Hugh Barnard
@hughbarnard.bsky.social
Ecology, local democracy, FOSS, AI, ethics, radical financial reform/alternative currencies, music:http://tinyurl.com/4btpysvm, miscellaneous mischief.
Pic is Umi&me at the Grand Soleil in Gruissan
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Pic is Umi&me at the Grand Soleil in Gruissan
@[email protected] and https://hughbarnard.org
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The Romans had actual corn laws that distributed subsidised (and eventually) free corn as state welfare. Important parts of Roman history hinge on this and we still use the phrase "bread and circuses" which is a direct reference to this state welfare
November 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The Romans had actual corn laws that distributed subsidised (and eventually) free corn as state welfare. Important parts of Roman history hinge on this and we still use the phrase "bread and circuses" which is a direct reference to this state welfare
My (then) head of philosophy department at Birkbeck, related (after a logician had filled the blackboard with logicky stuff), someone piped up 'Please explain that in prose"...
November 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
My (then) head of philosophy department at Birkbeck, related (after a logician had filled the blackboard with logicky stuff), someone piped up 'Please explain that in prose"...