Much obliged!

That felt good! Thanks!!

Picked a really bad and very inconvenient day to get a stomach bug! 😞

Thank you to all the PATRIOTS who will be making their voices heard on the streets of our country today. WE are America, not them!
#NoKings #NoKingsDay #SayNoToFascism

Spotify to Continue Running ICE Recruitment Ads as Boycotts Grow Spotify has no plans to pull the DHS's ICE recruitment ads from their platform, even as some on social media call for boycotts.

Is Spotify TRYING to make themselves the most unliked company in the world? I know that Amazon and Apple are no better but my God, this might be the final straw for me.
#FuckSpotify #FuckICE

Pope Leo Declares Whose Side He’s On—and It’s Not JD Vance’s Leo XIV’s first apostolic exhortation focuses on loving the poor. Conservative American Catholics are sure to lose their minds over it.

His apostolic exhortation is worth reading. Is this guy perfect? No. But is he a whole lot better than a lot of the options the Catholic Bishops had. Absolutely!

Of course he's not going to call them out. This is the GOP base.

There's not much good news about these days, and the mainstream media has been mostly useless since 1/20, but this is deserving of all the praise it's getting. Good for all of these reporters!

Remember when President Kamala Harris gave $40 billion to Argentina to attempt to influence their elections, and invaded a few Republican leaning cities with the National Guard, the Army and ICE, while decimating the Fed Govt, science, and public health.

Correct, it wouldn't have happened!

Leaked Young Republican chats include hundreds of racist, homophobic slurs According to a Politico investigation, Young Republican leaders from around the country sent startlingly racist, even pro-Hitler, messages.

More in the "in other news, water is wet" category! Color me shocked in no way shape or form!

#BidenPeaceDeal

If anyone thinks that DJT/Netanyahu are actually going to bring peace I've got proverbial bridge to sell you. Two sociopathic lunatics, one of whom is also hardened Zionist, are NOT interested in peace. Glad that nobody is being killed for a few days, sorry to be a cynic but no way this holds!

My memory is that MAGA's ignored first No Kings Day, probably because focus on their big bday parade for him (that was a total bust). No Kings Day was a massive success. Suddenly they're all trying to denigrate the 2nd No Kings Day. They're scared don't forget that and they know they're losing!

The Director A Late Show with Stephen Colbert Book Club Pick “Nothing short of brilliant.” —The Wall Street Journal From “a surpassingly gifted storyteller” (...

Absolutely stunning book, crushingly relevant!

I can't share it because it's on that other site and I won't screenshot it because I can't have his face in my feed, but #TimeMagazine post on the Nobel today is amazing!

Thank you #NobelPeacePrize committee for a) giving the 2025 award to a totally deserving and inspiring individual and for b) not giving it to him!

HE'S THE WORST LEADER IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. AND YES I'M WELL AWARE OF WHO THAT MEANS WEREN'T AS BAD AS HE IS NOW, AND I'D STAND BY THAT STATEMENT.

Thank you @ngage.bsky.social sometimes you don't need 500 or 1000 words!

Pretty sure Sam Altman is the Anti-Christ!

In other news "water is wet!"

My oh my who could've predicted this? Oh wait, most of us! #AIisadisease

But I thought the great leaders of the US and Israel had negotiated a peace deal? Cheeto Mussolini was getting the Nobel for it? Benny N. had brought peace to the Middle East?

Yes, this is sarcasm. Neither one of these men has any interest in peace in the Middle East.

we tried to warn you/we told you this would happen Listen to we tried to warn you/we told you this would happen by Anhnch #np on #SoundCloud

The message from those of us who knew:

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

Because we can never have enough advice on how to NOT have AI tools on our devices. My old ass phone and laptop don't seem to have most of these so this is probably only for newer devices but still worth a read to make sure you're doing all you can to protect yourself from this vile technology!

House of Guinness | Official Trailer | Netflix Trouble is brewing in the House of Guinness. Who will keep their head? A new series from the creator of Peaky Blinders, arriving on Netflix September 25th. Watch House of Guinness, only on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81664250 About Netflix: Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time. House of Guinness | Official Trailer | Netflix https://www.youtube.com/@Netflix Dublin, 1868. The Guinness family patriarch is dead, and his four children — each with dark secrets to hide — hold the brewery's fate in their hands.

I thoroughly enjoyed this. Same guy who did 'Peaky Blinders.'

Gotta say I watched this like 10x. Gets funnier every time you watch it! I wouldn't piss on her if she was on fire as the old saying goes, but this is hilarious!

Talking With Jonathan Cohn The coming premium apocalypse, the shutdown, and more

If you want to read or listen to 2 really smart people talking about the shutdown and the coming "premium apocalypse" you won't do much better than this:

Another Bandcamp label find! It's also Bandcamp Friday so spend some $$ on struggling musicians!

Second Substack of the week:

Note that it's @bandcamp.com Friday, so support independent music and buy some music!

dementia-riddled, psychopathic, sociopathic megalomaniac Listen to dementia-riddled, psychopathic, sociopathic megalomaniac by Anhnch #np on #SoundCloud

It's hard to make an eloquent point with instrumental electronic music, so you have to rely on the title to really drive the point home. I think I summed it up quite well with this one:

Your Face Belongs to Us by Kashmir Hill: 9780593448571 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforcement, billionaires, and businesses, threatening to end privacy as we know it “The dystopian...

I just finished reading @kashhill.bsky.social 'Your Face Belongs to Us' and it's absolutely fucking tremendous and fucking terrifying in equal measure. If you care about privacy and technology it's a must read. Here's the link which has blurbs that more eloquently praise it than I'll be able to!

‘Congress members get paid, janitors don’t’ in US shutdown: Fact check US podcast host and former presidential assistant Dan Koh made this claim – but is it true?

Pretty common knowledge but never not worth sharing. Elected officials who shut down govt continue to get their salaries, fed workers do not. Absolute height of hypocrisy and disconnection from reality, they face no consequences for their actions.

Also totally Republicans fault they own this!

So I've read 'Audition' and 'Flashlight.' Both were phenomenal but I think if forced to answer I'll go with 'Audition' by a hair!!