Farewell Suella … but, say what?

Sir Iain Duncan Smith, a former Tory leader, 🔗 told the Mail on Sunday in June: _"_Cleverly is a total wet rag who wants to fly out to China to kiss the backside of a regime responsible for shocking abuses of human rights."

Ok .. it’s the Mail .. but still …

Somewhere over on Facebook Johannes Ernst was promoting 🔗 InkWELL …talking about the Fediverse and Indieweb .. and featuring our very own @manton .. home page quotes Cory D …

As Cory Doctorow says, corporate platforms like Facebook and X have business models that are based on holding users hostage and leveraging their attention and their data for profit.

Just mentioning it because I spent way too much time attempting to pull the real URL out … free of FB crud to share with you all. Oh the irony!

🔗 Not fulfilling your potential? You’re focusing on the wrong things

The secret to achieving mastery and fulfilling your potential requires using your mind to focus only on the things you have 100% control over. Seeking acceptance holds you back as it inevitably means compromising on what’s really important to you and what you believe.

‘Straight outta ComptonThe Stoics

I have a draft of a piece about ‘an experience(?)' in London that ended the night with us riding in a ‘🔗 Paddy Wagon’, the story evolved because of some combination of Oxy, Meth and Alcohol.

Just read that 🔗 Meth is cheaper than beer in Laos .. my instant reaction … ‘probably in London too’.

🔗 An unusual newsletter from me - connecting to unusual subject matter (for me) in my Substack.

Enjoy?

🔗 ‘Nature’s way of dealing with old people’.

Boris … so powerful, so caring, so concerned … so Boris.

Now THERE is a little bit of history on 🔗 Flatiron’s web site @danielpunkass

… originally home to Pearson Weekly and the first ever crossword published in the UK ….

🔗 ‘That decision cost lives’: Covid data case further deflates Ron DeSantis’s campaign.

… not that we care about him anymore … but if we could just bankrupt him❓

🔗 White House seeks vast weapons package ‘to help Israel defend itself’.

Be interesting to see if this can happen while the house is out of action … because it then begs the question as to why the same can’t happen for Ukraine?

🔗 Max Hastings is voting Labour over ‘dreadful’ Tories led by ‘loser’.

Let that sink in.

Max Hastings!

🔗 The double standard with Israel and Palestine leaves us in moral darkness.

🔗 Netanyahu is drawing the US into war with Iran.

So the US can be drawn into a war that Israel starts … but not into a war to defend Russian aggression?

🔗 Anyone using Hemingway?

Theres a new version out. Thoughts?

🔗 California workers who cut countertops are dying of an incurable disease. (Apple News)