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The NYC mayor‘s election might be the first big election where Millennials and Gen Zers realize that their broad participation can literally dictate the outcome of elections.

That alone is everything. It’s the way democracy will be reborn.

A t-shirt with a bluebell logo and the text "¡No Pasaran!"

Thank you @weare1of100.bsky.social ! #NoPasaran

This is how I'm going to look every time someone dislikes one of my posts

I remember going with my dad to pick my brother up from a gig in the Belfast Maysfield leisure centre some time probably in mid 80s. Me and my dad walked into the hall at the tail end of the gig just as they sang "And I've even sucked an old man's cock". Forever seared into my young memory.

YouTube video by Dave HJ Blaze Foley - Clay Pigeons, rare Live

Listen to Blaze Foley. It will do you good.

Bob Dylan said Blaze was his favorite songwriter. Townes Van Zandt said Blaze was one of the most spiritual people he ever met. John Prine covered his work. Merle Haggard tracked down every recording he could get. The public has mostly forgotten.

Meteorological I think, weather stations. Or the aliens have (finally) landed.

I see a gravitational lensing happy face. 🙂🧪 🔭

GHOST TOWN is out now..
lankum.ffm.to/ghosttown

..along with a very special video by Leonn Ward shot in the Wicklow mountains.
youtu.be/aLLnF4vxaeY?...

To celebrate the release we have a very limited edition 12” vinyl package, designed by Oscar Torrans with an etching on the..

Another classic Halloween outfit:
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Hate Can Be Defeated The Far Right is vulnerable — here’s why

Some positive signs.

"While all these Far Right authoritarian parties imagine themselves as coldly efficient machines of cruelty and control crushing all before them as they establish their new reich, they’re actually a bunch of bumbling idiots who have to cocoon themselves in fantasies to protect their fragile egos."

Thank you Mark. Hope indeed.

YouTube video by Alasdair Beckett-King Every Haunted House Movie

An old video for the spookiest night of the year: the day Nevada became the 36th state.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIwDqRXec4s

We have new frog pond now too. Was once a flower bed.

And here is the Little Free Library World Map: littlefreelibrary.org/map/

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Halloween 2025 family fun as per the Northumberland Gazette

Number seven either a typo or a reference to what Batman calls the Riddler... 🤷🏻‍♂️

What I always liked about Wikipedia — even more so now — is its absence of an algorithm. If you started off searching for who defeated Bill Clinton in the 1980 Arkansas gubernatorial election (answer at the end), there’s every chance you’ll fall down a rabbit hole and half an hour later you’ve missed your flight but at least you’ve learned everything there is to know about the 1824 Constitution of Mexico. Everywhere else, what we watch is either pre-determined — or highly curated. On YouTube, the world’s largest video-sharing platform, algorithms drive more than 70% of all content consumed. On TikTok, it is the entire model. Whether these systems are simply giving us more of what we want or deliberately nudging us toward extremes, the result is the same: our curiosity is no longer our own. But on Wikipedia, you are in control. The hyperlinks may be vying for your attention, but there is no autoplay widget or blackbox deciding what you’ll see next. To borrow from video game terminology, Wikipedia is open-world, rather than linear. In that sense, it harks back to the messy early days of the internet. Whereas Grokipedia seems to be its modern-day equivalent — an attempt to repackage knowledge inside a single, curated worldview. Wikipedia is not unbiased. It is open source and while, theoretically, anyone can edit it, it is in reality largely maintained by a group of ‘super editors’. But it still provides a refuge from the never-ending conveyor belt of pre-determined short-form videos and AI slop. For that reason, if you have fallen down a Wiki rabbit hole, it is, gloriously, entirely on you.

Wikipedia vs Elon Musk

In a world of algorithms and AI slop, the simple joy of aimlessly wandering through a website of ideas is worth preserving.

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My newsletter, out now.

Recommend we all throw them the price of a coffee.Wikipedia is a jewel.

I note they're still mightily pissed off though.

I’ll just go on record and say I do not judge the monkeys for being angry at human beings when human beings gave them herpes and then also Covid

Wicked evil NATO famously invaded Finland and Sweden only recently after all, and forced them to join.

Sex toys is my least favourite phrase in the entire english language it is so wildly dissonant toys are for children. Sexessories is right there! I really feel Radio 4 can take the lead on this thx

Physical SFX FTW

Artwork by Bob Dylan for the Band's album Music from Big Pink. It depicts 6 musicians playing guitars, piano, drums and double bass.

Drinking in Music from Big Pink this grey Sunday afternoon.

In America it's the 10th of the 27th month, so I understand the confusion.

But America will be ashes, literally or figuratively, in their wake.

Us Vs Them How the Far Right taught good people to hate

There is a cure.

The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324