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Professional cynic but my heart's not in it
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Fascism means never having to say you’re sorry.
March 27, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Fascism means never having to say you’re sorry.
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Today's Chicagohenge. Friday's sunrise in Chicago. Happy Spring...without the snow!
March 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Today's Chicagohenge. Friday's sunrise in Chicago. Happy Spring...without the snow!
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"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
- Dom Hélder Câmara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Brazil.
(📷: Hans Peters, Dutch Natl. Archives)
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
- Dom Hélder Câmara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Brazil.
(📷: Hans Peters, Dutch Natl. Archives)
August 31, 2024 at 9:13 PM
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
- Dom Hélder Câmara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Brazil.
(📷: Hans Peters, Dutch Natl. Archives)
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
- Dom Hélder Câmara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, Brazil.
(📷: Hans Peters, Dutch Natl. Archives)
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New from @empirepoduk.bsky.social
THE EASTER RISING:
REVOLUTION & REVOLT IN THE STREETS OF DUBLIN
EASTER 1916
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THE EASTER RISING:
REVOLUTION & REVOLT IN THE STREETS OF DUBLIN
EASTER 1916
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March 19, 2025 at 5:31 AM
New from @empirepoduk.bsky.social
THE EASTER RISING:
REVOLUTION & REVOLT IN THE STREETS OF DUBLIN
EASTER 1916
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
THE EASTER RISING:
REVOLUTION & REVOLT IN THE STREETS OF DUBLIN
EASTER 1916
linktr.ee/empirepoduk
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#TodayinHistory in 1945, 80 years ago, w/ Filipino guerrillas successfully overcoming Japanese forces in Panay island, Allied forces landed unopposed in Tigbauan, south of Iloilo city. This is commemorated in Philippine history as the Liberation of Panay.
www.facebook.com/share/168J96... #Edusky
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March 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
#TodayinHistory in 1945, 80 years ago, w/ Filipino guerrillas successfully overcoming Japanese forces in Panay island, Allied forces landed unopposed in Tigbauan, south of Iloilo city. This is commemorated in Philippine history as the Liberation of Panay.
www.facebook.com/share/168J96... #Edusky
www.facebook.com/share/168J96... #Edusky
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Marcus Aurelius died on this day in 180, leaving us his timeless reframing of the good luck of your bad luck – a Stoic strategy for turning suffering into strength
The Good Luck of Your Bad Luck: Marcus Aurelius on the Stoic Strategy for Weathering Life’s Waves and Turning Suffering into Strength
“What happened could have happened to anyone, but not everyone could have carried on.”
www.themarginalian.org
March 17, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Marcus Aurelius died on this day in 180, leaving us his timeless reframing of the good luck of your bad luck – a Stoic strategy for turning suffering into strength
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A must read from @bylinetimes.bsky.social
From Murdoch to Musk: Hacking the State – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/02/17/f...
From Murdoch to Musk: Hacking the State – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/02/17/f...
From Murdoch to Musk: Hacking the State
While the media mogul spent more than half a century building up back-door political influence, the social media broligarch stormed into the US Government in just two years. Peter Jukes explores how t...
bylinetimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
A must read from @bylinetimes.bsky.social
From Murdoch to Musk: Hacking the State – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/02/17/f...
From Murdoch to Musk: Hacking the State – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/02/17/f...
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The gift of the gab: did an iron age brain drain bring Celtic to Ireland?
The gift of the gab: did an iron age brain drain bring Celtic to Ireland?
The rise of the precursor to the Irish language remains a historical mystery that linguists, geneticists and archaeologists continue to debate
www.theguardian.com
March 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The gift of the gab: did an iron age brain drain bring Celtic to Ireland?
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An epoch ago, having lived through two World Wars, E.M. Forster wrote beautifully about the personal and political power of empaths and the relationship between creativity and democracy
The Strength of the Sensitive: E.M. Forster on the Personal and Political Power of Empaths and the Relationship Between Creativity and Democracy
“I believe in… an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret u…
www.themarginalian.org
February 16, 2025 at 3:24 AM
An epoch ago, having lived through two World Wars, E.M. Forster wrote beautifully about the personal and political power of empaths and the relationship between creativity and democracy
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On the tens of millions of American Christians who are embracing a charismatic movement which seeks to destroy the secular state
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows
Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state.
www.theatlantic.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
On the tens of millions of American Christians who are embracing a charismatic movement which seeks to destroy the secular state
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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you know who should be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? Sisyphus
December 23, 2024 at 1:15 AM
you know who should be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? Sisyphus
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Reason, emotion, and the key to wholeness – a forgotten Scottish philosopher's century-old wisdom on how to have a fulfilling life
Reason and Emotion: Scottish Philosopher John Macmurray on the Key to Wholeness and the Fundaments of a Fulfilling Life
“The emotional life is not simply a part or an aspect of human life. It is not, as we so often think, subordinate, or subsidiary to the mind. It is the core and essence of human life. The int…
www.themarginalian.org
December 22, 2024 at 3:24 AM
Reason, emotion, and the key to wholeness – a forgotten Scottish philosopher's century-old wisdom on how to have a fulfilling life
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There's no need to worry over the future. Worrying over the present is more than sufficient.
December 3, 2024 at 11:04 PM
There's no need to worry over the future. Worrying over the present is more than sufficient.
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Do the Next Right Thing – Carl Jung on how to live and the origin of his famous tenet for navigating uncertainty
Do the Next Right Thing: Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of His Famous Tenet for Navigating Uncertainty
“There is no pit you cannot climb out of provided you make the right effort at the right place… do the next thing with diligence and devotion.”
www.themarginalian.org
December 4, 2024 at 5:47 AM
Do the Next Right Thing – Carl Jung on how to live and the origin of his famous tenet for navigating uncertainty
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I often show my students this visualization of how atmospheric CO₂ travels around the globe. Our attitude toward burning fossil fuels would change significantly if we could actually see CO₂.
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?11719
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?11719
November 29, 2024 at 10:09 PM
I often show my students this visualization of how atmospheric CO₂ travels around the globe. Our attitude toward burning fossil fuels would change significantly if we could actually see CO₂.
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?11719
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?11719
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I'm here because I invented the blue sky. The overheated ozone-depleted sky, though, that's all you.
November 12, 2024 at 7:29 PM
I'm here because I invented the blue sky. The overheated ozone-depleted sky, though, that's all you.