Linotype Pilgrim
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![which fragments the work of the individual, which creates by committee, and which makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well.
John Dewey, commenting on the relationship between fine art and useful or technological art, says: “That many, perhaps most, of the articles and utensils made at present for use are not genuinely esthetic happens, unfortunately, to be true. But it is true for reasons that are foreign to the relation of the ‘beautiful’ and ‘useful’ as such. Wherever conditions are such as to prevent the act of production from being an experience in which the whole creature is alive and in which he possesses his living through enjoyment, the product will lack something of being esthetic. No matter how useful it is for special and limited ends, it will not be useful in the ultimate degree—that of contributing directly and liberally to an expanding and enriched life.”[1]
The esthetic requirements to which Dewey refers are, it seems to me, exemplified in the work of the Shakers. Their religious beliefs provided the fertile soil in which beauty and utility could flourish. Their spiritual needs found expression in the design of fabrics, furniture, and utensils of great esthetic value. These products are a document of the simple life of the people, their asceticism, their restraint, their devotion to fine craftsmanship, and their feeling for proportion, space, and order.
Ideally, beauty and utility are mutually generative. In the past, rarely was beauty an end in itself. The magnificent stained glass windows of Chartres were no less utilitarian than was the Parthenon or the Pyramid of Cheops. The function of the exterior decoration of the great Gothic cathedrals was to invite entry; the rose windows inside provided the spiritual mood. Interpreted in the light of our own experiences, this philosophy still prevails.
[1. John Dewey
Art as Experience, p. 26
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![Emphasising the Dewey quote:
John Dewey, commenting on the relationship between fine art and useful or technological art, says: “That many, perhaps most, of the articles and utensils made at present for use are not genuinely esthetic happens, unfortunately, to be true. But it is true for reasons that are foreign to the relation of the ‘beautiful’ and ‘useful’ as such. Wherever conditions are such as to prevent the act of production from being an experience in which the whole creature is alive and in which he possesses his living through enjoyment, the product will lack something of being esthetic. No matter how useful it is for special and limited ends, it will not be useful in the ultimate degree—that of contributing directly and liberally to an expanding and enriched life.”[1]
[1. John Dewey
Art as Experience, p. 26
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seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
All colonies have this substructure of desperate social climbing and fractionating of proximity to blue blood; Australia & Canada are definitely not immune—from bowling greens to oligarchic boardrooms they're practically powered by a yearning to be aristocracy-better-than-you, hands unmarred by work
Sometimes I'll end up on the monarchism subreddit and it's fascinating
They'll have discussions like "which person do we think has enough noble blood left to rightfully be the king of America so we can throw off the communist degeneracy of democracy" or whatever
They'll have discussions like "which person do we think has enough noble blood left to rightfully be the king of America so we can throw off the communist degeneracy of democracy" or whatever
November 28, 2025 at 5:05 AM
All colonies have this substructure of desperate social climbing and fractionating of proximity to blue blood; Australia & Canada are definitely not immune—from bowling greens to oligarchic boardrooms they're practically powered by a yearning to be aristocracy-better-than-you, hands unmarred by work
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I think it’s bad, actually, to play political chess with Indigenous rights.
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I think it’s bad, actually, to play political chess with Indigenous rights.
is this good
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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November 28, 2025 at 3:08 AM
is this good
I mean, it works for fossil fuel interests, which is why she did it too
I don't know who needs to hear this but making deals with Alberta and the oilpatch
doesn't
fucking
work
Just ask the last person who tried.
doesn't
fucking
work
Just ask the last person who tried.
As Carney-Smith pipeline deal looms, Catherine McKenna says oil companies can't be trusted. She would know
Justin Trudeau's first environment minister spoke with Canada's National Observer about misogyny, policy and broken promises.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I mean, it works for fossil fuel interests, which is why she did it too
> always was <
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meme
huh so I guess it is possible for celebrities and pop stars to fly commercial and the private jet usage is really just an indulgence at the expense of the climate
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
> always was <
meme
meme
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It's kind of funny that "nation-building" consists largely of ensuring that foreign investors get a "return on their investment" while the Canadian public pays the cleanup costs, so that we can "create jobs", while cutting funding to social programs.
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
It's kind of funny that "nation-building" consists largely of ensuring that foreign investors get a "return on their investment" while the Canadian public pays the cleanup costs, so that we can "create jobs", while cutting funding to social programs.
Carney again
Ah, $150 billion _per year_
And Carney is saying they'll fund this by digging up and selling METALS? Yeah? Where? On whose land?
Have we looked at the environmental impact of that? emissions? Of a country that's been scaling up extraction and emissions for decades?
#cdnpoli
And Carney is saying they'll fund this by digging up and selling METALS? Yeah? Where? On whose land?
Have we looked at the environmental impact of that? emissions? Of a country that's been scaling up extraction and emissions for decades?
#cdnpoli
Canada plans to hike military spending to 2% of GDP by 2026 & 5% by 2035 – the highest since WWII. This wastes $150 BILLION/year that could fund housing, schools, hospitals & jobs.
👉 Read our full statement: communist-party.ca/canada-gains...
#canlab #cdnpoli (1/3)
👉 Read our full statement: communist-party.ca/canada-gains...
#canlab #cdnpoli (1/3)
November 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Carney again
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I still remember getting absolutely dragged on Twitter in the run up to Brexit for saying it was an objectively bad idea. People were genuinely convinced blocking EU workers from entering the UK would somehow fix the economy and bring back job. Honestly some of the stupidest shit I've ever seen.
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I still remember getting absolutely dragged on Twitter in the run up to Brexit for saying it was an objectively bad idea. People were genuinely convinced blocking EU workers from entering the UK would somehow fix the economy and bring back job. Honestly some of the stupidest shit I've ever seen.
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Maybe we can help anyway
🥺👉👈
Juno has links if y'all got a little sumpin sumpin extra. It's just a nice thing you can do to be nice if you can. Like a lot of people could just chip in a buck and it would cumulatively give a thanksgiving girl relief you know what I'm sayin
🥺👉👈
Juno has links if y'all got a little sumpin sumpin extra. It's just a nice thing you can do to be nice if you can. Like a lot of people could just chip in a buck and it would cumulatively give a thanksgiving girl relief you know what I'm sayin
God i am so fu cked right now
I don’t know how to ask for help
I’m struggling
I don’t know how to ask for help
I’m struggling
November 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Maybe we can help anyway
🥺👉👈
Juno has links if y'all got a little sumpin sumpin extra. It's just a nice thing you can do to be nice if you can. Like a lot of people could just chip in a buck and it would cumulatively give a thanksgiving girl relief you know what I'm sayin
🥺👉👈
Juno has links if y'all got a little sumpin sumpin extra. It's just a nice thing you can do to be nice if you can. Like a lot of people could just chip in a buck and it would cumulatively give a thanksgiving girl relief you know what I'm sayin
The purpose of a [government] is what it does
Today's federal government announcement is about so much more than a pipeline: it effectively guts climate policy in Canada.
CAPE's response here: https://loom.ly/juVJkRU
CAPE's response here: https://loom.ly/juVJkRU
Promoting climate change: CAPE response to Federal-Alberta agreement - CAPE
In response to a new MOU between the federal and Alberta governments that proposes to expand fossil fuel infrastructure and roll-back climate commitments, Dr. Samantha Green, President of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, said: As physicians, we are deeply alarmed to see this thorough gutting of Canada’s climate commitments. The Federal-Alberta agreement includes an explicit commitment to expand fossil fuel production—the leading cause of climate change. It delays, w...
cape.ca
November 28, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The purpose of a [government] is what it does
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A debt of gratitude owed to @anhedoniaoakley.bsky.social for bringing this issue to public attention.
There are so many bad decisions made by the federal govt around Canadian Disability Benefit and they keep compounding rather than solving them.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
There are so many bad decisions made by the federal govt around Canadian Disability Benefit and they keep compounding rather than solving them.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Woman seeking Canada Disability Benefit frustrated after being sent to costly AI-integrated service
When Vancouver Island resident Iris Parker began applying for the Canada Disability Benefit, she didn’t expect to face steep up-front costs—particularly to have AI-integrated software fill out one of ...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
A debt of gratitude owed to @anhedoniaoakley.bsky.social for bringing this issue to public attention.
There are so many bad decisions made by the federal govt around Canadian Disability Benefit and they keep compounding rather than solving them.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
There are so many bad decisions made by the federal govt around Canadian Disability Benefit and they keep compounding rather than solving them.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
These cheese-sleaze novels I've been researching vary greatly in terms of quality writing, but the BACK covers are, across the board, ludicrous word jumbles.
November 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
> Mr. Stern lived at the Chatham, a 32-story condominium building in Manhattan that he designed, and had a home, also of his own design, in East Hampton, N.Y.
TFW you're reading someone's bio and it's all filmed in black and white
TFW you're reading someone's bio and it's all filmed in black and white
November 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
> Mr. Stern lived at the Chatham, a 32-story condominium building in Manhattan that he designed, and had a home, also of his own design, in East Hampton, N.Y.
