From Frank Recchia, News 12:
The Bridgeport Public Library Beardsley Branch is now offering podcast studios.
“You can record podcasts, you can record music, you can record anything you like — and it’s free,” said Elaine Braithwaite, city librarian for the Bridgeport Public Library.
Librarian Andre Massa, who works at the Beardsley Branch, has spearheaded an effort to make the location a technological hub for the Bridgeport Public Library System.
“It’s amazingly cool. I love the fact that people can come in here, they may have an idea that they otherwise would not be able to do because podcasting equipment is incredibly expensive,” Massa said.
Librarian Adam Cleri hosts a program called “The Bridgeport Unmasked Podcast.”
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Kinda cool
I would think VR gaming/space would attract more youths to the place local Lib.
John L get out, it’s a trap. 🙂
Not to get lost in the shuffle
https://onlyinbridgeport.com/wordpress/senator-gaston-words-matter-in-a-time-of-division-lets-choose-a-better-way-forward/
John, thanks for highlighting Rev. Gatson. AKA , Eye Candy’s likes. 🙂
They have increased in the last few treads, considerably. Not sure of the genuineness of them, or lack of, but it is fair to say the newfound participation in Gatson words is apparent making him an OIB influencer., perhaps he should start a pod cast. I know a place. 🤣
However, let’s take a prospective look at Sen. Gaston’s political rhetoric. While they are not vulgar, and hateful in nature, how genuine or disingenuous are they when it comes from the one’s own political perspective/tone of the current American political sandbox?
Perhaps the words we choose matter more than ever in our political discourse in the public square, but how genuine or disingenuous they are, based on coded sides and coded words, coded language, and non-verbal cues that deviates from their face value of the expression.
Does definition matter?
Does one’s ability to decipher, for better or worse matter?
If that’s coded messaging is a thing. If so, wouldn’t the message by their natural deceptive. So much of your Open, Honest, Transparent, Accountability. No?
Or at the very least, disingenuous, No?
I find it fair to say Rev Gaston’s current words are based on the recent events surrounding Charlie Kirk’s death. I also find it fair to say Charlie’s words, and tone, were not vulgar, violent or immoral in nature, on their face value. Perhaps disingenuous, or even genuine, based on one’s perspective on how one may have formed their opinion regarding them, coded and uncoded.
It is also fair to say he was no more or less genuine or disingenuous than other political figures who has taken to the political public square. However, Kirk was not shot because of his words. He was shot because people were watching, listening, and shaping their worldview/America political view based on them, for better or worse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOANzLpRt-I
Perhaps violent rhetoric leads to violent outcomes. But MLK’s words did come from a moral choice and were not vulgar or violent in tone or nature in his public square discourse on what kind of nation we are becoming, and who we are becoming to one another? Or what kind of world do we wish to leave to the next generation? Yet his words and tone were met with violence and hatred.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR-PReWhMGM
Perhaps Bridgeport knows all too well the cost of violence, and not just ideological violence. As well as every other city, town in America, in one form or another. Perhaps every place around the world, for that matter.
Perhaps our flags should fly at half-staff when we lose another young person to perpetual gun violence due to systemic and structural social determinants. While All lives matter, not sure if that’s a coded side thing, and the use of words was directed at a distinct group or side, it is just they, that word phase tend to give me that kinda tone/vibe. Regardless, don’t the fathers too weep over a casket that should never have been filled, as our city mourns for their loss and pain?
Perhaps there’s a difference between healthy debate and verbal warfare. Perhaps standing for principles and not demonizing your neighbors is a worthy goal in American political discourse that revolves around political principles is better way path forward for this nation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB4m-eO8XLg
However the fundamental ideologies of Liberals, and conservatives, capitalism and socialism, right and left, religion and Atheism, shit perhaps code sides be it black and white, red and blue, or any other coded words used to divide, distinguish, ironically, to connect too. If that coded side/group language exist, will be present as a guiding force in this nation’s politics, be it healthy, verbal warfare, or violence, for better or worse, No?
Perhaps urban Libs should offer VR gaming settings time to offer the youth of the community as more alternative constructive outlet to occupy their time. Or less destructive. Perhaps even music studio experience time as a means to venture in the Lib. Mose of the Port, Sen Gaston?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZtlV8eroS8
However, with regards to Kick’s debate, his debate style and words, I generalized, found them to be disingenuous from a political standpoint. But they were not vulgar or hateful. No more or less than the other side’s words, be it coded or not.
But that’s just America’s political game. I mean, while you can come to agree with some perspective on transgenderism as Kirk did in his political discourse expression, softball lobbied by the opposing on the issues regarding transgender identity ideology, particularly transgender females who were born in a male body competing in female sports with other females born in a female body. Or kids as young as 5, shit infants having a complete capacity to understand gender or gender identity and the sexuality component that accompanies it. Some may even view the transgender youth as soldiers in their identity cultural war.
