Kirk McElhearn
@kirkville.com
Lapsed New Yorker in Shakespeare's home town. Writer, podcaster, photographer, shakuhachi player, cat whisperer. I write and podcast about Apple, Scrivener, computer security, music, and photography.
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Ukraine Denies Attack on Putin Residence: “We’re Helping Him Build a Ballroom”
December 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Ukraine Denies Attack on Putin Residence: “We’re Helping Him Build a Ballroom”
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#WinterFest2025 with 25% savings available on artisanal apps like Scrivener, Scapple, Tinderbox and more still available! artisanalsoftwarefestival.com :-)
All the best, L&L.
All the best, L&L.
WinterFest
Winter Festival of Artisanal Software.
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December 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
#WinterFest2025 with 25% savings available on artisanal apps like Scrivener, Scapple, Tinderbox and more still available! artisanalsoftwarefestival.com :-)
All the best, L&L.
All the best, L&L.
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My bookie tells me all the oddsmakers are saying the president won't remove the Emma Lazarus poem from the Statute of Liberty until after the mid-terms.
December 29, 2025 at 3:12 AM
My bookie tells me all the oddsmakers are saying the president won't remove the Emma Lazarus poem from the Statute of Liberty until after the mid-terms.
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Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
December 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
“In the buses all night she listened to transistor radios playing songs in the lower stretches of the Top 200, that would never become popular, whose melodies and lyrics would perish as if they had never been sung.”
Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon
December 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
“In the buses all night she listened to transistor radios playing songs in the lower stretches of the Top 200, that would never become popular, whose melodies and lyrics would perish as if they had never been sung.”
Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon
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RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).
September 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).
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Griftocracy.
“Since President Trump was elected a second time, he and his allies have raised nearly $2 billion for his favored political causes and passion projects.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Griftocracy.
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“Accepting the jumbo jet from Qatar was huge in terms of what it breached. But he loved it. So he took it. Now he says it's going to be part of his presidential library. Meaning, as far as I can tell from Trump's intellectual life, that it will contain one plane and no books.” @mrjamesob.bsky.social
NOTHING TO SEE YEAR: PART 2!
Join us with @mrjamesob.bsky.social for:
📈 ‘25 stories that should’ve been bigger
📉 the ones that shouldn’t have been huge but were
🟠 POTUS’ maddest moment 🔮 What we’d change to improve ‘26
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Join us with @mrjamesob.bsky.social for:
📈 ‘25 stories that should’ve been bigger
📉 the ones that shouldn’t have been huge but were
🟠 POTUS’ maddest moment 🔮 What we’d change to improve ‘26
open.spotify.com/episode/7JQ0...
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2025 reviewed Pt2: This was fine... with James O'Brien
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December 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
“Accepting the jumbo jet from Qatar was huge in terms of what it breached. But he loved it. So he took it. Now he says it's going to be part of his presidential library. Meaning, as far as I can tell from Trump's intellectual life, that it will contain one plane and no books.” @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Au revoir Brigitte x
December 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Au revoir Brigitte x
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RIP Brigitte Bardot
December 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
RIP Brigitte Bardot
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“it is illegal for you not to like me”
This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
December 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
“it is illegal for you not to like me”
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Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
December 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
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“I have no professional interest in people looking at my face” is, not to be dramatic about it or anything, an idea for which I am willing to live and die
and god I mean, more broadly - I resent this idea that someone has to look at me to follow what I'm saying, I like writing and I like talking on the radio and on podcasts, I have no professional interest in people looking at my face, leave me alone
December 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“I have no professional interest in people looking at my face” is, not to be dramatic about it or anything, an idea for which I am willing to live and die
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It’s interesting how the risk awareness that dependence on US systems - be it in digital services, defence, or payment methods - has been internalised fairly quickly in Europe.
National Bank of Sweden chief says Sweden is too dependent on MasterCard and Visa and needs non-American alternatives
National Bank of Sweden chief says Sweden is too dependent on MasterCard and Visa and needs non-American alternatives
Riksbankschef Erik Thedéen: Sverige för beroende av amerikanska kreditkortsföretag - Ekot
Riksbankschef Erik Thedéen anser att Sveriges betalsystem är för beroende av amerikanska kreditkortsföretag som Mastercard och Visa.I nuläget tycker Erik ...
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December 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
It’s interesting how the risk awareness that dependence on US systems - be it in digital services, defence, or payment methods - has been internalised fairly quickly in Europe.
National Bank of Sweden chief says Sweden is too dependent on MasterCard and Visa and needs non-American alternatives
National Bank of Sweden chief says Sweden is too dependent on MasterCard and Visa and needs non-American alternatives
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This is beyond Christian nationalism. Imagine worshipping Trump.
December 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is beyond Christian nationalism. Imagine worshipping Trump.
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📢I am proud to lead an important backbencher debate in Parliament on lack of financial support for small businesses and individuals during the covid-19 pandemic.
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🗓Thursday 15 January
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December 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
📢I am proud to lead an important backbencher debate in Parliament on lack of financial support for small businesses and individuals during the covid-19 pandemic.
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🗓Thursday 15 January
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Russia's estimated losses in Ukraine as of day 1403 of its all-out war, according to the Ukrainian Army's General Staff.
December 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Russia's estimated losses in Ukraine as of day 1403 of its all-out war, according to the Ukrainian Army's General Staff.
I admire David’s consistency, and also his transparency in summing up his year in writing.
And it’s out now - subscribe for future newsletters, and/or read this post online here - www.davidgoodman.net/how-i-write-...
December 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I admire David’s consistency, and also his transparency in summing up his year in writing.
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This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
December 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.
I don’t see this mentioned often, but this is a wonderful Fripp and Eno instrumental collaboration.
music.apple.com/gb/album/the...
music.apple.com/gb/album/the...
The Equatorial Stars by Robert Fripp & Brian Eno on Apple Music
Album · 2005 · 7 Songs
music.apple.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I don’t see this mentioned often, but this is a wonderful Fripp and Eno instrumental collaboration.
music.apple.com/gb/album/the...
music.apple.com/gb/album/the...
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joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this
December 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this
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Not sure I understand why the Trump administration cares about Christians in Nigeria and not Christians in Ukraine
December 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Not sure I understand why the Trump administration cares about Christians in Nigeria and not Christians in Ukraine
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Should someone tell him who wrote “White Christmas” and where that person was born.
December 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Should someone tell him who wrote “White Christmas” and where that person was born.