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Is George Galloway in the room with us right now?

This is exactly the wrong response from him. Greens won with legitimate support for their policies plus a boatload of lifelong Labour voters who are infuriated with Starmer's stodge, racism, and pandering to Reform and Tory voters.

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L.A. Taco (lataco.bsky.social) has been doing great work on more than tacos - they have been doing intense, detailed coverage of the ICE crisis in Southern California. I don't live in L.A. but I support them.

Shout out to the person or persons who chalked the sidewalk outside the Gates Foundation building with the message "Bill Gates flew on Epstein's plane 34 times" last summer. They wrote it 34 times. That's when I first heard about it.

Get stuffed, old man, you shouldn't be agreeing with Trump on ANYTHING, and this grotesque nitwit is not qualified to wash dishes, let alone be the top medical officer in the USA.

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

tcpipeline.org

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten

1/n

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Gawd, that is a great book. Mike Davis is unparalleled.

The Lucksmiths, Naturaliste. Highlight "Stayaway Stars".

LP cover. An extreme closeup (seriously, almost twice life size) of a Black man (Ivory) in right profile, with a cigarette dangling from his lips, a trail of smoke climbing up his face. He has a pencil mustache and his eyes are cast downwards, possibly looking at his organ out of shot. He appears to be sweating even though he is impossibly cool.

#jazzsky #soul-jazz Jackie Ivory, Soul Discovery, Atco, 1965.

Ivory, org; Paul Renfro, ts; Bill Nicks, d.

Recorded in Chicago; liner notes by E. Rodney "Made [sic, it's Mad] Lad" Jones of WVON, a pretty interesting character in his own right, google him.

LP cover. Blue tinted black and white photo of a Black man (Dukes) playing his drums. His right cuff and drumstick are blurred from motion. Dukes's head is turned to his right, and he has a big smile on his face. He is wearing a skullcap, a black coat, white shirt open two buttons down, and some sort of poofy sleeves. Hi-hat, ride cymbal, snare and tom are visible. The photo is very dark, causing the motion blur because the exposure is a little long, which gives the photo energy.

#jazzsky #soul-jazz The Soulful Drums of Joe Dukes with the Brother Jack McDuff Quartet, Prestige, 1964.

McDuff, org; Red Holloway, ts; George Benson, g; Joe Dukes, d.-

An illustration of a stylized plate of peas and rice on a yellow plate on a red and white checkered tablecloth. The peas are green, which I think may be a mistake, since the classic peas 'n' rice dish is black-eyed peas, which are tan and brown and partly mushed together. The lettering for the artist and title is in black and is cut out of black construction paper, I'm pretty sure. A terrific cover for a fun record.

#jazzsky #soul-jazz Freddie McCoy, Peas 'n' Rice, Prestige, 1967.

McCoy, vib; Joanne Brackeen, p org; Eustic Guillemet, b; Kalil Madhi, Ray Lucas, or Rudy Lawless, d; Edward David Williams & Wilber "Dud" Bascomb, t; Wally Richardson, g; Charles Williams, p and Steve Davis, b on one track. Party!

LP cover. An illustration of a market street, with a row of old buildings and a gaslamp, in gold ink on a black background. Not sure where it's supposed to be--New Orleans? Memphis? Columbus, OH, where Marr is from? Cincinnati, where King Records is from? Dunno. Cool cover though.

#jazzsky #soul-jazz Hank Marr, Sounds from the MARR-Ket Place, King, 1968.

Hank Marr, org; James Blood Ulmer, g; Rusty Bryant, ts.

From church we go to the marketplace.... I've had this record for many years but had no idea until now that the guitar was Ulmer until now.

LP cover. A Black man (Ammons) holding a sax while smoking a cigarette. He's looking down, with a pensive look on his face; his white shirt is open at the collar, and his suit jacket is black. No tie; the black ribbon is a neck strap for his instrument.

#jazzsky #soul-jazz #gospel Gene Ammons, Preachin', Prestige, 1963.

Ammons, ts; unnamed organ, bass and drum accompaniment.

Starting off Soul-Jazz Wednesday with some hymns by Ammons.

I didn't watch the speech, did he talk about raping 14-year-olds at all?

Sunderland were down for a decade, and fell as far as League One.

Kick him out of the Harvard Club too.

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

The US Justice Department withheld testimony that Donald Trump sexually abused a girl when she was 13 or 14 - according to a source who viewed unredacted Epstein files.

This is the worst scandal in US history and should be the biggest news story on the planet right now.

www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

A dead rat on paving stones.

I got it to work by rotating the other way around.

Ben Ryan sounds like a big old piss baby to me

OLYMPIA — An advocacy group is accusing unknown actors of orchestrating widespread fraud in the Legislature’s official public comment system, alleging that tens of thousands of sign-ins opposing the “millionaires tax” proposal include mass duplicate entries and more than 100 confirmed impersonations — including a former member of Congress and a sitting state senator. At what organizers called an emergency virtual news conference Monday, Invest In Washington Now said it has asked Attorney General Nick Brown and House Chief Clerk Bernard Dean to investigate what they described as “illegal tampering, fraud and impersonation” intended to artificially inflate opposition to the high-profile tax proposal.

OLYMPIA — An advocacy group is accusing unknown actors of orchestrating widespread fraud in the Legislature’s official public comment system, alleging that tens of thousands of sign-ins opposing the “millionaires tax” proposal include mass duplicate entries and more than 100 confirmed impersonations

I'm trying to imagine AOC waving a powered up five-foot chainsaw around. How would that go over?

Photo, faces obscured, of two very earnest babies hard at work "shoveling" my older sister's driveway. The teeny weeny 3 year old in the front is just a lil purple coated marshmallow holding an extremely small lil red pail and tiny yellow lil scoop (shovel seems like too big a word), picking up a dollop of snow

My older sister said her two young children wanted to help clear the snow off the driveway

Please peep how the 8-year-old has a shovel and the three year old has a tiny bucket and one of those lil baby shovels for the beach lmao

It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.

The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.

fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”

www.404media.co/meta-directo...

If you watch Dancingbacons on YouTube as they go to 7-11s across Asia, you realize how little of their snack foods make it to the US, even at H-Mart, 99 Ranch, Asian Family Market, Uwajimaya, etc.

Gross.

Schumer and Jeffries are working on a bill to provide them with slightly better pillows, I assume.