Or gender being redefined were nature born female/young adults having to change and be exposed to a female transgender who has a male body part/penis in the locker room.
Shit, read a story about how a transgender female who kept her “penis” parts was locked up in a female prison and got some of the inmates pregnant.
As you can see, I used the requested pronoun, not because I understand it completely, Ihileho, how, when or what may have triggered such thoughts of gender identity that representation outside of the body you are born with.
As you can see, I used the requested pronoun. Not because I understand it completely or know the who, how, when, or what may have triggered such thoughts of gender identity, that representation outside of the body you are born with. But I do have my suspicions of the disingenuous influence that revolves around it and the inherent human factor being exploited, butt because I am just not an asshole, as vulgar as that may have come off,
Shit I am still trying to figure out the fascination of the nose ring, people. I mean, I know the female species tents have a thing for jewelry, among other fascination. Thanks, cuz 🤣
At any rate, if I was raising a daughter (natural born body) who had to compete in some athletic physical sports with a transgender female I would have some reservations and concerns about the fairness of that person being born of the different human species body. No one is denying that aspect. What is being denied or overlooked is the differences don’t come with physical differences outside of tits, vaginas and Penis. Does that make you a demon or demonizer, morally wrong without moral principle if you feel that way?
That being said, it’s hard to say/debate you feel the Civil Rights Act was a mistake and there’s nothing to see there. Yet argue it’s the other side’s policies have attributed to the Black plight in America, stemming from the lack of efforts to decrease the gun violence crime in their “community” the systematic breakdown of the black American family, where children are born out of wedlock, and or, the fathers out of the home/life of the child. To the systematic dependency on Government that provides the lowest run on social economic ladder. Or to the educational system failing to teach, and or prevent blacks and other them may deem them not worthy of, be black, white, Latino, based on their coded identity side, from having the basic tools needed to compete and succeed, along with the lack of job opportunities to elevate one’s quality of life that would break the chains, bondage of the reliance on government. Like going to a roof-top bar.
I can assure you there are not going to be too many Port welfare recipients going to patronize Mama’s Bear rooftop bar/ eating establishment be it white, black, Latino or otherwise. JS
From my understanding Kirk’s debate against the Civil Rights Act was because it was being used to allow transgenders, particularly transgender male to compete in sports that they identify with, and aspect of affirmative acts on DIE hirings.
Though a weak debate IOM, particularly when you would acknowledge the systematic efforts to not teach blacks in America by the opposition political parties, AKA the Democratic Party. His NBA analogy was weak too. Saying if the NBA were required to have a quota of DEI hires, AKA white people on the team the team league would be weaker. While true with the current white NBA pool, sports are a competitive employment with wins and losses. That is very different from a job that doesn’t require that level of competition. What it means to be the best is very subjective when it relates to the ability to do the job effectively. Shit, most jobs requirement for employers’ top priority, requirement is someone showing up. 🙂
A counter to that NBA angles against, DEI hires would be a postman’s/women’s job/position, or construction/trade job You can’t compare a competitive athlete’s “job” to a repetitive training decent paying job with decent benefits that provides a higher standard of living that blacks have been shut out of.
Labaron’s son provides that just because you black you can make it in the NBA. 🙂 But he showed what privilege really is in America. If Labron ran/owned a fortune 500 company his son got a no-show job attribute to his privilege and we would be reading about him on Forbes. Shit don’t buy that just look what they have made, project on that cave wall, around the world about a moron in the White House, LOL.
Shit, I am a byproduct of someone who didn’t have the means and or the ability to attend Yale. 🙂 Yet I still had formed a better response to Kick’s question/response/debates then most of those college kids. So perhaps there are some truths to the systematic way to not teach outside of one’s ideology. 🙂
Either our higher education system is going off the rails or most of those kids were part of or cherry picked to enhance Kirk’s appeal JS 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec7rCsNFn30&t=1s
That being said, Charlie’s “transgender” debates on college campuses did fall under John L questions and civil engagement in the public discourse. Though also disingenuous/weak IMO JS
Although his debates fell in line with his view on transgenders in physical sports, unfair. While even a broken clock is right two times a day. Notwithstanding the editorial rights to edit any valid, well-constructed response to counter Kirk’s POV that was spread across social media that may undermine his movement/performance. Kick’s debate platform was against younger debaters with a less worldly view, Like Transgender athletes they were unfair. 🙂
However, I did see clips of him debating this one young adult who not only held his own but served him a few times, from my perspective.
Perhaps I was a bit harsh on our dictator in the White House. Trump did have the wisdom and foresight to fire Busey. 🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii6I14EbPF4
Lennie, hurry up and get me the straight jacket and double-dosed medications.