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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, if anyone's missing the 'Power To The People' livestream on the Dropkick Murphys' Youtube channel, well, ...stop missing that. Public Enemy's up now. I shoulda thought to say this sooner.

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Something I say sometimes: "Evil is the recourse of the incompetent." That one's for Peter Thiel today.

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This shit killed another good man last week. He was my friend.

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just from personal observation, I think "AI" made Youtube's music-you-might-like algorithms dumber than they used to be.

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My peace plan for the Middle East and much of the east of Europe: "OK, everyone do counterbattery fire and then stop shooting missiles at civilians a minute." (You too, Russia but you're the invader so you don't get to shoot either right now.)

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think the enshittification process about formerly-handy ziplock packaging is approaching a tipping point regarding failure rates.

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Note: Mayor Mamdani being a beloved mayor of NYC is the best refutation ever of whatever the terrorists expected to do when they attacked NYC and America in general on 9/11. It took a lot of right-wing propaganda after the fact to turn too many into some of the unrecognizeable crap we see today.

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think left wing Youtube media needs to cool it with the meaningless hyperbole in cilckbait and keep either burying the ostensible lede or never getting round to it. You are not informing me by wasting my time with analyzing our general gripes, people. Be substantive. Then comment. Dateline.

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

OK, I'm hearing enough stupidity coming out from the real estate guys just left the Kremlin, so let me get something straight: It may be true that you'll never lose *money* underestimating American consumers' intelligence, but it's a great fricking way to lose *wars.*

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Also, Are You Not Entertained? You know what, I'm not entertained. I greet the dawn with upraised arms and wonder if anyone well-placed will buy the clue while I'm hiding from likely migraines and thanking all the Gods that are friends of us that my roof doesn't depend on the clock. I'm occupied.

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Also, speaking of maybe-I-should say something. There's always a certain number of eedjits thinking they're impressing people with an IQ score they claim. The test is a joke and only liars try to flex about it when they can't substantiate their bullshit. Tests do not mean you know anything.

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Someone put me in a subscription pack and hey there everyone, so I feel like I should say something. So. Umm. Trump's apparently starting his triumphal arch of vulgarity and ignorance. I think he is trying to declare a triumph before he's finished losing. Sorry f'n SOB. (I'm Bostonian, btw.)

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Datacenters do need guardrails, yes. I suggest delivering them from about 15,000 feet.

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yaknow, I keep kinda running all these transphobic idiots having a snit about 'trans women in the WNBA' where they aren't even... And it gets right back to the purging, gutting and looting of competence in our nation by these idiots. And losing wars and the USA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm5z...

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The White House’s Secret: A Transgender CIA Official Speaks Out

YouTube video by The Atlantic

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I find lately that the quality of my enemies is.... Kind of insulting, really. They just phoning in the tyrant thing at this point or what?

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

There's a raving madman of incredibly-poor character in the Oval Office. Would someone mind looking to that?

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

One thing I mislike about modern warfare is, you can techify it, you can automate it, you can send robots and drones and videogameify it and hide or Twitter- promote it. Still the ancient problem that most of the senseless destruction and things burning down comes *after* the contest is decided.

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Sesame Street on American pluralism and things that shoulda had more punk rock covers. :) All of the monsters are here. :) Joy counts. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyTi...

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Classic Sesame Street - None, Some, All feat. Bip Bippadotta & Friends

YouTube video by MonsterpieceTheatre

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

So, paper straw-trauma came up earlier, and I was like, 'They were always paper, these days they just don't wax em enough.' Made me think how sometimes eco-solutions get pushed that bit too far and lose utility. Like 'Did you really have to shave that last eight inches off the back of microcar?'

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

On the Dead McConnell thing, ...even if he's only mostly-dead, I think he's too dead to Senator anymore. Probably just dead.

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Also, just for all the Pagan folks, I know it was starting to look like things would go smooth, relatively-speaking, but we're still here. Play it smart but forget nothing. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1x_...

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Avalon Is Risen (By Isaac Bonewits)

YouTube video by Leslie Fish - Topic

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Also the Trump administration is a case study in why Bostonians have been working tirelessly to condense "Dafuquiswrongwichu' into one syllable. Prototypes of Dafuq have been in beta test a while, but we'll puh through the barrier soon, we hope.

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

One of my little ambitions in life is to name some supernova remnant so future space travellers can have a map that says somewhere "Here There Be Space Monsters."

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Public service announcement: As dumb as it is that the lettuce is bad, if you wash it a lot, the contagion will actually no longer be on it. Just support yer locals if you can and wash carefully.

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Also, people I know sometimes wonder if humans are worth saving. This is, however a planet full of street musicians covering Deep Purple in a traffic slowdown in Chile. Look on our works, Trumpism 250, and realize how uncool you have to be fail so expensively. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ree-...

