@wqueens7.bsky.social
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“Hundreds of thousands of years into their history, humans are still trying to define happiness, forgetting that they were already happy when they appeared on this planet long ago”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
Is Happiness Possible In the Machine Age?
As the world of machines tries to turn our life into one big transaction, genuine forms of happiness give way to counterfeit versions: goods owned, GDP units earned, number of holidays remaining.
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
“Hundreds of thousands of years into their history, humans are still trying to define happiness, forgetting that they were already happy when they appeared on this planet long ago”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
Reposted
Sadly relevant today.
December 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Sadly relevant today.
Reposted
Trump and his crime family wants the oil.
December 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Trump and his crime family wants the oil.
I’m haunted by my revitalized soul
That has escaped the free-market’s crypt
Up it staggers from out of it’s bright hole
(From my skull it has my goodness sipped)
#SelfiePoem
That has escaped the free-market’s crypt
Up it staggers from out of it’s bright hole
(From my skull it has my goodness sipped)
#SelfiePoem
December 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I’m haunted by my revitalized soul
That has escaped the free-market’s crypt
Up it staggers from out of it’s bright hole
(From my skull it has my goodness sipped)
#SelfiePoem
That has escaped the free-market’s crypt
Up it staggers from out of it’s bright hole
(From my skull it has my goodness sipped)
#SelfiePoem
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“The climate crisis is being framed as an environment and technology issue, when it is a crisis of the human consciousness and psyche”
November 30, 2025 at 7:52 AM
“The climate crisis is being framed as an environment and technology issue, when it is a crisis of the human consciousness and psyche”
Reposted
Not the beginning
Definitely not the end
Cherish the middle
#2WordPrompt #Cherish #Middle #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Nature #Flowers #Iris #Bloom #Presence #Mindfulness #ImageAndVerse #Haiga
Definitely not the end
Cherish the middle
#2WordPrompt #Cherish #Middle #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Nature #Flowers #Iris #Bloom #Presence #Mindfulness #ImageAndVerse #Haiga
November 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Not the beginning
Definitely not the end
Cherish the middle
#2WordPrompt #Cherish #Middle #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Nature #Flowers #Iris #Bloom #Presence #Mindfulness #ImageAndVerse #Haiga
Definitely not the end
Cherish the middle
#2WordPrompt #Cherish #Middle #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #Photography #Nature #Flowers #Iris #Bloom #Presence #Mindfulness #ImageAndVerse #Haiga
“Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike
Could Be a[n Immoral] War Crime
[& That The Decent Can’t Do What They Like
(Good For The Venal Isn’t Sublime)]”
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
#ChristianNation
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
Could Be a[n Immoral] War Crime
[& That The Decent Can’t Do What They Like
(Good For The Venal Isn’t Sublime)]”
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
#ChristianNation
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
November 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
“Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike
Could Be a[n Immoral] War Crime
[& That The Decent Can’t Do What They Like
(Good For The Venal Isn’t Sublime)]”
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
#ChristianNation
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
Could Be a[n Immoral] War Crime
[& That The Decent Can’t Do What They Like
(Good For The Venal Isn’t Sublime)]”
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet?
#ChristianNation
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
I have ceased my donations of f•cks
I sit riding smugly judgmental
On my bicycle delivered by trucks
(Sanctimony is fundamental)
#HeadlinePoem
#GlobalWarming
#SanctimonyelfiePoem
www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth...
I sit riding smugly judgmental
On my bicycle delivered by trucks
(Sanctimony is fundamental)
#HeadlinePoem
#GlobalWarming
#SanctimonyelfiePoem
www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth...
This ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is melting faster than scientists thought. Now Earth’s biggest cities are at risk | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Warming ocean waters are causing the world's biggest glacier to melt at an alarming rate.
www.sciencefocus.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I have ceased my donations of f•cks
I sit riding smugly judgmental
On my bicycle delivered by trucks
(Sanctimony is fundamental)
#HeadlinePoem
#GlobalWarming
#SanctimonyelfiePoem
www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth...
I sit riding smugly judgmental
On my bicycle delivered by trucks
(Sanctimony is fundamental)
#HeadlinePoem
#GlobalWarming
#SanctimonyelfiePoem
www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth...
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“Humans may have invented consumerism, but Earth is the ultimate consumer. It can consume, recycle and reuse almost anything – including entire civilisations”
From my book IN THE GRIP OF NECROCAPITALISM
From my book IN THE GRIP OF NECROCAPITALISM
November 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
“Humans may have invented consumerism, but Earth is the ultimate consumer. It can consume, recycle and reuse almost anything – including entire civilisations”
From my book IN THE GRIP OF NECROCAPITALISM
From my book IN THE GRIP OF NECROCAPITALISM
November 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The works of human imagination
Indeed might be our only Deity
The bastard child Faith’s correlation
Is a result of ingenuity
#PhilosophyPoem
#SelfiePoem
"The very idea of God is a product of the human imagination."
