breakfast tv—
during this morning’s expedition to eat oatmeal and make a cuppa
— featured #Trump saying something or other — a news snippet presented non-judgementally as if it is perfectly reasonable to have a grasping, racist, rapey phuk sharing his half-baked opinions for our consideration 🙄 it might be “normal”, but how about a little bit of bias and a hint that maybe this is not the best normal we can hope for?

long ago i saw a movie in a cinema called To Sir With Love; i was very young, but came away inspired;
okay, the world was phukt then too, but in different ways. white people/ brits were perhaps more informed than in times past, — a long way to go, but at least pointing themselves in the right direction —
a little more informed, not just by free education but by two major wars in rapid succession, and the collapse of empire. it was as if the BS their world was constructed from was finally starting to crumble

the biggest difference between now and then was, perhaps, hope.

i absolutely do believe it’s easier for despots and despicables to manipulate vulnerable and desperate, subdued populations, but in the postwar brit era, (in australia as well as the uk) things were dire: housing was like hen’s teeth and a lot of it unfit for human habitation. rationing continued for yonks after world war II. people were not awash with “plenty”, but they had hope, a sense of possibility, and a picture of the world they wanted to live in. a clear picture of a world it was within their power to create.

the majority of politicians in the west today are a massive, massive disappointment. maybe they are the ones who are not vulnerable enough.

the world has always had its share of rabid fucknuckles; PHON exists precisely because western culture feeds on smashing the self-esteem of its offspring. PHON is the dodgy gemstone you get when shit is artificially compressed under extreme pressure. at least PHON, for all that it is ugly and repugnant, sort of makes sense.

but how can i make sense of our current government? what is it, even? how or why would anyone spend their whole life working for an opportunity to comfortably stand for nothing?

okay, thanks for listening — i know now what’s bugging me.
it’s blancmange

#RamblingThoughts #Auspol

Babbling brain…

https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/babbling-brain/

home again, home again, jiggity jig.

Been gone for two months, one month overseas. Feels weird to re-enter the miasma of American culture.

Also while gone we lost a large tree to the rains. I literally came home to a whole new viewpoint in my daily life.

#RamblingThoughts #RandomThoughts #Travel #Culture

How do you share emotional vulnerability, without trauma dumping?

How do you discuss emotionally difficult situations without oversharing?

I desire to be emotionally open, but struggle with straddling the lines so I often opt for a more emotionally sterile approach. Emotional expression is deeply important to me, but how do I do that here and on other platforms?
#RamblingThoughts #Introspection #Neurodivergence #Communication

A dying Love - is still Love -
Once an antelope, now a Dove -
And is denser than -
A white dwarf -

On and on will live the Black Hole -
This I know!

#Ramblingthoughts