Author of numerous novels and 11 story collections. Won the Bram Stoker Award. Writes sf, horror, fantasy, westerns. Yes, westerns. Also some nonfiction. Created the Instantfuture.org site. Performs with the Screaming Geezers. Very progressive Democrat. Socialistc-ish. Environmentalist. Pro LGBTQ. Writes weird, rhyming poetry and lyrics. Tired of arguing. Watching world burn and trying to think of a way to put out the fire. Interested in spirituality. Supports NASA and SCIENCE.
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Last Notes npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley As I mentioned the other eve, I'll be canceling my Mastodon account later today. No big deal, I know, but I mention it for those few who might want to keep in touch. And also you can always reach me through the authorized website, the person who runs that forwards me email through their contact form: https://john-shirley.com/ npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley #audiobooks #audiobook #sff npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley [ @npub1zdp…vqv8 - don't know if you saw this article, thought you'd like it, article should not be behind a paywall] npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Your Car Is Tracking You. Abusive Partners May Be, Too. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley [adopt! But only if you're serious.] npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Michael Cohen used fake cases created by AI in bid to end his probation npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley This is why I'm ending Mastodon on Jan 2. "Some of your posts have been found to violate one or more community guidelines and have been subsequently removed by the moderators of wandering.shop." I disagreed with some on trans nomenclature. I felt that cis was often used as a slur rather than as a category. It had gone from category to slur. For example this was removed: "It's how cis is used now that concerns me. I'm LGBTQ myself. I lived with a trans gf ...I support *all* trans rights." That! npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Israeli media derides ‘worst government in history’ on its anniversary npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley I go to a meditation group, that meets once a week and has special weekend events and it turns out that the new COVID has seized hold of at least a 3rd of the people there. They were all vaccinated for covid BUT they had not gotten the NEWEST vaccination for the latest variants that was released two or three months ago. I got that vaccination at the first opportunity. They're feeling sick, to greater and lesser degrees--I didn't come down with this covid. *Get that vaccination!* npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1psd…9sr7 Where do I sign up? npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Things I SUPPORT: npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley [Oh! Tom Smothers died! I'm old enough to feel grief.] npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley I tried to post this last night but apparently this domain or whatever had crashed from Just too Much (I've had to crash from just too much, myself, in years past) - anyway it couldn't be gotten onto last night so here it is now: npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley I don't wish to say Merry Christmas to my atheist friends (which is the majority of my friends). Happy Holidays sounds so limp. Do they have something they say? Perhaps Merry Christ-less? Or --Secular Seasons Greetings? npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1mjx…srm3 That could be it! npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Saw REBEL MOON. Must've been a jawbreaker Hollywood pitch: "It's Star Wars crossed with Dune (don't worry it'll be without the depth or nuance of Dune), with major dollops of Game of Thrones, various anime images, Luc Besson movies n' WW2 movies, all crucified on a barely recognizable take of the Seven Samurai! I promise--no original thinking!" ..I kept wincing at the clunky attempts at resonant 'profound' dialogue--as if written by a college sophomore and making no syntactical sense. #streaming npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1lzz…jhl3 Trump, a Yale guy, is the embodiment of the pseudo-educated. There are many of those. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1lzz…jhl3 Musk is a pseudo-educated idiot. He's a moral idiot. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1lzz…jhl3 You aren't being charitable by saying "don't mock their education" etc. You are assuming they're responsible for their education or lack of it. Whatever sort they receive--whether the sort that Donald Trump got (or pretended to get) or home schooling etc, is imprinted them in a way that is hard to get around. Told the same lies over and over,taught to buffer away your empathy for immigrants (for example) all your life...well, is it your fault? Is a puppet to be faulted for its strings? npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1lzz…jhl3 I never thought Trump wasn't getting good support from many in the moneyed class. Anything to lower their taxes, remove troublesome regulations, let them use sweatshops and child labor. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1lzz…jhl3 It's condescending? Anyone who listens to Fox News and Alex jones and gets into Qanon is, at least for now, an idiot. But I am saying that people can learn better. Oh some make a malicious choice, yeah, I never said no one does that. I just think a lot of them are ignorant fools being spoonfed poison. *They* think they're protecting their family. They're being mis-led. You generalize too much about Germany btw, though I know what you mean. