M. Simon
@totallygone.bsky.social
X refugee. Raised #E17, schooled #Glasgow, live #Nice06, #France. Lean left, #LGBTQ+++, speak franglais. Woke? Still haven’t slept. Pron: darling 🏳️🌈🇪🇺
Wishlist:-
”My Life is a Chorus of “Oh, Not ´im Again”.
”How Soon Is It Before He Shuts Up”?
“Girlfriend in a Coma Begging for Earplugs”
”The Queen is Dead and Wishes She Were Deader”
”My Life is a Chorus of “Oh, Not ´im Again”.
”How Soon Is It Before He Shuts Up”?
“Girlfriend in a Coma Begging for Earplugs”
”The Queen is Dead and Wishes She Were Deader”
November 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Wishlist:-
”My Life is a Chorus of “Oh, Not ´im Again”.
”How Soon Is It Before He Shuts Up”?
“Girlfriend in a Coma Begging for Earplugs”
”The Queen is Dead and Wishes She Were Deader”
”My Life is a Chorus of “Oh, Not ´im Again”.
”How Soon Is It Before He Shuts Up”?
“Girlfriend in a Coma Begging for Earplugs”
”The Queen is Dead and Wishes She Were Deader”
My question is, why do they insist on calling the party Labour when, with the best will in the world, it’s is entirely different from the party so many of us voted for?
In opposition, for example, to “Your Party" it could be rebranded “Our Party and You’re NFI”.
In opposition, for example, to “Your Party" it could be rebranded “Our Party and You’re NFI”.
November 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
My question is, why do they insist on calling the party Labour when, with the best will in the world, it’s is entirely different from the party so many of us voted for?
In opposition, for example, to “Your Party" it could be rebranded “Our Party and You’re NFI”.
In opposition, for example, to “Your Party" it could be rebranded “Our Party and You’re NFI”.
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This chart (which applies even more to social media than it did to TV) lives in my head rent free.
Social media enveloping traditional media means everything and everyone is now competing in the entertainment market. Boring stuff like policy that affects millions of lives doesn’t stand a chance.
Social media enveloping traditional media means everything and everyone is now competing in the entertainment market. Boring stuff like policy that affects millions of lives doesn’t stand a chance.
November 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This chart (which applies even more to social media than it did to TV) lives in my head rent free.
Social media enveloping traditional media means everything and everyone is now competing in the entertainment market. Boring stuff like policy that affects millions of lives doesn’t stand a chance.
Social media enveloping traditional media means everything and everyone is now competing in the entertainment market. Boring stuff like policy that affects millions of lives doesn’t stand a chance.
He’s doubtless forgotten. Things happen, n’est-ce pas?
November 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
He’s doubtless forgotten. Things happen, n’est-ce pas?
Reposted by M. Simon
Could you please clarify to your followers that what I actually said was: "In some respects this government under Keir Starmer looks more Tory than the Tories". I had just spelt out exactly which respects I meant: its anti-protest laws and the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
Thank you.
Thank you.
November 12, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Could you please clarify to your followers that what I actually said was: "In some respects this government under Keir Starmer looks more Tory than the Tories". I had just spelt out exactly which respects I meant: its anti-protest laws and the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Oh wow. It was a good year!
November 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Oh wow. It was a good year!
Outside Of A Small Circle Of Friends
YouTube video by Phil Ochs - Topic
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November 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
And a power masochist. Few men get as severely whipped, by someone that hot, without having to open their wallet.
October 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
And a power masochist. Few men get as severely whipped, by someone that hot, without having to open their wallet.
He’s a late bloomer though. Kinda like a triffid.
October 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
He’s a late bloomer though. Kinda like a triffid.
Cutting up other drivers and cyclists without warning, especially across cycle lanes, is so much more thrilling than pétanque, n’est-ce pas?
October 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Cutting up other drivers and cyclists without warning, especially across cycle lanes, is so much more thrilling than pétanque, n’est-ce pas?
