Approving a project that will consume water and energy at this scale is irresponsible and dangerous. – Franque Bains
This week’s video is a recently-discovered shellac master pressing of “Cross Road Blues” by Robert Johnson, who died mysteriously in 1938 before his career even got properly started, yet still influenced the young blues-inspired guitarists of the Sixties. The video was provided by Brooke Magnanti, and the links above it by Mike Siegel, Shiv Ramdas, Kevin Wilson, Reason, IncarcerNation, and Nun Ya (x2), in that order.
- R.I.P. Ann Robinson.
- So much safer than human drivers.
- Another of Easter Island’s many mysteries.
- What part of “never” is so hard to understand?
- Cops are predators, and behave like predators.
- Artificial stupidity is enabled by natural stupidity.
- Remember computer dating? These folks apparently don’t.
From the Archives
- Why pay for surveillance when useful idiots can be talked into providing it?
- A little bit of good news about mob-rule attempts to castrate Section 230.
- How long will Western society allow cops to terrorize traumatized women?
- Every “official” involved in this abomination should be imprisoned for life.
- Crypto-moralists believe that people enjoying any food makes it “unsafe”.
- Modern courts curtail the power of cops and prosecutors much too rarely.
- Nobody will be safe until this odious practice is declared unconstitutional.
- Wannabe censors & ambulance-chasers both capitalize on mob rule laws.
- This will continue as long as fools teach children obedience to “authority”.
- If other big websites followed suit, the damage would’ve been contained.
- Hey, female cops; how’s that collaboration with the police state working?
- These attempts to destroy the internet are going to keep getting worse.
- Give aggressive thugs power over teens; what could possibly go wrong?
- Government using “sex trafficking” myths to destroy another company.
- If you thought “asset forfeiture” was brazen robbery, get a load of this.
- As long as sex work is criminalized, rapist cops will target sex workers.
- The US government is almost completely out of Constitutional control.
- Articles about misconduct shouldn’t include making excuses for cops.
- Hiding a murderer’s cop identity by shoving it down to paragraph 20.
- Wow, she managed to call for help without magic bathroom stickers.
- It’s barely even possible to talk about this under criminalization.
- Prohibition can never succeed, regardless of what is prohibited.
- All too often, evil arrives cloaked in the mantle of expediency.
- In mass surveillance, fascism beats communism hands down.
- Cop excuses produced by human bootlickers are bad enough.
- Politicians want to micromanage every aspect of teens’ lives.
- Remember, Twitter claims this surveillance isn’t surveillance.
- A society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners.
- Washington state politicians demonstrate their hypocrisy.
- Another baby step toward recognizing sex work as work.
- No matter how little their victims have, cops will steal it.
- Cops should not be allowed anywhere near legal minors.
- Your curated selection of tweets for May 2023 and 2025.
- Cops, “discovery”, rolling ball thingies, and much more.
- Cop violence is never limited to members of the public.
- Cops, artificial stupidity, David Lazer, and much more.
- Of course Florida had to have its own “bathroom bill”.
- This one prowled for any kind of victim he could find.
- Politicians keep openly trying to destroy the internet.
- Surveillance beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi.
- Cops, headlines, Dabney Coleman, and much more.
- Anyone who trusts Zuckerberg is out of his mind.
- Privacy as we once knew it is a thing of the past.
- I really wish I were wrong about the Uniparty.
- Looks like I was wrong about Belgian decrim.
- Your “leaders” refer to this as “correction”.
- It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
- The pullets come forth from the nursery.
- Much, much, much more of this, please.
- I’m gradually seeing more signs of age.
- Thoughts on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- Finally getting my fountain into place.
- The shittiest-paying sex work ever.
- It’s two! Two! Two fads in one!
- Throwback Thursday’s Castle.
- Paying For It: The Premiere.
- Once a cop, always a cop.
- Yes, They’re Still Tweets.
- Your “leaders” at work.
- Throwbilly Thursday.
- Who in Review.
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