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Just another day
August 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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They Thought They Were Free, 1955
"And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can't prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don't know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have. "But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Informal groups become smaller; attendance drops off in little organizations, and the organizations themselves wither. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to-to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then you are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait. "But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked - if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in '43 had come immediately after the 'German Firm' stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in '33. But of course this isn't the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D. "And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying 'Jewish swine,' collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in- your nation, your people- is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.
March 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Storage tanks in Bayonne, NJ
Storage tanks in Bayonne, NJ
January 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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A study of more than 30,000 British adults diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, found that, on average, they were dying earlier than their counterparts in the general population — around seven years earlier for men, and around nine for women.
People With A.D.H.D. Are Likely to Die Significantly Earlier Than Their Peers, Study Finds
A large study found that men lost seven years of life expectancy and women lost nine years, compared with counterparts without the disorder.
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Philly from above this morning.
A photo of Philly from above this morning.
December 1, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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Election night was such a bust I never got around to posting my favorite one of these. The look on this guy’s face…
Martin the dog with a flag man
November 15, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore

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November 11, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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Martin the dog with a white flag in Canada.
November 6, 2024 at 4:04 AM
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Martin the dog in low light.
November 6, 2024 at 3:28 AM
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I’ve given up watching returns because if anything good happens it ain’t gonna happen tonight!
Martin the dog with a friend
November 6, 2024 at 2:55 AM
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Martin the dog on a tall post
November 6, 2024 at 2:22 AM
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Martin the dog at the Ear Inn
November 6, 2024 at 2:00 AM
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Martin the dog in downtown Manhattan
November 6, 2024 at 1:39 AM
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Martin the dog in Long Island City
November 6, 2024 at 1:22 AM
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Maintaining eye contact and slowly walking backwards around to the far side of the fountain so she would stay in place.
Martin the dog at Washington Square fountain
November 6, 2024 at 1:17 AM
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Martin the dog herding fake sheep on a little island in Maine.
Martin the dog herding fake sheep on a little island in Maine.
November 6, 2024 at 1:05 AM
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Martin the dog perched on a plinth in Chelsea
November 6, 2024 at 1:01 AM
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Martin the dog perched on an old timey cannon
November 6, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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Doing my bit for Bluesky people tonight by posting some pics of the late great Martin the dog.
Martin the dog perched on an elephant statue
November 6, 2024 at 12:52 AM
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another death connected to a police chase:
October 24, 2024 at 2:26 AM