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The Immaculate Inception Originally shared by **** Trump's executive order stripped the children of immigrant mothers of their citizenship, thus disqualifying himself from being President of the United States. Trump immediately called Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh for help in voiding the executive order, but Kavanaugh was unable to take the call because he was “sleeping off a rough night,” an aide to the Justice said. #satire via gangigirl1 https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-strips-citizenship-from-children-of-immigrants-thus-disqualifying-himself-from-presidency?mbid=nl_Borowitz+103018&CNDID=50375792&utm_source=nl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Borowitz+103018&utm_content&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=Borowitz+103018&hasha=af0715d04b0a345cd13a98039d04cfd3&hashb=bfd163cd5c8091ec6b0eb39c362b9a5659ea08aa&spMailingID=14527121&spUserID=MjA2NjYyNDQ1ODMxS0&spJobID=1502341013&spReportId=MTUwMjM0MTAxMwS2

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How Blondie Got To "Heart Of Glass" https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/invisible-hits-how-blondie-got-to-heart-of-glass/

Hands On Experience Is not swiping left or right. Originally shared by Irina T. 2018-10-30 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-46019429

Read The Writing On The Wall Contributions from students at a local synagogue, shared at a service last night.

GMTA https://twitter.com/bolsonarosp/status/1025718449425788929

The Who Sell Out Originally shared by Noah Friedman WHO DID THIS https://twitter.com/BitIntegrity/status/1057040866492080128

Way Down Upon De Swanee Ribber Originally shared by NASA The Suwannee River in Georgia is known as a “blackwater river” because of its dark-brown waters laden with organic material. Unlike other blackwater rivers, it maintains its inky color along its entire 250-mile journey to the sea. Discover why: https://go.nasa.gov/2Q2nkfi

Sans Serif Originally shared by Jeffrey Zeldman “As a writer who designs her own books, I need typefaces that work well for text and small sizes. I’m drawn to typefaces that have distinctive personalities that don’t get in the way of reading. For me, typography is an interface and gateway to language.” Celebrate the work of women designers with this powerful pack of fonts curated by the great Ellen Lupton. https://fonts.adobe.com/collections/fonts-by-women https://fonts.adobe.com/collections/fonts-by-women

Monday https://gcaptain.com/carr-tons-per-inch-immersion-or-what-was-i-thinking/

Caped Crusader Originally shared by Timothy Street Disney's Little Mermaid and Finding Nemo join the Circus . . . . or how I found my perfect Halloween costume. https://www.sciencealert.com/ev-nautilus-davidson-seamount-grimpoteuthis-dumbo-octopus-caught-on-camera https://www.sciencealert.com/ev-nautilus-davidson-seamount-grimpoteuthis-dumbo-octopus-caught-on-camera

Hell Or High Water Having survived the wrath and floodwaters of Florence, the skipper has decided we will combine the first shakedown cruise with the first race of the Frostbite Series. The boat, a one off IOR design by Britton Chance, has not yet been dunked in the water since delivery on a flatbed, in pieces. On account of there not being enough water in the river at the boatyard for her considerable keel. We will not be taking any shortcuts over Hampton Shoal. The boat is named Anathema, more because of the crew than the boat, I suppose, but names are funny things. It's a cold and rainy blow today, supposed to moderate some tomorrow. Predicted wind speeds about 11 kts. I reckon we'll find out how much she heels, and what parts got left off, didn't get properly tightened, or never worked right to begin with. Adventures! Not much danger of explosions. Except maybe of expletives. Wish us luck! https://www.cnn.com/2012/11/21/sport/crash-test-boat-yachting-monthly-you...

