History ‘scholars’ weighing in on this 🔗 LinkedIN post .. I can’t be bothered to join in.

For me - YUP … Count me with the Luddites

The point of this post is more about language changing .. over time words get co-opted and they change and come to mean something different .. oft' through more and more people not having the full understanding of the origins. Shame really. I’m all for language changing .. I just wished people wouldn’t change the meaning just because they don’t understand the nuance .. or worse that they don’t know.

At least that footy player said in front of the world that he didn’t know what ‘encyclopedic’ meant.

Maybe he ‘could care less’ (sic) … another peeve.

🔗 George Conway predicts Trump won’t be unanimously acquitted in hush money trial (🍎🗞️)

.. been thinking that myself - and when it happens how THAT will get spun into puke and bile.

🔗 😂 Impeach Nixon! - a lesson from history.

The ‘Tiny Pod’ 🚧

is indeed a thing to 🔗 behold - for those of you that have a watch but don’t want to wear it on your wrist?

I know it’s 🔗 here - but I have to look it up every time. Of course ‘every’ shouldn’t be too many - but sadly - not the case.

No need to bring you up to speed about that google short code to bypass Google’s world of enshitification - except to say 🔗 Ernie at Tedium built a web site to make it ‘easy for all’

I stumbled across this today as I was collecting 🖇️ these. I nearly moved through because ‘Kelly’ - but I am a sucker for Jeff, so …

Holy Crap …🔗 🎵 📼 Jeff Daniels

.. I was under the impression he had only recently written it - but this from 13 years ago - suggests otherwise.

🔗 🎵 📼 Jeff Daniels.

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If you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.

 

… another two ‘broken links’ .. has something changed?

In no particular order (except for perhaps the first two) …

🔗 🎵 📼 Nina Simone

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🔗 🎵 📼 The Animals

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🔗 🎵 📼 Jac Ross

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🔗 🎵 📼 Cat Stevens

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🔗 🎵 📼 Elvis Costello

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🔗 🎵 📼 Joe Cocker

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🔗 🎵 📼 Cyndi Lauper

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🔗 🎵 📼 Santa Esmeralda

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If you are reading this post on my site, the inline video gives an error. Click on the link above. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it.

 

We all get that broken link message from time to time don’t we? What is particularly interesting on this post is to find EIGHT blocks - I wonder if it is the writers insisting on the block - I don’t think there I any other constant.