Post your favourite final shot in film:

well, someone has been looking at my listening/buying and it has to stop. (pedantically, just a post-punk and not a punk fan.)

I do not want to click and be disappointed that they don't mention that he is a massive The Fall fan, along with other greats (like Joy Division, and too many to mention). what else can propel him to such excellence/rewards? (and yes, also follow @chrispps.bsky.social for great academic insights.)

I hated it when the class syllabus was like this.

wow, this is still going on? last year, the UK job listings stood alone for this very absurdity. using my values in a metric vs. USA (absurd) salaries, the UK was at 1/6th (vs. EU ~1/4th). Space X & Tesla job adverts were/are still the most absurd… but that is a company vs. a country absurdity.

DON´T ASK ME HOW MANY TIMES I HAVE WATCHED IT! thanks to @missy-misanthrope.bsky.social I dared to look at the comment section. on. YouTube. there is a great humanity in the world, it is just too danged silent. [ some screenshots of fave comments to follow ]

ohyeah, this is how they get to some integral Friedman Units... ironically, it may be a few weeks before the Friedman Units are commonly used. so that is what Cotton is marking as in"a few weeks". [ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedma... ]

is it too late to impeach all the motherfuckers? (I mean, impeachments of all of them in this cabal to, you know, effect regime change.)

what did I just watched? what did I just heard? what did I just burned into my brain? 1. Star Trek (aliens) meets Godspeed You! Black Emperor? 2. Teletubbies meets Kraftwerk? 3. polkadots meets The White Stripes? 4. medieval jokers meet Cheap Trick? KEXP remains vital. youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so

the language of the press continues to be disappointing, amidst the entire failing of so many institutions. this is utterly bizarre. if the "gamble" has been empirically shown to be a disaster... then it is no longer a gamble, since there are no odds of reversing the loss/trend/actions.

ohwow. a Windsor nut is brought to justice. that leaves just the USA as a safe heaven for paedophiles or insurrectionists (if Korean), or both types if an American president. www.bbc.com/news/live/c7...

this is some kind of awesome programming of LLMs. may be fun to go to the comment section (for once).

I would say, not now we are all busy. one can presume that the locks at Pont Des Arts should be brought back, huh? www.bbc.com/news/article...

it would be awesomeness if the veggies are lazed with ivermictin... and snort the residue from a toilette. (also, does anyone have link on the page(s) that this Ai got trained on? truly an odd set of probabilities to construct a sentence.)

given that L'internets is a loaded weapon, maybe a license process for those above a certain age to test how that works before applying it to under (wattev age). "show me how you use facebook" still bizarre that we can send kids to war, and they cannot vote or handle L'internets.

let me count the ways: 1. deflecting par excellence 2. vague when under inquisition (at least) 3. argumentative when given advise 4. too emotional to a rational-dominant person 5. too rational to an emotional-dominant person 6. contrarian notions for discussions, even I don't care

“Post an album that was important to you when you were 11.” I was not listening to music (intently) when I was 11. but the soonest after that had two albums that wow'd me at the same time (from the radio), were super important. (it's impossible to pick one… just like I have two arms…)

Drop a teacher

well… this is quite the (fantastic) notion. and women to a breeding gulag? what would jesus do? (once he gets out of the toast impressions duties.) didn’t these notions get spewed from soap boxes with no audience?

can't the Congress people just yield all their time to Isaac Chotiner? he seems to deal well with people whose behaviour is unacceptable.

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character(s). Wrong answers only.

I am not saying this is cause-effect, but: 1. DJ Trump tosses paper towels in Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria 2. MAGA/Fox loses their collective shits over Alejandra Ocasio-Cortez (I think Nuyorican counts) 3. MAGA/Fox loses their collective shits over Bad Bunny. ( 🎁 link )

the thread has merit: not heretical. in terms of music: 1. it may not be efficient, but it is highly rewarding. 2. same. 3. ideally, books and media are best placed out of sight. perhaps best in shallow closets. (some, under current usage, can be in a living room— absolutism is not needed.)

finally, I find this statement on here. " we are not this kind of people, so it must be examples from elsewhere" is the most annoying way that people talk about their internal flaws." yes, you are... and it has to be addressed if the "we are not like this" is to be resolved.

this is utterly... WTF? yet, making way for the newer generation must be made and allow some people to dabble in such sacrileges. that said, it keeps increasing my annoyance at the causation from cameras on phones. it is right up there with the usage of "proof" instead of "evidence".