- Paul Dirac
@physicsinhistory
Indeed might be our only Deity
The bastard child Faith’s correlation
Is a result of ingenuity
#PhilosophyPoem
#SelfiePoem
"The very idea of God is a product of the human imagination."
- Paul Dirac
@physicsinhistory
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The works of human imagination
Indeed might be our only Deity
The bastard child Faith’s correlation
Is a result of ingenuity
#PhilosophyPoem
#SelfiePoem
"The very idea of God is a product of the human imagination."
- Paul Dirac
@physicsinhistory
Indeed might be our only Deity
The bastard child Faith’s correlation
Is a result of ingenuity
#PhilosophyPoem
#SelfiePoem
"The very idea of God is a product of the human imagination."
- Paul Dirac
@physicsinhistory
Fire up the #WristSlapMachine because #DistrictAttorneys do not enforce #FailureToYield & @NYPD doesn’t respect the right to #bicycle safely in #NewYorkCity #pleasehelp
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/23/c...
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/23/c...
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Fire up the #WristSlapMachine because #DistrictAttorneys do not enforce #FailureToYield & @NYPD doesn’t respect the right to #bicycle safely in #NewYorkCity #pleasehelp
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/23/c...
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/23/c...
Bertrand Russel wrote that “Collective fear
Stimulates [people’s] herd instinct,
And tends to produce ferocity [there]
Toward those [outside our precinct
&] who are not regarded as members
Of the herd [hating them ought be defunct].”
#PhilosophyPoem
— Bertrand Russell
@philosophyquotes
Stimulates [people’s] herd instinct,
And tends to produce ferocity [there]
Toward those [outside our precinct
&] who are not regarded as members
Of the herd [hating them ought be defunct].”
#PhilosophyPoem
— Bertrand Russell
@philosophyquotes
November 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Bertrand Russel wrote that “Collective fear
Stimulates [people’s] herd instinct,
And tends to produce ferocity [there]
Toward those [outside our precinct
&] who are not regarded as members
Of the herd [hating them ought be defunct].”
#PhilosophyPoem
— Bertrand Russell
@philosophyquotes
Stimulates [people’s] herd instinct,
And tends to produce ferocity [there]
Toward those [outside our precinct
&] who are not regarded as members
Of the herd [hating them ought be defunct].”
#PhilosophyPoem
— Bertrand Russell
@philosophyquotes
Reposted
Human rights and nature are the perennial enemies of profit. Societies which fail to see this are on a path to lose all of their human rights, and all of their natural environments.
November 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Human rights and nature are the perennial enemies of profit. Societies which fail to see this are on a path to lose all of their human rights, and all of their natural environments.
I’m trapped here in this near perfect world
Constantly locating stupid problems
I look about sneering, with my lips curled
(Shortages of gratitude caused them)
#SelfieSonnet?
#SelfiePoem
#Comicpoem
Constantly locating stupid problems
I look about sneering, with my lips curled
(Shortages of gratitude caused them)
#SelfieSonnet?
#SelfiePoem
#Comicpoem
November 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I’m trapped here in this near perfect world
Constantly locating stupid problems
I look about sneering, with my lips curled
(Shortages of gratitude caused them)
#SelfieSonnet?
#SelfiePoem
#Comicpoem
Constantly locating stupid problems
I look about sneering, with my lips curled
(Shortages of gratitude caused them)
#SelfieSonnet?
#SelfiePoem
#Comicpoem
“[Reality won’t] cease to exist
Because they[‘re conveniently] ignored
[Nevertheless Humanity’ll persist
Even after they have planet earth gored]”
#PhilosophyPoem
#SelfiePoem
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
— Aldous Huxley
@philosophors
@2daysphotograph
Because they[‘re conveniently] ignored
[Nevertheless Humanity’ll persist
Even after they have planet earth gored]”
#PhilosophyPoem
#SelfiePoem
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
— Aldous Huxley
@philosophors
@2daysphotograph
November 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“[Reality won’t] cease to exist
Because they[‘re conveniently] ignored
[Nevertheless Humanity’ll persist
Even after they have planet earth gored]”
#PhilosophyPoem
#SelfiePoem
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
— Aldous Huxley
@philosophors
@2daysphotograph
Because they[‘re conveniently] ignored
[Nevertheless Humanity’ll persist
Even after they have planet earth gored]”
#PhilosophyPoem
#SelfiePoem
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
— Aldous Huxley
@philosophors
@2daysphotograph
Reposted
Reposted
British Trumpist
UK far-right politician jailed for 10 years and 6 months for taking Russian bribes
boingboing.net/2025/11/21/u...
UK far-right politician jailed for 10 years and 6 months for taking Russian bribes
boingboing.net/2025/11/21/u...
