2026-02-03T02:09:39Z https://yabu.me Roman ALAN https://yabu.me/npub108easxa00qmm2s4x9vx93xxh59q55034vr3ghutlryq0cekrntsslef5zx https://o.mastodon.nz/accounts/avatars/109/294/028/234/583/223/original/c72bf02a33261bfd.gif https://o.mastodon.nz/accounts/avatars/109/294/028/234/583/223/original/c72bf02a33261bfd.gif https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspppekjun00js9wam56fkkcww60c22y936qfle8ffqllhacrg32vczypul8kqm4aur0d2z5c4sckyc67s5zj37x4sw9zl30uvsplrxcwdwzt76qa7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrapdwjg3d3k0qn9cqy549lx95ga773593y7xdczv03h9rdw9ravqsem29w'>nevent1q…m29w</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Daily Haiku Prompt for 27 September: sea bass (North)<br/><br/>well worth waiting for<br/>slices from the master&#39;s blade –<br/>soft sea bass belly<br/><br/>#DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #Poetry 2025-09-28T07:28:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxkv949rsj0fxst5nq5t920zaq7cpugkdd2y4wgh4lkl3qrt3nq6czypul8kqm4aur0d2z5c4sckyc67s5zj37x4sw9zl30uvsplrxcwdwz6xh0wu Friday 26 September 2025 on Jukebox Friday Night, and the theme is &#34;Obsessions&#34;: an artist, a type of music, a person, a crush, a hobby, an interest, a geek thing.<br/><br/>Okay, obsessed with girl.<br/><br/>&#34;I&#39;m a mess without<br/>My China girl<br/>Wake up mornings<br/>There&#39;s no China girl<br/><br/>I&#39;d hear hearts beating<br/>Loud as thunder<br/>And I&#39;d see stars crashing down …&#34;<br/><br/>Iggy Pop, &#34;China Girl&#34; (1977; alternative mix)<br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a560KELrIUU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a560KELrIUU</a><br/><br/>#JukeboxFridayNight #Obsessions #IggyPop 2025-09-26T09:48:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2s48rz4ddnhhvckqkh7x2m2l9rzxghgupz0a7v79hzxsz8s7933gzypul8kqm4aur0d2z5c4sckyc67s5zj37x4sw9zl30uvsplrxcwdwz9kp765 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdepc4uy3q3ckkja6z3exzfp66jgm3x2aqfw54j6vxr9mjw4ekg9cdgu2lc'>nevent1q…u2lc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Agreed.<br/><br/>For anyone who is curious, Michael Hudson summarises his ideas in this long transcript of a 90-min interview from 2024*:<br/>&#34;Michael Hudson: Debt, Economic Collapse and the Ancient World&#34;, Naked Capitalism, 31 Aug 2024<br/><a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/08/michael-hudson-debt-economic-collapse-and-the-ancient-world.html">https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/08/michael-hudson-debt-economic-collapse-and-the-ancient-world.html</a><br/>* Link to interview on YouTube:<br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO-qHypWlgE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO-qHypWlgE</a><br/><br/>This undated short review of Steve Keen&#39;s &#34;Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis&#34; (2017) highlights some his ideas:<br/>&#34;Have we learned the lessons from the last Global Recession?&#34;<br/><a href="https://fd4.co.uk/have-we-learned-the-lessons-from-the-last-global-recession">https://fd4.co.uk/have-we-learned-the-lessons-from-the-last-global-recession</a><br/><br/>This book review of Stephanie Kelton&#39;s &#34;The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy &#34; (2020) summarises the basics of MMT and public debt:<br/><a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2020/06/22/book-review-the-deficit-myth-modern-monetary-theory-and-the-birth-of-the-peoples-economy-by-stephanie-kelton/">https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2020/06/22/book-review-the-deficit-myth-modern-monetary-theory-and-the-birth-of-the-peoples-economy-by-stephanie-kelton/</a><br/><br/>Cheers! 