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This Doonesbury carton is amazingly on point. Sometimes boomer/gen-x memory comes in handy.https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2025/03/16

This Doonesbury carton is amazingly on point. Sometimes boomer/gen-x memory comes in handy.

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2025/03/16

Daily Wire host Matt Walsh on the poem on the statue of liberty, which he and at least one other right wing radio host are now...

Daily Wire host Matt Walsh on the poem on the statue of liberty, which he and at least one other right wing radio host are now declaiming.

Fair enough motherfucker, but et tu "under god", amirite? Not in the constitution, added later, some poet wrote it, you know? In no way represents any kind of core American value.

What's good for one is good for the other.

I don't know who at the national park service is running their mastodon acct, but i worry about their job.they don't post a lot but...

I don't know who at the national park service is running their mastodon acct, but i worry about their job.

they don't post a lot but over the last few weeks most of them have been gently and subtly subversive of the sexist BS coming out of the WH. There's one in the last 24 hours that is superficially a joke about rangers wearing green every day, not just St. Patricks day. But of the 16 photos, all but two are of female park rangers.

Love it, but scared for someone there.

Feeling uncharacteristically dismal about my adopted country today. And for some reason, the best remedy I can find is to watch a full...

Feeling uncharacteristically dismal about my adopted country today. And for some reason, the best remedy I can find is to watch a full performance of Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians" by Eighth Blackbird at an outdoor venue in Chicago.

At least half of the things I love about the USA are present here. Some of them are not unique to here, but the blend is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXJWO2FQ16c

Good to see the administration locking up the worst of the...

Good to see the administration locking up the worst of the worst:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/10/british-tourist-detained-us-authorities-10-days-visa-issue

I was in Trader Joe's in Santa Fe yesterday, and their in-house music system started playing Iron Butterfly's "In A Gadda Da...

I was in Trader Joe's in Santa Fe yesterday, and their in-house music system started playing Iron Butterfly's "In A Gadda Da Vida".

I expect it was the radio single version, because probably nobody wants a 2-1/2 minute drum solo while shopping.

Well, except me. Perhaps.

#drumsolo #inagaddadavida #ironbutterfly #whileshopping

My wife and her musical partner in Sweet Remedy have just released their first 4-track EP. You can listen to it over on...

My wife and her musical partner in Sweet Remedy have just released their first 4-track EP. You can listen to it over on Bandcamp:

https://sweetremedy.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-remedy

1994: I joined Jeff Bezos and another programmer to start Amazon. I stayed for 14 months until a corporate culture was visible that I...

1994: I joined Jeff Bezos and another programmer to start Amazon. I stayed for 14 months until a corporate culture was visible that I wanted nothing to do with (other reasons too).

1996: after moving to Phila., I started shopping at Whole Foods. I've shopped there almost exclusively for 28 years. I continued shopping there even after Amazon bought the company.

Whole Foods refusal to accept a union election and leveraging Trump's gutting of the NLRB is, I think, the final straw. Bye, WFM.

when considering a potential unemployment offer, it might be helpful to consider the advice of a particular other group of folks who have...

when considering a potential unemployment offer, it might be helpful to consider the advice of a particular other group of folks who have been given the same offer: the LABOR LAWYERS who work at the National Labor Relations Board (NRLB). They have some thoughts!

Hint: do not say yes!

https://bsky.app/profile/nlrbu.bsky.social/post/3lhet3j7bsk2r

"The American Public knows what it wants, and deserves to get it good and hard." (H.L. Mencken)Quotes below about water mgmt in...

"The American Public knows what it wants, and deserves to get it good and hard." (H.L. Mencken)

Quotes below about water mgmt in California from: https://sjvwater.org/trumps-emergency-water-order-responsible-for-water-dump-from-tulare-county-lakes/

tell me more about the equivalence of netflix and spotify

tell me more about the equivalence of netflix and spotify

Just saw "Flow" tonight. An absolute masterpiece of visual storytelling. And, for us FLOSS-y folk, I just read this from the...

Just saw "Flow" tonight. An absolute masterpiece of visual storytelling.

And, for us FLOSS-y folk, I just read this from the director:

"Pretty much the whole film was made in the software called Blender, which is a free, open-source software. It’s something everyone can just download for free and make films."

#blender #flow #floss

I hope that in march, you will double down on that.

I hope that in march, you will double down on that.

One person's reaction to their YT channel featuring performances of epic ancient music hitting 300K subscribers:"They had bagpipes,...

One person's reaction to their YT channel featuring performances of epic ancient music hitting 300K subscribers:

"They had bagpipes, fuck you!

but also:

"Wonders happen when you give audiences a chance - the chance that they are not morons"

Farya Faraji is a global treasure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sid7lNs0CnI

Years (26?) ago I saw Robert Fripp do a Q&A which was the first time I encountered something about my British heritage that I wanted to...

Years (26?) ago I saw Robert Fripp do a Q&A which was the first time I encountered something about my British heritage that I wanted to embrace

Tonight I discovered another example. It's not that Jacob or Chris Martin are new to me, or that this performance could only have happened at the O2 or only in London. It's just that it did happen there, and somehow they and the audience are connected to a single strand of what is good about the UK

Hugs & tears from New Mexico

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwC0Db7oerM

Fascinating article/reminder that there really ARE different ways of doing things“You know the programme is working when the rich are...

Fascinating article/reminder that there really ARE different ways of doing things

“You know the programme is working when the rich are complaining that the poor have a gym and a swimming pool, This is so pioneering, as it is an entirely new political economy where every citizen, no matter how poor, should have access to these services. And it is the first case in 20 or 30 years that Mexico has broken with the neoliberal dogma that there is no money for this."

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/dec/27/mexico-city-utopias-project-mayor

I have never read the book, so I came to it with fresh eyes, but if you're not watching Cien Anos de Soledad (100 Years of Solitude) on...

I have never read the book, so I came to it with fresh eyes, but if you're not watching Cien Anos de Soledad (100 Years of Solitude) on netflix, you're missing on some of the very best visual story telling I've ever seen.

Beautiful. Magical. Mysterious. Occasionally terrifying. Wondrous. This is Literature on the screen.

"There is no need to be afraid of culture, entertainment or freedom of expression, and much less satire or humour. We should be afraid...

"There is no need to be afraid of culture, entertainment or freedom of expression, and much less satire or humour. We should be afraid of ignorance and dogmatism. We should be afraid of war.”

Marisa Paredes, 1926-2024

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/dec/20/marisa-paredes-obituary

1000 years ago, the people who lived at Chaco Canyon and the area around it knew about the 18.6 year lunar cycle, in which the rise/set...

1000 years ago, the people who lived at Chaco Canyon and the area around it knew about the 18.6 year lunar cycle, in which the rise/set position of the moon slowly moves between north and south.

This is a generational project - you need 3+ generations to confirm the pattern, or 56 years of tracking and comparison. Globally, humans might have known this since 2500BC!

Tonight is the END of the lunar cycle - the moon will be at the northern-most position of its cycle - aka the "lunastice".