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Autistic Man!

By HarryC on Fri, 20 Sep 2024

Loosely-based on George Carlin's 'Modern Man' performance poem, I wrote this for a poetry slam a couple of years ago. It needs a rapid-fire delivery...

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Taking Care 6 (iii)

By HarryC on Tue, 17 Sep 2024

After three months in the job, I had my first supervision. Malcolm was my appointed supervisor. I was dreading it. "It's just a formality, really,"...

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Seeing

By HarryC on Mon, 16 Sep 2024

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SEEING I wish I could explain to you how it is that when I see a sunrise on a shattered landscape an empty shoe washed up on a beach a blackbird...

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Taking Care 6 (ii)

By HarryC on Sun, 15 Sep 2024

I realised early on that I got better results from people if I didn't try to coerce them with activities. Like the thing with Greg. Instead of...

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'Our life is frittered away

Posted on Tue, 27 Aug 2024

'Our life is frittered away with detail. Simplify! Simplify!'

Henry David Thoreau

(as many have pointed out... one 'simplify' would have been enough, Henry!...

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Letter in The Times a couple

Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024

Letter in The Times a couple of weeks ago:

Harriet Walter says that "there is nothing more depressing than a two-year-old in a buggy glued to a screen". I think that an adult pushing a buggy using a mobile phone and ignoring a...

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Yes, you're right. Any way

Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024

Yes, you're right. Any way you look at it, it's not good. I don't know what the answers are. Once an avalanche starts falling, you can't stop it. It'll only stop when it's destroyed everything in its path, and hits the bottom, and runs out of...

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I try to remain hopeful. But

Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024

I try to remain hopeful. But when you see how it's all being driven by the race to the top, and that the gap between the growth of capabilities and the development of safety mechanisms is so huge (1,000 to 1), then it's easy to see how it can...

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Thanks, Di. I think the

Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024

Thanks, Di. I think the addiction is understandable. It's an essential part of the business model for these platforms - the so-called 'attention economy'. The saying in Silicon Valley is 'If you aren't paying for the product, you are...

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I think of it as a bit of

Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024

I think of it as a bit of freedom, mate! It's funny, but I had a medical...

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I detest the whole culture of

Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024

I detest the whole culture of it, and refuse to have a smart phone. People call me a dinosaur. No, I'm not. Neither am I a lemming. I have a PC with internet connection, which I use when I choose to use it. I have a VPN to protect my privacy...

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Hi Turlough,

Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2024

Hi Turlough,

Thanks for your comment. I had a couple of 'episodes' yesterday with BIG car drivers, which inspired the rant! The area I live in is full of them. I was reading that their numbers have jumped ten-fold globally since 2010,...

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Ah, The Blind Beggar. Oh,

Posted on Tue, 18 Jan 2022

Ah, The Blind Beggar. Oh, the times...

Great memories, mate.

That scene where Ollie runs out in front of the fire engine and jumps in the back of the van - I watched that being filmed. It took six takes over about 40...

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Cassiopeia - 'the big double

Posted on Tue, 18 Jan 2022

Cassiopeia - 'the big double-you!'

One of the few constellations I can remember, because of the shape.

A first reading has resonated with my own thoughts at this time. I may not be able to decode the images, but there's an...