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d crawling on all fours to the toilet if need be and otherwise being looked after in splendid luxury alfie the dog slept by my side all night i spend my hours dozing off the propofol vaguely thinking of micheal jackson watching training videos on walking with crutches i am looking at six weeks of cast and no weight bearing and marveling at new zealand s accident compensation scheme which states in the official paperwork it doesn t matter who you are where you re from or what you were doing when you were injured you are covered the grandchild is slightly overwhelmed but looking forward to painting on the cast and promised to read me stories the rest of the family is serving snacks and excellent coffee sorting out visa extensions and travel cancellationns changes while i pray to the gods of the expensive comprehensive flight insurance i bought last year it hurts like hell i could complain a lot about living like a stranded beetle but i leave that for maybe later just last week i read this here somewhere and i can confirm that nothing is boring right now people have different comfort zones you can think of it like an onion inside in the core zone you feel comfortable life is running smoothly but it s also a bit boring around it is the zone of learning and challenge where you feel challenged but not overwhelmed and on the very outside is the panic zone alfie i think it s a sea horse bath time along the way about 30 minutes before i slipped and fell brief reminder along the way t 13 comments 25 february 2026 war in europe four years equals 48 months equals 208 weeks equals 1460 days equals 35040 hours equals 2012400 minutes equals 126144000 seconds ukrainians have changed the way they wage war they no longer ask when it will end but only how ukrainians are saving us all and unlike us they don t even ask us to say thank you anne applebaum interviewed in il foglio link in italian 4 comments 15 february 2026 briefly for the past month and the next and the next i am in a far away place doing the school run laundry gardening cooking shopping and lots more in a household where one person goes to school nature school gymnastics swimming club music and art clubs as well as bath hairs teeth etc maintenance not forgetting reading and drawing and playing another person is about to publish a book with all the deadlines and let s not disturb stuff going on a third person is organising and chairing a major science conference while on day three after my arrival she sufferef a freak accident resulting in substantial injury to her right hand which means i do a lot of wound care typing and accompanying her to various medical appointments trying to ease her load because conference is imminent and important to her and there is the dog and a cat and much more so no i don t really read or comment or look for comments on a regular basis bear with me if you can if you can t sorry 6 comments 13 february 2026 women have very little idea of how much men hate them germaine greer the absurdity of being asked to justify the need for feminism in a world where men in positions of extraordinary power were humiliating themselves for access to a convicted pedophile sex trafficker is almost hard to process in that context the question isn t whether feminism went too far it s how anyone can still pretend it went far enough it s difficult to take critiques of feminism seriously in a world where male solidarity routinely outranks basic moral judgment liz plank one of the foundational acts of the roman empire was the construction of the cloaca maxima the great sewer that carried off the city s effluent and made its glories possible the romans thought of it as sacred and gave it its own presiding deity cloacina the epstein archive is the cloaca maxima of the contemporary american empire a vast sewage system that underlies and enables the triumph of gilded misogyny epstein is its sacred monster the presiding deity of the cult of rapacity to whom men of privilege sent up their supplications let us prey the epstein files and we should remember that millions of documents are still being withheld presumably to protect the guilty are the underground waste disposal system of a very open and massive construct the backlash against feminism these are secret histories of a counter revolution epstein and all those within his astonishingly expansive sphere of influence bankers speculators political players but also scientists intellectuals and artists are culture warriors the war is being waged on women what we see in the files is a coherent and concerted reaction by elite men against one of the great revolutions of history the feminist revolt of the 1960s and 1970s fintan o toole it s not all men it s not all billionaires it s not all power brokers but it s a lot of the ones that have been dictating a lot of the terms about the place it s not even that it s a lot of men it s the fact that the slippery networking covering up the leveraging and assumed exclusivity of what was a men s club cult seems so normal so familiar so assumed for them all like it s what they do all day in their outside lives sarah wilson 6 comments 05 february 2026 kia ora koutou here i am where birds the size of a child s fist make the loudest call where butterflies the size of my hand surround me on my morning walk where you greet the bus driver when you enter and say thank you and goodbye when you step off where the sun is hot and dangerous and the sea is freezing where the coffee is black and stronger than anywhere i can remember where the wind can be relentless and overpowering where the city is really a maze of walkways and trails and where every walk involves steep slopes thick bush amazing vistas and seemingly endless stairs and every encounter is on first name basis 8 comments 15 january 2026 courage the greek philosopher aristotle who was a student of plato another greek philosopher who himself had been a student of socrates who is often refered to as the first moral philosopher talked about a concept called hexis i was first introduced to this when i was maybe 15 years old as it was part of the school curriculum to read ancient greek texts something i disliked greatly and therefore failed most of the time add to that that the teacher was a veteran of wwii who while he never spoke about it and nobody did anyway at the time was highly suspect to us resulting in various boycotts and other so called rebellious acts anyway hexis indeed stood out and made me wake up in class as it is actually a reassuring concept if you feel you are stuck and unable to get on with life something i had experienced as a teenager repeatedly but who hasn t hexis is more than a habit more than a skill hexis is something we if we put our mind to it can cultivate as a state of being we get there if we stick to an action or an concept a plan again and again not merely as repetition but despite internal resistance until this resistance becomes less and less and the wish to do whatever it is you set your mind to becomes more compelling and eventually a skill set and a part of who you are or in the words of jiminy cricket to pinocchio if at first you don t succeed try and try again the above mentioned aristotle said that we can become courageous by doing courageous things and to develop courage we all start without it we may be terrified we may be doubtful but if we just behave like someone with courage then we will eventually become a courageous person