And it's actually the Atwood Music Hall, fyi
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And it's actually the Atwood Music Hall, fyi
Thank you so much for responding! I see animations depicting chains of mRNA 'swimming' around... I get the chemical reaction energy, but still not grasping the source of locomotion within the cytoplasm.
I am performing a solo set in Madison WI tonight at the Atwood Theater, 8p showtime. It's been awhile! I used to play here often.
Sometimes I'll catch the strangest research obsessions. Right now it's ribosomes. Still can't find a reasonable explanation for what energy system drives the mRNA through the translation process or draws in the tRNA. Brownian indeterminacy, is that a thing? Free energy?
A little more info please... I mean, Noah got blueprints.
They are eliminating the competition for Russian mafia, plain as day. It's impossible to deport to Russia, fyi.
Ballpoint pen with a cap or clip in a pinch as well
Y'all know this trick? #hotelhacks
Helloooo Chicago! Just landed, playing Friday in Aurora, Sunday in Madison, WI
Crazy, I actually lived there, age 1-4
Maybe they'll get some culture and education while they're here.
I'm touring solo this weekend: Fri Aug 22 - Aurora, IL Sun Aug 24 - Madison, WI Old stomping grounds!
Right? It's sad. Political parties *should* be like stripes/solids in billiards or shirts/skins in pickup street games. Not sure how we escape the tribal alignment with the culture war. Politicians embracing micro-targeted ad strategy is another way they choose voters instead of the other way around
Getting lots of stories today blaming South Park for Karoline Leavitt's wardrobe changes, especially dropping the "cross necklace." The clips don't look that bad to me, so guessing the real reason is the cross started burning her skin when she lies?
Gov is def in the "information" category, but also essentially a non-profit and a utility. And a bank, which I like to remind folks means the "national debt" is mostly the bank's "deposits on file," very much unlike a household credit card debt, despite the limbic triggers of political ads.
Public service management experience is important to me versus private sector. The government is not a business, but even if you ran it like one, business comes in 2 major branches: things and information. Any MBA will tell you they need completely different mgmt styles.
Some things to think about for 2028 Democratic POTUS nominee (besides likeability or purity politics) : Experience - esp managing a large public service staff Leadership - history of successful crisis team management Network - friends + collaborators in other states, federal branches, + parties
Plus, fuck bezos and @washingtonpost.com for putting a "know your rights" article behind a paywall. Bill of Rights as clickbait is disgraceful.
Sure, give the transnational corps what they want: USA broken up into smaller countries.
Doesn't mean I think I'm automatically right, but I suspect my "hot takes" are a little more on point than the average "celebrity."
I was the son and grandson of 3 army veterans, sights set on West Point when I was "radicalized" by writing a report for HS frosh English on the Beirut bombings in the early 80's, then rolled with the Model UN club (among other nerdly occupations) before solidly landing in the counterculture.
By my accounting, fascism made it's hard launch in the USA between 1988 & 1992, when the R's forced the D's into accepting corporate bribes through campaign finance deregulation. D's faced being spent out of existence after losing '80-'88. They tried to make it "compassionate fascism," but...
I occasionally need to crank up "Planes" really loud. Killer crescendo intro.
I learned my lesson well
I saw the '89 JA tour, loved the reunion album, and I occasionally cover "Common Market Madrigal" in my solo set. But do I have to choose the best Wooden Ships? I like CSN for the polish, but the raw energy and palpable post apocalypse vibe of the Airplane version is very powerful.
Amazing site for Re/Evolution 2025!
I have a theory that the combo of nitrous oxide + LSD produces some of the higher-self interaction that is known with ibogaine visionary experience. Specifically, a number of ppl have shared their experience of being alone in a "mirror room," or sometimes with a "guide" showing them their flaws.
Specifically: Russian Mafia
It began before that, when orynj Duphis launched the "birther" campaign against Obama, and Moscow Mitch obstructed Obama's SCOTUS pick.
Seriously... I feel breath of fire gets me higher than nitrous... then again I'm not much of a fan of the nitrous buzz.
I always shout "hyperventilation is still free!" whenever I pass by a nitrous vendor.
