A superb Ted Talk from David McWilliams
 https://youtu.be/hUPrUJ4F_Ro


Yorkshire is clearly expanding its horizons ….

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Naming Coventions Of A Different Kind https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/03/naming-coventions-of.html


Whilst I don’t believe that naming a child ‘Sofía Fernanda Dolores Cayetana Teresa Ángela de la Cruz Micaela del Santísimo Sacramento del Perpetuo Socorro de la Santísima Trinidad y de Todos Los Santos’ is in any way a good idea .. I don’t believe that any government should be allowed to force the parents ... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/03/whilst-i-dont.html


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Quick there’s a bus … throw him under it.

But he’s your brother.

So?

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Lessin puts into words a personal complaint I’ve had for years … read Ben’s whole piece here.
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Sesimbra by day …

.. and by night

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Sometime in the future people will look at these markings and wonder what they were for.

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🔗 An unusual newsletter from me - connecting to unusual subject matter (for me) in my Substack.

Enjoy?
 https://open.substack.com/pub/johnphilpin/p/do-you-remember?r=2d79&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web


🔗 ‘Nature’s way of dealing with old people’.

Boris … so powerful, so caring, so concerned … so Boris.
 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/31/natures-way-of-dealing-with-old-people-the-damning-messages-revealed-to-covid-inquiry


It's All Theater https://john.philpin.com/2023/11/01/its-all-theater.html


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“Wolf in sheep’s clothing’s clothing” .. that’s how I see this Johnson chap. What about you?


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🪦 Sorry Matt … 54 is too young …. Your demons were too many.


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🪦 Sleep well Richard - the real Shaft.


Bike now on SetApp … nice.


Poland and Portugal both added to my ‘Where’s Waldo’ page.
 https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/30/wheres-waldo.html


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That’s what the London Underground does to you 🤓

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Farewell Pebble - and thanks for letting me know. I know I signed up at some point - but as I type - I have no idea of what you do.

I wonder if this observation and your closure are related.


Pete Seeger comes to mind.

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🪦 Goodbye Bobbie … not a ⚽ fan … but for you I made an exception.


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🪦 Keep playing great 🎵 in the sky Carla, we’ll keep listening.


Just added 🔗 📚 The Exponential Age by Azeem Azhar to my book lists.
 https://micro.blog/books/9781635769081


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I don’t make predictions … but that’s no reason to try one out.

Concerts … live and recorded … at the Sphere … will be part of the Vision pro launch. Maybe even with an ‘available only on’ … for first year?


🎵 What The Hell Happened https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/17/what-the-hell.html


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Paris - Booked.

Lisbon - Booked.

York - not yet ☹.


Now THERE is a little bit of history on 🔗 Flatiron’s web site @danielpunkass

"… originally home to Pearson Weekly and the first ever crossword published in the UK …."

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🔗🎵 ‘Joni Mitchell watched me sing one of her songs. I was horrified’: Rick Beato, the world’s best-loved music nerd.

Love Beato
 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/19/joni-mitchell-watched-me-sing-one-of-her-songs-i-was-horrified-rick-beato-the-worlds-best-loved-music-nerd


🔗 ‘That decision cost lives’: Covid data case further deflates Ron DeSantis’s campaign.

… not that we care about him anymore … but if we could just bankrupt him❓
 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/15/ron-desantis-republican-presidential-campaign-covid-data-florida-deaths


🔗 White House seeks vast weapons package ‘to help Israel defend itself’.

Be interesting to see if this can happen while the house is out of action … because it then begs the question as to why the same can’t happen for Ukraine?
 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/15/joe-biden-jake-sullivan-israel-gaza-hamas


The Problem in the house is not 10 extremists .. lay it at the feet of every single spineless house rethuglican  https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/15/the-problem-in.html


I have often wondered why Jax asks me what she would wear. Regardless of the suggestion .. it never appears on that outing. So why bother?

