BrianJopek

BrianJopek, 6 days ago to random

#DeepThoughts
#Vonnegut

atomicpoet, 3 days ago to random

Today, I discovered Visitors, a Swedish synthpop duo.

My gateway is their song “This Time The Good Guys Gonna Win”.

Imagine if ABBA and Pet Shop Boys had a baby! It would be Visitors!

And even though this song came out in 1990, it sound incredibly 80s. At one time, I thought this particular sound was cheesy. But as we get further and further from the 80s, I find myself realizing that nobody makes this kind of music anymore—there’s only so many songs that sound like this.

Believe me, this is an earworm.

https://youtu.be/FK-SXcQWTME

BrianJopek, 6 days ago to random

You go, girl.
#IReadBannedBooks

BrianJopek, 10 days ago to random

These need to be in place all over the country.

BrianJopek, 5 days ago to random

The MAGA way of looking at things, in a nutshell: it’s only freedom if it’s their brand of “free dumb.”

BrianJopek, 5 days ago to random

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.” - excerpt from a speech by American novelist William Faulkner at his daughter Jill’s 1951 high school graduation

BrianJopek, 8 days ago to random

“Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, and that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are—or, as we are conditioned to see it. Everyone looks through the eyes of their prejudices and preconceived notions. Hence, it is the most difficult thing in the world to broaden someone's beliefs so that they will realize a greater truth than the ones they have clung to for so long." - Stephen R. Covey
#DeepThoughts

BrianJopek, 8 days ago to random

Me, too, Obi Wan. Me, too!
#TheForceVsTrumpCult

BrianJopek, 8 days ago to random

😁

BrianJopek, 9 days ago to random

Happy Thursday.

BrianJopek, 9 days ago to random

Sunset view of the lighthouses from the bluff in Saint Joseph, Michigan, 29 May, 2024. Photo by Michigan Native Photography.
#LighthousesOfMastodon
#GreatLakes
#LakeMichigan

BrianJopek, 10 days ago to animals

I swear Jagger is thinking this every time he looks at me like this. Well, that and wondering if he might be able to have a bite of my sammich.
#DogsOfMastodon
#DogHairWhatDogHair

BrianJopek, 10 days ago to random

I got this from Veterans For Responsible Leadership: Nikki Haley is beyond the definition of asshole.

BrianJopek, 10 days ago to random

“Happy #WorldOtterDay everyone!

This special day is celebrated every year thanks to the International Otter Survival Fund (IOSF) The idea is to draw attention to otters and raise awareness and support for their conservation around the world.

Even Steve has promised to cancel his trip to the pub today in order to help out.

You can find out more on the IOSF website here: https://www.otter.org/world-otter-day” - In Otter News
#SteveTheOtter

BrianJopek, 13 days ago to random

It quite obviously has been going on for quite some time.
#Sagan
#DeepThoughts

“The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous
presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.” - Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

BrianJopek, 19 days ago to random

Bah. Monday.
#PoohNPiglet

BrianJopek, 13 days ago to classicrock

To paraphrase David Lee Roth “It doesn’t feel like almost 7:30 here on deck.” Whatever the case, this Woodford’s mighty tasty. 😉
#MusicOfMastodon
#ClassicRock
#1984

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TpLzW7fm1c0

BrianJopek, 14 days ago to random

Bob, you smartass.
#LikeARollingStone

BrianJopek, 14 days ago to random

“It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.” - Thomas Sowell
#DeepThoughts

BrianJopek, 15 days ago to random

"A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can't defuse a bomb. But we are not helpless. We can sing the truth and name the liars." - Salman Rushdie
#DeepThoughts

BrianJopek, 15 days ago to random

Fuckin A!

BrianJopek, 16 days ago to random

#DeepThoughts

BrianJopek, 20 days ago to random

Double standard? Nahhh.

BrianJopek, 20 days ago to random

And now for something completely different.
#MusicOfMastodon
#90sAltRock
#ViolentFemmes

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JE-dqW4uBEE