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Evisceration #1: good lookin’ women
I read two things in quick succession that were just delicious rapier-rather-than-broadsword killings. This one is by someone I knew at school and uni. (Other evisceration to follow tmrw.) In my experience, there are two types of good-looking women. The … Continue reading
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Meaningless words (for a bingo game) #innovation #assemblages #iterative #recombinant
Meaningless words which should be mocked into oblivion, but won’t be, because we all of us like those crutches, fnords and throat-clearers, don’t we… Innovation Partnership Resilience Holistic (I heard, on the radio the other day, a woman justifying smoking … Continue reading
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Pentagon censoring Hollywood – Lassie in the dog house…
From here. “In the 1961 Lassie episode “Timmy and the Martians,” Lassie howls to alert Timmy of a plane crash. In the original episode, once the military has re-assembled the plane they discover that a faulty wing had caused a … Continue reading
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Worth thinking about…
“There’s an old saying in the public opinion business: we can’t tell people what to think, but we can tell them what to think about.” – Doug Henwood Reminds me of that Thomas Pynchon line, to the effect “if they … Continue reading
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CEOs as replicants?! #empathy #bladerunner #dilbert
From here You’re allowed to like both Tom Tomorrow and Scott Adams, right?
Posted in economics, framing, humour
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Will the wolf survive? Depends if you feed it. Sort of.
An old Cherokee [NOT! - see below] chief took his grandchildren into the forest and sat them down and said to them, “A fight is going on inside me. This is a terrible fight and it is a fight between … Continue reading
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Time to retire the goddam Titanic Metaphor
If the ship has hit the iceberg, there’s no longer any point petitioning the captain to slow down. If the ship has hit the iceberg, you try to find something that will float, and if you’re particularly noble you try … Continue reading
Stella Duffy on “intersectionality”, class, activism and the real enemies. #nailsit
There’s quite the bunfight going on about use/abuse/misuse of what was – to me – an abstruse word by an Indie hack called Suzanne Moore (1). “Intersectionality” – here’s the wikipedia article. Basically seems to be saying you have to … Continue reading
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Tagged glasgowsexworker, intersctionality, middle-class gentrifiers, Stella Duffy, Suzanne Moore, white knights
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Crumple zones and #climate and the knee-jerk fascist response
“The crumple zone is a structural feature mainly used in automobiles and recently incorporated into railcars. “Crumple zones are designed to absorb the energy from the impact during a traffic collision by controlled deformation.” (wikipedia) We are going to need … Continue reading
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Tagged pending ecological debacle
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Hanna-Barbaric images to come…
“Those of us who spend our days trawling – and contributing to – the scientific literature on climate change are becoming increasingly gloomy about the future of human civilisation,’’ said Liz Hanna, convener of the human health division at the … Continue reading
Posted in activism, apocalypse, death, fear, framing
Tagged climate change, pending ecological debacle
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