{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Nick","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/thisness","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"1311343","username":"thisness","bio":"","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":105,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Nick","url":"https://thisness.one","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2026/22/1311343.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"91451619","content_html":"
I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.
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— Mary Oliver

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In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.
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— Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

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Recognising the difference between thinking you are a thing to which other things happen and being the space where everything happens is profoundly life changing.

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There’s always someone who needs you more than you need you.

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Life gets really big when it gets really simple.

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‘tis wine o’clock.

\n\n\n \n","summary":"","url":"https://thisness.one/post/2026-05-27-3","date_published":"2026-05-27T18:24:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Nick","url":"https://thisness.one","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F22%2F1311343.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"thisness"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-27 18:24","date_timestamp":1779906247,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91021037","content_html":"
The self is real, but it is not the point.
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— Robert Saltzman

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You will never find something in the future, not even a second from now, where the missing piece of the puzzle is added and it finally clicks. Because it is always only this moment. And this is all we get. If it can’t be realized now, it never will be. You have all you need here and now, because it is always completely here — here and now. The only thing in the way, is the idea that it isn’t this, and that there’s someone separate from this who must understand something first.
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— Kat Van Oudheusden

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We won’t play like Guardiola or De Zerbi, because we are Sunderland and I’m Régis Le Bris.
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Demonstrative yet modest from our highly underrated manager.

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So Sunderland finish 7th in the Premier League and qualify for the Europa League at the first time of asking, a year to the day from gaining promotion from the Championship.

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A joyful, unforgettable season.

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At a certain point the degree to which we obscure what we need by the complete fantasy of what we want becomes alarmingly clear.

","summary":"","url":"https://thisness.one/post/2026-05-24","date_published":"2026-05-24T09:49:49+00:00","author":{"name":"Nick","url":"https://thisness.one","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F22%2F1311343.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"thisness"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-24 09:49","date_timestamp":1779616189,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90731623","content_html":"

I liked Pep Guardiola’s leaving statement as he departs Man City at the end of the season.

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He barely mentions football at all instead talking mostly about work, friendship, family, community, love and fun.

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Lists are stories.

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Even To Do lists.

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Stories attempt to impose order on apparent chaos.

\n\n

Meaning over incoherence.

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Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
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— Mike Tyson

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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
\n\n

— Erich Fromm

","summary":"","url":"https://thisness.one/post/2026-05-18-1","date_published":"2026-05-18T14:48:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Nick","url":"https://thisness.one","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F22%2F1311343.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"thisness"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-18 14:48","date_timestamp":1779115685,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90394050","content_html":"\n \n","summary":"","url":"https://thisness.one/post/2026-05-18","date_published":"2026-05-18T06:23:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Nick","url":"https://thisness.one","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F22%2F1311343.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"thisness"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-18 06:23","date_timestamp":1779085410,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90295798","content_html":"\n \n","summary":"","url":"https://thisness.one/post/2026-05-16","date_published":"2026-05-16T14:09:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Nick","url":"https://thisness.one","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F22%2F1311343.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"thisness"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-16 14:09","date_timestamp":1778940580,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}