Great to see your post, @aaronbalick.com - it got me thinking and reading, instead of doomscrolling!! merci!!
October 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Great to see your post, @aaronbalick.com - it got me thinking and reading, instead of doomscrolling!! merci!!
“If you are a poet, you will see clearly that this sheet of paper is full of clouds. Without the cloud, there will be no rain; without the rain, the trees cannot grow; and without the trees, we cannot make paper. So the cloud and the paper inter-are.”
October 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“If you are a poet, you will see clearly that this sheet of paper is full of clouds. Without the cloud, there will be no rain; without the rain, the trees cannot grow; and without the trees, we cannot make paper. So the cloud and the paper inter-are.”
Comparing and contrasting (🤓) Thích Nhát Hahn’s concept of “interbeing” (‘The Heart of Understanding’, 1960)
“Emptiness does not mean nothingness. Emptiness means interbeing. We cannot be by ourselves alone. We can only inter-be.”
“Emptiness does not mean nothingness. Emptiness means interbeing. We cannot be by ourselves alone. We can only inter-be.”
October 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Comparing and contrasting (🤓) Thích Nhát Hahn’s concept of “interbeing” (‘The Heart of Understanding’, 1960)
“Emptiness does not mean nothingness. Emptiness means interbeing. We cannot be by ourselves alone. We can only inter-be.”
“Emptiness does not mean nothingness. Emptiness means interbeing. We cannot be by ourselves alone. We can only inter-be.”
Cf. the sutra itself (trans. Conze)
“Form is not different from emptiness,
emptiness is not different from form.
The same is true of feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness.”
“Form is not different from emptiness,
emptiness is not different from form.
The same is true of feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness.”
October 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Cf. the sutra itself (trans. Conze)
“Form is not different from emptiness,
emptiness is not different from form.
The same is true of feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness.”
“Form is not different from emptiness,
emptiness is not different from form.
The same is true of feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness.”
That which is void is precisely form, and that which is form is precisely void."
October 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
That which is void is precisely form, and that which is form is precisely void."
We always know what we mean by contrasts. Because of the inseparability of these opposites they always go together, this as it were hints at some kind of unity that underlies them. Space and form in that sense go together as the fundamental things we're dealing with in this universe.
October 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
We always know what we mean by contrasts. Because of the inseparability of these opposites they always go together, this as it were hints at some kind of unity that underlies them. Space and form in that sense go together as the fundamental things we're dealing with in this universe.
But to suggest how very powerful and important this nothing at all is, let me point out to you that if you didn't have space you couldn't have anything solid. To begin with, if you didn't have space outside the solid you wouldn't know where the solids edges were.
October 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
But to suggest how very powerful and important this nothing at all is, let me point out to you that if you didn't have space you couldn't have anything solid. To begin with, if you didn't have space outside the solid you wouldn't know where the solids edges were.
"We tend to think of space as nothing. Space as such, that is to say whatever it is that lies between the earth and the moon and the earth and the sun, is considered to be just nothing at all.
October 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"We tend to think of space as nothing. Space as such, that is to say whatever it is that lies between the earth and the moon and the earth and the sun, is considered to be just nothing at all.
Here, in ‘The Nature of Consciousness’, he addresses the Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom that illuminates the form/emptiness relationship directly:-
October 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Here, in ‘The Nature of Consciousness’, he addresses the Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom that illuminates the form/emptiness relationship directly:-
I’m not sure *this* is the best; while it illustrates the concept of impermanence beautifully, equating emptiness and nothingness oversimplifies the concept of ‘sunyata’ to one that our language is, with a single word, unable to express.
October 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I’m not sure *this* is the best; while it illustrates the concept of impermanence beautifully, equating emptiness and nothingness oversimplifies the concept of ‘sunyata’ to one that our language is, with a single word, unable to express.