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"I do not think therefore I am a moustache"

Sartre, La Nausée, 1938


Interests:

art, art history, culture, film/photography, history, music, science, sociology, comparative religion, technology, current affairs.

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So little time, so many books to read.

Surely, it was the Russian US mafia which was more useful to Trump.
November 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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God has a lot to say for himself. Clearly not a theology student.
November 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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😼 Miller, Noem, Hegseth and probably others, are housed on military bases.
November 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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' Helen MacNamara Deputy Cabinet Secretary tells Cummings’ team, “I have come through here to the Prime Minister’s office to tell you all that I think we are absolutely fucked. I think this country is heading for a disaster. I think we are going to kill thousands of people.” '
November 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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😼 Well, that settles it. If the Russian invade Western Europe and reach as far as Belgium, NATO will refuse to defend it.
November 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Many a reader will be puzzled why a military officer ordered to order the carrying out these attacks simply asks why and or refuses to do 'em.

Mind you that applies to people working in armaments factories and lots of other places there the produce kills people.
November 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Well, yes, that was in the day when it had adverts on the front.

Now, Millie Dowler The News of the World Trump supporting Murdoch owns it.

Be interesting to check Times headlines pre- and post 1981
November 29, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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It's the ennui of sitting at the Café Flore drinking coffee, smoking Gaulloise, listening to Sartre going on about Being and Time.
November 29, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Remember well Griff Rhys-Jones story:

andywightman.scot/2014/11/grif...

Right down the scale people have been making themselves better off by house values rising without any effort on the part of the owner.
Griff Rhys Jones to flee the country - Land Matters
The comedian and TV presenter Griff Rhys Jones is reported today to be ready to quit the UK in protest at plans by the Labour Party to introduce a mansion tax if it wins the 2015 General Election. As ...
andywightman.scot
November 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Interactive info graphic?
November 28, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Well, I seemed to have overdone it today, trying to juggle lots of balls and not getting anywhere.

Social media fries you brain.

map.workingclasshistory.com#map=5.01/52....
WCH Map
map.workingclasshistory.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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😼 Warsaw Uprising not Warsaw Ghetto! Now I'm getting really muddled. Need to do bit of reading about that.
P.S. the infographic is incredible.
November 28, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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😼 Right. Oh, dear missed that.

Was interested in mention of Ukraine 1919. Recently read Bulgakov's, The White Guard (1925), so that pointed my focus a bit! Imagining her mixed up in that extreme chaos.

The story of how she ended up in the Warsaw Ghetto is intriguing.
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM