Posts by tommyyum@mstdn.social
(DIR) Post #AVjBEtGDFcFRnEVokC by tommyyum@mstdn.social
2023-05-16T23:25:47Z
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@stux Thank you!
(DIR) Post #AVor6UktdzR1LALLRA by tommyyum@mstdn.social
2023-05-19T13:32:20Z
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This is tough. RIP Andy Rourke of The Smiths. Guitarist Johnny Marr: “Andy will be remembered as a kind and beautiful soul by those who knew him and as a supremely gifted musician by music fans.” https://www.irishnews.com/magazine/entertainment/2023/05/19/news/johnny_marr_pays_tribute_after_the_smiths_bassist_andy_rourke_dies_aged_59-3289546/
(DIR) Post #AVor6VdUN16U4TswWu by tommyyum@mstdn.social
2023-05-19T16:43:24Z
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Let us remember what an absolute monster bass player Andy Rourke was. https://youtube.com/watch?v=y_T1NE4Q2BI&feature=share
(DIR) Post #AVscXrQCUefLhjQ9tg by tommyyum@mstdn.social
2023-05-21T12:44:08Z
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@stux Well done Washy!
(DIR) Post #AWE81cEsD8an5arRUO by tommyyum@mstdn.social
2023-05-30T21:57:16Z
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Today I am two years #sober.
(DIR) Post #AWE9cglASttTmNCxY8 by tommyyum@mstdn.social
2023-05-31T22:03:43Z
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@fcktheworld587 🙏❤️🙏
(DIR) Post #AWUDsA45IfEHMC33uy by tommyyum@mstdn.social
2023-06-08T15:35:41Z
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@stevesilberman May he be quickly forgotten. A moral homunculus.
(DIR) Post #AWUHcQ6SInM0HXuHpo by tommyyum@mstdn.social
2023-06-08T16:48:43Z
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@fcktheworld587 @stevesilberman His only memorial should be infamy.
(DIR) Post #AWZ5geKN89LXtgSxpQ by tommyyum@mstdn.social
2023-06-10T23:41:49Z
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Farewell Astrid Gilberto, and thank you. #RIP #samba #music https://youtube.com/watch?v=9srw5FRm5eA&feature=share
(DIR) Post #AWZ5gfHDbMPyqBzxYG by tommyyum@mstdn.social
2023-06-10T23:48:08Z
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One more from Astrid Gilberto. This version ❤️ https://youtu.be/FdRCRJvxHtY
(DIR) Post #AWyQPUmbTbkb0fHMUS by tommyyum@mstdn.social
2023-06-22T21:23:03Z
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This reflects my feelings. “Titan and Adriana are two vessels recently lost at sea, four days and 4,000 miles apart. The five men who lost their lives on the Titan have been getting wall-to-wall coverage in the media worldwide. Meanwhile, the estimated 700 who died when the Adriana sank off the coast of Greece, mostly women and children, have been essentially forgotten.”https://www.democracynow.org/2023/6/22/a_titanic_disparity_in_how_the
(DIR) Post #AYUkE0gPhMbHNR36IK by tommyyum@mstdn.social
2023-08-07T16:41:57Z
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Justice is being shot out of a Cannon.“MSNBC host and former prosecutor Katie Phang: ‘If the DOJ filed under seal certain documents, and Judge Cannon just disclosed the existence of an otherwise confidential grand jury proceeding, we might be at the motion for recusal stage for the DOJ…’” https://www.rawstory.com/trump-aileen-cannon-2662883975/
(DIR) Post #AYUkE2bWYVsTKqmDx2 by tommyyum@mstdn.social
2023-08-07T16:58:03Z
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That #Cannon joke courtesy of @Popehat, IIRC
(DIR) Post #AYlJXWuVPeK0ta9uro by tommyyum@mstdn.social
2023-08-15T17:43:54Z
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@JenniferJorgenson YOU MIGHT REMEMBER ME FROM THE ALPHABET
(DIR) Post #AZOUHfyDf4cWNbymye by tommyyum@mstdn.social
2023-09-03T15:09:00Z
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So why are Scientologists so keen to keep the public from picking through their E-meter software? "My hunch is that the Scientologists think granting the hacking community permission to dig into their E-Meter software will expose the whole operation as snake oil," iFixit director of sustainability Elizabeth Chamberlain said. https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/01/right_to_repair_scientology/
(DIR) Post #AZs7aHoFCpqPsEBatM by tommyyum@mstdn.social
2023-09-17T17:21:03Z
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"What astonished us was the significant positive impacts of the cash transfers. Cash recipients spent 99 fewer days in homelessness on average over one year.That led to net cost savings of $777 per person per year. That means the cash transfers actually saved the government and taxpayers money. Cash recipients increased spending on rent, food, transit and things like furniture or a car.Importantly, they did not increase spending on alcohol, drugs and cigarettes."https://theconversation.com/we-gave-7-500-to-people-experiencing-homelessness-heres-what-happened-next-212960
(DIR) Post #Aay48Wq0GeNTFSQJOK by tommyyum@mstdn.social
2023-10-20T14:17:25Z
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@Holberg Instability is the point; paralysis the goal.
(DIR) Post #Aim4hPS5PuQaMABuhk by tommyyum@mstdn.social
2024-06-10T02:04:40Z
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“Einstein argued that capitalism results ‘an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society’.‘Moreover, private capitalists inevitably control the main sources of information (press, radio, education).‘It is thus extremely difficult for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights’.” https://fullfact.org/online/Einstein-warning-rich-control-communication/
(DIR) Post #AnsIlKUxTYx6TTFYBM by tommyyum@mstdn.social
2024-11-09T18:02:51Z
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(DIR) Post #AoDdtyauShqoVH9kn2 by tommyyum@mstdn.social
2024-11-19T15:25:57Z
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I understand #Bluesky now. It's Twitter redux, in the sense that it preserves a status-based hierarchy. Half of the most popular posts I'm seeing take two forms:"I lost [x] number of Twitter followers but just woke up to [x+y] here!"; or, simply,"WOW I just woke up to (one kajillion) followers!"Communities aren't made of famous people coming in the room talking about how famous they are.