Anyone successfully — or not — following Threads or BlueSky in Microblog?
📸 A couple o' friends hanging at the bus stop.
Just listened to Gilbert’s 2024 release - he’s 78 for goodness sake. Not bad - but the classics are definitely not improved .. like the original 🔗 🎵 Nothing Rhymed .. always a place in my heart for this one. (I always liked his singles - but it was my sister that introduced me to the albums (my natural musical habitat.)
We Don't Need No Edukashun - Actually - We Do.
A Posterity Post
I had cause to add a comment on a post that featured this image.
It is funny - but I think it is funny for all the reasons that the commenters were not seeing ….
A university is to educate .. not train. If you are wondering about the difference, ask yourself if you prefer your children to attend sex education classes or sex training classes.
Sadly most institutions have moved to thinking of themselves as trainers .. so they are ‘workplace ready’. Witness a presentation I sat in just last week where someone from an educational facility was telling us how they are currently revamping their syllabus so that their students could learn how best to work with Ai (sic) … see Stephen Fry’s latest missive.
I stood up and asked her which University she thought the people making Ai had taught them what they know.
(Apparently .. that’s different).
As for philosophy .. oh and let’s throw in ethics, humanities, liberal arts, critical thinking, hell, even english .. are (should be) all on the rise in education, because it is very clear that we need them …badly.
I get the picture .. funny.
But the humor doesn’t lie in the kid having it wrong and dreaming what might be .. it’s in the dad having it wrong and thinking the future is anything like the past.
Just for kicks I signed up for a month of 🥐 🔗 ..
A buttery smooth app for cross posting to Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads.
Big benefit for me is that I can add multiple accounts for the same service - useful as we start to push out The Future Found
AND
When I send I can choose which accounts it sends to.
Next job (request?) - as I publish to MicroBlog or LinkedIn or Facebook or …. have that post appear in Croissant ready for me to decide where I want to cross post. #Maybe.
It’s a pretty low bar …
So having a hard time connecting Threads to Micro.Blog.. meanwhile BlueSky connected - no problem .. but I can’t find the account to follow on Micro.Blog …
So far Mighty Masto is the only one doing both .. connect AND follow ..
Anyone else with similar challenges!
And once more from a different place.
🪦 Farewell Kris - taking your own last ride - but nothing like Casey’s.
Published in 1992
Hope this gets fixed before the season starts …
🔗 Daring Fireball: ‘Meta and Apple: Same Game, Different Rules’
Not even sure it is the same game.
Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more.
💬 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
He means all of us - different times - BUT - maybe it is more applicable to men? What say you?
You might not recognize the words - 🔗🎵 but you will certainly recognize the song. Superb re-imagination.
How did i get here?
Sitting on this spinning sphere
When will I leave here
We know death is always near
I try to understand but answers don’t come easily
Friends always deceiving me
Is this what life’s supposed to be?
Human animals
We roam the earth in search of blood
Hope for humanity?
I don’t think there ever was
We’re in perpetual war, and that’s the only law
Can I change it? I doubt it
So I write songs about it
I was young once but now I’ve grown old
Right in front of your еyes you’ve seen my life unfold
I had no choicе as I became the underdog’s voice
A young black kid… look what the fuck I did!
When I’m gone there’ll be someone to carry on
We can give in, give up, or we can stay strong
How accepting of the bullshit we’ve all become
This whole world is… comfortably numb
Hello… is anybody out there?
Can anybody hear me?
Hello… is anybody out there?
Can anybody hear me?
You’ve got a TV, a computer, so you don’t care
A roof, some clothes, some food
That’s right, it’s all there
Lock yourself in your house, try to forget about
The millions dyin' from wars, starvation and drought
You’ve got your own problems - yes, we all do
Nobody is free from stress, not him, or me, or you
But still we judge each other, we want to pick a fight
In the streets we kill each other, each and every weeknight
I don’t want no drama but I carry a gun
I don’t want no problems but they’ll probably come
So we get high to wash away the pain
Self-medication, but that shit is all done in vain
We think that we can hide away from the misery
You can close your eyes but still can plainly see
There’s nowhere to run…
You’re just comfortably numb
Hello… is anybody out there?
Can anybody hear me?
Hello… is anybody out there?
Can anybody hear me?
I spent half my life just trying to survive
And the other half trying to keep you all alive
For some reason I still care
I’ve done my dirt
It’s amazing that i’m still here
There’s true evil out there, I’ve been trying to warn you
You could meet the devil himself, then what you gonna do?
No time to pray, no chance to run
Listen… ‘cause I’ve been on both sides of the gun
As you stand before me we’re all here as one
We gotta come together or our chances are none
Maybe I’m just a dreamer, too many obstacles
The though of humans coexisting, that’s impossible
Better to stay numb, live in denial
We’re all going to hell and we did it to ourselves
Too much religious beef, too much racist shit
And if there is a God we probably make him sick
Hello… is anybody out there?
Can anybody hear me?
Hello… is anybody out there?
Can anybody hear me?
🎥 The Instigators, 2024 ★★
Average score for an average movie. Casey? Never been overly bothered, but Matt is capable of so much more.
The Instigators, 2024 ★★★
Average score for an average movie. Casey? Never been overly bothered, but Matt is capable of so much more.
🎥 Wolfs, 2024 - ★★★★
Wolfs … not Wolves. Not sure why. Need to look it up. Other than that .. all good. They have a good relationship IRL … it comes through in the movie.
Wolfs, 2024 - ★★★★ (contains spoilers)
This review may contain spoilers.
Wolfs … not Wolves. Not sure why. Need to look it up. Other than that .. all good. They have a good relationship IRL … it comes through in the movie.