Seeing working-class people excited about someone becoming a trillionaire seems surreal to me. Maybe they believe they will somehow profit from it.

New Delhi, 12 June - Dr. Rajesh Malhotra, Senior Consultant at Apollo Hospitals, said: “His Holiness the Dalai Lama underwent successful left knee replacement surgery on Monday, 8 June, at in New Delhi.

We Are Happy · Abayudaya congregation, Gershom Sizomu (guitar and vocal solo), and John Mark Nkoola ( keyboard) Abayudaya: Music from the Jewish People of Uganda ❤

"In memory of our beloved teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh we are releasing our best recording of the Namo’valokiteshvaraya chant of compassion, which was recorded in the Still Water Meditation Hall, Upper Hamlet, Plum Village, France, in autumn 2020. "

Kawase Hasui, Full Moon over Matsuyama Castle, 1953 #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Entry Banners https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/166008

The high price of eggs radicalized Henrietta and inspired her to seize the means of production.

I get the weirdest gigs.

Current events brought this song to mind. "Empire of The Senseless" - The Mekons

Khmer music.

A page illustrating and transcribing bird songs from "Musurgia Universalis" by Athanasius Kircher (1650)

Current events brought this to mind - America Is Waiting · Brian Eno · David Byrne My Life in the Bush of Ghosts youtu.be/fMTi73h5B_U

Vietnamese music on steel guitar.

Musical Instrument Like Ukulele Made from Tennis Racket

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” ― Anne Lamott

The mosaic at the Roman villa in Nennig was found in 1852, reconstructed in 1874, and completely restored in 1960, when the mosaic was reset on pillars to protect it from ground water. The lion mosaic was first to have been found. #MosaicMonday

4th century floor mosaic from the Roman Villa at Abbots Ann, near Andover in Hampshire. Discovered during the mid-19th century, the mosaic is now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain

"In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation." - Guy Debord The Society of the Spectacle (1967)

"America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society." – Peter Kropotkin (Speech on September 26, 1891)

Los Ovnis - Pequeña Ayuda De Mama [Mexico, Garage Rock] (1966) https://redd.it/12luiiz https://youtu.be/67wdmEi4gBA

"The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness." - Therese of Lisieux

“The future will be different if we make the present different.” — Peter Maurin

“Peter Maurin was often the most learned man in most any room he entered, and usually the poorest. Before he co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement with Dorothy Day in 1933, the peasant Maurin had fled France to avoid mandatory military conscription…” open.substack.com/pub/zakkflas...

Christian nationalists believe being a Christian entitles them to everything Jesus refused when tempted by Satan.

Popularity New Friends Monkey Making Opportunities Now Yours You can play the tenor banjo, ukulele, guitar, banjolele, mandolin and banjo.

La Monte Young and The Theater of Eternal Music - "Pre-Tortoise Dream Music"

Niandadu, Quzhou © xqin130699

Interior with Peasant Woman Sewing - 1885 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13663

Breaking News: The World Health Organization said the spread of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda was a global health emergency.

#OtD 17 May 1935 the Nazis banned the teaching of Esperanto for "weakening… national character". Esperanto is a constructed international auxiliary language which was particularly popular at the time with workers' groups and revolutionaries stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8912...

May 16, 2026

Credit To The Nation - Teenage Sensation [UK, Hip Hop/Rap] (1993) https://redd.it/5kwt2d https://youtu.be/xTLten_2ke0

Let It Be You · C.O.B. (Clive's Original Band) from the album "Moyshe McStiff and the Tartan Lancers of the Sacred Heart"

"Man eats them, man drinks them, man uses them; these are the Sparks that dwell in the things. Therefore, one should have mercy on his tools and all his possessions for the sake of the Sparks that are in them; one should have mercy on the Holy Sparks." - The Baal Shem Tov

This is what happens when a robotic Morris dancer tries to accompany itself with two concertinas, and something goes horribly wrong.

Sharpening a Japanese kiridashi on a Cretan sharpening stone after creating a slurry with a soft Arkansas stone and then finishing up on a Belgian coticule. This corner of the bench is very international!

I have not lost faith in humanity, but there are many people whose humanity I seriously question.

To Whom It May Concern: It was not I who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp. I also had nothing to do with putting the ram in the rama lama ding dong. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Which is the backwards country now, United States?

Because I am an independent thinker rather than a mindless sheep, I refuse to obey the laws of physics. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

May 4th, 1970