Cracked it today. It helps her narrow her choice down. 🤣


I thought this was an interesting Gaping Void, in that the wars can be taken two ways. I notices it because on my foray take I understood it the ’other’ way and thought it odd.

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Australia rejects constitutional change.

And yet, across the Tasman in a curious twist of fate … It might be that Te Pati Māori win so many seats that National will need NZ FIRST to form a government.
 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/14/australian-voters-reject-proposal-for-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-at-historic-referendum


📸 I wonder who they are talking about 😂

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Max Hastings is voting Labour over ‘dreadful’ Tories led by ‘loser’.

Let that sink in.

Max Hastings!
 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-tories-starmer-telegraph-hastings-b2428395.html


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🪦 Goodbye Rudolph. Gone at 84, married for 68 of them. Congratulations on a good life. A well lived life.


‘kin’ hell.


🔗 The double standard with Israel and Palestine leaves us in moral darkness.
 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/11/israel-palestine-war-biden-zelenskiy


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📸 I Love London

…though strictly speaking what he was playing was ‘far out’.

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🔗 Netanyahu is drawing the US into war with Iran.

So the US can be drawn into a war that Israel starts … but not into a war to defend Russian aggression?
 https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/10/9/netanyahu-is-drawing-the-us-into-war-with-iran


The thing is … it doesn’t really matter how many bombs, tanks, secret police and money you have … if you push again not people too much …they will rise up against you and comeback at you with such speed, surprise and aggression that it will catch you by surprise.


🎵 The venom of people writing how they hate Water’s new take on DSOTM is quite extraordinary. Not going to bother engaging with them … but, for the record 😂 I think it is quite brilliant … And the videos allow you to truly let those amazing words sink in.


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Aaah Yes …..

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Israel vs Palestine | Russia vs Ukraine  Can You Tell The Difference. https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/09/israel-vs-palestine.html


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"Lawmakers also emphasized that the lack of a speaker could slow any efforts to help Israel with additional funding and fight to prevent terrorist attacks from occurring elsewhere."

But not an issue in not supporting Ukraine against Russia?

No response needed … we know why.


🔗 Anyone using Hemingway?

Theres a new version out. Thoughts?
 https://hemingwayapp.com/desktop.html


🔗 California workers who cut countertops are dying of an incurable disease. (Apple News)
 https://apple.news/Aw8LlGs2BSOmF507dOwf0NQ


🔗 🎵 ‘His work seems endless’: music stars pay tribute to the incredible life of Moondog.

Back in the day I had ‘my Moondog’ … it still lives with my other vinyl down in Surrey.
 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/26/moondog-eccentric-musician-songs-and-symphoniques


Politically Correct Conference Panels. https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/08/politically-correct-conference.html


Plenty Of Time Is Not Always A Good Idea https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/08/plenty-of-time.html


"The Beat Generation’s 🔗 William S Burroughswas a grandson of 🔗 William Seward Burroughs, the founder of 🔗 Burroughs Corporation."

Why has it taken me this long to learn that?

🔗 Thankyou JP
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Burroughs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Seward_Burroughs_I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Arithmometer_Company https://confusedofcalcutta.com/2023/09/22/thinking-lazily-about-capacity-and-constraints/


🔗 🎵 Now THAT is a Secretary of State!

… Warning … it is on the site formally known as Twitter.
 https://x.com/secblinken/status/1707230831528620109


🔗 If you want to join me on Twin Me … I am here …

In case you are wondering … peer to peer messaging - no central server .. not even a Mastodon ‘like’ approach.

Still don’t know how they do it - and I am sure that someone soon 	 is going to tell me all the reasons why I shouldn’t be using it!

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🔗 If you want to join me on Twin Me … I am here …

In case you are wondering … peer to peer messaging - no central server .. not even a Mastodon ‘like’ approach.

Still don’t know how they do it - and I am sure that someone soon is going to tell me all the reasons why I shouldn’t be using it!
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🔗 If you want to join me on Twin Me … I am here …

In case you are wondering … peer to peer messaging - no central server .. not even a Mastodon ‘like’ approach.