2025-09-25T04:38:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswa9e0x7as6p4wrxslc3anf6smccvddrlljtzv2e649urwr9kttpczypul8kqm4aur0d2z5c4sckyc67s5zj37x4sw9zl30uvsplrxcwdwznmf8p0 Useless quote for 25 September:<br/><br/>&#34;Debt and financial crisis tend to occur precisely when a country’s fiscal situation is already precarious, its interest rates are high, its political situation is paralyzed, and a shock catches policymakers on the back foot.&#34;<br/><br/>~ Kenneth S. Rogoff, in &#34;America’s Coming Crash: Will Washington’s Debt Addiction Spark the Next Global Crisis?&#34; (Foreign Affairs Magazine, Sep/Oct 2025)<br/><br/>Link to source (paywalled):<br/><a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/americas-coming-crash-rogoff">https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/americas-coming-crash-rogoff</a><br/><br/>#UselessQuote #KennethSRogoff 2025-09-24T22:23:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsydm3d3j5hqaualrelqq4wktlxhuhx0jfe58470dug943gcgl6lzqzypul8kqm4aur0d2z5c4sckyc67s5zj37x4sw9zl30uvsplrxcwdwzhxhs6v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs26y4hgxarzjlrknuq6u0qnga6al9z26flmdpe7vgkcsh4ehvpyjqtzpdtc'>nevent1q…pdtc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Daily Haiku Prompt for 24 September: rock (South)<br/><br/>not far from shore stands<br/>a bleak dark rock guardian,<br/>ruled by teen swimmers<br/><br/>#DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #Poetry 2025-09-24T10:57:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw9l8ct4whxh6rev844n839mwzmrdy4e2xcvxgv2sppewzy8askfczypul8kqm4aur0d2z5c4sckyc67s5zj37x4sw9zl30uvsplrxcwdwz3nt7zd With nothing from the Brain DJ this morning, I feel free to choose something from the 1970s by Jeff Beck –<br/><br/>Jeff Beck Group, &#34;Sugar Cane&#34; (1972)<br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVOj9x7w0CM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVOj9x7w0CM</a><br/><br/>#Music #JeffBeckGroup #JeffBeck 2025-09-23T21:27:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxq5q8hljtw5wr83jeh54uq55t4jen6qrmzk5sjuaj20qdvuzjelczypul8kqm4aur0d2z5c4sckyc67s5zj37x4sw9zl30uvsplrxcwdwzerpes2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs26y4hgxarzjlrknuq6u0qnga6al9z26flmdpe7vgkcsh4ehvpyjqtzpdtc'>nevent1q…pdtc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Daily Haiku Prompt for 23 September: salmon (North)<br/><br/>fat-flanked pink salmon<br/>flutter through shoals, leap up falls –<br/>courses where bears wade<br/><br/>#DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #Poetry 2025-09-23T08:35:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqzh85lam5ljvkjcgelwjtxe6ru7rh796uwxzuevxa4hsznvypahczypul8kqm4aur0d2z5c4sckyc67s5zj37x4sw9zl30uvsplrxcwdwzva9rqa In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsr2ucu7va4xn9a9sgjz7hgkw2rcykxjx3fl2rfvstjjf7vumahh8qsvmwu9'>nevent1q…mwu9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Original power ballad?<br/><br/>But why not either of:<br/><br/>a) Boston, &#34;Can&#39;tcha Say (You Believe in Me) / Still in Love&#34; from 1986&#39;s &#34;Third Stage&#34;<br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myu8Y764WwE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myu8Y764WwE</a><br/><br/>b) Faster Pussycat, &#34;House Of Pain&#34; from 1989&#39;s &#34;Wake Me When It’s Over&#34; (maybe too far post-1986?)