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And so TUMBLR relinquishes its own quality control ... such a sad loss: yet another subsumed by the autocratic monopolies;-(

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NSW POLICE: EXPLOITING THE LAW TO RAISE REVENUE FOR THEIR FUNDERS.

21Aug2025 11am - when after being followed by a police car for 1.5 kilometres after exiting the Gosford Hospital before it indicated with flashing cab-roof lights and a siren sound that I was to pull over, I immediately complied as safe to do so. The officer asked for my license and advised me that it states that I cannot drive without glasses. I read perfectly the parking notice on the opposite side of the street, cited the registration number of the nearest car parked up that street, and an advertising ahead of me to my left.

The Officer told me this didn't matter, my licence specification (of which I was actually unaware - so no-one in authority has EVER at ANY stage informed me personally, as the driver concerned, of this requirement) stated the requirement.

I even put on the glasses I use routinely for reading (which is the only reason I wear glasses) and explained I could not read any of the signage I had just accurately cited to them with the glasses on. The officer advised me that this "didn't matter", the requirement stated on my licence stood as breached.

It was after this explanation the officer went on to inform me of the illegality of my exit from Gosford Hospital's only public accessway, to which I tried to explain that the right-hand turn I had taken led me onto a route that was more directly heading me homeward. The lefthand turn took me away from homeward, whereby I need to find a u-turn opportunity further out of my way to find myself on the way back homeward. On this occasion my preference was simply to exercise sound routine driver judgement.

The officer, however, interrupted my attempted explanation. It didn't matter, they said, it was in breach of the law and will warrant a $300 fine. "And the fact that you are not wearing glasses will cost you another $300 fine."

My explanations to the officer were treated by them as if attempts at obfuscation and "answering back", rather than simple explanations of behaviour. I realised afterwards that, of course, I have been on NSW Police's traffic watchlist since my first encounter with them in the year previous.

This is the second time in a year that, as an age pensioner, I have been provided with a negative and unhelpful encounter with NSW Police in which I, as the victim in the first incident and the ill-advised by appropriate authorities in the instance experienced today, the aggressive Police seemed unerringly determined to raise revenue for vocational employment funding sources of the supposed service (policing) rather than provide a service to the public in their best safety and security interests, particularly as victims of crime.

The irony is that this is the first time exiting Gosford Hospital that I have taken the obviously more convenient righthand turn homewards, having checked that the road was appropriately clear and it was safe for me to do so. The NSW Police officer actually had a lucky revenue-raising break! My father reached the level of Warrant Sergeant at a south London court in his service to the Metropolitan Police for 25 years, and instilled me not only a health respect for the law but a trust of the Police themselves.

In just one year alone - my 6th as an Age Pensioner and 70th as a member of society, NSW Police have shown me that any faith I automatically placed in them, given my intimate experience with the Metropolitan Police in my youth in Great Britain, is completely unwarranted.

They are untrustworthy and act in service of their funding authority, exploiting the law to serve that end rather than that of public interest, particularly in the areas of security and safety.

I am appalled to have learnt this so late in my life as an Australian. What on earth has happened to the victims of their misservice over the other 55 years I have been an active member of Australian society?????

NSW POLICE - ETHICALLY AND SOCIETALLY CORRUPT!

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YAHOO

Don't take it personally Albo; the old Yahoo may simply be down to the straws!;-)

