Allan Phoenix

How Long Can the American Economy Hold? — with Kai Ryssdal by The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway

Fabulous interview with Market Place's Kai Ryssdal.

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NO FINGER HOLES

America, Maybe It’s Time to Try Soccer When the game’s rigged, it’s not baseball anymore

America, Maybe It’s Time to Try Soccer
When the game’s rigged, it’s not baseball anymore
www.brittlestar.com/p/america-ma...

Every object in a vanitas painting has symbolic meaning:

☠️ Skulls: life is fleeting
⏳ Hourglass: time slips away
🕯️ Candle: life can end in a breath
📚 Valuables like books and documents show the emptiness of wealth, knowledge, and power in the face of death

👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20026298

This

Erasing history

I've been messing about with field recordings and have posted a couple on the radio aporee project website, an incredible collection of soundscapes from around the globe. It's an amazing way to travel the world!

aporee.org/maps/?loc=64...

How to read and why I love reading and I love advice about how to read.

I wrote this about how to read and why.

Books remain the best technology ever invented to understand life and the world. There is no alternative.

Every book you read helps you build a richer picture of the entire world.

jmarriott.substack.com/p/how-i-read

A really wonderful show!

In the Shallows First-time NFB collaborator Arash Akhgari crafts a striking visual meditation on the seductive yet overwhelming nature of mass media. Combining handmade sculptural collages with ink and paint animatio...

Very cool NFB of Canada animated short.

www.nfb.ca/film/in-the-...

TALK POLITICS... IT'S THE POLITE THING TO DO

A Spotift playlist I created that just has two songs: If I had a million dollars by the Barenaked Ladies If I had a rocket launcher by Bruce Cockburn

Inside of you are two Canadian classic rock songs

Sounds pretty reasonable...

Stupid is as stupid does.

ICE is picking up roofers in suburban Rochester NY!!

Thank you!!

Sunflower Nebula
#gardenphotography, #monochrome, #blackandwhitephotography, #gardens, #sunflowers, #blackandwhite, #photography

I sincerely hope that single-issue voters in Canada recognize how badly that went down in the States during the last election.

Video: What Trump’s Meeting With Bukele Means President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has found a spot on the global stage by opening the doors of his prison system to President Trump. Zolan Kanno-Youngs, a White House correspondent for The New Yor...

Disheartening.

The Necktie A mixture of puppet and hand-drawn animation, The Necktie is the story of Valentin and his quest to find meaning in his life. Stuck in a dead-end job, …

Tuesday afternoon...

So, what we are seeing is the "Cultural Revolution" American style?

FUR AND INTERFERENCE AND MISINFORMATION

“Oh, Sorry, I'm Actually Canadian": The Case for a New, Unified Canadian Accent
www.brittlestar.com/p/oh-sorry-i...

Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind’s *Katzensymphonie* (1868) Sheet music whose notes have been replaced by rambunctious cats.

A brief diversion from the news feed.

“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.”
— Karl Marx

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

What would it take for America to ditch the two party system and actually become a democracy?