{"id":179084,"date":"2025-07-06T17:48:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T16:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=179084"},"modified":"2025-07-06T17:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T16:48:40","slug":"so-who-can-you-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/07\/06\/so-who-can-you-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"So who can you trust?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-light-brown-background-color has-background\">Well it seems hardly anyone these days. You used to be able to work out who the good guys were but not anymore it seems. More and more it seems that we edge closer to the end of everything familiar that we know. Maybe the bad guys have already won?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/2116243818&#038;color=%23503034&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=true&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=false\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/i-will-stand\" title=\"I Will Stand\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">I Will Stand<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">No1 in a series of senior moments:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"376\" data-attachment-id=\"179108\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/07\/06\/so-who-can-you-trust\/dstone\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dstone.jpg?fit=1759%2C1096&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1759,1096\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Galaxy A15 5G&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1751823681&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dstone\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dstone.jpg?fit=604%2C376&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dstone-1024x638.jpg?resize=604%2C376&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dstone.jpg?resize=1024%2C638&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dstone.jpg?resize=300%2C187&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dstone.jpg?resize=768%2C479&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dstone.jpg?resize=1536%2C957&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dstone.jpg?w=1759&amp;ssl=1 1759w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Dstone.jpg?w=1208 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-beige-background-color has-background\">I have a folding sack trolley, it&#8217;s been very useful for band kit and recently to get the new air conditioner up the 42 steps into the flat (sadly not 39 steps which would have been more poetic) but hasn&#8217;t folded for years as I thought it was stuck. After shuffling some music kit around on it this morning I decided to have a closer look at it. It seems visually there was nothing wrong with the folding mechanism apart from a small spot of <a><\/a>rust. In a moment of wild abandonment I decided to push forward on it against the base expecting nothing to happen but after a slight cracking sound (not unlike the noises my back and arms make on occasion) it miraculously folded with very little effort on my part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-beige-background-color has-background\">It would appear dear reader that for about 7 years since the last occasion that I did successfully collapse and fold it that I have been pushing in the wrong direction&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-brown-color has-light-brown-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-1bbe90bf566495e827302549d1149056\">100 Years of Mein Kampf  OMG <\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-brown-color has-light-brown-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-eb6f8f00c7bfbf8b9e067cfd034de306\">Wow, 100 years ago now and it&#8217;s still insidiously doing its thing it would seem.<br>A kid  went to school with brought it, when we were all  buying Mao&#8217;s Little Red Book,  featuring greatest  hits like:<br><br>  <em><strong>&#8220;A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery&#8230; A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><br><br>If you can listen to the BBC where you are this I think is worth your time.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00hg8dq\">Archive on 4<\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m002fj5g\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m002fj5g<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-beige-background-color has-background\">A century has passed since the publication of Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler\u2019s notorious book. Part-autobiography, part-political manifesto, few today have read it \u2013 and even fewer admit to doing so. Yet its ideas, expressed in often meandering and barely coherent prose, laid out the groundwork for the most destructive ideology of the 20th century. The programme explores the notorious and anti-Semitic content of Adolf Hitler&#8217;s infamous book.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-beige-background-color has-background\">A band friend shared a Christian song  they had written and recorded (being a person of faith) and I was very moved by it having taken the time to listen properly as it revealed a little more about them.. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-off-white-background-color has-background\">This last week has been somewhat atypical. I have been working on music a fair bit but also doing various domestic stuff that my partner normally takes care of as well as they will be a little while mending yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it seems hardly anyone these days. You used to be able to work out who the good guys were but not anymore it seems. More and more it seems that we edge closer to the end of everything familiar that we know. Maybe the bad guys have already won? Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/07\/06\/so-who-can-you-trust\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So who can you trust?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20170525_195108-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KAs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179043,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/06\/19\/its-nearly-the-longest-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":179084,"position":0},"title":"Its nearly the longest day","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 19, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Midsummer's fast approaching. 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