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"When a man lets things go so far that he is more than half a bicycle, you will not see him so much because he spends a lot of his time leaning with one elbow on walls or standing propped by one foot at kerbstones.”
Flann O'Brien The Third Policeman
Flann O'Brien The Third Policeman
“If you find something very difficult to achieve yourself, don’t imagine it impossible—for anything possible and proper for another person can be achieved as easily by you.”
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.19
#Stoicism
—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.19
#Stoicism
February 5, 2026 at 9:57 PM
I love to see big snowy mountains on the horizon, on my walks under the hot sun. Here is Le Canigou.
January 11, 2026 at 4:13 PM
I love to see big snowy mountains on the horizon, on my walks under the hot sun. Here is Le Canigou.
My bank just sent me an SMS alerting me to the fact that it is going to rain until tomorrow night.
December 26, 2025 at 6:46 AM
My bank just sent me an SMS alerting me to the fact that it is going to rain until tomorrow night.
I can leave my house, where I have a stuffed flamingo at the top of my Christmas tree, and find hundreds of real flamingos within a few miles of here. How many of you can find actual fairies that you can watch with binoculars?
December 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I can leave my house, where I have a stuffed flamingo at the top of my Christmas tree, and find hundreds of real flamingos within a few miles of here. How many of you can find actual fairies that you can watch with binoculars?
Being ill on Christmas day can be ho hum but Santa has left you a cute little paint set and the best book you could have asked for! @willdalrymple.bsky.social
December 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Being ill on Christmas day can be ho hum but Santa has left you a cute little paint set and the best book you could have asked for! @willdalrymple.bsky.social
My first Christmas Day in a country of citizens, not subjects.
Still ruled by wrong ‘uns, but not hereditary wrong ‘uns.
Still ruled by wrong ‘uns, but not hereditary wrong ‘uns.
December 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM
My first Christmas Day in a country of citizens, not subjects.
Still ruled by wrong ‘uns, but not hereditary wrong ‘uns.
Still ruled by wrong ‘uns, but not hereditary wrong ‘uns.
The only downside to living in France is having to unwrap and un-label all those tea bags. Why can't I buy simple, strong tea bags like in the UK?
December 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The only downside to living in France is having to unwrap and un-label all those tea bags. Why can't I buy simple, strong tea bags like in the UK?
I would have thought that Louis Aliot (see alt text) would be against refugees fleeing persecution in small boats. But here we are.
December 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I would have thought that Louis Aliot (see alt text) would be against refugees fleeing persecution in small boats. But here we are.
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Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
Please sign: agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/st...
Stop au projet écocide de "méga bassine" des Angles sur le Roc d'Aude ( Pyrénées-Orientales)
Le 4 septembre 2025, Michel Poudade maire des Angles et son conseil municipal ont décidé d'échanger plus de 34 hectares de forêts communales situées au dessus du lac de Balcère contre 6 hectares de te...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Please sign: agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/st...
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Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
If Donald Trump ever came back in fish form…
November 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
If Donald Trump ever came back in fish form…
On the train from Perpignan to Montpellier. I saw this man fishing in the étangs Bages-Sigean, tout seule. He is that tiny dot in the water.
November 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
On the train from Perpignan to Montpellier. I saw this man fishing in the étangs Bages-Sigean, tout seule. He is that tiny dot in the water.
If the Greens allow in Labour defectors, who stuck loyally to the LP during the "antisemitism crisis", the election of Starmer, saw the Labour Files, Martin Forde's report and the unfolding genocide and said...nothing... aren't the Greens cruising for a bruising sometime?
Once bitten.
Once bitten.
October 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If the Greens allow in Labour defectors, who stuck loyally to the LP during the "antisemitism crisis", the election of Starmer, saw the Labour Files, Martin Forde's report and the unfolding genocide and said...nothing... aren't the Greens cruising for a bruising sometime?
Once bitten.
Once bitten.
This glorious Leucate day, I spotted 15 cormorants, c 100 great egrets, c 200 flamingos, a starling murmuration, one grey and one trotty wagtail, c 200 jackdaws and c 100 crows.
The joy you get, watching things through binoculars. But fuksake what's with my neighbours complaining about my homework?
The joy you get, watching things through binoculars. But fuksake what's with my neighbours complaining about my homework?
October 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This glorious Leucate day, I spotted 15 cormorants, c 100 great egrets, c 200 flamingos, a starling murmuration, one grey and one trotty wagtail, c 200 jackdaws and c 100 crows.
The joy you get, watching things through binoculars. But fuksake what's with my neighbours complaining about my homework?
The joy you get, watching things through binoculars. But fuksake what's with my neighbours complaining about my homework?
I have a little spider nursery on my variegated ficus plant - a present a month ago. The ten or 11 babies are smaller than a pin head, but already their tiny legs etc are ready to react to a puff of air. I am so proud to have my kindergarten.
September 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I have a little spider nursery on my variegated ficus plant - a present a month ago. The ten or 11 babies are smaller than a pin head, but already their tiny legs etc are ready to react to a puff of air. I am so proud to have my kindergarten.
Pigeon Toes, Collioure, France.
September 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Pigeon Toes, Collioure, France.
Smoke last night from a wild fire in Jonquières, Heurault, which is over 150km from Perpignan. The smoke was all over town and day became night. Seven sapeurs pompiers have been injured fighting the flames.
August 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Smoke last night from a wild fire in Jonquières, Heurault, which is over 150km from Perpignan. The smoke was all over town and day became night. Seven sapeurs pompiers have been injured fighting the flames.
Hello @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social. Are you on holiday in the south of France by any chance?
August 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Hello @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social. Are you on holiday in the south of France by any chance?
Please say somebody is keeping a photo tally of the little Palestinian children, murdered by the Israeli govt, and the T-shirts they are wearing? I recall seeing a "Girl Power" message on a little dead girl, and many other poignant T-shirt messages on sweet, innocent and dead children.
July 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Please say somebody is keeping a photo tally of the little Palestinian children, murdered by the Israeli govt, and the T-shirts they are wearing? I recall seeing a "Girl Power" message on a little dead girl, and many other poignant T-shirt messages on sweet, innocent and dead children.
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"child stands silently beside his wounded mother, holding the blood bag connected to her body, in an emergency room with no bed, no equipment. All he has is his small body and fragile will to save her - a scene that embodies the collapse of humanity."
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child stands silently beside his wounded mother, holding the blood bag connected to her body, in an emergency room with no bed, no equipment. All he has is his small body and fragile will to save her ...
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July 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
"child stands silently beside his wounded mother, holding the blood bag connected to her body, in an emergency room with no bed, no equipment. All he has is his small body and fragile will to save her - a scene that embodies the collapse of humanity."
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