🎥 The Wild Robot, 2024 - ★★★★

Home alone and had heard good things. Just lovely. Just wonderful. And yes, I cried.


🎥 The Wild Robot, 2024 - ★★★★

Home alone and had heard good things. Just lovely. Just wonderful. And yes, I cried.


What Brad said - but until you have heard this cover - you haven’t heard Creep 🤯🎵 by @bradbarrish

I’ve heard “Creep” too many times, but seeing Erin Morton perform it gave me chills and made me cry. Just wow.

 


I just recorded a 1300 day streak on Readwise. Hard to believe it has been that long!


The ‘TikTokTinCan’ Rolls Again


I wonder how much of the stage you could see .. let alone Gaga .. if you were the last to arrive and you had 2.5 million people in front of you?


Losing an election is one thing. Party leader losing their seat? That’s next level. Congrats, Australia and Canada.

Dear Winston & David: some thing to ponder. Enjoy the wave ripple while it lasts … because the guy in the White House? He’s only getting worse, and it’s all downhill from here.


Preet talking to Ian Bremmer .. sensible talk.

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Christopher Lydon … Tяump a real life Great Gatsby 100 years later❓

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I just found this in my notes with no attribution - but looks like 🔗 Semaphor

South Africa is among the nations that have sought counsel from Goldman Sachs on how to improve ties with Washington. According to The Wall Street Journal, the bank advised Pretoria — which has been in the White House’s crosshairs for months over its close ties to Russia and its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice — to scrap a law that requires Black ownership of some businesses as a way to get into the Trump administration’s good graces. It also recommended Pretoria walk back a land-seizure law that angered Elon Musk, who claimed it discriminated against White farmers. Japan and Saudi Arabia have also consulted with the Wall Street giant.


Mac File-Finding Gems from 🔗 Brett Terpstrabrett.trpstra.net/link/535/…) - I particulalry liked the look of auto tagging in HoudahSpot.


About Isaac Asimov

Prompted by a William Gallagher post, A short take on Asimov, memory, and how storytelling evolves. “it’s not the colour of the pill, but the effect”. … A reflection on reading, writing, and what still holds up.


🔗 What Civilization Can Learn from Pizza - posted this earlier on - because i do like Gaping Void - but this one …

… stands to be corrected.

Here’s the thing. Communication is

“the imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium.”

or even

“means of sending or receiving information, such as phone lines or computers.”

**Might I suggest a third panel **

I am not an artist and… john.philpin.com/2025/05/0…


🔗 What Civilization Can Learn from Pizza - posted this earlier on - because i do like Gaping Void - but this one …

… stands to be corrected.

Here’s the thing. Communication is

“the imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium.”

or even

“means of sending or receiving information, such as phone lines or computers.”

**Might I suggest a third panel **

I am not an artist and… john.philpin.com/2025/05/0…


🔗 What Civilization Can Learn from Pizza - posted this earlier on - because i do like Gaping Void - but this one …

… stands to be corrected.

Here’s the thing. Communication is

the imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing, or using some other medium.

or even

means of sending or receiving information, such as phone lines or computers.

**Might I suggest a third panel **

I am not an artist and I now there will be ways to build tiny little arrows to and from the people at the bottom - just imagine it - or take me up on the offer!


Too funny