Commonly referred to simply as Glastonbury Festival and known colloquially as "Glasto," this five-day festival of performing arts is held near Pilton, Somerset, England, most summers. It is the biggest open-air festival in the world.
Will you behave this year, Boys? And don't cuss.
In addition to contemporary music, the festival hosts dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and other arts. Leading pop and rock artists have headlined, alongside thousands of others appearing on smaller stages and performance areas.
Kneecap rocks Glasto
Films and albums have been recorded at the festival, and it receives extensive TV and newspaper coverage. Glastonbury takes place on 1,500 acres of farmland [3] and is attended by about 200,000 people [4], with extensive security, transportation, water, and electricity-supply infrastructure (stuff built on the ground).
We need to heal stoned in a circle, a stone circle
While the number of attendees is sometimes swollen by gatecrashers, a record of 300,000 people was set at the 1994 festival, headlined by the Levellers, who performed on the Pyramid Stage [5].
Most festival staff are unpaid volunteers, helping the festival to raise millions of pounds for charity organizations [6].
Regarded as a major event in contemporary British culture, the festival is inspired by the ethos of the hippie, the counterculture of the 1960s, and the free festival movement. [It's the British version of Woodstock.]
Vestiges of these traditions are retained in the Green Fields area, which includes sections known as the Green Futures, the Stone Circle, and Healing Field [7].
Michael Eavis hosted the first one, then called the Pilton Festival, after seeing an open-air Led Zeppelin concert in 1970 at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music. More: Glastonbury Festival
Terrible lineup for this year's fest before hiatus? - Will the Morris dancers be around for Beltane?
Isle of Wight Music Festival comes alive
Rare photos of the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival brought to life [with AI]
(Fusion Kidd) June 16, 2025: As Glastonbury 2025 opens, what is the history of other open-air festivals akin to Woodstock? Here are some rare photos of the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival, but in this case they are colorized and brought to life with animated motion (1968–1970). How the ChatGPT or AI modeling is able to project what happened after these photographs were taken is the mystery of something going into AI's black box and something else coming out with no one able to explain what happened in between.
Trump said, "I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.... Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything" [1]. Many commentators and lawyers described such an action as sexual assault [2]. Apologists argued that the remarks were an assertion that sexual consent is easier to obtain for the wealthy and/or famous [3]. If a footballer had been there, might he have sandbagged the scumbag future presidential candidate? More
The Rabbit Hole with Jimmy Kimmel: Is Trump a Time Traveler?
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) May 29, 2025: Jimmy Kimmel goes deep down into the Rabbit Hole again, digging through history to prove that Don Joe Trump is more than he seems. More than a clown, might he be a time traveling clown? #Kimmel
Trump pardons reality TV stars, RFK Jr. dials back COVID vaccines, JD Vance grifts in Vegas
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) May 28, 2025: Trump granted a full and unconditional pardon to reality stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, he floated the idea of pardoning the men who plotted to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer along with granting clemency to a man convicted of tax evasion, JD Vance headlined a fundraiser in Las Vegas last night, Melania announced that her new audiobook is narrated by A.I., Judge Jeanine Pirro is the new interim U.S. Attorney for Washington D.C., RFK Jr announced that the CDC will no longer recommend the COVID vaccine for pregnant women or healthy children, and DOGE has been closing offices operated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Subscribe
Mr. Newberger's AI Funnies, 5/25/25; The Rabbit Hole with Jimmy Kimmel?, May 29, 2025; Mac Miller; Sheldon S., Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Trump 2.0: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
(LastWeekTonight) Feb. 16, 2025: John Oliver discusses the first four weeks of Donald Trump’s second term as president, the strategy behind some of the choices his administration has made and why it is indeed fuck time. You heard us: It’s f*ck time. #LastWeekTonight
Why Trump REALLY wants to deport 14 million people
(Hindsight) Feb. 14, 2025: The United States has 14 million undocumented migrants living within its borders, and Trump pledged to deport them all. Starting with a million per year, focusing on those with criminal records. But there are not nearly enough people with a criminal record to meet this pledge, so...who's next? TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: docs.google.com/document/d/1m... #Trump #MassDeportation. Learn more about this ETF and gain access to the global defense sector by clicking here: usglobaletfs.com/WAR.
