richardlittler.bsky.social
Creator of @scarfolk.bsky.social. "This guy, who apparently saw the future" - Edward Snowden. Running an ASD/ADHD operating system.
https://www.richardlittler.com
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God Only Knows, All Summer Long, Don't Worry Baby, and In My Room are surfing around in my head.
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Winding up one company to start another, and in doing so wiping out liabilities to creditors, seems to be a business model nowadays for unscrupulous people. Similar thing happened to me. Lost 1000s.
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'Ars Longa'
art is long
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Well, the charity shops are absolutely overflowing with unwanted, discarded jubilation.
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iii. 'The little ghostly monk(s)'
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ii. 'The decapitated opera singer'
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While I have my files open...
Tyre, yes. But also tire.
For example, both Ben Jonson & Shakespeare (who actually lodged with a tire-/tyre-maker) used the 'tire' spelling variant. In fact, Shakespeare used both variations interchangeably, and, in the case of Merry Wives, even in the same line!
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Women's headwear.
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Ooh, there's a Marlowe here. New in: Epigrammes and Elegies, written with John Davies. Another potential ban, apparently.
Shame they don't take book tokens.
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Finally got down to St Paul's Churchyard (where all the bookshops/stalls are). Great names: The Gilded Acorn, Brazen Serpent, Seven Stars. It's rumoured a few books will be banned soon, most likely Nashe, Harvey, Marston, Middleton at al. Anyone want me to pick anything up? Books are around 6-8d.
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I only know one Norton personally. He's related to the Puritan lawyer Thomas Norton, who died a few years ago after Walsingham messed him up.
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Please do try to understand statements in context, especially when the context has been manifestly provided in the link. I would expect more from somebody with your professed education.
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False equivalence, whoever you are. The post is about AI and the creative sector. I fail to see how ripping off the work of artists/novelists etc has any bearing on cancer treatments. Either way, I sincerely hope AI's use in oncology is more effective than it is in dentistry bsky.app/profile/rich...
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"Nick Clegg says asking homeowners for permission to break into their homes would ‘kill’ the burgling industry"
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I didn't see it!
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I don't have a contemporary document, but there must be some on, e.g., the anti-immigration riot of 1517 'Evil May Day'. I most recently read about anti-immigration protests in, if memory serves, either James Shapiro's book '1606: The Year of Lear' or Charles Nicholl's book 'The Lodger Shakespeare'
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...authorities fear a thinking populace that could unmask the lies they employ to maintain power. Right now the US, with its big business & evangelical alliance, seems right out of the pages of the history books.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
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Cambridge student & playwright Christopher Marlowe wrote 'I count religion but a childish toy / And hold there is no sin but ignorance.' If a ruler or state is attacking its institutes of higher learning on the grounds of widespread subversive indoctrination, it's typically a sign that the...
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...Ovid, that questioned the existence of deities. Rhetoric, poetry, philosophy, the arts, etc, led many to a socially- (& sexually)-liberal 'unbelief' system that held 'hell is a fable' and that 'rulers invented divine retribution to keep men in awe of authority.' Not so good for rulers, right?
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2. 'Universities (& the media) are hotbeds of liberal, seditious thought!' Oxford & Cambridge colleges were accused of 'making a mockery of God' by producing "swarms of atheists"/"scorpions and locusts". Why? Because students were taught to think for themselves through classical sources, such as...
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Modern-day anti-immigration/refugee protesters always harp on about 'preserving real Englishness' (whatever that is). Well, how about some Shakespeare? He wrote a speech attacking protestors of immigrants/asylum seekers, accusing them of "mountainish inhumanity.”
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...true English people & "eat[ing] the bread from poor fatherless children”. Another stock claim: 'There's no more room!' The population of London was around 100k-200k of which only 2% were foreign born. The *total* population of England was 2.5-4 million (less than half London's population now).
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1. London anti-immigrant riots. At the instigation of figures in religion and business (surprise, surprise), foreigners, especially those of differing faiths, were accused of inherent criminality; of being a sexual threat to women; of not integrating, but, when they did, taking the jobs of...