I heartily recommend Fox News*, but otherwise I'd suggest looking up hashtags of things you're into and following people who like what you like. And follow other people on your own server too.
It's kinda tricky, because most of the people I follow might not be interesting to others, but they're mostly good for chatting with.
That makes sense to me. I remember hearing complicated on which music station the hotel had on in the bar when I was in Ibiza for a week back in 2002. Adele's first album came out in 2008.
I have a really nice pair of wired Sonys (MDR-7506) that I modded with a 3.5mm jack, and bought a small BT receiver that’s strapped to the headband. So I now have the best of both worlds.
Before any of the iOS apps were worth a damn, I decided to try and figure out how to make an app myself. I was going to call it Ace, and hope that at least someone knew why.
I didn't get very far though, because I've literally never made an app before.
I started trying to humanise people who pissed me off. Over time it chilled me right out.
By which I mean; say you're on the motorway pulling 80mph in the outside lane and some asshole in an Audi comes screaming up behind you, flashing his lights, trying to get you out the way so he can get back up to 110mph.
In the past, I'd make a wanker gesture at him, then gradually pull across, making him all pissy with me. I'd get that momentary hollow feeling of victory that I'd got one over on a prick. Then I'd realise that I was mostly just angry and I'd achieved nothing.
So I started trying to humanise those people. Maybe he's driving his Audi like a twat because he really needs a crap, or his wife's having a baby. I don't know, and I don't need to know. Little by little this has helped me to chill out, and not just while driving. It's carried over into other areas of my life, where I attempt to provide a justifiable reason for shitty behaviour at times when I just couldn't know the truth.
True, but most people aren't the former Prime Minister. I can't read the article, because fuck paying any money to any of Murdoch's outlets, but is it his personal phone, or one that was provided in his official capacity as PM?
I love The King Blues, but have to ration myself because inevitably I'll happen upon Headbutt again, and be locked in to that one track for the next couple of hours.
It makes more sense when you view it through the lens of Rupert Murdoch absolutely despising the very notion of publicly funded state media, because media is how he wields power and public broadcasters can't (in theory) be bought.
Through that perspective you begin to see that the majority of anti-BBC stories that turn up in the privately owned news outlets are almost always bollocks wrapped around a tiny kernel of truth. And there's an awful lot of those stories rustling up dissent against the BBC. How many Sun readers think the licence fee is nothing more than an unjust tax, that they never watch or listen to the BBC, so shouldn't have to pay it? They've sown that disgruntlement for decades, which has inevitably led to successive governments freezing the fee, or minimising how much it can be increased, which has the knock on effect of making the BBC's output less high quality than the country deserves.
That's been Murdoch's modus operandi for as long as he's had a presence in the UK. The existence of (supposedly) impartial BBC News is a high benchmark that cripples his ability to peddle whatever the fuck it is Fox does over in the US.
The only real surprising thing in all this debacle is just how far The Sun over-reached. They're a nest of vipers, but they're not normally this stupid. Which suggests they thought they had a far stronger story than it turned out. Trouble is, literally all that will happen is that they'll stick their fingers in their ears for a week, wait for everyone to forget about it, then they'll return to business as usual.
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I heartily recommend Fox News*, but otherwise I'd suggest looking up hashtags of things you're into and following people who like what you like. And follow other people on your own server too.
It's kinda tricky, because most of the people I follow might not be interesting to others, but they're mostly good for chatting with.
*please click the link before attacking me...