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Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1581

Rick @rickwebb.net · 3d

Nick Cave's "No more Shall We Part." Assorted reader updates. How fun would it be to monetize AI if you had no moral code. Even if it won't work.

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Nick Cave's "No more Shall We Part." Assorted reader updates. How fun would it be to monetize AI if you had no moral code. Even if it won't work.

Rick @rickwebb.net · 4d

Someone should just ask whether he would send the guard to Illinois if they were assisting with a flood, or landslide or something.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 4d

Nobody in the blue states asked for your “help,” Greg.

Tweet from Greg Abbott showing members of the Texas National Guard boarding a large military cargo plane on a runway at sunrise. Text reads:
“The elite Texas National Guard.
Ever ready.
Deploying now.”

Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1579

Rick @rickwebb.net · 5d

Swans at the Paradise

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Swans at the Paradise.

Even the most sophisticated arguments in favour of doing so make no sense

Rick @rickwebb.net · 8d

Yo Economist your ownership is showing.

The Economist @economist.com · 8d

Economists are aware of the problems that wealth taxes face. A growing number support their reintroduction regardless. That is a mistake

Don’t tax wealth

econ.st

Apple Takes Down ICE Tracking Apps Amid Trump Pressure Campaign

Rick @rickwebb.net · 9d

It's time for Tim to go.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 9d

Apple agreed with the Trump admin’s demands that they remove apps that helped people track ICE agents from the Apple Store: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

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Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1577

Rick @rickwebb.net · 9d

Thoughts on the new Taylor album. A rare single-topic issue.

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Thoughts on the new Taylor album. A rare single-topic issue.

Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1576

Rick @rickwebb.net · 10d

A lot about of words about assorted music, an update on two book projects.

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A lot about of words about assorted music, an update on two book projects.

Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1575

Rick @rickwebb.net · 10d

Fucking bread week no plaiting this is fucking bullshit

Rick @rickwebb.net · 11d

Fascism exhaustion, teachers with kids in school, roadside mysteries, Jane takes a fall, EA, Ek, an inappropriate baby corn story.

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Fascism exhaustion, teachers with kids in school, roadside mysteries, Jane takes a fall, EA, Ek, an inappropriate baby corn story.

Rick @rickwebb.net · 11d

How much longer can I get away with faking it whenever someone sends me a Tiktok link

Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1574

Rick @rickwebb.net · 12d

Sharon Van Etten at Cat's Cradle, Real Wild Child returns, post-op clapping is hard, parental photo scanning

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Sharon Van Etten at Cat's Cradle, Real Wild Child returns, post-op clapping is hard, parental photo scanning

Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1573

Rick @rickwebb.net · 13d

A weekend of sorting through parental memories. The Google anti-trust decision. NIN back catalog. An ode to Vuescan and Hamrick software.

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A weekend of sorting through parental memories. The Google anti-trust decision. NIN back catalog. An ode to Vuescan and Hamrick software.

Rick @rickwebb.net · 15d

The constitution is kinda garbage, it's true. But designing an effective system is not impossible! It could probably even be done through amendments. Probably. Maybe.

Rick @rickwebb.net · 15d

If you have a 70, 80% majority, sure. But with the numbers these guys have? Change those two things and they'd be in an impossible position. They'd not have the house; they'd not have the courts.

Rick @rickwebb.net · 15d

This is so fatalistic. A ban on gerrymandering, and a reformed Supreme Court more impervious to packing and a lot of what's happening would be impossible.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15d

TBH there is no way to design any system to counteract an executive declaring "I have all power and can exercise it arbitrarily" when a majority of the legislative and judicial branches responds with "that's right." Such a society is too primitive for modern governance and the rule of law.

Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 15d

Again, this is what I mean when I say the Constitution is broken

Which of the institutions it establishes, exactly, ISN'T broken?? Which is acting to maintain the constitutional order?

Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1572

Rick @rickwebb.net · 16d

I can type again yay! Depressing news roundup, Wegovy logistics, bandages off, new music Friday.

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I can type again yay! Depressing news roundup, Wegovy logistics, bandages off, new music Friday.

Butthole Surfers surprise-reunited for first performance in 8 years at documentary screening (watch)

Rick @rickwebb.net · 17d

How is this not on the front page of the Times the media is broken.

BrooklynVegan @brooklynvegan.bsky.social · 18d

Butthole Surfers surprise-reunited for first performance in 8 years at documentary screening (watch) www.brooklynvegan.com/butthole-sur...

The Butthole Surfers did an unannounced three-song performance following the LA screening of ’The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt.’

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Rick @rickwebb.net · 19d

How bout this?

Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1568

Rick @rickwebb.net · 20d

Smooth shopping carts, dichotomous living, Wiccan Phase Springs Eternal, studio build work, the phrase "die in a fire," do we need all these gas stations?

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Smooth shopping carts, dichotomous living, Wiccan Phase Springs Eternal, studio build work, the phrase "die in a fire," do we need all these gas stations?

Rick @rickwebb.net · 20d

I bet Just like Heaven happened the day before How Beautiful You Are. Real emotional rollercoaster of a weekend for 1987 Robert.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21d

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

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Rick @rickwebb.net · 22d

It's also just... logistically facile. They won't get past the primary. So what is actually recommending. Useless.

Rick @rickwebb.net · 22d

Oh interesting. I've not watched any of them.

Rick @rickwebb.net · 22d

Definitely part of the horror of all this is how utterly blah the "joke" was.