#inevitability — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #inevitability, aggregated by home.social.
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"I spoke about how they shame their critics as stupid and backward, about how their narrative of inevitability is a way of getting people to comply in advance. Nothing humans do is inevitable, I said. It is all determined by politics, money and power" 🎯 Molly Crabapple
#AI #genAI #generativeAI #technology #bigTech #art #copyright #SiliconValley #MollyCrabapple #artificialintelligence #inevitability
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect. We should have been cut-throats to do otherwise. And there’s an end. We ought to know distinctly that we are damned for what we do wrong; but when we have done right, we have only been gentlemen, after all. There is nothing to make a work about.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 6 “Right and Wrong”More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #obviousdecision #dotherightthing #doinggood #duty #good #gooddeed #inevitability #naturalcourse #retrospect #virtue
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
There is a doom inexorable and a law inviolable, or there is a providence that can be merciful, or else there is a chaos that is purposeless and ungoverned. If a resistless fate, why try to struggle against it? If a providence willing to show mercy, do your best to deserve its divine succour. If a chaos undirected, give thanks that amid such stormy seas you have within you a mind at the helm.
[Ἤτοι ἀνάγκη εἱμαρμένης καὶ ἀπαράβατος τάξις ἢ πρόνοια ἱλάσιμος ἢ φυρμὸς εἰκαιότητος ἀπροστάτητος. εἰ μὲν οὖν ἀπαράβατος ἀνάγκη, τί ἀντιτείνεις; εἰ δὲ πρόνοια ἐπιδεχομένη τὸ ἱλάσκεσθαι, ἄξιον σαυτὸν ποίησον τῆς ἐκ τοῦ θείου βοηθείας. εἰ δὲ φυρμὸς ἀνηγεμόνευτος, ἀσμένιζε ὅτι ἐν τοιούτῳ κλύδωνι αὐτὸς ἔχεις ἐν σαυτῷ τινα νοῦν ἡγεμονικόν.]Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 12, ch. 14 (12.14) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2068…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #marcusaureliusmeditations #adaptability #chaos #destiny #doom #fate #getalong #God #inevitability #intelligence #meaningoflife #mind #order #prayer #predestination #providence #selfcontrol #universe #world #worthiness
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MEMBRILLO: All day long, Manny, I sort through pure sadness. I find evidence, and I piece together stories. But none of my stories end well — they all end here. And the moral of every story is the same: we may have years, we may have hours, but sooner or later, we push up flowers.
Tim Schafer (b. 1967) American video game designer.
Grim Fandango, “Year 2,” computer game (1998)More about this quote: wist.info/schafer-tim/82265/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #timschafer #grimfandango #death #doom #inevitability #mortality #tragedy
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How January 2026 Already Feels Like a Whole Year
January 2026 has felt like a year within itself. We’re only a few weeks into the month, and yet it feels as if the weight of time has condensed, making every day feel like a chapter in a longer saga. It’s not the typical feeling of a new year’s freshness or the usual optimism that comes with turning the page on a calendar. Instead, there’s something different about this January — something that feels stretched, intense, and heavy. In a way, it’s as if time itself has slowed, […] -
How January 2026 Already Feels Like a Whole Year
January 2026 has felt like a year within itself. We’re only a few weeks into the month, and yet it feels as if the weight of time has condensed, making every day feel like a chapter in a longer saga. It’s not the typical feeling of a new year’s freshness or the usual optimism that comes with turning the page on a calendar. Instead, there’s something different about this January — something that feels stretched, intense, and heavy. In a way, it’s as if time itself has slowed, […] -
From the #journal Nature, an excerpt from an article with the title “#AI Is Transforming Peer Review — and Many #Scientists Are #Worried”: “Some enthusiasts see the #automation of #peer #review as an #inevitability — but many #researchers, such as [ecologist Timothée] Poisot, as well as #journal #publishers, view it as a #disaster. …” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00894-7
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From the #journal Nature, an excerpt from an article with the title “#AI Is Transforming Peer Review — and Many #Scientists Are #Worried”: “Some enthusiasts see the #automation of #peer #review as an #inevitability — but many #researchers, such as [ecologist Timothée] Poisot, as well as #journal #publishers, view it as a #disaster. …” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00894-7
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From the #journal Nature, an excerpt from an article with the title “#AI Is Transforming Peer Review — and Many #Scientists Are #Worried”: “Some enthusiasts see the #automation of #peer #review as an #inevitability — but many #researchers, such as [ecologist Timothée] Poisot, as well as #journal #publishers, view it as a #disaster. …” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00894-7
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From the #journal Nature, an excerpt from an article with the title “#AI Is Transforming Peer Review — and Many #Scientists Are #Worried”: “Some enthusiasts see the #automation of #peer #review as an #inevitability — but many #researchers, such as [ecologist Timothée] Poisot, as well as #journal #publishers, view it as a #disaster. …” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00894-7
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From the #journal Nature, an excerpt from an article with the title “#AI Is Transforming Peer Review — and Many #Scientists Are #Worried”: “Some enthusiasts see the #automation of #peer #review as an #inevitability — but many #researchers, such as [ecologist Timothée] Poisot, as well as #journal #publishers, view it as a #disaster. …” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00894-7
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An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted.
