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As I start the next journey with the next network over on 🔗 Threads, a song from the Moody Blues comes to mind.

Watching and waiting
For a friend to play with
Why have I been alone so long
Mole he is burrowing his way to the sunlight
He knows there’s some there so strong.

‘Cause here there’s lot of room for doing
The thing you’ve always been denied
Look and gather all you want to
There’s no one here to stop you trying

Soon you will see me
‘Cause I’ll be all around you
But where I come from I can’t tell
But don’t be alarmed by my fields and my forests
They’re here for only you to share

‘Cause here there’s lot of room for doing
The things you’ve always been denied
So look and gather all you want to
There’s no one here to stop you trying

Watching and waiting
For someone to understand me
I hope it won’t be very long

🔗 Judge Orders Biden Officials to Limit Contact With Social-Media Companies (WSJ via Apple News)

… because of course the prior guy didn’t do anything like that.

🔗 Fireworks … never thought of them like this.

@dave is not wrong.

🔗 IBM Red Hat Puts RHEL Source Behind Paywall

.. back in June apparently. Missed that at the time.

🔗 The (Mostly) Forgotten Battle For American Independence…in Yorkshire.

As a kid I visited Flamborough Head a lot. Family day trips and all that. But I still liked it enough to have also returned there as an adult - albeit a while back now.

… and yet I never knew this. #AlwaysLearning

🔗 English tourist accused of carving name in Colosseum says he did not realise its age.

The ignorance we breed is extraordinary.

It also means that if it was brand new … he sees no problem.

🔗 People Hire Phone Bots to Torture Telemarketers (Apple News … but it makes me happy.)

🔗 Overnight shootings in Pennsylvania and Texas mar Fourth of July festivities.

I’m sorry .. What?

Mar?

To mar your 4th July festivities would be that it rained on your barbecue. Next they’ll be reporting about the ’inconvenience’.

I think Louisiana has a Dem as Governor and the rest are Rethuglicans. Just earlier today I referenced 🖇️ North Carolina sailing towards being a second Florida.

Hold that in your mind as you read that the 🔗 Decline in Budweiser Beer Sales has lead to the Closure of Two Bottle Factories in the South. … specifically the closures are in those two States. In that same article I read …

Munhall also said the closures may also be connected to a conservative boycott of Bud Light.

Which in turn got me to wondering how many conservatives in those two states helped impact those closures through the boycott are now directly jobless or will soon be suffering financially because of the inevitable knock on effect.

I think I might enter the entire Republican voting base for the Darwin Awards.

Seperately, it is increasingly clear that the Dems should just step back and watch the ‘alternative’ just self destruct.

🔗 On the state of the web

I don’t know what’s going to come out of this moment but I do hope more people realize that human connections are still available out there. You can still set up your tiny quiet corner on the web, do your own things, and connect slowly with other people. You can still set up a forum dedicated to something you’re passionate about and create a community with 50 other people, even if Reddit turns to shit. Things can live on the web simply because enough people care about them and pour time and love into them. And that is what makes the web special.

💬 Manuel Moreale

Reminded me very much of What Is The Small Web