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1lzz…jhl3 Certainly it's true that they're easy to trigger when it comes to encouraging racism, transphobia etc. But those things too are rooted in ignorance and bad information--in lies. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1lzz…jhl3 They *become* malicious because they're constantly lied to. They're semi-literate at best. They're in the thrall of Fox news and rightwing radio and websites. We need to work around them, of course, and get the vote out and persuade fence sitters to vote blue and so on. But some of these people could be reached, as I've been suggesting, by well funded PSAs designed to show, in brief, how they're being screwed over by the people they're supporting. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Teenagers guilty of ‘senseless’ murder of transgender girl Brianna Ghey npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Walking in the heavy fog, came across four ghosts of small children, glowing--okay, it was a nativity scene, lit from inside but pretty eerie. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1lzz…jhl3 I think about half of them are as you describe. Others are just ignoramuses who're easily manipulated. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1psd…9sr7 they used to be used extensively. and we're always finding out about institutions that use them and don't publicize it. God only knows what the People's Republic of China does. https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/laboratory/replacinganimals npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1psd…9sr7 dogs and cats are still commonly used though not as much as rats and mice npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley [the kind of thing that should lead to the cessation of animal testing] npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub19rz…a7f4 the New Yorker gave it a good review, back in the day npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Who knows indie record (as we used to call them) labels? What indie label might be interested in something that resembles Social Distortion, the Bad Seeds, Lou Reed, with a touch of southern rock? There's a new demo... npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1psd…9sr7 oh that could be! npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Israel Found the Hamas Money Machine Years Ago. Nobody Turned It Off. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley of course, Rand Paul claimed that he was delivering only a handwritten letter to Putin from Trump. Just a diplomatic nicety. But there are indications that Rand Paul also delivered another document to Trump...Why deliver it that way? Sometimes sending secret material by wire or something isn't safe for spies to do. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley I don't know why so few people talk about the real possibility that Donald Trump has been, for many years, a Russian "Kompromat"--a Russian intel asset working with Putin because of secrets the Russians have on him. (Not the piss thing.) So now there's this, the mystery of missing Russian intel binder. Thom Hartman speculates that it was taken by Rand Paul on a trip to Moscow, and handed over to Putin. RP probably not knowing what was in it. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Giuliani ordered to pay $148M for spreading lies about Georgia election workers npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley BTW Rudy Rucker has put his non-fiction book THE FOURTH DIMENSION online free, including illustrations: npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley The terror of a Tasmanian town: npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1yuj…4axc what's CPLP - i'll google it...something to do with the stock market or Portuguese language countries? npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley I shot this video and wrote this short verse about it: npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Proprietary Algorithms are deciding when to raise rent? And are apparently set up to do it for landlords across the country...as often as possible. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Spy cameras disguised as clothes hooks are for sale on Amazon, despite the firm being sued over the gadgets. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Dinosaurs Might Be The Reason We're Not Living to 200 Years Old npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1ccn…czwu "There are some important things to keep in mind here, like the fact that 15 of the 17 studies were case-control studies. This kind of research cannot prove cause and effect, and it often does not look at things that might have affected both the exposure and the outcome. A number of the studies that were looked at were of low quality, which is something that the authors also highlight." npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Daily Kos is being sued by Robert Kennedy Jr?! I did not know this. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Texas Republican Party rejects ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley [no we shouldn't] npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Mexico wants you to adopt an Axolotl npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1lzz…jhl3 @npub1fxm…guxz I mean--she made her point to the whole country. It was national news. Not big front page news but it made the papers. Her point was that banning books is stupid. She was against banning them. She was demanding they ban the bible --and there is very disturbing material in it, like Lot's daughters seducing and screwing their father--so that they could see how absurd banning books is. