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: andrewfordlyons.net@alexvont.bsky.social At my local park they’re just litter and the reason there are occasional charred spots around.
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— Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay, in Global Boiling
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\nJ. G. BALLARD: “Actually, there’s no secret. One simply pulls the cork out of the bottle, waits three minutes, and two thousand or more years of Scottish craftsmanship does the rest.”
\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/05/29/interviewer-so-how-do-you.html","date_published":"2026-05-29T22:44:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Yours Truly","url":"http://andrewfordlyons.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F39%2F1828167.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"yourstruly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-29 22:44","date_timestamp":1780094645,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@aiefel/116660283046278201","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:usidppasjec2ycf6na3ipzfy/post/3mmzmepupmk2s"]}},{"id":"91169812","content_html":"The Trump Administration is rebuilding the federal government and removing the agencies.
\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/05/29/the-trump-administration-is-rebuilding.html","date_published":"2026-05-29T19:38:57+00:00","author":{"name":"Yours Truly","url":"http://andrewfordlyons.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F39%2F1828167.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"yourstruly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-29 19:38","date_timestamp":1780083537,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@aiefel/116659555482109232","https://www.threads.com/@andrewfordlyons/post/DY70Kqij9wZ"]}},{"id":"89961326","content_html":"The National Design Studio says its job is to redesign how Americans experience their government but I think the job that they’re actually redesigning is how the government experiences its citizens. — The Drey Dossier
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\"Internationalism Is Not a Luxury, but a Survival Mechanism\"
\nSuperb interview with Syrian author Leila al-Shami and Ukrainian activist Oleksandr Kyselov on the vestigial Eurocentrism and American exceptionalism of the Western “anti-imperialist” Left in an increasingly multipolar world.
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\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/05/07/i-have-the-keepiton-report.html","date_published":"2026-05-07T08:56:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Yours Truly","url":"http://andrewfordlyons.net","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F39%2F1828167.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"yourstruly"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-07 08:56","date_timestamp":1778144194,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@aiefel/116532458038576343","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:usidppasjec2ycf6na3ipzfy/post/3mlatunrszz2g","https://www.threads.com/@andrewfordlyons/post/DYCBJIFFioh"]}},{"id":"89382643","content_html":"Not a single day of 2025 passed without at least one internet shutdown.
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\n\n“So much of our past has been shaped by this petty proceduralism. You could draw a straight line between an amendment in Brussels and a mass grave in Kazakhstan.” — Molly Crabapple, ‘Here Where We Live is Our Country’
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A lot of banging great lines in this book!
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\nAI can take all the serious jobs and do whatever with them if we can just have these kinds of opportunities in exchange.
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