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Both those platforms should be abolished, but the "professional" one has been polluted by one's age-mates (they are hardly peers) performing banal and verbose versions of the self-help slogans one usually sees printed on discount store cushions.

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 14h

And one is back to one's usual level of mediocrity on South America. Clearly one will have to get drilled by Mr Dalvie more often and more thoroughly to improve these scores. www.maptap.gg October 6 100🎯 100🎯 99🔥 99🔥 80✨ Final score: 935

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 14h

It interests me how we find ways to feel superior to another person, another group of people. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Whatever we call it, I think it's the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down. ▫️Elizabeth Strout, 2016

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 22h

Dietes iridioides in the West Garden: #NorthJozi in spring. 🌳🌱🌸🌼🪺🌍🌥

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"I understood I would never marry him. It's funny how one thing can make you realize something like that. One can be ready to give up the children one always wanted, one can be ready to withstand remarks about one's past, or one's clothes, but then—a tiny remark and the soul deflates and says: Oh."

Quotation from Elizabeth Strout's MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON (2016).

Image is a still from Pedro Almodóvar's DOLOR Y GLORIA (2018) showing Penélope Cruz as Jacinta meeting César Vicente as Eduardo, the painter and carpenter who becomes the object of her son's first desire, and his wife, and saying, "What a pity! So handsome and illiterate!"

Jacinta is empathetic, and goes on to suggest to Eduardo and his wife, Sara Sierra's Conchita, that she would pay for the renovations by having her son Salvador, the future film director, teach the illiterate workman to read.

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Far too cold for spring in #NorthJozi, but at least we have flowers in the West Garden. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖🗝🚪🌸🪺🌍🌥

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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse.” Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë #Brontëfest

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sunday sunset with rain clouds gathering, the promise being overnight rain in #NorthJozi. 🌱🪺🌳🌼🌅🌍🌥

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Should one be a responsible adult or go schnarff the rest of the risotto left over from lunch before the sun has even set? #NorthJozi dilemmas . . . 🤔🍚

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Went to feed the birds in the North Garden, but then the pigeons became a tad Hithcockian, and one's current hairstyle is not Tippi Hedren enough for that kind of running in #NorthJozi on this unseasonably chilly day in October.

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The hardest thing was training the mule to kick the contestants in the head pre-show." ▫️Margaret Pomeranz (on television gameshows)

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Because turnips were not carved properly, a ghoul from the other side made an untimely trans-stygian journey to appear on 'Question Time' last night, mumming and guising in a nausea inducing performance." Pace Baudrillard, this simulation is worse than whatever the real thing might once have been.

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Friday morning, spring in #NorthJozi; too cold to swim (14 ⁰C), but the birdsong and wing flapping in the North Garden are delightful. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖☕️🗝🚪🪺🌍⛅️

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That one knows who these people are is a source of concern; knowledge of US "reality TV" celebrities (sic) is akin to microplastics in brain tissue . . .

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"On the press tour you will have to say 'lingam' . . . a lot."

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Use a gif, pic, or vid to share how you are feeling today. 🖤

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Name a film with real "autumn" vibes, that ISN'T a horror movie. 🍂🍁🎃

Still from Todd Haynes's FAR FROM HEAVEN (2002) with Dennis Haysbert and Julianne Moore against the backdrop of a forest in autumn.

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh, how this film takes one back to that spring moment in Amanda Kottler's Psychology 3 lecture in the R. W. James Lecture Theatre on the slopes of Devil's Peak, now that one finds oneself in the autumn of one's life . . . 🍂

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mood. "I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering. I ought never to have taken my lantern to see what was going on […] On the other hand, there was no way, once I had picked up the lantern, for me to put it down again."

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Guess who's back? Back again! Geography Whizz is back! Tell Mr Davids! 🕺🏿🏆 www.maptap.gg October 1 96🔥 99🔥 100🎯 97🔥 100🎯 Final score: 986

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If someone dies in October do not sweep the house for three days or the rest of you will go. Also do not step on a boy's head for the devil will enter your ears like music. ▫️Sexton 1975 Dit is die maand Oktober: die kokewiet is uit; Boomsingertjies en kriekies die hoor jy orals fluit ▫️Leipoldt 1911

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The only possible cosmopolitanism, far removed from [current] pathetic sectarianism, is evident and possible through the postnational retrieval of the worldly cultures that exist now and with contemporary forces but with historical references to pre-modern imperial domains. ▪️Hamid Dabashi, 2016

Quotations from Hamid Dabashi's IRAN WITHOUT BORDERS: TOWARDS A CRITIQUE OF THE POSTCOLONIAL NATION (Verso, 2016).

In destabilizing the stubborn residues of Eurocentricism, even (or particularly) among the most critical thinkers of our time, we need actively and persistently to retrieve the repressed, denied, or forgotten cosmopolitan worldliness of other worlds – from Asia to Africa to Latin America – all actively hidden deep beneath the violently domesticated master trope of "the West".

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fortunately, like those high school Geography lessons, unless you make an effort, these come up only once a day. 🙃

Still from XXY (2007) showing Germán Palacios as Ramiro, a surgeon from Argentina, looking with a tiny bit of amused surprise at someone off screen, in the kitchen of his wife's friend who is married to a marine biologist and living outside a Uruguayan fishing village.

