SpinozasHeresy @SpinozasHeresy@qoto.org
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Jiu-jitsu liberal. Couldn't drink well enough to be a writer or a lawyer. Became a stoned philosopher instead. Sometimes pay the bills.
Joined Nov 2022
I realized today that I’ve barely digested an ounce of the gallon of the cultural and biological trauma that was Covid. And it’s truly not over yet. I’m also realizing that I need to pay attention to things around me. The sun on my face. The pictures in the museum. The music and the food. I’m transfixed by the ants marching on the ground. Gesturing at one another and little concerned with global warming, the next election or the next act of performance terrorism.
“This embarrassment of riches reveals priorities grossly out of order — disabled travelers are forced to hand over their mobility equipment, risking that it may be returned damaged or unusable, while passengers sip cocktails not only from lay-flat business class seats, but from bar stools, restaurant-style booths, and sofas.”
I’m not going to vote for Biden because he can’t flame someone on Twitter and, with the miraculous power of social media, stop a rolling genocide happening in a Middle East conflict that has been raging for 75 years. I shall hold my breath until I get my way.
Late night thoughts.🤔“Washington himself rode at the head of an army to suppress the insurgency, with 13,000 militiamen provided by the governors of Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The rebels all went home before the arrival of the army, and there was no confrontation.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion#:~:text=The%20Whiskey%20Rebellion%20(also%20known,the%20newly%20formed%20federal%20government.
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I miss the days when critical race theory was all the rage. Such innocent times 🥰
E. Jean Carroll is my retribution.
I’ll chip in five bucks to get on this MF’n list.
I think this young man will be president one day.
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Results are out for the guaranteed basic income pilot in Austin where 135 people got $1,000/mo for a year.
9% of people reported working less and 7% reported working more. Of those who worked less, half upskilled for better future jobs, and half chose unpaid care work.
Housing security significantly increased, as did food security. People lived in better housing and ate more balanced meals.
People also felt significantly more connected to the people and places in their neighborhoods.
Like Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera was nominated (and rightly so) for best supporting actress. Any complaints there?
Honestly, I think Ryan Gosling is padding. Robert Downey, Junior, is probably going to get best supporting. But that’s my opinion.
Here are the nominees for best actress in a leading role. This is Margo Robbie’s competition. Not Ryan Gosling.
Annette Bening (Nyad)
Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon)
Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall)
Carey Mulligan (Maestro)
Emma Stone (Poor Things)
Sorry Margo, but there are some pretty solid performances here.
Best actor and best supporting actor are two separate categories. Margot Robbie was the lead and Ryan Gosling was in a supporting role. Stop with the apples to oranges comparisons. They cheapen the ACTUAL problems of inequality.
Evangelicals often claim they’re being persecuted but truth is, they’re just not very likeable.
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'What can be said at all can be said clearly; and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.' -Wittgenstein-
“Treasonous insurrectionists” “that chose treason to maintain slavery”
https://youtu.be/z8Gx8sgyHLw?si=TwMcSAG2yCWj1wfS
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"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
Douglas Adams
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These groups are relatively small, but because of their high profiles on social media and disproportionate representation in the media, people think the groups are larger then they are.
People who are not in this group of hyper-partisans know about politics and care about politics—but they do not spend hours watching cable news or scrolling through a politics feed.
What I've been calling the panic-outrage cycle is a symptom of these groups.
https://terikanefield.com/can-democracy-work-in-america-part-1-there-are-no-yankees-here/
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Watching this documentary on PBS and I am weirded out that I was completely unaware of this. I was born during this time period and thought I had a pretty good idea of what was happening in the late 60s. Blown away at this history I’ve been deprived of knowing for so long.
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Jiu-jitsu liberal. Couldn't drink well enough to be a writer or a lawyer. Became a stoned philosopher instead. Sometimes pay the bills.
Joined Nov 2022
