Ferdinand F. Zebua

Sting - Sounds Like Art - Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - ARTE Concert YouTube video by ARTE Concert

My goodness, 74! He's my mom's age!

Nevermind that he's singing & performing live at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, in front of Rembrandt's "The Night Watch". I mean...

Yeah anyways: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Us...

Scream!! Presented by Skittles!!

Anyways Doom & Gloom abound, and I totally oppose and do not support the uncalled-for-yet-is-very-much-so-undeniably-happening blooming spread of Doom & Gloom. 😞🫡🙃🔫😫☠️

Another stray thought at 1:46am local time: I sure hope World War III doesn't start anytime soon, nor anytime at all for that matter; and I do hope that *if* it even does, that we (as in you & me specifically) do not wind up on opposing sides of the axes. So to speak.

This post is six months old and I almost completely forgot that I ever posted this.

Still true tho.

I'm sorry for being perhaps too overly unneccesarily political but like it's 1:25am where I'm at and somehow I'm nowhere near sleepy enough to go to sleep while I am still like vibe-wise am like Tired As Heck!

Nice! I dig the idea; lemme give it a try: We can #StopWorldWarIII if we would just #StopBombingChildren! Hey this feels kinda fun!

Digital cartoon drawing of an ICBM (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile). Signed by me with the date November 2016.

Bonus old drawing:

Nevermind that nuclear high-explosive space lasers do not exist in real life. Nuclear ICBMs sure, but weaponized nuclear lasers naah.

Because y'know like gun violence in real life against fanatics that annoy the hell out of you is not only illegal but also has dire social & societal consequences n' stuff.

For the past several days, maybe weeks, I've been blowing the hell up out of outlaw space pirates and retaliator religious space zealots in Everspace 2.

Shrek is Risen

The Internet is a Rage Machine
is another candidate I think.

[Cue all the Righteously Indignant People protesting against A/B testing in titles and thumbnails.]

[You people are Incorrigible. INCORRIGIBLE, I tell you.]

How Do You Create When You Don't Feel Safe YouTube video by vlogbrothers

"Creating in Public is Volunteering to Be Misunderstood"
aka.
How Do You Create When You Don't Feel Safe
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPY2...

cc @doctorow.pluralistic.net since Cory is officially on Bluesky now, and he is to blame for the term after all. 😋✌️🙏

While waiting for 2/2, I'd like to just note to the public that Indonesia only officially joined BRICS last year, in 2025, by invitation. More details on the Wikipedia article, of course.

So apparently he just opened his account yesterday. Duly noting for myself.

Your arrival on Bluesky is a stance change. I welcome it, to be very very clear. But it is still a stance change.

Also to be clear I also very welcome well-considered stance changes, God Knows Humanity needs more of those.

Also an applause for Civic Clarity. 👏👏
bsky.app/profile/doct...

Wait wait Cory Doctorow is on Bluesky now? Need to ask becos that's a change of stance.

RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

Trump can fire everyone he wants and everyone he can, including up to but not limited to Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and Stephen Miller. But he cannot stop the shit that keeps rolling down his hill. Not even by firing himself (aka. quitting). And certainly not by staying in the shit chair either.

...And all that said, people please farking stop bombing & murdering each other jeebus. 🤦‍♂️

I've been thinking the point stands though that the Iranian frigate, at the time of its torpedoing, were not doing war manuvers she was doing peacetime manuvers. Though yes US and Israel have already started their war of aggresion at the point in time.

And apparently the sunk Iranian frigate was in Sri Lanka for (peacetime) naval military exercises...
(fair disclosure I asked Gemini this for a quick confirmation)

On the sunk Iranian frigate, casual search on Bsky and other socmeds, repeatedly: "100 missing, 87 dead, Sri Lankan Coast Guard on scene"...

I do not envy Sri Lanka. They could be caught between the hammer and the anvil.

www.ndtv.com/world-news/i...

War, bloodshed, and legitimacy: Is Iran witnessing another internal coup? As war, succession anxieties, and public grief converge, debates resurface about how Iran’s system reshapes itself under extreme internal and external pressure

As war, succession anxieties, and public grief converge, debates resurface about how Iran’s system reshapes itself under extreme internal and external pressure.

The Kiffness - Mango Pineapple Banana (Watermelon) ft. Aunty Mai [DANCE HIT] YouTube video by The Kiffness

I love that they actually shared (at least some of) the adsense proceeds from the song with Aunty Mai on the beaches of Vietnam (watch till the end of the video)...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO7k...