your periodic reminder that there was a sperm whale called Porphyrios who took offense at the Romans and singlehandedly decided to stop all Byzantian trade and sank so many ships over the next 50 years that Justinian declared him an official enemy of the empire and put a reward on his head

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Ursula K. Le Guin on Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard, from her TV Guide article "My appointment with the Enterprise: An Appreciation" "Such a strong, sensitive, intelligent man, so short, so bald, so beautiful"

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Alert: There will be an auction raising money for trans supporting organisations running Nov 6 to 8, and I have a quite cool lot!

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It tells me people need and want moral reference points, that they provide a shared moral imagination, and that there's a greater appetite for goodness than our public discourse suggests.

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The one thing I've taken from the reaction of deaths of Dolly Parton and Patrick Stewart is how much love there is towards people who represent goodness, and how much meaning they bring to people's lives, shaping the idea of the world they want to live in, giving them ideals to strive for.

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