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In honour of the late Chris Rea here's me performing
"Driving Home For Christmas" for the last time at The Andy Kim Christmas show in 2023 RS
youtu.be/io38roENXr8?...
"Driving Home For Christmas" for the last time at The Andy Kim Christmas show in 2023 RS
youtu.be/io38roENXr8?...
Ron Sexsmith “Driving Home For Christmas” at Andy Kim & Friends Massey Hall show Wed., Dec 6, 2023.
YouTube video by Kirk Lahey
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
In honour of the late Chris Rea here's me performing
"Driving Home For Christmas" for the last time at The Andy Kim Christmas show in 2023 RS
youtu.be/io38roENXr8?...
"Driving Home For Christmas" for the last time at The Andy Kim Christmas show in 2023 RS
youtu.be/io38roENXr8?...
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As a recovering catholic, I can say that this is easily the coolest fucking priest I’ve ever seen.
December 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
As a recovering catholic, I can say that this is easily the coolest fucking priest I’ve ever seen.
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Suffragette Christmas card from the Women's Social and Political Union, 1909. UK.#Womensart
December 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Suffragette Christmas card from the Women's Social and Political Union, 1909. UK.#Womensart
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it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know
December 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know
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Happy Day
Whatever your plans today. Wherever you are. Whatever you believe. I hope you have a nice day. I mean, I hope you have a nice day on all the other days as well. It's just that apparently for a lot of people, this one is a bit of a biggie.
Whatever your plans today. Wherever you are. Whatever you believe. I hope you have a nice day. I mean, I hope you have a nice day on all the other days as well. It's just that apparently for a lot of people, this one is a bit of a biggie.
Happy Day
Whatever your plans today. Wherever you are. Whatever you believe. I hope you have a nice day. I mean, I hope you have a nice day on all the other days as well. It's just that apparently for a lot of people, this one is a bit of a biggie.
www.6000.co.za
December 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Happy Day
Whatever your plans today. Wherever you are. Whatever you believe. I hope you have a nice day. I mean, I hope you have a nice day on all the other days as well. It's just that apparently for a lot of people, this one is a bit of a biggie.
Whatever your plans today. Wherever you are. Whatever you believe. I hope you have a nice day. I mean, I hope you have a nice day on all the other days as well. It's just that apparently for a lot of people, this one is a bit of a biggie.
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‘The [R15M] National Lotteries Commission (NLC) grant was intended to fund an anti-drug themed musical, Taking Back the Future. It was meant to tour three provinces, but it only ran for five nights at a small venue in the Free State.’
#southafrica
#southafrica
Tsotsi star’s house, bought with lottery funds, frozen by Special Tribunal
The late Presley Chweneyagae’s home was bought with funds meant for an anti-drug themed musical
groundup.org.za
December 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
‘The [R15M] National Lotteries Commission (NLC) grant was intended to fund an anti-drug themed musical, Taking Back the Future. It was meant to tour three provinces, but it only ran for five nights at a small venue in the Free State.’
#southafrica
#southafrica
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Always loved this one! RIP Chris.
Chris Rea - Fool If You Think Its Over (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Chris Rea
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Always loved this one! RIP Chris.
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Found my childhood copy of Little Women while moving books today. 1984 printing. Hardcover. A Christmas gift from my Grammy. 📖 💙
December 22, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Found my childhood copy of Little Women while moving books today. 1984 printing. Hardcover. A Christmas gift from my Grammy. 📖 💙
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Ooh boy! If you're Jozi people and also old enough to have nostalgic memories of Bright Blue and Jameson's in the 80's, here's a Xmas present you can buy yourself.
December 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Ooh boy! If you're Jozi people and also old enough to have nostalgic memories of Bright Blue and Jameson's in the 80's, here's a Xmas present you can buy yourself.
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Extremely cool and also a reminder that conservatives in America campaigned so hard against HPV vaccination because they thought getting a vaccine to prevent cancer by preventing HPV would make a bunch of teenagers have sex
Congrats to Australia, this is really cool!
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
report.cervicalcancercontrol.org.au
December 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Extremely cool and also a reminder that conservatives in America campaigned so hard against HPV vaccination because they thought getting a vaccine to prevent cancer by preventing HPV would make a bunch of teenagers have sex
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Don’t think it is accurate to credit Dems - their leadership has been very slow to come to it. It was progressives and Mamdani. How Democrats Used One Word to Turn the Tide Against Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...
How Democrats Used One Word to Turn the Tide Against Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Don’t think it is accurate to credit Dems - their leadership has been very slow to come to it. It was progressives and Mamdani. How Democrats Used One Word to Turn the Tide Against Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u...
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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Under international law, a country may reject an ambassador. I would hope South Africa would send a message that, "Nah, keep your guy home and stop trying to clown us."
Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight To End Apartheid talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...
Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight To End Apartheid
As Black activists in South Africa fought against their country’s racist apartheid...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Under international law, a country may reject an ambassador. I would hope South Africa would send a message that, "Nah, keep your guy home and stop trying to clown us."
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Chaim Soutine, Portrait of Maria Lani, 1929
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135208
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135208
December 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Chaim Soutine, Portrait of Maria Lani, 1929
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135208
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135208
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Want to hear a really excellent blue note? End of the first B section in "Dancing in the Streets" by Martha and the Vandellas, at 1:06, on the line "everywhere around the world." Listen the word "world. Ohhhh that is a nice note. youtu.be/CdvITn5cAVc?...