I do think, at a minimum, this kind of crusade demands quite a bit of cutting humour/sarcasm. but it is not for me... really on a control-snark bent, hence the "step back from the social network" illusion/pursuit.

some heroes don't wear a cape... but I guess this kind of rain wear may be considered a cape.

thequietus.com/portal/ The Quietus @thequietus.com @luketurner.bsky.social have put up an old piece about yer Black Box Recorder for our return to light entertainment. Ta Quietus people.

they will have the role of solidifying the notion that people should avoid the USA. and no guns for these fragile creatures? (from the article: Milan’s mayor unwelcome their presence.)

Tik-Truth-Tok Social: a new not-like-China social network. (in fairness, they may allow Tiananmen Sq posts, and surely pro-J6 ones.)

right. it’s also well-established that they would have done worse things if taunted as the Socialist KKK.

if I were to comment on all that is wrong with the USA... I would be a Blueskypro. I take this rare QT just to note how nasty these goons (the administration, if not clear)… and why it seems that the first order of business after midterms is to impeach the lot. the prez is void of ideas, anyway.

there is no justification for doing wrongs... regardless of the justification: the Fundamental Attribution Error fallacy. [ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundame... ] but...

recently reminded: humans are horrible guessers, and yet they persist. I am right there: ask first? age and origin are the most commonly guessed wrong. but wrong profession guesses are the most fun: writer architect music biz professor photographer idiot anyone to volunteer their experiences?

Top 10 all time favourite vocalists? Off the top of my head: Marvin Gaye Nina Simone Stewart A. Staples Kurt Wagner Beth Gibbons James Graham Chet Baker Luke Haines Billie Holiday Simon-Huw Jones

my plan to finally start a company and make some money is going nowhere. (plan: manufacture little screw drivers and screws for the "little screwdriver assembly" economy of USA manufacturing jobs that were to skyrocket.) (I was not working the tariffs angle either: bad planning all around.)

the good, and it’s the majority of people, will prevail: as they deserve it. still, that does not mean that this darkness is not part of a great illness. and, also, how very long it will take to achieve a semblance of normalcy. personally, I don’t see it happening.

absolutely this not being unaware of what they imply as process. another, related one, is the use of insults-through-euphemisms: just say what you mean explicitly, not fishing for a wink of being understood. but then again, humans are funny creatures and that’s how psychology gets to evolve.

can a Gödel, Turin, or Galois type just come out and give one of those proofs of incompleteness? it’s getting tiring, even in the periphery of the goings on.

the wonders of the human mind will never cease, despite (or in spite), of what we have learn. all humans are experts, or have a valid perspective, on everything: we are all above average. (except for the people we don’t like.)

to TACO the pasta is the craziest thing. the most stupid of tariffs to announce, but I held hope it would come to effect to wake-up the somnambulist population.

some Kertezian + Leiter moment is a nice way to reacquaint with the past during this brief travel.

limiting it to something that could air on it. (it’s news to me that it was still going on.)

(photo not by me, just its presentation.) it’s has been long time since visiting, but the memory of it, before the memory triggers to come, may be well represented here.

love these (the art, of course) reminds me of my favourite exhibit at the Guggenheim NYC on « Italian Futurism »... going like 3 times. my fave art movement of the early 20th. now sadly priced out of even the contemporaneous postcards.

I am going to offer a free idea, but don't get used to it. build the danged data centre in the North Pole: 1. for half-a-year, solar-powered 2. climate change incentive: don't melt the Arctic dangit. 3. reduced cooling problem 4. orbital data centres : nonsense. just 1 or 2 big cables. inorite?

I missed this trend. while not speaking any Cyrillic-written language, I do like the alphabet and work on the difficult pronunciations... and if I had seen this around it would really annoy me. though there is other hills to die on. actually, none. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

the first photo attempt since arriving here 6 months ago. I do miss the "looking at surroundings photographically" and putting ephemeral ideas out on sites. many cameras, but all to do batteries charging for the last 6 years. even the concerts have been rather sporadic and "not in the zone".

Make a Bond Movie academic Finger of Gold: A Case Study On Why One In The World Is Enough. by B, (DF), M, & Q (NRW)

we got an elf instead of a Christmas tree. then, the question was: "and does Totoro brings presents too?" well, yes, he has a magical Catbus to make deliveries. so then, the presents were around this 30 cm Catbus and similar sized elf.