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(SNL) Weekend Update's Michael Che and Collin Jost summarize the news
(MostAmazings) Feb. 16, 2025: For decades, The Simpsons has shocked the world with eerily accurate predictions. Now its 2025 forecasts are unfolding before our eyes. From futuristic technology to major world events, could the beloved American animated series have once again foreseen what’s coming?
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This video breaks down the wildest Simpsons' predictions for 2025 that are ALREADY coming true. Did show creator Matt Groening and his team tap into the future [or are they being fed predictive programming ideas on a regular basis with Hollywood as the planet's throat chakra?], or is it all just a crazy coincidence?
Let’s dive deeply into the theories, hidden clues, and shocking moments that will leave viewers speechless.
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James F. O’Connell, the “Tattooed Man,” arrived in New York City in 1835, causing much consternation. If a lady so much as glanced at him, her future children would be born just as hideously inked as he was — covered in thick, patterned black bands that curved down and around their hands, arms, legs, and backs. Or so the churchmen told their flocks.
O’Connell, an Irish sailor, acquired his full-body tattoo during a stint as a castaway in the South Pacific’s Caroline Islands during the late 1820s and early 1830s.
After their ship sunk, Irishman O’Connell and his shipmate, George Keenan, were taken in by inhabitants of the island of Pohnpei — who were not cannibals, O’Connell emphatically states in his memoir.
Within a few days, the two were bustled off to an isolated hut, where five or six women, “savage printers” armed with ink and thorns, set about providing the newcomers with the markings that would smooth their way into the community.
The resulting tattoo, called pelipel, made O’Connell “fully human” in the world of the South Pacific, writes Juniper Ellis in her book Tattooing the World (Columbia University Press, 2008), for which the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) provided research support. More: neh.gov
The Dharma Bum
There's something about the Irish, going from a tiny island under the thumb of a neighboring island, pushed out into the world as a diaspora that saw the sidhe, Tuatha de Danan, the wee people, the spirits, and creatures of the Emerald Isle spread out into all corners of the world and the public imagination. The neighboring island forced itself on everyone, like the last militant vestige of the Roman Empire (the remaining force in Rome slipping on a sheep's disguise in an exhibition of soft power that conquered the planet or plane more deeply than British weapons and forces.
U Dhammaloka (right) with Burmese monks
How did the Irish win their way into the hearts of all, particularly with so many redheads? One of the most prominent and important of the Irish was named O'Connell (Laurence), who became the first Westerner to ordain as a Theravada Buddhist monk, Ven. U Dhammaloka(pronounced \ooh-dah-mah-low-kuh\), the "U" being an Burmese honorific.
He traveled by boat to California then by ship to Asia, where he made a name for himself as a freethinker and Buddhist, opposing Christian missionaries, ended up all the way in Mandalay, Burma, in a Buddhist monastery.
Another O'Connell (James F.), not JFO, also made a splash in the Pacific among the people of Pohnpei among the Caroline Islands. He was a sailor on a boat that wrecked, landing him in Micronesia and this adventure.
(Rare Earth) James O'Connell, 18, survived a shipwreck along with seven others only to become the most famous Western man in Pohnpei. Ah, coming home after being enslaved since your late teens only to have your own society condemn you as Satanic for what they did to you and then be forced to headline a traveling circus freakshow until you died. No matter where you go, the tattoos always speak first.
This is the (self-told, probably exaggerated for circus reasons) story of P.T. Barnum's original freak success story, "James O'Connell, America's first tattooed man."
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