I'm now getting several political spam texts a day. This is a recent escalation and I've done my best to keep my cell phone number a secret for several years now. Politicians are ruining text messaging, just like they ruined phone lines.
So far my Google Pixel is doing a pretty good job blocking most of them as spam. But that's going to be a losing battle.
"AUcH, weNn ES dIe pOlItiSche fÜhRunG zu UNterBinDEN vErSuChT" - die Gruppe jener #noAfD ler, die wegen unverdautem Militärfetisch bei dem Zirkus mitmachen, ist bislang zu wenig erforscht - hauptsächlich deshalb, weil man mit ständigen Lachanfällen nicht gut forschen kann.
Calamus 37 A leaf for hand in hand!
I continue to have little patience for these Whitman entreaties to American unity. The recitation of place names does little for me. But I do appreciate that he's talking more about loving unity between men than some abstract political message.
You friendly boatmen and mechanics! You roughs! ...
I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it common for you to walk hand in hand.
That's the gay part there. It's pretty mild, but still seems striking of talking about two boatmen or mechanics walking holding hands. One might even see an appeal to rough trade.
I am beginning to understand this Whitman concept of "adhesiveness", a brotherly love that could unify a nation. I still prefer a more sexual gay reading but I think his poems work in both ways.
Nach einer Pause melde ich mich zurück – mit einer bunten #Wochenschau: Von der Software des Cupra Born, die mich aktuell nervt, über die Freude an neuen Podcast-Folgen mit spannenden Gästen bis hin zu ernsten Fragen rund um Meinungsfreiheit und Datenschutz und Politik. Und es geht um Bierdeckel ...
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03906 has been replaced.
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