The Daily Blog Open Mic – 24th June 2025
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
The Editor doesn’t moderate this blog, 3 volunteers do, they are very lenient to provide you a free speech space but if it’s just deranged abuse or putting words in bloggers mouths to have a pointless argument, we don’t bother publishing.
All in all, TDB gives punters a very, very, very wide space to comment in but we won’t bother with out right lies or gleeful malice. We leave that to the Herald comment section.
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I don’t know whether this comment will be at all useful but for those whose brain is frizzled it may be what they need.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/565001/extremely-dangerous-heat-dome-building-over-the-united-states
When do we start to panic and do something sensible about coping with climate change? In Wellington they can’t consider anything until they have dealt with demolishing the Gordon Wilson flats. We all have ways of disengaging with the hard thinking and doing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
Replacement theory? Personally I am as good at it as Rimmer in Red Dwarf.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5mqbKs1PoI
Red Dwarf – Rimmer’s Study Habits – Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
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It was now possible for Rimmer to revise solidly for three months and not learn anything at all. The first week of study, he would always devote to the …
There may be some useful thoughts on this in the following thesis.
https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1202&context=etd
“A ‘Normal’ Life”: Red Dwarf, Temporality, and the Neuroqueer“A ‘Normal’ Life”: Red Dwarf, Temporality, and the Neuroqueer Absurd
Red Dwarf, Temporality, and the Neuroqueer Absurd
University at Albany
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by GB Graf · 2025 — Besides. Lister, the narrative also focuses on the nonhuman beings that keep him company (and keep him sane): Arnold Rimmer, a hologram of Lister’s dead …