TEMPORAL

 Eu sou do tempo em que ainda havia tempo!

1-06-2026 R. X.

OLD ADAGE

Leaders who don’t have any problem killing their own are, nowadays, ‘worried’ with the possibility of living forever through medical implants of organs and so: ain’t that funny?

Now imagine the types of tech bros living forever too; what a nightmare that would be!

 

2026-05-20 R. Man

RACE AGAINST THE MACHINE

Still lagging behind a lot in all aspects of life, my legs are giving it all since day one and its day 21 590.

It’s not an endurance nor a long race, it’s more of a constant guerrilla war with the usual enemy, and it’s not me.

It’s true I’m losing it, but I have the will to go on; don’t know for how long.

I hope I win this war!

 

2026-05-29 R- Man

FIREBRAND

When the greatest leaders play with fire… it may backfire!

 

2026-05-27 R. Man

(HOW) THE WORLD SWINGS

In several places there are wars destroying lives and future; in another, there is costly pollution, both for nature and for people, poor people; in another, there’s political meddling and wrangling about nothing but self-will; in other places there are politicians legislating about things they do not understanding a thing, nothing at all; and in plain sight there are people developing traps full of craps and making lots of sick money while pretending they are serious and law abiding -of laws that don’t even exist!- citizens preparing their wallets for the biggest IPO ever: to buy the world and turning it into a five people, maximum, pet project.

Somehow, going public is like going into our pockets and, actually, making private what´s public; just because we will let it happen and hope -there’s, always, this fateful verb at hand whenever we don’t believe in the future per se- they will let us, at least, grow our own food in a tiny little plot of land.

May god bless the tech bros!

 

2026-05-26 R. Man

WHAT IS GREATER WEALTH?

I mean, what is the point of it if it destroys the environment; if it makes some very, very rich beyond reason while others hardly can survive?

I mean, one can golden the pill but the truth is: there are people ready, with cash and all, to buy it all and let us rot on a trip to nowhere!

From slave trade to trade like hell!

 

2026-05-25 R- Man

KNOW HOW

How does feel a leader when he orders killing?

Like the lawman or like the criminal?

2026-05-23 R. Man 

HOMENS POUCO SAPIENS

Os homens do presente, que nos prometem o futuro mas que, de facto, irão destruir tudo e todos. Se ao menos nos levassem para o passado, que é como quem diz, nos fizessem retroceder uns anitos, repensar a ‘coisa’ para que a ‘coisa’ fosse mais causa, e humana.

 

2026-05-14 R.X.

A DIPLOMACIA, O GENOCÍDIO E O BUSINESS AS USUAL

Os homem-forte - infelizmente não permitem a existência, apesar de, mulher-forte - que andam por aí, com muita mordomia mas pouca bonomia, são um claro sinal de que nada mudará no reino-macho enquanto não forem sacrificados nos altares da redundância.

É o business as usual, o modus operandi preferencial, que inclui pilhagens, genocídio e muita negociata.

 

2026-05-11 R.X.

SIMPLES MENTES E LIVROS

A falta de literacia de livros e, por conseguinte, de espírito crítico, iluminado e cultivado, por parte dos senhores das tecnologias materiais e sociais, faz com que a sua visão do presente e do futuro incida, exclusivamente, no lucro e na dominância totais. Não lhes interessa a história, o saber social, tão pouco a continuidade humana; querem chegar à máquina a todo o custo: a Máquina-Maravilha -entidade superior a qualquer ser humano. Os humanos, por caricato que pareças, são, de facto, os financiadores destes visionários actuais; eu não diria do futuro porque... talvez não haja futuro!

2026-05-11 R.X.

ECOS DO PASSADO TRANSFORMADOS EM BECOS DO PRESENTE

O mundo, apesar da propalada globalização -que chega a todo o lado, é verdade, mas que não é sinónimo, em muitas latitudes, de desenvolvimento e prosperidade- ainda está subdividido em várias realidades que nada tem que ver como o primeiro mundo, desenvolvido, rico e mimado.