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1lzz…jhl3 @npub1fxm…guxz Ha! Good to know. I guess the woman who started it all made her point. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1fxm…guxz @npub1lzz…jhl3 er, it's Jane Austen, says me the irritating nerd guy, not Austin. Jane Austin is almost certainly some kind of country-punk singer in Austin. There has to be one. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1lzz…jhl3 @npub1fxm…guxz actually I think what happened in Utah is a lady sued to get it repressed only because she wanted to show how unreasonable book banning was. Basically was saying if you ban these books then you have to ban the bible too, idiots. I don't *think* it was ever banned though. Maybe I'm wrong and missed that development? npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Good cyberpunk touch for cybermonday. A *free* book pirated by its authors. For many years in print, we decided to allow it to be free online... npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1psd…9sr7 that sounds like it could be a critical plot point in a Stross novel,. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1zdp…vqv8 You're truly an expert on ants, what do you think of the perennial theory of the ant group mind? The "they're all brain cells in a brain" thing? Not too literally that but... npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1psd…9sr7 it resonates with it but most of these people never heard of the First International. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley The phrase "anarcho-communist" seems to me an oxymoron. Makes no sense to me. Its use is a function of not understanding anarchism and communism. There is anarcho-syndicalism, which is what I think they really mean. But it's not as trendy. Oh god, letting myself in for it again. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Don’t Call Elon Musk a “Green” Billionaire npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley This new highly infectious deadly dog pneumonia is spreading to our state. It can kill a dog rapidly, in two or three days. It can spread from grass as well as contact with other dogs. No dog-park visits for a while for us. Our relatively young, energetic dogs are used to walks and I need to find walkie places where other dogs are rare. Researchers are not even sure what causes this infection--they haven't isolated the organism--and thus no vaccines in the works yet. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1842…0kn3 depends on the state you live in, perhaps, how on board the govt is. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Catholic Hospitals Remove Crucifixes So They Can’t Be Used to Beat Staff npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Remember The Saint? I mean the Leslie Charteris novels though the Brit show with Rogerr Moore was good. Now the Saint will be portrayed by a Black actor. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Librarians Turn to Civil Rights Agency to Opposing their Firings And Book Bans npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1rhr…gh5p I don't think SF writers should have to worry about their predictions being misused--people should be responsible with ideas. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1psd…9sr7 I spoke with some hyperbole. But there have been dangerous incidents in the past--and there's something quite scary about his *not knowing* what happened to this large, volatile spacecraft. I liked that he landed rockets on their tails...but he's also been environmentally irresponsible around this stuff. And there's this: https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/spacex-workplace-injuries-up-report-5570713/ npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Starship lost during second test; SpaceX says it likely self-destructed - WaPo headline npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley The steaks are high: Florida Republican wants to ban lab-grown meat npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley [Gotta support this. I had a meeting at a Starbucks a couple weeks ago and after this I think I'm going to boycott the place till the union gets its rights there] npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub13c3…mnws @npub15jg…3c3f @npub1wsj…swju @npub1ccn…czwu https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=EeMNamICrBE npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Trump Campaign Defends Nazi-Era “Vermin” Threat With…Another Incendiary Threat npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1wsj…swju @npub1ccn…czwu @npub13c3…mnws @npub15jg…3c3f yes no doubt some will post it as an example of ghostly action. It's in a machine that is making it vibrate, so to test how vulnerable bolts and nuts are to ambient shaking npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1wsj…swju @npub1ccn…czwu @npub13c3…mnws @npub15jg…3c3f that really communicates, that video. I love it. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1ccn…czwu @npub13c3…mnws @npub1wsj…swju @npub15jg…3c3f Houses anyway make all kinds of sounds, from contracting and expanding and vibrations of trucks and trains (we have the occasional train in a gully not far and you can feel it a little when there's a heavy load) and wind pushing and on and on. And the ghosts of all the Jehovah's Witnesses who wouldn't go away. I warned them. I warned them I tell you. How they moan in the night. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1ccn…czwu @npub1yvd…uxj9 @npub1nqd…ettl @npub1wsj…swju @npub15jg…3c3f yes. