Ned
@ned-the-dog.bsky.social
Musician sometime artist most times fool …not a real dog
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It genuinely is good and important. And it still represents one of the best things about the Web.
25 years of Wikipedia
wikipedia25.org
January 15, 2026 at 9:12 AM
It genuinely is good and important. And it still represents one of the best things about the Web.
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Two headlines on the BBC website:
1. Iran protesters defy crackdown as videos show violent clashes
2. Thousands march and dozens arrested in Minneapolis protests against ICE
The two most pertinent editorial word choices here are 'crackdown' and 'arrested.' See how this works?
1. Iran protesters defy crackdown as videos show violent clashes
2. Thousands march and dozens arrested in Minneapolis protests against ICE
The two most pertinent editorial word choices here are 'crackdown' and 'arrested.' See how this works?
January 11, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Two headlines on the BBC website:
1. Iran protesters defy crackdown as videos show violent clashes
2. Thousands march and dozens arrested in Minneapolis protests against ICE
The two most pertinent editorial word choices here are 'crackdown' and 'arrested.' See how this works?
1. Iran protesters defy crackdown as videos show violent clashes
2. Thousands march and dozens arrested in Minneapolis protests against ICE
The two most pertinent editorial word choices here are 'crackdown' and 'arrested.' See how this works?
This is worth a read
I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
defector.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is worth a read
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Who up listening to Ghost Town again?
November 30, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Who up listening to Ghost Town again?
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Instead of banning the use of the name “veggie burger”, the world would be a better place if meat burgers were banned. 🙃
Ban on veggie ‘burgers’: plant-based products may lose meaty names in UK under EU law
Exclusive: Trade agreement means UK is subject to some food labelling rules, with vote on vegetarian food terms this week
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Instead of banning the use of the name “veggie burger”, the world would be a better place if meat burgers were banned. 🙃
I’ve been listening to jazz for forty years but I still learn a lot from Ethan’s articles he’s an excellent writer and passionate about the subject
NEW: my selection of the greatest jazz piano albums of all time
iverson.substack.com/p/tt-556-the...
iverson.substack.com/p/tt-556-the...
TT 556: The Greatest Jazz Piano Albums of All Time
or really: from 1921 to 1990
iverson.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I’ve been listening to jazz for forty years but I still learn a lot from Ethan’s articles he’s an excellent writer and passionate about the subject
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A government that can’t bring itself to tax fossil fuel, big tech or any wealth properly but defunds its critical institutions is not a good government, sorry
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A government that can’t bring itself to tax fossil fuel, big tech or any wealth properly but defunds its critical institutions is not a good government, sorry
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Hard to even comprehend this.
Coral reefs are lost.
We knew it was coming but still…
Coral reefs are lost.
Coral reefs are lost.
We knew it was coming but still…
Coral reefs are lost.
Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Hard to even comprehend this.
Coral reefs are lost.
We knew it was coming but still…
Coral reefs are lost.
Coral reefs are lost.
We knew it was coming but still…
Coral reefs are lost.
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What is the Australian government doing to free the 6 Australians detained by Israel in international waters? Where is the outrage? The urgency?
October 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM
What is the Australian government doing to free the 6 Australians detained by Israel in international waters? Where is the outrage? The urgency?
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The more mainstream news refuses to cover this flotilla the more likely it is Israel will drone strike it and/or torture the people trying to bring food & medicine to Gaza.
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
Global Sumud Flotilla Update | September 23
Barcelona and Tunisian ships plan to meet Greek ships tomorrow; Israel again threatens humanitarian convoy
A boat left Sicily this morning to join roughly 50 ships sailing under the banner of the Global Sumud Flotilla...
Barcelona and Tunisian ships plan to meet Greek ships tomorrow; Israel again threatens humanitarian convoy
A boat left Sicily this morning to join roughly 50 ships sailing under the banner of the Global Sumud Flotilla...
September 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The more mainstream news refuses to cover this flotilla the more likely it is Israel will drone strike it and/or torture the people trying to bring food & medicine to Gaza.
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
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What a sad and despicable coward.
“Those who carried out October 7 had something in their mind that said these families, these women and children that were are going to slaughter in cold blood are less than us.”
- Former President Barack Obama, after being repeatedly interrupted and shouted at to address the suffering in Gaza.
- Former President Barack Obama, after being repeatedly interrupted and shouted at to address the suffering in Gaza.
September 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
What a sad and despicable coward.
This is very good
The United States Of Snitches - defector.com/the-united-s...
The United States Of Snitches - defector.com/the-united-s...
The United States Of Snitches | Defector
On Saturday, the chairman of the Republican Party in Michigan’s Oakland County spent his afternoon directing his online followers’ attention to local businesses that had not lowered their flags to hal...
defector.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This is very good
The United States Of Snitches - defector.com/the-united-s...
The United States Of Snitches - defector.com/the-united-s...
Good article
"Uneasiness about [Trump's] unreliability is hardening into understanding that overexposure to the whims of his regime is straight-up dangerous, because there is no degree of investment in him that will bear fruit."