Oposto á realidade europeia, americana e oceânica, está o continente africano e boa parte do continente asiático -em especial o oriente médio- vive à beira da catástrofe social em permanência: seja pela pobreza e subdesenvolvimento crónicos, seja pelas lideranças autocráticas ou ditatoriais ou, ainda, por causa de guerra também crónica. E muita da responsabilidade reside no ocidente, nas ex-potências ocupantes, primeiro, e divisionárias depois, e que nada tiveram de visionário como se pode constatar, infelizmente.

 

2026-05-11 R.X.

À PAISANA

Como pode alguém oferecer-se para ser primeiro-ministro e depois, pura e simplesmente não fazer nada. Como se se não incomodasse com o povo. Apenas com imagem, bem decorada, e o faz-de-conta.

Fico danado porque, de facto, é como se o meu voto, e o de tantos outros, não valesse a nossa cidadania!

QUE PENA(LIÇÃO)?

Os homens, ingratos e maus, do capital têm de ser domados pelas leis não pela sua voluntariedade; só assim poderemos ‘salvar’ o mundo das suas garras nefastas, e cada vez mais mortíferas. 

2026-05-8 R. X.

ECOLOGIC CALL?

The greatest scam of capitalism is that companies are so focused (willingly) on profit and (never) not on ecology (though they say they are…). And it’s so stupid when they do not bother with recycling or re-using what they sell, because there’s a lot of value in it -especially the gadget industry. But it says a lot about their true ideology: can’t bother with sustainability!

In the end, it’s our fault because we still buy!

It’s the circular economy, stupid!

 

2026-05-7 R. Man

I BEG YOUR MONEY?

Rich and Bullies! 

2026-05-7 R. Man

 

ENFIADO

Não há vista sem fios!

(Numa sociedade cada vez mais wireless!)

2026-05-5 R.X.

THE TALK OF THE WAR AND THE TALK OF THE PEACE

War is much more expensive than Peace! And for the Peace to last we only need serious talk between serious, and caring, people. (If there were more caring women in the talks…) and the best of it all, no need for expensive, and useless, armies nad weapons, with the money forwarded for medicinal and social use.

Yes, we need Leaders for Peace: enough is enough!

 

2026-05-5 R.Man

OS HOMENS, OS PETRODOLARES E, POR ÚLTIMO, OS DIREITOS DAS MULHERES E AS MULHERES

A sociedade é, manifestamente, a favor do homem e, só por isso, machista. Tem melhorado, aqui e ali, mas a passo lento: se acompanhasse, pelo menos, as contribuições importantes que as mulheres dão à sociedade!... Ou as insubstituíveis, como a maternidade!

A mulher, mais do que o homem, é o pilar fundamental da sociedade, apesar de ganhar menos quando faz o mesmo trabalho que um homem, por exemplo.

E se muitos homens têm de provar o que valem, as mulheres têm de provar o que valem (e) a dobrar.

E se os homens trabalham muitas horas, algumas em trabalho-convívio, elas trabalham muitas horas, e muitas mais em casa quando eles estão em trabalho-convívio.

 

DEDICADO A TODAS AS MULHERES. E TAMBÉM ÀS MULHERES, QUE AOS OLHOS DOS HOMENS SÃO APENAS UM APENDICE, DE PAÍSES QUE AS CASTIGAM, E ONDE ATLETAS DE ALTO GABARITO RECEBEM ORDENADOS CHORUDOS E CALAM!

2026-05-4 R.Man

DIALOGUEMOS

As bocas não servem só para comer, para mandar bocas, dar beijos ou morder. Servem, também, para a função primordial de dialogar. E quando se dialoga com brio, a questão central passa a ser que todos nós ganhamos com isso. Ninguém perde! 

2026-04-22

IND(S)ULTOS

A jovem democracia lusitana, embevecida pela revolução que lhe trouxe um ar jovial, e a livrou, de certa maneira, do passado gloriosamente bafiento, não soube honrar as vítimas. E também não cuidou a reparação dos danos morais e intelectuais do povo: degradados pela ditadura e pelo analfabetismo.

