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Tuesday 2025-05-06 – Link List

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Blogging Intensifies Link List for Tuesday 2025-05-06

06-May-2025 – Trump Slammed ‘Radical Left’ For Jailing Election Official — Here’s What The Republican DA Who Prosecuted Her Had to Say

Brief Summary: “Larry Robinson/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP
President Donald Trump dropped a wild screed”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “It feels like maybe there are starting to be cracks int he lunatic party.”

06-May-2025 – Bird Populations Are Declining Across North America

Brief Summary: ”

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climat”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “I don’t know about others but it probably doesn’t help that, for example, we have not been putting out bird seed, because of the bird flu problem. Not saying I am the cause, but there may be others doing the same.”

06-May-2025 – Cisgender woman says her gender was questioned in a Boston hotel restroom

Brief Summary: “A cisgender woman says her gender was questioned by a security guard in a hotel restroom in Boston o”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Another example of why this witch hunt is terrible for everyone.”

06-May-2025 – Trump Removes Protections From Marine Protected Areas — A Problem for Fish, Whales, Corals and Other Ocean Life

Brief Summary: ”
The single greatest threat to the diversity of life in our oceans over the past 50 years, more than”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “”

06-May-2025 – LEGO Icons Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (10360) Officially Announced

Brief Summary: ”
A new LEGO Icons set has been revealed with the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (10360). Releasing on May “

Personal Notes and Commentary: “It’s pretty neat. These NASA sets often are.”

06-May-2025 – Lady Gaga brings together more than two million people in Copacabana

Brief Summary: “The already historic concert of Lady Gagabaptized as “Mayhem on the beach”has been the first show of”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “I can’t even beging to imagine the logistics behind 2 million people gathering together all at once.”

06-May-2025 – How Trump and Republicans Are Plotting the New American Sweatshops

Brief Summary: ”

Republishe”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “”

06-May-2025 – Project 2025 vowed to roll back LGBTQ+ rights. Here’s everything Trump has done so far

Brief Summary: “Project 2025 is underway Donald Trump claimed on the campaign trail that he had “nothing to do” with”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Project 2025 is the true enemy behind the Trump charade.”

05-May-2025 – Masculinity Win! An Influencer Said I Wasn’t a Real Man, so I Started Doing Everything He Said

Brief Summary: “Throughout my life, I had always felt completely secure in my masculinity. Then, the unthinkable hap”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “This is so stupid funny (yes it’s a parody).”

05-May-2025 – Jill Sobule, singer from ‘I Kissed A Girl’ dies in a fire,

Brief Summary: “Jill Sobule, American singer and composer known for her success of 1995 ‘I Kissed A Girl’, has died “

Personal Notes and Commentary: “The better song of the title I Kissed a Girl”

04-May-2025 – Train With Morse Master

Brief Summary: “Morse code can be daunting to learn when you’re new to the game, particularly if you need it to pass”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “One day, I will learn morse code and get a HAM license. I know knowing Morse isn’t required anymore, but I still want to learn.”

03-May-2025 – LLM Ported To The C64, Kinda

Brief Summary: ““If there’s one thing the Commodore 64 is missing, it’s a large language model,” is a phrase nobody “

Personal Notes and Commentary: “‘Kinda'”

02-May-2025 – Non-Disaster Recovery

Brief Summary: “Every now and again I like to reset my Windows install to factory freshness. I do it often enough th”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “ToDo Maybe”

02-May-2025 – Reject Content Mills

Brief Summary: ”

Good Morning Folks. Yesterday the news broke that Polygon, a gaming website that I actually rea”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “These have always been a problem but they kind of used to just straight steal people’s blog posts directly and now they steal them by remixing them with LLMs.”

01-May-2025 – Wolf Alice have announced their new single ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’, arriving later this month

Brief Summary: “Wolf Alice are set to release their new single ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’ on 15th May.

