Fruitcaketocracy: the New American Experiment Supporters must see him as a grandmother 👵 off her rocker mumbling nonsense. I mean, you don't let anyone mess with her, that I understand, but you hand her the nuclear football either. Ya know?

Just absolute madness from beginning to end. Trump: “Newsom didn't allow the water to come from the Pacific Northwest. You know they have tremendous amounts of water in California, which most people don’t know. They send the water out into the Pacific Ocean. So I demanded that to be open. If that were open during the fire, you wouldn't have had the fire because all the sprinklers would've worked in the houses. They had no water. They had no water in the fire hydrants. They wouldn’t have had the fires. They would have been put out after one house, two houses. But he stopped the water from coming in. And I had to send in the military to have that water opened, after the fires. And now that water, but he should have more, because they still restrict it. There’s something wrong with these people. There’s something really wrong.” There’s something really wrong with Trump’s brain…

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#JeffreyStClair #FruitCakeTocracy #TrumpsBrain #TrumpsMadness #CaliforniaWater

I had meant to include these two photos of TuxPaint in the original pixelfed post. The photos of the cucumber plant and the lunch menu are from the next day in the same area. I chose photos in Shotwell and resized them into a directory.. I look at the thumbnails in a file browser while deciding how to order the photos.. Usually just remembering the last two digits of the filename works, but this time photos from the next day shared the same last digits... I guess it's ok though, looking through the whole album, maybe with the context of some other recent posts can give and idea of some of the nice things going on in this community...

@Brian Small

#TuxPaint #Yorugakkou #FreeNIghtSchool #MImataNightSchool #三股よる学校

A Jacobin post on Instagram^1 reminded me of this 1930s Bertand Russel writing

... The money spent by the Duke in this merry-making was obtained by taxing grain so heavily that bread was at famine prices, and vast numbers of the poor died of hunger.
A hundred years ago, in a society now extinct, the point of view which puts charity above independence now seems to us grotesque. But in newer forms it still survives and is still politically powerful...
russell-j.com/CHARITY.HTM

• ^1 instagram.com/p/DKfGWfvNBKK/?i…

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- instagram.com/p/DJn1C55B3VG/

In dreams begins responsibity.

夢の中で責任が始まる

- eigomeigen.com/quotes/4780.php

#英語名言 #イェイッツ #夢と責任 #WilliamButlerYeats #イェイツの名言

無用の用 The usefulness of the useless..

It's been a few years since I ask classes of 40 to 80 students for the meaning of "Don Quijote". They tell me it's a store. My question was intstigated by the extra (Not on the test!! just for your enjoyment if you finish quick) reading on the back side of a worksheet. While discussing proverbs in comparison with science, literature, and slang Bertrand Russel mentions Sancho Panza.^1

Sancho Panza produced more proverbs than any other character in fiction

サンチョ・パンザは、他の小説の主人公の誰よりも多くの諺を創りだした。

Bertrand Russel also refers to Don Quijote to illustrate a type of thinking.^2

The classic example of subjectivity is Don Quixote. The first time he made a helmet, he tested its capacity for resisting blows, and battered it out of shape ; next time he did not test it, but “deemed” it to be a very good helmet.

Don Quijote illustrates "subjectivity" in On Education in 1925, and decades later Albert Camus's Myth of Sisyphus uses Quijote thinking to illustrate the difference between "lyricism" and "truism":

... there are probably but two methods of thought: the method of La Palisse and the method of Don Quixote. Solely the balance between evidence and lyricism can allow us to achieve simultaneously emotion and lucidity.... If Faust and Don Quixote are eminent creations of art, this is because of the immeasurable nobilities they point out to us with their earthly hands. Yet a moment always comes when the mind negates the truths that those hands can touch....

- ^1 russell-j.com/PROVERB.HTM
- ^2 russell-j.com/wp/archives/2640
- russell-j.com/beginner/OE16-07…
- ^3 pixelfed.social/bobfisherphoto
- pixelfed.social/p/bobfisherpho…
- pixelfed.social/i/web/post/828…

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#RusselWithQuijote #CamusWithQuijote