#eighties — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #eighties, aggregated by home.social.
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Rediscovering The Firm. Yeah, the one with Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers, and Tony Franklin’s bass is much less inaudible than the bass in most other bands.*
Standout track: Midnight Moonlight
*Chris Slade also drums the drums most drummily.
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Rediscovering The Firm. Yeah, the one with Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers, and Tony Franklin’s bass is much less inaudible than the bass in most other bands.*
Standout track: Midnight Moonlight
*Chris Slade also drums the drums most drummily.
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Rediscovering The Firm. Yeah, the one with Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers, and Tony Franklin’s bass is much less inaudible than the bass in most other bands.*
Standout track: Midnight Moonlight
*Chris Slade also drums the drums most drummily.
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Rediscovering The Firm. Yeah, the one with Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers, and Tony Franklin’s bass is much less inaudible than the bass in most other bands.*
Standout track: Midnight Moonlight
*Chris Slade also drums the drums most drummily.
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Rediscovering The Firm. Yeah, the one with Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers, and Tony Franklin’s bass is much less inaudible than the bass in most other bands.*
Standout track: Midnight Moonlight
*Chris Slade also drums the drums most drummily.
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Book Review: ‘Killer on the Road’ by Stephen Graham Jones
I picked up Stephen Graham Jones’s ‘Killer on the Road’ because I’d heard good things about him.
Also, the cover gave off eighties vibes, and I’m a sucker for that kind of thing.
Jones’s novella opens with a prologue. A trucker attacks a hitchhiker and eats a part of him, all while talking about a man who can take others’ forms. Yes, it’s grim and gory. From there, we enter the story proper, following Harper, a teenager who’s running away from home. She catches up with her friends, and they begin a road trip together, with her little sister tagging along.
You can guess who they eventually run into.
I almost suggested this to my book club group, and I’m so glad I didn’t. Not because it’s bad, but because it’s gory as hell. It’s certainly not the sort of thing I’d recommend to non-horror aficionados.
The story takes place in one night, and you can feel that frantic energy as the hours tick by. The novella’s length works in its favour; there is little breathing room, and the deaths hit hard and fast. It’s an adrenaline shot of a story that I could envision: Jones has a cinematic way of telling a story.
On the flip side, the length also hurts the story. Some of the characters’ reactions to what happens fall a little flat. I know they’re teenagers and still lack fully developed prefrontal cortices. But still, I’d expect more freaking out and panicking than the calmness Jones presents us with. Something about it didn’t read true to me. I know that by avoiding emotional meltdowns, Jones kept up the pace. But the protagonists often feel psychopathic in their detachment.
The villain himself was quite cool. Eating human parts to become a copycat, trying to fit in with the rest of the world. Storing jars of eyes and fingers along the highway. It was all rather unsettling. I liked the idea behind it all, even if the ending felt rushed and anticlimactic.
Even so, I’m curious to check out Jones’s other works, particularly his full novels. ‘The Only Good Indians’ and ‘The Buffalo Hunter’ kind of call to me, so I’ll pick those up in the future.
If you want something that feels like a gory eighties B-movie, ‘Killer on the Road’ takes a bloody good stab at it.
★★★☆☆
#BookReview #eighties #gory #hitchhiker #Horror #stephenGrahamJones #trucker -
The Three‑Point Clarity Framework
article 3 part 3Your signature structure.1. Systemic HarmAggressive advertising is not a Meta problem — it is an industry problem.The same behaviours exist across Facebook, Google, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and every major platform.2. Regulatory MomentumMeta’s losses create legal precedent.States now have leverage to challenge the entire advertising ecosystem.3. Industry‑Wide TransformationIf Meta is forced to redesign its systems, every major platform will follow — voluntarily or […]https://jayleebenjamin.wordpress.com/2026/08/23/the-three-point-clarity-framework/
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Facebook: The End of “You Didn’t Ask for This” Advertising
Facebook’s advertising model is built on interruption.You scroll, and Facebook throws suggestions at you — products, pages, groups, videos, political content, emotional triggers, and behavioural predictions.This model is now legally vulnerable.Three things will change first:1. Forced Suggestions Will Be RestrictedFacebook will no longer be able to inject content you didn’t ask for simply because the algorithm predicts you might react to it.2. Behavioural Targeting Will Be LimitedThe […] -
“Symphony of Solitude” by JAYLEEBENJAMIN
"Symphony of Solitude" by JAYLEEBENJAMIN Symphony of Solitude is a song about the kind of loneliness that comes from being visibly different in a world that rewards invisibility.It’s about the years spent walking through life feeling like an outsider - not because of anything you did, but because of who you are, how you look, how you speak, and how people project their assumptions onto you before they ever bother to know you.Growing up mixed-race, gay, and visibly “not the masculine […]https://jayleebenjamin.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/symphony-of-solitude-by-jayleebenjamin/
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Music single”Symphony of Solitude” by JAYLEEBENJAMIN 2
Symphony of Solitude is a song about the kind of loneliness that comes from being visibly different in a world that rewards invisibility. It’s about the years spent walking through life feeling like an outsider - not because of anything you did, but because of who you are, how you look, how you speak, and how people project their assumptions onto you before they ever bother to know you. Growing up mixed-race, gay, and visibly “not the masculine template,” you didn’t have the option […] -
THE COLLAPSE OF AGGRESSIVE ADVERTISING: FACEBOOK, GOOGLE, AND THE NEW RULES
ARTICLE THREE parts 1For more than a decade, digital platforms have relied on a simple formula:predict what you want, push it at you, and keep pushing until you click.Facebook perfected it.Google industrialised it.Instagram and TikTok normalised it.And YouTube built an entire creator economy on top of it.But the Meta case has changed the direction of travel.The legal pressure applied to Meta is not limited to Meta — it applies to the entire advertising ecosystem.The behaviours under […] -
Here's me and my brother circa 1980 for #ThrowbackThursday and this would have been a stop at a service station before passing over the Severn Bridge into dark and scary Wales en route to a ferry crossing from Fishguard or Holyhead to Ireland to visit family.
#Photography #TBT #RiverSevern #SevernBridge #Wales #Ireland #1980s #80s #Eighties