add to that jiminy cricket s wise words always let your conscience be your guide fun fact aside socrates never wrote a single sentence no texts books nor pamphlets what is refered to as socratic thinking is what his student plato wrote down in the shape of his dialogues having to read and struggle to translate these dialogues made my teenage life quite miserable anti fascism is the concept and antifa is the courageous stance it evolved in germany in the 1920s as a direct response to the fascist threat and it is self evident in any democracy without anti fascism there can be no democracy if you want to live in a free society a constitutional state and a democracy you must be an anti fascist fascism is not simply an opinion within the democratic spectrum of opinions fascism is the opposite of humanity brutalising and dehumanising not only its victims but also its followers that is why it must be opposed and all areas of our society must be protected from it you can t allow a little bit of fascism and watch what happens fascism is like lead in drinking water even a little bit destroys everything the next revolution world war iii will be waged inside your head it will be a guerrilla information war fought not in the sky or on the streets not in the forests or even around scarce resources of the earth but in newspapers and magazines on the radio on tv and in cyberspace it will be a dirty no holds barred propaganda war of competing world views and alternative visions of the future marshall mcluhan culture is our business 1970 we have long memories we remember what it means to be human beyond our economic function as a consumer or voter we have the wild world as our ally and our ancestors stand behind us charlotte du cann and now for the final bits of packing i am once again looking forward to experience the amazing wall to wall carpeting of changi airport i ll be gone for a while 11 comments 11 january 2026 if at some point your eyes look at a video of someone getting murdered in broad daylight and your mind s first instinct is to say but what if or but what about i would urge you to stop because i want you to be a person who understands that you are the only person who loves the way you do which means that every person you see whether in a video or in the broad daylight just outside the reach of your outstretched hand is the only person who loves the way they do and honestly if you refuse to see that and if you choose instead to attempt to justify rather than mourn the death of someone whose love is a shiny remarkable gem polished under the light of the same sun where you and i both stand you are just like the millions of others who have abandoned the radical and wildly special individuality of their love to instead become people who hate other people in exactly the same way devin kelly please read all of it here 8 comments 10 january 2026 concentrate on our ethical muscles dangerous pavements but this year i face the ice with my father s stick seamus heaney there is snow quite a lot of it something that doesn t happen often here in this big fat river valley it will all be gone by tomorrow but not before a night of heavy frost and ice looking outside i can only see white and grey and black yesterday i had the last of a string of medical exams and imaging tests and have been given the all clear for the long haul flight tomorrow i will start packing summer clothes and bicycle helmet and the high spf sunscreen lotion yesterday i also deleted my instagram account my social media activities are now reduced to reading a small number of writers on substack a couple of blogs and mastodon where i keep in touch with a group of scientists and climate activists how weird it now seems that initial excitement about social media and finding old friends from another lifetime and what has become of it this strange addiction to scrolling and schadenfreude i want to continue exposing myself to the real world and i know that like the people whose homes are threatened by rising sea levels i cannot do this without accurate information and that this involves a struggle with a great deal of dullness and nastiness in today s media world it is so important to avoid seeking comfort in resentment but instead have confidence in what people can achieve as long as they preserve their humanity as a core value because ultimately we have no choice but to love our world we can follow our cynicism and our despair until the cows come home but in the long run that will neither change anything nor make us feel better seriously there is no alternative to lovingly helping to shape the world otherwise people who do not love the world will take over so as a always this means to pool my resources and energy with others to help rescue people from their agony of resignation from their apathy born of despair something i myself have known and continue to experience but instead and without moralising concentrate on our ethical muscles and our sense of community and remember progressive movements have never been unified movements we don t need to wait until everybody agrees or is convinced debating and arguing is part of the process to paraphrase erich fromm without the practice of love of life societies simply cannot survive i do wish there was less harshness to endure less hardness for my soft body to push against but what they all have in common in their endurance and adaptation is that they remain soft i too plan to remain human wide open to the heartbreak and despair of the harm being done let me not harden myself against all this hurt let me be owl down seal fur nudibranch flesh let me bend give flex i plan to endure and to turn towards cooperative efforts to right the overwhelming amount of wrong in the world mary beth rew hicks 5 comments 29 december 2025 uncertainty and confidence can exist at the same time if i write that i do feel a tiny bit better i may jinx it and although superstition is not part of my life skills i remain cautious at least i was able to change the flight dates without any problems or extra costs at school this was an often used response to a teacher complaining about not paying attention it s by heraclitus one of the eminent pre socratic philosophers hence extremely valid as usual distraction is the name of the game and for me that includes reading and listening to whatever comes my way often suggested or linked by family members and friends for laughs stimulation discussion and delight here is what has kept me entertained in the last week i am writing most of it as i remember reading it forgot to take down sources first the obvious autoimmune disease is treated by immune suppressing drugs which in turn often can result in the body getting infected by all sorts of viruses and bacteria healthy people can fight against instead of getting dispirited every time that happens maybe look at these as a side effect of your immune system trying to protect you the immune system gets to know us even before our parents do and until the moment we die it does everything it can to heal and protect us next who d have thought the neocortex the part of the brain that plays a significant role in intelligence is particularly large in monkeys that live together in large groups dolphins address each other by name obviously in dolphin language and using dolphin names goats can recognise and teach each other symbols and bonobos master a previously unimagined form of syntax and then there s that 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