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  Top 10 Halloween Songs for 2026 My ten favorite Halloween songs, counted down one a day through Halloween night 2026. https://sergio101.com/top-10-halloween-songs-for-2026/ #Music #Halloween #KROQ

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  I have always wondered why #Apple doesn't push it's #Radio service of #AppleMusic harder. It's a totally great service, and fun for exploration.

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  🎃 Halloween Top 10, Day 1: #10 is Concrete Blonde, "Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)." Best played on cassette after 2 am in a Volkswagen Bug, between stops at the AMPM mini-mart, with clove cigarette smoke pouring out of the windows. Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbJmWCuMiEM The whole countdown, updated daily: https://sergio101.com/top-10-halloween-songs-for-2026/ #Halloween #ConcreteBlonde #Music #KROQ

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  🎃 Halloween Top 10, #9: Oingo Boingo, "Dead Man's Party." For those of us who grew up in SoCal in the '80s, Oingo Boingo was the official kickoff of the Halloween season. It's also name-checked in the opening of the book Ready Player One, which I am reading for the third time Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpYhfuG4i7w The whole countdown, updated daily: https://sergio101.com/top-10-halloween-songs-for-2026/ #Halloween #OingoBoingo #...

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  I need to come up with an elevator pitch for when someone asks me what exactly the #SmolWeb and #GeminiProtocol are

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  Six Degrees of Ohio, Episode 205 airs tonight at 8 PM on Wadsworth Community Radio 97.1 FM and online. New Ohio music from Scott Paris, Feral Housecats, She Loves 2 Shop, Tamar Berk, Akronauts, Ronnie Martin, The Sleaves, and The Stepford Five. Artist links and the playlist: https://sixdegreesofohio.com/episodes/205/ #Ohio #OhioMusic #IndieMusic #CommunityRadio

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  🎃 Halloween Top 10, #8: Luna, "Season of the Witch." I've heard lots and lots of covers of this song, but I've always thought Donovan and Luna were somehow related in a past life. Totally love this band. Totally love this cover. Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxu1bDCJNEM The whole countdown, updated daily: https://sergio101.com/top-10-halloween-songs-for-2026/ #Halloween #Luna #Music

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  🎃 Halloween Top 10, #7: Danny Elfman, "This is Halloween." A bit of a double-up: Elfman fronted Oingo Boingo, back at #9. It's cool to see a timeless creative aim at my generation, then at my kids'. Bravo, dude. Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4ZTdUwUg9g The whole countdown, updated daily: https://sergio101.com/top-10-halloween-songs-for-2026/ #Halloween #Music

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  🎃 Halloween Top 10, #5: Morrissey, "Ouija Board, Ouija Board." In the '80s, the weird kids who listened to KROQ always flocked around Morrissey. When this one hit the air, all of us weirdos collectively lost our minds. Yes, Morrissey is not a very nice kid, but this is still one of my favorite spooky releases ever. Watch the video: https://youtu.be/T8V82TXOzm0 The whole countdown, updated daily: https://sergio101.com/top-10-halloween-songs-for-2026/ #Halloween #Morr...

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  🎃 The audio and full playlist for Six Degrees of Ohio Episode 204 are now available online! 🎧 https://sixdegreesofohio.com/episodes/204/ New Ohio music from Zach, Basic Reflections, Corbin Thomas, Seth Canan, Mr. Moth, Feral Housecats, Obsess Ultra, and Tommy Wiggins. Live every Saturday at 8 PM Ohio time on Wadsworth Community Radio, 97.1 FM or stream at https://wadsworthcommunityradio.com/listen-live/ #Ohio #OhioMusic #IndieMusic #CommunityRadio #Halloween

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  🎃 Halloween Top 10, #4: Siouxsie and the Banshees, "Halloween." Siouxsie and the Banshees made every weird little kid in the '80s understand that they were weird. Our weird finally had a focus, and that focus was Siouxsie Sioux. She taught us weird was okay, then cool, and ultimately exceptional. Watch the video: https://youtu.be/ksg2ESuEMhw The whole countdown, updated daily: https://sergio101.com/top-10-halloween-songs-for-2026/ #Halloween #SiouxsieAndTheBanshees #Mus...

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  🎃 Halloween Top 10, #3: The Cure, "Lullaby." Disintegration changed the landscape of alternative music. Before it, '80s alt was something you had to dig for and ask the right people about. Some folks disparaged it for being more accessible. I thought it was a great album and a great doorway into a new era. This is still one of my favorite spooky tracks and videos from that time. Watch the video: https://youtu.be/ijxk-fgcg7c The countdown, updated daily: https://sergi...

