Why is the @guardian@flipboard.social still embedding #X links? How can you report on the fact that the owner is a nazi one day and then support their business the next?
[#]twitter #nazi #gaurdian #media #newspaper @guardian@mstdn.media
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I love Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas, especially this version read by Richard Burton, listen to it in the quiet dark.
https://youtu.be/7jN3scLX2WY?feature=shared
[#]poetry #literature
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Wow #tennisaustralia sounds like a real barrel of bullshit of an organisation, nfts, metaverse, facial recognition. We need a term for this sort of fratboy 100% big tech buy in, Roganed? Wonder how some of the fans feel getting zucked over by these grifts?
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jan/14/almost-10000-images-of-tennis-balls-plunge-up-to-90-in-value-as-australian-open-appears-to-ditch-nfts
[#]tennis #australia #AO #Web3IsGoingJustGreat #web3 #NFTs
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Every post not sent or minute less on a platform helps. #X, #twitter, #meta, #tiktoc #google etc all want you to believe you don't matter, that your attention is meaningless. Never believe it. Never. Network effects are real, the more you are not there, the less reason others have to be, and so on. I understand some can't leave but at least be a minimalist about it and cross post if you can, give those who want an alternative.
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Easing in to the weekend with some of Jon Batiste's latest "Beethoven Blues" #music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-WsVGj6sic
NPR interview with Terry Gross here:
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/09/nx-s1-5220956/jon-batiste-beethoven-blues
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Just back to read about the amazing finish to the #SAvsPAK test match, Rabada and Jansen brilliant! So happy for the #proteas getting a first #WTC spot. : )
[#]cricket #testmatch
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/south-africa-vs-pakistan-2024-25-1432205/south-africa-vs-pakistan-1st-test-1432217/match-report
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Some African science fiction recommendations, will try and get one or two next year
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-12-28-6-best-african-sci-fi-and-fantasy-books-to-read-this-holiday/?dm_source=dm_block_grid&dm_medium=card_link&dm_campaign=main
[#]africa #sciencefiction
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Waking up to the MCG test match, surprised more people aren't talking about the weather. It's/been a scorcher 37,38 C (100F) it's got to take a lot out your bowling attack. How long before we can't play boxing day test matches?
[#]cricket #TestMatch #IndvsAus #climatechange
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Firdose Moonda on red ball cricket in SA, she's great.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/red-ball-fever-catches-on-ever-so-slowly-in-south-africa-1465011
[#]cricket #testcricket #testmatchcricket #redballcricket #southafrica #england
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Warning this is maddening, especially given that the top 1% are responsible for most of the #climatechange. They have the money to pay for it too, estimated 700 billion left untaxed every year "Brooke Harrington, author of Offshore, on how and where the mega-rich stash their cash"
https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S241128
[#]greed #offshoreWealth #taxhavens #taxtherich #podcast
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Could the media please switch their perspective on these stories to "why the hell is anyone on x anymore?" That's far more relevant, you don't ask someone in an abusive relationship why they left you ask them why they stayed so long.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/11/from-x-to-bluesky-why-are-people-abandoning-twitter-digital-town-square
[#]x #twitter #twittermigration #guardian
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South Africa play Sri Lanka today in Gqeberha for the 2nd test, here is a helpful pronunciation guide.
https://youtu.be/mSzNaF-Rk1k?feature=shared
[#]cricket #xhosa #southafrica #gqeberha
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It's always great when Bavuma bats with Jansen, hard for bowlers to have to keep adjusting their length for the height variation, if only we could teach one of them to bat left handed and it would be ideal : )
[#]cricket #SAvsSL #testmatchcricket
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Conditions perfect for #Bumrah to be bowling, but #India are again appeasing #Kohli's massive ego, yet again. #cricket #AUSvsIND
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Excellent article on #fifa's planned coronation of #saudiarabia December 11th, in a no bid contact to host the #soccerworldcup. Fifa is irredeemable, they sought this out, we need a new governing body and countries and clubs need to dump them. There are alternatives eg WUFU this isn't impossible.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/nov/15/saudi-arabias-world-cup-how-close-could-fifa-get-to-corporate-manslaughter
https://youtu.be/_6hvJ20E8X0?feature=shared
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I love the ending of the Soprano's s6e4 "everybody hurts", with a confused AJ exposed to the upper layers of American society. The mob are small time gangsters compared to the corporate class.
[#]TVseries #sopranos
https://youtu.be/SRf-NPBlt4g?feature=shared
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I know people are hurting right now but reflexive anger isn't going to help, you have to understand the root causes of the evil you want to fight. You also have to understand the weapons you have available, righteousness and indignation aren't ones. You need solidarity and the strike. Some good starting points:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/why-donald-trump-won-election-white-house/?utm_source=press.coop
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-politics-of-cultural-despair
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781627795401/listenliberal
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/251034/postcards-from-the-end-of-america-by-linh-dinh/
[#]trump #election #usa #America #politics #poverty
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Sibelius's 3rd symphony, one of my favorites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwnvn9H79_k&t=1s
[#]music #classicalmusic
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It's hard to described the difficulty of what the New Zealand cricket team has done, white washing Indian in India in a test match series. Should go down with Edmund Hillary as one of the greatest #NZ sporting achievements. #cricket
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Happy Halloween everyone, here is the opening sequence from The Shining, one of the best. #halloween #movies
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=the+shining+opening+scene&t=fpas&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DkiV3J_e977Q
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