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Today's Daily Song of the Day: Billy Idol - "Shock To The System"

22 Feb 2026 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

  Former Siouxsie Sioux associate and would be Banshee Billy Idol’s Cyberpunk is released in June of ’93 to what are easily the most horrific reviews of his career. The album’s lasting legacy, however, will surely have nothing to do with...

Polyhedron of Memory Two

18 Feb 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Will Jones

      ☸️ I was chewing a coffee bean the camel herder gave me slow.. as if he was a barrister  at the Third Coast in Chicago   ☸️☸️   I was marooned in ህልም the translation, no cream  however a bovine's neck was slit an Ankole cow bled as if christene...

Today's Daily Song of the Day: Living Colour - "Glamour Boys"

18 Feb 2026 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Although never the biggest Living Colour fan, I nonetheless think they are skilled musicians. It’s just that their songwriting is generally not all that memorable. When rating a band, we tend to lump these two sentiments together, but they’re...

CRISIS OVER

15 Feb 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Rajpootg

Peace be upon you all. Very Warm Greetings to everyone. 🙂💚✨I wish you all success, happiness, and prosperity. I hope your days are full of joy, peace, and little moments that make you smile.🌟 Prompt for today's story is "Hay". The task is to wri...

Love and Leopold

15 Feb 2026 3 minute read 0 comments mildandred

Trevor Getz makes some heavy claims about Leopold in his article about the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, which was convened by said Leopold. He writes that: "The immediate reason for the Berlin Conference was the jealousy of the king of a small cou...

Editorial comments (and style choices that are either dying or dead - and they should stay dead)

13 Feb 2026 2 minute read 0 comments LeftFooted

Language evolves, including in writing. And as someone who's been writing professionally for about a decade or so, there are a few things I've noticed, and I wanna share them. All-caps headlines - no, just no please This used to be a thing in Engli...

The day you're destined to lose

13 Feb 2026 3 minute read 0 comments Kovichni

Did you ever have those days where everything you did was wrong? And I do mean everything, like doubting between two multiple choice answers on exams and picking the wrong one, to buying crypto and then watch it crash a few minutes later, all the way...

Proverbs of Smog #43

12 Feb 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne

Zelle: [email protected] Proverbs of Smog Chapter Forty-Three 1. The freeway is a feast. 2. A takeaway buffet. 3. Traffic is a priest. 4. Slow and in the way. 5. Avoid the biting flyway. Take instead 6. The ever wonder whyway. 7. Repent!...

I Can't Get Started: The Melancholy of Starting Over

11 Feb 2026 1 minute read 2 comments floc1960

A short essay with a jazz soundtrack Soundtrack (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2BuWDhuT2I I was resting for a moment, the coffee machine refusing to stop, and I stumbled into a song that feels like a human truth dressed in velvet. Bunn...

Economic Reality Check — Day 2: The 6-Cent Insult (Writing Naked Against the System)

11 Feb 2026 1 minute read 11 comments floc1960

Yesterday, 232 people spent their most precious asset—time—reading my words. In the cold, calculated world of digital platforms, that moment of human connection was valued at about $0.06. Let’s call it what it is: an insult. Not only to me, but to yo...