♅ Philip K Dick was a time traveller ♅

This picture was taken in 1953. That does not look like a person from 1953.

Do androids dream of travelling back in time to become speculative fiction authors?

♅ Trollitician ♅

A concise descriptive package that perfectly sums up our current political landscape

♚ The Monarchy ♚

There is some kind of techno/monarchic coup going on in America, it is concerning, and is likely to spread. However I live in the UK, and we already have a Monarchy - and they've been in place for centuries! My country has always been a strange "democracy" - we have no constitution, just a complex system of laws, statutes and treatise held in place by centuries of tradition. I don't like what they stand for, but in this dark new age they may provide a bulwark of stability that other countries lack. I find it deeply ironic that I'm now almost glad that we have this bizarre bureaucratic system of Kings, Lords, Right Honourable this's, and privy that's! It obviously benefits the elite primarily, but better the devil you know...

♅ Alberto Brandolini ♅

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

♅ Goddledegook ♅

If there is no God, then why does the palm of a man fit perfectly around the throat of a goose?

Thoughts and prayers to anyone who's had his shadow pass over their feet

You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel!

Your teeth are whiter than sheep freshly washed; they match perfectly, not one is missing!

♟ "Man Up" ♟

There's a crisis with men and boys in my country, it is systemic - in UK schools only 1 in 4 teachers are men, and 1 in 7 at primary schools - this needs a solution, and rapidly, to counter the taint of modern day "influencers".

I think schools need to have a lesson every week allocated to boys which is hosted by a positive male role model - preferably not a teacher - just a dude who's not an asshole and has something interesting to impart; whatever, as long as it's positive.

When I was at primary school we had a guy called Ray Coles come in and do football, not a teacher, just a sporty guy who had an innate knack for wrangling boys - he was a good guy and everyone loved him. There's no way Ray would've had the academic chops to become a teacher, and there's no such thing as a degree in 'Being Ray' - so if becoming a teacher is the only route to having an impact on boys inside schools then I think we're screwed as a society; because instead of Ray, it'll be Andrew Tate, or some similar piece of shit who will end up impacting them!

Teaching just isn't as appealing to men, especially primary teaching, and I don't think any recruitment drives or other tactics will change this - we live in a society where a man who wants to work closely with young kids is viewed suspiciously, and that puts guys off going into teaching (thanks catholic priests!). But like I've said we don't necessarily need more male teachers, we need men like Ray on the roster to offset the imbalance in teaching; and not slapped into some kind of subordinate 'teaching assistant' role either, but a dude of character with a certain amount of autonomy to make him less tied to the standard authoritarian school doctrine that many young males abhor.

Solving the crisis in men will help everyone - it's easy to say 'fuck men, it's all their fault, why help any of them!' to this I say: focus on the cause not the symptoms; a well adjusted man will not batter his wife and kids, or abuse minorities, or abuse his privilege. This should be seen as a preventative measure, a positive influence on society, not a capitulation to the manosphere - many boys just want to be boys, and there's nothing inherently wrong with that.