I read Snow Crash a long time ago, and Seveneves last year, definitely digging it so far
Wondering what percentage of the air in San Francisco is nitrous oxide today...
Currently reading Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, wondering if his work will be my next completist obsession. 💙📚 #booksky
Those jobs have benefits that are easy to target, but the actual pay is shit (compared to what the same requirements earn in the corporate world). Magas don't want those jobs and don't believe the work has value. Ergo only left/liberal/progressive type apply. Oh well🤣
Close. The real deep state is the Chamber of Commerce network.
Many people are saying Q was a psyop by Michael Flynn
By "deep state" (or swamp) they meant that the rank and file workforce in DC... The only people willing to take those jobs - nice benefits because they have unions but crap base pay vs private sector - were people who actually believe in government.
It chilled the entire nightclub scene in DC
I don't distinguish between tribute band, cover band, "original" band... To me, there are bands creating a live music experience, vs bands doing a PowerPoint presentation of the stuff they memorized.
Melvin Seals and JGB setlist 8/1/25 Great American Music Hall - SF, CA Stop That Train In the Midnight Hour Masterpiece Breadbox West LA Fadeaway That's Alright Mama Let Me Roll It Eyes of the World Drumworld Lucky Strike Gomorrah Tangled Up in Blue Sisters & Brothers Deal
Starting with Stephen Stills set 1
My Days, and Days Between: 7/31: Heart of Town - Pier 48 - SF, CA 8/1: Melvin Seals - GAMH - SF, CA 8/2: Melvin Seals - McLaren Park -SF, CA 8/2: Melvin Seals - GAMH - SF, CA 8/3: Axial Tilt - GAMH - SF, CA 8/7: Solo - Hamilton - DC 8/9: Melvin Seals - Darrington, WA
And was Mar a Lago just a waiting room for Epstein Island?
pMq is a sigil I created to throw another spanner in the meta-works
I like forcing oppo-research teams to add search terms... Orynj Duphis is my current push Pheysbuq was one I crafted to force meta to add a few clock cycles to track shit-talkers
I'm guessing she has some kind of Deadman switch to dump files if she dies unexpectedly
Tryna figure out how to mashup Ozzy Osbourne with Chuck Mangione...
Rochester NY tonight! 8:30p MLK park
Colbert for President! *That* would be sweet justice.
I trust NPR to not "change formats."
If you cancel your Paramount+ subscription, consider switching it to a monthly donation to your local NPR or PBS station.
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In a heartbeat
Why is every "Cheating Death" clip from the old Colbert Report scrubbed from YouTube? ...the old satire of big pharma but with "Prescott Pharmaceuticals" and hilarious made up side-effects
You good with winter?
It's true! Thanks!
futurism.com/chatgpt-ment...
Hey now, LA! I'm performing solo tonight at The Venice West!
But you missed the poison gas discharge
I've been working on a Tabasco pale ale vinaigrette for a couple decades...
After the great famine of 58-62, China embraced capitalism as the more effective way to deliver food to where it is most needed (as opposed to central planning.) USSR and CCP technically are/were state-managed capitalisms. I would argue the US is broken because of Dodge v Ford.
CIA/BP op backed installing the shah in the 1950s, I'm talking about the late 70s revolution, which began as a communist intellectual revolution and was hijacked by islamist thugs.
I think we are just having an academic debate over a finer detail, yes? It seems to me we are in agreement on most points. My point relates to figuring out how to keep despots from hijacking the reigns of power once they are placed in hands of kind hearted optimists.
The only way government should be remotely treated as a business is as a bank... which makes the deficit more analogous to a bank's "deposits on file" than a household's "consumer debt."
And no chance surveillance devices have been buried deep in the structure of that plane, no sir!
Plus, the USPS was designed to operate at a loss from day 1.
🤣🤣🤣 Crazy, but Grok (Xitter's AI chatbot) is amazing at taking down maga disinformation.
Amen
Donvict McFelon! Yes! The more goofy nicknames we make up, the more search terms they have to use to keep up 'opposition research.'
And it should be no big deal to raise the salary cap and age of retirement to deal with budget shortfalls.
