#AshWednesday today. I start a fast from #socialMedia for 6 wks. Fascinating & cool that Ash Wednesday & 1st day of #Ramadan start the same day this yr. Both = times of penitence. Hope others pick up on that too. We‘ve more in common than we think we do. #Islam #Christ #Jew #Hindu #Humanist #Wicca

Missing In Action: One star in the Andromeda Galaxy. #astronomy #news

Which financial institution administers your #Visa &/or #MasterCard? Does your #bank favor candidates, a party or cause you don’t want? Consult @goodsuniteus.bsky.social According to #GoodsUniteUs, @bankofamerica.bsky.social has a Goods Score of -57 & they donate slightly more to Democrats.

#Causation, with regard to #massshootings, is very complex, defying simple-minded and polarizing attempts to attach blame. I wrote about it in the early days of my Curren(t) Thinking blog. doncurren.blogspot.com/2022/06/its-...

Excellent analysis from @rollingstone.com From my own admittedly anecdotal experience, what this author says is absolutely true: An individual’s rising #wealth tends to correlate positively with their higher-than-average #insensitivity and #entitlement. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

#FollowFriday #music #legacy #pioneer First website I actually used regularly back in the 1990s — #AllMusic.

I highly recommend @allmusic.com. Bringing you the finest old and new music info since 1995. Yup. You got that right. AllMusic was on the #WorldWideWeb in the ‘90s — back when it was mostly just green letters and numerals on a black screen.

59 yrs ago today, #ChicagoTheBand founded in the home of #WalterParazaider. (He’s flutist on Color My World.) First called The Big Thing, then Chicago Transit Authority, & finally CHICAGO. Here’s one of their lesser known social commentary songs: youtu.be/FRX3WwfvdV0?...

Here’s what I hope will be the final song at my #funeral – not that I’m near #death, mind you. It is the most joyful song any #Christian can find. #GospelMusic @stacy17.bsky.social @ggsdadjokes.bsky.social youtu.be/dCPVky4M2ZY?...

#Opie #AndyGriffith #RonHoward #RonnieHoward #RonnyHoward #HappyDays #ThrowbackThursday

Taking #bets now on when new #Chicago based #food #delivery #robot gets destroyed and its food stolen by vandals. www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/food...

Can you spot trump sycophants Mike Johnson’s lips?⤵️

Trying to outrun the #law and #elections.

A #China based fast #food chain has toppled #McDonald’s from its former top slot. www.allrecipes.com/mixue-bingch...

Some #goodNews for a change! www.aol.com/articles/hou... @stacy17.bsky.social

Great coverage of something that affects #college & #University towns bordering #rivers and #lakes. #danger #deaths #Alcoholism #Alcohol #Students

@rwk-keith.bsky.social There are living wage jobs in the #Keweenaw?

So true!!

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

#federalWorkers #FederalEmployees

#CoreCivic is the company that runs various #immigrant #detentioncenters in the USA. According to @goodsuniteus.bsky.social CoreCivic has a Goods Score of -72 and they donate a high percentage to #Republicans. #goodsuniteus

Remove ICE and CBP funding until real changes are made. With apologies, I can’t find the artist to credit.

I block accounts whose posts don’t allow responses… unless I know you already.

Remember the flute solo on Chicago’s “Colour My World”? Released in early 70s, it was B-Side to single, “Make Me Smile” & not expected to become a hit. The guy playing flute? #WalterParazaider. In 2021 he announced he’d been diagnosed w #AlzheimersDisease. vermilioncountyfirst.com/2021/04/19/c...

I don't like doing these immigration raids, but it's gotta be done.

And here you have it: #RoboCollege. If #OldDominion didn’t have a reputation problem before, it’s getting one. May my robo student take the class for me? Have your Robo call my Robo and we’ll do lunch!

What should alarm us about the Epstein files isn’t just the appalling details, which are horrific and criminal. It’s that here is a growing sense that there is small number of elite who see themselves as above the law.

Want to reduce #plastic #waste? Consider a return to bar #soap.

Ubiquitous centralized #monopoly #antitrust #healthcare #software #privacy #security

#EpicSystems #MyChart #software now controls about 80% of the nation’s health records. www.msn.com/en-us/health...

#EpicSystems‘ #MyChart now controls about 80% of the nation’s #healthcare records. It is a de facto ubiquitous, centralized #monopoly. #Antitrust www.msn.com/en-us/health...

#EpicSystems‘ subsidiary, #MyChart, now controls around 80% of our nation’s #health records software in #hospitals‘ and #doctors‘ #databases. It has become a centralized #monopoly. #Antitrust #Privacy #security

Is it a #blah day? Things not terrible but could be better? Here’s a 1-minute clip of old black-&-white #sitcom #music 2 perk u up. Works 4 me as well as a cup of #coffee. www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/... @ggsdadjokes.bsky.social @amandaknox.com @petebuttigieg.bsky.social @stacy17.bsky.social

354 people are already #boycotting #Tyson Foods, makers of #HillshireFarm meat products. People associated with Tyson (workers, executives, board members) contribute high levels of money to #Republicans. @hillshirefarm.bsky.social Download @goodsuniteus.bsky.social to join the movement.

This was downtown Chicago just a few short hours ago: bsky.app/profile/djby...

#Buyers beware: if you use #eBay because you #boycott #Amazon, know that many eBay sellers are #dropshippers who fulfill via Amazon: IE you’ll still get an Amazon package. eBay doesn’t entirely forbid this. #Google “how to spot drop shippers on eBay“ for more info. @stacy17.bsky.social

I love this. Fight the fire: Spoiler alert: The giant loses open.substack.com/pub/fightthe...

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