(0804) If you look at the sign-off time of the last post to the sign-on of this one, then that was quite some second sleep. Much to do but at a medium pace … this continues in Mon 2 … (0930)(0936 addendum) Bergoglio dies at 88. (0937)

 

6. DAD at 1026

a) In the absence of any tidings from Emmanuel Macron, here is Donald Trump’s Easter message “Melania and I wish everyone a happy Easter!”

b) Boy-rape and attempted murder in modern multicultural France.

c) ‘The European Qu’ran’: falsifying European history with funding from the EU.

d) UK ‘at risk of evolving into propaganda regime’ with unenforced FOI rules and official secrecy

5. Steve last evening

• Test Scores Plummet for Low-Income Students … Woke Agenda Ruins US Schools
• Illinois Defies Trump’s Executive Order to Protect Female Rights in Sports
• King of Kings Breaks Record …Young America new Hunger for Christ
• Trump Lifts Commercial Fishing Ban Central Pacific-Fishing Industry Celebrates
• Voters Are Tired of the Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’
• Military Situation In [The] Ukraine During The “Easter” Truce
• France believes it can defeat Russia 
• White House Unveils Massive Report On The True Origins Of Covid-19
• Great Replacement Thinker Banned from Entering UK
• Much more.

4. Alito’s dissent in that sneaky Saturday midnight judgement

3. Saw this one in passing

2. There are certain essentials

… and their priority order is individual, personalised … good thing too. My priority order is:

• The spiritual … being in Grace afap, that social contract
• Sufficient sleep, even in parts … no substitute for it … bod demands it
• Enough liquid to be sipped all day
• The right kind of food at the right time
• Exercise … at least some, enough times per week
• Friends and responsibilities.

It might seem that the last one is a low priority but that’s not so. You can’t deal with what needs dealing with, with other people, jobs too, unless you yourself are capable in the first place, and that is especially so with advancing age. I need to go over and see how Grandad is but first the other things must be done, plus:

• A place for everything and everything in its place
• Reminder notes left in the same places around your abode every time
• Forget touting for sympathy, forget hypochondria, just do what needs.

This last one is directed at myself … in your case, I wish to know your sit-rep, so that I know what I’m dealing with here … it stays private, all right? There’s also a thing I call faux heroism, such as when someone with a shocking cold, lurgy, battles on through it, spreading it to everyone else, being brave and stoic. That’s just irresponsible.

On the other hand, real ailments of our own, pain etc. … well they need dealing with, there and then. Some friends of mine have some issues just now, they need dealing with …

• Try to stay in touch but not excessively so … you’ve seen that quote that “she lives for others, you’ll know the others by their hunted look”.
• Try to keep your list of friends to a manageable level … you’re not that young yourself now, so stop kidding yourself.
• Develop the art of polite refusal if humanly possible … we’re all in the same boat … many friends and family or some combination … look, we can only do so much, all right?
• Stay civil with good people afap, let off steam with those who need stopping.
• Develop strength of mind and peripheral vision … to be a good chap? Heck no … it’s simply to survive, that’s it.
• Constantly declutter … clutter stops your effectiveness … zero regrets afterwards, all right?
• Somewhere in there is hygiene, next to godliness … you’ll pay heavily if you don’t.

My list of texts would be Bible, Kipling’s “If”, Desiderata … they’re enough to be going on with. Then the aphorisms gathered at, say, Unherdables HQ.

Third last bullet point above … strength of mind … this is where yesterday’s Resurrection comes in, gives strength and other goodies not natural to me … I can be a right bstd otherwise. By all means ignore that offer … choice, remember … good luck with your future progress then, I say. Humans are their own worst enemies. …/NUFF FOR NOW.

Now off to see how Grandad is […] hmmmm, no further word. Hmmmmm.

(0248)(0348)

1. When one publishing system clashes with another

Commenter Redacted has a site “EKO” here’s one page, here’s another. As a site manager over a longish period myself, I have to say the navigation is fraught at substacks interfacing with WP through Apple … very difficult copying text and pasting.

I also have issues with substack over navigation with things like About, the first place I go. When I cannot find anything about the redactor, nor about what EKO means, it’s frustrating, esp. when covering the territory we do here. However, there were some vital reads in there too, e.g. comments thread here:

Monday [1 to 5]

Go to the comments threads on EKO posts, one being Steven Paul:

“In coming to the end of an old, wearying season and anticipating the joys of a new one approaching, I’ve been reminded the last few days of how messy things were for Him. 

• Constant haranguing from religious shills. 
• Withering streams of false accusations. 
• Constant waves of insincere flattery.
• The target of unending but futile attempts at manipulation and trickery. 
• Abandonment. 
• Betrayal. 
• Physical torture and open mockery. 
• Death.”

I did finally get into the About page:

Now, if substack are giving me such a hard time accessing basic data without having to come at it in different ways, it does make the platform a real chore, esp. when speed-reading. Of course, it applies in reverse too … some of you immediately reported the issues when I set up Jstack, a compositional and access nightmare, not designed for site-nav but more for one-off daily rants.

Which is a pity, as Redacted and some commenters write some very telling things worth noting.

The question of jazz and its roots, for example … that’s a bit each way … I had to ditch two versions of one of the songs late yesterday because they were iffy, before finding a third. On the other hand, the 1924 to 1931 period was far more freeform, with many solos in one song, rather than a blended loss of individuality which dominated the later 30s and 40s, lukewarm like the Laodecian church.

And that’s particularly an issue in 2025, when “choice”, the cornerstone of John 3:16, is being snuffed out by a priestly caste, step by step. By design. I was particularly interested in the point about tying Jesus to a timeline, in order to erase Him.

Also, to set near impossible parameters, in order to render something unprovable, something requiring faith, which the detractor wishes to see discarded, as part of the plan.

Particularly as confirmation swiftly follows the “buying of the ticket”, which is why so many were and still are willing to pay the ultimate penalty. Why? Might it be because it happens to be true? So the other side provides cults such as Manson and Jim Jones, where the devotees are totally obedient, but with dark, desolate outcomes. The outcomes, the fruits, are a major factor in all this. …/NUFF FOR NOW.