[On résiste à l’invasion des armées ; on ne résiste pas à l’invasion des idées.]Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
The History of a Crime [Histoire d’un Crime], ch. 10, Conclusion [tr. Joyce & Locker (1878)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/13066/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #concept #idea #ideology #inevitability #memes #present #time
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A quotation from Christopher Marlowe
What doctrine call you this, Che sera, sera:
What will be, shall be? Divinity, adieu!Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 1, sc. 1 (sc. 1), l. 76ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)More about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #christophermarlowe #kitmarlowe #acceptance #damnation #doctrine #fatalism #inevitability #sin
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BARABAS: No, Abigail, things past recovery
Are hardly cur’d with exclamations.Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Jew of Malta, Act 3, sc. 1, l. 237ff (c. 1590)More info about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #christophermarlowe #kitmarlowe #complaint #exclamation #inevitability #problems #protest #troubles
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A quotation from Charles Mackay
Keep, Galileo, to thy thought,
And nerve thy soul to bear;
They may gloat o’er the senseless words they wring
From the pangs of thy despair:
They may veil their eyes, but they cannot hide
The sun’s meridian glow;
The heel of a priest may tread thee down,
And a tyrant work thee woe;
But never a truth has been destroyed:
They may curse it, and call it crime;
Pervert and betray, or slander and slay
Its teachers for a time.
But the sunshine aye shall light the sky,
As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
Poem (1847), “Eternal Justice,” st. 4More info about this quote: wist.info/mackay-charles/79828…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #charlesmackay #censorship #freedomofthought #inevitability #justice #repression #science #silencing #truth #tyranny
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
The first rule is, to keep an untroubled spirit; for all things must bow to Nature’s law, and soon enough you must vanish into nothingness, like Hadrian and Augustus. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are, remembering that it is your duty to be a good man. Do without flinching what man’s nature demands; say what seems to you most just — though with courtesy, modesty, and sincerity.
[Τὸ πρῶτον μὴ ταράσσου: πάντα γὰρ κατὰ τὴν τοῦ ὅλου φύσιν καὶ ὀλίγου χρόνου οὐδεὶς οὐδαμοῦ ἔσῃ, ὥσπερ οὐδὲ Ἁδριανὸς οὐδὲ Αὔγουστος. ἔπειτα ἀτενίσας εἰς τὸ πρᾶγμα ἴδε αὐτὸ καὶ συμμνημονεύσας ὅτι ἀγαθόν σε ἄνθρωπον εἶναι δεῖ καὶ τί τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἡ φύσις ἀπαιτεῖ, πρᾶξον τοῦτο ἀμεταστρεπτὶ καὶ εἰπέ, ὡς δικαιότατον φαίνεταί σοι: μόνον εὐμενῶς καὶ αἰδημόνως καὶ ἀνυποκρίτως.]Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 8, ch. 5 (8.5) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/2676…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #marcusaureliusmeditations #acceptance #anxiety #calm #duty #equanimity #fatalism #inevitability #integrity #justice #kindness #modesty #sincerity #tranquility #truth #understanding
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A quotation from William James
Without any exception known to me, militarist authors take a highly mystical view of their subject, and regard war as a biological or sociological necessity, uncontrolled by ordinary psychological checks or motives. When the time of development is ripe the war must come, reason or no reason, for the justifications pleaded are invariably fictions. War is, in short, a permanent human obligation.
William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)More info about this quote: wist.info/james-william/79447/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #williamjames #inevitability #duty #obligation #aggression #holywar #humancondition #humannature #imperative #violence #war #warmongering
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A quotation from William James
Without any exception known to me, militarist authors take a highly mystical view of their subject, and regard war as a biological or sociological necessity, uncontrolled by ordinary psychological checks or motives. When the time of development is ripe the war must come, reason or no reason, for the justifications pleaded are invariably fictions. War is, in short, a permanent human obligation.