The band shared de”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “”

28-Apr-2025 – Medicaid Cuts Will Raise Costs for Millions of Women

Brief Summary: “Over 70 million people, including 13 million women of reproductive age, are enrolled in Medicaid—Ame”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “”

28-Apr-2025 – Lab Gives Residents “The Avatar Welcome Pack”

Brief Summary: ” On Thursday April 24, Linden Lab announced they had given all residents a package of items, “The Av”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “It’s actually pretty good. Senra was… iffy, but this is actual real “brand name” bodies and clothes.”

28-Apr-2025 – Guess Trump Is Arresting Judges Now

Brief Summary: “”Where law ends tyranny begins” by c_nilsen is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.If you took a news bre”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “One more step towards a true tyranical government.”

28-Apr-2025 – There’s no evidence to suggest this is a widespread problem — but that won’t stop the GOP

Brief Summary: “Everyone’s talking about noncitizen voting as if it’s a big thing. Some prominent public officials w”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “See also basically every single major “problem” talking point the GOP uses to distract the Idiot Cult from real issues.”

27-Apr-2025 – Leaked memo shows Trump admin ordered ICE to conduct warrantless home invasions

Brief Summary: “The U.S. Department of Justice dubiously invoked a centuries-old law in directing immigration agents”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “”

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Josh Miller aka “Ramen Junkie”. I write about my various hobbies here. Mostly coding, photography, and music. Sometimes I just write about life in general. I also post sometimes about toy collecting and video games at Lameazoid.com.

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Link List

Friday 2025-04-25 – Link List

Ramen Junkie April 25, 2025 1 Comment

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Friday 2025-04-25

24-Apr-2025 – HAIM have announced their fourth album ‘I quit’

Brief Summary: “HAIM have announced their fourth studio album ‘I quit’, set for release via Polydor Records on 20th “

Personal Notes and Commentary: “”

23-Apr-2025 – Yes, We Do Know You, Trump-Supporting MAGAs. That’s the Problem.

Brief Summary: ”

Republishe”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Back in the first term, I was vaguely tempted by the idea of ‘people made a mistake but they can repent’. At this point, anyone who was still supporting this is basically shown that they are in fact, a monster.”

20-Apr-2025 – Trump Nixing Conservation Rule in Favor of Drilling and Mining on Federal Lands

Brief Summary: ”

This story was originally published on the substack Public Domain to which you can subscribe her”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Something something climate change. Oh wait, that doesn’t exist anymore, they are deleting that data. “

20-Apr-2025 – Nancy Mace yells ‘F**k you!’ at man she assumes is gay for asking her a question in an Ulta store

Brief Summary: “A simple question from a South Carolina voter about whether their congresswoman would hold any more “

Personal Notes and Commentary: “What a garbage person she is.”

20-Apr-2025 – but what if he’s guilty?

Brief Summary: “The concept of due process is getting a lot of attention right now, and rightly so. It’s at the hear”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “”

31-Mar-2025 – Bluesky isn’t just another Twitter/X competitor. It fixes what’s wrong with social media.

Brief Summary: “I joined Bluesky as soon as I could get my hands on an invite back in the summer of 2023. Twitter/X”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Bluesky is pretty great but I am hesitant to put all my eggs in another big out of my control social platform.”

18-Apr-2025 – REVIEW: McDonald’s Nether Flame Sauce

Brief Summary: ”
I know nothing about Minecraft.
But I do know that one of the ingredients in McDonald’s Nether Flam”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “It’s way too spicy, and I agree with this.”

16-Apr-2025 – Did you even notice 4chan’s gone?

Brief Summary: “Think About Supporting Garbage Day!It’s $5 a month or $45 a year and you get Discord access, the cov”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “4chan is dead, for now.”

16-Apr-2025 – Billie Eilish is bringing climate action event Overheated to Berlin and London

Brief Summary: “Billie Eilish and Support+Feed are set to host OVERHEATED climate action events in Berlin and London”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “”

15-Apr-2025 – ‘Kiss your kids goodbye:’ Indiana mom tells teacher who flew a Pride flag in class, police say

Brief Summary: “Police in Indiana arrested a mother they say confronted a teacher while wearing a firearm and sent h”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “”

15-Apr-2025 – Jon Stewart Very Sorry He Believed His Own Both-Sides Bullsh*t

Brief Summary: “Photo by Nihal Karkala on UnsplashJon Stewart finally noticed in Monday Night’s “The Daily Show” tha”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Yeah, neither “side” is amazing, but one side is spectcularly terrible and awful in almost every concievable way.”

