paul

Joining the exodus (same handle) though I'll keep a fingernail hold here to witness the destruction.'Throw away the lights, the definitions' (Wallace Stevens).

[paul @proteanclod]

Please read/ RT. It's hard not to feel that this is simply a better class of human being. https://t.co/u8vs7BHFXv

[paul @proteanclod]

'Following considerable reflection'... (you know the rest!) I'm constitutionally averse to bandwagons but it *is* broken. I'll retain a spectral presence here fttb.

[paul @proteanclod]

@IanDunt and ofc on top we all reap the poisoned crops these bastards sew. But we (quite literally) know better too, and we touch it occasionally even if we cannot hold. No need to imagine a posthumous hell for these sad souls when their every waking moment is a fireball of hurt//

[paul @proteanclod]

@IanDunt It must be hell to suffer thus & in a way, when I consider how vicious the effect of their actions are, that's comforting & almost funny. The rest of us, no angels, continually pivot between such self-made hell and moments of sweetness, I feel/

[paul @proteanclod]

@DAaronovitch @ShippersUnbound Jesus, but what an attitude to life! I get the guff re diplomacy, Realpolitik etc. but there are limits & besides no bully was ever more than very temporarily appeased by flattery. Sorry but it is Ed Davey's tweeting finger that has set the statesmanship bar so far today.

[paul @proteanclod]

Please, all people of goodwill reading this - listen to some Bach today, go for a swim, try to be extra kind to trees... It won't cancel out your sense of tragedy or dread but it might help make it a little easier to bear. And we are going to need every scintilla of grace!

[paul @proteanclod]

@ProfDaveAndress Pull down monarchy & the great landowners (personal & institutional) are exposed & conceptually by extension (tho I appreciate it hasn't actually happened like that within most Western republics) much broader notions of inheritance & property itself. Rexit could be massive!//

[paul @proteanclod]

@ProfDaveAndress which for the life of me I struggle to see as defensible outwith any pre- industrial revolution frame of reference, yet in fact goes almost entirely undefended (excepting pretty specious & vacuous ideas around 'custodianship' etc.)/

[paul @proteanclod]

@SaraWahedi So well done you & much solidarity!

[Sara Wahedi @SaraWahedi]

Happy Halloween to the Taliban –

because nothing haunts them more than educated Afghan women. And we're only getting smarter. And fighting back.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

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[paul @proteanclod]

@sturdyAlex Sounds quite fun. And as sensible in its way as the idea of touch rugby... 'you know, if we remove their boots and belts etc. the poor dears won't be able to hurt one another as much!'

[paul @proteanclod]

Let them go, good riddance - put them on the first untried voyage to punish their over-confidence! Let it launch tomorrow if possible. Just maybe, our own plummeting, rotted planet may have a little more chance to recover without these 3 hyper-rich white men's poisonous hubris!

[paul @proteanclod]

Let's put them all on that feckin' ship then - the sick prince who declares he can eliminate inequality, the plutocrat who urges freedom so long as it's on his own terms, and the new Il Duce who claims he's Christ for all but his enemies (who are the rest of the world)/

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

🚨ELON MUSK ON TRAVELING TO MARS:

"You can travel to Mars roughly every two years. We're actually at a planetary alignment right now in a few months and that's when we plan to send the first Starship rockets to Mars. We can send quite a few in two years and if those land successfully then we can send people in four years.

Maybe we can Make Mars Great Again!

If you warm Mars up it will have an ocean on about 40% of the surface a mile deep if you just warm it up. It can be an Earth like planet. This is important for the longevity of consciousness. There's always some chance that something can happen on Earth.

One day Mars could play a role like America played in saving the world."

[paul @proteanclod]

@guardian Obscene arrogance - ignorant & offensive.
For anyone clinging to defence on 'at least trying to do good' lines, please note the verbal construction here: *not* understand, empathise, explore or so on - but 'show how to prevent'. As if! Hubris as a tawdry heirloom.

[paul @proteanclod]

@robpalkwriter I am so sorry for your loss. He sounds wonderful.