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Kicking things off with Lou Donaldson - Alligator Bogaloo🎵 on the air right here, right now ➡️https://MarkMetz.Mixlr.com #Vinyl...

Kicking things off with Lou Donaldson - Alligator Bogaloo

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“The Trump-Putin axis”...

“The Trump-Putin axis” 🤨
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2025/05/29/the-association-of-macron-merz-starmer-and-tusk-signals-a-turning-point-in-support-for-ukraine_6741804_23.html

The Global Foot-Print of Russian Neo-Nazism

The Global Foot-Print of Russian Neo-Nazism

Ugh. This shit is evil. Killed a good friend of mine. I tried it. “Rubber room drug” was my take...

Ugh. This shit is evil. Killed a good friend of mine. I tried it. “Rubber room drug” was my take .

https://alisoncrosthwait.substack.com/p/a-ketamine-addicts-perspective-on

Now for Albert King#Blues🎵 on the air right here, right now ➡️https://MarkMetz.Mixlr.com #Vinyl #Music #History #Analog #CoverArt...

Now for Albert King
#Blues

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Kicking off the groove with a return to the # blues with Howlin’ Wolf… 🎵 on the air right here, right now...

Kicking off the groove with a return to the # blues with Howlin’ Wolf…

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Spinning Records this evening from around 7 to 11 PM PST.

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Kicking off the groove with a return to the # blues with Howlin’ Wolf… 🎵 on the air right here, right now...

Kicking off the groove with a return to the # blues with Howlin’ Wolf…

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I think the term is ouroboros? “But just as important will be the decline in human readers, as web traffic shifts into robot-to-robot...

I think the term is ouroboros?
“But just as important will be the decline in human readers, as web traffic shifts into robot-to-robot conversations.”
https://slate.com/technology/2025/05/ai-chatgpt-controversy-fake-books-chicago-sun-times-philadelphia-inquirer.html

“The broader point I’m trying to make is that neoliberalism is inherently selfish, believing that the free market should reign supreme,...

“The broader point I’m trying to make is that neoliberalism is inherently selfish, believing that the free market should reign supreme, bereft of government intervention, regulation or interference, thinking that somehow these terms will enable "freedom" rather than a kind of market-dominated quasi-dictatorship where our entire lives are dominated by the whims of the affluent, and that there is no institution that can possibly push back against them. “
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

This is so weird … these books sound like the most wack science fiction ever, and these bros are totally influenced in a weird way by...

This is so weird … these books sound like the most wack science fiction ever, and these bros are totally influenced in a weird way by it.

https://www.vox.com/culture/413502/iain-banks-culture-series-elon-musk-jeff-bezos-mark-zuckerberg

“A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.”― Tom Wolfe

“A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.”

― Tom Wolfe

I’m channeling The Dude tonight… I can just imagine what was on his stereo before the nihilists smashed it up.

I’m channeling The Dude tonight…

I can just imagine what was on his stereo before the nihilists smashed it up.

Starting off tonight loud… The Allman Brothers Band 1969🎵 on the air right here, right now ➡️https://MarkMetz.Mixlr.com #Vinyl...

Starting off tonight loud…

The Allman Brothers Band 1969

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The air of desperation infusing the NPR pledge drive this time around is dismal and depressing.

The air of desperation infusing the NPR pledge drive this time around is dismal and depressing.

One of THE most important things, a democracy can do to ensure the well-being of its citizens is to strongly regulate the automotive...

One of THE most important things, a democracy can do to ensure the well-being of its citizens is to strongly regulate the automotive industry.

In the USA, 100 years of backwards thinking on this has led to the most inhospitable car-centric suburban environments imaginable.

A loophole in the fuel economy standards is what made the automakers switch to a truck-and-SUV-first approach some 20 or 30 years ago.

So now it’s an arms race for the top selling vehicles to get bigger and more aggressive looking every year.

Needless to say, this is stupid, ugly, wasteful, and deadly. And, true to form, the automakers are bringing their bigger-is-better ethos to the new EVs.

An 8000 pound (that’s 4 tons or roughly ~3,500 kilos) EV Escalade SUV with 1100 hp that can go from 0 to 60 mph in three seconds is more like a kinetic weapon than a runabout that mom can use to pick up groceries.

When I see cities like Paris making some attempt to make it more difficult for these big American monsters, I cheer them on.

“One day Cunegonde, while walking near the castle, in a little wood which they called a park, saw between the bushes, Dr. Pangloss giving...

“One day Cunegonde, while walking near the castle, in a little wood which they called a park, saw between the bushes, Dr. Pangloss giving a lesson in experimental natural philosophy to her mother’s chamber-maid, a little brown wench, very pretty and very docile. As Miss Cunegonde had a great disposition for the sciences, she breathlessly observed the repeated experiments of which she was a witness; she clearly perceived the force of the Doctor’s reasons, the effects, and the causes; she turned back greatly flurried, quite pensive, and filled with the desire to be learned; dreaming that she might well be a sufficient reason for young Candide, and he for her.”

― Voltaire, Candide

(Punchline Please)“a murderer, a rapist, and a terrorist walk into a bar…”

(Punchline Please)
“a murderer, a rapist, and a terrorist walk into a bar…”

“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone...

“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day.

I told them this story:

In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.”

― Tom Waits

💪“The coalition’s strategy is clear: tighten the economic noose, arm Ukraine to the teeth, and expose Putin’s fragility.The...

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“The coalition’s strategy is clear: tighten the economic noose, arm Ukraine to the teeth, and expose Putin’s fragility.

The chessboard is set, and Europe has moved decisively. Putin’s next move will determine whether he faces checkmate – or oblivion.”
https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/52445?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“Listen guys, it’s fucking great to finally have Trump out of our hair. Now let’s kick Putin‘s ass and get the job done.”

“Listen guys, it’s fucking great to finally have Trump out of our hair. Now let’s kick Putin‘s ass and get the job done.”