Julian Halliday

We need a thousand, ten thousand, Daniel Ellsburgs. In every part of government and for every type of secret realm.

28.01.2025 03:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.”

28.01.2025 01:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, I would answer 'To hell with them.'

28.01.2025 01:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No, we are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves.

28.01.2025 01:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm still in novice mode, but I see that someone has quoted the Dalai Lama on the subject of "our purpose on earth." My favoured version of this -- not from a religious fraud -- is Michael Foot's one: 1/4

28.01.2025 01:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow! Several people have found me at Bluesky. Thank you all. I haven't worked out if I can tag people, but I know you're there!

For me, as you can guess, the character limit is a point of concern. But we'll see how this goes.

28.01.2025 01:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thought I'd initiate my account, not just with the marvelous Tom Tomorrow, but with an image. Since that's one of my things. Here's a palimpsest -- two or more photographs, layered and blended in Photoshop -- of a red leaf.

27.01.2025 22:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Ah, the bellboy in evidence.

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