Martha & The Vandellas "Dancing in the Streets"
YouTube video by Petr Wab
youtu.be
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Want to hear a really excellent blue note? End of the first B section in "Dancing in the Streets" by Martha and the Vandellas, at 1:06, on the line "everywhere around the world." Listen the word "world. Ohhhh that is a nice note. youtu.be/CdvITn5cAVc?...
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I will be pushing for a moratorium on the construction of data centers that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop & deploy AI.
The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.
The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.
It's Time for a Moratorium on Data Centers | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
youtu.be
December 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I will be pushing for a moratorium on the construction of data centers that are powering the unregulated sprint to develop & deploy AI.
The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.
The moratorium will give democracy a chance to catch up, and ensure that the benefits of technology work for all of us, not just the 1%.
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Wow.
I just wrote it out for easier visibility.
48 PEOPLE IN JAPAN.
8 IN GREAT BRITAIN.
34 IN SWITZERLAND.
52 IN CANADA.
58 IN ISRAEL.
21 IN SWEDEN.
42 IN WEST GERMANY.
41,040 IN AMERICA.
I just wrote it out for easier visibility.
48 PEOPLE IN JAPAN.
8 IN GREAT BRITAIN.
34 IN SWITZERLAND.
52 IN CANADA.
58 IN ISRAEL.
21 IN SWEDEN.
42 IN WEST GERMANY.
41,040 IN AMERICA.
December 14, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Wow.
I just wrote it out for easier visibility.
48 PEOPLE IN JAPAN.
8 IN GREAT BRITAIN.
34 IN SWITZERLAND.
52 IN CANADA.
58 IN ISRAEL.
21 IN SWEDEN.
42 IN WEST GERMANY.
41,040 IN AMERICA.
I just wrote it out for easier visibility.
48 PEOPLE IN JAPAN.
8 IN GREAT BRITAIN.
34 IN SWITZERLAND.
52 IN CANADA.
58 IN ISRAEL.
21 IN SWEDEN.
42 IN WEST GERMANY.
41,040 IN AMERICA.
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Postcard live from the field, from our intrepid tour leader Michele Viganò, currently wintering somewhere in the Sahara...
And what a stunning image it is too! A beautiful portrait of a Red-necked Nightjar.
Some more daytime denizens of the desert coming up next week...
And what a stunning image it is too! A beautiful portrait of a Red-necked Nightjar.
Some more daytime denizens of the desert coming up next week...
December 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Postcard live from the field, from our intrepid tour leader Michele Viganò, currently wintering somewhere in the Sahara...
And what a stunning image it is too! A beautiful portrait of a Red-necked Nightjar.
Some more daytime denizens of the desert coming up next week...
And what a stunning image it is too! A beautiful portrait of a Red-necked Nightjar.
Some more daytime denizens of the desert coming up next week...
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A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”
Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023 - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Societal crises disrupt long-term increases in stress, negativity, and simplicity in US Billboard song lyrics from 1973 to 2023
www.nature.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
A new study of the last 50 years of US pop music shows “a significant increase in stress-related language, alongside declines in positive sentiment and lyrical complexity.”
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googled something and clicked a link to a website I'd never heard of that looked like a forum, read the discussion and realized the person asking a question and all of the answers were all LLM generated, the entire website was a fake forum pretending to be people asking/answering questions
December 12, 2025 at 5:06 AM
googled something and clicked a link to a website I'd never heard of that looked like a forum, read the discussion and realized the person asking a question and all of the answers were all LLM generated, the entire website was a fake forum pretending to be people asking/answering questions
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Representing oligarchs as working class heroes is a new low…even for us.
December 12, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Representing oligarchs as working class heroes is a new low…even for us.
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For every ten dockets the police close every year, an average of 6 are closed without resolution, the Minister of Police revealed in a reply to Parliament in October.
Read groundup.org.za/article/drow... by GroundUp Staff abd The Outlier.
Read groundup.org.za/article/drow... by GroundUp Staff abd The Outlier.
SAPS is drowning in unsolved dockets
There were 1.9-million unsolved cases by the end of the 2024 financial year
groundup.org.za
December 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
For every ten dockets the police close every year, an average of 6 are closed without resolution, the Minister of Police revealed in a reply to Parliament in October.
Read groundup.org.za/article/drow... by GroundUp Staff abd The Outlier.
Read groundup.org.za/article/drow... by GroundUp Staff abd The Outlier.
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Every single thing about this image is terrible.
It's unimaginative, it's poorly rendered, it's badly framed, none of these people look remotely like the people they're meant to represent..... wait... I get it. It's.... a perfect representation of AI.
It's unimaginative, it's poorly rendered, it's badly framed, none of these people look remotely like the people they're meant to represent..... wait... I get it. It's.... a perfect representation of AI.
December 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Every single thing about this image is terrible.
It's unimaginative, it's poorly rendered, it's badly framed, none of these people look remotely like the people they're meant to represent..... wait... I get it. It's.... a perfect representation of AI.
It's unimaginative, it's poorly rendered, it's badly framed, none of these people look remotely like the people they're meant to represent..... wait... I get it. It's.... a perfect representation of AI.
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South Africa having our freedom fries moment
December 10, 2025 at 7:10 AM
South Africa having our freedom fries moment