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  🎃 Halloween Top 10, #2: Bauhaus, "Bela Lugosi's Dead." Of course everyone knew this one was coming. I could have picked almost anything from any Bauhaus album, but it had to be this one. This list has made me want to drop everything and record a proper '80s-era goth album. Maybe one day. Watch the video: https://youtu.be/OMOKpcY12jI The whole countdown, updated daily: https://sergio101.com/top-10-halloween-songs-for-2026/ #Halloween #Bauhaus #Music

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  3/4 obligatory #introduction: Also deep in amateur radio (KB8QPT) — QRP, CW, digital modes on HF, and lately poking at Meshtastic. Built an Elecraft K1 and K2 over the years.

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  4/4 obligatory #introduction: Photography is the real jam — was a pro for years, gave it up because it ate all my time, still shoot what I want. Rebuilding this account from scratch after losing my whole server, so if any of this sounds familiar, hi again.

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  So, tuning in to the QSO Today podcast, I heard about the 44net again. I haven't heard anything about this for maybe 30 years, and I think about 30 years ago I got an IP address connected to my call sign, but there wasn't enough activity in my area to become active. started the process of verifying my call sign so I can see if my IP address is still connected. This sounds like a huge rabbit hole that I have not been down in decades. Hoping there's something there and active now Links...

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  When I first got my amateur radio license, I spent most of my time in the novice area of the 40-meter band. That's where I learned Morse code and got my Morse code up to speed so that I could go to other areas of the band. I really need to make an effort to go and see if there are still people hanging out on the novice area of the 40-meter band and slow it down and help some people along. I think it was somewhere around 7.100 #AmateurRadio #MorseCode

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  A #Mastodon app for the #HaikuOS might be a fun little project

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  I got a #Lemmy account set up on the #Fediverse at lemmy.radio, and I'm looking for suggestions for communities to follow that discuss things like: - the Gemini Protocol - Ham Radio Operation CW - the Fediverse in general - fountain pens and penmanship - music synthesis - Productivity and automation - Software development on macOS - HaikuOS Let me know if you have any suggestions, and I'll subscribe.

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  I haven't used #Reddit in a whole bunch of years, but I'm wondering if I should start looking at a #Fediverse version of Reddit and which ones are out there right now. I think I read somewhere that they could connect to #Mastodon Maybe that'll be my digging around project for this afternoon

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  I put together a blog post on installing #HaikuOS on a new-ish MacBook Pro. YMMV, but I would love to hear reports from other people who have and their success level on this. I had a few blips here and there, but I've blogged the happy path that got me up and running. https://sergio101.com/installing-haiku-os-on-a-macbook-pro/ gemini://gemini.sergio101.com/installing-haiku-os-on-a-macbook-pro/

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  This weekend, my trial of #WisprFlow ended, and I got back on my system and decided I wanted to use it without Wispr Flow to see if I missed it. Exactly 12 minutes into a regular work session, I couldn't stand using it anymore, so I bought the pro version of Wispr Flow, which is actually really cheap anyway. You can get a 30-day trial with my referral link. https://wisprflow.ai/r/SERGIO1847

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  I got #HaikuOS up and running on my MacBook Pro. Let me know if this is interesting enough for me to write up a step-by-step guide.

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  This weekend, I really need to check into running #HaikuOS on a #MacBookPro. I really loved #BeOS back in the day, and it seems like this would be a fun little plafform to develop apps for fun.

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  Super impressed by the brute force efforts of my fair city, Ashland, Ohio. If we had time and effort to throw at it, it might be fun to hack the data being gathered by #Flock cameras and rebroadcast it all in real time. I would probably need to figure out how to stream over #Tor. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Da1KarqJcbA/?igsh=MWVxZjVuMXI3cmVkcw==I #privacy #surveillance #FlockSafety #ALPRs #ALPR #EFF #SurveillanceState #MassSurveillance

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  Did you ever have that friend who always checked the coin return in every payphone that you passed?

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  @smalldog@social.smalldog.club AWESOME! I think i first got licensed in 1992 in Ohio.. and i have only had #QRP until about 2 years ago, i got my first radio off the shelf. Yeasu FT-710. It's the first time i have ever had more than 12 watts ( i built an #elecraft k1 and k2).. But I still love my QRP radios. If i am totally being honest, I just ordered the QMX+ for me, too. I still have never talked on the Yeasu or turned the power past 30 watts.

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  I just had two younger people, one still in high school and one in their mid-20s, ask me if I would help them get their ham radio license. Of course I will, and for each of them, I promised that if they get their license, I would buy them a QMX Plus kit from QRP Labs and get them active on CW and digital modes. I'm actually kind of considering getting that ticket that lets you proctor the amateur radio exams https://qrp-labs.com/qmxp.html #AmateurRadio #MorseCode #QRP

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  Every now and then, I am super tempted to go check out the interviews with Anika Nilles, but then I think, "what is there to talk about?" So, I have not seen or read any interviews. I kind of want to just go see the whole thing for myself, but it's so expensive. #Drummer #Rush

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  I feel like people think it's a flex to pay super high concert ticket prices, and people have stopped complaining about it