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Day 2843, 27 March 2026
A gravestone in Stepney Meeting Burial Ground, Limehouse, London
This non-conformist burial ground was created in 1779 and can be found in a quiet corner of Limehouse, London. This time of year the gravestones get surrounded by wild plants. I'm not going to attempt to identify the type!
Some personal observations on the characteristics of people I know who are continuing to take as much care as possible to not get Covid (in no particular order): a short 🧵
1. High impulse control 2. Personal experience of serious illness 3. Strong internal locus of control 4. Non-conformists. Often a personal history of non-conformity going right back to adolescence. Yet... 5. Paradoxically, strong moral code; belief in ethical duty to the greater good of society. 6. Well-informed. 7. Rational; aware of their own cognitive biases. 8. Methodical 9. Adaptable 10. Emotionally stable 11. Comfortable with uncertainty 12. Pragmatic 13. Intuitively understand risk/benefit analysis 14. Disciplined
Old thread by @brownecfm on the bird site; Thread Reader link so you don't have to go there:
GNC Trans (TGNC) Pride Flag
GNC (gender nonconforming): a term describing an individual whose gender presentation does not align with or reflect their gender identity.
Trans*: describing individuals whose gender or sex identity doesn't match one's birth assignment (transsex and/or transgender); or those who wear clothes that are not traditionally associated with the one's gender or sex (transvestic).
Some people use trans and GNC interchangeably, or overlapping each other. Trans GNC folks usually consider themselves both contextually.
Former Methodist chapel (1892). Non-conformist style church building, saved from dereliction. Facade restored, a major extension out the back and converted to small über-lux apartments. There are no less than six foundation stones, all laid on the same day, scattered around the base of the thing. One of the very few buildings to be started or completed after the collapse of Sydney's first real estate boom in the Panic of 1890, which led to an almost decade long economic depression. Hard times. Glebe.
All throughout a young adult’s life, he or she is taught, “Be yourself.” Be an individual! But the truth is, my dear friends, when one is too much of an individual, then he or she is condemned. And I was not about to put up with that hypocritical bullshit.
Holly Woodlawn, from her autobiography “A Low Life In High Heels”
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75222.A_Low_Life_in_High_Heels
I don't hate Manchin but I do hate Trump. What's the political category for that? Conservatives reject a Trump-hater, and progressives reject those who think Manchin is about as progressive as West Virginia will ever elect. So who am I, politically?
Rejecting outside definition, I would describe myself as a classical liberal which is a variety of conservative, except that I'm progressive on inclusion and care more about particulars than broad principles. But still, how do you summarize that in a word?
Being conservative doesn't make you right, but I like when people are conservative and right at the same time.
Naked 33 – 14
portrait of a conservative non-conformist
