Alan Colquhoun
@alancolquhoun.bsky.social
Pianist, philosopher, author, ethicist, metaphysician, moralist, aesthete...🇺🇦
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Alan Colquhoun
@alancolquhoun.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Plain enough to cut through the bullshit, but sharp enough to keep it clean...
I suppose wheelchair users should just trail through the muddy friction, or risk the road?
November 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I suppose wheelchair users should just trail through the muddy friction, or risk the road?
It's not even December yet!!
(Obviously his magic reindeer are in the garage)
(Obviously his magic reindeer are in the garage)
November 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It's not even December yet!!
(Obviously his magic reindeer are in the garage)
(Obviously his magic reindeer are in the garage)
Reposted by Alan Colquhoun
Tom Stoppard: a brilliant dramatist who always raised the temperature of the room
Tom Stoppard: a brilliant dramatist who always raised the temperature of the room
The self-described ‘bounced Czech’ created cerebral works centred by a core of genuine emotion – and always understood the ways of our world
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Tom Stoppard: a brilliant dramatist who always raised the temperature of the room
And:
Every time a journalist refers to Putin as “the President”, it performs a tiny ceremony of recognition — a micro legitimisation
And those accumulate
It's not just clumsy; it's ethically outrageous
It really matters
And yet:
It's perfectly commonplace
And apparently unregenerate
Every time a journalist refers to Putin as “the President”, it performs a tiny ceremony of recognition — a micro legitimisation
And those accumulate
It's not just clumsy; it's ethically outrageous
It really matters
And yet:
It's perfectly commonplace
And apparently unregenerate
I find it staggering - almost beyond belief - to find myself having to constantly remind people (including serious professional journalists) that Putin does not represent the interests of Russian citizens
(ditto Xi and Chinese citizens)
(ditto Xi and Chinese citizens)
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
And:
Every time a journalist refers to Putin as “the President”, it performs a tiny ceremony of recognition — a micro legitimisation
And those accumulate
It's not just clumsy; it's ethically outrageous
It really matters
And yet:
It's perfectly commonplace
And apparently unregenerate
Every time a journalist refers to Putin as “the President”, it performs a tiny ceremony of recognition — a micro legitimisation
And those accumulate
It's not just clumsy; it's ethically outrageous
It really matters
And yet:
It's perfectly commonplace
And apparently unregenerate
Reposted by Alan Colquhoun
I can't knit, but I can carve. I made these spoons as gifts for the adults in the family a few years ago. No two are alike, and each is in a different wood. In total, I carved 12 spoons; here are a few of them.
November 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I can't knit, but I can carve. I made these spoons as gifts for the adults in the family a few years ago. No two are alike, and each is in a different wood. In total, I carved 12 spoons; here are a few of them.
I find it staggering - almost beyond belief - to find myself having to constantly remind people (including serious professional journalists) that Putin does not represent the interests of Russian citizens
(ditto Xi and Chinese citizens)
(ditto Xi and Chinese citizens)
November 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I find it staggering - almost beyond belief - to find myself having to constantly remind people (including serious professional journalists) that Putin does not represent the interests of Russian citizens
(ditto Xi and Chinese citizens)
(ditto Xi and Chinese citizens)
You’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire.
More Americans are being put to death
www.economist.com/united-state...
More Americans are being put to death
www.economist.com/united-state...
More Americans are being put to death
How the Supreme Court ushered in a surge in executions
www.economist.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
You’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire.
More Americans are being put to death
www.economist.com/united-state...
More Americans are being put to death
www.economist.com/united-state...
Reposted by Alan Colquhoun
"Whitehead on the Ingression of Novel Form" | From @footnotes2plato.substack.com
Good stuff. How Whitehead's process philosophy can make sense of the Platonic morphogenesis and behaviour in biology being uncovered by the work of Michael Levin & co.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV3J...
Good stuff. How Whitehead's process philosophy can make sense of the Platonic morphogenesis and behaviour in biology being uncovered by the work of Michael Levin & co.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV3J...
Whitehead on the Ingression of Novel Form: Toward a New Formal Causality in the Life Sciences
YouTube video by Footnotes2Plato
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"Whitehead on the Ingression of Novel Form" | From @footnotes2plato.substack.com
Good stuff. How Whitehead's process philosophy can make sense of the Platonic morphogenesis and behaviour in biology being uncovered by the work of Michael Levin & co.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV3J...
Good stuff. How Whitehead's process philosophy can make sense of the Platonic morphogenesis and behaviour in biology being uncovered by the work of Michael Levin & co.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV3J...
www.reddit.com/r/oldbritish...
I just watched this for the first time in nearly 40 years
No matter how well one knows a text, and notwithstanding the fact he's reading from an autocue, one should not underestimate how difficult it is to perform a story as well as Rik Mayall does here...
I just watched this for the first time in nearly 40 years
No matter how well one knows a text, and notwithstanding the fact he's reading from an autocue, one should not underestimate how difficult it is to perform a story as well as Rik Mayall does here...
From the oldbritishtelly community on Reddit: Jackanory 1986. A young Rik Mayall hilariously brings Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine to life.
Explore this post and more from the oldbritishtelly community
www.reddit.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
www.reddit.com/r/oldbritish...
I just watched this for the first time in nearly 40 years
No matter how well one knows a text, and notwithstanding the fact he's reading from an autocue, one should not underestimate how difficult it is to perform a story as well as Rik Mayall does here...
I just watched this for the first time in nearly 40 years
No matter how well one knows a text, and notwithstanding the fact he's reading from an autocue, one should not underestimate how difficult it is to perform a story as well as Rik Mayall does here...
fortune.com/2025/11/20/e...
Turns out Musk sees himself as a sort of eschatological communist Messiah (either that or he's very bad at thinking, or both)
Turns out Musk sees himself as a sort of eschatological communist Messiah (either that or he's very bad at thinking, or both)
Elon Musk says that in 10 to 20 years, work will be optional and money will be irrelevant thanks to AI and robotics | Fortune
“It’ll be like playing sports or a video game or something like that,” the Tesla CEO said.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
fortune.com/2025/11/20/e...
Turns out Musk sees himself as a sort of eschatological communist Messiah (either that or he's very bad at thinking, or both)
Turns out Musk sees himself as a sort of eschatological communist Messiah (either that or he's very bad at thinking, or both)