@stephendurkan.bsky.social
Writer, spoken word artist, musician, dreamweaver, plus actor.
Have you ever quit your job? Are you thinking about quitting your job right now? Well, do I have a song for you....
Today I Quit My Job - OUT NOW
open.spotify.com/album/3vywXb...
Today I Quit My Job - OUT NOW
open.spotify.com/album/3vywXb...
April 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Have you ever quit your job? Are you thinking about quitting your job right now? Well, do I have a song for you....
Today I Quit My Job - OUT NOW
open.spotify.com/album/3vywXb...
Today I Quit My Job - OUT NOW
open.spotify.com/album/3vywXb...
If Abe were around today he would be anti-capitalist
thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning:
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."
March 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
If Abe were around today he would be anti-capitalist
No I'm not going to follow Barack Obama, don't you ever fucking ask me a question again!
March 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
No I'm not going to follow Barack Obama, don't you ever fucking ask me a question again!
Cannot believe we are still having this argument about Austerity
After all the failure and misery of the last 15 years...
After all the failure and misery of the last 15 years...
Letter to the Chancellor in advance of the Spring Statement, from @mazzucatom.bsky.social @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social @dgbailey.bsky.social me & others.
www.ft.com/content/4b0d...
www.ft.com/content/4b0d...
March 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Cannot believe we are still having this argument about Austerity
After all the failure and misery of the last 15 years...
After all the failure and misery of the last 15 years...
Just as there's no use in demonising drug addicts, same with money addicts - they are just another victim of an insane and inhumane economic system that's destroying everything that is a good and pure in the world (including the world itself)
March 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Just as there's no use in demonising drug addicts, same with money addicts - they are just another victim of an insane and inhumane economic system that's destroying everything that is a good and pure in the world (including the world itself)
People are sick of robotic posh guys in suits telling the poor and vulnerable that they're scroungers whilst fatcat bankers and CEOs continue to get richer and richer at everyone's expense
“Are you ok with making people worse off?”
“I’m ok with building a sustainable system…”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social presses DWP minister Torsten Bell on the Government’s benefits crackdown aimed at saving £5bn a year by 2030.
#Newsnight
“I’m ok with building a sustainable system…”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social presses DWP minister Torsten Bell on the Government’s benefits crackdown aimed at saving £5bn a year by 2030.
#Newsnight
March 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
People are sick of robotic posh guys in suits telling the poor and vulnerable that they're scroungers whilst fatcat bankers and CEOs continue to get richer and richer at everyone's expense
I'm actually glad that the Oligarch-owned media has finally gone masks off and are explicitly doing capitalist propaganda.
Makes it all very clear for the rest of us..
Makes it all very clear for the rest of us..
February 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I'm actually glad that the Oligarch-owned media has finally gone masks off and are explicitly doing capitalist propaganda.
Makes it all very clear for the rest of us..
Makes it all very clear for the rest of us..
For Alasdair Gray day - I wrote about Lanark, the nature of creativity, and working-class imagination.
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stephendurkan.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/l...
Lanark – An Escape to Reality
I put down the book. ‘He did it. He wrote THE book’. He was Alisdair Gray and the book was Lanark. I read the book in my mid 20s when I was working at a call centre in Glasgow. I had recently gotte…
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February 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
For Alasdair Gray day - I wrote about Lanark, the nature of creativity, and working-class imagination.
stephendurkan.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/l...
stephendurkan.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/l...
Everybody projects, not just "narcissists"
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of people who are always talking about other people being narcissists are, in fact themselves narcissists!
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of people who are always talking about other people being narcissists are, in fact themselves narcissists!
February 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Everybody projects, not just "narcissists"
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of people who are always talking about other people being narcissists are, in fact themselves narcissists!
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of people who are always talking about other people being narcissists are, in fact themselves narcissists!
What do you want? You want what you don't have.
NEW TRACK - a stream of consciousness exploration of desire in our crazy overstimulated modern society
open.spotify.com/album/1F7D9I...
NEW TRACK - a stream of consciousness exploration of desire in our crazy overstimulated modern society
open.spotify.com/album/1F7D9I...
February 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
What do you want? You want what you don't have.
NEW TRACK - a stream of consciousness exploration of desire in our crazy overstimulated modern society
open.spotify.com/album/1F7D9I...
NEW TRACK - a stream of consciousness exploration of desire in our crazy overstimulated modern society
open.spotify.com/album/1F7D9I...
Funny thing is.. all the conspiracy-heads believe THEY are the only ones who possess critical thinking
Critical thinking skills are necessary for all
February 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Funny thing is.. all the conspiracy-heads believe THEY are the only ones who possess critical thinking
February 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Since it's commodified romance day, here's an essay I wrote about love - featuring Roland Barthes, William Shakespeare, and David Byrne.
stephendurkan.wordpress.com/2018/02/14/l...
stephendurkan.wordpress.com/2018/02/14/l...
Love is not just a four-letter word
“Am I in love? –yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn’t wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I …
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February 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Since it's commodified romance day, here's an essay I wrote about love - featuring Roland Barthes, William Shakespeare, and David Byrne.
stephendurkan.wordpress.com/2018/02/14/l...
stephendurkan.wordpress.com/2018/02/14/l...