I blog about mortality awareness. Humanist. Anti-corruption. Anti-authoritarianism. Anti-totalitarianism. I have ME/CFS #mecfs. Boosts not necessarily endorsements. (he/him)
Interests: #DeathAnxiety #DeathAwareness #TerrorManagementTheory #MortalitySalience #FearOfDeath #MementoMori #MortalityAwareness #Death #Mortality #Existentialism #ErnestBecker #ExChristian #Exvangelical #Humanism #Agnostic #fedi22
KENT COUNCIL ELECTION RESULT
Margate division:
⚪ Reform UK: 44.4% (new)
🔴 Labour: 36.6% (-5.5)
🔵 Conservative: 11.1% (-28.4)
🟠 Liberal Democrats: 7.9% (+2.4)
Reform GAIN from Labour.
Changes with 2021.
#ukpolitics #ukpol #electionresults #localelections2025 #localelections #Conservatives #Labour #LibDems #ReformUK #Kent
Trump issues order to pull funding for NPR and PBS https://www.theverge.com/news/660130/trump-npr-pbs-executive-order-funding
30 April 1945 | As Soviet forces neared his command bunker in Berlin Adolf Hitler shot himself.
Hitler's Thousand Year Reich lasted twelve years, four months & eight days.
We need to commemorate all the victims & remember where ideologies of hatred may lead humanity to.
@cachondo You’re right. My bad, I was lazy. I’ll update the alt text when I get a moment 👍
Long passwords are important.
#tech #technology #encryption #password #passwords #Security #cybersecurity #computing #computers #computer
I feel like the least I can do is share this story. There is so much more men can & should be doing about these issues: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/30/i-dont-date-at-all-now-one-womans-journey-into-the-darkest-corners-of-the-manosphere
It is not strange weather it is collapsing systems.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/12E7C7VkqNY/?mibextid=wwXIfr
No matter what side of the aisle you are on, you should be appalled that a billionaire thinks he has the right to buy elections like this.
Trump is now searching for people who leaked information he claims is false, which definitionally cannot be a leak.
So either the information—that Elon Musk has privileged access to plans for war with China—is true and someone really did leak it, or Trump is seeking to prosecute random government employees.
Or maybe both!
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/22/politics/defense-department-polygraph-tests-leaks/index.html
Children of my wife's friend were asked to leave a suburban Milwaukee pool this weekend because they aren't white.
How is it in 2025, we're fighting the battles won 60 years ago?
MAHA: Make America Hate Again.
The latest Garbage Day email had a good bit on just how weak the Democrats have been throughout Trump's term so far. The bit about how back in the day of Hitler's rise 'some members of the German Left Party wore purple hats' was spot on I thought:
https://www.garbageday.email/p/democrats-can-t-flashmob-their-way-out-of-this-one
Migrants granted refugee status here, whether Haitian, Venezuelan or Ukrainian, deserve stability and a chance to rebuild their lives here. The point of these revocatiobs to inflict misery on the most vulnerable. I’m so deeply ashamed and angry.
The UK government petition to decriminalise abortion is so close to 100,000 to ensure a debate. Can we get it there?
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700014
(8 signatures to go, almost...)
Edit: past 100,000 but every signature is useful
UK colleagues: a quick reminder to check and (perhaps) boost your state pension before 5th April '25.
You can 'buy back' any missing national insurance years from 2006 to 2018 until that deadline. After that, you'll only be able to buy back the last six financial years.
https://www.gov.uk/check-national-insurance-record
#StatePension #UK #UKFreelancer #Freelancer #xl8 #NationalInsurance
@chiffchaff I respect this point of view. I long for the perspective to take hold in me that not existing will be a relief - I'm not there yet.
I also agree with you that death/dying sounds terrifying. I'm not looking forward to that bit either, so that's why dying in my sleep or in a cloud of strong pain relief drugs sounds good to me.
I wrote a blog post about how I have fear of no longer existing anymore: https://oblivionwithbells.com/2025/03/01/fear-of-no-longer-existing-anymore/
#Blogging #writing #thinking #Death #existentialism #philosophy #Thanotophobia #FearOfDeath #mementomori
@eleanorrees Hmm, well when you put it that way 😬
