(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.

(1648) Evening all.

 

22. Protect and extract our girls

… Moosh shows how:

21. You really want this turned into a deathculter community centre

… or worse … torn up and reduced to rubble?

20. DAD at 1026

This is gold. James Comer should get a Congressional Letter Award of some kind:

19. Even south Londoners are saying it

18. Steve

a. ‘For the first time in eight years, all branches of Christianity are celebrating Easter on the same dates, from 18 – 20 April. This is because of a rare alignment of the Gregorian calendar – which Catholic and Protestant churches use – with the Julian calendar used by Eastern Orthodox churches.’

JH: Not only is that happening but the polit-sit has reached such a crisis, where the globopsycho lowlifes now feel supremely confident we won’t fight back and so they’re ramping it up … but …

… at the same time, Gen X malcontents have reached the age where they’re in charge, plus Gen Zee are falling away from their brainwashing to a point. The number of times I saw tweets today saying “He is risen” … this is no coincidence. The reply is “He is risen indeed”, which is precisely what the Orthodox say in their languages … but now the west is picking up on it … it seems the US south also use it. Plus X is sending it viral around the world.

Hence my use of it today on the blog.

b. Hearts of Oak: The Week According to…Lembit Opik. (1026)

c. About more lowlifery

16. Sickos for satan are out in force – biological men wearing women’s clothing (transvestites) were seen lifting their skirts and urinating in public, which is an offence. A statue of the suffragette Millicent Fawcett was defaced along with others in Parliament Square. This is what they’re like when they don’t get their own way. They’re no different over the pond. (Links in sidebar)

 

 

Ta to AK Haart:

(1236) Afternoon all. Cunning plan is a bit of politics below, then AKH’s Hornleigh film, then some jazz around 1545 … enjoy this afternoon.

 

17. Poignant reminder, ladies and gentlemen

16. Sickos for satan are out in force

15. Even Gorgeous George is hard at the punditry

14. Stained glass

13. Some gladness, some sadness

This was at OoL in comments:

“Whilst following Granddad’s trials and tribulations I have admired his courage and fortitude, whilst leaning to looking for humour despite everything. My late 66 year old husband had a DNR in place, he was so ill and frail that resuscitation would have been futile. More worrying however is that my very ill 40 son is been asked to sign a DNR weeks after his father’s death.”

I just saw a friend’s arranged sideboard, photo of long deceased and bright cheerful card someone had given … these sorts of things knock me around … human vulnerability when they don’t want you to see them vulnerable. The day we we stop caring … might as well give up. It’s not in my nature to give up.

The gladness bit is the number of people awakening from slumber now, esp. at X and all sorts of wonderful architecture, vistas, greetings for Easter … good people … and it’s nice to see.

12. IYE on Pammy and other issues

“I can’t be ar$ed anymore. The current admin is just as bad as all the others in this regard. Bondi is just another wet blanket and the new See eye aye big cheese is too. Imho.”

JH: I found this to go with it:

(0947) Very sleepy still … missed second sleep, plus layoff from gym is not good for the metab, plus overindulging in naughty food. Nichevo (possible best equivalent in English is “no matter”). Could be very slow blogging today, readers, as X and many blogs are necessarily sluggish just now. This rant continues in Sunday 7.

 

11. No hiding them there eggs

… straight down the hatch.

10. No holding her now

9. Hallelujah!

8. Ah, this is better now … pundits arising from slumber

7. Main reasons for the “He is risen” in the Mahler post

… include that that symphony is known as Resurrection, plus defiance this time round against all attempts at suppression, from deathcult invaders to the godless Wokerati, to Nigerian pogroms, plus a huge uptick, worldwide, in references to a “Christian” Easter, from Vlad in Russkieland to the US admin to our own pundits here.

The policy at nourishing unherdables is “afap, to mention in no uncertain terms, then move on to the next item” …

… and that applies to, say, Miles Mathis himself or Monkeywerx to Gateway to others we post here. Better we post than not post … people can then add to or otherwise comment as they wish. The crime would be not to post. Where it gets tricky is if something is Woke or one of the “beware list” lot (navbar) where we’ve seen sufficient so as not to run them.

 

(0527) The commemoration of the rolling away of a stone and resurrection … for some – fluffy bunnies and chocolate eggs … for some – spring fertility and planting. For some – just a long weekend. (0633)

 

6. DAD on Easter Sunday at 1025

He has risen !

a) Two priests were attacked this Good Friday, April 18th, in their respective churches in Lisieux (Calvados) and Tarascon (Bouches-du-Rhône).

b) Giorgia Meloni: “Islamic culture is not compatible with our European values.”

c) In Thonon, three separate mosque projects led by Muslim associations are underway (…) including that of the AMT, which plans a new place of worship and a cultural center on Chemin de Genevray. *

d) Former Rochdale Labour MP Simon Danczuk tried to help out the Pakistani rape gang survivors, but was stopped by the Labour party.

……

*I know Thonon-les-Bains, by Lac Léman, stayed there for some time, thence to Genève on the far shore, thence to Vevey, thence via rack-rail to Thun etc.

5. Vigano

4. EU army

3. Numbers

What’s the sum of 45? What’s the sum of 47? If you write the second sum after the first, what is it?

2. Steve at 1025

• Migrant Crossings Through Panama’s Darien Gap Have Fallen by 99%
• White House Converts Its COVID Website Into Dossier of Pandemic Crimes
• Russia’s Putin Declares Easter truce for ‘Humanitarian Reasons’. *
• Comer Denies Democrats Taxpayer Funds to Visit MS-13 Gang Member
• Liberal Anti-Trump Group Planning to Protest Nationwide **
• Military Situation In [The] Ukraine On April 19, 2025
• Gas Pipelines & Seized Russian Assets Could Give US Leverage Over The EU
• German anti-Russia propaganda is reaching Nazi-era levels
• Much more.

….

*Big thing, Pascha, in Russian influenced nations, plus Greece.

**Nothing better to do?

1. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/04/easter-sunday.html