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Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.

Most housing benefit goes to private landlords. A big chunk of universal credit subsidises underpayed workers. The so-called welfare bill could be seriously reduced by fixing these underlying issues, not cutting actual welfare.

Greed is a mental illness. We should stop hero-worshipping those who have it.

“Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear.” ~ Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) #Photography

Its the feel-good hit of the summer.🤘

Have i got this straight: If Reps win midterms Trump retains full power. If Dems win midterms Trump claims fraud, doesnt accept result, retains full power. If the public protest Trump claims insurection, declares martial law and retains full power. Else they do nothing, Trump retains full power.

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

If you claim to love the country but yet you have issues with anyone in it who doesn't look, act and think the exact same way you do, then you don't really love the country do you? You just love a fantasy version of it that lives in your head.

The internet should be a place you visit, not a place you live.

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

George Galloway says he will vote Yes in future referendum. Is this the final nail in the coffin of scottish independence?

"Haters gonna hate, bro" - John the Baptist

We need a "working class history month". Remind people just where so many of our hard-fought rights come from and why those in power are so hell-bent on convincing so many people that minorities are the problem.

“The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence.” — Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

There we go. That there’s a headline.

Just added an Ewok picnic to my Redbubble collection www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/169481571

date -d "last year 12-25" sudo chown you -R ~/heart date -d "last year 12-26” rm -rf ~/heart date -d "25 Dec" sudo chown someone:special -R ~/heart