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Hard-core socialist, Christian, writer.
"Christianity and the Left" at jwhorton.com
"Christianity and the Left" at jwhorton.com
Pinned
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General strike folks. Sorry but it’s gotta happen.
October 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
General strike folks. Sorry but it’s gotta happen.
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Chicago PD: arrest these motherfuckers threatening civilians. Put them in jail. Let the courts sort it out
October 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Chicago PD: arrest these motherfuckers threatening civilians. Put them in jail. Let the courts sort it out
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Michigan Avenue right now.
October 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Michigan Avenue right now.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
#booksky
#writingcommunity
#authors
"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
#booksky
#writingcommunity
#authors
August 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
#booksky
#writingcommunity
#authors
"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
#booksky
#writingcommunity
#authors
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August 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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None of this will be a surprise to writers, but an interesting overview piece about writers and money (nb the way they explain earning out/royalties is a bit off but everything else seems sound). inews.co.uk/culture/book...
‘Richard Osman made £10m, but I got £250 last year’: How much money novelists really make
The big hitters of the literary world draw headlines for their book deals. But the reality of writing fiction for a living is an altogether less lucrative existence
inews.co.uk
August 2, 2025 at 8:06 AM
None of this will be a surprise to writers, but an interesting overview piece about writers and money (nb the way they explain earning out/royalties is a bit off but everything else seems sound). inews.co.uk/culture/book...
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It’s good to remember there are still people out there doing the right thing.
New York opens first-in-nation homeless shelter for transgender people
The shelter will offer services to 150 residents.
gothamist.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
It’s good to remember there are still people out there doing the right thing.
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Dare To Hope
It wasn’t that long ago when I sincerely wondered if we’d ever see Assange’s face again, let alone in public, let alone in Sydney, let alone heading up what had to be one of the largest pro-Palestine rallies ever held in Australia.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/dare-to-hope
It wasn’t that long ago when I sincerely wondered if we’d ever see Assange’s face again, let alone in public, let alone in Sydney, let alone heading up what had to be one of the largest pro-Palestine rallies ever held in Australia.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/dare-to-hope
Dare To Hope
Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
www.caitlinjohnst.one
August 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Dare To Hope
It wasn’t that long ago when I sincerely wondered if we’d ever see Assange’s face again, let alone in public, let alone in Sydney, let alone heading up what had to be one of the largest pro-Palestine rallies ever held in Australia.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/dare-to-hope
It wasn’t that long ago when I sincerely wondered if we’d ever see Assange’s face again, let alone in public, let alone in Sydney, let alone heading up what had to be one of the largest pro-Palestine rallies ever held in Australia.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/dare-to-hope
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This is what good govt looks like
August 2, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This is what good govt looks like
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“Why speak of the use
of poetry? Poetry
is what uses us.”
Poems: poets.org/poet/hayden-...
✒️ #HaydenCarruth, American poet, was #BOTD 3 August 1921. #Poetry #Literature
of poetry? Poetry
is what uses us.”
Poems: poets.org/poet/hayden-...
✒️ #HaydenCarruth, American poet, was #BOTD 3 August 1921. #Poetry #Literature
August 3, 2025 at 2:08 AM
“Why speak of the use
of poetry? Poetry
is what uses us.”
Poems: poets.org/poet/hayden-...
✒️ #HaydenCarruth, American poet, was #BOTD 3 August 1921. #Poetry #Literature
of poetry? Poetry
is what uses us.”
Poems: poets.org/poet/hayden-...
✒️ #HaydenCarruth, American poet, was #BOTD 3 August 1921. #Poetry #Literature
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Herman Melville (1819-91) He filled 𝑴𝒐𝒃𝒚 𝑫𝒊𝒄𝒌 with symbolism, philosophy and Shakespearean rhetoric. The public didn't get it and it only sold about 3,000 copies while Melville was alive. When he died the New York Times referred to him as 'Henry Melville'.
#booksky
#writingcommunity
#authors
#booksky
#writingcommunity
#authors
August 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Herman Melville (1819-91) He filled 𝑴𝒐𝒃𝒚 𝑫𝒊𝒄𝒌 with symbolism, philosophy and Shakespearean rhetoric. The public didn't get it and it only sold about 3,000 copies while Melville was alive. When he died the New York Times referred to him as 'Henry Melville'.
#booksky
#writingcommunity
#authors
#booksky
#writingcommunity
#authors
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Orange Monday. Acrylic on canvas. 🍊
August 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Orange Monday. Acrylic on canvas. 🍊
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Seems to me if we had the greatest political system in the world, it wouldn’t equip a maniacal bully with the ability to demolish everything in the world on a whim, to protect his ego from knowledge of his own profound ignorance.
August 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Seems to me if we had the greatest political system in the world, it wouldn’t equip a maniacal bully with the ability to demolish everything in the world on a whim, to protect his ego from knowledge of his own profound ignorance.
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