Not Harry Belafonte’s version, the Lord Flea original:
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Not Harry Belafonte’s version, the Lord Flea original:
TIL Grace Jones’s grandfather played on the original version of “Shake, Shake, Senora”
South Korea & Taiwan have made many bad energy choices favoring fossil fuel over renewables. They're paying the price now, with repercussions for global technology. The Iran war should make them correct their mistake - @davidfickling.bsky.social
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In my mind I had retconned this song as being some giant broken hearted FU to the HIV pandemic. Sobering to realise it’s just dramatizing the themes of a mad movie about Warhol Superstars rejects cosplaying as Masters of the Universe.
This regime-connected, subsidy-dependent company could probably do with an anti-involution campaign to deal with its predatory overcapacity. Am I doing this right?
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The fun thing is that now it is much much harder for the 98% of people who want vaccinations to get them, the 2% of people who hate them will totally sit down satisfied and not spread mad conspiracy theories any more…
It’s cool how I now have to spend 45 minutes resetting online passwords, solving captchas and setting up two factor authentication to give parental consent for my kids to get standard school vaccinations.
I’m sure this has no negative effect on coverage rates.
Grace Jones is only two years younger than Cher. Let that sink in.
Though I have a soft spot for Belgium’s Kamer van Volksvertegenwoordigers
And actually if you get past the banal familiarity, House of Lords is just insanely metal and Game of Thrones
Hard to beat Austria’s Nationalrat
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Does this bag look black or gold to you?
I love his sweetly stilted delivery almost as much as the 5W lasers. Have watched a bunch of these with my science nerd son 🤓
The target market used to have everything they could want on just one of the US Virgin Islands
Though by the same rules I reckon Aus/NZ are entitled to claim Blackpink
They just invented the JCPOA
Mind blown by this photo of a 10-year-old Orson Welles from 1926:
Closer to 4x what Iraq’s population was in 2003!
‘Well, look, if I’m going to import the cars anyway, then I’d rather import less oil. We may as well import the one that cleans up local air quality and is cheaper to buy.’
The Great Story of the Extraordinary EV boom in Ethiopia www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Is this some sort of joke? 😡
That every government on earth (aside from professed theocracies) is functionally utilitarian is a wild outcome when you consider what an obscure weirdo Jeremy Bentham was.
“Murder Most Foul” was almost 60 years after Bob Dylan’s debut!
“Hurt” by Johnny Cash was nearly 50 years, and also wins the perennial “cover versions better than the original” question…
The EPA's decision to quit regulating emissions might be symbolic, but what it symbolizes if scary: a government that puts antiquated ideology and corporate profits over the health and welfare of its people
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“Still investigating” …
It’s not like he was speaking Voynich manuscript!
America has almost as many Spanish speakers as Spain does.
“Not since Michael Collins has a Cork kid done more to undermine the British establishment!” ☘️
My favourite subset of Morgan McSweeney coverage is Irish publications writing variants of “County Cork boy in the news for completely screwing up the British government”
The year is 2035. British foreign secretary Peter Mandelson is under pressure to resign for lobbying President Taylor Greene about BYD’s ongoing takeover of General Motors.
'The Epstein files reveal a patriarchy in action. This is a world where the men are rich and powerful, and the women are not. The emails showcase the private behaviour of a male ruling class, as they network, joke and trade information.'
Perhaps it was coincidental timing, but nothing underscores the collapse of the Washington Post like firing most of the Pulitzer prize winning #climate reporters the very same day as their opinion pages publishes a BS screed by climate misinformer Bjorn Lomborg.
My assumption from the start has been “blackmail on a massive scale” but I am yet to see a hint of where and who. Has any reporting that I missed turned up any clues yet?