Still don’t know how they do it - and I am sure that someone soon 	 is going to tell me all the reasons why I shouldn’t be using it!

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Us vs Them  Us and Them  Us + Them https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/08/us-vs-them.html


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Have to say it’s not what we usually read … or expect.

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Why do eight radicals hold power over the entire US House of Representatives?

"The good news is that’s actually not so hard. If the House elected leaders with ranked-choice voting (RCV), this debacle could have been avoided from the beginning. Imagine how different this would have been. The Democratic minority leader Hakeem Jeffries would have led after the first round. McCarthy would have been second. And the Republican Freedom Caucus protest candidate would have finished a distant third. No one would have earned a majority, so an instant runoff would have kicked in."

Excellent idea.

The bad news... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/07/why-do-eight.html


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90% of Covid deaths are unvaccinated adults over 65 … isn’t that the MAGA crowd?

Carry on. Every day moves to more favorable odds in 2024.


🔗Senators warn House Republicans that a more conservative speaker won’t make their dreams come true. (Apple News)

Sorry team … that’s not what they are trying to do … it’s about blowing up the institution, sticking it to anyone that disagrees, slowing down everything if not just stopping it and getting th... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2023/10/06/senators-warn-house.html


🔗 Roll Over, Cloud Czars - Dana Blankenhorn
 https://open.substack.com/pub/danafblankenhorn/p/roll-over-cloud-czars


📸

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You see Drew … karma has a way …


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Stoic - 10-04


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US Poliics?

“it’s complicated”


"“It’s not our circus and he’s not our clown”"

😂😂


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A London Perspective

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I didn’t see the sign above this graphic saying no photography until after I took it.

Then again, there was nothing to say you couldn’t publish it if you had.

I was more taken with the ‘consistency’ of the advice as to how you should pack and travel.

To be clear - not taken at 🖇 Heathrow.

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Just in case you didn’t know ….

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🎵 You know how it is …. you check into your hotel and wander down to the bar and the next thing you know - you bump into Ryan Waste. He and his band 🔗 Municipal Waste just flew in from the US for a 🔗 three week tour.

Had to get a selfy …

Him with his band …

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🔗 Trump says he would prefer to die by electrocution in bizarre campaign rant.

Is there anyway we can make that happen?

Soon?

Asking for a friend.
 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/02/donald-trump-electrocution-campaign-event-iowa


🔗 Crop Circles: What Is Behind These Complex and Intricate Works of Art?

A recurring question in my world …
 https://open.substack.com/pub/tpulse/p/crop-circles-what-is-behind-these


A link to this appeared in John Naughton’s newsletter. So much to love about so much of Jon Lord’s work.

🔗 🎵 Afterwords is no exception.
 https://songwhip.com/jon-lord/to-notice-such-things-vi-afterwards


Finally! Can sit down, ‘avec l’ordinateur’, and fix the broken posts and links that have been posted on 🖇 my blog these past few days.

Thankyou for your patience.
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📸 Hello London

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"“We cannot under any circumstances allow American support for Ukraine to be interrupted,” Biden said. “I fully expect the speaker will keep his commitment to the people of Ukraine and secure passage of the support needed to help Ukraine at this critical moment.”"

Having spent the last week in Poland and the last three days in Rzeszow, I saw and heard first hand the challenges being faced in that region.

These extremist idiots in the US government need to be faced down, voted out and removed from any positions they hold.
 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-01-13/putin-s-war-in-ukraine-turns-sleepy-polish-city-into-unlikely-global-airport-hub


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And so we hit ‘30’ - 🖇 September Challenge Completed.
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"She’s not the only one who thought so. “Today really was rock bottom,” said Natalie Winters, a co-host of Steve Bannon’s far-right War Room podcast. “Our House Republicans don’t know what they’re doing.”
“I don’t know what was achieved over these last six-plus hours,” added Fox News’ Neil Cavuto. “Picking witnesses that refute House Republicans’ arguments for impeachment is mind blowing,” as a senior GOP aide told CNN’s Melanie Zanona. “This is an unmitigated disaster.”"

