Swany

Animal activist, artist, curator, educator, performance artist, women rights supporter, vegetarian; things you need to know about me👍

[Bono’s Bible @BonosBible]

After their first raw performance of “All Along the Watchtower” captured in Rattle And Hum (1988), U2 added it as a staple during their Lovetown tour (1989).

The new version was faster, more pounding, with Edge’s solos more prominent and Bono remembering the final verse. No overdubs needed.

It’s as if they were seeking redemption from their original performance.

[Nostalgic Cues @PostPunkX]

The The
- This Is the Day

[Nostalgic Cues @PostPunkX]

Bauhaus
- Bela Lugosi_s Dead

[𝜗℘ @lacedli]

The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I went to In-N-Out and ordered a cheeseburger. The cashier, a calm young woman named Destiny, asked me a question I did not expect.

"You want that Animal Style?"

I paused.

I did not know what this meant. But a samurai does not admit he does not know. So I answered with weight.

"...Animal Style."

"Cool. So that's mustard-grilled, extra spread, grilled onions, pickles. Yeah?"

I understood now. This was a sacred permission. For one meal, I was being told to put down my manners at the door. To eat the way a beast eats, without shame. I had waited my whole life for someone to give me this order.

"Yes," I said. "I will become the animal."

Destiny did not blink. "...Okay. You want your fries Animal Style too?"

I stopped. Even the potatoes?

"The potatoes also become animals?"

"I mean, they get cheese and sauce and grilled onions, so..."

"Then yes. Let the potatoes abandon their restraint as well."

"...Got it." She was the calmest woman I have ever met. "3x3, 4x4, or just the one?"

I did not know these numbers, but I knew a challenge when I heard one. "How many must I face?"

"It's, like, how many patties you want."

"How many is the most honorable?"

"...Four is a lot."

"Then four. A warrior does not ask for fewer."

She wrote it down without argument. A 4x4, Animal Style, with animal fries. She warned me once, kindly. "That's gonna be huge." I told her I was counting on it.

It arrived. It was a tower. Cheese and sauce ran down my hands the moment I lifted it. There was no clean way to eat it. There was no dignified way. That was the entire point.

I ate it like a beast. Both hands, no honor, grilled onion on my chin, and I have to be honest with you, it was the best thing I have ever put in my mouth.

For thirty years I have kept my manners at every table in the world.

They handed me a burger and told me to be an animal, and I have never felt so free.

So tell me, America.

The whole country knows the secret menu. What else are you hiding in plain sight?

And "Animal Style." Was I eating the animal, or finally becoming one?

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian”

- Paul McCartney

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

MARGARET QUALLEY in a short film ad for Kenzo. It was directed by Spike Jonze, and choreographed by Ryan Heffington.

[Holy Bible @Holy__Bible1]

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
- Jeremiah 29:11

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

GREASE was released 48 years ago today.

The animated opening credits are iconic, set to the title song by Frankie Valli, which became a No. 1 hit and helped turn the film into a cultural phenomenon.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Elon Musk told a story that should terrify every AI company on Earth.

His son Saxon is autistic.

Saxon couldn’t understand why the family went to restaurants.

You can get the same food delivered.

You can call your friends over.

You can eat better at home for half the price.

So why go?

Musk: “He had an epiphany and said, ‘Oh, the reason people go to restaurants is to hang out with strangers.’”

A kid who takes the world literally just decoded something the rest of us never thought to question.

We like being around people we’ll never know.

Look at what we already built.

Delivery apps so you never wait in line.

Remote work so you never share an office.

Self-checkout so you never talk to a cashier.

Every innovation of the last 20 years was a bet against human proximity.

Every one paid off.

Until it didn’t.

Loneliness is now a public health emergency.

Depression has doubled since the smartphone.

The average American has fewer close friends than any generation in history.

We didn’t remove friction.

We removed the thing friction was hiding.

Now look at what’s coming.

AI agents that handle your emails.

AI companions that replace your conversations.

AI assistants that make every human interaction optional.

Same playbook. Same bet.

Except this time we’re not engineering out strangers.

We’re engineering out humans entirely.

The coffee shop where nobody knows your name.

The subway where no one speaks.

The restaurant where you’ll never see that couple again.

Those aren’t failed connections.

They’re the background radiation of belonging.

We don’t just need people who know us.

We need to exist in rooms full of people who don’t.

That’s what a kid understood at a dinner table that billion-dollar companies still can’t grasp in a boardroom.

We spent 20 years building a world you never have to show up to.

AI is about to finish the job.

And nothing it builds will ever replicate sitting in a room full of strangers and not feeling alone.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

Elon Musk explains the Kardashev Scale:

"That's the most objective metric that any alien species, say, visiting us would calibrate how much progress we've made as a civilization, and one of the most objective ways to do that is the amount of power that any given civilization has been able to harness, and there was a Russian physicist, actually, who thought about this, and it's, I think, it's a good way to characterize it, which is you can have, you can assess how well a civilization is harnessing the power available on the planet, that's type I. And then type II would be how much of the star's power are you harnessing, and then type III would be how much of the galaxy's power are you harnessing. These are very objective and measurable numbers, so right now we're very low on the Kardashev I scale, like, what proportion of our planet's power are we harnessing, it's a very, very tiny number, and basically we're harnessing almost nothing of our stars' power, so the sun is truly an immense state. We don't even know how to do level III, really. AI will figure it out. One way to appreciate the size of the sun is to think about how heavy is the sun compared to all the rest of the mass in the solar system. So, the sun is about 99.86% of all mass in the solar system. It's everything, and then all the remaining 1.14% most of that is Jupiter, one planet."

[James Anthony 💎 @JamesMartirq7p]

“When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade without further introduction." ~Mark Twain

[The Self Lab @TheSelfLab]

Psychology Of People Who Love Staying At Home:

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[Laurie @one4laurie65]

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Refugee🎶

[Trump Girl 🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲 @MAGA__Patriot]

Iranian hairstylist Ami Moghadam received death threats for posting videos of women receiving haircuts on Instagram.

So she decided to troll the Islamic Regime and their oppressive mandatory hijab laws in the most epic, hilarious way possible. 😂😂

[Batfox Pictures @Batfox_Pictures]

Built around one of the most recognisable indie riffs of the 2000s, The Kooks delivered “Naive” at Parkpop in 2006, a track from Inside In/Inside Out that quickly became their breakthrough hit during the indie boom of the era.

[Ladytron Fan Account @Lady_FanAccount]

"Don't Stop The Dance" was the second single from the album Boys and Girls (1985), Bryan Ferry's first solo album after the official demise of Roxy Music. He wrote the music inspired by the mood of the dance floors of the 80s, but gave its characteristic touch: an elegant, sophisticated and almost cinematic groove, with striking percussion and luxurious arrangements.

The single became one of the biggest solo hits of his career, entering the Top 10 in several countries.

[Nostalgic Cues @PostPunkX]

''Love Song"
Robert Smith wrote it as a wedding present for his wife Mary in 1988. A simple, honest love song inspired by long tours. Their biggest US hit

Is this your favorite song by The Cure?

[bluesharp @bluezharp]

Laura Cox🎸🎶'Riffing on Gimme Shelter'

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

The B-52's performing on Saturday Night Live with Teri Garr hosting on January 26th, 1980.