johnraff

The site search function seems to be broken right now. It worked fine yesterday.

I posted it elsewhere, but today just discovered this guy in Thailand who writes about music:
search.bangkokpost.com/search/resul...

Lots of YouTube search fodder there!

It's a pretty good take IMO, but also agree with your comments.

BTW are Americans aware of how much the UC is involved with US conservative politics? And the economy, eg frozen seafood?

This article was where I found Rasmee Isan Soul:

www.bangkokpost.com/life/social-...

Find more music to check out from John Clewley's articles in the Bangkok Post. It all looks super-interesting:

search.bangkokpost.com/search/resul...

YouTube video by Rasmee Isan Soul Rasmee Isan Soul - มายา (Maya)-Rasmee Isan Soul EP【LIVE OFFICIAL MV】

I love SE #asianmusic, and a 1989 article that fell out of an old book led me to John Clewley, from there to Rasmee Isan Soul and this wonderful track:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q6Q...

Thanks!

YouTube video by RetireJapan – Personal Finance in Japan Is it easy to naturalise in Japan and become a citizen?

Bookmarking this one too:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny41...

Really good! And that Radio Martika channel seems to have some other nice things...

Sorry, American friends, but I have to agree.

...with purple hair. OK.

Do you have a link to this video? There's nothing I can find on Dogen's bluesky page.

What? A good side to AI?

Supreme Court justices sharply question Trump tariffs in hearing If the court rules against Trump's tariffs, it could force the US to refund some of the billions it has collected.

Supreme Court justices sharply question Trump tariffs in hearing www.bbc.com/news/article...

Are you talking about men or women here? And I'm not 100% sure about the "ultra-conservative", though how that applies to athletics...

(sick)

Maybe they think that purple looks cool? Jet-black-dyed grey hair looks a bit gross, and a lot of people with grey hair go for a vague tint instead.

> The rules are vague, the enforcement arbitrary, and the goal unmistakable: fear. Platforms now scramble to delete anything that might be interpreted as “gloomy.” Influencers second-guess every word.

"And with a nation full of Charlie Kirk acolytes looking to take their anger out on anyone who doesn’t treat him like a minor deity, there will be more of this in the future."

They'll claw your face off. Literally.

Sorry, I never liked rap.

#londonmetropolitanpolice #CrownProsecutionService Elon Musk’s post urging “the English to ally with hard men like Tommy Robinson and fight for their survival” appears to constitute incitement to violence and racial hatred under the Public Order Act 1986 and Serious Crime Act 2007. Please review.

Tennessee man has charges are dropped over Trump meme relating to Charlie Kirk vigil Charges have been dropped against a Tennessee man who has been behind bars for more than a month after posting a meme featuring Donald Trump in a group setup as a memorial for slain right-wing activis...

"Due to being imprisoned for more than a month, Bushart reportedly lost his job in medical transport."

Tennessee man spends a month in jail before charges are dropped over Trump meme posted in Facebook group for Charlie Kirk vigil www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Stephen Nagy again! He used to be a bit better than this.

Jinsei wa ichigo ichie.
Sake wa ichie ichigo.

I walked from Tsumago to Magome ~40 yrs ago and *loved* it. It'd be selfish not to want to share that with others. Like everywhere Japan has its problems, but it's not a bad place to live, at all.

Watch out for the bears though.

Reagan and Trump both increased the national debt, both cut social schemes, both reacted badly to a global pandemic. Reagan was too religious, Trump pretends. Reagan waged a pointless racist war on drugs, Trump pretends to have a war on drugs and is murdering people. Both became demented.

JCP sticking up for foreign residents of Japan

Heat from climate crisis now killing one person every minute, global report reveals A comprehensive report reveals that climate change is now killing one person per minute worldwide, with fossil fuel addiction causing toxic air pollution and spreading diseases.

#climatechange
"The destruction to lives and livelihoods will continue to escalate until we end our fossil fuel addiction”.
in-cyprus.philenews.com/internationa...

Good grief, it looks as if your "always understood" is correct, and mine has always been wrong.

I just did a web search. "rassemble" might make more sense, but it doesn't appear anywhere.

This new malware attack just wont go away It's responsible for more attacks than ever, and shows no sign of slowing down.

"When you paste and press Enter, you’ve just executed whatever the attacker put on your clipboard—often a PowerShell or shell command that downloads and runs additional malware": This new malware attack just wont go away