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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 3h

Goodbye Paramount Goodbye Warner Brothers Goodbye HBO Hello MAGA TRUMP oligarchy media beast to be called SKYDANCE. Hollywood is now full-blown MAGA and we creatives are FUCKED. Have fun!

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Demanding release from the Apollonian prison of instrumental rationality, the counterculture beckoned to Orpheus and Dionysus unbound, a gemeinschaft of festivity, pleasure, and mysticism embodied in communes, rock concerts ...” ~ Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon.

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“Demanding release from the Apollonian prison of instrumental rationality, the counterculture [of the 1960s] beckoned to Orpheus and Dionysus unbound, a gemeinschaft of festivity, pleasure, and mysticism embodied in communes, rock concerts, “be-ins,” handicrafts, and organic farming. Sponsoring a profusion of experiments in consciousness, it practiced “expressive individualism,” in Robert Bellah’s words, another Romantic celebration of unrestrained feeling and sensuality.”

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“In the Romantic sensibility, imagination was not a talent for inspiring fantasy, but the most perspicuous form of vision—the ability to see what is really there, behind the illusion or obscurity produced by our will to dissect and dominate ...” ~ Eugene McCarraher.

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The Romantics’ Imagination:

“In the Romantic sensibility, imagination was not a talent for inspiring fantasy, but the most perspicuous form of vision—the ability to see what is really there, behind the illusion or obscurity produced by our will to dissect and dominate. For Blake, imagination provided access to “the real and eternal world, of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Together, my lord Sauron, we shall rule this Middle-earth."

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Jenny Edwards CBE @jennyedwards.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nick Robinson on #BBCToday, salary £410,000, obsesses with removing the triple lock from pensioners, income £12,500. The only income for 1 in 5 single pensioners. 1 in 10 have mo savings. I million live in material deprivation. UK pension lowest in G7. Super rich journos pushing this agenda on #BBC

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Mind is not really 'inside' us in the same sense that our intestines are. Our individuality is a kind of eddy in the sea of mind, a reflection of the total identity of the universal humanity.” ~ Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 22/09/2026

YouGov’s latest poll shows that 628 constituencies want to rejoin the EU. Only 4 don't. It’s time to talk about EU membership. bestforbritain.org/uk-membership-mo…

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Root Causes of Why We're FUBAR or “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” ... esowteric.vivaldi.net/2026/01/16/t... Materialist, post-enlightenment, post-trust, post-truth, post-rationality, post-honour, and post-chivalry.

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The Root Causes of Why We’re FUBAR

Or “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” I’m tempted to simply post: “The U/S is FUBAR and the UK is heading the same way. “That’s it. That’s the post.” I was going to say that coming in the wake…

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Contemporary political cartoon by Guy Venables ... #satire #politics #history

Three dictators in US, Russia, and China seek to divide the world.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What does a sniper position at Memorial Circle actually defend against? Not China. Not a submarine. Not a missile. It overlooks a bridge, a traffic circle, and the front door of the National Mall. Those are places where Americans march. www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cartoon by Nick Anderson

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Elizabeth James @lizijames.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My tv was not replaced when it literally melted down a few years ago, as nothing but opinion-massaging programmes are shown. No matter, only a certain proportion needs persuading for it to work.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

RFK is a eugenicist. That is why he points to underlying health conditions when measles kills someone. The implicit argument is measles did us a favor by culling the herd. Of course, that is not how the family members feel. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/09/the-...

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The measles outbreak in Pennsylvania is huge - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Despite attempts by RFK Jr. and his allies in rural Pennsylvania to deny it, the administration’s anti-vaxx campaign is having exactly the effect it intends (people getting sick and dying) [gift link]...

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

All foxes report to the hen house immediately!

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Rich owners/editors of FT call for cut to the state pension. Silence on corporate welfare, tax perks of the rich. State pension is less than 50% of the minimum wage. 2m pensioners in poverty. 110,000 a year die in fuel poverty. Low pension today = low pension for future retirees archive.ph/UZ9rn

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Britain’s unsustainable pensions lock

It would be better to link state retirement benefits to earnings growth

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that there was no escape from the labyrinth of contradictions in which we live except by an entirely new road, unlike anything hitherto known or used by us ...” ~ P.D. Ouspensky.

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A Forgotten Reality:

“I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that there was no escape from the labyrinth of contradictions in which we live except by an entirely new road, unlike anything hitherto known or used by us. But where this new or forgotten road began I was unable to say. I already knew then as an undoubted fact that beyond the thin film of false reality there existed another reality from which, for some reason, something separated us. The 'miraculous' was a penetration into this unknown reality.”

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Is the phoney war #2 coming to an end? Reports that Kremlin warns that in event of hostilities, Warsaw would be gone within 2-3 days ...

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Power Within ~~~~~~~ “When the power comes from within us and we claim it as our own, then we no longer have to affirm ourselves by dominating others. The irony is that we are actually afraid of our own power.” ~ Marion Woodman, Dancing in the Flames.

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Albert and Alexandra Lee ~ Dimming of the Day ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYDQ...

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Wake up, my soul. I don’t know where you are, where you’re hiding, but wake up, please, we’re still together, the road is still before us, a bright strip of dawn will be our star. ~ Adam Zagajewski. Image: Forest Dawn / DanSam21 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.

A metalled road curves to the right through forest, with fallen autumn leaves along its grassy verges. Low sunlight beams in from the right of the photo, from behind the trees, its rays visible in the dusty air.

