Mouse Philosopher

Born under the floorboards in the larder. I have a pet named Ed Wicke. He writes stuff.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

We did a Word of Mouth special on Fairy Tales with Jamie Tehrani to coincide with the British Library exhibition:
https://t.co/VmzHwwgf5f

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Trump is personally responsible for 28% of the national deficit of a 250 year old country.

Let that sink in.

We should all be embarrassed.

[Liberal Lisa in Oklahoma @lisa_liberal]

I’M REALLY OVER MY ACCOUNT GETTING GHOST BANNED BECAUSE THE OWNER OF TWITTER IS A TWAT.

CAN ANYONE EVEN SEE ME?

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

Just one day after Jeff Bezos criticized New York school spending

Zohran Mamdani announced that the city had recovered $9 million in unpaid fines from Amazon delivery trucks

[Mouse Philosopher @Bunstropple]

Worth reading and repeating

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

By David Abbruzzes:

This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."

Very well stated.

[Mouse Philosopher @Bunstropple]

@LucasSa56947288 Hero

[Mouse Philosopher @Bunstropple]

@TheLeadCNN @WalshFreedom @jaketapper No. Antisemitism is not being normalised except by people who insist that to be anti-Israel is to be anti-Jew. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

Chip Franklin: “These dumb fucking MAGA hillbillies, they don’t understand the Constitution can only be changed by the amendment process, which is not easy by design. While the 14th Amendment is anything but nuanced, all persons born in the US are citizens of the US, the 2nd Amendment was never intended for Americans to have unlimited access to guns”

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

This is the path America. And we need to embrace it. It’s the one we’ve been waiting decades to implement that actually takes care of the lower and middle classes. We (MCS) debunked all of their socialist narratives on the subject years ago. Stop believing rich people.

[Frank Cottrell-Boyce @frankcottrell_b]

Particulary special for me to see a British Childhood get a good review in Social Care Today .

https://t.co/dv1UW2yh05

[Mouse Philosopher @Bunstropple]

@WalshFreedom Please. Double please. Distinguish between antisemitism and the rejection of Israeli killing of civilians with the destruction of hospitals and schools. Or stop pretending to be a reasonable person who has learned from the Trump disaster.

[Mouse Philosopher @Bunstropple]

Brilliant

[Frank Cottrell-Boyce @frankcottrell_b]

Thrice upon a time, I'll tell you a story ...
The time being 10.45pm

https://t.co/4aRNJ8PEi7

[Mouse Philosopher @Bunstropple]

We all need to share this…

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

PabloReports: How do House Republicans make the case that you're fighting for affordability when you go back to your districts?

Nehls: Affordability? What are you talking about? I'm gonna go there tomorrow. I'm gonna get me a couple of big lobster tails. I'm gonna get me some nice rib eyes.

Reporter: Do you think the 60% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck can afford lobster tails and rib eyes and all of that?

Nehls: Maybe not. Maybe the 60% of Americans don't work as hard as I do.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

PabloReports: How do House Republicans make the case that you're fighting for affordability when you go back to your districts?

Nehls: Affordability? What are you talking about? I'm gonna go there tomorrow. I'm gonna get me a couple of big lobster tails. I'm gonna get me some nice rib eyes.

Reporter: Do you think the 60% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck can afford lobster tails and rib eyes and all of that?

Nehls: Maybe not. Maybe the 60% of Americans don't work as hard as I do.

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

For generations, this scene has been fascinating and captivating due to an extremely valuable detail: the moment Maria uses the "whistle" to retaliate against Captain von Trapp.

This is not just a clever exchange, but the most vivid manifestation of the Law of Order, Truth, and Dignity.

1. The Detail: The Whistle That Turns Around
When Captain von Trapp blows the whistle to order Maria and gives her his own whistle, he is representing absolute power, the imposing shaping of the material world.

But the best part is that immediately after he turns his back and walks away, Maria blows that whistle to call him back.

When he asks, "What is that?"

Maria replies directly, "You didn't give me your signal."

The essence of this brilliance lies in the fact that viewers appreciate this detail because Maria doesn't use anarchic rebellion to fight against order. She uses his own "rules of the game" to point out its absurdity. She uses his whistle to force him to reconsider his own actions. This is the art of resistance through integrity, using reason to shatter false prestige.

2. The clash between "Name" and "Sacred Name"
In theological culture, a "Name" is something sacred bestowed by God, representing the soul and independent dignity of a person. Conversely, a "Signal/Number" is a deprivation of dignity, turning a person into a tool.

When Maria resolutely called each child by name instead of using the whistle, and when she looked directly into the eyes of the powerful Captain to say, "Whistles are for dogs and cats... but not for children," she was performing an act of defending human dignity.

This is an affirmation: Before God, each individual is a soul with a name and dignity. The Captain may possess money and status, but he has no right to turn these sacred souls (his children) into creatures that only obey the sound of a whistle.

3. The fundamental morality: Obedience to the Divine is higher than obedience to worldly power.
Why could a small, poor apprentice girl stand so defiantly, breaking the will of a majestic Captain in his own mansion?

The viewer sees in Maria a pure inner energy. She is not afraid of worldly power because she has faith within her. She knew what was Righteousness.

This scene proves that gentleness, honesty, and righteousness have a greater power to influence than authoritarianism. Captain von Trapp, though angry, was completely "powerless" against Maria's reasoning. He left in confusion, because deep down he knew she was right.

That was the moment Truth triumphed over Imposition. Maria did not use rebellion or hatred. She used intelligence, honesty, and respect for human dignity to make a system of power reflect on itself.

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

Four months ago, the Iranian Regime was on the verge of collapse from internal protests and upheaval. They were gunning down their own citizens by the thousands in panic.

Today, they're richer and stronger than they've ever been.

All thanks to Trump.

https://t.co/zO5SMiABsy

[Mouse Philosopher @Bunstropple]

@MarioNawfal We feel sorry for MAGA delusionists who have to make things up on Trump’s behalf. Once Trump has gone, therapy will be offered to you.

[Mouse Philosopher @Bunstropple]

@MarshSongs Brilliant and funny

[Frank Cottrell-Boyce @frankcottrell_b]

This is quite the list to appear on.
Re Audio recording - l spoke for five hours and the only interruption was someone asking me to say it all again but more slowly. A dadly dream.