There are thousands of children around the world, right now, who walk bare-foot for hours sit on hard floors to attain an education, often with only their own brainpower and memory for note-taking, who have more common sense than this individual. Something worth thinking about.

I'll just say that a man who decided to eat roughly a kilo of cola bottles a day for three days, unthinkingly, hospitalising himself, should be less concerned about his kids' education, and more concerned about improving his own, using whatever form of transportation to school is available to him.

A life is a life. NATO is not a life. To posit the continuity of NATO as a moral question on the level of life itself might feel compelling but in my view it implies an equivalence that demands either an immense overvaluation of a political organisation or an abject devaluation of life.

Opposition to the death penalty does not stem from its politics or questions of its efficacy but from the fact that it is wrong. NATO is a political arrangement like any other and questions regarding its continuance, attenuation or succession by a different org is of a different order.

Aside from the irony in reading this reply immediately after you said we need ‘certainty’ not ‘could’ (it’s whatever, just funny), I find posing what is in my opinion a primarily moral debate regarding the death penalty in relation to the question of NATO, which is innately political, unconvincing.

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BLOOD WORK: An Introduction

BLOOD WORK is live.

It’s time to talk about violence.

Heterodox

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

You heard it here first folks: Listen to @bloodwork.show to hear my sonorous tones discuss the phenomenon of VIOLENCE.

(All credit to @gotitatguineys.bsky.social for working the production magic on that one tbf)

John Carpenter’s The Fog
They Live
Christine
Suspiria
The Faculty
Signs
Death Becomes Her

Tony Hawk / Dave Gorman style novelty book about one American craft beer enthusiast’s quest to meet to the lass from the Boddingtons adverts on the telly

Imagining an American craft beer enthusiast coming here and ordering a flight and making extensive notes about his experience of Boddingtons

God it looks magnificent in the context of that tap board

I've been thinking a lot about life, existence, and meaning lately. Here's something I thought about yesterday. Whether you believe in a God or not, the NHS might be the closest thing we have to a secular church, where anyone can go in their hour of need. That is a precious and beautiful thing.

I'm now back home and will be receiving daily wellness checks and support as we decide on the next steps forward. Thank you to everyone for being so kind and caring to me yesterday. it was simple: So long as I was in that waiting room, the question was, "Do you want help?" And the answer was, "Yes."

I will always steal valour from 6yos

This is a profound act of kindness

There are three versions with different endings only one of which is half decent, I think it’s the directors cut. They’re all pretty crap endings though so don’t sweat over it lol

Hit me

There is never anything to apologise for at a time like this

1408 is far from a perfect movie but I remain strangely fond of it, and I guess I relate hard to John Cusack screaming, “What do you want from me?!” into a hotel room fridge and a malevolent concierge repeatedly phoning up to ask in a friendly voice if you would like to check out yet.

It has been 10 hours and an NHS waiting room is both the best and worst place for someone contemplating the Order of the world and when our time will come, but I just wanted to be honest and admit that I have been trying very hard and struggling, but I do hope I can keep trying.

The attempt to find a silly way to phrase a very serious moment there probably gives some indicator as to how I’m feeling right now but I’m constantly torn over whether to present myself how I’d like to be or how I actually am and this week the invitation turned into a summoning and so that is that.