William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)More info about this quote: wist.info/james-william/79447/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #williamjames #inevitability #duty #obligation #aggression #holywar #humancondition #humannature #imperative #violence #war #warmongering
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A quotation from William James
Without any exception known to me, militarist authors take a highly mystical view of their subject, and regard war as a biological or sociological necessity, uncontrolled by ordinary psychological checks or motives. When the time of development is ripe the war must come, reason or no reason, for the justifications pleaded are invariably fictions. War is, in short, a permanent human obligation.
William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)More info about this quote: wist.info/james-william/79447/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #williamjames #inevitability #duty #obligation #aggression #holywar #humancondition #humannature #imperative #violence #war #warmongering
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A quotation from William James
Without any exception known to me, militarist authors take a highly mystical view of their subject, and regard war as a biological or sociological necessity, uncontrolled by ordinary psychological checks or motives. When the time of development is ripe the war must come, reason or no reason, for the justifications pleaded are invariably fictions. War is, in short, a permanent human obligation.
William James (1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
Essay (1910-02), “The Moral Equivalent of War,” Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 77 (1910-10)More info about this quote: wist.info/james-william/79447/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #williamjames #inevitability #duty #obligation #aggression #holywar #humancondition #humannature #imperative #violence #war #warmongering
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A quotation from Charles Mackay
Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.
Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “The South-Sea Bubble” (1841)More info about this quote: wist.info/mackay-charles/79186…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #charlesmackay #downfall #gambling #inevitability #nation #nationalsecurity #punishment #risktaking
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A quotation from Charles Mackay
Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.
Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “The South-Sea Bubble” (1841)More info about this quote: wist.info/mackay-charles/79186…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #charlesmackay #downfall #gambling #inevitability #nation #nationalsecurity #punishment #risktaking
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A quotation from Charles Mackay
Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.
Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “The South-Sea Bubble” (1841)More info about this quote: wist.info/mackay-charles/79186…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #charlesmackay #downfall #gambling #inevitability #nation #nationalsecurity #punishment #risktaking
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A quotation from Charles Mackay
Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.
Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “The South-Sea Bubble” (1841)More info about this quote: wist.info/mackay-charles/79186…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #charlesmackay #downfall #gambling #inevitability #nation #nationalsecurity #punishment #risktaking
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A quotation from Charles Mackay
Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.
Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “The South-Sea Bubble” (1841)More info about this quote: wist.info/mackay-charles/79186…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #charlesmackay #downfall #gambling #inevitability #nation #nationalsecurity #punishment #risktaking
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#Design #Debates
The AI age is the “age of no consent” · “The computer’s hallucinated word is final.” https://ilo.im/165tt7_____
#Business #Consent #Inevitability #AI #Slop #CollateralDamages #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign -
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
-- Marshall McLuhan⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MarshallMcLuhan #Inevitability
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. I TURN UP ONLY ONCE.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 19, Feet of Clay [Death] (1996)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/pratchett-terry/7780…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #pratchett #terrypratchett #discworld #death #inevitability #mortality #taxes
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop the plane, you can’t stop the storm, you can’t stop time. So one might as well accept it calmly, wisely.
