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If I knew where Shame was, I'd hang my head in it.
Very happy that Camille won an Oscar.
March 3, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Very happy that Camille won an Oscar.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
You didn't just fix it and it'll work forever.
Liberty is a machine. It needs maintenance, and repairs, and checking, and oil, and examining for potential breaks.
It's hard work, and it has to continue.
But we took our eyes off the ball.
More fool us.
You didn't just fix it and it'll work forever.
Liberty is a machine. It needs maintenance, and repairs, and checking, and oil, and examining for potential breaks.
It's hard work, and it has to continue.
But we took our eyes off the ball.
More fool us.
February 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
You didn't just fix it and it'll work forever.
Liberty is a machine. It needs maintenance, and repairs, and checking, and oil, and examining for potential breaks.
It's hard work, and it has to continue.
But we took our eyes off the ball.
More fool us.
You didn't just fix it and it'll work forever.
Liberty is a machine. It needs maintenance, and repairs, and checking, and oil, and examining for potential breaks.
It's hard work, and it has to continue.
But we took our eyes off the ball.
More fool us.
Reading is so important. It's like the ballast in my bilges. I've just been away for a night, but I didn't take my book, because it's a bulky library hardback.
And that was a terrible mistake.
Thankfully we've been reunited now.
And that was a terrible mistake.
Thankfully we've been reunited now.
February 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Reading is so important. It's like the ballast in my bilges. I've just been away for a night, but I didn't take my book, because it's a bulky library hardback.
And that was a terrible mistake.
Thankfully we've been reunited now.
And that was a terrible mistake.
Thankfully we've been reunited now.
There's are two kinds of people in the world.
Those who know they're confused
And everyone else.
The trouble is that the everyone else seen to be ruling the world right now.
Those who know they're confused
And everyone else.
The trouble is that the everyone else seen to be ruling the world right now.
February 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
There's are two kinds of people in the world.
Those who know they're confused
And everyone else.
The trouble is that the everyone else seen to be ruling the world right now.
Those who know they're confused
And everyone else.
The trouble is that the everyone else seen to be ruling the world right now.
Reposted
Who is this Helena Handcart anyway?
January 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Who is this Helena Handcart anyway?
Reposted
We’re in a new Gilded Age - which sounds great, but the Robber Barons are back.
And this time, they’re more selfish than ever, as Prof Tobias Jung, St Andrews University, writes:
theconversation.com/andrew-carne...
And this time, they’re more selfish than ever, as Prof Tobias Jung, St Andrews University, writes:
theconversation.com/andrew-carne...
Andrew Carnegie and the 19th-century ‘robber barons’ have lessons for today’s oligarchs about the responsibilities of wealth
The 19th-century industrialists were called ‘robber barons’ – but they did more to improve society than many of today’s super-rich.
theconversation.com
January 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM
We’re in a new Gilded Age - which sounds great, but the Robber Barons are back.
And this time, they’re more selfish than ever, as Prof Tobias Jung, St Andrews University, writes:
theconversation.com/andrew-carne...
And this time, they’re more selfish than ever, as Prof Tobias Jung, St Andrews University, writes:
theconversation.com/andrew-carne...
I fine it's best to consider everything is an illusion at first
The worst illusion is the illusion of the control.
The worst illusion is the illusion of the control.
January 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I fine it's best to consider everything is an illusion at first
The worst illusion is the illusion of the control.
The worst illusion is the illusion of the control.
Recent conversation.
'Oh! That Starmer! I hate him!'
'Why?'
'All those lies! He lies and lies!'
'What has he lied about?'
'Oh! You know...'
This isn't thinking, or reason. It's just gutfoolerie. And it leads directly to Brexit and Trump and the rise of fascism everywhere.
'Oh! That Starmer! I hate him!'
'Why?'
'All those lies! He lies and lies!'
'What has he lied about?'
'Oh! You know...'
This isn't thinking, or reason. It's just gutfoolerie. And it leads directly to Brexit and Trump and the rise of fascism everywhere.
January 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Recent conversation.
'Oh! That Starmer! I hate him!'
'Why?'
'All those lies! He lies and lies!'
'What has he lied about?'
'Oh! You know...'
This isn't thinking, or reason. It's just gutfoolerie. And it leads directly to Brexit and Trump and the rise of fascism everywhere.
'Oh! That Starmer! I hate him!'
'Why?'
'All those lies! He lies and lies!'
'What has he lied about?'
'Oh! You know...'
This isn't thinking, or reason. It's just gutfoolerie. And it leads directly to Brexit and Trump and the rise of fascism everywhere.
Right now all these billionaires are discovering that they can accelerate their acquisitive ambitions by allying themselves with each other. This will turn nasty, of course, and they'll turn on each other.
We'll all have to suffer the fallout.
Buckle up. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
We'll all have to suffer the fallout.
Buckle up. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
January 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Right now all these billionaires are discovering that they can accelerate their acquisitive ambitions by allying themselves with each other. This will turn nasty, of course, and they'll turn on each other.
We'll all have to suffer the fallout.
Buckle up. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
We'll all have to suffer the fallout.
Buckle up. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
Fruit scones at a garden centre today. Please help.
December 27, 2024 at 11:11 PM
Fruit scones at a garden centre today. Please help.
If we have to have a time, what's the point in having a miserable one?
November 23, 2024 at 10:11 AM
If we have to have a time, what's the point in having a miserable one?
Things happen.
Sometimes there's not a lot we can do about it.
But we sure as hell can decide what we feel about it,
And how we deal with it.
I choose happiness despite,
Rather than miserable because.
Sometimes there's not a lot we can do about it.
But we sure as hell can decide what we feel about it,
And how we deal with it.
I choose happiness despite,
Rather than miserable because.
November 23, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Things happen.
Sometimes there's not a lot we can do about it.
But we sure as hell can decide what we feel about it,
And how we deal with it.
I choose happiness despite,
Rather than miserable because.
Sometimes there's not a lot we can do about it.
But we sure as hell can decide what we feel about it,
And how we deal with it.
I choose happiness despite,
Rather than miserable because.
What's the word for the bits left when you strip a branch or trunk for firewood?
November 22, 2024 at 11:15 AM
What's the word for the bits left when you strip a branch or trunk for firewood?