15-Apr-2025 – What Is Aerodynamics? (Grades 5-8)

Brief Summary: “This article is for students grades 5-8.

Aerodynamics is the way objects move through air. The r”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Learning!”

15-Apr-2025 – What Is Aerodynamics? (Grades K-4)

Brief Summary: ”

3 Min Read

What Is Aerodynamics? (Grades K-4) “

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Simpler learning!”

15-Apr-2025 – 4chan Is Down Following What Looks to Be a Major Hack Spurred By Meme War

Brief Summary: ”

The notorious imageboard 4chan is down following what appears to be a major hack of its backend. T”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “RIP 4chan”

15-Apr-2025 – Welcome to Aspen Ridge: A Living Mountain Escape & A New Chapter for Linden Homes

Brief Summary: “A breathtaking new Linden Homes theme has just arrived—and it’s unlike anything before.

Aspen R”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “They look pretty neat. Like the forest homes but less lame.”

15-Apr-2025 – It’s Only A Flesh Wound: Target Keeps Hemorrhaging As Blowback From Ditching ‘DEI’ Continues

Brief Summary: “Photo by Abhinav Bhardwaj on UnsplashI haven’t bought a single thing at Target since before January “

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Sorry not sorry.”

15-Apr-2025 – Homófonos do inglês que todo mundo deveria conhecer

Brief Summary: “Às vezes, quando está conversando com alguém em inglês, você escuta uma palavra que achava que knew “

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Un article en Espanol sobre homofonos.”

15-Apr-2025 – Orla Gartland has released ‘Now What?’ from her new extended album edition

Brief Summary: “Orla Gartland has released a new single ‘Now What?’, which premiered as a Hottest Record on BBC Radi”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “”

14-Apr-2025 – You’re Invited: Second Life Town Hall on AI & the Future of Our Virtual Community

Brief Summary: “As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly present in both our physical and virtual worlds”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Oops, i took too long to make a links post and this laready happened.”

14-Apr-2025 – Elon Musk is the ‘most irritating person I’ve ever had to deal with,’ Trump official says

Brief Summary: “Elon Musk is rapidly overstaying his welcome at the White House, according to senior Trump Administr”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “”

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Programming Projects

Porting Playlists With Python

Ramen Junkie April 21, 2025 3 Comments

I had a brief sting last year where I was using Spotify, but I dumped it, mostly for financial reasons, but also because as much as I like the ability to just, listen to whatever, I kind of dislike the whole “Music as a service” aspect. I can still find new stuff via Youtube and then add it to my list of “Albums to maybe buy eventually”.

One thing I lost though was my Playlists. I was worried they were just gone, soon after logging in, I swear they hd just vanished, but checking now, they seem to all be there again. Whatever the case, I wanted a backup copy.

This is of course, an arduous thing to do, particularly my large “play random tracks” list, which has 1200+ songs. I don’t have time to type all that out, or to search and find all these tracks on Youtube. There are services, but they tend to be limited unless you want to pay, which is more annoying than anything.

Exporting from Spotify

Thankfully, i can use Python. I needed a script that would pull down my playlists and dump them to simplet text files. I actually had originally asked Perplexity to build this script, which it did, but the API method it used didn’t match the one I had previously used during my Python class, to make a Plylist generator for Spotify.

Instead of doing what would probably be the easier thing, and figuring out whate OAUTH method the Perplexity script uses, I just, rebuilt things using the Spotipy library, which is what I had used previously. So this script is one I made, for the most part.

It connects and gets a list of all the playlists you have, then loops through that list, and on ech playlist, pulls down all the track names, and writes them to a text file, in the format Artist – Album – Track Name.

The credentials go into a file int he same directory called auth,py with the following format of your Spotify Developer credentials. Keep the quotation marks.

SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID = "YOUR CLIENT ID"  
SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET = "YOUR CLIENT SECRET"  
SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI = "http://localhost"  
SPOTIFY_USERNAME = "YOUR USER ID NUMBER"

import requests
import os
import spotipy
from auth import *
from spotipy.oauth2 import SpotifyOAuth

sp = spotipy.Spotify(auth_manager=SpotifyOAuth(client_id=SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID,
                                               client_secret=SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET,
                                               redirect_uri=SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI,
                                               scope="user-library-read",
                                               cache_path="token.txt"))

def get_all_playlists():
    playlists = []
    limit = 50
    offset = 0
    playlists = sp.current_user_playlists(limit, offset)
    return playlists

## https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39086287/spotipy-how-to-read-more-than-100-tracks-from-a-playlist
def get_playlist_tracks(username,playlist_id):
    results = sp.user_playlist_tracks(username,playlist_id)
    tracks = results['items']
    while results['next']:
        results = sp.next(results)
        tracks.extend(results['items'])
    return tracks

def save_playlists_to_files(this_list, listname):
    if not os.path.exists('lists'):
        os.makedirs('lists')
    # Sanitize filename for filesystem
    safe_name = listname.replace('/', '_').replace('\\', '_')
    filename = f"lists/{safe_name}.txt"

    with open(filename, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
         f.write(f"Playlist: {listname}\n")
         f.write("Tracks:\n")
            # Optionally, you can fetch and list track names here
         for eachtrack in this_list:
             f.write(f"{eachtrack}\n")

playlists = get_all_playlists()
#print(playlists)
for each in playlists['items']:
   this_list=[]
   #print(each['name'])
   listid = each['id']
   ownerid = each['owner']['id']
   #print("\n")
   mytracks = get_playlist_tracks(ownerid,listid)
   for eachtrack in mytracks:
      trackentry = f"{eachtrack['track']['artists'][0]['name']} - {eachtrack['track']['album']['name']} - {eachtrack['track']['name']}"
      this_list.append(trackentry)
      #print(trackentry)
   save_playlists_to_files(this_list, each['name'])

Everything gets output to a folder called “lists”.

Importing to Youtube

But what to do with these lists? It’s going to be a bit more complicated to try to get Python to build them from my private music collection. I have a LOT of the tracks, I don’t have all of the tracks, I also would need it to scan through well, it’s a fuckton, of music files, some tens of thousands, maybe more, decide on a file, and add it to a winamp or VLC playlist.

What I can do though, for now, is make a big ass YouTube Playlist.

I have no experience with the Youtube API, so I just asked Perplexity for this script, specifically:

“create a python script that will take a text file list of sings, as an input, one song on each line, formatted “artist – Album – Song title” and search Youtube for the artist and song, and add the first result to a new playlist named after the name of the file”

It did some thinking, then gave me a script and instructions on how to set up OAUTH credentials on Youtube. I then did a test run of the script on one of the shorter list files and, sure enough, it worked perfectly. I have included the script below.

You need to create an app here, and create OATH Credentials, and download the file, place it int he folder with the script below, renammed to “client_secret.json”.

The script requires the following dependencies.

pip install google-auth-oauthlib google-auth-httplib2 google-api-python-client

Something not mentioned by Perplexity, that I found a solution for on Stack Overflow, after getting an error, you need to add users. On the App page (you should be sitting there after creating the app), Select the “Audience” tab on the side bar, then a bit down, add a “Test User” by email address, which is the email address associated with your Youtube Channel that you want ot attach the playlists.

import os
import argparse
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from google_auth_oauthlib.flow import InstalledAppFlow

SCOPES = ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/youtube.force-ssl"]

def create_playlist_and_add_songs(file_path):
    # Authenticate and build service
    flow = InstalledAppFlow.from_client_secrets_file("client_secret.json", SCOPES)
    credentials = flow.run_local_server(port=0)
    youtube = build("youtube", "v3", credentials=credentials)

    # Get playlist name from filename
    playlist_name = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(file_path))[0]

