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There are a lot of links out to different parts of the web on this site. I try to mark them all so they get listed here.
‘Flee’? ‘Suffers’?
- What percentage are Russians?
- What percentage are non Doms?
- What percentage actually contributed to the economy?
With those answers we might find that this is good news.
🔗 David Brooks: I Should Have Seen This Coming - The Atlantic
Yes you should David .. yes you should. It was all pretty clear. The fact you are surprised and seem to be on some kind of world apology tour does not change my opinion.
I have 3 questions …
- Why aren’t I surprised?
- Why do I feel that this is totally true .. and false .. at the same time?
- Did the Onion buy Wired .. or the other way round?
Hat Tip to 🔗 Daniel Savage
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The Overview features on no less than 4 public AlbumWhale lists - turns out all 4 are mine.
- Neo Progressive
- English Progressive
- Steven Wilson
and
- Surprises. In some ways not a surprise at all. Terrific album - but you do need it to marinate.
The Surprise? He has an 🔗🎵Orchestral version on YouTube …
From The Alterview boxset, all rights to Wilson/Fiction Records
WaPo headline ..
Americans Are Sitting on a Cash Pile as Stocks Reel
It seems a miracle has occurred. It seems only yesterday that I read that
🔗 Millions of Americans are just one paycheck away from ‘financial disaster’ (40%)
🔗 Millions of Americans are only $400 away from financial hardship (50%)
- Truly a miracle of financial recovery OR
- Fake News OR.
- We really do have two Americas
🔗 realbloggers.org .. via Don Marti - there are a lot of these sites gloating around in the Indie Web - not sure why we need another one - why do we keep reinventing the wheel. Can we just have one place?
🔗 Trust Is Dead. Trump Keeps Selling the Corpse.
… haven’t read the article - yet - saved in Readwise - I just loved the title.
Just added 🔗 thelinkblog at Micro.Blog to my 🔗 feed in Feedland … it just seemed right.
Thanks for the link @chrisjwilson .. Snyder gets to the nub of the regime with fewer meaningful words than most.
🔗 China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech - CleanTechnica
I lost count of my highlights. I enabled my readwise as a public link - because there is a LOT in the piece.
🔗🎵💿 Odessey and Oracle - The Zombies
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🔗🎵💿 Songs of a Lost World - The Cure
Hat Tip To @patrickrhone
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The fact that the headlines in the main U.S.A. newspaper look like this …
Speaks Volumes.
🔗 See the full list on ‘today’s’ US Front Pages
That it takes a film director (Ok - not ‘just’ a film director) to highlight it - speaks to even more problems. ( I would vouch he isn’t the only source - but I haven’t seen this many images on a single scroll …
Everywhere You Look, You Will See The True Leaders of This Next Revolution
💬 Michael Moore
Just 4 Random Images From His Post
🔗 As for the muskRAT - burn those companies to the ground.
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Inspired to finally for out my Feedland space today after reading @Dave ’s 🔗 doc
Simple instructions and it ‘just worked’ - so much to the point that I am happy to link to it from my 🖇️ Blog Navigation.
The link takes you to my 🔗 news feed which is a ‘river of news’ driven by my 🔗 subscriptions - early days yet but it’s a start.
The impetus was that Dave was also talking elsewhere about adding BlueSky feeds to the list. I tried it out - and added a couple of my own. I didn’t use the handy dandy ‘sub’ short cut that Dave demonstrated.
Would be great if I could edit the title - maybe you can, but not found out how yet.
// @andysylvester - because I know you are tracking this stuff.
Jax often tells me that I need hearing aids - but have to say I had NO issue very clearly hearing what Ibtihal Aboussad was saying at the ‘Microsoft 50’ Event. None at all. The fact that people are writing that they had no idea that she was protesting the war in Gaza suggests a few alternatives
- they just weren’t listening because they don’t anyway
- they block out women’s voices
- they block out foreign accents
- they have no idea that ‘something’ is going on in Gaza, so none of it made sense.
- they need hearing aids more than me.
… I’m sure there are some other thoughts and will append and comment if they are suggested.
In a different thread @njr shared 🔗 this to which I responded …
Hats off to the Verge for not editing it out. Unlike pretty much any other media organisation in America would do. In fact is doing.
Beyond that quite a few others have suggested this was absolutely the wrong time and place to make such a protest Like on 🔗 Daring Fireball)
to which I respond;
- If not then - then when?
- If not there - then where?
Somewhere nice and quiet so nobody hears?
Yes it’s hard. Yes it wasn’t appropriate? It never is.
and, when John writes;
there’s a time and a place for everything, and Microsoft’s own 50th anniversary celebration was not the time or place for two insufferable self-involved showboats to make the event about them. Because that’s what this was. It was about them, personally. Not about Gaza or Israel.
going on to say
The place for righteous protests is in public, in the streets - exactly as they are happening across the United States today.
.. the link takes you to a Guardian article about Tariffs - why not something related?
Trust me - there are plenty of demonstrations around the US against what Israel is doing - you just need to have been on the internet in the past couple of years. (Not so much by watching the telly).
But thanks to 🔗Wikipedia the protests are being logged - even if they are being ignored and even campaigned agains t by the usual douches.
Meanwhile a couple o’ bonus links
Gaza, Columbia University, Silencing people - it’s all connected.
🔗📼 Ian Bremner in 3 minutes on the issue
Time to stop - for now. I need an editor!!!
A brand new 🔗🎵 Album Whale List that is three times as large as my 2nd largest list.
Back in January …
🔗🎵Announcing “Life, Death, and Dennis Hopper” from The Waterboys | Sun Records
The announcement wasn’t very clear …
“Life, Death, and Dennis Hopper” releases from The Waterboys on April 4th.
Today is the 4th. Not here. I guess it will be tomorrow - when it is the 4th in America.