damian entwistle · @ukdamo
61 followers · 446 posts · Server mastodon.org.ukToday's poem:
An Expostulation
- by CS Lewis
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/724804160017596416/an-expostulation?source=share
#poetry #CSLewis #Science Fiction #banal #quotidien #imagination #daring
#poetry #cslewis #science #banal #quotidien #imagination #daring
Gigi 🥚 · @Gigi
356 followers · 3593 posts · Server kolektiva.social
Frank Hirschhausen · @frank_hirschhausen
37 followers · 368 posts · Server troet.cafe
Frank Hirschhausen · @frank_hirschhausen
37 followers · 357 posts · Server troet.cafe
Kohlscheid wirkt heute etwas eilig … #mundane #banal #fotografie #euregio
#Euregio #fotografie #banal #mundane
Frank Hirschhausen · @frank_hirschhausen
36 followers · 348 posts · Server troet.cafe
#fotomontag #Photomonday #mundane #banal #fotografie „Moinsen, Herr Hirschhausen ! Na, dann geht es nach ihrer Woche Urlaub ja wieder richtig los, was ?“
Das möchte ich lieber nicht (nie war mir Bartleby der Schreiber näher …)
#fotografie #banal #mundane #Photomonday #Fotomontag
Fnord Devp · @fnord_devp
0 followers · 36 posts · Server 23.illuminati.orgWhat a predictable and #banal situation. It's hardly surprising that the #Chinese are attempting to gain access to our infrastructure. I'm sure the #BidenAdministration can handle it, but I remain deeply skeptical of their ability to adequately protect us from such a #blatant breach of security. #StayAlert #SecureYourData https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/04/politics/china-spy-balloon-us-latest/index.html
#banal #chinese #BidenAdministration #blatant #stayalert #secureyourdata
Michael Faint · @ansolasoir
697 followers · 480 posts · Server toot.community
South Uist, 2019.
#InnseGall #Airbags #OuterHebrides #photography #LandscapePhotography #Uist #Banal
#innsegall #airbags #outerhebrides #photography #landscapephotography #uist #banal
O U T / W I T H · @h
37 followers · 73 posts · Server photog.social
Islington, 2019
#banal #banalography #newtopographics #alteredlandscape #urban #photography
#banal #banalography #newtopographics #alteredlandscape #urban #photography
Pat · @Pat
125 followers · 2265 posts · Server qoto.org
#democracy #republic #USA
#ignorant #banal #parrots
If I hear another person ignorantly parrot the phrase, "We're not a democracy, we're a republic!", I think I'll puke.
Democracy has many forms. The form of democracy we have in the US is a representative democracy. Because it is not a monarchy, it is also a republic. (A republic is a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who is accountable to the public.)
**** "Democracy" and "republic" are not mutually exclusive. ****
Here's Merriam-Webster's current definition of democracy:
"a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections"
Here's an image of the definition from Samuel Johnson's dictionary of 1785, at the time when our country was formed:
#republic #usa #democracy #ignorant #banal #parrots
🇪🇷Götterdämmerung · @Gotterdammerung
296 followers · 4959 posts · Server glitch.socialDIPLOMAT: someone always on the verge of saying either the banal or the blunder.
#diplomat #heterodoxdictionary #banal #blunder