Reposted by MartinP
1/23
Sorry, this will be long...
There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday.
So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric.
At sea, the starting point is simple:
Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.
![[image description: a poem embedded in an Excel spreadsheet with the words contained within individual cells. Line 3 has words in a single merged cell. Line 4 has text wrapping applied. Line 8 has filters applied to each word]
Love Excels
Let’s spread ourselves on sheets of love
and turn our data into poetry.
Our cells shall merge themselves together
As you wrap your text around me.
Our sum is greater than our parts,
let’s crunch our figures without compunction.
Remove this filter from my heart –
you give me form and function.
We shall frolic among the formulae,
pivot our tables now and often.
I will total all your rows
and you can add my column.
Brian Bilston](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3hptt3d3jvwahhnl3jvsycc2/bafkreiaa4kywxfiv3gdsj66zt6tuoja2kjwhi6tctwayydltiq54if6wmu)
