Francesco Conti

YouTube video by Street Symphony The Street Symphony origin story - Full Interview

“I had gifts that came from my darkness”
#streetsymphony
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Missed out on the best #eggnog in the market the past couple of Christmas, so I had to make sure I got a couple of bottles for myself!

A ‘Second Tree of Life’ Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn (Gift Article) Research on so-called mirror cells, which defy fundamental properties of living organisms, should be prohibited as too dangerous, biologists said.

Artificially created microbe that could cause an unstoppable pandemic - what could go wrong?! 🤦🏻
#pandemic
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When I read things like this, part of me wants to be hopeful, but then my cynical side chimes in, “until we find more useless ways to dump energy recklessly, like with #AI”

Agreed.
The American empire does not have more than another ~50 years of supremacy left.

Thanks to income inequality, low educational standards and the rise of Christian Nationalism - we are becoming a less-perfect union, which is of our own creation.

Anyone hear about this artificial hiking of oil prices in 2021 that accounted for 27% of the inflation that year?
#corporategreed

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Life isn’t just about paying bills and clocking out. You were born to create, connect, and thrive. Explore what sparks your passion, nurture your purpose, and lean into what makes you feel alive. Your soul wasn’t made for autopilot—embrace the journey and make it extraordinary.

#newnormal #markofthetimes

Supreme Court 18-year term limit bill should be just the beginning:

— 13 justices
— 7 clerks per justice
— single 18-year term
— binding code of ethics with punishments all the way up to impeachment
— full investigation of corrupt gifts to Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, et al.

…When your eyes finally
adjust to the darkness,

There’s nothing left
to be afraid of…

1984: The Year Pop Stardom Got Supersized In a peak moment of pop monoculture, synthesizers pumped up songs and MTV forever changed how artists were seen. Here’s how — and why.

Every day I give thanks to the universe that I came of age in the 1980s.

this hush
becomes a blanket

#7syllableswntence #hush

Rest in power Nikki Giovanni, a revolutionary poet and icon who always stood for what’s right.

Two 26-Year-Olds: One Killed a Homeless Man, Another is Suspected of Killing a Healthcare CEO Daniel Penny is free after killing a man victim to the system. What of Luigi Mangione, who is suspected of killing a man symbolic of it?

"Two 26-Year-Olds: One Killed a Homeless Man, Another is Suspected of Killing a Healthcare CEO"

@premthakker.bsky.social on the Daniel Penny and Luigi Mangione stories and "the weight of contradiction".

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Guns are the leading cause of death of children and teens in the United States.

I wish the establishment cared as much about their lives as they do CEOs.

This year taught me to stop postponing joy. If you get the chance to enjoy something, take it.

YouTube video by Veritasium 12,419 Days Of Strandbeest Evolution

I’ve always been fascinated by these ‘creatures’.
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They got you fighting a culture war to stop you fighting a class war.

Thinking about this quote a lot recently.

Kids, listen to your elders. 😏
#STFU
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Gorgeous photos of Jupiter
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Not sure how I feel about listening to a #BBC news announcer, speaking in perfect British English signing off with ‘bye-bye’.

Our death is an invaluable ongoing contemplation to have.

a small flowering plant growing out of a decomposing fox skull

From my decomposed body, the flowers will grow and I will be in them. That is eternity.

- Edvard Munch

#consciousness #nature

What happened to #draintheswamp in the run up to #Trump v.2.0?
Oh yeah, hypocrisy is a now a political virtue.

What Banksy says…

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

A father trying to keep his son out of trouble from being guilty due lying about his drug use, is not equivalent to pardoning a mob that did your bidding to break the law in order to destroy democracy.
#HunterBidenpardon

Widespread fraud is incredibly difficult to do in the USA because elections are so hyper-locally focused, with observers from both parties at all polling centers.

But voter suppression through purging of voter databases and ridiculous ‘proof of citizenship’ laws is a real problem.