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Seamus Heaney
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Something that’s been on my mind recently and I’ve mentioned these memories before but in the context of Musk I do think it bears repeating.
1987. Not that long ago right? Now I was about to hit my teens. I’m not much younger than Elon. Moved to South Africa. He lived in Pretoria, me Jo’burg.
We arrived. Within a couple of weeks we had our own maid. If you didn’t take a maid in people would be at your door every day begging you to give them a job. A maid was paid peanuts.
The worry the kids have. Brought up through a pandemic, into this. I dunno, on the whole I’m really not too fond of adults.
It’s an awful thing to have to discuss with a teenager. You just want them to think everything’s always ok and will always be ok. It’s not and it won’t. But that doesn’t mean you have to spend your days worrying about it. Life is still for living.
It's a weird thing, I can't make large purchases without it actually making me feel ill. I want to enjoy and be excited I'm getting a computer today but I actually feel nauseous. It's always the same.
I do not enjoy buying myself what I see are frivolities (even if they aren't)
I put it down to financial instability when I was growing up.
Shit sticks with you.
You can’t protect the poor by appeasing business interests. You can’t protect the poor by appeasing tyrants. You can’t protect the planet by appeasing Corporations.
We all have hard lessons to learn
Biden urges Americans to “Bring down the temperature”
Yeah, not what he meant but maybe we could’ve sorted that one out over the last 50 years.
From AP
"White voters make up a bulk of the voting electorate in the United States, and they did not shift their support significantly at the national level compared to 2020.
A majority of white voters cast their ballot for Trump, unchanged from the 2020 election that he narrowly lost. About 4 in 10 white voters backed Harris, which is about the same as Biden received in 2020."
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Monstrous as he is, Trump is no outlier. He is the distillation of capitalist pseudo-democracy. His values, entirely extrinsic – fixated on prestige, status, image, fame, power and wealth – are the dominant values projected for years on to every screen and into every mind. His criminality is the system’s criminality. His abuse of women, of staff, of customers... of ecosystems, is the abuse the majority of the world’s people have suffered for centuries.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/07/trump-voters-revolution-politics-right
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Web working dad.
The North part of Ireland.
Walk on air against your better judgement.
Seamus Heaney
Joined Jun 2018