— and that’s from commentators favorable to Republicans on the ‘impeachment’.


🪦Oh no … Dumbledor?

Thankyou Michael … and not just for showing Harry the way.


"The speaker refused to say on Thursday whether he would try to cut a deal with Democrats if conservative hardliners bring down his stopgap measure."

It’s hard to see what he can do otherwise.

Oh wait … that’s right  … close the Govt’ just like the absolute, looney, extremist, fascist, Putin puppets are saying they want to do.


📰 Oooh oooh .. I know … for us all to forget that he is a pedophile and sex trafficker … just like the legal system seem to have done.

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📸 Day 2

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Bulbs that improve the contrast.

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Evgeny Afineevsky is director of ‘Freedom On Fire’ .. it’s about to start … private showing at the conference .. he will be talking afterwards.

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📸

Complete with sunglasses.

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"There is nothing we can do alone.
There is everything we can do together."

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📸 230927 🖇 #MBSept

Bracelets also available .. they are the ones on the left.
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🪦 Bye Bye Google Podcasts … catch you over the next YouTube? Because of course that’s where I really want to listen to my podcasts.


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Just the cost of doing business .. wound have bought one of the houses.

🔗 JP Morgan settles Jeffrey Epstein lawsuits with US Virgin Islands for $75m.
 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/26/jpmorgan-jeffrey-epstein-lawsuit-settlement-us-virgin-islands


Dress ‘code’ does not always improve dress ‘sense’, much less dress ‘style’.


We haven’t seen the deal yet .. but when Galloway says unless the writers strike results in greater than a 16% increase in writers pay … I would argue that he is totally missing the point.

When he says the writers are striking against the wrong people he is definitely missing the point.

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That moment when you use two fingers on the paper map to ‘zoom in’.


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Beverage line 1 - where ‘Establishment 1’ could teach ‘Establishment 2’ a thing or two about attracting a crowd.

Beverage line 2 - where ‘Establishment 2’ could teach ‘Establishment 1’ a thing or two about providing a relaxed environment.

There’s always a balance!
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📸 I say it’s a heart.

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Just updated my ‘🖇 Places I have lived and visited’ list to include Poland.
Got here last night … heading back  on Sunday,
 https://john.philpin.com/2023/05/30/wheres-waldo.html


"It takes a lot of energy not to trust someone."

.. 🖇 same friend
 https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/25/everybody-wants-to.html


📎 The rock’s the star: meditative film about a Cornish stone goes global

Added this 🎬 to my ‘find and watch’ list.

… and 🔗 this one … though totally different.
 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/22/the-rocks-the-star-meditative-film-about-a-cornish-stone-goes-global https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/820609-no-one-will-save-you


"Everybody wants to be Jim Morrison but nobody wants to be found outside the 🔗 Whisky a Go Go out of your skull."

Just rapping with a friend - and out pops this sentence.
 https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_a_Go_Go


📎 The former refugee who wants to cut immigration, and become the first female Dutch PM.

I have no idea who she is … but the story smacks of ‘climbing the ladder provided … and pulling it up after you’. We’ve got them in The US and the UK .. you know who I am talking about.
 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/23/dilan-yesilgoz-zegerius-former-refugee-wants-cut-immigration-first-female-dutch-pm?


Heathrow Is So Special … And Not In A Good Way.

The bag and its contents (not always the same - but pretty darn similar) has flown ‘in cabin’ all over America, to and from Mexico, down to New Zealand, around New Zealand across to Oz and back, then returning to America through Hawaii and onwards across to London … not a single problem.

Terminal 5, Heathrow … 45 minutes stood at security analyzing and rescanning that very same bag three times. Some items thrown away … like a small bottle of perfume, creams etc. Some items packaged up and in around 48 hours you can go online - pay the ransom fee and h... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/25/heathrow-is-so.html


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We learn about flares very early.

