I am sure this was meant to be motivating - and I don’t know who the author is - but not true - and definitely does a massive disservice to those that did fight back. They did - in a world when it was a lot harder to do so. If just a few of those people were around today - not sure we would be where we are.

🔗🎵 ”The most influential prog band", according to Geddy Lee

Not wrong IMHO.

Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Back in 2018 I wrote a series of ‘true life’ stories about people I randomly met - this is Benjamin’s

🖇️🔎 Other Surprises

🔗 Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai Are Cowards – Pixel Envy

Hard to disagree as to how rules are not being applied consistently …. Quelle surprise❗️

🔗 Thought Shrapnel

I have no idea if I’m neurodivergent. I don’t think I’ve got ADHD, and all men are probably on the spectrum somewhere. Who’d want to be neuro_typical_ anyway?

My bold - but would surely explain a lot in this household 😂

Just pulling some history to day after reading 🔗 Room temperature from Seth.

Stable systems regress to the mean. Things level out on their way to average, which maintains the stability of the system. The same pressures are put on any individual in our culture. Sooner or later, unless you push back, you’ll end up at room temperature.

🖇️ Me - July 2024 - We Are Being Forced To Conform

[🖇️ Me - March 2025 - A post responding to @manton / @devilgate](https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/05/the-butterfly-effect-is-real.html)

🖇️ Manton’s Original Post

Just thinking about Masto again - which took me to Tapestry - and I see a familiar icon and so I think … closer look? Again ?

Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ From 8 years ago - you say complacent - I say complicit

🖇️🔎 Other Surprises