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Chris Andersen @bodhidrop.bsky.social · 23h

Hey, can I do this too? Policing in Hamilton.

Joey Coleman @joeycoleman.ca · 1d

Hamilton's Police Service Board meets today to discuss a 2026 budget that proposes to increase spending by nearly 10 per cent, more than double Mayor Andrea Horwath's "Hold the Line" 4.25 per cent budget directive. #yhmcc #HamOnt

thepublicrecord.ca/2025/10/hami...

Hamilton Police Seek 8.62 Per Cent Tax Funded Increase, Double Mayor Horwath's Budget Directive

HPS still plans to increase spending by nearly 10 per cent, despite Mayor's "Hold the Line" 4.25 per cent directive.

thepublicrecord.ca

Chris Andersen @bodhidrop.bsky.social · 23h

First I've heard of this. I think I can make one of the nights. Punk/DIY music and culture in Hamilton Ontario Canada. But, what's this, Snake Charmer's last show? #OldPunks

@steelcitymusic.ca 🇨🇦🍁 @steelcitymusic.bsky.social · 1d

YOURIN FESTED 2025 2 nights! Oct 17 & Oct 18 2025 @ The Underground
tinyurl.com/57wc6vtz
#supportlivemusicvenue #supportlivemusicvenues #HamOntEvents #hamont #livemusic

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Chris Andersen @bodhidrop.bsky.social · 1d

I was just listening to this ! They're so much fun. Been on a big SCG kick lately. And I just got the new Sir Richard Bishop album a week back. Very different of course. He's brilliant.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

"The United States struck another small boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela, killing six people...It’s the fifth deadly strike in the Caribbean"

again, merely political consequences for wanton murder aren't enough.

apnews.com/article/trum...

US kills 6 people in strike on boat accused of carrying drugs near Venezuela, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

apnews.com

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RockGarage4 @rockgarage4.bsky.social · 2d

On this day, October 14, 1969 - The Supremes release "Someday, We'll Be Together," their last single with Diana Ross, who launches a solo career.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Pr...

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✨Jane ✨ @caff.bsky.social · 2d

Yes

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Chris Andersen @bodhidrop.bsky.social · 2d

What part of the trail is this? By Georgian Bay ?

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Chris Andersen @bodhidrop.bsky.social · 2d

One of my giants, Moondog.

X Ray Eyes @xrayeyes.bsky.social · 2d

Moondog, New York City, 1963.
Pic by Diane Arbus.

Moondog ~ Moondog (1969)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK0y...

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Chris Andersen @bodhidrop.bsky.social · 2d

Good piece from Dusted on Michael Yonkers.
www.dustedmagazine.com/features/694

Dusted Features [ The World is Just Catching Up: Michael Yonkers ]

Dusted feature article.The World is Just Catching Up: Michael Yonkers. <p>Way back in the late 1960s, Michael Yonkers recorded one of the lost classics of psychedelic rock (<i>Microminiature Love</i>)...

www.dustedmagazine.com

Chris Andersen @bodhidrop.bsky.social · 2d

Been on a Michael Yonkers kick lately. Microminature Love all the way !
Here's a fun and much more recent clip...
youtu.be/Poffc-pQLt4?...

So Be - Michael Yonkers with The Blind Shake

YouTube video by nadir300

youtu.be

Chris Andersen @bodhidrop.bsky.social · 2d

Some more Machado/Nobel commentary in case you need any.
From the Normal Island News
www.normalisland.co.uk/p/venezuelan...

Venezuelan woman who begged Trump to bomb her country wins Nobel Peace Prize

María Corina Machado has become the first person since Barack Obama to win the Nobel Peace Prize for doing absolutely nothing.

www.normalisland.co.uk

Chris Andersen @bodhidrop.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinating and with exhaustive researched. Full of excellent analysis and surprisingly prescient . Panama in WW II , raytod2017 , raytoddblog

raytodd.blog/author/rayto...

raytodd2017

Chartered Legal Executive and former senior manager with Isle of Man Customs and Excise, where I was (amongst other things) Sanctions Officer (for UN/EU sanctions), Export Licensing Officer and Man…

raytodd.blog

Chris Andersen @bodhidrop.bsky.social · 2d

United Israel Appeal in Canada
www.justpeaceadvocates.ca/how-united-i...

United Israel Appeal of Canada funds Israel’s illegal occupation

Learn how the United Israel Appeal of Canada supports Israel's illegal occupation through millions of dollars a year

www.justpeaceadvocates.ca

Chris Andersen @bodhidrop.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks. Intrigued.

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Chris Andersen @bodhidrop.bsky.social · 4d

Welshman and Scotsman look up from their pints "Of COURSE you include Wales and Scotland as separate countries!!!"

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Chris Andersen @bodhidrop.bsky.social · 4d

...NC, SC, GA, FL, VT, NH, Minnesota, WI, Nebraska, Iowa, TN, KY, OR. DC too. My longest times were in California and Mass/New England. Longest times were in western/upstate NY, New England, California, then Atlanta/Macon. The Grateful Dead urged me on for most of this I ought note. Sorry Delaware.

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Chris Andersen @bodhidrop.bsky.social · 4d

Canadian here. I've seen more of the US then the Can. True, all but 5 years of my life (soon to be 50) have been spent living 1.5 - 3 hrs from the border at Niagara, however ...
NY, OH, PA, Michigan, Massachusetts, RI, CT, NJ, Maryland, Virginia, W Virginia, Illinois, Indiana ...

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Chris Andersen @bodhidrop.bsky.social · 4d

That is a brilliant turn of phrase ! Useful beyond the context seen here (perfect image to go with it btw). Thanks.

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Chris Andersen @bodhidrop.bsky.social · 4d

What is this image from?

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Metaphor Man @metaphorman.bsky.social · 5d

Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado once asked satanyahu to militarily intervene & help overthrow President Maduro, even pledging to move Venezuela’s embassy to Jerusalem

Now she’s rewarded for inviting a foreign apartheid state to attack her own country so Washington can seize Venezuela’s oil

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 5d

"Why were Palestinians forced to negotiate an end to their own genocide?

It's really quite repulsive that Palestinians have had to negotiate
an end to their genocide.

It should have been that the world put sanctions on Israel to stop the genocide."

-Diana Buttu (Palestinian rights lawyer)

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4d

Activists say nearly 60 killed as RSF attacks displacement shelter and university grounds besieged area in Darfur.

RSF drone strike kills dozens in Sudan’s war-ravaged el-Fasher: Activists

Activists say nearly 60 killed as RSF attacks displacement shelter and university grounds besieged area in Darfur.

bit.ly

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Chris Andersen @bodhidrop.bsky.social · 5d

Remembering Charlie Bird parker on the anniversary of his birth.

jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · Aug 29

Charlie Parker was born in Kansas City, Kansas on this day in 1920

📸 William Gottlieb/Redferns

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction

Exclusive: Two-page 1957 manuscript signed by author linked to his classic of beat literature, On the Road A “very significant” unpublished story by Jack Kerouac described as “a lost chapter of the On the Road saga” has been discovered after languishing in the files of an assassinated Mafia crime boss for at least 40 years. The two-page typewritten manuscript signed by Kerouac in green ink is titled The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing and is dated 15 April 1957, five months before his classic of beat literature, On the Road, was published. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 5d

She's a U.S. sponsored opposition candidate and the daughter of a steel oligarch. Machado champions the privatization of Venezuela's oil, power, and steel industries.

Connie Schultz @connieschultz.bsky.social · 5d

New York Times:

“Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela & for her struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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