Speaking of Andor... One discussion point about the SW franchise is the nearly complete absence of journalism or news media. I can only think rn of the pod race in ep 1... In Andor s2 it's a major thread. Maybe after the DS was built, the empire could zero out the propaganda budget?
The movie Persepolis tells the story from the perspective of a teenage girl. Before the shah, Iran had a popular, democraticly elected leader who wanted to nationalize the oil fields, and their previous colonial masters (England) were not happy.
Our world, read history. The initial revolution in Iran ('77-'78) was against a king/shah who was installed by the Dulles brothers at the behest of BP. It was socialist and communist intellectuals, and they were quickly overthrown by islamist thugs.
Know what I don't see? Anyone around DC trashing Muriel Bowser for getting stuck with orynj duphis in a photo op. In fact I see support and meme generation from her side-eye expressions. Let's take a clue from Andor and *not* throw allies under the bus for doing their jobs.
It's a noble idea, but it really needs super-majority to consensus approval to work. The last 2 attempts (Russia, Iran) suffered more or less the same fate: 1st revolution by true believers quickly supplanted by a 2nd authoritarian revolution.
I read "Battlefield: Earth" in high school, wasn't good enough to want to wade into the 10 part "Mission Earth" series. Dianetics has some good stuff, but it's all established stuff he repackaged. But then there's the whole blackmail cult aspect.
"Revolutionary understanding" stolen from Freud and Jung, whilst simultaneously declaring the entirety of the mental health profession a plot to enslave humanity.
Ron is Xenu.
"Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson predicted in 1991 that crypto currency would be used to intentionally devalue the dollar and cause hyperinflation. In the story, a 1 quadrillion dollar note was becoming valueless.
Reality is What You Can Get Away With
Any "qualified" maga that applies is gonna look at the pay and say hard pass. Only people who believe in the value of the work take public service jobs.
I suspect Russian gangs have been "manually adjusting" crime rates in US cities in election years for some time, wonder if they will get targeted? Or even mentioned, ha.
Or a glitch in the matrix?
If you think this timeline sucks, you should see some of the others. (Paraphrasing Philip K. Dick)
Also... new lyrics to Farmhouse?
My first Phish was the cubby bear, Oct '91.
Cuba is about the only place communism could work: a large island in a tropical climate, lotsa fish, produce, and no winter.
The USSR was a totalitarian single-party state-managed capitalism, and that one party embraced communism the way the Republicans embrace Christianity. Which is to say: only for show.
Ooh! My 2nd show: May 2, 1992, Cabaret Metro, Chicago. Fun fact: the only other show I saw at the Cabaret Metro was Keel in 1987. (My girlfriend dragged me!)
Happy Beltane, from NOLA!
Right?!
I like generating as many search terms as possible for the oppo research team.
She blocked her face with paper in another meeting. She definitely was wearing non-photo-op attire for the event everyone seems upset about, she wasn't at the rally, it was an official job appearance, and orynj duphis called her up just to get the reaction you are embodying.
It went to scotus. It isn't. Thankfully, other than in a National forest otw to a rainbow gathering, possession of weed is a minor offense at best. But... Yeah, that could change, and the new regime could seize dispensary databases and put for profit prisons "in the money."
Are we doing #tbt here? Here's a promo photo from 1990 of the band I played with back then, called Uncle Buffalo's Urban Mountain Review. I was 21 years old, and it was my first weekly gig, every Friday in the Chicago Loop at a small dive called Rori's. I played mostly violin and mandolin.
If you want a glimpse of where the US is heading, read "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson (or at least the Wikipedia "plot background.") Anarcho-capitalism breaks up the US into "franchise-organized quasi-national entities" through aggressive privatization. Crypto destroys the US$ with hyperinflation.
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Are you serious that one appearance in an official capacity as chief executive of one of our 50 republics to acknowledge funds from the federal government disqualified Whitmer? Vote for a platform, not a personality. This isn't your HS class president.
Are you old enough to remember when a deadhead sticker on your car was probable cause for stop and search? Clinton cranked up the heat on the old 13th amendment too. At the behest of their new donor class (big business). Check out the origin story of the Chambers of Commerce.
