Notices by Pablonius Monk (pabloniusmonk@mastodon.social)

@sjvn "How Does Never Work For You?" is one of favorites. I've bitten my tongue countless times when what I really wanted to say out loud was exactly this. 😂 📆

Fediverse 🎺 :catjam: 👏 Give a hearty welcome & follow to the finest daily radio broadcast in the Lone Star State: The Texas Standard! Right on time to celebrate its 10th anniversary on-air 📻 here the broadcast makes its first toot today.

@TexasStandard

Thx to @shelly for her hard work to make this happen and for her enthusiastic presence here on :mastodon:

NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE,
YOU’RE ON TEXAS STANDARD TIME

https://www.texasstandard.org/

#FollowFriday #Texas #PublicRadio #Radio #Journalism

@sjvn Dylan has done that a few times in his career. Infidels, Oh Mercy, Time Out of Mind, Love and Theft, Rough & Rowdy Ways. What an enigma that guy is.

I've even come around to some of the tracks on those in-between albums over the years. The Coen Brothers helped with "The Man in Me".

I'm even eager to see "A Complete Unknown" even though the story is pretty well covered. Most of all keen for the new generation of fans like Swifties and Timothee Chalamet swooners to discover his work.

@sjvn @TheNewStack Thx for this lovely write-up. As a user of Ubuntu I enjoyed reading his weekly email newsletter to the community. So sorry to hear about his passing. 😢

"My son has been eating electrical cords. What do I do?"

"Ground him until he conducts himself properly."

#DadJokes #Humor #Joke

"You have my sword... And my bow"

"And I believe you have my stapler"

#Humor #Meme #LOTR #OfficeSpace

@sjvn I try to watch that Gently Weeps video regularly. It's so choice.

Years later I heard Tom Petty on his Buried Treasure answer a fan's letter about recording something with Prince. He mused that he needed to reach out and give that guy a call sometime.

We pay way too much attention to the polls.

How Texas pollsters get their job done when everyone is screening their calls

“Pollsters are not predictors, they're not looking into a crystal ball.” Pollsters are “just giving us a sense of what the snapshot of the electorate looks like at that moment based upon the factors that they have determined are relevant to their poll.”

https://www.kut.org/politics/2024-10-14/texas-president-poll-kamala-harris-donald-trump

#Politics #USPol #Polling #KUT #Austin #Texas

Obama no longer needs Luther his Anger Translator!

Barack Obama bashes Donald Trump in emotional speech

Former President Barack Obama hits back at Donald Trump's claims that Joe Biden withheld hurricane aid to Republican areas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC2_GkNwilo

#Politics #USPol #Obama #Luther

Elon Musk Secretly Funded ‘Pedophile’ Fliers, Attack Ads Against Texas Prosecutor - The Barbed Wire

https://thebarbedwire.com/2024/09/13/elon-musk-secretly-funded-pedophile-fliers-attack-ads-against-texas-prosecutor/

#Texas #USPol #ElonMusk #OliviaMesser #TheBarbedWire

“I didn’t realize how excited and how energized the community was until you tell them you’re going to take something away.”

Dallas library could be off the chopping block after public opposition

Skillman Southwestern library branch ranked eighth out of the city’s 30 libraries in circulation last fiscal year

“This library is important to us. A vending machine can’t replace it.”

🆓🔗: https://archive.is/lgbTp

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2024/09/04/south-dallas-library-could-be-off-the-chopping-block-after-public-opposition/

#Library #DallasPublicLibrary #SkillmanSouthwestern #Dallas

"When I’m drunk, but my husband is sober."

https://www.threads.net/@jemelehill/post/C_W690UJLi7/?xmt=AQGzbgKK_LqjU1WXHoK05EimNx0xrNaUvgDiB8YyToD4vA

#NickSaban #PatMcAfee #ESPN #CollegeGameDay #Football #TV #BroadcastNewsButSports

As much as we might enjoy the arrival of fall football, the sport must be made safer. 🏈

At least 7 middle and high school football players have died in August

Middle and high school football players in Alabama, Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia have died this month during or after a game or practice

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/28/nx-s1-5091883/middle-high-school-football-players-deaths-august

#Football #Health #Sports

Those halftime highlights were a welcome reprieve from homework

How Monday Night Football brought the NFL to primetime 🏈📺

Peyton Manning Becomes A Broadcaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFTBOwh8VZ0

#MNF #Football #NFL #Sports #TV #AlMichaels

Kamala Harris Is Closing Gap on Donald Trump in Texas, Poll Suggests

"I can tell you, in Texas, which Barack Obama lost by 16 points in 2012, Hillary Clinton lost by nine points in 2016, and Joe Biden only lost by [5.6] percent in 2020, this is really the sleeper battleground state." -Beto O'Rourke

https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-texas-poll-donald-trump-activote-1939004

#USPol #Politics #Texas #KamalaHarris

They voted for Republican Nikki Haley, but they now back Democrat Kamala Harris. And Haley isn't happy about it, sending a cease and desist order.

But this group of voters refuses to stop and by Labor Day, they expect to be a "substantial force" financially. The director of "Haley Voters for Harris" says his group could easily swing the election in battleground states.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=napBKdLsD3A

#HaleyVotersForHarris #WFAA #Yallitics #NikkiHaley #KamalaHarris #Politics

"Haley Voters for Harris" are a group of Republicans now supporting Kamala Harris for president.

A group of Nikki Haley supporters flipping parties to vote for Kamala Harris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LdYUz6vgIo

#Politics #Yallitics #NikkiHaley #HaleyVotersForHarris #WFAA

@ricmac I harbor the same resentment. But I have learned to let it go. The sea refuses no river. I'll be sure to tag the person here with an "at" if they've got an account or the proverbial 'message in the bottle': the hashtag that awaits them when they inevitably pop on.

Todo es hermoso y constante,
Todo es música y razón,
Y todo, como el diamante,
Antes que luz es carbón.

Jose Marti, Simple Verses/Versos Sencillos 🇨🇺

#Poetry #Poesía #Cuba #Mojito

This is desperately needed here in the USA.

US High-Speed Rail Map Shows Proposed Routes 🚂

Under the plan, which the USHSR proposes to build in four stages, it would be possible to travel between Seattle, Washington; San Diego, California; Miami, Florida; and Boston, Massachusetts, entirely on 220-mile-per-hour high-speed rail lines.

https://www.newsweek.com/us-high-speed-rail-map-proposed-routes-1924237

#HighSpeedRail #MassTransit #USHSR #Trains