 3
          Replying to @bob_melusky @Hawaiianimages @emptywheel

          With this amp you don't NEED ears to experience the music. Just proprioceptors.

          0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        9. End of conversation

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