Originally shared by Randy Culler Voyage of the Moons Created using still images taken by the Cassini spacecraft during it's flyby of Jupiter and while at Saturn. Shown is Io and Europa over Jupiter's Great Red Spot and then Titan as it passes over Saturn and it's edge-on rings. This is sort of an experiment since I haven't done any actual video in a while and to see if I can do it and if it actually looks good. Hopefully you like it :-) NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / CICLOPS / Kevin M. Gill https://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinmgill/44583965185/

Not Garage Rock Originally shared by Al Tlön "‘Hi-fi shops played it as an example of state-of-the-art music. I didn’t tell them I made it with Sellotape in my kitchen’" https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/16/jean-michel-jarre-michel-granger-oxygene

Carolina Pines https://cardboardamerica.org/2016/11/15/carolina-pines-and-carolina-pines-jr-los-angeles-california/ Originally shared by David McKeever

Chelsea Hotel #2 I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, You were famous, your heart was a legend. You told me again you preferred handsome men, But for me you would make an exception. And clenching your fist for the ones like us, Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty. You fixed yourself, you said, "Well never mind, We are ugly but we have the music." https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/how-leonard-cohen-met-janis-joplin-inside-legendary-chelsea-hotel-encounter-121067/ Originally shared by giacomo bencistà https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch6yu-WT3Wk&feature=share

People Got To Move From the soundtrack of White Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhuQZ5p9Rkg Originally shared by Edward Morbius 'When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary to not make a decision" -- Lord Falkland There've been some voices making or advocating a mad dash for the exits following Google's sunset announcement that the public Google+ will close in August 2019. I don't think this is wise, or particularly significant. Some points to consider. We have time. There are ten months to final sunset. Some services (data take out, static site) may be active beyond August 2019. Google have not yet made this clear, and should. I am asking them about this, you should too There are many alternatives. The big commercial names we all know, smaller and lesser options, both proprietary and open. The landscape has changed. There's a tremendous opportunity for change. Several G+ exodus communities were created, my own is named The...

Not Fan Tong via Susan Jahn Originally shared by Irreverent Monk jiāyóu!!!!! (加油) https://shanghai.ist/2018/10/17/the-chinglish-phrase-add-oil-now-has-an-entry-in-the-oxford-english-dictionary/ https://shanghai.ist/2018/10/17/the-chinglish-phrase-add-oil-now-has-an-entry-in-the-oxford-english-dictionary/

One Drop In Rivers Of Blood... https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/amalekite

Originally shared by Semicentenary Project On October 16, 1968 Olympic 200-meter sprint medalists Tommy "Jet" Smith and John Carlos lowered their heads and raised black-gloved fists during the playing of the American national anthem in Mexico in protest of racism in the U.S.

Much Ado About Little https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/16/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss.html Originally shared by Edward Morbius Yes, Diaspora has Atom feeds (like RSS) Tag ".atom" to the end of the username, as in: https://joindiaspora.com/public/dredmorbius.atom https://joindiaspora.com/public/dredmorbius.atom

A Guided Tour of Indecent Exposure The aphorisms flowed: “The only obscenity left in the art world is celebrity.” And his timing was perfect: “I hate celebrity, too.” Originally shared by Al Tlön "Walking and talking his way through a retrospective of his artwork at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the famed director proved himself a Renaissance man—and a sweetheart to boot." https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-waters-takes-us-on-a-funny-filthy-tour-of-his-fine-art

"All You Got To Do Is..." Internet Identity can be difficult, as both a content creator, and content absorber/commenter upon. It can be hard to figure out someone's bonafides (which is often a combination of what do they know/what have they done/who is paying them how much). That's hard enough in Real Life™, I know, but it seems worse on the Full Of Stock Photos of Glamorous People Internets, where every gooey pancake can be a Star. In general, visible work means effort and commitment, with caveats about the unnaturalness of high production values. Commenters have things the easiest, and are therefore the most suspect. But I've seen some dab hands artfully puncture some remarkably self congratulatory eejits. Commenters aren't always trolls. It's just the default setting. Originally shared by Robert Rambusch Tell us how you really feel Contribute or Shut the Heck Up If you nitpick the mistakes of others but are unwilling to show your own work, even cra...

