Some non-English music I enjoy, though not at the same time:

Lisa Ekdahl - Vem Vet (Swedish) Nice catchy Swedish tune, maybe jazz?

Samain et Shuait - Les Nomades (French and Anishinaabe) First Nations hip-hop

Gwenno - Chwyldro (Kernewek) Folky dreamscapes in a functionally extinct language (they’re bringing it back, though).

Moonchild Sanelly - Gwara Gwara (English and Xitsonga) Pop-funk-dance mixing international and indigenous traditions.

Majid Soula - Win Terram (Tamazight) Electronic beats from a Berber.

Jacques Dutronc - On nous Cache Tout, on nous Tout de Rein (French) A classic of French rock and roll.

Manu Negra - Mala Vida (Spanish) Punk styled music by folks who like their anarchist forebears.

San Salvador - Quau te Mena(Occitan) Occitanian folk traditions given new life.

TUDI-VOICE - 囡仔你甘知 (Hokkien) - Socially active Taiwanese band in Chinese folk tradition with a modern spin.

Beyond - Glorious Years (Hong Kong Cantonese) Cantopop legends.

Sorry for the YouTube links.

More the hypocrisy for having denied entry to Russia while allowing Israel’s to remain.

The actual terms for entering are being a part of the European Broadcasting Union; which includes Israel and Australia, despite the “European” in the name.

Zappa remains great.

But also at least half of his songs are absolute smut, and we love him for it.

The French are, understandibly, less willing to overlook Nazism than anglophones.

Then again, no one should be overlooking Nazism.

I the term AnCap is the usual one.

You get plenty of left-wing or left leaning Egoists, based off of the Stirnirian approach to Anarchism. So that’s out, regardless.

If only people had friends, meaningful occupations, local amenities they enjoyed.

Something that would cause them to be invested in the wellbeing of the community, town, neighbourhood they had chosen to live in.

If only there was some way for the other people who lived somewhere to think about the future of their homes and community.

Shame capitalism inventivises against all that in favour of profits and convenience. 🤷🏽

No, that’s us Brits’!
You can’t take our last sport we’re reliably competitive in from us!

That Universes Beyond even more confirmed then.

Mad world where Avatar product is teased in the M:tG:Arena store. Not quite Fornite-Starwars non-bo, but still… Capitalism. 🤷‍♀️

The US arms shipments to Britain, and later after the gun runner ship Lustiana, hoping to use its civilian passengers as a shield in breach of the rules of war, led to American popular support for joining with the Allies, which they eventually did to push Germany to defeat despite the newly Sovietised Russia withdrawing.

And it might be that Dixieland and Yankeeland would support the Allies and Axis, and WWI would have had an American theatre, too opening in 1915 or so. And any major war fought in North America in the 20th century would totally alter the form US neo imperial power and hegemony took, if any at all, in the latter part of the 20th century.

As a minimum, a different US would alter how Versaille and Balfour treaties were made and what who agreed to.

I didn’t even mention the Second World War, because the first would’ve been different enough to make it having happened in a familiar form into unlikely.

On the one hand… First World War would’ve ended very differently.

On the other… Maybe eugenics would already be discredited by the 20s with how it went in Dixie.

Because they fired the guy whose job it was to tell the press who got fired. So there is no longer an official record.

Call me a poser, but I prefer him in The Skin I Live in.