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Tech writer by profession. Music lover, occasional fiction writer, studying Yiddish. My posts are often tagged *NowPlaying. UNAPOLOGETICALLY WOKE New liver, same eagles.
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Saying it loud: I support my trans brothers and sisters in Britain and beyond. Costs you nothing to stand up and be counted in your support.

#Top20Instrumentals by bands not generally known for their instrumentals. Rush - YYZ One of my great regrets is that I never saw them live. youtu.be/mKj36EUoU5I?... I used to have a play list of about 15 versions of this.

Never forget.

#Top20Instrumentals by bands not known for instrumentals. The Replacements - Buck Hill. Another surf classic by a band not known for surf music. youtu.be/l5NkKt48PVg?...

April 19th is the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. Come march. www.fiftyfifty.one

#Top20Instrumentals by bands not known for their instrumentals. #14 For this one the choice was between Devo Corporate Anthem, the track that opens their second album Duty Now for the Future and Freedom of Choice Theme Song. Going with the former. youtu.be/vsXcmkVUMDM?...

#Top20Instrumentals by bands not known for their instrumentals. #13 Go-Go's - Surfing and Spying youtu.be/oaN6c4Ifae0?...

#Top20Instrumentals by bands not known for their instrumentals. #12 The Pogues - Metropolis from the brilliance that is the album If I Should Fall From Grace With God. (Mind you, I never need to hear Fairytale of New York again, lovely as it is, but the rest? Dang.) youtu.be/90z0J0w1GHY?...

#Top20Instrumentals by bands not generally known for instrumentals. I’m a couple of days behind. Sorry. Family gathering. #11 Roxy Music - Tara youtu.be/wgx2Ic0plaY This gorgeous track was the closer to their final studio album, Avalon.

100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion in the 2024 election. 70% of these donations went to Republicans. Now, Republicans in Congress are gearing up to slash essential programs to pay for another round of tax cuts for the rich. This is what oligarchy looks like.

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Hell yeah.

Things Democratic Senators could do that would be useful: - Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored - Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored - Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored

Correct.

#Top20Instrumentals by bands not known for instrumentals. Bauhaus - Satori youtu.be/bq_Amq_Jw70?...

And that’s no stretch.

Hell, yeah. More democrats like Rep. Stansbury, please.

It's always a good time to read The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas. Five pages that, as noted below, hit like a truck Essential reading in these times.

Words to live by right now...

What the everloving Fuck, Mississippi?

#Top20Instrumentals by bands who aren't generally known for their instrumentals. Day 9: Duran Duran - Tiger Tiger I think I'm in the minority regarding my unrestrained love for the album Seven and the Ragged Tiger. I had a cassette of it in '84 that I wore out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Bk...

Love love love..

it hasn't even been a full three months. imagine an entire year of this. and multiple years after that. this is not sustainable.

Despite having had a wealth of hits in the 80s/90s when I was attentive to the charts, I don't know a single Richard Marx song. Not sure when last I heard him mentioned. So it's strange that I dreamed of him being wired up to a breathing apparatus and wheeled into a cafe I was in. My head is weird.

the answer to “what would you have done in germany in 1933” is, for a disturbing number of people, “cooperate eagerly”

Thought experiment time! If y'all *were* Russian assets, what would you do differently?

#Top20Instrumentals by bands who aren't generally known for their instrumentals. Day 8: Van Halen - Eruption. The album version is a compact 1:42. This one is almost 11 minutes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxg1...