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| 8:30pm Tuesday 19th Nov 2024 WdC time... I'm back on the radio! https://stream.sigile.net/gulffm-64-aac Reading out some of my written works! Hope you can listen in. Maybe 8:45pm? I'm on between 12pm and 12:15 pm until 1pm Wednesday my time. |
| Great, I will set the alarm clock! Long time ago, I had my own radio program reading other people's work. A fun thing to do....your own work? better even! |
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| Time for my irregular plea... If you'd like to get together on my only occasionally used Instagram, please send me a friend thing, let me know you're from WdC, and I'll follow back! https://www.instagram.com/steven.streeter/ |
| At the pub, one of the regulars said, "I'll have some H2O!" "Sure." And he was given some. A not-regular decided to join in. "I'll have some H2O too!" he said. The not-regular died. I wonder how many will get this... |
Amethyst Angel 🍁🙏  - sorry, I get a little carried away. I'm used to trying to explain biology and chemistry to my dad who doesn't really grasp that algebra is a mystery story written entirely in numbers. I guess I just expect most people to be baffled by chemical formulas. I guess you're smarter than a lot of people I know.(In real life.) |
| Amethyst Angel 🍁🙏 - as an Imagine Dragons fan, this song is everywhere here at the moment . It's a track they've recently released with one of our top young Indigenous musicians. Hope you (and everyone else) enjoys it. |
| F.A.T.! Friday Aussie Tune! I will introduce a song by an Australian artist every Friday, as part of my ongoing attempt to make Australia seem like a country not just populated by wildlife out to kill you (even though it is) and always on fire or under water (only half the time, to be honest). The songs I post will be ones I like. I will try not to double up on an artist, but there are no guarantees. Also, some of these might have already appeared in Resurrection Jukebox entries. This artist recently won an award for her music this year, but her debut album was absolutely stunning, and this was big hit single from it. 'Scar' by Missy Higgins (2004) |
| With NaNo taking up so much of my current life, this has taken a back seat recently, but here is a word that I think is so relevant to certain former and future leaders... OBSCURE WORD OF THE DAY! Today's word is tortiloquy. By the suffix "-loquy", you can probably guess this word has something to do with talking. And "tortus is the same base as in "torture", Latin for "crooked" or "bent". As such, this word means, "immoral or dishonest speech"! Is it just one orange goblin? Or is it every so-called "news" report on FaceBook and other social media? Is it every SJW? Is it every RWNJ? I will leave that for you to decide. Your challenge today, should you accept it, is to call out examples of this! |
| SJW - Social Justice Warrior RWNJ - Right Wing Nut Job Yeah, I had to look them up. An example of tortiloquy would be listen to any politician speaking or speech. If you really believe what they say, no matter if they are Republican or Democrat, I feel for you. I won't go any further, else I'll go into a rant, I'm really trying to avoid doing things like that. Life's too short to spend my time getting all worked up, getting upset. |
| I have a couple press examples! Here's the first one from Reason.com, a libertarian news outlet. "The Next President Should Abolish Everything In the Abolish Everything issue, Reason writers make the case for ending the Fed, the Army, Social Security, and everything else." Honestly, it shows a reckless disregard for each basic defense, which seems incredibly foolhardy and impractical. Likewise, there doesn't seem to be any consideration of how to handle the fallout of eliminating the vast majority of services. Now let's look at the other side of the spectrum with a headline from Truthout. Truthout actually has a spotty fact check history, which isn't surprising given headlines like the following: "Three Approved GMO’s Linked to Organ Damage" This is false, and the links in the article that go back to the studies return 404 errors. At least one of those studies ended up getting retracted by the journal in which it was published, so yeah. Not a good look. In the end, I believe anyone is capable of cranking out a tortiloquy at any time. The key is to work as much as we can to not end up in a situation where we can try to justify this kind of action. |
| For those who do QOTD, I posed a question that's intrigued me there. Have a go!
"QOTD supplemental: Nov 14 2024"  |
| So... Published short story #94 reached me today. "New Occupant' in A Little Fantasy Everywhere (New Jersey Ink, 2024). Flash (1k words) and now with a home. Sorry. You may go about your regular daily WdCing. |
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