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@monkeydavid.bsky.social I made another Shag video no apes this time I changed the background from wood paneling to red

I love John McPhee’s advice. “You write, ‘Dear Mother.’ And then you tell your mother about the block, the frustration, the ineptitude, the despair. You insist that you are not cut out to do this kind of work. You whine. You whimper.” Draft No. 4 www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

Companies that tried and dropped Palantir's product (usually for being too bespoke/dependent on Palantir support for implementation and operation) were blamed by Palantir for being the problem: www.buzzfeednews.com/article/will...

I've gotta stop planning these extravagant "the strait of hormuz is open" parties

Those 15 years between Elvis’s first number 1 and this #AT40 must have seemed like different eras. Although, I just checked and 15 years ago today the top song was Cee Lo Green’s “Forget You” (in the clean version). That does feel like a different era too. youtu.be/bKxodgpyGec

@ollie209.bsky.social @monkeydavid.bsky.social I said I’d likely make the pic a video 😂 (I changed the orange to red)

Ain’t no party like a Donner party! #AT40

Usually what makes the Dirty Thirty so dirty is that it’s a bunch of forgotten artists. This #AT40 it’s (justly) forgotten songs by well remembered artists…

This Beethoven kid might have a future. #AT40

Going to see family this weekend and taking some pictures of our new house to share. Thought the #AT40 folks might enjoy my music setup.

#AT40 he published a memoir last year.

Without saying your age, post your favorite film that released the year you turned 18

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far - POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church?? POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

The print version of my new science fiction book is out today. Azure Cove is a town where science pushes the limits of what is thought to be theoretical. When there is more than one Azure Cove and its odd inhabitants anything is possible. www.amazon.com/Many-Worlds-...

Just opened a new 64 count box of Crayola Crayons and before I could find the grass green I was 62 years younger. That smell can almost make me high.

so wholesome ❤️ (via samfnch on threads)

Starting the #PBS #KenBurns Thoreau documentary. Reminds me that the best and most important class in my college career was “History of American Thought, Winthrop to Thoreau.” It taught me my most important life lesson: make the choice, but understand the costs of that choice.

this is the first good one of these anyone has ever done

I can’t believe the guy who can’t communicate a donut order was t able to make a deal with #Iran.

Well, Delta Dawn is an instant post- #AT40 exit for me. Switching to Underground Garage for some Syd Barrett…

Marijuana cigarettes? #AT40

Patrick Stewart said when he met Sting (on the set of Dune) he was no idea who he was, and when Sting told him, he thought he meant he played in a law enforcement band. #AT40

Bad joke to start his substitute DJ gig on #AT40

#AT40 just watched EPIC, the amazing Elvis concert film/documentary. Just stunning. And related to an earlier post—when do we get a Dolly Parton film like this?

Headline from the April 10, 1865, Albany Evening Journal, celebrating Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender.

This anti-monkey aggression will not stand, man. #AT40

Nilsson with a genuinely great #AT40 hit, “Without You.” No notes.

More good #AT40 advice. Kiss an angel good mornin' And love her like the devil when you get back home

#AT40 ahh, a song with a moral. Parents, your kids have their own desires and hopes and dreams. And if they do those things, they are going to die. (OK, the moral might be if you are jerks to them they will die, but it’s very muddy.) (The 70s were a confusing time.) “ONCE YOU UNDERSTAND –•– Think”

Happy Taco Tuesday to all who celebrate.

Anyone who played this game knows that you never, never invade Iran.

It is certainly more likely that he’s running up the heat to make our retreat seem like a gift to the world. Don’t let this asshole control your every emotion when this is probably what will happen. You’re only making them happy by crashing out.

There’s a reason people read the classics.

I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.

Do horses want cake? We conducted an investigation into statements published by @bencollins.bsky.social in the print edition of @theonion.com.

My wife remembers seeing Jack White in clubs in Detroit. She also had a friend in college who went to grade school with him. After he got big, Jack White called him and said he wanted old friends around him. That guy was playing bass with him tonight on #SNL. (Dominic is a hell of a bass player.)

Carry on Wayward Son bit on #SNL. Just heard that on #AT40 today!

Remembering the first White Stripes appearance on #SNL. We all knew Jack White was a real rock star. (Just Googled it. It was October 19, 2002. John McCain was the host. It was a different world.)

HOLY SHIT FRINKIAC BUT FOR "30 ROCK" MILLENNIAL GAME-CHANGER funcooker.fun/

#AT40 it’s difficult to remember the impact of this song before it was overplayed, but it really was something…

I saw this 1977 Donnie and Marie video so now you have to. #AT40 youtu.be/WzdDkebmrno?...

I miss this style of art. AI can’t do this! (The music or the painting.) #AT40

Data processing computer! #AT40

King: tell me more Hubbard: it's called AI and this handy dandy doodad does all your writing for you while you sleep Hubbard: and the best part is Hubbard: it's free!* King: what does that asterisk mean Hubbard: nothing, nothing, just ignore that!

Going to start arguing that "natural born citizen" means no c section presidents.