"It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you’re attempting can’t be done." – Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

#bookstodon

"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process."

https://organizingmythoughts.org/some-thoughts-on-techno-fascism-from-socialism-2025/

In Parliament Square today, there were numerous arrests of people holding placards in support of the proscribed organisation #PalestineAction. Amongst these people was 83-year-old Reverend Sue Parfitt

She is some sort of heroine, really.

Trump is pure, unadulterated, American

More apple-y and pie-y than apple pie

He is not a historical aberration. He is the culmination, the denouement, of 250 years of American culture. The soulless golem now made manifest, here to herald the end

"Give me your greedy, your unwary
Your sellers of snake oil yearning to break free
The crooked worst of your teeming shore
Send these, the heartless, the proud, to me
I, the Light Bearer, lift my lamp beside the firey door"