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Went to Small World Festival. Mostly dry and occasionally sunny.
Small World has such a nice friendly hippy vibe, lots of deadlocks and goths and pirates and beautiful face paints.
Bands all energetic and talented and mostly have been playing here together for 20 years in one form or another. All of 'em doing it for the love of it. Pony doing a great job of organizing the team to put it together.
One dude seemed pretty new, making up synth songs with his repeats and beeps and rapping from audience suggestions. Failed to photograph him well though. There's another 4 bands mentioned in the photo descriptions here.
Medically necessitated more or less total sobriety at the moment, so different whole thing. Those I knew well there mostly working, so lots of time alone dancing soberly and reading. Wish I was better at talking to strangers.
Still good times.
#smallWorldFestival #music #live

"Why the Left lost on Trans Rights" - a conversation between Sarah McBride and Ezra Klein. Below the link to YouTube, but you can also find it as a podcast. It's not about Trans rights, really. It's about the culture war; grace; demanding perfection in action and flawlessness in language instead of accepting allyship in substance and grace when someone is trying; about not having space to think differently.
1.5h, but I recommend listening. So many nuggets of wisdom.…

Today's #TuneTuesday theme is #LondonCalling - songs that name-drop a town or city in the title or lyrics.
This has long been a favorite, a song from an alt-country legend about Townes Van Zandt, the composer of some of the finest US songs of the 20th century. It mentions a whole series of cities.…

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
VILA: Because you can't like someone without them liking you back. And I like you, Kerril, more than anyone. Anyone I've ever known.
KERRIL: The difference is, I love you.
VILA: Kerril.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/592

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Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
VILA: Because you can't like someone without them liking you back. And I like you, Kerril, more than anyone. Anyone I've ever known.
KERRIL: The difference is, I love you.
VILA: Kerril.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/592

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Xueni Yang brings our attention to invisibility vs hypervisibility in Cao Fei's Haze and Fog art movie
#SecurityNarratives

Morning coffee #soundtrack. For my money, the greatest entrance in all of Western music.
https://youtu.be/BL5R9oRmDYE

Following up on the post about old #Windows installations, we have this one about floppy disks. Or as some people know them, the "Save" icon.
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Obsolete, but not gone: The people who won't give up floppy disks
The last floppy disk was made over a decade ago and doesn't even have enough capacity to store a modern smart phone picture, so why do some people still love using them?

This band comes in at the top of the list of music I'd like to hear in a dive bar. I also wouldn't be at all surprised to find the band members nursing a beer (or four) inside when I walk in the door.
Supersuckers, "Roadworn and Weary" (1997)
https://youtu.be/HP-nRS5Pklk…

Calamus 34 I dreamed in a dream
On the surface this short poem is a sort of City on a Hill vision. But I'm going to go with a more radical reading.
This poem reads to me as a fantasy of a gay society. A city of men, lovers, set apart from the rest of the world.
a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth ...
the quality of robust love ...
the actions of the men of that city
And in all their looks and words.
I can't plausibly argue Whitman conceived of a city set apart in the way I imagine. Although all of Calamus is him constructing the idea of a society of lovers, comrades, brothers, robust love. That to me is very gay.
Intriguingly, in the unpublished Live Oak draft of this poem it is even more explicitly gay:
I saw them tenderly love each other ...
Nothing was greater there than manly love
It seems to me he dreamed a very gay city.

Randall Monroe's recent "xkcd What if" video has a Great Lakes connection.
"What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?"
Super cool system where we did fieldwork some year ago.
Kudos for mentioning trouble with the Niagara Board of Control. 🏅
https://youtu.be/pfbzrr…

Minnesota --
home of the blonde hair and blue ears.
mosquito supplier to the free world.
come fall in love with a loon.
where visitors turn blue with envy.
one day it's warm, the rest of the year it's cold.
land of many cultures -- mostly throat.
where the elite meet sleet.
glove it or leave it.
many are cold, but few are frozen.
land of the ski and home of the crazed.
land of 10,000 Petersons.

This is Jon Stewart and it's very good presentation showing how what's going on in the US makes no sense at all. He manages some humour in the midst of his obvious frustration. Be ready to laugh through your tears.
Worth a watch:
https://youtu.be/3Q08a7BI9XI?feature=shared…

What happens if you mix thrash metal, nu metal and trap metal in the same song? Close to this one https://youtu.be/aMcpF8uLpD4?si=SkiOLNOn6-Rzc_-h

Pink Turns Blue – Live in Stuttgart, 2021
So coole Musik, die fließt so vorwärts. 🖤
https://youtu.be/MDKIJ7cwxnE?si=33ox5CkRRhMsPBST

Somehow I woke up to find myself back to the 80s? Nuclear agression, militarism in too-old-men-detached-from-reality-reigned countries, the world only one (accidental) push-this-button away from total blow-up?
#WTF #GenX