Colophons A method of publisher branding in the modern age, with some noted artists contributing to the designs of several mentioned here. Some publishers also included information about typefaces, typesetting, paper, binding, and printing. Even further back, they might include curses: Whoever steals this book Will hang on a gallows in Paris, And, if he isn’t hung, he’ll drown, And, if he doesn’t drown, he’ll roast, And, if he doesn’t roast, a worse end will befall him. https://medium.com/@larossa/the-tales-behind-the-branding-of-32-storied-book-publishers-f14679107742

Music For A New Society Originally shared by giacomo bencistà https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln77F25hXVQ&feature=share

F2F: There Will Be A Quiz Y'all better study up, for when the Social Media Is Dead happens... Originally shared by Al Tlön Interaction Ritual Design: George Giusti

Prophetic Voice Originally shared by Stuckin D'South I'm not crying, you're crying. https://youtu.be/QcpiPVsX9b8

The Whichness Of The Why From E.E. Doc Smith's Second Stage Lensman: Worsel the Velantian arrowed downward through the atmosphere toward a certain flat roof. Leather wings shot out with a snap and in a blast of wind— Velantians can stand eleven Tellurian gravities—he came in his customary appalling landing and dived unconcernedly down a nearby shaft. Into a corridor, along which he wriggled blithely to the office of his old friend, Master Technician Laverne Thorndyke. "Verne, I have been thinking," he announced, as he coiled all but about six feet of his sinuous length into a tight spiral upon the rug and thrust out half a dozen weirdly stalked eyes. "That's nothing new," Thorndyke countered. No human mind can sympathize with or even remotely understand the Velantian passion for solid weeks of intense, uninterrupted concentration upon a single thought. "What about this time? The whichness of the why?" "That is the trouble with you Tellurians,...

Kanye West Is Not Picasso Except... Picasso was also an epic, self involved *sshole. But nobody called him one. Not in New York. The Burning Sensations from the Repo Man soundtrack-Pablo Picasso: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGcffXXZYEg https://www.npr.org/2018/10/12/657035439/leonard-cohens-poem-kanye-west-is-not-picasso-as-read-by-michael-shannon

Full Idiot "I watch the news and see these idiots doing this kind of stuff right here, and I thought, 'Well, I won't be that idiot. I'll just sort of kind of look like that idiot instead of being the full idiot,'" he said. "I was the full idiot." https://www.wral.com/-i-was-the-full-idiot-garner-man-admits-after-pulling-truck-from-floodwaters/17909884/ https://www.wral.com/-i-was-the-full-idiot-garner-man-admits-after-pulling-truck-from-floodwaters/17909884/

Let's Do Lunch Olivia Nuzzi @Olivianussi: "I had a very weird day yesterday." http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/my-private-oval-office-press-conference-with-donald-trump.html

Bye, Bye, Truck Not that kind of CAT5. Approximately 4 m AMSL. https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2018/10/10/dog-island-holdout-cat-5-house-stands-against-hurricane-michael/1593307002/ Location marked in red. I can think of worse places to be in a blow. Also, could think of a lot better places to be.

Going Dutch "Once you hear the Dutch accent you can’t get it out of your head, and for innumerable readers it became a siren song." https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-dutch-accent-elmore-leonards-talk Gregg Sutter writes about doing research for Elmore Leonard, including a lengthy interview with the real Ernesto “Chili” Palmer. https://crimereads.com/how-i-helped-elmore-leonard-write-get-shorty/ Originally shared by Rick Wayne (Author) "It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does." "The writer has to have patience, the perseverance to just sit there alone and grind It out. And if it’s not worth doing that, then he doesn’t want to write.” Some quotes from Elmore Leonard I saw today, on what would have been his 93rd birthday. I don't know what it says about me that I agree with almost none of his advice. Take his famous Ten Rules: 1. Never open a book with weather 2. Avoid prologues 3. Never use a verb other than “said” ...

Up Against The Wall, Red Dot Mother With apologies to Ray Wylie Hubbard. Originally shared by Edward Morbius A Google Apology https://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/2555.html https://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/2555.html

SNR I'm really feeling this, with all the Inside Baseball talk about Ploos platform alternatives. Originally shared by Tim O'Brien I’m afraid I’m just not understanding your banter at all today, Squadron Commander... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rKYL0tW-Ek&feature=share

A Book Of One’s Own “Why do we wish to be remembered, even when none remain who looked upon our face? Surely, though it must retain an element of self-consideration, it is a last acknowledgement that we need to be loved; and, having gone from all touch, we trust that memory, may, as it were, keep our unseen presence with the borders of day.” William Soutar “… the life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he comparies the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.” J.M. Barrie “It would have been a very enjoyable ride altogether, that evening’s spin along the banks of the Rhine, if I had not been haunted at the time by the idea that I should have to write an account of it next day in my diary. As it was, I enjoyed it as a man enjoys dinner when he has got to make a speech after it, or as a critic enjoys a play.” Jerome K. Jerome Some of my favorite books are about books. Thomas Mallon wrote this one, in 19...

