The Union is the last desperate grip of an empire refusing to let go

A memory of an empire surely?

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25292124.union-last-desperate-grip-empire-refusing-let-go/

#DuK #ScottishIndependence #TheNational #Enpire #Ozymandias #Shelley

Today's very appropriate 'A Word A Day'

Ozymandias

PRONUNCIATION:
(oz-uh-MAN-dee-uhs)

MEANING (noun)
1. A megalomaniac tyrant, especially one whose arrogance is undone by time.
2. A symbol of the impermanence of power and pride.

ETYMOLOGY:
After Ozymandias, the first part of the throne name of Ramesses II of Egypt (1279-1213 BCE). Earliest documented use: 1878.

#ozymandias #wordsmith #wordaday #trump #dictator
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I thought this image was #AI

no it's a real bust (and really busted)

of Elon #Musk

sitting out in the desert, forlorn, beaten up, looking cringe

some real #Ozymandias shit

"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

(ps: good article, he's vacating #WashingtonDC, but is busy building his own fiefdom called '#Starbase' in #Texas near #Brownsville: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/02/elon-musk-spacex-texas-starship-00317693 )

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/bust-of-elon-musk-texas-defaced-1234738889/

I'd heard much of this before and have thought for a while that at least some of these people are going to make a genuine bid for immortality.

https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/12/17/silicon-valleys-obsession-with-longevity

Anyway, in amongst the snake-oil nonsense, this sentence made me laugh out loud for its sheer ridiculousness, solipsism and lack of self-awareness.

#immortality #ozymandias #solipsism

OSeesCandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley

(it’s a stretch lol)

#FamousBrandASongOrPoem #SeesCandies #Ozymandias #PercyByssheShelley
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For 50 years I’ve been puzzled about what exactly was being mocked and fed 😹

‘… its sculptor well those passions read/ Which yet survive…/ The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed …’

Today years old when I realised that ‘stamped on these lifeless things’ is a subordinate clause interrupting the above continuous sentence.

#ozymandias #shelley