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Written by Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her) on 2025-01-22 at 20:03

"Despair is a black leather jacket that everyone looks good in. Hope is a frilly, pink dress that exposes the knees." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

[#]hope #hopepunk #solarpunk #fascism

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Written by JackieM on 2025-01-22 at 20:25

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And Toni Morrison

“It's a nice big fat philosophical question, about: how do you get through? Sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt. It's not about that solution. It is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances. It's that, that makes it elegant. Good is just more interesting, more complex, more demanding.

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Written by JackieM on 2025-01-22 at 20:26

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Cont…

Evil is silly, it may be horrible, but at the same time it's not a compelling idea. It's predictable. It needs a tuxedo, it needs a headline, it needs blood, it needs fingernails. It needs all that costume in order to get anybody's attention. But the opposite, which is survival, blossoming, endurance, those things are just more compelling intellectually if not spiritually, and they certainly are spiritually. This is a more fascinating job.

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Toot

Written by Leigh Silvester on 2025-01-22 at 21:13

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While this is about fiction, luckily most people have had little close contact with violence and 'evil'.

It's not nice and most criminals are not the smartest people. Contrary to what books, TV and film like to portray, there is rarely any thought or planning.

In my role as a forensic scientist I would receive samples to analyse and all the case notes. Most of them made pitiful reading. Sad people in sad situations.

One still stays in my mind decades later. Barbaric

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Descendants

Written by Leigh Silvester on 2025-01-22 at 21:21

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Might be a tangent, however there was a series of Reith lectures about criminality evil presented from a prison. This includes contributions from some inmates.

By forensic psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead.

Fascinating and why I put 'evil' in quotes.

If you can access it I would recommend it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9/episodes/player

If anyone really wants them but can't access these can be downloaded

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