Matthew Cang

Election Special 4: The Conservatives.

Bill Withers wrote the song "Ain't No Sunshine" at age 31 while working at a factory, making toilet seats for airplanes. Using his own money, he would record demo tapes and play at various clubs at night. When he debuted with "Ain't No Sunshine", he refused to quit his day job, believing that the music business was a fickle industry. Fortunately for him, the song turned out to be a massive hit. When it went gold, the record company gave him a gold toilet as a gift, marking the start of his new career. In 1985, at age 47, Bill Withers decided to walk away from it all. He felt that the record companies he worked with were constantly trying to exert more and more control over how he should sound if he wanted to sell more albums. He felt pigeonholed and no longer wanted to be part of the music business. In 2015, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He claimed to have no regrets and provided the following reflection on his later life: "I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. Funny thing about that, though. You tweak yourself, looking for more love, less lust, more compassion, less jealousy. You keep tweaking, keep adjusting those knobs until you can no longer find the original settings. In some sense, the original settings are exactly what I'm looking for—a return to the easygoing guy I was before my world got complicated, the nice guy who took things as they came and laughed so hard the blues would blow away in the summer wind."

🧵 Arnold @Schwarzenegger is the greatest orator of our time.

FULL SPEECH: President Biden delivers powerful address on US leadership around the world. Worth a watch till the end.

Moms for Liberty gets so upset when I read them the Bible.

“If it’s a Biden and Trump race, I would vote for Biden even if he was dead. And I’m a Republican.” -A Pennsylvania voter to Meet the Press host Kristen Welker.

A reminder of the useful ‘ipsedixitist’ (19th century): one who firmly asserts that something is true because another person said so, with no other evidence to back it up.

Physicians who prescribe ivermectin for Covid-19.

You never loose your worth!

This is NOT permitted by @ofcom regulation. Lee Anderson (deputy Tory chair) interviewing Suella Braverman (Home Secretary) on GB News Time to complain before broadcast & RT? ofcomlive.my.salesforce-sites.com/formentry/Site… Details Lee Anderson Show - proposed broadcast 7pm 29/09/2023 GB News Ofcom found GB News in breach of due impartiality when Esther McVey MP and Philip Davies, both sitting Tory MPs, interviewed Jeremy Hunt It seems GB news never learns? Ruling : The Code is clear that when programmes are dealing with matters of major political controversy and current public policy, the heightened special impartiality requirements apply.

Carl Sagan on the cumulative effects of being repeatedly bamboozled. 👇

In 1995, American astronomer Carl Sagan predicted what a future American society could look like. His forecast has proven prescient. Read below.

Not mine but I love it!

Exclusive from the Papua New Guinea Courier: An article about the UK's concrete governance problems.

Whenever people try to claim that ‘graffiti isn’t real art’, I show them this: