8 bars of music is not bad for a bad day.

Just so it's out there: I may agree with you 100%, but if you make the point using AI bilge, you're blocked.

It baffles me that, while people see that Stephen Miller is a horrible human being, they are shy to conclude he has an Auschwitz fetish: Stephen Miller wants to recreate the Holocaust. And by the look of it the US is going to allow him to do so. #StephenMiller#Auschwitz#Holocaust

Ask not what the US can do to the rest of the world. Ask what the rest of the world can do to the US. #USGoneMad

Americans make me laugh: they're talking about how difficult it will be for Trump to run Venezuela, when they should be talking about how the whole thing is unconstitutional and against international law. The citizens of the US are not serious people. #Trump#Venezuela#US#Americans

The Epstein Files Transparency Act. EFTA. As in 'they EFTA release the files. #Trump#Epstein

Racism was invented by White Europeans. And to this day they are the sole beneficiaries of it. That's just history. But it lives today. I know because I'm white. For all the trouble I've had in my life, none of it was because of the colour of my skin or the lineage of my ancestors.

If someone is a racist, they're a misogynist and vice versa: if someone is a misogynist, they're a racist. They just always, always go together. And if a person is such, they also don't like people somewhere in LGBTQ. So be sure, if someone makes a joke about blondes, they'll make jokes about POC

I'm here to listen to good people who know stuff I don't. If someone really misses the ball, I block. No matter who follows them. On occasion, I proffer my own opinions and expect to be blocked in turn by those who find my views unpalatable.

USA. Unreliable Shitty Allies.

News is quite depressing. For once, though, YT got something right and this popped up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXcF...

Looking in from the outside, I admit I don't really understand the fascination with Mamdani. I get the arguments for and against. But he's not Cuomo or Adams. He does seem to have pulled a big one on Trump. Seems hilarious to me. But now some people feel betrayed. Help me out here. #MamdaniTrump

The absolute adulation of much of the English speaking world for their military is baffling.

Today, I have learned there is someone called Bari Weiss. I had never heard of this person before. I trust some of the people I follow here enough to conclude I don't need to know, other than to mark her name as tainted.

Next US citizen who tells me 'this is not who we are' is going to get a pie in their face. You cannot say that phrase and expect your political opinion to be taken seriously. Seriously!

Much of the world had their fingers crossed hoping Harris would be the next president. Much of the world prepared for her not to be, because... the US.

In the wake of CK's demise, some of the folk I follow here have been posting something like 'White on White crime is a problem, they should sort out their communities' And it's easy to see where they're coming from. And I agree. Looking in from the outside,

"I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure," Clarence Darrow. I didn't know who Clarence Darrow was until I looked for this quote, which I'd come across some while ago, because the spirit of it seems... suited to the times.

Looking in from the outside, I cannot help but notice a lot of people feel very bad for Kirk's two children. His two children are alive. Unlike, for instance those kids that got killed at Evergreen High, about whom those same people are eerily quiet. The US harbours some mighty strange people.

Everybody condemning political violence. Fine it should be condemned. But, as far as I'm aware, they don't know who did it, so we don't know the motive for the shooting. May just be someone pissed of at Kirk because he stole their parking space.

No one's called the disappearing of people in broad daylight 'political violence'. Or even the storming of the US Capitol. Or the killing of 11 people on a boat. Or the murder of two Democrats. (Well, a little bit perhaps, but not for longer than two days)

I'm not always fond of where I live, but I'm grateful that US tourist rarely show up. They're going to be great spreaders of disease, the way things are going.

Once more, as so very often, other people are saying what needs to be said far better than I ever could. So once more I'll just post some music that always gives me a little lift, hoping it'll do the same for them : www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEfI...

It has occurred to me several times over the last however many decades, that 'stupid' is not the opposite of 'intelligent'. Today I wondered if that had ever occurred to anyone else. And of course it had. I found this article, I thought it was an interesting read: psyche.co/ideas/why-so...

There are no distractions. It's everything all at once. Has anyone actually read P2025? For real? Not like 'Yeah, I read 1984', but you really read it?

Looking in from the outside, it's pitiful how some folk in the US get there knickers all in a twist because of some 'leftist' (lol) young bloke is running for Mayor in NYC when two of his biggest opponents are known to be corrupt, deceitful and misogynist.