Happy #TuneTuesday. This week's theme is #ClipClopMusic .. 🐎
So pleased to have an excuse to share Knights of Cydonia from #muse. The most epic sci-fi Western video in the entire history of sc…

I am no better and neither are you
We are the same, whatever we do
You love me, you hate me, you know me and then
You can't figure out the bag I'm in <-- #SlyAndTheFamilyStoneForEvah :-) https://yout…

I love it when the world catches up with me XD (OK, in this case it's the UK rather than the world.)
Surely the way to stop kids looking at things that aren't appropriate for children on the internet isn't to take those things off the internet - pretty much a decade-long gov policy under both parties, though the new laws only just came into effect. It's to stop kids having unsupervised access to the open internet. Surely the only sane solution is clear... prosecute pa…

"Mark & Ines besuchen die 'Blinden-Bibliothek und -Druckerei' (Deutsches Zentrum für barrierefreies Lesen (dzb lesen)) in #Leipzig"
https://youtu.be/rIEws2KMy8I?si=dfEFxK

The new Quadcast episode is also available on YouTube if you don't download podcasts. The Spread of Christianity in the Greek and Roman Empires with Professor Teresa Morgan https://youtu.be/ggjDX0Gcdg4

Sonnet 148 - CXLVIII
O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight;
Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,
That censures falsely what they see aright?
If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,
What means the world to say it is not so?
If it be not, then love doth well denote
Love's eye is not so true as all men's: no,
How can it? O! how can Love's eye be true,
That is so v…

"“Ohio” is a protest song written by Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970. "
#USpol
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_9VqfVQ9c

Revisiting some of my favorite #Kimock tracks over the past few days. 1-22-06 in Carrboro, the final SKB show. This was the opener. Sort of a plugged in Bitches Brew.
https://youtu.be/2npgKHkvn2k

Death Valley, with Timothy Spall, is great for at least two reasons:
1. Timothy Spall
2. Wales. And Welsh.
In a different timeline, the standard British accent is Welsh, and the rest of the world is enthralled (possibly even ensorcelled) by its musicality, and there's world peace and universal love and much happiness.
I missed it since Torchwood.

Massive glacier collapse in southern Switzerland today, destroying homes in the village of Blatten.
https://youtu.be/y0o8jEF4YaQ?si=CXT3Z8e-JilQCc_X

Vergelijk het verslag van het gesprek tussen Trump en Merz in #Nieuwsuur eens met het onderstaande.
Ze hebben bij Nieuwsuur erg hun best gedaan om zoveel mogelijk bullshit eruit te knippen en de indruk te wekken alsof Trump er nog 2 of 3 op een rijtje heeft.

Fröhlichen May the 4th Tag, und um ordentlich zu feiern, möchte ich euch dieses Video ans Herz legen, und generell alle Videos dieses Autoren, die immer so angenehm und ruhig erzählt sind und einen schönen Einblick in viele Aspekte der Filmkunst geben.
https://youtu.be/JkuS-JkHd8s

Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦠🦐
I've always been impressed by this video from New Scientist about #copepods, the planet's most abundant multicellular organism, with interviews from several UK uni…

"Knowledge in the Age of AI" - recording of a talk at King's College London
https://youtu.be/2oFrs86xtco?si=NeDgGUepy9gtHDn3

Calamus 18 City of my walks and joys!
A celebration of Manhattan. I love Whitman's embrace of cities as being just as vital as nature unspoiled. It reflects the humanist aspect of his joy in the world, not a Thoreau-like rejection of civilization.
I also love that Whitman is writing about cruising the streets, making eye contact with potential lovers, celebrating offerings of love.
as I pass, O Manhattan! your frequent and swift flash of eyes offering me love
Offering me the response of my own—these repay me,
Lovers, continual lovers, only repay me.
Whitman punched up the first line in later editions, escalating to "City of orgies, walks and joys!"

The demolition of the Phoenix Center in Pontiac officially begins Monday and will take 8 months. But you don't have to take my word for it:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=C6aI6u0KSBs

Some music for today's protests in the US. Stay safe everyone. Don't forget to dance as needed.
Laura Jane Grace, "Baby, I'm an Anarchist" (live, 2021)
https://youtu.be/7-nj4QhjJpc

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxXw0cB2LiiXi9EA0cCgpHyYJVis2gjHIK?si=YG2de1VJnKzpj9u0
Spot the moment “WYSIWYG” entered the social consciousness in 1993. And if you jump to 06:00, you’ll see part of Emma Bunton appearing as an extra for 5 …

The scientific method most of us learned in school—observation, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion—isn't wrong, but it's woefully incomplete.
https://youtu.be/ulVc6stmrB0?si=brE3SS6qDkKplHF8

Sonnet 148 - CXLVIII
O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight;
Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,
That censures falsely what they see aright?
If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,
What means the world to say it is not so?
If it be not, then love doth well denote
Love's eye is not so true as all men's: no,
How can it? O! how can Love's eye be true,
That is so v…

Did anyone ever establish whether or not Annie was in fact, ok?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h_D3VFfhvs4