As Marcus Aurelius wrote in Meditations, people have always lied, fought over money, scapegoated others, and blamed everyone but themselves.
If the world feels dark, be the light.
That’s how we fight back.
'Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others… but you are still distinct from it.
You may even criticize it in yourself and wish you could stop it.
But there may come a day when you can no longer.'
– C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
#Art by Agostino Arrivabene
Dale Nichols (U.S., 1904-1995). RFD #1 (1937, oil on canvas).
Country Singer, songwriter Charley Crockett well said......
"Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming."
~ Matthew Arnold
The Isle of Wight (1866)
🎨 John Brett
Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
I know we’ve gotten used to it, but this type of behavior is disgusting and people should speak up about it
For those interested in the mind-bending laws of physics, here's Richard Feynman to take you on a very clear, very understandable journey from Newton's grasp of gravitation to the concept of space-time and the reason for the speed of light.
#Feynman #Physics
Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him.
“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
"The Guns of Brixton by The Clash is a reggae-infused protest song about urban paranoia, police brutality, and defiant resistance in South London."
South London in the late 1970s, South Minneapolis in the mid 2020s.
#RIPAlexPretti
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A powerful paragraph: Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social
So far, I am only seeing TPM, Mediaite, and Daily Beast focusing on this.
We live in a world where the president calling an ethnic group "very low IQ" and "bad for our country" while insisting they "ought to get the hell out of here" barely makes headlines. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
"To allow Russia to keep any territory where those crimes were committed would not be a compromise. It would be a betrayal."
@markhertling.bsky.social on the disgraceful "peace plan" Trump is pushing Ukraine to take — only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/ukraine-ru...
I feel pretty safe in saying that Denton's Brave Combo is the only band to ever have been on The Simpsons and also to play a polka version of Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze.
youtu.be/wSDifGxwSBo?...
Wow, thanks for sharing
Bloody Hell
Robert Redford on the phone, plus Dustin Hoffman. From All the President’s Men
When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.
The Big Lebowski
G. Love, Cold Beverage
Thanks to Colin for reposting this. I often made students read it when I was teaching writing classes.
A list of 39 things to do in London includes two museums that have been closed for several years.
www.squaremeal.co.uk/restaurants/...
Top research there.