Trump’s retreat from Nato was priced in. But his humiliation of Qatar and India spells total chaos | Nesrine Malik
Allies indulged the US president on the basis they wouldn’t be bombed or suffer economic damage. So much for that idea, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Good article
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This is dystopian. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
September 15, 2025 at 7:09 AM
This is dystopian. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Today's final approval of the North West Shelf is a climate, economic, and energy security disaster.
Australia Institute analysis shows the 45-year expansion is equivalent to building 12 new coal power stations.
@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol
Australia Institute analysis shows the 45-year expansion is equivalent to building 12 new coal power stations.
@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol
September 12, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Today's final approval of the North West Shelf is a climate, economic, and energy security disaster.
Australia Institute analysis shows the 45-year expansion is equivalent to building 12 new coal power stations.
@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol
Australia Institute analysis shows the 45-year expansion is equivalent to building 12 new coal power stations.
@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol
Worth reading
new TT, another educational missive promoting exploring the past iverson.substack.com/p/tt-458-ori...
TT 458: Original Sheet Music to Two Dozen Standards
Back to School, part 3, with new bonus material on "Body and Soul" and tonic minor
iverson.substack.com
September 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Worth reading
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we are in a lawless, fascist uprising with multiple constitutional crises taking place simultaneously and this motherfucker is STILL talking about finding common ground and cooperating
Hakeem Jeffries: "Donald Trump promised that he would lower housing costs on day one. Here's a suggestion for the Trump administration: try to legislate, and maybe we can find common ground in order to get something done for the American people."
September 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
we are in a lawless, fascist uprising with multiple constitutional crises taking place simultaneously and this motherfucker is STILL talking about finding common ground and cooperating
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i don't even think they believe it's reasonable. israel just knows that at this point they could blame an airstrike on the tooth fairy and there would be no consequences.
It's mind boggling that they seem to think this is a perfectly reasonable explanation
August 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
i don't even think they believe it's reasonable. israel just knows that at this point they could blame an airstrike on the tooth fairy and there would be no consequences.
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The threshold was crossed back when innocent people started being snatched off the street because of their accents. Some war criminal getting his house searched isn't a Rubicon, unless you feel more solidarity with him than the people already being detained without due process.
Obviously few on the left (or in the centre) are going to want to dash to the defence of John Bolton, but this is still a hell of a threshold that’s being crossed.
Trump critic getting raided on the personal orders of a political appointee…
Trump critic getting raided on the personal orders of a political appointee…
The FBI is raiding John Bolton's house, apparently at Kash Patel's personal direction, the NY Post is reporting:
August 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The threshold was crossed back when innocent people started being snatched off the street because of their accents. Some war criminal getting his house searched isn't a Rubicon, unless you feel more solidarity with him than the people already being detained without due process.
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Award-winning poet Alice Oswald was arrested for supporting Palestine Action. lithub.com/award-winnin...
Award-winning poet Alice Oswald was arrested for supporting Palestine Action.
Alice Oswald, one of Britain’s most acclaimed poets, was arrested at a mass sit-down demonstration outside the houses of Parliament in London on Saturday for holding up a sign in support of d…
lithub.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Award-winning poet Alice Oswald was arrested for supporting Palestine Action. lithub.com/award-winnin...
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The UK govt has absolutely f*cked this up.
Award-winning poet Alice Oswald was arrested for supporting Palestine Action. lithub.com/award-winnin...
Award-winning poet Alice Oswald was arrested for supporting Palestine Action.
Alice Oswald, one of Britain’s most acclaimed poets, was arrested at a mass sit-down demonstration outside the houses of Parliament in London on Saturday for holding up a sign in support of d…
lithub.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The UK govt has absolutely f*cked this up.
This is what these schemes are always about. controlling what the public is allowed to see and it’s telling that so many governments of “liberal “ democracies are rushing to implement them
The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) “not primarily aimed at protecting children” but at regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”
August 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
This is what these schemes are always about. controlling what the public is allowed to see and it’s telling that so many governments of “liberal “ democracies are rushing to implement them
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self-destructing an entire festival because you can't bring yourself to allow criticism of the mass murder of children
Festival opening night gala cancelled as writers pull out over censorship fears
Writers scheduled to appear at the event in central Victoria this weekend are refusing to turn up because of a code of conduct they believe limits freedom of speech.
www.abc.net.au
August 15, 2025 at 10:31 AM
self-destructing an entire festival because you can't bring yourself to allow criticism of the mass murder of children
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The damage western governments will do to their own democracies to defend genocide is astonishing
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
UK police arrest 466 people at Palestine Action protest in London
Campaigners say the detentions mark the largest ever mass arrest at a single protest by the London police.
www.aljazeera.com
August 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The damage western governments will do to their own democracies to defend genocide is astonishing
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
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This is genuinely western liberalism summed up in a 30 second video. Incredible. Put it in an art gallery.
August 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
This is genuinely western liberalism summed up in a 30 second video. Incredible. Put it in an art gallery.