<br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8z4SEbsqbw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8z4SEbsqbw</a><br/><br/>See this list, too:<br/> &#34;111 Top Power Ballads: The definitive list that nobody asked for …&#34;<br/><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/186y2HrXNyc3Frfhv-JeHRvwv9qHs_bvtaqmUggUgU3M">https://docs.google.com/document/d/186y2HrXNyc3Frfhv-JeHRvwv9qHs_bvtaqmUggUgU3M</a><br/><br/>Cheers! 2025-06-05T22:40:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrlzhhvht2nfr5fj3ul9k4secgdh5yv0l9448dppf0zv6pgt4za6szypul8kqm4aur0d2z5c4sckyc67s5zj37x4sw9zl30uvsplrxcwdwz4m6yex In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq382rg8k6c00k06rk4hxmka3wkptxv7zwk6dh6x94lg5npefz3qc4xdqxs'>nevent1q…dqxs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Cuibekka!<br/><br/>You are well, my friend? Are you keeping warm?<br/><br/>Thanks for the link to Astor Piazzolla and Mina Mazzini performing &#34;Balada Para Mi Muerte&#34; together in &#39;72!<br/><br/>Cheers! 2025-01-20T12:08:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspqk2m2n8lz8ltemz2cakjk82tvw2874l4fdaktfrsszw2p49tfjczypul8kqm4aur0d2z5c4sckyc67s5zj37x4sw9zl30uvsplrxcwdwzv7h040 Monday, Monday, here again at Symphonic Monday for a sonic hop-skip-jump through the 1970s.<br/><br/>Astor Piazzolla, &#34;Invierno Porteño&#34; (1970)<br/><br/>Performed by Quinteto Astor Piazzolla (Astor Piazzolla Quintet) in Ravenna, Italy, 15 July 2021<br/>bandoneón: Pablo Mainetti<br/>violin: Serdar Geldymuradov<br/>guitar: Armando De La Vega<br/>double bass: Daniel Falasca<br/>piano: Barbara Varassi Pega<br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CX4jTdEQus">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CX4jTdEQus</a><br/><br/>#Music #SymphonicMonday #NuevoTango #AstorPiazzolla #AstorPiazzollaQuintet 2025-01-20T10:26:09Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgmtwxg3l0myv94xx4v9wnp8x5x5wquvm7wjev2f2eww3jnflm2aqzypul8kqm4aur0d2z5c4sckyc67s5zj37x4sw9zl30uvsplrxcwdwz2g0wf3 My fifteenth FANuary boost for a person or account on Mastodon that makes my Mastodon experience a little better goes to –<br/><br/>Gavin Shoebridge (<span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1a3g7uyrzhu5kq3k7ypswfvs2jc6pj5df4ee4z3y7f8qg9yvj49qsm50u7n" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Gavin Shoebridge</span> (<span class="italic">npub1a3g…0u7n</span>)</a></span>) who posts about electric vehicles and solar in a humourous, self-deprecating, and ultimately charming manner.<br/><br/>Follow the saga of a hands-on EV conversion! Memes are also a plus!!<br/><br/>A recent example (potatoes and EVs):<br/><a href="https://mastodon.nz/@KiwiEV/113818894012782782">https://mastodon.nz/@KiwiEV/113818894012782782</a><br/><br/>#FANuary #EVs #Solar #Potatoes 2025-01-15T22:47:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs96rn8jphnu0vgnhtuxfzccu8w9ljkmvxsvyx9clpvtvqy4amasxszypul8kqm4aur0d2z5c4sckyc67s5zj37x4sw9zl30uvsplrxcwdwzn2mt2z Useless quote for 6 Jan:<br/><br/>&#34;I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: &#39;No good in a bed, but fine against a wall&#39;.&#34;<br/><br/>~ Eleanor Roosevelt, in a speech given at the White Shrine Club, Fresno, CA, c. 1960–1962 (quoted in &#34;The Event Makers I’ve Known&#34; by Elvin C. Bell, p. 161 (iUniverse, Inc., 2012))<br/><br/>#UselessQuote #Roses #EleanorRoosevelt 2025-01-05T22:28:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspp30cwj04r9z3uq6846akca8dahs5fd5eu7v6s5xg8nw6z5fa8wszypul8kqm4aur0d2z5c4sckyc67s5zj37x4sw9zl30uvsplrxcwdwzdn6rlc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs00xw0p53c5aqfpcr3jrk9ccpru3ah83s44w2w6ydk35xgl39a27c7lkl6h'>nevent1q…kl6h</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I post a daily &#34;Useless Quote&#34;, and often start on Wikiquote for inspiration. Wikiquote usually lists a source. From there, I go to the source, Internet Archive, or Project Gutenberg to verify it.