We (I, Donald Trump) got us into this mess and now it's up to you to get me out of it? No chance - you did this and as I was told often in childhood - You break it, you own it. Sadly, I suspect that pathetic lap dog Starmer will rush to help. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/14/middle-east-crisis-live-iran-warns-of-retaliation-after-trump-says-military-targets-on-kharg-island-obliterated
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. #Photography #Psychology #Music #Idealism #Autodidact
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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I hate wars. Old men sending the young to die when they themselves haven't the patience, intelligence or character for careful diplomacy.
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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Woke up to the news that the Greens have taken Gorton and Denton. Fantastic result and a wonderful start to a Friday!! Yay!!
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Me and my fiancée are trying different shading for my next illustration. Just a draft, but which one do you guys prefer? Left or right? :) #MastoArt #Illustration #WIP
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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@NIGHTEN The one on the right.
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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"In truth there is no AI industry, there is no such thing as AGI or ASI research or ASI safety, there is only the recurrence here of something that American capitalism can’t stop itself from doing again and again in history – creating thin air money out of simplistic, hyped ideas and greed fuelled optimism, creating another economic bubble of vast proportions, bigger than the dot com bubble, maybe bigger than the 2008 crash." https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/02/22/the-ai-backlash-is-real-and-its-winning/
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It's coming to this: "A generous interpretation of how Europe’s political leaders have spent the past year is that they have been playing for time to prepare. A more critical reading is that they naiv
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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And for the view from Chatham House:
"Maddox said one of the tasks of Chatham House would be to champion the need for new alliances and pacts in which countries stood up for principles that the superpowers were shredding.
“I understand the UK government’s inevitable pragmatism but at some point you have to stand up and say we have these differences over principle, and we are acquiring quite a list,” she said."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/13/end-of-western-alliance-trump-uk-chatham-house-director
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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It's coming to this:
"A generous interpretation of how Europe’s political leaders have spent the past year is that they have been playing for time to prepare. A more critical reading is that they naively tried to avoid the costs of a rupture with Trump and now their time is up, and there is no option that is cost free. We can either choose the crisis and the cost of that historic break, or be subjected to the crises and costs that the US will choose for us." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/14/europe-trump-democracy-violent-conquest-federalism
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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I'm glad to be one of the "little people" with a moral and ethical compass:
"Many of the emails to and from Epstein are marked by a tone of haughty knowingness, a kind of worldly, smug cynicism I’ve encountered before in people who think that they are smarter than everyone else. Maybe in the haughty world of billionaires and private jets, it is considered provincial to think that adults should not have sex with children. Maybe to them, morality is for the little people."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/17/jeffrey-epstein-emails-elites
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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"On 1 April, Giuffre wrote to Wallace: “It is my heartfelt wish that this work be published, regardless of my circumstances at the time.” Three weeks later, she was found dead on her remote Australian farm, leaving behind three children." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/20/nobodys-girl-by-virginia-roberts-giuffre-review-a-devastating-expose-of-power-corruption-and-abuse
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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Jun 20, 2025
Perhaps time to post this as a reminder that there is far far more that unites the diversity of human beings around the globe than separates us. Those in governments who "other" people who are "not the same as us" play a dangerous and inhuman game.
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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Anti-fascist long before antifa was a thing. Passionate but despondent about the environment and the future of humanity. Trying to see the very best in everyone but struggling to understand or accept narcissists. The product of a "strange" upbringing. Kept sane (that's debatable) by music, the natural world, but most of all by the friendship and companionship of others. Fascinated by so much that the world has to offer. # Photography # Psychology # Music # Idealism # Autodidact
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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Jiddu Krishnamurti
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