TFW you're reading someone's bio and it's all filmed in black and white
TFW you're reading someone's bio and it's all filmed in black and white
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She is afraid to leave her house...this is their intent.
Miles, an Indigenous actor best known for her roles in “Northern Exposure,” “Smoke Signals,” “Wyvern” and “The Last of Us,” handed them her tribal ID from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon.
Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”
Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
She is afraid to leave her house...this is their intent.
This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.
You can find my full statement below.
You can find my full statement below.
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Also, it won't work. Smith won't be passified, she'll be emboldened. And if he doesn't deliver to Alberta, the backlash will be worse than the problem he's supposedly solving. It's not some complex 4D chess strategy. He's just pro-fossil fuel corporate profits.
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Also, it won't work. Smith won't be passified, she'll be emboldened. And if he doesn't deliver to Alberta, the backlash will be worse than the problem he's supposedly solving. It's not some complex 4D chess strategy. He's just pro-fossil fuel corporate profits.
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Already lost one Minister over it. Will be sinking the chances at reelection for LPC MPs in BC and QC. Will be alienating Indigenous folks and progressives. Much simpler explanation than 4D chess: he is focused on extractive industry profits.
November 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Already lost one Minister over it. Will be sinking the chances at reelection for LPC MPs in BC and QC. Will be alienating Indigenous folks and progressives. Much simpler explanation than 4D chess: he is focused on extractive industry profits.
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Lol. K.
Mark Carney managed to trade a pipeline that will never get built for meaningful progress on industrial carbon pricing and electricity interties — both of which will get more wind and solar built.
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
The method to Mark Carney’s madness
The memorandum of understanding with Alberta might look like surrender. Look closer
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Lol. K.
I love Germander's account.
2/2: The address is interesting: Temple Bar was in Fleet St, because that's where Temple Bar Gateway originally stood; it's now re-erected in Paternoster Square near St Pauls.
Isn't 'Refreshment Rooms' a delightful term for a cafe? if I was opening my own cafe, that's certainly what I'd call it!
Isn't 'Refreshment Rooms' a delightful term for a cafe? if I was opening my own cafe, that's certainly what I'd call it!
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I love Germander's account.
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Fantastic cover, and I know what side I'm on.
November 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Fantastic cover, and I know what side I'm on.
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“Imperial Oil has announced it will eliminate 20% of its workforce by the end of 2027, with most of the positions based in Calgary.”
Remember, we are extracting and exporting more oil than ever before.
www.hcamag.com/ca/news/gene...
Remember, we are extracting and exporting more oil than ever before.
www.hcamag.com/ca/news/gene...
Imperial Oil, ExxonMobil announce major layoffs for Canada amid global restructuring
Experts says layoffs part of broader global trend in oil and gas sector
www.hcamag.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“Imperial Oil has announced it will eliminate 20% of its workforce by the end of 2027, with most of the positions based in Calgary.”
Remember, we are extracting and exporting more oil than ever before.
www.hcamag.com/ca/news/gene...
Remember, we are extracting and exporting more oil than ever before.
www.hcamag.com/ca/news/gene...
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Genuinely feels like there's been a coup within the Liberal party thanks to Carney and his bros.
Not to say Trudeau's Liberals were much better (they bought a pipeline!) but Carney is a full-blown red tory and I'm shocked more Liberals aren't outraged their party has been usurped like this.
Not to say Trudeau's Liberals were much better (they bought a pipeline!) but Carney is a full-blown red tory and I'm shocked more Liberals aren't outraged their party has been usurped like this.
Super cool that we've got a deal for a path towards a pipeline that's tied to a carbon capture project, as if that makes it okay
when carbon capture one of the most expensive and least effective options for addressing climate change, and oil companies often use it to EXTRACT MORE OIL!!!!
fuck man
when carbon capture one of the most expensive and least effective options for addressing climate change, and oil companies often use it to EXTRACT MORE OIL!!!!
fuck man
November 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Genuinely feels like there's been a coup within the Liberal party thanks to Carney and his bros.
Not to say Trudeau's Liberals were much better (they bought a pipeline!) but Carney is a full-blown red tory and I'm shocked more Liberals aren't outraged their party has been usurped like this.
Not to say Trudeau's Liberals were much better (they bought a pipeline!) but Carney is a full-blown red tory and I'm shocked more Liberals aren't outraged their party has been usurped like this.
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i know we all know that modern liberal pluralism is a thin, thin veneer on the same imperial structures but nothing will show you just how thin than taking a five second look at the history section of any bookstore
November 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
i know we all know that modern liberal pluralism is a thin, thin veneer on the same imperial structures but nothing will show you just how thin than taking a five second look at the history section of any bookstore