Turn This Thing Around GOES-16 visible imagery of #HurricaneMichael at sunrise this morning. Dumpstaphunk-Turn This Thing Around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYWDovq_TzU

The Ten Percenters ...that had user sessions that lasted longer than five seconds. Originally shared by Emlyn O'Regan Some recursion for your morning. CNBC interviews John Lewis and mentions this community. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/10/google-plus-users-mourn-shutdown.html

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Where Everybody Knows Your Name "It’s kind of like if your local bingo hall for retirees suddenly disappeared." One of the most marked differences between Google and Apple is the ability to deliver desirable products to End Users. Trey says some smart things about G+, especially with regards to digital photography. It's definitely one of the things I would not have expected, but have ended up doing quite a bit of: taking pictures with my phone, and sharing them with folks. Originally shared by Trey Ratcliff What I Would Have Done If I Was Designing Google+ Today on the blog... https://www.stuckincustoms.com/2018/10/08/what-i-would-have-done-if-i-was-designing-google/ https://www.stuckincustoms.com/2018/10/08/what-i-would-have-done-if-i-was-designing-google/

Chase The Rainbow Kenny Wayne Shepherd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crQHqS2X4CM

First, They Came For The RSS... Well, we could all go back to Usenet, I reckon... I've enjoyed spending time here on the Ploos. Y'all have written things and shared things that I would not have otherwise known or seen. I'm not surprised by this. I reckon I'll move some of this content to a blog, and since I've gotten into the habit of journaling, that's where I'll post in the future. It's more than a bit sad that your contributed comments and witticisms won't transfer, as well. https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe/

Hotel California You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave. via George Station Originally shared by Rod Mesa (Motorod) http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-arellano-california-quitters-20181003-story.html

I'm All Out Of Bubblegum Originally shared by Al Tlön "The horror master’s most prescient movie has nothing to do with serial killers or vampires—it’s about greed and propaganda. And it’s truer than ever." https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/10/4/17933020/they-live-john-carpenter-america-donald-trump

Supreme Executive Power Originally shared by Richard Bensam https://www.thelocal.se/20181004/eight-year-old-swedish-girl-pulls-1000-year-old-sword-from-lake See also: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sword-found-in-excalibur-lake_n_59ae946ee4b0b5e53100b997 You need to understand this is just going to keep happening until we respond correctly. Girls will continue to find ancient legendary swords in lakes until we stop taking the swords away from them and instead follow their instructions. https://www.thelocal.se/20181004/eight-year-old-swedish-girl-pulls-1000-year-old-sword-from-lake

Fashion Climbing Kim Hastreiter (artist and co-founder of Paper) and Hilton Als (New Yorker critic) remember Bill Cunningham in the New York Public Library podcast. Christopher Richards, the editor of Bill Cunningham's memoir, is also part of the conversation. https://www.nypl.org/blog/2018/09/27/secret-memoir-bill-cunningham-ep-234 https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/09/15/647151129/bill-cunningham-a-memoir-of-style-on-all-levels-high-and-low

Smaller Than A Grain Of Enriched Rice Originally shared by K.B. Burnfield The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain, according to extensive interviews with government and corporate sources. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus Originally shared by Ray Radlein READ-ME-DR-MEMORY Dep't: https://medium.com/@stannenb/with-one-of-its-easter-eggs-siri-evokes-the-firesign-theater-and-steve-jobs-86ea5b4874d3

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Not Quite Top Drawer At the shop of The Prince of Rust and Grease (aka The Skipper) in New Bern. You can tell more by the trash in the drawer than you can the outside. Flood waters don't leave much of a mark on oleaginous surfaces.

Wrack And Ruin Going to take more than Monopoly money to set things right...