John C Wheeler
@hayseed-dixie.com
Frontman of Hayseed Dixie. Singer of Country-Funk Soul-Punk. Working class elitist. Conservatively liberal. Opining and listening on music, philosophy, and geopolitics in English and/or Deutsch.
Here's a fun one. Except in various specialty types and shellfish, fish is frozen ON THE TRAWLER these days. That lovely piece of haddock your fishmonger sells has been defrosted to be filleted and will probably be frozen again.
Rich@rich-bryant.uk · last wk.Tell them which days fish delivery is, that usually terrifies them
Standing on a street in a town before one of our shows, watching passers by, it is often obvious who will be in the crowd later.
I do truly love a good Pilsner beer at sunset, and this excellent local German Pilsner is 1€ (about $1.15 or £0.85) per bottle in the local grocery store. A man could get carried away for cheap in Germany if he were to let himself!
Of course, the other way of looking at this is that we fellows in the top 20% well and truly have our pick! Cheers to aspirations of hypergamy! (laughs and chuckles of a dismissive yet devious nature)
What I want to know is: just what the hell does it mean to be "white"? Are we talking external properties here, and if so what shade of brown is the cutoff point? Do we use a Pantone chart? Or does he mean DNA, because mine says I'm 4% Ivory Coast - is that shade of ivory white enough ror this fool?
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w agoCharlie Downes, 25 year old campaigns director of Restore Britain, has been clear that he believes having white British ancestry & being Christian are necessary to be British. His exclusion of Jews from being fully/equally British will split the right, as should his exclusion of blacks & Asians
Just because you can do something does not mean that you should. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Artificial Intelligence used to design brand new viruses
Scientists made 16 successful viruses that had their genetic code designed by artificial intelligence.
bbc.com
Completely agree that it wouldn't have been the Beatles without Ringo. His parts and feel are absolutely essential.
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 3w agoWhen I was young & stupid & learning to play drums as a teenager & idolizing Stewart Copeland, I fell for the "Ringo was a bad drummer" nonsense. And then I got older & less stupid & became an OK drummer, & realized that Ringo was a true genius & the only essential Beatle: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
This is a very good article. My own experience coincides with its observations. It's specifically about parts of England, but applicable to everywhere that communities have been left behind and left to wither.
Yorkshire Bylines@yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 4w agoThe root of the anger: Why post-industrial towns blame the wrong scapegoat Decades of economic neglect have fuelled anger in many post-industrial towns, but often towards the wrong target By John Heywood
Imagine the amount of propaganda it took to convince millions of people that healthcare, food assistance, social programs, clean water, clean air, good wages, housing, equal rights, diversity, and a healthy planet for all people was somehow a threat to America and to Christianity.
I feel like we as a society have done this three-step move where we've come to define things as: (1) a comment is only racist if the person truly intended it to be racist. (2) How can we ever know someone's true intent? So: (3) Who can ever REALLY be racist?
It's like Wikipedia. Years ago, maybe still, the BBC's music pages drew their band bios from Wikipedia. I went on to our Wiki page and wrote all sorts of nonsense about Hayseed Dixie creating the internet, solving Pi, etc. then screen-shotted it on the BBC's page. Great fun!
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 5mo ago‘I spent 20 mins writing an article on my personal website titled "The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs". Every word is a lie… Less than 24 hours later, the world's leading chatbots were blabbering about my world-class hot dog skills’ www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic... (HT @sambrook.bsky.social)
This is why I don't read much fiction. Reality is generally a lot more bizarre and anything most people can dream up.
God@thegodshow.com · last mo.This is a totally surreal moment in the Epstein scandal. They win the top award for exposing a pedophile, then have to shake hands with said pedophile.
The four horsemen have arrived, but the livestream requires Reuters Premium.
One weird trick to avoid arrest abroad for committing international crimes is simply not to commit international crimes.
This is Alfie. He is a professional opera singer with some of the best vibrato in the industry. Some have even called him the next Paw-varotti. 13/10 (TT: thelifeofalfiee)
In the DM here in Heidelberg (which is like a Walgreens in the US or a Boots in the UK), the selection of reading glasses is directly beside the condoms. I don't know what this signifies, but I feel it must signify something worth considering.
That they annoy left-wing people is essentially the numero uno raison d'etre und Sinn des Seins for both the Spectator and the Telegraph.
Robert Hutton@roberthutton.co.uk · last mo.Important caveat from The Spectator that the Tate brothers aren't really all that bad, because they annoy left-wing people. spectator.com/article/like...
“If I drive drunk down the road, I can't then say: Tell you what, instead of appearing before a magistrate, I'll stand for councillor instead and let the people of Bermondsey decide if I am innocent. That's not how any of this f*****g works. You don't get to use popularity as a form of acquittal.”
Quiet Riot@quietriotpod.bsky.social · 2mo ago📣 NEW EPISODE 📣 Join us and @jeevunsandher.bsky.social as we talk: 🤑 Has Farage misfired? 🤬 Why is he so brittle? ⚖️ Should the regulator do more? 🗑️ Binface’s brilliance 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/6Uuf...
Nuclear energy ain't the magic bullet some folks like to think it is!
Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · 2mo ago“The nuclear shutdowns included two reactors at the Nogent-sur-Seine plant on the Seine river, north of Paris, “to limit the temperature increase between the water withdrawn from the Seine and the water discharged back into it, thereby protecting aquatic plant and animal life,” EDF said.”
Unsere Kinder und Enkel werden uns bitter verfluchen. Die #Erderhitzung lässt sich auch durch Nullemissionen nicht zurückdrehen, nur die weitere Erhitzung stoppen. Denn CO2 bleibt Jahrtausende in der Luft. Kipppunkte kommen näher. Es wird kein Zurück geben.
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
