Christmas Warning: YOU Are Being Distracted!

Last year, on Christmas Day, Anonymous released this message on YouTube to remind us that, in spite of all the gloom and doom of this world, we can still change the game. Provided we consent to open our eyes and stop choosing to see only what best suits us — that is, assuming...

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The Best Christmas Song

You know how much I like to keep you in the mood with relevant seasonal songs. Well, this year, you lucky sods, I got you the top of the poops, the best Christmas song that ever existed, though this is not the first Christmas crime committed by this crazy Canadian wacko. If...

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Gloria to Our Ghosts

The Great Hall looked magnificent. Not only were there a dozen frost-covered Christmas trees and thick streamers of holly and mistletoe crisscrossing the ceiling, but enchanted snow was falling, warm and dry, from the ceiling.Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling On...

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Winston the Nutcase vs Buster the Boxer

Every year in the UK, big chains such as Sainsbury's or John Lewis commit to substantial budgets on TV commercials, which, it must be said, often turn out as pure gems both artistically and ethically. The so-called Christmas Spirit is being sold to us. In this regard, the...

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No Bling Bling

This year again even more than ever before, it's really hard for me to get into the so-called “spirit of Christmas” they're trying to sell us for evermore when the world is still going ever-so wrong with a growing number of people going homeless. And meanwhile the rich and...

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Headquarters of European Union Acknowledge Reception of Monsanto's Christmas List

Already spoiled before time with the glyphosate approval, Monsanto can now look forward to Christmas Eve in full confidence. While each year, the corporation would send its list of requests to Santa, today they have decided to deal directly with the European Union. “They're...

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You Raise Me Up

Last time with The Verve, I had presented you one of the most disempowering songs ever — not out of petty revenge for never getting any comments, but to illustrate what to do to get sponsored by the antidepressant drug lobby. Now, I'm saving your day with this powerful antidote...

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Rich Kids Will Get an Extra Gift From Emmanuel Macron

Emmanuel Macron just signed controversial documents endorsing new regulations regarding the organisation of Christmas parties at Élysée Palace.The good news for all the kids attending Christmas celebrations at Élysée, whose parents have annual revenues of over € 150.000, is...

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Bitter Sweet Symphony

This song is a mega hit of the 1990's everyone must have heard of. It's even been used in many commercials including one for the infamous trademark with the comma-shaped logo — the one of many corporations exploiting child labour in sweat shops and making big bucks with their...

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Do You Like Mozart?

Do you like Mozart? The Big Music? Here is a tag created many years ago with one of the wonderful characters designed by Féeline as a teaser for my forthcoming article in French for a blogger community project called Eklabugs. I really wish I had more time to write an English...

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Glyphosate: EU Postpones Decision to Take All Bribes From Lobbies in Consideration

The Commission chose to postpone the 11/9 controversial vote in order to calmly benchmark bribes. “Much is at stake, and even moreso the amounts we've been offered” President of European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker said yesterday. Indeed, since last September, negotiations...

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Neo-Nazi Group Mistakenly Prints 10,000 T-Shirts in Honour of Nelson Mandela

This was hardly a brilliant idea. A dozen members of some dark identity group in Finland have just turned into a national joke and the laughing stock of the whole Internet after ordering by mistake 10,000 t-shirts with a picture of the former South African leader, whom they...

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A French Summer

Un été français Another day in my lifeI don't wish to stand by,Another dull mondayWhere nothing but time passes me by.Tuesday, got butterflies in my stomachFrom confinement and compliance;Wednesday, longing for another life —Wish I could call it a day just to have the choice.When...

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How to Apply Russian Doll Effects on Photos

Ever seen that effect where frames are embedded within frames ad infinitum — or multiple mirror reflections? Why don't you do that with your pictures... well, at least with those that contain a frame or mirror. For this very basic yet a rather tedious tutorial, I've used GIMP...

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Watching the Wheels

People say I'm crazy doing what I'm doing, Well they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin. When I say that I'm OK they look at me kind of strange “Surely you're not happy now you no longer play the game.” People say I'm lazy dreaming my life away, Well they...

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How to Apply 3D Effects on Photos

Got a new operating system (Linux) and a new image editing software (GIMP). Even though I'm still using Paint Shop Pro on Wine, I want to learn how to use this much-praised multiplatform tool. But it takes time for, like many free alternatives to giants such as Photoshop and...

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Rebirthing

Today I'm passing awayOver my fearsAnd hard feelings,Bogged down in the foundationOf the self-created dramasOf my mindscape.One by one,I let them go,No resentmentOne by one,I watch them die,No grief.Today I'm rebornFrom my dirty watersAnd misguided fancies.Relieved from my...

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Believer

For a minute there when you saw the above title and picture, bet you all freaked out that I might have gone with the choir prissies. If so, shame on you, you should know better. What you see is not always what you get and this young lady with her British gospel overtones (which...

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Equinox

Meet me on the equinox, Meet me halfway, The sun is perched at its highest peak In the middle of the day..."Meet Me On The Equinox", Death Cab For Cutie (2009) On this day of the equinox, no big-do, keep everything in balance. No clash, maintain harmony. No dull play either,...

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How to Apply Posterise Effects on Photos

It's been a long time since my last photo editing tutorial. I must say after migrating to Linux, I had to learn how to use different graphic tools even though I've managed to get Paint Shop Pro 8 running with Wine (previously I've been using PSP X for many years but it doesn't...

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Life Is Wonderful

A song with both luminous and dark lyrics... Incidentally, this article was meant to go online back in June, but since any video posted by fans was systematically removed from YouTube, I had to wait for the official release of this wonderful clip (by Italian actress/director...

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What It Could Mean When You’re Driving in Your Dream

I'm used to dream I'm driving a car that's not mine and experiencing a curious sense of freedom mixed with both impunity and fear for knowingly treading forbidden paths, probably because in “real life”, I neither own a car nor a driving licence. Constantly aware I might get...

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Sweet Summer Treat

Yes, I'm much into recycling this month, so what? Recycling is eco-friendly and it's not because I can't afford to go on holidays that I don't have the right to slow down. That said, it may not seem like much but bringing back improved old recipes and translating them into...

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Earthsick

The dark night of the soul, the bends. The ultimate groundswell that drags you down to the bottom of the bitter sea. Carried away, my heart sank in this ebb and flow of tears. Overwhelmed by the Big Blue. Am really sinking this low? And those weird fishes — their slashed souls...

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Pinhole Vision

Hold on, don't you go assuming I'm into psychedelic trips. Nope. I'd just like to share an awesome discovery I made while surfing: pinhole glasses. Mine cost me less than two euros (some serious grounds for upheavals on planet Oculus 2000, assuredly, and what with getting called...

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