Apologies for reduced interaction lately - due to ill health.
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In life, possessions are not what is important. Friendships and family are. Shared experiences are. Helping others achieve their potential. Making the world a better place for everyone. Stop voting for Politicians who only care about 'stuff' like gold wallpaper.
(Who I am isn't important - I'm not here to promote myself)
Life is an education, and I hope to learn from many of the wonderful people here.
just my luck... it's bloody cloudy
A cool thing about unemployment is:
The state says “You must post your résumé here or risk losing benefits.”
That public résumé becomes an unregulated fishing ground for every scammer and shady recruiter imaginable.
I have just read the following from a friend in Wales. Sue, a veteran of Greenham Common, is in her late 70s & in poor health; & yet has been subject to arrest & imposition of unreasonable bail conditions, while her partner was subject to a raid on their home by police at 3am.
Her crime? To protest peacefully in defence of the right to protest.
The United Kingdom & its constituent parts have become, under a Labour government, a police state.
Youth Front For Palestine and other activists gathered outside the offices of Allianz in Lancaster, Birmingham and Guildford today, in protest at their ongoing profiteering from the genocide in Gaza.
Freedom Flotilla Coalition:
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At 70 years old, Vigdis Bjorvand from Norway is sailing to Gaza aboard 'Handala' to help break Israel's illegal siege - a journey she's been waiting for for years. A Palestine activist since 1978, Vigdis says she never wants her grandchild to say, “Grandma, you didn’t do anything.”
She first joined 'Handala' in 2023, which did not manage to sail to Gaza, and tried again with 'Conscience' earlier this year. Now, she’s back on board, determined to deliver aid, medicine and solidarity to Palestinians in Gaza.
As governments remain silent, Vigdis stands with the Palestinian people. Keep Vigdis safe. Keep 'Handala' safe. And help end Israel's illegal siege and genocide of Gaza.
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On the awfulness that this way comes.
Later.
After the votes are counted.
@paninid The image is a political poster with a blue background and white and orange text. The title at the top reads "THE BIG BEAUTIFUL DELAY" in large white letters, followed by a subtitle "Why You're Not Feeling the Bill – Yet" in smaller white text. Below the title, there is a checkmark icon with the text "H.R.1 (The 'Big Beautiful Bill') was designed to delay the damage until after the 2026 midterms." The poster lists several cuts coming after the election, including Medicaid work rules in December 2026, food aid restrictions in late 2026, clean energy credits ending mid to late 2026, student loan changes gradually by 2026, affordable housing cuts phased in post-2025, and rural hospital funding declines starting in 2026. The reasons for the delay are listed as politicians wanting your vote before you feel the impact, the harshest parts being hidden until after ballots are cast, and it being harder to stop by then. The poster concludes with a call to action: "STAY ALERT. SPREAD THE WORD, KNOW WHAT'S COMING. Watch what's delayed — not just what's announced."
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For most of the time that humans have existed, we governed ourselves by consensus.
For details, see:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269264-the-dawn-of-everything
We built entire cities without the "benefit" of government. Sumer was thriving millennia before "kingship descended from heaven", even in the Ubaid and Uruk periods. We built out the Indus Valley with advanced urban planing and no evidence of kingship until the cities had already stood for longer than human memory at the time. We built stone circles that followed astronomy thousands of years before the pyramids. We aligned Karahan Tepe with the solstice. We sailed the open ocean before we even had vertical foreheads. Thus was human science science, even then.
And yet no grave goods, art, or any assemblage whatsoever, give any indication of inequality for millennia. Neither does lab analysis of diet as evidenced in teeth and bones. Neither does evidence of funerary practices as illustrated conclusively in *Rites of the Gods*, by Aubrey Burl.
We built and lived in complex cities before evidence of hierarchy, patriarchy, and especially kingship appear. States had yet to have been even thought of. The archeological evidence is irrefutable. Graeber and Wengrow document this meticulously.
#republicanism was born even more recently than #democracy
They are just ideas.
Imperfect people bring them to life.
"Imperfect people" is far too kind a euphemism.
The rich all suck. Workers are a mixed bag.
A BBB.SLUTS website with cunters..
Sorry counters.
GIFs of cackling billionaires, Elon with the chainsaw, Amazon Baldie at the Venice wedding.
As someone posted in the timeline earlier (Clinton)?
"The billionaires don't need the tax cut money, they are cutting because they hate you peasants"
Also means it can be reversed if we reverse congress. Shout it loud and wide.
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