I really don't want to be unsympathetic, particularly about this issue, but I wonder about this.
Like many well-motivated inventions, it depends on its users being well-motivated as well.
Surely it could easily be hijacked by predators. And as for the police ...?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Oh good god! I hope you had some comfort food for dinner!
The 2nd edition of Medea in Corinth is now available from Poetry Salzburg here:
poetrysalzburg.com/medea.htm
My author copies are arriving in the next few days at which point I'll bother you again with an update.
Poem chosen for general relevance.
If you don't trust doctors why are you going to the hospital when you get measles... Go on the internet and do your own research. That's how you came to the conclusion not to vaccinate. Stick with that
Miss Bronte!! I mean, who doesnt sympathise? But really. Charlotte!!
After four days of hesitating, the president of France has joined the prime minister of Spain in saying that the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran is a violation of international law.
But they are still the only 2 EU leaders to have done so. Will others join?
If they wanted to cynically embed their dogwhistles among moderate policies they would have to adopt the platform of the labour party
Could they not have one (1) iota of dignity or principle?
Also no one voted labour for this. If this was their priority, they had two other options. At least give up your soul for earthly reward, idiots.
Andrea Leadsom is their King Arthur, a fallen hero waiting in darkness for the horn to sound
it is terrifying! the spider scene, too. aaargh.
A brilliant movie I first watched, incredibly weirdly, at 2 am on September 11, 2001.
I actually agree with this one
Robert Jenrick is like a fairytale character who turns up on your doorstep, pale and smiling, when you, a political party, are about to die
Britishness, however much Reform et al try to relitigate it, is 90 per cent people saying nice things about you they don't mean before brutally disposing of you.
seems obvs to me that mamdani gets far because of his charm. why do "male self improvement" types always focus on things like looksmaxxing instead of personalitymaxxing or charmmaxxing?
'Ultimately turned on local issues'
Poets are also quite quick off the mark on that front from time to time
Socrates, Throngs and Perfect Snogging
I mean, really Socrates with the throng, but never mind. As a poet I obviously hate truth and want to dismantle it
Plato to an admiring throng of young Greek men:
'Not exactly a bolt from the blue'- my mother
Just realised i came out 30 years ago today. To, as i recall, a patient @samfr.bsky.social.
A senior figure in Reform suggested making divorce harder yesterday
They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.
I don't know why but it just is quite funny that Sir Georg Solti is kicking everyone's ass at the Grammys
As they should be! The locksmiths are in Dante.
this is also our version of brokeback mountain. and indeed the epic of gilgamesh.
