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Today’s shitty camera, CASIO QV-120 (0.3MP, 1997)
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The Earth is a watery place. But just how much water exists on, in, and above our planet? Read on to find out.www.usgs.gov
A note from the interim editor-in-chiefGus Bova (The Texas Observer)
Them: So how are you going to get your music out there?
Me: I’m going to share it on Mastodon.
Them: And people will boost it?
Me: No. Well, yeah, but not much. It’ll mostly just be seen by those who’ve followed me.
Them: How many people are going to just “follow” some random unknown song writer from the backwaters of Queensland?
Me: Very few.
Them: So… how are you going to build an audience of followers if people generally don’t follow musicians or share music?
Me: I’m going to share jokes. People love jokes. And they love sharing jokes. And, importantly, they love a joker. Oh, and weird facts. People love weird facts too.
Them: You’re not a comedian.
Me: No, but I can try to make people smile. Which is what I’m trying to do with my music anyway. That the real goal. As long as I’m making people smile, I’m succeeding.
A few months later:
Them: How’s the Mastodon thing going?
Me: Amazing! People love the jokes and lots of people are following!
Them: And are people listening to your music?
Me: Music is actually being boosted and people are leaving positive comments. I think plays are like two thousand percent from last year?
Them: Nice! That’ll make like what, a dollar fifty?
Me: Not that much! [lol] I will say though, I have met some of the most amazing, talented, thoughtful, and caring people I have ever had the privilege of knowing. They’ve been supportive, insightful, and genuinely inspiring.
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The GOP veep candidate embraced the extreme view that today's left is part of a centuries-long effort to "destroy" civilization.Mother Jones
Roberts advised listeners
not to accept the
“narrative framing of the other side”
on these issues.
He said conservatives who are anti-abortion
should stop talking about it the way the left wants them to
and instead “talk about the fact that many of them want abortion to be legal until birth”.
Strategies of incrementalism
and narrative framing
don’t always apply, he added,
because sometimes you just have to fight.
“Right now, we have to fight on religious liberty and, in particular,
religious liberty as it relates to protecting institutions of faith,” he said.
“And that’s not a time for strategic retreat.
It’s not a time to be savvy,
it’s not a time to be sweet.
It’s not a time to develop friendships with the other side.
It is a time to take our fist
– figuratively, Father Charles
– and bust them in the nose
because they hate what you and I believe.”
#Camino #Schools #Rose #incremental #apostolic #Vance #Heritage #Foundation #Project2025 #Roberts #CIC #Gore #Escrivá #Roberts #Leo #Trump
Review of John Lennon's "Mind Games: The Ultimate Collection"Salon.com
The upcoming Widespread Panic concerts scheduled for Boston and Las Vegas have been canceled. The Band regrets missing these two runs but wants to give enough fair warning so everyone can adjust their plans with as little inconvenience as possible.Widespread Panic
The CDC’s wastewater monitoring program has detected a “very high” presence of the virus in nearly half the countryCara Lynn Shultz (PEOPLE)
Dancing Queen, the magnificent pop anthem by ABBA, was written by the usual team of Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson, and released in the (th...YouTube
The setting is turned on by default, but the good news is that you can turn it off and also delete your conversation history with the AI.Aisha Malik (TechCrunch)
Friendica software. To learn how to make your own, go look at https://friendi.ca
