🔗 WWW
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.
🔗Spill - another one.
🔗 How Canada Saved My Life (And Why It Still Matters) - Umair Haque
🔗 Australian minister calls Donald Trump Jr a ‘big baby’ over canceled tour.
Turns out he did have a visa.
Turns out people just didn’t want to listen to him.
Just one question … Can we cancel him here aswell?
Ok …2 questions … When is he being arrested?
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.
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
🔗 Is North Carolina Going to Become Like Ron DeSantis’s Florida?
… certainly seems to be 🖇️ heading that way.
🔗 They Lied About Afghanistan. They Lied About Iraq. And They Are Lying About Ukraine.
Wasn’t the Russian military — because of poor morale, poor generalship, outdated weapons, desertions, a lack of ammunition that supposedly forced soldiers to fight with shovels, and severe supply shortages — supposed to collapse months ago? Wasn’t Putin supposed to be driven from power? Weren’t the sanctions supposed to plunge the ruble into a death spiral? Wasn’t the severing of the Russian banking system from SWIFT, the international money transfer system, supposed to cripple the Russian economy.
💬 Chris Hedges
Somewhere on this blog there is a link that connects to this.
If you think your HOA is overly prescriptive, if not downright authoritarian, try this on for size.
🔗 The housing community that will require ‘patriots’ to fly the US flag.
🔗 Will El Niño on top of global heating create the perfect climate storm?
… who knows … but it sure doesn’t look good.
🔗 Get it, got it, good. … Gallagher reminding us that brevity is the soul of wit.
🔗 Jack Dorsey Says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ‘Can and Will’ Win Presidential Election., or to put another way ‘one nut job says another nut job can and will win Presidential election’.
“Kennedy is also a strong proponent of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency for which Dorsey has long been an evangelist.”
…aaahhh …
THAT explains it.
🔗 Delaware House OKs Measure Allowing Big Corporations to Vote in Local Elections.
… because you know - corporations are people too.