🔗 How to resist Trump and Musk without ruining your life.
Whether you resist him or not .. your life is going to be worse if he isn’t stopped. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/400603/trump-resistance-activism-democracy-authoritarianism
🔗 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Hard to argue with the logic … 
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/best-3
🔗 How Silicon Valley Swung From Obama to Trump
Did it though? Did it really? Once again we are being told that the ‘masses’ have switched sides because a few loud mouthed ignorant bullies with a few bucks in the bank are representative of the entire region.
Certainly the facts don’t seem to support the argument.
"Overall, Democrats maintained a strong majority in Silicon Valley." 
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-13/how-silicon-valley-swung-from-obama-to-trump
🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 Audre Lorde
🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=%F0%9F%95%B5%F0%9F%92%AC+Inspired+By+People
Listening to a couple o’ ‘tech’ podcasters yesterday and one of them said something about finding a file on his ‘c drive’.
I know nothing, but am pretty sure that the question …
"what the hell is a c drive?"
… popped up in a few people’s minds .. or their audience is a whole lot older than you might expect.
Hello From Wordland
📺 Prime Target
Had this been on Netflix I might have rated it higher. But it wasn’t. Worth a watch for sure .. but not before all the other crackers on Apple TV. And Prime Numbers? I wonder if this was green lighted by the person who did the same for Three Body Problem over on Netflix? Both strike me as w... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/08/prime-target-had-this-been.html
The Laundromat, 2019 - ★★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/08/the-laundromat.html
📺 Running Point
Cute, entertaining not going to change the world, shades of Ted Lasso .. and nothing like Ted Lasso … an ‘inclusive’ set of characters .. about Basketball .. except it isn’t .. like Lasso. Give it a whirl ..
Running Point on 🔗 Reelgood
‘All’ My TV Show Reviews
https://reelgood.com/show/running-point-2025 https://john.philpin.com/categories/myshows
📺 Surface
Meh. I went to checkout the new series .. and discovered it was series 2 .. and according to Apple TV .. I had watched it. So that says everything. I will eventually get round to Season 2 .. but not rushing.
Surface on 🔗 Reelgood
‘All’ My TV Show Reviews
https://reelgood.com/show/surface-2022 https://john.philpin.com/categories/myshows
Generation Beta? https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/08/generation-beta.html
🔗😂 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is so good today and so true … 
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/how-3
💬 Some days none seem relevant … but on occasions I get one ..
But today we have two 
🕵💬 Inspired By People | 🌐 African Proverb
🔍 All The Posts can be found here, or scroll through the quotes below. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proverb?wprov=sfti1# https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=%F0%9F%95%B5%F0%9F%92%AC+Inspired+By+People
The 51st state thing has been around for a long time. It’s just the focus on Canada that’s different …
🔗 51st State (Plus) by Peter Preston | Goodreads
🔗 51st state - Wikipedia
[🔗 51st State (song) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51st_State_(song)
.. oh and the fact we have a total nut job r... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/07/the-st-state-thing-has.html
Sicario, 2015 - ★★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/07/sicario.html
The Sum of All Fears, 2002 - ★★★ https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/07/the-sum-of-all-fears.html
🔗 Pulling on a new Jersey. 
http://williamgallagher.com/selfdistract/2025/03/07/pulling-on-a-new-jersey/
It rained last night, ground in the valley slightly damp - but the snow is hanging in the mountains.
Hard to see this angle - but these are even higher. 
Shorpy has a US bias, so lovely to see this 125 year old photo from New Zealand’s South Island this morning.
🔗 Stagecoach: 1900 - Shorpy 
https://www.shorpy.com/node/27678