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Iran coastline: 2 800 km. Greenland coastline 44 000 km.

Alan Shearer: "When the referee goes back to VAR for Egypts goal & cancels it due to an interference at the start of play, but doesn't go back to VAR for Agentina's winning goal despite 2 interferences at the start of play... then we're watching a "theatre" not a football match.

It may surprise you to learn that a fragile ceasefire & an open ended hostility ought not mean to say the same thing.

New study from a cave in Türkiye suggests Neanderthals and Homo sapiens groups "lived in strikingly similar ways and even shared symbolic traditions over thousands of years." Research by I. Baykara et al. (link to original paper in the article). #anthropology #paleoanthropology #archaeology #cave

For @crooked-marquee.bsky.social, I celebrated the 20th anniversary of Richard Linklater's 'A Scanner Darkly,' possibly the only movie to truly capture Philip K. Dick's psychedelic stoner sensibility.

Stanley Clarke Alembic Bass, dig that burl top! ✌️

Remembering Pink Floyd’s SYD BARRETT — who left us 20yrs ago today, aged 60.

Do It Again youtu.be/jmdiKePVUy8?...

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Just wondering why this algorithm thought I would want to see someone getting a public blow job on my timeline....

The ending!! The ending has me crying! 🤣

Having the liberty to restrict other ppls behaviour is all fine & well if it happens to be morally valuable. & Therein lies the problem..

That being reasonable makes for a civil person is why secular education is a threat to the authoritarian.

The evolutionary advantage of cooperative social hierarchy will be outweighed by the advantage of congruent social equality for a moral society to obtain.

It's human nature to be emotionally invested in one's environs. We know the fervent patriot would be vainglorious no matter what country they were born to. Ditto the happenstance of their culture ethnicity etc. Point is; pride in what you are is no substitute for who you happen to be.

Today's guitar belongs to a dear friend who has kindly let me borrow it for a few days. It's a 1930’s Epiphone Masterbilt Apollo which his dad played in dance bands during the 30s, 40s and so on. If wood could talk - imagine the stories this guitar could tell. #guitarsky #guitar #epiphonemasterbilt

The recently released Michael Jackson movie has overtaken Oppenheimer as the highest-grossing biopic of all time. Critics likened ‘Michael’ to the 1988 Comic Strip film about Arthur Scargill, The Strike, due to both having highly fictionalised portrayals of their time with miners. #BTNNB #BTNRejects

I speak of the dead as if they were alive bcs those who liked them deserve it.

Patriotism & morality are not the same thing.

Perhaps ... if you don't believe your conclusions. Or have any faith in your convictions. Let alone recognise opinion as a claim. Atheism is the belief theism is false. Lack of gnostic ontology notwithstanding.

Bottom line.. No person born of this planet ought be considered an alien being.

Furlanetto F Bass VI

I remember the Taliban blowing up 2000 yo Buddhist monuments.

They still do

#EasyOut #OffRamp #EasyExit #ReadyMadeReason #ConvenientNarrative #AlreadyLeaving #ConvenientExcuse #Pretext #ExitStrategy #AlreadyLeaving #LookingForAnOffRamp #HermeneuticsOfSuspicion #InterpretationOverTestimony #NarrativeClosure #TheEasyStory #WhenInterpretationWins #TrustAndTestimony

Joni Mitchell with ‘ Big Yellow Taxi and Both Sides Now ‘. BBC 1969 youtu.be/GFB-d-8_bvY?...

Let’s play….

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Guitar of the Day

Good night from Venice The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower (Official Audio) youtu.be/TLV4_xaYynY?...

Deacon Blues Steely Dan youtu.be/iac-vLq6tnY?... 🎧

Agreed. Moral truths are discovered, not invented, they are mind-independent. Moral principles (e.g., justice, human dignity) are universal and not contingent on culture or human agreement. Hence slavery was always wrong. We just discovered it very late!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Stanley Clarke ❤️ June 30, 1951 (Return to Forever, Chick Corea, Jeff Beck, Clarke/Duke Project, SMV, Animal Logic, George Duke, solo) (75)

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People saying they are witnessing the most corrupt incompetent & traitorous government in history doesn't imply they're witness to the only corrupt incompetent traitorous government in history. Conservatives literally have liberals yearning for yesteryear. Nothing circular here what! Go figure...

Feral peeve: People who shout 'We Won' that can't play the game, let alone make the team.

Dogs fall asleep much faster than humans. Their ability to doze off rapidly is influenced by their need for frequent naps and their ancestral tendency to be light sleepers, ready to wake at the slightest sound. Original post

Do It Again Steely Dan youtu.be/c5tSFEhde58?... 🎧

Atlansia Dualist bass

👍 Social Democracy implies a system where administration is elected and mandated by the people. Democratic Socialism implies a system where the administration is elected to mandate (or direct) economic and social policies.

To me... Social Democracy... implies mandated elected administration. Democratic Socialism... implies elected administrative mandating. Anyone else see the distinction?

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Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks (7:11) youtu.be/uwiTs60VoTM?...

Earthquake& Devastation. Everyone offers to give help. Genocidal Invasions.... Everyone watching world cup.

This is Holly. Every day for the past 5 years, she picks out a stick and brings it to her favorite spot for “zen time.” While her stick may change, her routine never does. 13/10 (IG: hollythebluestaffy)

You might think natural disasters are little more than a humanitarian PR lifeline for governments who'd rather not have to defend genocidal complicity on a daily basis.