Am overwhelmed by the number of Posts in my Timeline.
Looking be Following only ~120 accounts. If I Unfollow you this'll be why.
Bon voyage.
Civil responses to my posts sought.
Watching, wrestling, working, dreaming and sleeping in Australia.
Not always clear which is which. #CommercialisedAgedCare #WhatHappensAfterYouDie #TheColorOfDistance #ContactImprovisation #SeaKayaking #RePurposeMyEducation #HellScapeTheBioSphere #DawnOfEverything
| Interest 1 | The purposes of commercialised aged care. And the cultural pressures against humane alternatives. |
| Interest 2 | Abundance/scarcity tension and how that relates to purpose and meaning. |
| Interest 3 | Ritual, spectacle and consuming. |
| Interest 4 | Grounded science / junk science. No-holds-barred science and rational, collegial science as well. |
The constraint on protest isn't limited to the over-regulation of demonstrations & the prosecution of protesters; on release many protestors are subject to license conditions that were originally meant to be used (only) on extremists - its just one more example of over-reach in the attrition against the right to protest.
You may not think this is a major threat to democracy but this how the threat to democracy always precedes... in small steps!
All praises to LRRR - He alone saved Chicken Little from the Falling Sky.
Any similarity between His Utmost Highness, Our Solution To Overpopulation, and the lesser saurians who appear in Hansel and Gretel's world is purely coincidental.
.... a grunt that seemed to shake the ground, and Hansel's scream, both stopped on an instant.
Gretel swept up her hatchet and raced to the clearing.
She tickled Hansel's ribs with her boot toe to revive him while looking at ...
Today is J's birthday. A family group met her carers at Laughin Boy cafe in Emu Plains, right by the river & the Yandhai bridge crossing. It's always nice, but especially so this week.
I don't share family pix, but check out the glorious jacarandas! Must be peak flower day today. Sitting outside under a canvas umbrella, & the falling flowers sounded like rain. J was very happy - they could have renamed the cafe Laughin Girl in her honour today. đ A lovely birthday.
#Via Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline
Nov 7, 2025, 7:42 PM
"Trump on SNAP: 'Our country has to remain very liquid because of problems, catastrophes, wars⌠We have to remain liquid. We canât give everything away.'
REMINDER: Trump just gave $40 billion away to Argentina."
@skua @jwtownshend I'll quote the following from the page:
"Such practices may risk violating GDPR as there's also a case where scientific researchers based in Czech Republic and Slovakia were doxxed that way due to accusations that they had engaged in self-promoting edits on Wikipedia."
2/2
Spooky thing is I don't know what was done to scare the abusive leader away - or which group of members did it.
And I only learned of these (for me) life-changing power shifts in the last week.
(US 1960s children's TV metaphor)
So the cavalry arrived 4 years and 5 months after I sent pleas for aid.
And didn't tell me they were coming.
And I don't know why they came at all.
A study links hostility on Wikipedia to lost productivity on the site. Wikipedia, the largest reference work ever created, is written and edited by tens of thousands of volunteers, known as Wikipedians. Despite the fact that anyone can edit any page, studies show that Wikipedia is generally a reliable source of information.
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
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