Goddamnit, i have managed to avoid venting my spleen about US politics on LiveJournal for a long time because, honestly, nothing has changed since this time 8 years ago, when almost half of country's voters got whipped up into an anti-immigrant frenzy and cast their ballot for a celebrity conman who has spent his entire, privileged, elite life ( Read more... )

I get most of my entertainment news through ohnotheydidnt, which i read more for the entertainment of the comments than the actual news. But, you know, at least by browsing that comm every day i knew the name Charlie XCX years before it unexpectedly popped up in the "serious" news, even though i still have no idea what her music sounds like ( Read more... )

And no, they are not trash for the reasons conspiracy theorists and "independent" podcasters and bloggers like to pretend they are trash - in fact that bloc of grifters whose primary message is "LOL the mainstream media sucks so send us money so we can tell you just how much they suck" are exactly a part of the problem. Those guys have no content ( Read more... )

And every time the UK leaks out into international news i am re-ashamed of what an utterly trash country it is. The latest facepalm is the American liberals who are cheering what appears to be a well-deserved thrashing of the Conservative party in the UK elections, except unfortunately the so-called Labour party under Starmer is useless too ( Read more... )

I read the news every day. Any given day in my life you can be sure of two things. I will drink coffee and i will read the news. To be honest, i mostly just glance the headlines because that's enough to give me general overview of what is going on in the world, but there are always a couple of articles a day that warrant a clickthrough ( Read more... )

After threatening to dive into the Confucius wiki hole a couple entries ago, i decided i'd do just that. But rather than going straight to the man himself, i figured it'd make more sense to get a broader overview of Chinese history before deep-diving on philosophy that i've previously barely shallow-dived on. Also i figured it'd help so next time i ( Read more... )

and it was listen
to a bunch
of LONDON ACID TECHNO

because LONDON

so in the interests
of current events
that i just found out
before i fell asleep
in a drunken heap
on thursday night
slash friday morning
because of 中秋節
aka mooncake festival

here is some london acid techno

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Lochi - London Acid City (Original Remix)

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Star Power - Nothing Can Save ( Read more... )

News from Colombia: abortion has been decriminalized! Also, there is a strong wind warning. I like to try read the newspapers of the place where i go before i go there, if i can. Now i can stumble my way through the Spanish, a big chunk of journalism has opened up that was out of my reach before ( Read more... )

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/us-border-canada-closed-1.6147189Read more... )

Today was a tough day. The smoke was very, very thick. I packed up early and was out of there a bit after 9am. Going down the hill from Turtle Valley was a rush, it was a sealed road and i just zoomed down after breakfast. Then i made a wrong turn and ended up on the Trans Canada Highway ( Read more... )