John Dark

@johndark@sfba.social
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Satellite Communications Marketer - American Made #Audio and #WindhamHill Records Publisher - Father, husband, friend, #music lover, #audiophile, Californian.

I post about #music, especially #jazz #sophistipop #80s #postpunk #neosoul #vaporwave #vinyl #downtempo #electronica #humor, - #puns, #urbanplanning, - #cycling, #strongtowns #environment #tech - #satcom #apple #ios and #California #contracosta #bayarea & #californianativeplants.

#Linguistics podcasts I love (not a linguist)

The History of English Podcast - Starts with Proto-IndoEuropean and is currently up to the 1700s with a few modern asides.
https://historyofenglishpodcast.com

Words Unravelled (both a YouTube series and a podcast) This is Jess Zaffaris, who's written a number of fun books about the English language and Rob from RobWords, former BBC presenter known for his YouTube channel and weekly email by that name.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8R3ZnESMdsuTevq4ib9CvA

Lingthusiasm (Gretchen McCullough is also a fun writer, known for "Because Internet"
Two very clever linguistic academics who do a great job bringing academic insights and rigor to highly relevant topics for the enthusiast. https://lingthusiasm.com

The History of English Podcast | The Spoken History of a Global Language

An ode to the Settings section of MacOS? Marcin Wichary makes a compelling case for the modestly elegant panel.

https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference/

Frame of preference

A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

I don't shy away from criticizing conspiracy theories that come from the left, which is why you know I'm serious when I say that the Epstein/Trump connection is absolutely NOT a conspiracy theory. It's just a rational conclusion to come to from the evidence we have https://skepchick.org/2025/07/the-trump-epstein-story-is-not-a-conspiracy-theory/
The Trump/Epstein Story is NOT a “Conspiracy Theory”

Transcript: I’ve been warning for, well, a year or so now that the Republican fascist plan detailed in Project 2025 was to purposely overwhelm Americans with so much bad news that the average perso…

Skepchick
The hardest disbelief to suspend about the show.

Meet our new backend developer.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

This is one of my favorite comics we've made. Cats will be cats.

Driving home, randomly clicking on the camera app out the window at the amazing sunrise and mist - this!

#tree #mist #sunrise #photography

#3113 - Fix This Sign
Remember, there are no ghosts... Only #cats..
When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.
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Driving home, randomly clicking on the camera app out the window at the amazing sunrise and mist - this!

#tree #mist #sunrise #photography

@miramarmike You're so lucky!

I would have stayed for a while after taking the picture. ❤️😍

@sensen nice eh, I was driving home after a busy night so wasn't able to
@miramarmike driving and taking pictures illegal??
@efi ??
@miramarmike if you do it at the same time
@efi this is your takeaway, why?
@miramarmike 'cos I don't want u die takin cool ass picshures...
How I Deal With The Pointlessness Of It All

Saṃvega is a Buddhist term for a general sense of existential dissatisfaction with the world — the feeling that life is meaningless and you...

@miramarmike making one cool picture does not excuse everything else wrong with you, mate, sorry