#ambient #postrock #ambientguitar #decay #guitar #music Listening to: "Ambient Loops 2026" by bluesky's own zeropointzen @zeropointzen.bsky.social‬ youtu.be/bHyF5LswJkI?...

~~~~ Reading the NYTs. #Netanyahu #Trump #Hegseth #WarCriminals #Tehran

Reading the NYTs. #Netanyahu #Trump #Hegseth #WarCriminals #Tehran Imagine looking out your window and seeing this. I can't.

Stephen Kapos, Holocaust survivor & activist: "I was shocked how despite their experiences during the Holocaust [the Zionists] were racist against Palestinians. I can't understand it. The use of the Holocaust background as a cover for all this is just unbearable, criminal." youtu.be/AxLtxX7kPcU?...

Charlie Chaplin's concluding speech from "The Great Dictator" "Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes... Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men— machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men!" youtu.be/J7GY1Xg6X20?...

Reading: #MarkTwain 's "The #War Prayer" (1905), a bitter satire. "O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire... help us to wring the hearts of their widows" www.americanyawp.com/reader/19-am...

Reading about #PartySaucePete & his Wholly War: wholly unnecessary, wholly unprovoked, wholly illegal, wholly unwanted, wholly diabolical, wholly insane... " #Hegseth Says U.S. Troops Are Fighting for Jesus. The Pope Disagrees." I'm with His Holiness on this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/w...

Reading of: Invisible #architecture "...an illusion of dematerialisation, these projects all seem to dissolve into nothing from the outside." (Beneath the first article, there's an endless scroll of other beautiful articles on architecture. An astounding collection!) architizer.com/blog/inspira...

listening to #experimental #music @theprophetobblonge.bsky.social Another amazing composition by #TheProphetObblonge, (and #W.A.Mozart): "Antivenom" Unfortunately this is just a short snippet, not entirely indicative of the whole. Go to Spotify to hear the rest open.spotify.com/track/55sFVU...

#Hegseth 's wartime firing of top generals stuns officials: "It's insane" Insane? You think? With #Trump acting today as if he hadn't made that speech 2 days ago. And apparently "Fraud Czar" #JDVance is going to balance the budget and eliminate the national debt! Ugh. www.axios.com/2026/04/03/h...

Not here to criticise Bluesky. I ❤️ Bluesky! But it hasn't lived up to being decentralised. It was expected that a significant percent of ppl would join thru private servers, but 99% of us are centralised on the bsky. social server, whilst the largest Mastodon server holds less than 25% of its users.

#PBC #PublicBenefitCorporation ~~~~~ How one small part of the world works Bluesky Social is a Public Benefit Corporation, a fact we all benefit from: free accounts. But the haunting thing is, X & the parent company of Truth Social could claim PBC status, too, on the same grounds: free accounts.

watching~~~~~ Mr Cody Dahler @mrcodydahler.bsky.social @mrcodydahler (here and at YouTube, too) #MarkZuckerberg #meta #lawsuit #social #media #SocialMedia Community Note: It's "porcine-worshipping", not "bovine-worshipping". Other than that, spot on, mate. youtube.com/shorts/vr65H...

If Pam Bondi had just done her job—arresting felons instead of covering for them—a felon wouldn't have still been in his job to fire her.

~~~~~ The Songbird Fail: I've been picked to advance to the next level of Somewhere Has Talent, but I can only sing the one song I've been singing for years. My #15MinutesOfFame has arrived but I only have 3 minutes of material to fill it with. I take grey tablets to not think these thoughts.

Listening.... watching ... Well, it's #ErikSatie 's Gnossienne No.1. but as interpreted by the Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra, who have to be seen to be heard-- and believed in; from their album "If I Had a HiFi" youtu.be/_iaGcdlWk6k?...

