Indeed it is! Life can be hard to enjoy so one has to grab the pleasures where one can!!
13.03.2026 11:11
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Indeed it is! Life can be hard to enjoy so one has to grab the pleasures where one can!!
This struck a real chord with me - and honestly, despite being a successful "middle-class" (maybe? I don't even know what that is) adult now, I've not grown out of the lessons learned in childhood. I don't think they're easy to escape.
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Fuck's sake. These fucking guys....
Taco is an increasingly unhelpful way of looking at the Trump administration open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
All good thanks. I've given up on writing, but am enjoying the rest of life, thankfully. Kids getting too big though because of the linear nature of time, which I still don't like. You keeping well yourself?
Remembering Terry – in our hearts and on our bookshelves. #TerryPratchett
Fascinating ruling this morning from the CJEU:
EU law requires countries to recognise an acquired gender of their own citizens, if that recognition is needed to give effect to their freedom of movement and their rights to work and live elsewhere within the EU.
What a beautiful cover - looks fantastic!! Congratulations
As "it goes without saying" definitionally goes without saying, I think it's important to say that "I think it's important to say that" and "it goes without saying" both go without saying.
Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
One thing that’s always been wild to me is there inability to recognize who the bad guy is. Jessup, Patrick Bateman, Jordan Belfort. These guys consistently idolize the obvious villain.
How I feel when someone blocks me:
True. It just hurts my brain and my heart to see and hear this bullshit in the name of someone who - whether one believes in him or not, and whatever one thinks of the Christian churches - was a pretty solid guy who preached that we should all look after one another and be nice.
I'm not being facetious here, but he genuinely sounds like he's in the middle of having a stroke.
Honestly, the one thing these motherfuckers shouldn't want is the return of Jesus, because it won't end well for them.
The guy who said "Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do to me" will NOT be happy with the greed, the rape, the murder of civilians and the persecution of refugees.
I read someone say once (might have been @volts.wtf?) "When only intentions matter, the only thing stopping you from doing whatever you want is your ability to convince yourself that you meant well".
(Which is why intent is not the only thing that matters)
Absolutely!
We're all flailing all the time, I think, but you're certainly flailing quite beautifully.
When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards
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So well deserved. Makes me happy to see you doing well.
It's a televisual version of the Captain Jack Sparrow quote: Worst TV show I've ever enjoyed; Ah yes, but you have enjoyed it...
That's amazing!! So happy for you!
I wish this didn't seem so relevant so often: "In mainstream discourse, it's become standard to blame the excesses of the right on liberals, the left, feminists.... It's a way that the right is granted masculine prerogatives and the left feminine responsibilities for the right's behavior."
The push towards AI replicating the Ministry of Truth's fiction department, where novels were created by machines (proles won't notice); and now War is Peace in the Middle East. Honestly, it's the Torment Nexus meme come to life, and I don't see where it ends. (2/2)
I've been reading 1984, and it's crazy how Trump's regime is following it like an instruction manual. Bombing boats in the Caribbean and asking people to cheer (so many people did!); reject the evidence of your eyes and ears (government agents murdering people ON VIDEO with no consequence); (1/2)
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Yep, it's like dipping a cat in paint and putting it in a white room. What results from it might "look" a little like abstract art, but it's just a mad cat.
Oh no. Given my limited - and solely harrowingly negative - experience of the industry, I can imagine how annoying it is, whatever it is.
Hopefully it'll pass, if passing is good. Or not, if otherwise.