<br/><br/>&#34;Quote Investigator&#34; (1) is a nice resource on quote origins, and &#34;LibQuotes&#34; (2) provides a source under the &#34;i&#34; button.<br/><br/>(From now on, I&#39;m going to add the source details to the daily &#34;Useless Quote&#34;.)<br/><br/>Links<br/>1) <a href="https://quoteinvestigator.com/about/">https://quoteinvestigator.com/about/</a><br/>3) <a href="https://libquotes.com/">https://libquotes.com/</a><br/><br/>Cheers!<br/><br/>#UselessQuote 2024-09-29T00:37:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp0r0gt9adcll5s5awmg5cngxk88u7x2vswucjq36dvpnfzg030fczypul8kqm4aur0d2z5c4sckyc67s5zj37x4sw9zl30uvsplrxcwdwzgjlsvm Look up now; look up now.<br/><br/>Tomorrow, Fri 13 Sep, is &#34;Cloud Appreciation Day&#34; by the Cloud Appreciation Society (not me).<br/><br/>Join them by contributing a photograph of the sky above you to their Memory Cloud Atlas this Friday!<br/><br/>Contributors to the Atlas can include some words about how the sky makes them feel. <br/><br/>Links to more details:<br/>Cloud Appreciation Day 2024 homepage: <a href="https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/cloud-appreciation-day/">https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/cloud-appreciation-day/</a><br/><br/>Memory Cloud Atlas: <a href="https://www.memorycloudatlas.org/explore.php">https://www.memorycloudatlas.org/explore.php</a><br/><br/>#Clouds #CloudAppreciationDay 2024-09-12T11:12:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxuq3ue3x3uctfm0rt3f6gxemg46gx5kmad90venfs4jt4j92r8lszypul8kqm4aur0d2z5c4sckyc67s5zj37x4sw9zl30uvsplrxcwdwzmfuwl8 Monday September 9, just a few days after Herbie Flowers put his bass back in its case.<br/><br/>Here&#39;s how this works:<br/>Herbie Flowers plays bass on this 9-minute track that has a lot of synthesizer work to produce a big symphonic sound –<br/><br/>Jeff Wayne, &#34;The Eve Of The War&#34; (1978)<br/><br/>Richard Burton (yes, the actor) narrates parts of H. G. Wells&#39; story, and Justin Hayward carries the vocals.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YwFvmnbj3E">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YwFvmnbj3E</a><br/><br/>#SymphonicMonday<br/>#ProgRock #ProgressiveRock #JeffWayne 2024-09-09T12:28:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy67wscvetyp25f444pmrf7zfxuhkjsdktpwc08ftyhpsdhpuzwyqzypul8kqm4aur0d2z5c4sckyc67s5zj37x4sw9zl30uvsplrxcwdwz8hzq3m The Brain DJ has drifted back to the late seventies –<br/><br/>Japan, &#34;Alien&#34; (1979)<br/><br/>This is from when Japan started working with John Punter, who had produced Roxy Music&#39;s 1974 &#34;Country Life&#34;, and David Sylvian started singing low and slow.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdVzXjXsjwU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdVzXjXsjwU</a><br/><br/>#Music #SynthPop #Japan 2024-09-01T22:33:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr4d2kr3ufy99euk3dc9mh4m7atzdwgkgkud3etvajl2t5w5q7m6gzypul8kqm4aur0d2z5c4sckyc67s5zj37x4sw9zl30uvsplrxcwdwz98k7ug And some more &#34;orchestral sounding keyboards&#34; for this Symphonic Monday, from Poland –<br/><br/>Riverside, &#34;Age of Anger&#34; (2023)<br/><br/>Riverside are –<br/>drums: Piotr Kozieradzki<br/>electric guitar, bass: Mariusz Duda<br/>keyboards, synthesizer, Rhodes electric piano, Hammond organ: Michał Łapaj<br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRpNcjMV3Xc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRpNcjMV3Xc</a><br/><br/>#SymphonicMonday<br/>#Riverside #ProgressiveRock #ProgRock 2024-08-26T10:06:00Z