    # Create new playlist
    playlist = youtube.playlists().insert(
        part="snippet,status",
        body={
            "snippet": {
                "title": playlist_name,
                "description": f"Auto-generated from {playlist_name}"
            },
            "status": {"privacyStatus": "private"}
        }
    ).execute()
    playlist_id = playlist["id"]

    # Process songs
    with open(file_path, "r") as f:
        for line in f:
            parts = line.strip().split(" - ", 2)
            if len(parts) != 3:
                print(f"Skipping malformed line: {line}")
                continue

            artist, album, song = parts
            query = f"{artist} {song}"
            
            # Search for video
            search_response = youtube.search().list(
                q=query,
                part="id",
                maxResults=1,
                type="video"
            ).execute()
            
            if not search_response.get("items"):
                print(f"No results for: {query}")
                continue
            
            video_id = search_response["items"][0]["id"]["videoId"]

            # Add to playlist
            youtube.playlistItems().insert(
                part="snippet",
                body={
                    "snippet": {
                        "playlistId": playlist_id,
                        "resourceId": {
                            "kind": "youtube#video",
                            "videoId": video_id
                        }
                    }
                }
            ).execute()
            print(f"Added {artist} - {song}")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument("input_file", help="Text file containing songs")
    args = parser.parse_args()
    create_playlist_and_add_songs(args.input_file)

And here is the final imported version of my Raffaella playlist from Spotify.

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Journal

LinkedIn Daily Games

Ramen Junkie April 18, 2025 1 Comment

A lot of people like to play brain games, and while Crosswords have been popular for a while, Wordle really popularized the whole “Once Daily” craze for online games a few years ago. I have done Wordle, and a ton of variations on Wordle. I did Sudoku for a while. I was even doing Crosswords for a bit. Currently, my go to is the daily LinkedIn Games.

They are in the app, they may be on the web too, I don’t know, I don’t look at the website. Hell, I don’t even really look at the app except to play the 5 games they have.

Anyway, I wanted to talk a bit about these games for a bit, and what I think it means for my own thoughts processes. They more or less fall into two categories, word games, and special games. I am pretty good at all of them, but very good at the special games.

Crossclimb

Sort of a crossword like game, you have a series of words all of the same length, with clues for each word. But the trick is, the end result will be words that can be ordered in a way that only one letter changes.

So the one this morning had something like, “Ice turning to water” and “To get with another person” as clues.

Melt and Meet.

You have to arrange the words though, so one clue in between might be “To lose feathers”, Molt, which would come above.

I typically average half the average time on this puzzle daily. You get two hints, for a single letter or a full word, each has a cool down. It can be useful to just accept the idea of using these when younger really stuck, though I don’t use them often.

A better strategy is to just move on, then see where you have gaps in your arrangement to get clues.

Like the above examples, maybe you can’t get Melt, but you have Molt and Meet. Well, the M and T are common, so there is likely at least one word in between those, because two letters changed. It would take “two hops”. This also means you can conclude it’s either ME_T or M_LT or MO_T or M_ET. You basically have 4 words to try to sus out the answer from.

Pinpoint

Definitely weakest game, but probably not for being bad at it. You get 5 clues to find the common denominator. The first two tend to be really obscure, most of the time.its obvious by the 3rd, and the last word is usually very obvious.

My problem tends to be, I get too abstract with the connection and expect them to all be really obscure like the first clue sometimes is.

Today has Wet, Boiler, Bathing, Three Piece…

I guessed Slippery (when wet), Room (Wet Room, Boiler Room), Water (all are water things), Bathing Suit (which was wrong) but the answer was simply “Suit”.

It’s notable, that this is the only puzzle you can actual fail. All of the others just get a larger and larger timer, and as far as I can tell, the timer is unlimited.

Zip

This is a newer one, its kind of interesting, I am super good at it. Like I said, I am really great at the “special” puzzles.

You have a grid with a sequence of numbers laid across it, sometimes there are walls. Not every square has a number, it’s usually either 6 or 8 at the max. You have to start at 1, and connect the numbers in order, while also filling in all the squares.