#search The li'l hyphen that could - An oft-overlooked "operator" that works in most search engines, 99% of the time, is the humble hyphen used to eliminate unwanted results. Say you want to search for "office" without getting a lot of "Microsoft Office" results. Just type in office -microsoft

Please read carefully and consider your actions. Getty Images recently removed a photo of Karoline Leavitt allegedly because the low angle wasn't flattering. SOCIAL MEDIA has been encouraging users to repost the photo, presumably to embarrass Leavitt. THIS IS AN UNWISE AND UNETHICAL SUGGESTION.

#LLM #AI :a towering achievements of technology⸻ but Matt Bernstein is entirely correct. This "popular" nonsense isn't what AI is made for or even very good at. It's an epiphenomenon accidental to the technology, a tail wagging the dog, a demeaning, unethical clownshow. youtube.com/shorts/y5c0c...

The gatekeepers of the #EpsteinClass think we're stupid. After #BillGates visited #Epstein ’s townhouse he wrote to colleagues that “(Epstein's) lifestyle is very different and kind of intriguing, although it would not work for me.” A spokesperson for Gates says Gates was talking about the decor.

#KyleKulinski has said for a while that #Trump isn't in charge anymore, that "they" are running the show. "They" give Trump vanity projects to keep him busy (redecorating, building the Epstein Memorial Ball Room, playing golf, playing with tariffs). Turns out that "they" are just li'l Stevie Miller.

#Druski is an American treasure "That wasn't a skit, that was accuracy with a wig on." youtube.com/shorts/nC1ia...

~~~~ To quote Clint Eastwood: "Go ahead. Make my face." (Brought to you by the Committee to Elect A President Who Knows How to Blend His Bronzer) youtube.com/shorts/7QGs6...

When all you do here is present art/music/literature/general interest info& news& you still get blocked... you must be doing something profoundly correct on SO many levels of based. Now proudly blocked by 65 usrs ... only another 40 million usrs to go. "Dystopian value at Utopian prices"

#music #audiovisual #experimental Microcosm Tumor Plantation (visual-audio) by The Prophet Obblonge @theprophetobblonge.bsky.social review: remarkable, recommended link will take you to archive.org / winamp player / all shockingly free of cost / click the song title archive.org/details/micr...

Breaking: Bluesky usrs will soon be able to create custom feeds by #VibeCoding— just chat with "Attie" about the kind of feed you want, and h’it will build it for you. This new AI app has #AIClaude under the hood and is built on Bluesky’s underlying protocol. Comments? techcrunch.com/2026/03/28/b...

#DoItDeliberately Makers⸻ Gather the bones of before Makers⸻ Gather round the bones of before Makers⸻ Bang together the bones of before Makers⸻ Bang the bones of before together Makers⸻ Make tomorrow's #music together Banging the bones of before Together, together youtube.com/shorts/7PNLj...

Walz: The president said it's a bunch of radicals. You're damn right we've been radicalized. Radicalized by compassion, radicalized by decency, radicalized by due process, radicalized by democracy.

Well done. #NoKings

What a great world we would have if all we had left was the left…

#Creativity is our birthright It is something we get to do "Artist" is not always somebody else Go do the thing! Put this with that Put that word with this word Put this sound with that sound This colour with that colour This move and that move That idea with that idea! youtube.com/shorts/gx-1c...

Thinking:🅆🄷🄰🅃 🄵🅁🄴🅂🄷 🄷🄴🄻🄻 🄸🅂 🅃🄷🄸🅂? ⁣ 🄰🅂 🄸🄵 🅃🄷🄰🅃 🅆🄰🅂🄽'🅃 🄸🄼🄼🄴🄳🄸🄰🅃🄴🄻🅈 🄾🄱🅅🄸🄾🅄🅂 Shireen Madon's masterful poem "Vessel With Two Feet, CA. 1000-800 BCE" www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨: #𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘦: 𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵.

#TheEpsteinClass #KushnerFamilyValues #SchumerStyleResistance #HegsethsEthos #TrumpsBoredOfPeace Devils prowl about like roaring lions, seeking whom they may devour. Everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. We are the colonists of Death— Not, as some think, of the English.

Is it the policy #DEI that MAGAs hate or just the sound of the dogwhistle? In a new journal article (free download below), Prof Amy K. Sate⸻U. of Houston⸻discusses “inclusive excellence” & "strategic hiring" as substitutes for (the term?) "DEI". pdf file www.academia.edu/2997-6006/3/...

#metafiction #MachineYearning Briefly, before going to physio.

#ErikaAmerica #Druski is a genius. youtube.com/shorts/JbZIl...

#music #ExperimentalMusic #babies #TheProphetObblonge OK. Another incredible track from The Prophet Obblonge @theprophetobblonge.bsky.social If this doesn't make you smile, nothing will. Clicking below will (probably) take you to The Internet Archive [archive.org] archive.org/details/redu...

They didn't shut our Internet off today after all, though we spent the day working offline as if they had. "You didn't think this would last forever, did you? The democratisation of knowledge? Allowing ordinary people to wield extraordinary tools?"⸻ The Knight Kaddah

𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 "𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴" 𝘮𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘵... 𝘮𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘵... 𝘮𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘵... 𝘕𝘰 𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘋𝘔𝘴⸻ 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘺 𝘋𝘔 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘋𝘔⸻ 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘻𝘦𝘳𝘰. 𝘏𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥.

#music #experimental #ExperimentalMusic #ExperimusicMental Listening to theprophetobblonge.bandcamp.com album: -Aiynamics artist: BlueSky's own @theprophetobblonge.bsky.social Favourite tracks so far: Melvin The Octogenarian Phrenologist; Sandra Dee's Birthday; Now Plus+ Consistency

#BIOART⸺ artists work with biologicals⸺ tissues, bacteria, organisms, life processes⸺ using scientific tools⸺ microscopy, genetic engineering, tissue culture and cloning. Who exactly thinks this is a good idea? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioart bioart.niaid.nih.gov Bioart Manifesto tinyurl.com/y8cc3pnm

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘛𝘸𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘨 ? 𝗔𝗻 𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗽 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀, "𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙, 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙣'𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙨, 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙡𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙡 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙨, 𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙜, 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙋𝙍𝙄𝙉𝙏 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢 (𝙣𝙤𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙒𝙍𝙄𝙏𝙀𝙎 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙜)."

The ability to #read was a privilege of the elite, used as an instrument of control over peasants. Korea's King Sejong the Great was distressed by this imbalance. He solved the problem by designing an alphabet adapted to spoken Korean and easier to learn than Chinese characters. tinyurl.com/3wy7mmju