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Shocking! Kicked out of the top position, I will definitely need extra instruction (sic) from Mr Dalvie to impress Mr Davids tomorrow. 😳🫣😏 www.maptap.gg September 30 96🏅 92🏆 97🔥 95🏅 78😁 Final score: 901

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The subjects of the WC cubicle are free to fetch their weather back, because their gift of rain is appreciated, but not these European autumn temperatures, not for the Highveld in spring.

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

All imperial engagements abroad for the day are cancelled because of inclement weather. The Autocrat Incarnate shall remain ensconced in the #LateImperialLibrary as rain lashes #NorthJozi with single digit temperatures. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖☕️🗝🚪❄️🌍🌧

Panel showing the weather for Johannesburg, currently 8 ⁰C (feels like 4 ⁰C) with an expected daytime high of 11 ⁰C and rain throughout the day. And it is September, spring in the southern hemisphere.

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Time to revisit the genius of Norman Lear and Louise Lasser and see if we can also see that waxy yellow build-up on MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN (1976-1977).

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Unseasonably cold, wet weather in #NorthJozi after a hot day with thunderstorms. This cold snap reminds one of autumn days in Amsterdam and Utrecht, and as one has declared before, on days like this one misses those hirsute Turks on Albert Cuypstraat and their Kismet Eetcafe delights. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖🗝🥗🥙🚪🌍🌧

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whenever you see Royals wearing jewels & crown don't forget their obscene wealth stems in large part from "monopoly slave trading companies set up by the Stuart monarchy during the 17th Century" "New BBC Series Finding Britain's Slave Traders with David Olusoga" www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Je t’inventerai Des mots insensés Que tu comprendras Je te parlerai De ces amants-là Qui ont vu deux fois Leurs cœurs s’embraser Je te raconterai L’histoire de ce roi Mort de n’avoir pas Pu te rencontrer ▫️Jacques Brel, 1959

Still from Pedro Almodóvar's DOLOR Y GLORIA (2019) showing Antonio Banderas as Salvador Mallo sitting opposite Leonardo Sbaraglia as Federico Delgado, in an apartment which is a replica of Almodóvar's own abode.

Mallo and Delgado are former lovers who parted decades earlier on particularly odious terms, and in age have serendipitously met up again.

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Finally it has happened to me Right in front of my face My feelings, can't describe it ▪️Cece Peniston, 1991 www.maptap.gg September 28 99🔥 95🏅 97🔥 100🎯 96🏅 Final score: 976

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please sign Petition to help South Africa save the Pangolins A Million Pangolins Were Trafficked in a Decade. South Africa Is Fighting It Nearly Alone. Eight pangolin species are now threatened with extinction and four are critically endangered. www.thepetitionsite.com/707/705/767/...

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Eight species are now threatened with extinction, and four are critically endangered. (53029 signatures on petition)

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If someone doesn't like my skeets . . .

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The palace internet is down; called the ISP, and within 2 minutes of that call's conclusion the technician was at the drawbridge requesting entry. Sometimes life in #NorthJozi can be shockingly efficient.

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not convinced, but also not ready for the 240 questions version, yet.

12 Axes quiz result which suggests "Left: Eco-Socialism" as the result of the 60 questions.

86% most compatible with José Bové (activist) and Jeremy Corbyn, 85% with Bernie Sanders, and 84% with André Gorz.

Unitary 85%
Democracy 80%
Liberty 60%
Multiculturalism 90%
Pacifist 100%
Non-interventionist 50%
Publoc 95%
Planning 85%
Protectionism 95%
Irreligious 100%
Progressive 100%
Biology 100%

Nearby countries
Allende's Chile 81%
Rojava (North and East Syria 78%)
Anarchist Aragon and Catalonia 76%

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One does wonder about a quiz which suggests "eco-socialism" and a 99% match with Pol Pot. But then again, one is the Autocrat Incarnate. 🤭

Still from Pedro Almodóvar's DOLOR Y GLORIA (2019) showing Asier Etxeandia as Alberto Crespo standing innfront of a red screen saying, "I sensed that it wasn't good and I didn't like it."

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At end of day: #NorthJozi in spring. 🌱🌳🐦‍⬛🪺🌍🌤

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

La crisi consiste appunto nel fatto che il vecchio muore e il nuovo non può nascere: in questo interregno si verificano i fenomeni morbosi piú svariati. ▫️Antonio Gramsci, 1947 [1929-1935] #Umore.

Still from Pedro Almodóvar's DOLOR Y GLORIA (2019), showing Antonio Banderas as Salvador Mallo in his study, reputed to be a replica of Almodóvar's own.

The main post is a quotation from Antonio Gramsci's QUADERNI DEL CARCERE (written 1929-1935; published 1947; translated as PRISON NOTEBOOKS, 1957 and 1971):

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with a dying fall Beneath the music from a farther room. ▫️T. S. Eliot, 1917 [1915]

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AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reading empowered me to journey to places with the mind and imagination. Reading expanded my consciousness. Laying the foundation for a passion for words and ideas, reading made the impossible possible. ▪️bell hooks, 2010 Friday night in the #LateImperialLibrary, #NorthJozi in spring. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖🗝🚪🌱🌼🌍🌔

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