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Thirty years old this week, I still treasure my glittering vinyl copy. The last great Stereolab album

Literally golden

youtu.be/w-tHWTzeWLs?...

Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat vinyl album.

#ExitMusic

Day 7: The Velvet Underground - The Gift

youtu.be/_Gwth0jfdfc?...

monday vibe 🎵

Just about every day is a good day to ride a bike in Minneapolis, but some days are especially good, and today is one of them.

You guys 🫶 your national parks. We work in them, we can tell!

In the last 5 months at our Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau NHP store on Hawaiʻi Island, you folks donated $24,027 at the register at checkout because you knew that your donations stay right there in the park.

Thank you very much!🌴🌊

IMGS: PUHO

A Kunpengopterus and Sinomacrops in a Ginkgoale tree. Cartoon.

🍂

Poster features a cartoonish painting of two military officers riding a carousel.

Hungarian poster for OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR (1969)

Probably worth remembering that countries like Saudi Arabia are holding up our sham bullshit tech economy and that something like a war that puts pressure on them and disrupts their operations could set off a chain of dominoes that a lot of people aren't really discussing.

The Aurora Tree apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26030...
The unusual Earth-sky collaboration was witnessed in March of 2017 in Iceland.

Sunset over Cloud City

A street in Saint Paul looking west

7:20pm. Darkness Bros, your time is over.

“The war serves Israeli, Saudi, and (with qualifications) Russian interests; the war has led the White House to share Israeli, Saudi, and Russian messaging.”

Winner Press photo of the Year 🇩🇰 📸

Capturing the crisis, and resilience, in Greenland 🇬🇱 💪🏽

Photo: Oscar Scott Carl
Source: dr.dk

A pair of dancers from the Margaret Morris dance company on the beach at Saint-Idesbald on the Belgian coast, 1929.

Stunning views crossing a frozen lake last night. And the trail was firm and fast too, which made a nice change from slogging through wet snow (at one point the night before Pulkee and I were doing 1 mph).

It would be only fair to the reader to say frankly in advance that the attitude of any person toward this story will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings, then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced. If, however, he regards the Negro as a distinctly inferior creation, who can never successfully take part in modern civilization and whose emancipation and enfranchisement were gestures against nature, then he will need something more than the sort of facts that I have set down. But this latter person, I am not trying to convince. I am simply pointing out these two points of view, so obvious to Americans, and then without further ado, I am assuming the truth of the first. In fine, I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience. W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS Atlanta, December, 1934

I'd forgotten how hard the preface to DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" (1934) went...and am saddened by how contemporary it still feels.

‘Lynchings in Mississippi never stopped’ Police ruled the deaths suicides; the families say their loved ones were lynched.

and more.. much more..

‘Lynchings in Mississippi never stopped’

JACKSON, Miss. — Since 2000, there have been at least eight suspected lynchings of Black men and teenagers in Mississippi, according to court records and police reports.

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/...

Who killed Rasheem Carter? A shattered skeleton. Gruesome rumors. A brutal history of lynchings. And tight-lipped cops who quickly said "no foul play."

on that note.. bringing "it" stateside and only several yrs ago...

Who Killed Rasheem Carter?

A shattered skeleton. Gruesome rumors. A brutal history of lynchings. And tight-lipped cops who quickly said “no foul play.”

www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...

South Africa: Apartheid mass killer who ‘hunted’ black people says police encouraged him | BBC News

youtu.be/kreRjuJQnfo?...

idk why I watched "The Apartheid Killer"~ one of many notorious white supremacist serial killers during S Africa's apartheid era (a lot like lynchings during Jim Crow & even currently going unnoticed)

anyhoo it was immensely satisfying knowing Louis van Schoor died a painful death from sepsis 😊

Parasail surfer soars, Kelly’s Cove, Ocean Beach, San Francisco 5:45p 3/5/26 @trachkids.bsky.social @waves-sf.bsky.social @sfsurfing.bsky.social

Land’s End, San Francisco 5:30p 3/5/26 @trachkids.bsky.social @waves-sf.bsky.social

Dropkick Murphys finish up their set at a benefit show across from Alex Pretti Memorial: “We’ll never forget what we saw with our own eyes, we’ll never forget what we’ve seen here today. thank we’ve seen here today. Thank you all for allowing us to come bear witness with you, thank you Minnesota!”.

the majority of VCs financing andreessen, tech fascism... /network state and AI are the Saudis + UAE

Saudi real estate developer Red Sea Global launches AI venture fund.

Saudi venture capital market posts record-breaking 254 deals, $1.66 billion investment value in 2025

Saudi Arabian poultry, food producer enters collaboration with global venture capital firm.

Venture capital sets two milestones as Saudi Arabia leads for a third straight year in 2025. 25-fold increase since 2018.

One of the biggest reasons that tech fascism is happening is because of the rise of venture capital in Saudi Arabia and its alliance with US tech fascists.

And 2025 was a big year for it.

always relevant

Neighbors responded swiftly and the cowards exited the area immediately after confrontation. Still astonishing after all these weeks that there isn't even an attempt to *not* look exactly like the child kidnappers that they are. Less subtle than the predators *without* badges.

ICE hanging out next to the playground on my block in a literal white panel van.