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YouTube
Do we have a thread for just youtube stuff? I watch a lot of youtube content. It needs to be separated out because the videos are fascinating little If-you-give-a-mouse-a-cookie things you can find yourself chasing to new rabbit holes. But one needs to be very careful of the source and how accurate some things you stumble on, are.
I have been watching a couple guys who have a channel called DIVETALK. Holy lord. I do NOT understand anyone who dives with tanks (or free dives without tanks — and no, that isn’t just swimming).
They talk about divers dying in caves, bodies not retrieved and show actual video of them stuck. Controversies in competitive free-diving where people die.
They talk about divers dying in caves, bodies not retrieved and show actual video of them stuck. Controversies in competitive free-diving where people die.
If you are a physical risk taker, you and I could never be lovers. 🤣🤣😂
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This platform needs to be separated out from movies and T.V. because the videos are fascinating little If-you-give-a-mouse-a-cookie things you can find yourself chasing to new rabbit holes. But one needs to be very careful of the source and how accurate some things you stumble on, are.
Netflix has a new documentary dropping Wednesday on Oceangate. FINALLY people are revealing the truth about this horrible narcissistic nutbag, Stockton Rush. Everyone was cautious in how they worded stuff when this tragic, avoidable murder happened. Not now.
Most inventors are eccentrics. I’d put James Cameron in that category. (I choose him as an example because they are in the same field of exploration). But the big difference I see between these men — James puts no one at risk but himself. Stockton put everything and everyone at risk that he could for his ego.
He is a murderer in my opinion. Watch the trailer.
Anyway, one rabbit hole later, I was on YouTube searching for new info on Oceangate when I stumbled on a couple of guys who have a channel called DIVETALK. Holy lord. I do NOT understand anyone who dives with tanks (or free dives without tanks — and no, that isn’t just swimming).
They talk about divers dying in caves, bodies not retrieved and show actual video of them stuck. Controversies in competitive free-diving where people fucking drown. Murders conveniently staged 20,000 leagues under the sea.
Sonsabitches. I have enough trouble in open water dangling my legs below the sun kissed, warm top layer into that very delineated cold and dark murk. No way will I purposely swim with the deep fishes.
I was the kid who had a twang of anxiety boarding Disney’s Nautilus back in the day. The only thing that distracted me were the mermaids. I wanted to be a girl of the sea with my own dinglehopper. Does anyone remember that old ride? The Pepperidge Farm guy does, I’m sure. Is he a member here?
Any interesting TouTube channels you care to share?
If you are a physical risk taker, you and I could never be lovers. 🤣🤣😂
I do watch some youtube, theres a chess channel i watch now and then mostly because of the bubbly happy personality of the young woman hosting it. She is a chess player online and in regular tournaments trying to improve her rating. Sometimes she has as a guest her mother who was a female world champion in chess at one point. Also some music reaction videos when i feel like it. Its kinda amusing to see a young generation discover the old masters like the The Beatles and others and their sometimes astonished reactions.
The baby pygmy goats caught my eye one day on a FB reel, I've been watching ever since.
“Chapple, the late Queen’s beekeeper, went first to Clarence House and then Buckingham Palace to perform his somber duty of telling the bees, a centuries-old custom of informing the bees when their owner has died. Rooted in Celtic tradition, this practice ensures that the bees will remain with their hives and continue to produce honey. According to folklore, failure to notify the bees invites disaster. They will stop making honey, abandon their homes or even die themselves. Chapple tied black ribbons around the hives to allow the bees to mourn properly, then knocked on the roof of each hive and announced the death of the queen, assuring the bees that they would continue to be cared for.”
If you do that for the next thousand nights, he said, you’ll be full up of ideas.
He also suggested writing a short story every week. Don’t overthink, just do it.
I’m not writing a short story every week, but I am going to try the one, one, one thing for a while. And many will be rereads as audios mostly.
September 16, 2025.
So my first short story to start me off:
There Will Come Soft Rains — Ray Bradbury as read by Leonard Nimoy. Love this story, love Leonard reading it.
Poem: O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
Essay: You Can’t Kill the Rooster — by David Sedaris.
Essay: I Hate My Neck by Nora Ephron