Tommy Weir
@tommyw.bsky.social
Photographer, filmmaker and educator
Ring the bells that still can ring.
Ring the bells that still can ring.
www.npr.org/2025/12/01/g...
Stop what you’re doing and check out David Byrne’s Tiny Desk concert…
Stop what you’re doing and check out David Byrne’s Tiny Desk concert…
David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
In matching, brilliant blue suits, David Byrne and his band squeeze behind the Desk to perform four songs, including Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime."
www.npr.org
December 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Stop what you’re doing and check out David Byrne’s Tiny Desk concert…
Stop what you’re doing and check out David Byrne’s Tiny Desk concert…
There’s little doubt that much of what ails the world has organised religion fuelling it in part. That said some of their leading voices do see it clearly, worth a read www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We have a practical framework for American resistance. Now we need a spiritual one | Rami Nashashibi
There is growing understanding that our country is witnessing evil in our public life. Here is a path to confronting it
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
There’s little doubt that much of what ails the world has organised religion fuelling it in part. That said some of their leading voices do see it clearly, worth a read www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Thanksgiving with Leslie Jones
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Thanksgiving with Leslie Jones
“So how often have you made @nigelslater.bsky.social’s chocolate cake?”
“Uh…”
“Uh…”
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“So how often have you made @nigelslater.bsky.social’s chocolate cake?”
“Uh…”
“Uh…”
So Pluribus is all about AI right?
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
So Pluribus is all about AI right?
Two bright sparks, Luke Igel and Riley Walz, took the Epstein emails and worked them into a Gmail experience as he would have seen it.
jmail.world
jmail.world
Jmail, logged in as [email protected]
You are logged into [email protected], Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
jmail.world
November 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Two bright sparks, Luke Igel and Riley Walz, took the Epstein emails and worked them into a Gmail experience as he would have seen it.
jmail.world
jmail.world
You land in Dublin Airport. Take the bus to the car park. Opera on Lyric blares. Bus driver whistles along. Home.
November 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
You land in Dublin Airport. Take the bus to the car park. Opera on Lyric blares. Bus driver whistles along. Home.
When I say I am not buying another camera I mean after this one...
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wideluxx.com#reveal-video
Home - WIDELUXX | The New Panoramic Paradigm | All Analog | Film Forever
WELCOME TOSilverBridges is recreating the Widelux... a panning, analog camera that bridges past and future, handmade to last generations.INTRODUCING THE The 2025 WIDELUX•X camera combines its iconic r...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
When I say I am not buying another camera I mean after this one...
wideluxx.com#reveal-video
wideluxx.com#reveal-video
“In a tradition that stretches back to the first Memorial Day after the war, every service member honored in the cemetery has a Dutch adopter who brings flowers and visits his or her memorial. Some even correspond with the deceased’s family in the United States.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...?
Opinion | ‘Thanks, U.S.A.’
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 AM
“In a tradition that stretches back to the first Memorial Day after the war, every service member honored in the cemetery has a Dutch adopter who brings flowers and visits his or her memorial. Some even correspond with the deceased’s family in the United States.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...?
FIFA for sure knows a grifter when they see one. Disgusting.
FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award at the draw for the World Cup on Dec. 5 in Washington. https://to.pbs.org/47LyluB
FIFA to award new peace prize at World Cup draw in Washington
FIFA has announced the creation of a peace prize, which it plans to award for the first time at the World Cup draw on Dec. 5 in Washington.
www.pbs.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
FIFA for sure knows a grifter when they see one. Disgusting.
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The #BrokenTimes cannot bring itself to label and thus explain the reality of today: a fascist dictatorship. It is failing America.
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The #BrokenTimes cannot bring itself to label and thus explain the reality of today: a fascist dictatorship. It is failing America.
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
youtu.be/GSzRkWrUiHQ?...
@artefr.bsky.social documentary on the exodus, particularly by women, from America since the election.