You have to be able to get them in order, sometimes this means doing some zig zag to pick up blocks, also, you have to be able to see ahead a bit since you may need to leave a path to get a later number.

They feel pretty easy, but I find it fun to do and almost always get it in the 10-20 second range with 0-2 backtracks.

Tango

I want to like Tango more, but I am not sure what could really be changed to make it more enjoyable. The object is, you have a grid each row and column has 3 each of a sun or a moon. You can’t have more than two in a row of any symbol. There are sometimes indicators like = or x that means that two blocks must be equal or opposites.

Sometimes they replace the symbols for holidays. The final four used Basketball teal mogos, which honestly kind of fucked up my ability to logic, I think maybe the problem was the colors were sort of reverse from normal.

Every game of Tango feels like it’s either just, filling in a chain of obvious drops. Or, you make one guess in the right spot, usually one of the = or x nodes, and then fill in the logic chain until you hit a dead end or win. If you hit a dead end, clear the board, and start with the opposite.

Queens

Saving the best for last, I actually went looking for a place to JUST play Queens puzzles. I should try to program up something to generate them maybe.

It’s kind of a Sudoku style game.

For queens, you have a grid, it has several continuous colored sections or irregular shapes. They can be as small as one square. The object is to put a Queen crown in every colored section, but also, only one in each row and column

So you start with obvious singles. You also can eliminate some for anything that is a row.

The real trick to being quick as these is eliminating “large rows”. Say every color intersects the two middle rows. But two of the colors, exist entirely in the middle rows. You can eliminate two rows now from every other color except those two. Each row, has to be one of those two colors, because those colors can’t be placed anywhere else. These can be 2, 3,4 whatever high, though they become less useful if it’s 4 and are about useless if it’s 5, aside from maybe now you have 3 colors in the opposite set that makes a “large row”.

Another one is to catch where placing a crown eliminates a color completely, which can make choosing easy sometimes. If you have a 2 block nestles inside a 3 block “L”, you know it’s not going to be the “inside” box because you would remove all the spaces from the 3 block “L”. For example.

You run these “filters” across rows and columns and it makes a lot of the solutions become clear.

You do occasionally have to just guess and go for it. And after a while even when guessing, you might end up with no place to put a crown, but you have a good “feel” for how to adjust.

I usually win these very fast, within 20 seconds usually.

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Sunday 2025-04-13 – Link List

Ramen Junkie April 13, 2025 No Comments

Blogging Intensifies Link List for Sunday 2025-04-13

12-Apr-2025 – Florida’s Legislature Advances a Ludicrous ‘Chemtrails’ Bill

Brief Summary: ”

Republishe”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Why do conservatives waste so much Government time on outrage porn?”

11-Apr-2025 – It’s the Racism, Stupid

Brief Summary: ”

Republishe”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Always Has Been Astronauts.gif”

10-Apr-2025 – Garbage return with new single ‘There’s No Future In Optimism’ ahead of new album ‘Let All That We Imagine Be The Light’ out 30 May

Brief Summary: ”

Image: Joseph CulticePublished: 10 April 2025Pop-rock legends Garbage, headed by the icon that”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “”

09-Apr-2025 – New Trump EO Would Punish States for Combating Climate Change

Brief Summary: ”

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at “protecting” American ener”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “So much for States Rights… again….”

09-Apr-2025 – OK Go – And the Adjacent Possible

Brief Summary: “Label:Released: 11th April 2025

A decade’s quite the gap between albums, especially for a band wh”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Here it goes again…”

07-Apr-2025 – Trump orders NIH to study gender transition ‘regret.’ Here’s what we already know about it

Brief Summary: “The Trump Administration has directed the National Institutes of Health to study “regret” among peop”

Personal Notes and Commentary: “Yeah, it’s basiclly already been studied and shown to not really be a huge problem, but maybe we should let the pseudoscientists take a look at it.”

07-Apr-2025 – Yes, and…: Learning the different ways the world says “yes”

Brief Summary: “Yes—a word that can mean so much in so few letters. It’s a simple word that we say all the time, to “

Personal Notes and Commentary: “”

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