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THE PURITANS

Zealously nurtured

the God with which they fled

holocausts of monarchy and

tyrannical plutocracy engulfing

their precious green hills

and dales, so fiercely cossetted

ocean’s reluctant resilience

to rage into existence

this new nation of the civilised,

flush the fluttering of denizen

from this new world bequeathed

them in humble ingenuity, industry,

stewardship, faith and fiduciary might

enough to spread the muscled wings

of power across a globe craving

colony: took many a weaker mind to

entrustle in its walls a robust enough

mettle of repulson and protection to

endure even the depression they did

not need to have and enwrap the

mighty majesty of wealth around

every nervous tic and mechanical

click in time to embrace the planet

with a purchase

all its own: only then

felt they safe enough

to take stock of what left

on the books was measure

of all yet to come

                            so

trumped on the

last card..,

Richard Lawrance

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IMAGINING

I have been imagining how a relationship beyond friendship and shared life

to relieve me of prohibition’s desolate loneliness

I have been imagining since my prohibition HOW I will pack my closest belongings

and drive to Darwin to drink myself end-of-life on Mindil Beach

imagining the life-brightness of my time there will reinvigor a waning spirit

   and its imbibement

that black, dour clang of hammer on anvil cast by exeunt’s

echo bouncing randomly back deep into the cave’s sour recesses

that sad dance between

thought and emotion

articulated in the graphic choreography

of movement and language through

  text in space, and space in text,

I in meaning and meaning in I

for YOU

and we US

for THEY

whose senses know us not

but see us OBJECTIVELY as subjects

without rule, life without limits,

matter without the muster of mass,

intelligence less feeling

men and not women and not other men

let alone any sense of gender in between

and as for identity – what a joking phouck eh?

Who would’ve thought that one up?

NOT WE!

The gravelly rasp of a white cockatoo grasps

at my self’s throat clasp like a death knell

crackling strips of my life as held for dispense sparse

across the barren earth on night’s fell…

Richard

© Richard Lawrance 19Aug2025

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WEBBING

So lonely out here

inside there, back

page scaffolded of

structural eversion

revealing space

sub-atomic in proportion

to doesn’t matter

there picked apart

by metaphor’s spider

web my only movement

on air’s evacuation feints

infinity needling

my target parts

Richard

© RG Lawrance 15Aug2025

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PILOT?

Why God so prem with

Horner than, say Newman: bet

ter composer than

Argie Ell

© RG Lawrance 14Aug2025

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TRAWLEN SEINE

Something moves within

me I don’t trust others

do not like: its dark gyre

in shadow, ghoul-like smear

of the corporeal, inchoate

plummet into unknown

oleaginous depths – I

fear the work of chaos…

Richard

© RG Lawrance31July2025

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POESY

Where I write to

those I cannot

face

richard

© RG Lawrance 3Aug2025

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PARADISE LOST

Retirement under

Prohibition in my own

home: knew was no God

So lonely out here

waiting for the ghoul to come

mate me with my fate

Richard Lawrance

© RG Lawrance 14Aug2025.

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IDENTITY

Thin paper shreds

of self-ascription

fly in the face

of normal’s vast and

thundery storm of force

as self vainly strives

to flower through life’s

perpetual lightning

sheet of perfect power:

serious stuff eh?

Could just be called

“weather” I guess…

Richard Lawrance

© RG Lawrance 14Aug2025

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TRUST IN AI

I’m losing my faith

in meaning. The similitude

of ease between digits on keys

and recognisable signification

of meaning on LCD, so

immanent in its immediacy

without fully understanding

or being able to conceive even

itself, is deceptively “REAL”. Just

think for a moment on a concept such as

“artificial intelligence(AI)” in the

context of what Witkin* theorises as the

“intelligence of feeling”, whereby the human mind

acts in service of, to and for the “being” in “human”,

a realm of thinking as affective as

cognitive in its psychology and, heaven

forefend, even the psychomotor

in mental function.

                                    The dependence

of the individuating nature of “trust” in

human “nature” on the sheer viability

of interpersonal relationship is paradigmatically

fundamental to the mind's role in marshalling

meaning. Human being is not something

we think or feel so much as ARE. The LCD

as driven by the “programming” of a computer’s

“hard-drive”, and serried “apps” software,

promotes an actual (rather than virtual) identification

between the user and its computer that can seem “human”.

In this sense, the relationship can feel ontological, as if

the machine is a “natural” extension of the human’s being.

