David Rasmussen, aka Rasamoto @Bertrecords@social.cleverlibre.org

@historyofpunkrock my favourite joan jett story was when bratmobile broke up on stage and neumann and smith had stormed off, leaving wolfe in tears, alone, while five hundred people stared, jett muscled her way up onto the stage, said something to the effect of “buck up kiddo, i was in a band that had a shitty break up, too. it’ll be fine”, then drove wolfe back to dc from new york.

There were three otters on the ice in the Grand Marais, Minnesota, USA harbor this morning. It was fun to watch them play around.

It seems like when I see these things are on the mornings that I leave my long lens home.

#photography #FotoMontag #LakeSuperior #Minnesota #otter #WildLife

"America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."
~Hunter Stockton Thompson, who died this day in 2005.

#rip #hst #missyou #doc

This article on Jimmy #Carter's foreign policy is absolutely fascinating. Change USSR to #Russia and Afghanistan to #Ukraine and the parallels are stunning. https://theconversation.com/jimmy-carters-lasting-cold-war-legacy-human-rights-focus-helped-dismantle-the-soviet-union-113994

Feels like the right time to repost this lil video I made last year when that tophat dude got fired from Google's ai lab
https://youtu.be/dO-lAtQnwDY

Louisiana to Drop Lawsuits Against Katrina Survivors Over Recovery Grants
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The state sued thousands of homeowners for not following the rules in how they spent post-Katrina recovery grants.

After a joint news investigation by The Times-Picayune | The Advocate, WWL-TV and ProPublica, the governor announced Thursday that the state will no longer try to collect the money.

#Louisiana #Hurricane #NewOrleans #HUD

https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-katrina-grants-lawsuits-dropped?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

I seem to have a "delete & redraft" button, but no "edit." Is that just how my instance rolls?

From under the bridge on Highway 61.

Cook County, Minnesota, USA

#Photography #LandscapePhotography #winter #LakeSuperior #Minnesota

Toot of the year IMHO and it's still only February

‘That could be one of our balloons’: Hobbyist says downed object may belong to amateur club

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/17/that-could-have-been-our-balloon-hobby-group-member-thinks-downed-object-may-have-been-theirs-00083462

By chance, I woke up around 12:45 am. and noticed that it seemed bright outside. So I went to the window and saw this nice display of northern lights. I guess shortly before this was taken, the display also had some vivid reds. I missed that part, but I'm so glad I was able to see this.

February 16th, 1:09 am, 13 degrees F

#aurora #northernlights #lakesuperior #minnesota #astrophotography #nightscapes #landscapes #landscapephotography #photography

Atlanta judge releases partial report of Trump 2020 election probe. Here's a direct link to the report. #Trump #Georgia #ElectionTampering

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23683658-ex-parte-order-of-the-judge-2-16-2023-report

Unforgettable Poly 🖤

Photo by Falcon Stuart

#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #polystyrene #xrayspex #history #punkrockhistory

Daily Inspiration: "Avoid the delusion of exceptionalism!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

An ex-Google engineer by the name of Praveen Seshadri caught a lot of attention yesterday for his post a few days ago, "The maze is in the mouse," featuring the sub-heading, "What ails Google? And how it can turn things around" More on the reasoning in his post in a moment, but it did feature this bit of commentary which immediately caught my attention:

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The way I see it, Google has four core cultural problems. They are all the natural consequences of having a money-printing machine called “Ads” that has kept growing relentlessly every year, hiding all other sins.

(1) no mission, (2) no urgency, (3) delusions of exceptionalism, (4) mismanagement.

Unfortunately, this is not my first experience watching the gradual decay of a dominant empire.

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The phrase 'delusions of exceptionalism' captures so much of what I've been trying to say here for a time that I knew I had to find a way to use it. The result was the creation of today's image for today's quote.

Delusions of exceptionalism.

Dangerous - and destructive!

Read the full post:

https://jimcarroll.com/2023/02/daily-inspiration-avoid-the-delusion-of-exceptionalism/

Steak Dinners, Sales Reps and Risky Procedures: Inside the Big Business of Clogged Arteries
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Text messages, a whistleblower lawsuit and an internal investigation reveal the lengths to which Medtronic, the world’s largest medical device company, allegedly “groomed” doctors to overuse its vascular products in patients at a veterans’ hospital.

#Health #HealthCare #Surgery #MedicalDevices #Medtronic #Whistleblower #Doctors #Veterans

https://www.propublica.org/article/medtronic-medical-device-kickbacks-lawsuit-kansas?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

33 years ago
Stay Sick! is the fourth studio album by the American rock band the Cramps released on February, 1990. It was the last made in studio with founding drummer Nick Knox.

#punk #punks #punkrock #thecramps #history #punkrockhistory

@historyofpunkrock I could not quit listening to this album. My favorite Cramps album. It’s been at least 20 years since I’ve played it. Tonight I think I’ll saddle up a buzz buzz.

One of the worst jobs in the world must be being a lawyer for Donald Trump, as the latest news makes clear. No less than three of them have appeared before Jack Smith’s grand jury lately, and now Smith intends to prove at least one was part of the crime. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/maga-make-attorneys-get-attorneys?sd=pf

#PokerFace 😎