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bencollins.bsky.social
This is true. It is the best email I got this year.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
meandmecousin.bsky.social
95 is an undercover General Sir Anthony Hogmenay Melchett, surely.

www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-int...
The 100 greatest men’s Ashes cricketers of all time: 100-41
Sport’s famous rivalry began in 1877 and since then 853 men have featured in Australia v England Tests. But who are the best of them? Our four-day countdown continues with Nos 100-41
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
meandmecousin.bsky.social
@brianwoolfinder.bsky.social Go get 'em Bri
November 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
meandmecousin.bsky.social
Excellent thread from Stephen Bush
stephenkb.bsky.social Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Oct 8
No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.
igmansfield.bsky.social Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · Oct 8
Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.
October 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
meandmecousin.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
meandmecousin.bsky.social
How have councils NOT got power to stop this…

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Slot machine firms target UK’s poorest areas and channel funds to billionaires
Exclusive: Politicians including Andy Burnham call for councils to be given powers to stop new sites opening
www.theguardian.com
May 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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miafarrow.bsky.social
Naomi Klein: ‘WHAT THEY WANT IS ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING’
Klein breaks down the dark logic of Trump and Musk’s path of destruction — and what the world’s richest people really want
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything'
The ‘Shock Doctrine’ author explains the dark logic of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s path of destruction and why billionaire oligarchs are so angry.
www.rollingstone.com
May 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
meandmecousin.bsky.social
‘Pizabella dominated the conclave’
May 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
meandmecousin.bsky.social
Impressive tankage here
ledbydonkeys.org Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · May 7
TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
meandmecousin.bsky.social
Aye
profgalloway.com Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · May 4
The perverting effect of money.
May 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
meandmecousin.bsky.social
This is the content I come here for
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · May 4
Met some friends in Central Park today. There was a group doing yoga nearby and a curly headed blond toddler watching them started mimicking their positions. We clapped and the kid made a beeline for me, and we high fived. I’m not sure which of us was happier.
May 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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uglygame.bsky.social
Bertrand Russell could really, really write.
That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar ​system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the débris of a universe in ruins—all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built.
April 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
meandmecousin.bsky.social
So glad Palantir is so heavily involved in the NHS. I am sure they will be really responsible with all the data
aricohn.com Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · Apr 17
"We know we're helping ICE track down people based on their protected expression. We just don't fucking care."

Even for corporate America, Palantir is a fucking skidmark.

www.404media.co/leaked-palan...
April 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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girlinthe.bsky.social
STOP what you are doing, find some headphones or a secluded location, and watch this. I am crying with laughter and admiration at an idea seen through to its (nearly) bitter end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD3Q... Sound--as they say--on.
Hlavní nadraží Praha - znělka 02 (Dlouhá verze)
YouTube video by Pavel Jirásek
www.youtube.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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carolinelucas.bsky.social
This is what’s happening with 1.3C of global heating above preindustrial levels. We’re on track for 3C by 2100. Failure to leave fossil fuels in the ground is a devastating crime against humanity & against all other life on this, our one fragile earth
Deadly floods and storms affected more than 400,000 people in Europe in 2024
European State of the Climate report ‘lays bare’ impact of fossil fuels on continent during its hottest 12 months on record
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
meandmecousin.bsky.social
Aye.
pickardje.bsky.social Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · Apr 12
now *this* is the anecdote of the day
While many Chinese businesses are reeling from the trade war, Qi, the Maga merchandise maker, brushed off any suggestion his might suffer. Trump supporters, he said, were willing to pay any price for items bearing the image of their beloved president - and US suppliers were making such a huge profit on them that they could afford to partially absorb the tariff impact. A Trump baseball cap, for instance, cost only Rmb7.50 ($1) to produce. Tariffs might raise that cost to Rmb2o, but the caps were being sold for $50 in the US. "American sellers could even use the tariffs as an excuse to raise the price to $60 - yet the extra cost will still be borne by the US consumers, " said Qi.
April 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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rexchapman.bsky.social
Just gonna leave this here…
April 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
meandmecousin.bsky.social
Word
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Mar 12
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
March 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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mattbors.bsky.social
From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this
OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
March 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
meandmecousin.bsky.social
Great thread this
iammilliam.bsky.social Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · Mar 8
Where I’m calling from.
March 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social
More true every day
Passage from Carl Sagan’s 1995 book, the demon haunted world. The passage states “ not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting, my lifelong love affair with science. but there’s another reason: Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a four boating of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time - when the United States is a service or information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those and authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good, and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media. The 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially, a kind of celebration of ignorance.
February 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
meandmecousin.bsky.social
I don't really know what's going on in rugby but Andrew Cotter gives great commentary
February 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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February 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
meandmecousin.bsky.social
Goodison Park quality @brianwoolfinder.bsky.social
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 16
audible boos for the US National Anthem in Montreal before the USA-Canada 4 Nations Face-Off hockey game
February 16, 2025 at 11:33 AM