Well, much of what I'd like to say is already being said by others and better than I could. So, I thought to start posting music that has influenced and inspired me over the past 50 odd years (and many of them were very odd indeed) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJWA...

With the vaccination mandates under attack, it's only a matter of time before the rest of the world is going to deny people from the US entry into their countries without extensive health checks. No tourism for the US, no tourism from the US. A very effective isolationist policy.

So... in the US you can get into deep trouble for, oh, I don't know, saying Nazis should all fucking die already, but the government can kill people willy nilly at home and abroad.

Well, we did it again! A while back during lockdown, some people took up daytime drinking as a new hobby. I wrote a song about it, and finally finished it: soundcloud.com/fuggydiddled...

Well, aside from everything else that's going on, I, for one, can't wait for chayote season. And cavolo nero (the closest Italian relative to collard greens) season.

It must be football/ soccer season somewhere. Blocking folks left, right and centre.

I understand people are waiting for the obituary. I do too. However, it would also piss me off: he'd have lived his entire evil life without ever having been held accountable. Also, consider how quickly, and efficiently, the US gvmt has been dismantled. You cannot seriously believe that was him.

I have compared the current regime in the US with Nazi Germany. Because the parallels are obvious and the rhetoric is the same. However, Goebbels, Himmler, the industrialists needed Hitler for the thing to work. The P2025 people don't need Trump anymore. His downfall/ demise will not change a thing.

Question for all let's say, light skinned, US folk, seriously: how is it that so many of you who realise you're in deep shit end up fighting each other online, instead of fighting ICE in the streets? #US#NoToTrump#StopFascism

An awful lot of people rightfully opposed to Trump are idiots. I know I am.

1/? It is finally, generally, recognized that the GOP in the US, and parties like Fidezs in Hungary are fascist in nature. I'd go as far as to say they are Nazi, given that they have made race such a core element of their ideology. What bothers me,

@troubledh2o.bsky.social Mr. Waters nails it in this episode. Certainly informed me of some things I'd hitherto missed about Mr. Sanders, so thanks Mr Waters! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdwT...

All AI images I see look like they were made by the people redecorating the White House.

In the past, on any of the social media platforms I've been on, when people started posting deepities (look it up, it's a Dan Dennett word) I'd either point out the fallacy or just scroll by. Now the only social media platform I'm on is Bsky and the moment I see a deepity, I block the account.

Finally had a chance to watch the Season 27 episode 1 Trump episode of Southpark. I think it's a sign of the times that such a mediocre piece of parody and satire should cause such a stir. It seems merely wagging a little finger at Trump is considered brave. America the pathetic. #Southpark#Trump#US

Repost or post anything with AI, however much I might agree with it, consider yourself blocked. AI is thievery at best, evil at worst, and always ultimately in control of some of the very people that should be got rid of.

1/2 I've lived in Europe all my life. Never been to the US. I wonder, other than Soul, Blues, Jazz, RnB, Ragtime, Swing, Bebop, Hard bop, Fusion, Funk, Gumbo, Sun Ra, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, MLK, Zora Neale Hurston etc.,

I find I spend a lot of time on social media just blocking accounts out right (sports, AI content, astrology... it's a long list) or telling the provider not to bother me with such and so a channel ever again. I'm beginning to think I'm not made for social media.

Well, it's all rather stressful these days, isn't it? Here's a southing little piece of music we did a bunch of years ago. It's just piano. No words. soundcloud.com/fuggydiddled...

The Epstein thing seems to have given some Maga and GOP folk an off ramp. That's not bad. It may help. But let's not forget what they stood for, supported and will stand for even if Trump falls.

I don't know but I've been told, Donald Trump is very old. He won't last another year, I will join the people's cheer. Sound off.

Oh look! Me and my friends (Fuggy Diddledoo) just put out a new song on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/fuggydiddled...

I look at the US and all the good US folk upset about the BBB. I get it. I get confused when not all attention is on the concentration camps and possible reinstitution of enslavement. Because that's the one that will end up in death camps. That's the one that nobody will forget.

Sorry folks, I'm going to take a couple of days off of Bluesky and any and all news about the US. Take care, try to have a great weekend!