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Retired forester, active motorcyclist, dog-lover, international football fan and sci-fi reader
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perfect symbolism - back off, Baldy! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

substack.com/@borowitzrep...

Zelenskyy for President 2028!

www.borowitzreport.com/p/putin-agre...

"...and the thing that you're hearing is only the sound of the low spark of high-heeled boys"

...2) the 2024 election of a convicted felon to the Presidency, and 3) the Supreme Court grant of immunity to the President for "official acts". Folks, we are in serious trouble 😱

So in America we have had 1) the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol, the seat of American democracy...

...the arson attack on the Reichstag on Feb 27, which saw the very symbol of parliamentarian democracy consumed in flame; the Mar 5 elections from which the Nazis emerged with a mandate for Hitler’s reforms; and the passing of an “enabling law,” on Mar 23, that established Hitler as...dictator."

from Timothy Ryback's article in the Atlantic - The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler: The following three weeks delivered a series of blows to the Weimar Republic that resulted in its demise:

now the rovin' gambler he was very bored tryin' to create a third world war he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor he said "I never engaged in this kind of thing before but yes, I think it can be very easily done we'll just put some bleachers out in the sun and have it out on Highway 61"

do not worry for my state of mind - I just think this is cool. people who want to leave should have humane ways to do so kottke.org/12/02/the-ro...

because it's AI

Good one.

In the future it is possible that a new kind of literature...may arise, but no such thing is at present imaginable. It seems much likelier that if the liberal culture that we have lived in since the Renaissance actually comes to an end, the literary art will perish with it. - G Orwell 1947

Prose literature as we know it is the product of rationalism, of the Protestant centuries, of the autonomous individual. And the destruction of intellectual liberty cripples the journalist, the sociological writer, the historian, the novelist, the critic, and the poet, in that order. - Orwell

let's take the long perspective....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvnDfBaQP6Q

This is truly the best legal advice we can give.

The bad do not win—not finally, No matter how loud they are. We simply would not be here If that were so. - Alberto Rios

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my dogs - Larry and Lulah

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