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lottelydia.bsky.social
Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister
Let us not submit to the vile doctrine of the nineteenth century that every enterprise must justify itself in pounds, shillings and pence of cash income … Why should we not add in every substantial city the dignity of an ancient university or a European capital … an ample theater, a concert hall, a dance hall, a gallery, cafes, and so forth. Assuredly we can afford this and so much more. Anything we can actually do, we can afford… We are immeasurably richer than our predecessors. Is it not evident that some sophistry, some fallacy, governs our collective action if we are forced to be so much meaner than they in the embellishments of life? …
August 15, 2024 at 11:37 AM
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debcha.bsky.social
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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chowleen.bsky.social
Perhaps/
a woman I do not know/
is facing the day with the heavy heart/
that, by all rights, should have been mine.

-Lisel Mueller (1924-2020), "In November"
one of my favorite poems by Mueller, who, as a young teen, left Germany for the US in 1939.
#everynightapoem
IN NOVEMBER Outside the house the wind is howling and the trees are creaking horribly. This is an old story with its old beginning, as I lay me down to sleep. But when I wake up, sunlight has taken over the room. You have already made the coffee and the radio brings us music from a confident age. In the paper bad news is set in distant places. Whatever was bound to happen in my story did not happen. But I know there are rules that cannot be broken. Perhaps a name was changed. A small mistake. Perhaps a woman I do not know is facing the day with the heavy heart that, by all rights, should have been mine.
November 27, 2024 at 5:12 AM
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reynaerdejames.bsky.social
incredible subtitle
MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY Some Events Pathetic But Absolutely True By Ellen Gray Born 1861
November 23, 2024 at 8:03 AM
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lottelydia.bsky.social
“There is no alternative to persevering, and that does not require you to feel good.” All of this thread by Rebecca Solnit, but especially this.
November 6, 2024 at 8:28 PM