Category: General
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strategies for lucidity
I’m having the sort of day — and month, and year — in which confirming that I’m neither dreaming nor hallucinating has been more needful than ever before, in the best possible way. I seem to have joined the academic branch of #1000mphclub…
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01FEB20
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more trains than usual needing repairs at the same time
Happy Independence Day, Little England.
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21 days
Back once again on the eastward edge of Sheffield, after a week (plus change for train travel both ways) of worky stuff in Sweden, with a brief detour through Brighton on the homeward leg. While in Sweden for work, I narrowly missed out on catching the Slavoj Žižek live experience (we got to the city…
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weapons of mass distraction
Geoff Manaugh / knows the score*. Your outrage is exactly what they want: … an endless landslide of trivial distractions has been steadily eliminating the ground needed for systemic political change. People who might once have been an opposition—or, even better, people who might once have been leaders capable of articulating a clear way forward,…