He missed? Seriously? One job. That was it.
On the flip side I have lost count of the movies and shows that I have started and stopped this past week. Have I seen them all?
Been listening on and off for a couple of days to Preet talking to Ian Bremmer. Solid.
So wish I was going to be there.
📸 🌊 Quite a few boats in the bay this morning, though funny to see them all huddled together in this corner, they usually spread all over.
There are 56 in the series .. I just counted. There only going to be two more and then the unplanned series that you probably thought was never going to end .. well, it is ending.
🖇️ For posterity - because the photo gallery will get redefined soon.
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It all starts at 🖇️ john.philpin.com - which reposts to
🔗 Threads and 🔗 Bluesky and 🔗 Mastodon
Seperately my blog on john.philpin.com is revealed as @me@john.philpin.com on Mastodon - which is also followable - so of course i follow it with my (real) Masto account.
So if i post on Masto with my ‘real’ Masto - my blog’s Masto can see it and so those posts can manually find their way back to the blog …
I can also post a message on Threads and Bluesky BUT those messages would stay in their respective domains … until today.
I just enabled Fediverse sharing on Threads - so now if I post to my blog, like always it gets pushed to Threads - which is now visible on the Fediverse - so I can follow myself with my Threads account on Masto - and I presume vice versa.
I am writing this to get my head straight.
So far - BlueSky is only federated via Bridgy which I am not going to use because there is enough to do now in working out what goes where, why and how on my accounts - and do not get me started on the new accounts I am setting up for The Future Found - where I have already enable the Threads account for Fedi access.
I mean, you’re either ‘all in’ or why bother. Right?
A. There is a lot wrong with that last sentence!
I think Phil Schiller just beat out the lettuce that was the UK’s Prime Minister.
🔗 Margaret Sullivan on how the media normalizes Trump .. article by Aaron Rupar - just reiterating my comment over on Substack …
We need more Margarets.
Many of Trump’s most ardent fans and foes alike believe he is the leader of a political movement with a clear and defined set of principles and goals. They disagree only on whether that agenda is good or bad.
💬 Jonah Goldberg
Funny what you find as you walk …
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🎵 Nothing Absent At The Supermarket
Twenty Two Years Ago - give or take - my friend Bob told me to take a listen to an album he has just found called ‘In Abstentia’. Still at the top of my memory banks sees me sitting beside him at the back of some grey boring conference room in Sunnyvale listening to somebody droning on as he silently passed me his wired ear buds connected to his new iPod and watched me have my mind blown as I listened to …
🔗🎵 Blackest Eyes - Song by Porcupine Tree - Apple Music
He dropped me the MP3s that evening - and in turn they got moved to my iPod for my listening pleasure. That weekend I was up in San Francisco and did a detour to this store.
Yes ‘that’ specific one - it had served me well thought the 90s and though Amazon was beginning to creep into my world - Tower still held a special place for me - particularly for special music.
… and the rest is history - I have heard it all (ok - not ‘all’ - the dude is prolific), but I do have over FIFTY of his albums in CD format and seen him live in different formats maybe eight times across two continents.
All this as a backdrop to this morning’s trip to the Supermarket.
.. and to say that if anyone spotted me this morning in the Supermarket - smiling, taking my head, bouncing even … this is why. (Jax believes Wilson’s music is sad and makes her sad.) Me? Yes it is sad - but I am with Wilson on this
“I don’t tend to write songs about things that make me happy. I tend to write songs about things that make me angry or melancholic or sad. Those are the things that make me want to express or exercise something through my songwriting. There’s a lot of beauty to be found in sadness and melancholia."
💬 Steven Wilson
In no particular order - other than this is the order the tracks got played .. and Yes … Apple Music - because why wouldn’t you?
🔗🎵 The Watchmaker - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
🔗🎵 Pariah (feat. Ninet Tayeb) - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
🔗🎵 Permanating (Ewan Pearson Mix) - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
🔗🎵 Trains - Song by Porcupine Tree - Apple Music
🔗🎵 Sectarian - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
🔗🎵 Four Chords That Made a Million - Song by Porcupine Tree - Apple Music
🔗🎵 Like Dust I Have Cleared from My Eye - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
🔗🎵 The Raven That Refused to Sing - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
🔗🎵 Grace for Drowning - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
🔗🎵 Index - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
Belle De Jour - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
🔗🎵 Postcard - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
🔗🎵 PERSONAL SHOPPER - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music - featuring Elton John on ‘Shopping List’.
🔗🎵 Luminol - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
🔗🎵 Deform to Form a Star - Song by Steven Wilson - Apple Music
And kind of related to 🖇️ that (the previous post) - but this is ‘Ted’.
Heard on a show last night ….
The myth of California right? You are who you say you are.
Another step backwards? I was wondering why Apple Books highlights weren’t synching with Readwise .. turns out a change in the system .. and it now requires me to share the highlights I want to share with Readwise individually. Pretty sure that this is not a Readwise decision.
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