UK far-right politician jailed for 10 years and 6 months for taking Russian bribes
Judge Bobbie Cheema-Grubb described the case as a "sophisticated offending" and a "grave betrayal" of those who voted for him.
boingboing.net
November 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
British Trumpist
UK far-right politician jailed for 10 years and 6 months for taking Russian bribes
boingboing.net/2025/11/21/u...
UK far-right politician jailed for 10 years and 6 months for taking Russian bribes
boingboing.net/2025/11/21/u...
Reposted
“Supremacist rhetoric is as easily converted into currency as fresh lemonade on a hot summer day: racism and speciesism are instant moneymakers via slavery, colonialism, extinction and consumerism”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
Why Societies Are Inherently Racist: The Plague of Supremacy in 500 Words
Those who perpetrate conflict, genocide and ecocide have always relied on supremacist rhetoric: who is the strongest, smartest, whitest.
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“Supremacist rhetoric is as easily converted into currency as fresh lemonade on a hot summer day: racism and speciesism are instant moneymakers via slavery, colonialism, extinction and consumerism”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
The microscopic detail of cities
Involve a mixture of joy & pathos
Souls we celebrate & life pities
(Humanity is its own albatross)
#headlinepoem
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/22/h...
Involve a mixture of joy & pathos
Souls we celebrate & life pities
(Humanity is its own albatross)
#headlinepoem
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/22/h...
November 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The microscopic detail of cities
Involve a mixture of joy & pathos
Souls we celebrate & life pities
(Humanity is its own albatross)
#headlinepoem
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/22/h...
Involve a mixture of joy & pathos
Souls we celebrate & life pities
(Humanity is its own albatross)
#headlinepoem
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/22/h...
“[A] Nonprofit boss from New Jersey
[Is] accused of coercing [Free] sex
[From] women battling addiction [see:
Toxic Masculinity Life Wrecks]”
#HeadlinePoem
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/20/n...
[Is] accused of coercing [Free] sex
[From] women battling addiction [see:
Toxic Masculinity Life Wrecks]”
#HeadlinePoem
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/20/n...
November 21, 2025 at 2:30 AM
“[A] Nonprofit boss from New Jersey
[Is] accused of coercing [Free] sex
[From] women battling addiction [see:
Toxic Masculinity Life Wrecks]”
#HeadlinePoem
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/20/n...
[Is] accused of coercing [Free] sex
[From] women battling addiction [see:
Toxic Masculinity Life Wrecks]”
#HeadlinePoem
www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/20/n...
Once upon a time I was a stoner
Unaware ʇɐɥʇ I might be addicted
To chemicals & rituals: a loner
(But ʇɐɥʇ was what pushers predicted)
#SelfiePoem
#PedestrianRightOfWay
#PhilosophyPoem
share.google/Kb8MlQ1QgpVa...
Unaware ʇɐɥʇ I might be addicted
To chemicals & rituals: a loner
(But ʇɐɥʇ was what pushers predicted)
#SelfiePoem
#PedestrianRightOfWay
#PhilosophyPoem
share.google/Kb8MlQ1QgpVa...
share.google
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Once upon a time I was a stoner
Unaware ʇɐɥʇ I might be addicted
To chemicals & rituals: a loner
(But ʇɐɥʇ was what pushers predicted)
#SelfiePoem
#PedestrianRightOfWay
#PhilosophyPoem
share.google/Kb8MlQ1QgpVa...
Unaware ʇɐɥʇ I might be addicted
To chemicals & rituals: a loner
(But ʇɐɥʇ was what pushers predicted)
#SelfiePoem
#PedestrianRightOfWay
#PhilosophyPoem
share.google/Kb8MlQ1QgpVa...
Once upon a time I was a stoner
Unaware ʇɐɥʇ I might be addicted
To chemicals & rituals: a loner
(But ʇɐɥʇ was what pushers predicted)
#SelfiePoem
#PedestrianRightOfWay
#PhilosophyPoem
open.spotify.com/track/31AKWE...
Unaware ʇɐɥʇ I might be addicted
To chemicals & rituals: a loner
(But ʇɐɥʇ was what pushers predicted)
#SelfiePoem
#PedestrianRightOfWay
#PhilosophyPoem
open.spotify.com/track/31AKWE...
Drugs
open.spotify.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Once upon a time I was a stoner
Unaware ʇɐɥʇ I might be addicted
To chemicals & rituals: a loner
(But ʇɐɥʇ was what pushers predicted)
#SelfiePoem
#PedestrianRightOfWay
#PhilosophyPoem
open.spotify.com/track/31AKWE...
Unaware ʇɐɥʇ I might be addicted
To chemicals & rituals: a loner
(But ʇɐɥʇ was what pushers predicted)
#SelfiePoem
#PedestrianRightOfWay
#PhilosophyPoem
open.spotify.com/track/31AKWE...