📸 A Different Way Of Looking At Things - #MBPhotoChallenge Day 6 (20th) : Sparkle 
John Philpin
npub1yuck...rlu2
People First
From Burning Shed:
💯- of course it is - well deserved - love it.
🗺️ - wait what - need to go look that one up.
🎧 - need to revisit and remind
Have I missed non missable entries?
"And now, it’s that time of year again where we present the only chart that matters: the Burning Shed 2025 best sellers."
Steven Wilson - The Overview 💯
Jethro Tull - Curious Ruminant
Jethro Tull - Still Living In The Past
Billy Bragg - A People’s History
Pink Floyd - Pink Floyd at Pompeii - MCMLXXII 💯
Big Big Train - Bard
BEAT - Neon Heat Disease Live
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (50th Anniversary editions) 💯
Steven... john.philpin.com 
💬 John Philpin
From Burning Shed:
💯- of course it is - well deserved - love it.
🗺️ - wait what - need to go look that one up.
🎧 - need to revisit and r...
Be interesting to read about @numericcitizen explorations with n8n .. on my list for the new year … jumping from IFTTT directly to there seems a big jump .. but then maybe not? 
Micro.blog - @numericcitizen
📸 A Different Way Of Looking At Things - #MBPhotoChallenge Day 5 (19th) : Beard
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🔗 The Weird Part Was the Platforms
"The weird part isn’t that the indie web exists. It’s that we ever thought centralised platforms were a better idea." 
Greg Morris
The Weird Part Was the Platforms
Stevie Bonifield in The indie web is here to make the internet weird again:
The end of Twitter may be indirectly part of the flourishing of the in...
🔗 Land War or Self-Terrorism?
"In other words, some of the factors that make a successful foreign war unlikely push towards the strategy of inviting turmoil into the United States and then seeking to use it."
💬 Timothy Snyder 
Land War or Self-Terrorism?
Trump's Likely Next Step
🔗 T.S.A. Is Providing Air Passenger Data to Immigration Agents for Deportation Effort
.. for marination purposes. 
Ben Werdmuller
T.S.A. Is Providing Air Passenger Data to Immigration Agents for Deportation Effort
"The Trump administration is providing the names of all air travelers to immigration officials, substantially expanding its use of data sharing to ...
"If the wedding photographer can’t deliver more magic than the phone in my guest’s pocket, no thanks."
"And if the local print shop can’t set type better than my Mac, I’ll move on."
So … is your copywriting, research, illustration or coding better than I can get from the AI on my desk?
🔗 The Full piece from Seth
Reminds me of an old ‘Johnism’ that has over the years appeared in many forms .. 
Seth's Blog
Better than the cheap alternative
Frozen pizza changed the game for many pizzerias. If you couldn’t offer something better than what I had in my freezer, what do I need you fo...
🔗 The Opposite of the Drive Thru Window - Now I Know
Well - now I certainly do know …. but more importantly - a spin on food delivery buried towards the end ….
"Burger King delivered [the food] directly to their car via motorcycle"
💬 WaPo
The Opposite of the Drive Thru Window? – Now I Know
🔗 🎶 The 47 Songs With the Longest No. 1 Streaks on the Billboard Hot 100
… more interesting are the artists and records NOT on that list. 
Business Insider
Only 48 songs have stayed at No. 1 on the chart for 10 weeks or more — here they all are
Very few hit songs have managed to rule the Billboard Hot 100 for double-digit weeks. Here's a complete list of the chart's longest leaders.
🔗 🎶 Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Welcome to the Pleasuredome
The whole album - but for me ….
"Steven Wilson has created **a unique 12-inch mix **of the song ‘Welcome to the Pleasure Dome’, called the ‘Supernova’ mix. This runs for exactly 30 minutes and like the instrumentals is only available on this blu-ray audio!"
.. would ove to hear that. https://www.thesdeshop.com/products/exclusive-frankie-goes-to-hollywood-welcome-to-the-pleasuredome-blu-ray-audio
🔗 Dave Winer"
"‘Web’ means something. It’s about creating networks between writers. When it’s allowed to work remarkable things can be accomplished. Most people who think they’re using the web have never used it. The original web is still very much here, ready for us to start building on it again."
And …
“Most people who have never heard of RSS use it every day.”
Scripting News
Scripting News: Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It
🔗 Matt Mullenweg
"the tools are only as good as the questions we ask them."
I like the line - but I particulalrly like the page he links to. 
Matt Mullenweg
Beware Unearned Wisdom
One of Carl Jung’s famous quotes is to “Beware unearned wisdom.” Sometimes it’s brought up in the context of psychedelics. ...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikipedia
🔗 The thing about chess | Seth
… maybe there should be. I mean if they can muck around with Cricket - why not Chess? 
Seth's Blog
The thing about chess
In a typical tournament, you don’t score any extra points for winning with the fewest number of moves. Quickly isn’t the point.
"🔗 Elon Musk’s Taxpayer-Subsidized Starlink Yanks Cheaper $40 Plan Because Network Couldn’t Handle The Load."
Bottoming out the story …
‘Poorer people pay taxes so that governments can subsidise richer people to build things that they then price outside what poorer people can afford.”
A Better Headline?
Subsidies for rich people’s infrastructure, paid by poor people’s taxes. 
Techdirt
Elon Musk’s Taxpayer-Subsidized Starlink Yanks Cheaper $40 Plan Because Network Couldn’t Handle The Load
We’ve noted how Republicans are rewriting the 2021 infrastructure bill (they voted against) to ensure that billions of dollars in taxpayer-fu...
For your reading pleasure.
Paul Krugman on 🔗 MAGA, the Broligarchs and the Media - and inside he links to 🔗 The Authoritarian Stack 
MAGA, the Broligarchs and the Media
This isn’t just about business; it’s about democracy
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
📸 A Different Way Of Looking At Things - #MBPhotoChallenge Day 4 (18th) : Evergreen 