Mastodawn

The rain and winds have knocked leaf litter and trash plugging storm drain grates. Cleared two nearly knee deep backups along with all my other adopted drains and a handful of others. #sfadoptadrain Only one jerk in a Tesla drove at speed through a puddle I was trying to clear. #unthinking #unkind #unsurprised @sfpuc Try to be decent to the volunteers and public workers trying to make things better for you.

WIST Quotations Oct 8

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Lecture (1971), “Thinking and Moral Considerations,” Social Research (1971 Fall)

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WIST Quotations Oct 2

A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought, so that there is none to conceal.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 3, ch. 3 (1834)

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Sartor Resartus, Book 3, ch. 3 (1834) - Carlyle, Thomas | WIST Quotations

Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined it, the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought, so that there is none to conceal. Referring to Talleyrand. Quoting Herr Teufelsdröckh. This passage first appeared in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. 9, No. 54…

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Wen Sep 14

More in the penny proud, pound poor series

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/sep/14/prisons-in-england-and-wales-to-cut-spending-on-education-courses-by-up-to-50

I believe that Labour (whoever made the decision) were bold to appoint Timson as prisons minister (and he has put his money where his mouth is with promising result in private business). But Reaves will not allow anything that is more than window dressing to persist.

#ShotTerm #Unthinking #Labour #Prisons #Timson #Recidivism #Education