Unwelcome, Spanish alien arrives with disease & disdain for local culture & laws + an insatiable appetite for conquest… but yeah: Columbus Day! *yay*

Best she retire. No one will ever respect her in a workplace.

From this antipodean perspective… “free & fair elections” in the US are undermined by laws supporting gerrymandering, your absurdist electoral college system, the corruption of your courts & ongoing federal & state efforts to disenfranchise minority voters. Good luck ousting the incumbent Clown show

And so it begins… allegiance to the defence of your flag & constitution versus the private/ corporate interest now paying US military personnel wages.

Likely to be banned with the stroke of a Sharpie… or ‘challenged’ out of US school and public libraries?

I choose & build the sequence. There is a passive default that lines up new releases of subscribed shows

Apple podcast app lines up a sequence of episodes, or you can stick to a show & it will travel sequentially forward or back depending on the start position. A regular 2.5hrs drive b/w SEQ & home flows without touching the device. Occasional adverts suck, relieved with a 30sec skip button.

Rarely step out of the queue. Creature of habit & frequently add faves

Buffering pretty good through NSW Northern Rivers - less so streaming small music files - but downloaded & queued a few podcasts for a recent +4200km trip through some network-free spaces

Noted

Given all that has transpired, the current US administration has no choice but to double down & attempt to protect its power by withholding future elections. Trump is old, unwell & will die. How US citizens & foreign nations respond to the feudal oligarchy that replaces him will be another test.

Mass blocking even.🙂
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