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Nonviolent living
At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled. Marshall Rosenberg (1934–2015) This video by Marshall Rosenberg is less than 6 minutes long, but in that short time it packs a message that would change … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, collaboration, Communication, Core thought, Culture, Health, People, perception, Phlyarology, Strategy
Tagged Giving, love, Marshall Rosenberg, nonviolent communication
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Let’s Play: Spot the Poop, Again
One more fine mess of dog poo pics for your distraction here presented; discards by inconsiderate dicks their actions doubtless unrepented. Why can’t they bin their pets’ wrapped crap? It’s not like such motion’s costly. ‘Twould foster friendship ‘cross the … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Culture, Dogshit gallery, Environment, Just for laughs, Phlyarology
Tagged 'common' sense, dogshit, hobby, scat, scatology, stupid
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How to be a free-thinker, part one
Throwing off shackles is a two-stage process: One has to acknowledge that a box exists before being able to think outside it. Me, 2021 Google and Facebook track you, learn how you think, and seek to manipulate you in pursuit of … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Communication, Computers and Internet, Core thought, Culture, Strategy
Tagged Big Tech, brexit, facebook, Google, social media
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Don’t trash our future
It’s not just the big things; the little things matter, too. The UK is suffering from a litter epidemic. 226 million cigarette butts are discarded in England every year. £1 billion – the estimated cost of picking up litter in … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Core thought, Culture, Environment, Health, Phlyarology, Strategy
Tagged Justice, litter, litter-louts, rubbish, trash
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Let’s Play: Spot the Poop
I clearly need to up my gameMy rant has not got through.My walks of late have been the same:Strewn with dogshit poo. What is it with these low-life shits?They care not for their home.I’d like to rend them into bitsThen … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Culture, Dogshit gallery, Environment, Just for laughs, Phlyarology
Tagged 'common' sense, dogshit, hobby, scat, scatology, stupid
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My dirty new hobby
A ‘haipu’, by yours truly: I have a new hobby: Collecting gifts on my walks… Dogshit in plastic. I embarked upon a new hobby recently: taking photographs of the little presents the local dog-owners have left for me to find … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Culture, Dogshit gallery, Environment, Just for laughs, Phlyarology
Tagged 'common' sense, dogshit, hobby, scat, scatology, stupid
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Science friction for Star Wars Day!
Tell your uncle if he gets a translator, be sure it speaks Bocce. Beru Whitesun Lars, Star Wars Episode IV, “A New Hope” In honour of C-3PO, to whom Bocce was like a second language, I was originally going to … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, art, Communication, Culture, Just for laughs, Phlyarology, Science Fiction
Tagged #MayThe4thBeWithYou, #StarWarsDay, Klingon, pIqaD, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Big Bang Theory, Yoda
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Think before you thank?
Research in 2019 by expert survey consultants Censuswide, commissioned and publicised by OVO Energy, revealed that more than 64m ‘unnecessary’ emails are sent every day. One result of this is the emission of nearly 23,500 tonnes of additional carbon, in … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Communication, Core thought, Culture, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, Strategy
Tagged behaviour, carbon emissions, carbon footprint, email, facebook, spam
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Say his name (with a towel)
Jill Dennison posted something yesterday on her blog Filosofa’s Word that suddenly made me sit up and pay attention. Her post begins with a simple statement of fact: Seven jurors were selected this week for the trial of Derek Chauvin, … Continue reading
Our Today is Forever, revisited
This heart-rending masterpiece of a video is a mash-up featuring the music of Queen (‘Who Wants to Live Forever?’). It was uploaded to YouTube over a decade ago (21May2010), yet in all that time it has garnered fewer than 50k … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Biodiversity, Core thought, Culture, Education, Environment, Health, Music
Tagged plastic, Plomomedia, pollution, Queen, Who wants to live forever?
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Wibble 