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Street artists: Highway star (Deep Purple cover)

YouTube video by CuervoSinvergüenza

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

You know, I was holding this observation back about July 4th and all the usual screaming about 'our poor animal babies can't take the feeers and noise! I and Miss Kitty and her esteemed predecessor here to that say, "NUTS!" If they're overly afraid of thunder or fireworks, they probably...

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Yaknow, there's much comment on the devaluing and dissing of expertise and facts in the world and corporate and disinformation media, but it occurs to me that it's also pushing off all manner of mental and emotional labor off on the populace to have to account for motivation, propaganda, AI fakery,

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

And ...sunrise at Stonehenge this Solstice. A better time and a Mega Litha to all. 8:) www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2HZ...

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Solstice Call

YouTube video by KeepMusicPagan

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Also the bright side of the Reflectey Algae Swamp debacle is... At least it apparently won't be too big a job to get Trump's tacky blue Harbor Freight bedliner off the stone. :)

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Well, this is interesting. Were the atrocities and failures of Operation Epic Fubar *automated by Musk's 'AI' chatbot?* Looks like somewhat. Maybe they shouldn't have purged the 'woke' smart people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmNB...

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Did AI Make Us Lose The Iran War

YouTube video by Combat Veteran News

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

0430 this morning. OK, time to stop philosophizing and prepare to hit the rack. *kittycat meows, Largebug crashes into screen and onto keyboard.* In a world with too many people wanting to just blow shit up and start over, but no clue how anything works, thanks Largebug, for bein yer crazy self.

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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

They removed CD/DVD drives from PCs. -Made physical media harder to buy and use. -Removed expandable storage from phones. -Pushed us into streaming subscriptions. -Made always-online normal. -Made unlimited internet necessary. -Slowly raised the price of everything. Ownership quietly became renting.

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Anyway, everyone's pissed off in monotheist geopolitics world, but the Summer Solstice comes soon, and some of us remember. If we can stop blowing the shit out of each other a minute I guess. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2HZ...

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Solstice Call

YouTube video by KeepMusicPagan

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

(Also that last one's about being in the US like thirty years after that song trying to be a priestess about too many people not believing there's anything to fight *for* but wounded senses of masculinity and induced self-shaming and all the kinds of things that make 'incels' of younger people.)

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

For some across the sea, they're against all plausibility doing it again there. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CcO...

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OI POLLOI - Bash the Fash (Lyrics on screen) Ⓐ

YouTube video by OI POLLOI

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

As an old punker and Pagan and priestess and witness to some history of various fortunes, I would like to say that it is always possible to be more sincere and silly than we were yesterday, and, well, that's something. Mirth and reverence, kids. Like a magic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF0J...

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Life Is Balloons 🎈 (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Natsuki the Man

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

If I really had any, by the way, I'd give real money if l had any, and lefty commentators would cool it with the clickbait titles and padding shit out without ever getting around to whatever events constitute 'All Hell breaking loose' or 'Melts Down' Or 'Crashout.' Or Blows Up. Or whatever.

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

So, does Trump returning from China tripling down on his War of Windmills and oil-igarch favoring make him the LeManchan Candidate?

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The would-be-leopards of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party always seem so shocked when the Stupid Prizes Patrol shows up at their door.

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Sentimentality about the old town aside, and maybe I'll cry about talking to some ancestors later, but, some things get simple. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BRH...

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Dropkick Murphys "Who'll Stand With Us?" Music Video

YouTube video by Dropkick Murphys

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I had a lot of cause this evening to think of my home in place and time back in Boston. There were far harsher and/or ruder words to say about so many things, but "Stupid and wrong" was about the most thorough dismissal, denial, etc of any given course of action. Why is this now governing?

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

In a time when I'm overloaded trying to keep up with stuff, it's probably not the best sign that Youtube is just throwing me playlists almost entirely made of my occasional personal-morale-boosting songs. I should take more time for music, especially if this shit takes more years.

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Sometimes yer Youtubes is asking you twice in the same song, like it's the entire timeline. Yes, I'm still fucking watching, got a little bruised yesterday but damn right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLm3...

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INXS - Don't Change (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by INXS Videos

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I'm just gonna repeat this while sighing about everything else going on.

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

And, ugh. I haven't weighed in on much by posting lately but I'm definitely getting disproportionate numbers of posts about bike lanes while policy continues to burn more fossil fuels than anyone was paying attention to when we didn't back Ukraine enough and now there's this whole Iran meathead,

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youngcrone.bsky.social @youngcrone.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Among the ways I am dismayed at my country is that I have spent my half-century and change of life trying to take as much of all knowledge as my province only to find absolute ignorant asshats trying to make all ignorance their fucking empires.

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