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1ccn…czwu @npub13c3…mnws @npub1wsj…swju @npub15jg…3c3f Nails pop? I don't doubt you but I didn't know that. Like, the wood contracts or expands from temperature change, and it forces some nails out? npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1wsj…swju @npub15jg…3c3f @npub1ccn…czwu I don't believe in anything supernatural at all. If there are higher beings, to use an unsatisfying blurry term, they are a part of the natural cosmos. And there is no unnatural or supernatural or magical cosmos. (Except in the poetic sense.) npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub15jg…3c3f @npub1wsj…swju @npub1ccn…czwu npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1ccn…czwu I've had people claim to me that "science is a cult", too, or it is "worse than a religion"...Some of those making that claim were religious types, some were anti-vax. I am entirely supportive of this meme, or cartoon--and yet I'm not an atheist. I'm not "religious" either. I don't believe in "God" as people understand it. I think aspects of the universe itself contain active intelligence--but there's no creator God. Still, there's something. But I'll always support atheists anyway. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley A transgender student got a lead role. Then the district took it away. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley 2023 on track to be the hottest year on record, say scientists npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1lnm…624t I know what you mean--but that does mean the polls are meaningless. It's a general trend. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley The reason Trump has an edge in the polls now is because this is the new age of web-broadcast misinformation, disinformation, and especially the burgeoning power of internet-magnified lies. A secondary, reciprocal cause is the dominance of the right-wing on radio. Third--Fox News. People armed with guns but not critical thinking are swept helplessly along. Their emotions are being triggered over and over and over. We are failing to find ways to counteract the waves of charged lies. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley The new publisher & CEO of The Washington Post is a guy who worked for Rupert Murdoch and is friends with Boris Johnson. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Trump and his allies are mapping out plans to use the government to punish opponents if he wins in 2024 npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley [this is really not going to work, Bezos. Complications with flight paths, powerlines, phone lines, irritation with the noisy buzzing presence of delivery drones, risks from them crashing into roofs, windows, cars, people, poor ability to carry significant weight, maintenance issues] npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Scarlett Johansson hits AI app with legal action for cloning her voice in an ad npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Shots from our Halloween reading at Mad Hanna's. Everyone offered very good material. Award winning weird poet Adam Bolivar at center--that's not a costume, it's how he dresses; same with me, the Hell Geezer you see on the right. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Rumble host and X influencer Stew Peters calls for shooting Catholic Charities workers npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley gift link npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Mike Johnson — who has run unopposed 3 times — once said democracy is 'not always a good thing' npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley #portland #oregon npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley [all the kits, actually, are fake. I'm amazed people fall for this at all. Look at the pic! Suckers.] npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1cf7…l4a4 @npub1ccn…czwu mmm-kay. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley What everyone should know about the new House Speaker, Mike Johnson npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley America needs to deploy its hospital ships to the Mediterranean, to get as close as it can to Gaza, to start taking the wounded out of the Gaza strip. Israel has its medical stresses but they're under control. Gaza's medical facilities are crazy overburdened now and collapsing. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Want to see what an 80 year old man can do? No, no this is not a Viagra ad. It's Rolling Stones video of Mick Jagger & the Stones & Lady Gaga live singing in a small club, one of the very best tracks on the new Lp, "Sweet Sounds of Heaven". Gaga's almost channeling Aretha. You think the song's over but it's not, they're fooling you. It comes back to a climax. No, again, not about Viagra. There's an ad before, runs for about 30 seconds then you can click 'skip ad' npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1v4k…v97n @npub18lj…80hq Really? Hold on....hold on...okay I told the police that's what I was doing but they 're arresting me anyway. They're taking me away now so I can't fi npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley @npub1psd…9sr7 Yes and eventually they'll seek to interview it. npub1cy6hh2aqkf7l60nn4eklvh5k9s3l38vtpp6up6y40kmjurkvuf6s8nwkd3 John Shirley Is Taylor Swift a talented and charismatic woman, and a good performer, despite her kitschy outfits? Sure. Am I sick of hearing about her? YOU BET I AM. Soon it'll be, "Internet and Media alight with debate over whether Taylor Smith has toenail fungus and what kind it is." And, "Exclusive Interview with Taylor Swift's Hairdresser" and "Taylor Swift--does she even charge enough for tickets? Is a gabillion bucks Enough? Fans sell houses for advance ticket costs for next tour"
