{"id":179271,"date":"2025-09-09T10:45:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=179271"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:45:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:45:05","slug":"another-cunning-plan-possibly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/09\/09\/another-cunning-plan-possibly\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Cunning Plan Possibly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few reasonable nights sleep recently, sleeping right through sometimes. That&#8217;s not happened for a couple of years. Maybe related to herbal meds helping or not who knows.  A little bit weary with the state of things still though. I am a bit anxious about doing stuff generally at the moment though. I am not sure why though, maybe its just the hostile vibe generally. <br>I am trying to find a better way to record violin as I am not getting the tone I want a lot of the time.  Sometimes things just don&#8217;t work do they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it possible to ignore the barbarians at the gate as so many seem to?<br><br>The Uk it seems is now becoming a place where hate speech is normalised and often promulgated in main stream media. We have politicians pushing exclusionary often xenophobic rhetoric but also openly transphobic speech as well and in not speaking out against hate speech towards other minority groups. 10 years ago much of what we are hearing would have been considered unacceptable in the mainstream or would have been challenging but is <a><\/a>now allowed to go unopposed. I can&#8217;t understand why these ideas are being pushed and by whom. Who is pushing this ultra nationalist verging on racist ideology. In the last ten years its arrived seemingly out of nowhere?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What possible good does it do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of the ideas seem to come from the worst aspects of American notions of libertarianism. So who is pulling the strings behind the public figures we see? It feels as if something is often. I would like to believe that I am wrong but every day some new toxic quote floats into the either. Some soundbite built on lies to appease and or inflame the lowest common denominator. It&#8217;s really depressing, I used to believe we were better than this, but I feel that a brief Camelot moment is now fading, king Arthur&#8217;s turned into King Lear raging at the world whilst his faculty&#8217;s decay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try and stay safe people, if you can. The world is burning and you are next on the list&#8230;<br><br><\/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=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/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<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few reasonable nights sleep recently, sleeping right through sometimes. That&#8217;s not happened for a couple of years. Maybe related to herbal meds helping or not who knows. A little bit weary with the state of things still though. I am a bit anxious about doing stuff generally at the moment though. I am not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/09\/09\/another-cunning-plan-possibly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another Cunning Plan Possibly<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179284,"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-179271","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\/09\/Farout.png?fit=618%2C412&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-KDt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179061,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2025\/06\/22\/still-too-hot\/","url_meta":{"origin":179271,"position":0},"title":"Still too hot.","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 22, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"It's still to hot for me. Here's a short Piano mood piece. Just a modal minor tune.It might grow into something else as well though. Diana Stones Glasscage \u00b7 Afterthought For Piano I feel very worn again. 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Maybe. I have been taking it for about 3 weeks approx now and I feel it has made me less fatigued and mentally a little sharper, but also less depressed. 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