The “being” of this LCD as “other” in humanity is, however,

completely and utterly reducible to the

action of electrons that subsist in constant kinetic

activity itself dependent on the availability of

space some hundred thousand times in size of the putative

“mass” in matter consisting of atoms, per atom. The electron

has no “understanding” of this activity or its role

as we know it, nor do we know for certain it even

moves in definable straight lines or otherwise. We know it

is electrostatically bound in relationship to the positron in

an atomic nucleus, but goodness knows what chance “meaning”,

let alone the power of a human digit can apply to its influence

from the material world as we know it?

This is currently a model-free conjecture, but

precision control cannot possibly be in it. And so,

sorry … “trust”? This human disposition?

I mean, trust in IT is perhaps logically prior to trust in AI but

an actual intelligence such as humans produce through the cellular

quasi-electronic activity of the human nerve centre of physical

function

… really?

Bit ahead of ourselves

perhaps?

Richard Lawrance

© 13Aug2025

*1974

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DERRIDAED

Lost in meaning’s race

for its trace in the chase of

tomorrow, perhaps

the virology

of post structuralism

defies protein size

Richard Lawrance

© RG Lawrance8Aug2025

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DIGITAL AGE SQUARED

In digital communication

the smallest screen-visible unit

is the pixel, which is square.

Remember when to 

be square

was the dull, angularity

uniform and lined encasing

a perceived emptiness

of creative personality?

The conceptually diametric

opposite of 'hip' at the time.

By contrast, writing is learnt 

as a manual skill, forming units

of communicable, intelligible

meaning such as words, illustrating

such meaning with application

by some writing tool

of intentionally continuous

and discontinuous lines, most

commonly based on standardised

linguistic text, such as cyrillic

or alphabetic script, or numerical order.

Space around such text deploys

to generate its readability,

usually in constructions emulating

the dance between sound and silence

that structures language into

spoken inter-human engagement

known in communication activity

as speech.  Discontinuous

units of text enabled calligraphy

to combine the spiritual sense

of unity with the line and its

variations in curvature, from circular

to linear and about the single point.

By reducing and confining this

realm of communicable meaning

to the electronically produced square,

are we not ineluctably narrowing and

constricting the expression of meaning

to its smallest unit of

technological production

rather than towards the

exponentially limitless

extent of an infinity

apprehensible by human intelligence?

Digitisation is not a tool of growth

in the human interchange

creative production of 

endless meanings but rather

the reduction of meaning

to the geometric foundation

of its building blocks.

Are we not all immersing all

invention and reinvention

of our meaningfully sensible selves

to the geometric limitations

of its building block,

the square?

Observe how already

we accept the visual recreation

of reality as a continuous electronic

assemblance of unit squareness

on electronic display technology

rather than meaning

on its way to its infinity

of communication

in human sensibility

and understanding

beyond the mere

trace of meaning

as postulated by the most

poststructural of contemporary

thinkers, Jacques Derrida, flanked

equably by contemporaries such as

Luce Irigary and Julia Kristeva.

Is, for instance, the unit of

meaningful communication, the pixel,

in this instance reducing alphabetic text, 

a poem, treatise, theory, fiction

of grammar, grammar of fact, 

factition of reality, or arbitrary

electronic disruption of geometry

beyond the mathematics,

either of science

or genius

let alone human,

to being squared?

Richard

(c) Richard Lawrance 2025

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MEDICAL FRAUDPATIENTS OF CLINICAL SERVICES IN GOSFORD BEWARE:

A Gosford (NSW) specialist in Australia has been caught exploiting a referral from a GP to extract a private gap fee from a public patient in their own dual capacity as both private and public practitioner to fulfil the bridging clinical consultation: Robbing the Poor to make Themselves Richer. This ABUSE of clinical privileges at the expense of the already underprivileged needs SWIFT REMEDY by law.

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THE GHOUL

they called her, step-son

and -daughter, now her face had

gone could afford to

Argie Ell

© RG Lawrance 26July2025

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TRUST

To be loved as an

imagined temperance version

of myself numbs

Argie Ell

© RG Lawrance 6Aug2025