Golda Meir (1898-1978) Russian-American-Israeli politician, teacher; Prime Minister of Israel (1969-1974)
Interview (1972-11) by Oriana Fallaci, Ms. (1973-04)Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/meir-golda/77084/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #goldameir #acceptance #calm #gettingold #aging #growingold #henoed #inevitability #oldage
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Against all appearances the nature of things works for truth and right forever.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1860), “Worship,” The Conduct of Life, ch. 6Sourcing, notes: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #emerson #ralphwaldoemerson #inevitability #justice #morality #nature #progress #righteousness #truth #universe
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If there is a wrong thing to do, it will be done, infallibly. One has come to believe in that as if it were a law of nature.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Diary Entry (1941-05-18), "First War-Time Diary"Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/17609/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #baddecision #badjudgment #error #inevitability #mistake
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« It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final. »
― Abraham Joshua Heschel
🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/769073915744124928/it-is-an-act-of-evil-to-accept-the-state-of-evil
#quotes #AbrahamJoshuaHeschel #evil #good #finality #inevitability
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« It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final. »
― Abraham Joshua Heschel
🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/769073915744124928/it-is-an-act-of-evil-to-accept-the-state-of-evil
#quotes #AbrahamJoshuaHeschel #evil #good #finality #inevitability
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« It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final. »
― Abraham Joshua Heschel
🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/769073915744124928/it-is-an-act-of-evil-to-accept-the-state-of-evil
#quotes #AbrahamJoshuaHeschel #evil #good #finality #inevitability
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« It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final. »
― Abraham Joshua Heschel
🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/769073915744124928/it-is-an-act-of-evil-to-accept-the-state-of-evil
#quotes #AbrahamJoshuaHeschel #evil #good #finality #inevitability
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« It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final. »
― Abraham Joshua Heschel
🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/769073915744124928/it-is-an-act-of-evil-to-accept-the-state-of-evil
#quotes #AbrahamJoshuaHeschel #evil #good #finality #inevitability
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A quotation from Twain, Mark:
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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/twain-mark/45584/#quote #quotes #quotation #inevitability #meme #reality #truth #victory
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Dear Friends of a #different #Kind, 🪶
I was on #Tooting #common this #morning. Not 'Commons' as the SUV #elites #delight in dividing for their #unthink-tanks to drive through. :gi:
A group of #Wombles from #Wimbledon have planted ye #olde sturdy #oaks from a golf course, also an invasion onto common land. I also noted two #trees broken in two by spoiled #children. In a sense we are all #spoiled and then grow under trees or #daisies. Or on the moon or Mars of the future, in some #extravagant ostentation of irrelevance and #irreverence. Dead is dead. 👻
Half a tree may grow. Half a planet may #survive. Maybe. It is a question of #inevitability Mr Anderson, Nothing Neo under the Sol Matrix, stars or #multiverse... or is there? :ablobcatcoffee:
Always there is. More. More #incomprehensible, more to #wonder. More to do #better. What fun for the #unicorns and trans-rainbows and critters we save. :ablobcatbouncefast:
www.theguardian.com
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Dear Friends of a #different #Kind, 🪶
I was on #Tooting #common this #morning. Not 'Commons' as the SUV #elites #delight in dividing for their #unthink-tanks to drive through. :gi:
A group of #Wombles from #Wimbledon have planted ye #olde sturdy #oaks from a golf course, also an invasion onto common land. I also noted two #trees broken in two by spoiled #children. In a sense we are all #spoiled and then grow under trees or #daisies. Or on the moon or Mars of the future, in some #extravagant ostentation of irrelevance and #irreverence. Dead is dead. 👻
Half a tree may grow. Half a planet may #survive. Maybe. It is a question of #inevitability Mr Anderson, Nothing Neo under the Sol Matrix, stars or #multiverse... or is there? :ablobcatcoffee:
Always there is. More. More #incomprehensible, more to #wonder. More to do #better. What fun for the #unicorns and trans-rainbows and critters we save. :ablobcatbouncefast:
www.theguardian.com
/commentisfree/article/2024/may/09/culture-warriors-national-trust-populists-polarising-divisive?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
Dear Friends of a #different #Kind, 🪶
I was on #Tooting #common this #morning. Not 'Commons' as the SUV #elites #delight in dividing for their #unthink-tanks to drive through. :gi:
A group of #Wombles from #Wimbledon have planted ye #olde sturdy #oaks from a golf course, also an invasion onto common land. I also noted two #trees broken in two by spoiled #children. In a sense we are all #spoiled and then grow under trees or #daisies. Or on the moon or Mars of the future, in some #extravagant ostentation of irrelevance and #irreverence. Dead is dead. 👻
Half a tree may grow. Half a planet may #survive. Maybe. It is a question of #inevitability Mr Anderson, Nothing Neo under the Sol Matrix, stars or #multiverse... or is there? :ablobcatcoffee:
Always there is. More. More #incomprehensible, more to #wonder. More to do #better. What fun for the #unicorns and trans-rainbows and critters we save. :ablobcatbouncefast:
www.theguardian.com
/commentisfree/article/2024/may/09/culture-warriors-national-trust-populists-polarising-divisive?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
The Paradox That's Supercharging Climate Change https://www.wired.com/story/the-paradox-thats-supercharging-climate-change/ #Science/Environment #Inevitability #Science
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The Paradox That's Supercharging Climate Change - Humanity needs to burn less fossil fuels. But that means fewer aerosols to help cool the ... - https://www.wired.com/story/the-paradox-thats-supercharging-climate-change/ #science/environment #inevitability #science
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Been quite a nice sunny day today in #Glasgow
Back to the usual wet stuff tomorrow then and the day after that and the day after that and the day after that and the day after that and.... #weather #Inevitability
