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Earth, water, air, fire, flora, fauna, books, film, photography, music, comedy, tech, demagoguery, critical thought, language, power, & people who use them. Professional gardener. Manzanar volunteer. Resting bemused face. Also: @paulashby@mastodon.world

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Latest posts by thepaulashby.bsky.social on Bluesky

Arsonist cosplaying as firefighter, as usual.

07.11.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Two headlines from NBC News online: one regarding SNAP recipients going without food after benefits don't arrive; the other reporting Tesla shareholders awarding $1 trillion dollar pay package to Elon Musk.

Two headlines from NBC News online: one regarding SNAP recipients going without food after benefits don't arrive; the other reporting Tesla shareholders awarding $1 trillion dollar pay package to Elon Musk.

Let them eat ketamine.

07.11.2025 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Warriors/Suns game tonight on NBC Sports Bay Area:

Drinking game - do a shot every time Kalenna Azibuike mentions "sense of urgency."

Pardon me while I go sleep this one off.

#NBA #Warriors #TiredCatchphrases

05.11.2025 05:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DWP Commission links local water supply expansion to Mono Lake protection The October 28 Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (DWP) Board of Commissioners meeting was a watershed moment for the future of Los Angelesβ€”and

Cautiously optimistic, I'll believe this when LADWP permanently shuts down diversions from Lee Vining, Rush, Parker, and Walker Creeks, and plugs the tunnel under Mono Craters.

#KeepSavingMonoLake

01.11.2025 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Arsonists cosplaying as firemen.

29.10.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So many foul balls, so many close plays at first.

28.10.2025 06:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

wow a lot of you watch baseball huh

28.10.2025 04:31 β€” πŸ‘ 605    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 2
Roedelius - Jardin au fou (Bureau B) [Full Album]
YouTube video by Bureau B Roedelius - Jardin au fou (Bureau B) [Full Album]

Happy 91st birthday to Mr. Roedelius.

This album, from 1979, has always been one of my favorite Sunday morning LPs.

26.10.2025 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
We Begin, Pt. 1
YouTube video by Steve Tibbetts - Topic We Begin, Pt. 1

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnmX...

25.10.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Close - ECM Records The striking cover image of an abandoned swing illuminated against a field of glittering stars makes a compelling visual metaphor for the music on Close. Β β€œMusic is a twilight language,” Steve Tibbett...

Such good news to awaken to on a drizzly Saturday morning -- a new Steve Tibbetts album, his first in seven years.

#ECM

25.10.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Zurich: Composer Hildur GudnadΓ³ttir on Finding Her Sound and Scoring the Dark Side The Oscar-winning composer and Zurich Festival career honoree reflects on subtlety, sexism, and creating the signature sound behind 'Joker', 'TΓ‘r', and 'Hedda.'

Good interview, but largely ignores Hildur's innovative earlier solo work, and barely mentions her forthcoming non-score LP "Where To From" on Deutsche Grammophon.

23.10.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The entire journalistic spectrum, from A to B.

22.10.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Perhaps this is true, but it took Gwyneth Paltrow to repurpose it as a douche.

22.10.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
MUST SEE: Brad Marchand's EMOTIONAL return to Boston! πŸ–€πŸ’›
YouTube video by NHL MUST SEE: Brad Marchand's EMOTIONAL return to Boston! πŸ–€πŸ’›

I don't have something in my eye. YOU'VE got something in your eye.

#Bruins #BradMarchand #NHL

22.10.2025 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Posted on Mastadon with no hashtags: 33 boosts and counting.

Posted on Bluesky at the same time with no hashtags: crickets.

21.10.2025 05:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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More than 2,000 jobs could be cut at Interior during shutdown - High Country News Research, wildlife and conservation are in the crosshairs.

Interior employs 1000s of devoted workers, doing vital tasks for relatively little money, let alone glory.
I've met them, & worked alongside them. They're an inspiration. Their hard work & dedication is boundless. Even during the shutdown.
They deserve support.
Not performative, demagogic horseshit.

21.10.2025 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
President Denies Reality Of Massive Nationwide Protests While Posting Videos of Himself Dumping Shit OnΒ Citizens "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command…. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed–if all records told the same tale–then the lie passed into history and became truth." β€”George Orwell, 1984 This past weekend witnessed what may have been the largest single-day political protest in American history.

President Denies Reality Of Massive Nationwide Protests While Posting Videos of Himself Dumping Shit OnΒ Citizens

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command…. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed–if all records…

20.10.2025 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 418    πŸ” 147    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 20

Considering the 4 to 7+ million estimated turnout yesterday for No Kings, imagine the impact a one-day, buy-nothing, stay-home-from-work general strike would have.

People wouldn't even have to leave the house.

19.10.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot (official video)
YouTube video by Cromosomas Memoria Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot (official video)

"Daydream Nation" was released on this day in 1988.

It better work out
I hope it works out my way
'Cause it's gettin' kind of quiet in my city head
It takes a teenage riot to get me out of bed right now

19.10.2025 01:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Archives – Huell Howser Archives at Chapman University

Huell Howser, born on this date in 1945.

You can stream all his programs here:

18.10.2025 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Whenever I see men complain about the male loneliness crisis or unique emotional/psychological issues faced by men, it’s very clear that they just don’t see women as full people capable of experiencing the exact same emotions they do

14.10.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2635    πŸ” 425    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 40

This is an embarrassingly bad article and @thenation.com should feel bad for publishing it. If you're going to publish something about Section 230, could you maybe not misrepresent how it works?

11.10.2025 01:00 β€” πŸ‘ 323    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2
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Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

11.10.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 10523    πŸ” 2116    πŸ’¬ 301    πŸ“Œ 127

"nonprofit"

10.10.2025 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I just heard someone on NBAtv use the word "efforting" as an active verb and now I can't keep my dinner down.

10.10.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Skeptical of these reports of IDF brutalizing and humiliating Greta Thunberg and keeping her in inhuman conditions. I mean she’s not a six-year-old Palestinian girl.

05.10.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1572    πŸ” 159    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 6

Complaining about cancel culture in Riyadh is one of the best examples I've seen of how "free speech culture" rots the brain.

02.10.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 8353    πŸ” 1321    πŸ’¬ 245    πŸ“Œ 44
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Stop in to any of our Portland locations and try our (hopefully) limited time only, all-new Throwing Soup specials!

Thanks for supporting Arbyfa

28.09.2025 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 626    πŸ” 115    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 9
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Cowardly Disney Caves To Brendan Carr’s Bogus Censorial Threats, Pulling Jimmy Kimmel There are multiple ways into this story, but almost all of the reporting on what’s happened claims that Disney pulled talk show host Jimmy Kimmel’s show β€œindefinitely” over comments that Kimmel mad…

Well, yeah, network television is a dying animal, and CBS (Colbert) and, now, ABC's craven caving to Trumpthink isn't slowing the decline.

18.09.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is genuinely humiliating as an America to have this sour, cowardly, narcissistic lout represent us and to know that so many Americans applaud conduct like this. Just deeply embarrassing.

17.09.2025 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 8885    πŸ” 1756    πŸ’¬ 362    πŸ“Œ 72

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