@tgraph52 Yup. Added my tune to the post because it's about a town that the company abandoned (true story) a la Mush.

I got to see old-school company towns, and what could happen to them, as a kid. That's the past these oligarchs want to return...
https://youtu.be/bdiQmG669-U

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/this-is-all-very-weird-right

@Kinnison No doubt affecting our precious bodily fluids...

@Bliss Hm. We can't have a firearm registry but the RNC can?

Attempted snark not playing well with allies --
Guardian: "Senior Labour figures have rejected comments by Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pick, JD Vance, that the UK could become the first 'truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon' under the party."

@Bliss Just saw him referred to as "Griftbilly..."

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@Charles_Hawtrey So, can I just refer to him as "Fakebilly?"
Asking from the land of Lt. Goob NotHisRealName.

@northernbassist Looks like a better made Wishbass with some Carl Thompson influence?

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@tgraph52 Top of the heap of current lyricists, and that band rocks live....

@tgraph52 Oh baby, how'd you end up here?

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@feloneouscat Boom - this is the crux of the biscuit: the oligarchs are trying to use the remains of the press, now in their sweaty hands, to take control by convincing us to do it to ourselves.

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'Morning, 'nauts - Early start to hopefully wrapping up a long skein of adulting - after this I should be allowed to hide out with the guitars for a while......(ha! as if...)

You can bag on Beato and Bonamassa all you want, but this is unspeakably cool...
https://youtu.be/IAkkUK-dT24

It ain't just me....
Delete the Green Death Star!
https://boingboing.net/2024/07/10/spotify-accuses-indie-band-of-streaming-fraud-over-8-year-old-song-name.html