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The down escalator is ‘chokka’ . Lady steps off and stops 2 feet away from the moving stairs, joined by her partner about 2 seconds later, who doesn’t move her along but proceeds to get his map out while they both look around.  Their surprise when two seconds later more people ‘join them’ and two seconds a... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2023/09/24/the-down-escalator.html


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📸 230924🖇 #MBSept

Maybe the most famous belt to certain aficionados?

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Jax at the bar, tasting a glass before commitment .. local siddles up asks her if it’s any good, ‘cos if it is .. me and my mates would like to buy you a bottle’ … ‘I don’t know’ she says - turns to me - ‘what do you think’? ‘Up to you’ I said.
She turns back to the local, he was back with his mates 😂


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Apologies to all .. On the road plus iOS issues means I can’t  deliver my usual, suave, sophisticated flows 🥳 .. When I hit the main computer next - will clean up. Sorry .. I hope that whatever the bug is gets fixed soon.


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🔗 McCarthy says hard-right Republicans ‘want to burn whole place down’..

FINALLY … he gets it. But they can be stopped if Kevin has the cahoonas.
 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/21/government-shutdown-latest-spending-vote-mccarthy-republicans


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🔗 News Corp shareholders renew call for Rupert Murdoch to step down.

Ten years later ….

🔗 Rupert Murdoch stepping down as chair of Fox and News Corp.
 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/may/08/news-corp-shareholders-rupert-murdoch https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/sep/21/rupert-murdoch-stepping-down-chair-fox-news-corp


"The 11 senators voting against Brown were all Dicks Republicans: Mike Braun (Ind.), Ted Cruz (Tex.), Josh Hawley (Mo.), Mike Lee (Utah), Roger Marshall (Kan.), Eric Schmitt (Mo.), J.D. Vance (Ohio), Ron Johnson (Wis.), Cynthia M. Lummis (Wyo.), Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Tuberville."


Just been reading threads, posts and comments on various sites … it’s so relaxing  beats sleeping 🤪. One thought before I once again try to cross 🔗 The Point Of No Return.

Doesn’t our side have guns?
 https://substack.philpin.com/p/the-point-of-no-return


I don’t care that his account was hacked … I’m more concerned about the 10 million sad people  who follow him. They need to help.


I would have thought that one a week would be more than sufficient. Or is there something they know that I don’t?

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🔗 This Week In Disgrace. … Just in case you have lost track of the celebrity faux pas in the past week.
 https://open.substack.com/pub/todayintabs/p/this-week-in-disgrace


📸 230920🖇 #MBSept

Disruption isn’t new. Disruption isn’t always about Silicon Valley. Disruption isn’t ’American’. Imagine the disruption to people’s lives in the tiny hamlet of Akaroa when this was installed in 1901.
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Good job with the @gruber episode @martinfeld …. noting that it is (I think) 🎙🔗 the longest one you have published (?) … fitting for the guest 🤪 … seriously though, nice job and good to hear Mr G wax lyrical on his story. Lovely listen.
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📸 230919🖇 #MBSept

Looking down on the edge of the world.

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💬

Let’s call it ‘his brand’.

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I don’t recall ever signing up for this - but clearly I did. And now they are closing. Oh well.

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T2 is now Pebble.. ok.
But now they want me to connect to the app formerly known as ….
… to confirm that I am a good fit.
I am already on T2.
Color me confused.


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📸 230918🖇 #MBSept

You might not think of wine as fabric, but with the right wine in the right hands, it can be just that … if not the very foundation of ‘good society’. Clearly the French agree. You just have to read the label.

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📰

So great to see my friends on Maui all pitching in as they can.

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🎵 Back in the day, a gentleman by name of Pete Frame produced two stunning 📚books … Rock Family Trees. Hand drawn ‘family trees’ of Rock Giants at the time.