@artefr.bsky.social documentary on the exodus, particularly by women, from America since the election.
Spain: Fleeing Trump's America | ARTE.tv Documentary
YouTube video by ARTE.tv Documentary
youtu.be
October 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
youtu.be/GSzRkWrUiHQ?...
@artefr.bsky.social documentary on the exodus, particularly by women, from America since the election.
@artefr.bsky.social documentary on the exodus, particularly by women, from America since the election.
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"Our findings highlight the limits of countering misinformation directly, because for some people, literal truth is not the point. ... This mindset was also strongly associated with authoritarian attitudes." theconversation.com/winning-with...
Winning with misinformation: New research identifies link between endorsing easily disproven claims and prioritizing symbolic strength
Conversations around misinformation that assume everyone cares about literal truth may be missing the point.
theconversation.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"Our findings highlight the limits of countering misinformation directly, because for some people, literal truth is not the point. ... This mindset was also strongly associated with authoritarian attitudes." theconversation.com/winning-with...
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This is spectral and beautiful - a 1974 autobiographical 16mm short film about poet Frank Stanford, made by Stanford and his publisher, Irv Broughton. A weave of poetry, talk, shadow images, blues songs.
It WASN'T A DREAM: IT WAS A FLOOD
YouTube video by Frank Stanford
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October 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This is spectral and beautiful - a 1974 autobiographical 16mm short film about poet Frank Stanford, made by Stanford and his publisher, Irv Broughton. A weave of poetry, talk, shadow images, blues songs.
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If anyone here is still using X/Twitter, here's another good reason to stop www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
(Remember Musk spoke at so-called Robinson's fascist demonstration a few weeks ago)
(Remember Musk spoke at so-called Robinson's fascist demonstration a few weeks ago)
Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins
Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If anyone here is still using X/Twitter, here's another good reason to stop www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
(Remember Musk spoke at so-called Robinson's fascist demonstration a few weeks ago)
(Remember Musk spoke at so-called Robinson's fascist demonstration a few weeks ago)
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Macron continues to baffle me. Would do anything other than appoint a left wing PM. Including show his shortcomings and embarrass the nation.
Macron continues to baffle me. Would do anything other than appoint a left wing PM. Including show his shortcomings and embarrass the nation.
Macron reappoints outgoing PM Sébastien Lecornu, far right calls for snap legislative elections
Returning Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said Friday he accepted his reappointment "out of duty", just days after he handed in his resignation to French President Emmanuel Macron. The decision was…
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October 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Macron continues to baffle me. Would do anything other than appoint a left wing PM. Including show his shortcomings and embarrass the nation.
Macron continues to baffle me. Would do anything other than appoint a left wing PM. Including show his shortcomings and embarrass the nation.
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Real Genius had it right in 1985: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB1X...
October 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Real Genius had it right in 1985: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB1X...
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We use social networks to share human experiences and interact with people about culture or politics. Silicon Valley wants to replace that, turning person-to-person interactions into person-to-machine interactions, leaving us alone talking to no one.
www.computerworld.com/article/4067...
www.computerworld.com/article/4067...
October 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
We use social networks to share human experiences and interact with people about culture or politics. Silicon Valley wants to replace that, turning person-to-person interactions into person-to-machine interactions, leaving us alone talking to no one.
www.computerworld.com/article/4067...
www.computerworld.com/article/4067...
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That’s our timeline.
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 5, 2025 at 6:14 AM
That’s our timeline.
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I think AI is acceptable right now because the underlying information is still discoverable, with people able to trace back to truth and discover AI's mistakes. but we're building towards an information ecosystem of liquefaction zones, where there is no foundation of truth under the slop.
September 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I think AI is acceptable right now because the underlying information is still discoverable, with people able to trace back to truth and discover AI's mistakes. but we're building towards an information ecosystem of liquefaction zones, where there is no foundation of truth under the slop.