Cassandro Jones

cheapest, easiest, fastest way to get Creative Fun, imnho???

The broke, beleaguered, on the move and enlisted have turned to harmonicas for comfort since Lincoln or so. I've tried almost a dozen instruments & stuck with half of them. Harmonica was the easiest to make music with:

I just gigged part time to stay sane, pay for the GAS & be a little bit creative.

Imagine the poor Professionals!!!
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I play better than I type. ..reaaa,llkly

lol

I have a wealthy-ish hospitality/marketing/music friend who's Inc subs to some really Pro AI.

He ordered a song with Dead verses and Phish chors'.

It was unfortunately passable music & the MF AI even got the "joke" we asked of it.

My guitar picking ass is doomed:

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Chicago, Elgin, Aurora.. ICE hates me and mine.

Fuck 'em

it even looks like ass

yep

The most terrifying words?

"Winter isn't Coming."

Game of planet-trashing morons and greedheads.

Betting on the End of the World: 2025 Edition So, you're at the water cooler hanging out with your work colleague, and the topic of global warming comes up. The two of you are getting an urge to make a friendly bet with each other, but you can't ...

The OVER is going to win this year, based on my OVER/UNDER line of 1.45°C for 2025.

And if another El Nino comes to pass, then 1.60°C should be in the rear view window for 2026. That would make 2026, in scientific lingo, a "bad hair year."

climatecasino.net/2025/01/bett...

Researchers issue warning after observing concerning change in animal behavior: 'Much more far-reaching than previously assumed' — The Cool Down

A new study shows the danger of pesticides isn’t only in what they kill, but in what they change. When bees forage less and fish behave differently, ecosystems begin to fail long before we notice the losses.
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Media today: "Good news. We're not extinct yet despite ecological overshoot"

The technical term is #extinction #debt.

Extinction debt: a challenge for biodiversity conservation
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Note: Adding 80m more humans / year at 8bn means inevitable collapse.

I’ve grasped it. You’re describing demographic momentum.
I’m describing ecological overshoot.
They aren’t the same thing.
Declining birth rates don’t fix a planet already beyond its biophysical limits.

Personally I think societal and economic collapse by 2050 is now all but inevitable - as increasing numbers of studies now predict

Any 'global transformation' is as far away as it ever was, and in many ways we are heading in the wrong direction

Population momentum is math.
Ecological overshoot is biology.
Even if global fertility dropped to zero tomorrow, overshoot persists until consumption, land-use, and biodiversity impact fall back within Earth’s regenerative capacity.
Declining births ≠ declining footprint.

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

“The daily survival of 8 billion humans continues to depend upon destruction and extinction. This is a survival model which is undoubtedly unsurvivable”

10 years after the Paris Agreement, we have reached a '3-year average global temperature anomaly of +1.5°C in 2 or more datasets'!

And we can't blame El Niño for this, as ENSO was on average negative during this period.

The Paris Agreement was doomed from the start..

least reliable car: Tesla

I actually like a good storm. I hope it was kind to your burg Ian.

Can confirm:

"Not only is this system devoid of empathy, our very culture treats empathy as charity, not obligation, so that our only available support in a time of need ends up being the very dehumanising, exploitative system that never cared for us in the first place: capitalism"

November 2025 Globally,according to Copernicus, had an average temperature of 14.02C which is +0.65C above the 1991/2020 norm and was the 3rd warmest on record.

Year-to-date 2025 is the 2nd hottest year below 2024 and still slightly above 2023 which might end tied with 2025.

Man that
@unep.org
GEO-7 report is some grim reading, but few things more grim than this handy chart.

"Collapse" appears 48 times in the text - and this chart illustrates how the effects of collapse will undo centuries of work towards equality, amongst other things.

Orthographic map showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in November 2025 relative to a 1981-2010 baseline. This visualization shows North and South America. Most areas are warmer than average.

Orthographic map showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in November 2025 relative to a 1981-2010 baseline using ERA5 data. This visualization shows Africa, Europe, and western Asia. Most areas are warmer than average.

Orthographic map showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in November 2025 relative to a 1981-2010 baseline using ERA5 data. This visualization shows Australia, Antarctica, and Asia. Most areas are warmer than average, except for parts of Siberia.

November 2025 was the 3rd hottest November on record globally, following 2023 (warmest) and 2024 (2nd warmest).

This month was about 1.54°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average. The last 12-months have been about 1.49°C above it.

Summary of month: climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-...

Most of Europe is 6°C warmer than average for this time of year. France will reach 15°C today on 9 Dec.

This isn’t weather noise.

It’s the signature of accelerating global warming — and a reminder that the climate we grew up with is disappearing fast.

Humans destroyed 50% of primary producers (plants) on land and 85-90% of wildlife mammals.

Our population growth and appetite for meat has broken the 10% rule. We consume far more than 10% and now face an #extinction debt (aka ecological #overshoot).

Hell on Earth..

Fun fact: This latest UN report doesn't just confirm overpopulation as the main driver of destruction (like the IPCC did in 2022).

It also uses the term "inevitable collapse" three times.

Fun fact: This latest UN report doesn't just confirm overpopulation as the main driver of destruction (like the IPCC did in 2022).

It also uses the term "inevitable collapse" three times.

#Collapse #InevitableCollapse

These Health Centers Are Supposed to Make Care Affordable. One Has Sued Patients for as Little as $59 in Unpaid Bills. Federally funded community health centers receive grants in exchange for serving patients regardless of their ability to pay. But ProPublica found at least five across the country garnishing patients’...

Community health centers were created to be medical safety nets for people who struggle to afford primary care.

But we found that several are suing patients and garnishing their paychecks – which experts say contradicts their mission.

www.propublica.org/article/fede...

The Surprisingly Convincing Case Against Cars Life After Cars dares to imagine how different, and enriching, a car-free world could be.

"The authors marshal a compelling blend of history, statistics, and anecdote in support of a quietly radical argument: that mass car ownership, far from natural and inevitable, is a historical blip that can and should be reversed." 😍