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Disability and wellbeing support, amateur philosopher and believer in our ability to make whatever world we wish. What world would you like to create?
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I'm now taking 9 days of long earned and hard won break. Frankly, I'm amazed I've kept things together as long as I have. It's been one fuck of a year. R&R time

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

People like Trump and Musk aren't goals, role models, or even really in any way that means anything, people. They're symptoms. They're the manifestations of the worst of us, as we've always allowed political malfeasance, murder and oppression to be. "It's not us, just the people we want to be."

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Whatever the fuck it is you believe, it just really isn't that simple. This goes triple for my fellow non-religious peeps

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I recall a short time when we started realising that investment in social & community structures was preventative & eased the pressure off crisis, criminal & emergency services; but then they weren't expected to create immediate profit to prove success & were hard to calculate, so we stopped trying.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

When do we start cutting the billions spent on welfare for the rich? Sorry - corporate subsidies.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Media balance should focus most on the points surrounding the centre-ground to give clarity to the real knotty issues and ideologies at the root of an argument. All promoting extremes achieves is sowing confusion and unnecessary division based mostly on ideology, and distracts from the core issues.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Certainty is the undermining of truth for the sake of insecurity.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

It'd be nice if there was as a "from my country" stream option. I imagine many not from the US are tired of constantly hearing about Tango Hitler and his gang of morons. The world is bigger and far more important than just America.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

We suffer from the curse of always trying to make everything simple and linear despite generally recognising it probably isn't. Why does our need for the pretence of certainty override our recognition of its ridiculousness to the point we'll hurt, attack or murder others to maintain it?

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

There aren't good times and bad times. You aren't a lightning rod for shit. There is everything - relatively both good and bad - all happening around you all the time. What do you want to focus on?

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The greatest and most damaging fallacy of humanity is the need we have for certainty.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Protected IP franchising just allows corporations to bypass both monopoly regulations and the personal liability and accountability of the owners. It's been demonstrably worse, economically and for workers' rights, than even the most straightforward forms of unlawful corruption.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

The issue of nuclear war isn't one of competing rightness or ideals, or even a true show of what divides us. It's a warning that at any moment some self-styled ruler born of the planet's least competent rich pricks might at any time have a bitch-fit and murder millions of innocents to prove a point

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

If there were two cultural axioms I had to apply to our current society, it'd be "We're failing to see the wood for the trees." and "A fool knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing."

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Freedom of speech doesn't change the reality that engagement provides validation. Let the fascist twats shout into the void. Platforming extremism makes it a valid option. Ignore the c*nts and get on with it. There are many (all of the) other far more successful parties to engage with.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Unless it's about the next milkshake having a brick in it, there's still no relevance to Farage or any of Returd UK I give a shit about. If they're still making a noise when it actually matters, then we'll just have to deal with them like any other virus.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments