Automation

There have been phases of automation. An earlier phase (mid 20th c.) saw the elimination of many metal-bashing "male" jobs. AI is set to do the same to "women's work". Receptionists, PAs, Librarians, Admin Staff and HR. These roles were core to the domestic work portfolio of "traditional families" or households with two earning adults … Continue reading Automation

Net Zero Water

OK. I like kicking robber barons when they are down. Water. Critical. Low. Supply. It isn't only polluted rivers, fatbergs in the sewers, and fat cat profits for the bosses. They don't have enough water.

Me me me and me-these-days

Why was doing drugs in semi-public toilets ever liberating? "Me, me, me..." is not what interests, well, me-these-days: reading Max Wallis and Alex Dimitrov.

What were we saying?

"Hamas officials" were petty bureaucrats doing municipal jobs.

… and post an old poem, new to this site

I wrote the poem "Total Information Awareness" in 2005. It was published in 2014. I have read it many times at poetry open mics and slams. What we are seeing in 2025, particularly the persecution of migrants, has been in production for more than 20 years. I knew. “We all” had the means by which … Continue reading … and post an old poem, new to this site

In which I elaborate a little

The line is: "I'm Spartacus." It is taken up one by one, each repeating the phrase, "I'm Spartacus." (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054331/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_2) Emphasis on the "I". Who is the "We" in "We are all Palestine Action"? Can the speaker's authorial voice speak for me? Could I presume to speak for "We all..."? No, I have to speak for … Continue reading In which I elaborate a little

I am Palestine Action

Not hiding behind the "we are..." Who "we" anyway? Count me. This shit has gone on for, what? About 76 years. Silence is compliant.

Or will it…?

Everything turn out all right? Well strip the knickers off my naked emperor... Sometimes I feel we "Boomers" just might have dropped the ball.

Poetry demands utility

I think this will turn out all right if I just come quietly.

With my tin foil hat on

I am suggesting that there are sets of affinities that encourage people and their friends, firms, institutions, communities, governments and enterprises to act in certain ways. Blackboard provided a means towards control of the curriculum should someone want to. The patent application was, possibly, late dot-com chutzpah. Its subsequent deployment strikes me as strategic and in line with neoconservative affinities. Evidently, today in the deep winter of 2025.