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🔗 I think Bob Lefsetz is an iPhone fan. A big one.
 https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2023/09/16/iphone-update/


🪦 RIP John Marshall (1941-2023). A tribute by Theo Travis.

A sad loss to the 🎵industry.

(Originally shared by @artkavagnah on Substack)
 https://londonjazznews.com/2023/09/17/john-marshall-1941-2023-a-tribute-by-theo-travis/


"The word world, even when preceded by the immodest adjective real, is a self-consciously anthropocentric one that seems curiously aware of its own artificiality. Unlike planet, which decenters the human, or universe, which renders the human infinitesimal, world seems to carry with it an unspoken irrational commitment to the centered human, with all the absurdities such centering entails."

💬 Venkatesh Rao


🔗 Russell Brand: In Plain Sight review – so many red flags ignored for so long.

"From demeaning sexual remarks on radio to offering his assistant naked to Jimmy Savile, every disturbing detail of this cogent documentary makes it mind-boggling that these alleged abuses have taken so long to surface."

🖇 🔎 Branded
 https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/sep/17/russell-brand-in-plain-sight-review-so-many-red-flags-ignored-for-so-long?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=Russell+brand


Dear Drew .. what were you even thinking? If it is so clear now why wasn’t it a week ago?

🔗 Drew Barrymore Isn’t Bringing Back Daytime Show Until Strike Ends
 https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/drew-barrymore-daytime-talk-show-not-returning-strike-1235725739/


📸 230917🖇 #MBSept

Our first promotion of Stop Child Traffic was as intense as the intense chocolates that made up the floor prizes at the IIW. But nowhere near as intense as the next three years.

P.S. … we know the chocolates were intense … it says so, right there on the packet.
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🔗 Binance.US CEO Brian Shroder bails as the company cuts 1/3 of its employees.

Because of course they are.
 https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/binanceus-ceo-leaves


🔗 😂 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ancient times

Waves Cane.
 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ancient-times


🔗 Twitter is Still Throttling Competitors’ Links.

Because of course they are.

PS - Why don’t we all just move on?
 https://themarkup.org/investigations/2023/09/15/twitter-is-still-throttling-competitors-links-check-for-yourself


🔗 Headphones are collecting too much personal data/

Because of course they are!
 https://www.soundguys.com/headphones-are-collecting-too-much-personal-data-21524/


I am no fan of Brand … as I have 🖇 🔎 previously touched on … so this comes as no surprise. Of course, I have no ideaof the truth and we don’t yet know the story … but where there’s smoke etc etc.

🔗 Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse.

🔗 Just some of his shit.
 https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=Russell+brand https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/sep/16/russell-brand-accused-of-sexual-assault-and-emotional-abuse https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/sep/16/russell-brand-media-personality-is-no-stranger-to-controversy


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📸 230916🖇 #MBSept

Oof just what was needed. Wish it was every day … ‘needed’ or not.

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📸 230915🖇 #MBSept

it’s the ’Red Fort’ … How much more red can it be?

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📰

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Seems an auspicious milestone?

Or Not.

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New material emerging from Steven Wilson. All links below are Songwhip, so listen via your app of choice. Listed in personal preference of the music.

🎵🔗 Impossible Tightrope

🎵🔗 Rock Bottom with Ninet Tayeb

🎵🔗 Economies of Scale … wonderful video, so click on the YouTube link.
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"The expansion means the G20 will need a new name, with observers working on the basis that it will be called the G21 going forwards, though this has not been confirmed."

… then again … isn’t there one in there who should be thrown out?


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Pretty sure this qualifies as a statue. I mean, I’ve got others, but to riff on the words of Mr. Dundee …

"Call that a statue? This is a statue."

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📸 230913🖇 #MBSept

The ‘glow’ might not immediately be apparent - but it is there.

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Where does this end up?


Looks like 🔗 PopMoney.com have lost the battle.
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"This is the BBC …"

"This podcast is supported bah advertaasin artsaad the UK"

Is it just the old curmudgeon in me?