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Freedom ~~~~~ “I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now & can see through our fear-stricken society & its obsessive technologies to other ways of being ...” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, Speech at 2014 National Book Awards.

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“I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries—the realists of a larger reality.” ...

“Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Peter Kingsley's new book, "The Watching Words" is due to arrive by Saturday. It's at the final delivery station, so there's a possibility it may even arrive today.

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and ... more difficult to deceive ...” ~ W. H. Auden.

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Poetry and the Arts:

“The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive, which is why, perhaps, all totalitarian theories of the State, from Plato’s downwards, have deeply distrusted the arts. They notice and say too much, and the neighbours start talking.”

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

BULLETIN: Trump offers $5,000 bribe to every adult American if GOP hold House and Senate in midterms Total cost, without caveats? 18 USC 597 sets a year in jail for anybody who offers money to get you to vote in any way Full details in the Countdown bulletin podcast now live: tinyurl.com/ystjnmte

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“When the self weeps because it has lost The essence laughs because it has found.” ~ Abu Sulaiman, footnote in Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion. Image: Laughter / Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.

A painting depicting laughter, by the artist Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916). I wouldn't know how to describe it.

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Wonder Why🦆Ducky🦆 @duck-flying.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation If tech firms such as Meta, Google and TikTok did not give the option to turn off algorithms, they should face "substantial" penalties www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation

Firms like Meta, Google and TikTok should face "substantial" penalties if they don't give the option, minister says.

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.” ~ Owen Barfield, Worlds Apart. Image: The Art of Stating the Blindingly Obvious 1129253 [with added border] / David Lally / Wikimedia Commons (orig. Geograph) / CC BY-SA 2.0.

Photo showing a steep tarmac footpath with five steps at the far end, leading to a row of houses and bungalows. To the left of the path is a wide rectangular white sign at the top of a metal pole, that reads: "Caution: Footpath is not suitable wheelchair or mobility scooters." The photo is aptly titled "The Art of Stating the Blindingly Obvious".

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

On Imagination, with John O'Donohue ... Audio (20 min). www.youtube.com/watch?v=grum...

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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is a false choice. A constitutional republic is a form of representative democracy. The Constitution structures and limits government; democracy describes where political power ultimately comes from: the people.

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America is a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, NOT a democracy!!!!
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Public service announcement from your friendly neighborhood political scientist:
A constitutional republic is a type of democracy. Saying
"we're a constitutional republic, not a democracy" is like saying "I don't have a dog, I have a Border Collie." How is this difficult?

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation: “Examines his theory of the "hyperreal" and how it manifests in society's relationship to art, movies, mass media, advertising, education, architecture, technology, and language.” Video (24 min). www.youtube.com/watch?v=pupL...

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Jean Baudrillard's 'Simulacra and Simulation' (summary/notes)

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“The Romantic view regards myths as ‘an expression of the deepest creative potentialities of man’. Myth ... is decidedly not the obsolete expression of a ‘primitive’ or neurotic mentality for it reflects a direct intuition of deep truths ...” ~ Keiron Le Grice.

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The Romantic View Of Myth:

“The Romantic view regards myths as ‘an expression of the deepest creative potentialities of man’. Myth, in the Romantic interpretation, is decidedly not the obsolete expression of a ‘primitive’ or neurotic mentality for it reflects a direct intuition of deep truths that were readily available to premodern civilizations and that remain accessible to the modern mind if myths are read symbolically.

“The Romantic perspective sees myth and science not as mutually exclusive but as equally legitimate modes of apprehending truth.”

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“The real treasure of life, the one difficult to find and hard to attain, is never far from us. That’s an unwritten rule on this earth. What we desperately desire & need most is buried in the recesses of our innermost being all along. This is the open secret...” ~ Michael Meade.

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The Hidden Treasure:

“The real treasure of life, the one difficult to find and hard to attain, is never far from us. That’s an unwritten rule on this earth. What we desperately desire and need most is buried in the recesses of our innermost being all along. This is the open secret found in many traditions and told in many ways. Yet it remains a secret because trusting in oneself remains one of the hardest things to do in life.”

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“Rationality is exclusive: reason is inclusive, balancing rationality with intuition, emotion and imagination. Emotion is not, as some Enlightenment philosophers thought, necessarily an impediment to reason, but an essential component of it ...” ~ Iain McGilchrist, The Matter with Things.

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A Balancing Act:

“Rationality is exclusive: reason is inclusive, balancing rationality with intuition, emotion and imagination. Emotion is not, as some Enlightenment philosophers thought, necessarily an impediment to reason, but an essential component of it.” ... “[I]magination is not an impediment, but, on the contrary, a necessity for true knowledge of the world, for true understanding, and for that neglected goal of human life, wisdom.”

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Wide Awakes carried torches and marched at night. Their goal: defend free speech in America. What started as a small group of young men demonstrating during the 1860 election, snowballed into a mass movement of working-class Americans marching to end slavery ... www.si.edu/sidedoor/wid...

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The Wide Awakes

Learn how a mass movement of working-class Americans marched to end slavery.

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H.M. Forester @hmforester.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

How the Renaissance Built Community and Friendship ~~~~~~~ David Fideler “When we realize that connection is a byproduct, we can begin to reverse the modern epidemic of loneliness ...” davidfideler.substack.com/p/how-the-re...

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How the Renaissance Built Community and Friendship

When we realize that connection is a byproduct, we can begin to reverse the modern epidemic of loneliness.

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