~~~ What the world needs now is NOT oil sweet oil! More oil is not the answer. #UK told that draining the #NorthSeaOIL reserve WON'T cut energy costs but #renewables will. Had leaders acted to kick the oil habit when they were warned to, the present crisis wouldn't be a crisis. tinyurl.com/3txc9ean

Wonders: Was that #AlexJones sh*t-faced on the Tim Pyool Show last week, or just somebody's drunk and slightly psychotic uncle. Tim was not pleased. I'm pretty sure Alex's raunchy language in the first minutes of the stream got the episode demonetised, making it a near write-off for young Timothy.

Looks like Joey Rogan will give a hard pass to attending Cage Fight Night at Donald's place this summer. #Trump 's extra vaganza will see more than 100,000 fans squeezed onto the WH property. (Now we know the real reason Trump bulldozed the East Wing. That's where the porta-potties will go.)

Lil'Stevie Miller, #Trump 's pocket Goebbles (pictured below), got his wish: a self-sealing border that keeps foreigners away in droves, especially the touristy kind. The World Cup kicks off in 80 days & global fans aren't buying tickets to US matches, with not much interest from US citizens either.

And little girls in Iran,& the kids vapourised in Gaza. You would think the chance of possibly harming a child would be enough to prevent war. As a well-known socialist said, "If he harms one of these little ones, better that a millstone be hung on his neck & he be drowned in the depths of the sea."