… where’s my cane?


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📸 230912🖇 #MBSept

Don’t Panic

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Seems that McCarthyism is back. Different flavor maybe … but we don’t actually know that.


🎵 Background music playing. I know it. I know it . Not placing it. 60s? 70s? I know I know I know it. Give up. Shazam. Three times … can’t find it. But McLaughlin I think … McLaughlin. Soundhound craps out. Jax asks attendant. He doesn’t know, pulls out Shazam. I walk over. Cracked it I said ………

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🔗 22 services targeted by EU’s tough new DMA.

I get the App Store … but can someone explain Safari? I know it’s the default iOS Browser, but it takes 5 seconds to change it. What is the issue?

🔗 Q&A: DMA: Ensuring fair and open digital markets
 https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/6/23859570/european-union-commission-digital-markets-act-gatekeepers-apple-google-meta-microsoft https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_20_2349


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📸 230911 🖇 #MBSept

Released in 2011, 🔗🎵 The Floyd Retrospective is itself old enough to be a retrospective, but in any case, this footage is not part of it, because it has just been rediscovered.

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Looks like Carlos has a side gig 😂🎵

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📸 Apparently for sale - not just decorative - and can be used. Though not known if they are.

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📸 230909 🖇 #MBSept

A little north of Auckland these is something called Sculptereum, and in one of the corners of Sculptereum, there is an installation that includes one of my favorite quotes.

"Music is an art form than transcends language."

💬 Herbie Hancock

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🔗 Predicting Apple Services.

Horace is one of my favorite analysts. Love to know how accurate this is.

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📸 230908 🖇 #MBSept

I approached today’s prompt with apprehension. ’Yonder’ for goodness sake. But I 🖇 stuck to my guns, took a deep breath, opened photos and entered ‘yonder’ into the search. Just a single image came up.

Initially it made no sense. But look closely and all is revealed.

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🔗 Former Trump White House adviser found guilty of contempt of Congress.

… dum dum dum, and …

🎵 📺 Another one bites the dust.
 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/07/navarro-trial-guilty-contempt-congress-trump-adviser-january-6 https://youtu.be/-q4AHfVlgno?si=Y7P544cN7BkMC6m_


What’s App has been around for how long? And now they have introduced the idea of sending a message to yourself.

You can see why they are seen as so innovative.


🔗 I tried Dave’s prompt

Need to add something about deduping.

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🔗 Money does not solve disasters like this.
 https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/09/04/money-does-not-solve-disasters-like-this/


🔗 Reconstructing Tenochtitlan

What an awesome city.

What an awesome reconstruciton.

Don’t just click into Doug’s post - 🔗 explore the site.
 https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/09/04/reconstructing-tenochtitlan/ https://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl


🔗 I looked at 17,702 links I’ve saved since 2009 to see how bad “link rot” really is

25% seemed low - but that is overall. Ten  year old links are sitting around 33%.
 https://birchtree.me/blog/i-looked-at-17702-links-ive-saved-since-2009-to-see-how-bad-link-rot-really-is/


🔗 Plan for 55,000-acre Silicon Valley utopia unveiled.

It would appear that the designers have explored how new neighborhoods were promoted in the ‘50s and didn’t even bother to update the images.

🎙 If you prefer to listen - Kevin and Casey with their usual over the top breathless commentary.
 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/02/silicon-valley-elites-utopian-city-california https://overcast.fm/+m_rpnRuU4


📸 230907 🖇 #MBSept

Sometimes the panorama setting just doesn’t do justice.

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I asked ChatGPT to read my post and give me a 200 character summary.

"This blog questions if institutions can be founders. It argues founders are individuals, while organizations serve as vehicles for change, relying on teams for success. Established companies often struggle to innovate."

Not bad.
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Whenever MicroBlog launched one of their challenges, it takes me a while to lock into the format I want to standardize on for the series. I think I finally have it nailed for 🖇 #MBSept

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