The Dropsonde

I post things I like, occasionally complain about things. Expect lots of skate vids, politics and pretentious music.

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I HAVE NO INTENTION OF SHARING THAT ALTON STERLING VIDEO

Plenty of modern day lynchings have been shared on this website and still, not a single officer has been held responsible. We've shared enough misery porn. These murders are already real enough without sharing the play-by-play of these peoples' deaths. We've already shared enough savagery. This won't be the straw that breaks the law enforcement apparatus' back. We as a nation aren't brave enough to effect any sort of change, even when confronted with the most blatant evidence of our dark and terrible history. So why linger on this sickening bit of celluloid when that won't change a goddamn thing? What say we vote you-know-who into office and walk hand-in-hand into oblivion after he dooms us to nuke warfare? It's what we deserve as a society, tbh. Giant Comet 2016 and all that.

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Gillian Welch - “Revelator”

The lovely and talented Gillian Welch, ladies and gentlemen. Americana at its finest.

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The truth

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I Don't Care what side of our political spectrum you are on.

Les ofrezco solo una mantra: QUE VIVA COLOMBIA HIJUEPUTA

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Favorite premo beat. Deck bodies out too

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Grande, Zizou

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If you’re a Liverpool supporter, or just anyone interested in Hillsborough and the workings of the Rupert Murdoch media then this is a must watch.

I can’t emphasise enough how perfect every single word in this is.

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Brian Eno's final correspondence with David Bowie

“David’s death came as a complete surprise, as did nearly everything else about him,” Eno said.

David’s death came as a complete surprise, as did nearly everything else about him. I feel a huge gap now.

We knew each other for over 40 years, in a friendship that was always tinged by echoes of Pete and Dud. Over the last few years – with him living in New York and me in London — our connection was by email. We signed off with invented names: some of his were mr showbiz, milton keynes, rhoda borrocks and the duke of ear.

About a year ago we started talking about Outside — the last album we worked on together. We both liked that album a lot and felt that it had fallen through the cracks. We talked about revisiting it, taking it somewhere new. I was looking forward to that.

I received an email from him seven days ago. It was as funny as always, and as surreal, looping through word games and allusions and all the usual stuff we did. It ended with this sentence: ‘Thank you for our good times, brian. they will never rot’. And it was signed ‘Dawn’.

I realise now he was saying goodbye.

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Expert says 12-year-old Tamir Rice had hands in his pockets when shot by police

A 12-year-old boy killed by Cleveland police last year had his hands in his pockets when he was shot and wasn't reaching for the pellet gun he was carrying, according to an exp...

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The smoking gun (or lack thereof). Let's see the bluelivesmatter bastards try to double talk their way out of this one.

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Day 18.

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Locrian, Eternal return

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Alabama sends message: We are too broke to care about right and wrong

Every single county in which blacks make up more than 75 percent of registered voters will see their driver license office closed. Every one.

Because Alabama just took a giant step backward.

Take a look at the 10 Alabama counties with the highest percentage of non-white registered voters. That’s Macon, Greene, Sumter, Lowndes, Bullock, Perry, Wilcox, Dallas, Hale, and Montgomery, according to the Alabama Secretary of State’s office. Alabama, thanks to its budgetary insanity and inanity, just opted to close driver license bureaus in eight of them. All but Dallas and Montgomery will be closed.

Closed. In a state in which driver licenses or special photo IDs are a requirement for voting.

It’s not just a civil rights violation. It is not just a public relations nightmare. It is not just an invitation for worldwide scorn and an alarm bell to the Justice Department. It is an affront to the very notion of justice in a nation where one man one vote is as precious as oxygen. It is a slap in the face to all who believe the stuff we teach the kids about how all are created equal.

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Well, gotdamn

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AN INTERVIEW WITH THE GUY WHO TRIED THE 13 FLAT 13 IN THE RAIN

“ that’s just how I get my kicks, the big shit. ”

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Legend. The mick foley of skating

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Dear Banksy

Stop. Just stop. We get it. Blah blah blah consumer culture, blah blah, capitalism. This self-indulgent bullshit will open exactly 0 people's eyes to the terrible truth you believe yourself to be the sole keeper of, and won't change the fact that you are the kind of posh, inbred oligarchical clown you believe yourself to be morally superior to. Sincerely, people who aren't the absolute worst.

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Iker Casillas will always be my captain and deserved to retire at Real Madrid. The fact that a man can dedicate the better part of three decades to a club and still be forced out the back door by a board and management in search of a shinier newer model (when we already have a star 2nd choice keeper who has barely gotten any playing time) makes me wonder whether this is still the club for me.

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Today's Civilian Victims in Yemen Will be Ignored Because U.S. and its Allies Are Responsible

Disappearing America's victims is how the national self-perception as perpetual victim of terrorism, but never its perpetrator, is sustained.

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In Fayoush, Yemen this morning, just outside of Aden, “a massive airstrike” hit a marketplace and killed at least 45 civilians, wounding another 50. Officials told the AP that “bodies were strewn about following the strike.” The bombing was carried out by what is typically referred to as a “Saudi-led coalition”; it is rarely mentioned in Western media reports that the U.S. is providing very substantial support to this “Saudi-led” war in Yemen, now in its fifth month, which has repeatedly, recklessly killed Yemeni civilians.

Because these deaths of innocents are at the hands of the U.S. government and its despotic allies, it is very predictable how they will be covered in the U.S. None of the victims will be profiled in American media; it’ll be very surprising if any of their names are even mentioned. No major American television outlet will interview their grieving families. Americans will never learn about their extinguished life aspirations, or the children turned into orphans, or the parents who will now bury their infants. There will be no #FayoushStrong Twitter hashtags trending in the U.S. It’ll be like it never happened: blissful ignorance.

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Happy birthday Zizou!!

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Leyenda. El mejor de todos los tiempos.