Os únicos que se safaram foram os algozes, os exilados, e os políticos que emergiram.

Foi um compromisso? Foi! Mas mau!

 

2026-04-30

AI DOOMS OR LOOMS?

We are here today to die! Or said differently, to die today!
And we are also here to fix the danger dangerously!
We are here to serve not to profit!
Least but not last, nobody will need to work no more, nor to participate in the coming wars, promise!
Yeah! Tremendous!
 
2026-04.29 R. Man

URBI ET ORBI

Da grande janela
Do meu pequeno mundo
Vejo o desfavorecido
E o maltratado.

 

E vejo as elites do presente,

Que se parecem tanto quanto

As elites do passado, onde

A principal comodidade

Era o trabalho escravo:

A enriquecerem tanto,

A corromper tudo

E não cuidando das

Consequências.

 

Por isso, deixo a janela

Escancarada,

E, persistentemente,

Peço-lhes contenção.

E que tenham coração!

(O mal já está feito, e o bem, paga-se caro!)

 

2026-04-29

A VIDA A PRETO E BRANCO É, AFINAL, UMA VIDA COLORIDA!

Uma mulher de tez escura olha,
Lá do longe,
Para um futuro que tarda.
Uma mulher de tez clara olha,
Bem de perto,
A rede social que brilha do smartphone e nada vê:
Tal qual o futuro!

 

Um homem de tez escura,

Que nos apanha as framboesas,

Sonha com a família e com

Um futuro.

Um homem de tez clara,

Que nos desgoverna o presente,

Sonha com a transparência da

Oposição mas,

Opõe-se à mesma.

 

As flores, de todas as cores,

Misturam-se às cegas,

E o que vemos, não é uma ilusão

Mas a mais bela celebração!

 

2026-04-28

SOU UM SER POSITIVO MAS, RAIOS, JÁ CHEGA DE MALDADES!

Os ultra-optimistas são-no!
Os ultra-pessimistas são-no!
E, no meio, andamos, quase todos nós, os que mantêm a maquinaria bem oleada, produtiva, sem grandes avarias, alimentando a Voracidade, a Esperteza e a Vaidade.
No fundo, os que são Espoliados, Esmagados, e a quem é negado Humanidade.
A concepção do homem-deus não é nada de novo mas, a do homem-maior-que-deus é. E assustador: um homem que possui biliões, e cada vez mais perto dos triliões, não pode ser aceite como normal. Um homem que tem uma fortuna superior à maior parte dos pibs do mundo é, para mim, aterrador. E, só poderá acabar mal!
 
2026-04-27

TENTO ABARCAR O MUNDO TODO

(Não, não é uma nova arca de Noé!) 

Desde que me lembro que tento meter o mundo todo dentro da minha pequena cabeça. Ainda não o consegui, mas estou, cada vez mais, muito perto.

(Não, não é condensação. É, mesmo, devoção!)

 

2026-04-27

DRONE-TONE-ZONE

The machine is faster than the human, and the human behind the machine blames the machine, and the war, and the leaders, and the circumstances.

What’s certain is that the war has become less sensitive to the human losses because, now, it’s all like a video-game: the adults are well versed in virtual killings, which they love; they’ve been practicing it since they were kids.

It’s only a small change of scenery. And surroundings. And…

 

2026-04-25 R. Man

iDEAL WORLD

Humans are easy to understand, and if you don’t agree it’s because you don’t see.

The world, and our galaxy aussi!

What bothers me, really, it’s the dark monetary web, though invisible, that sucks us in and don’t let go; not even after paying, constantly, serious dough!

And we seem more entangled by it than ever before; nature always keeps it simple! And fair!

 

2026-04-24 e 27 R. Man

(UN)PREDICTABLE

Hard working men, this ones, tolling day and night to protect who knows what, who knows why, who knows where.

Theirs is the ‘no one needs to understand why’ policies, developed by the brightest of the stars, human stars not brains, for theirs egos to grow above average. 

To grow average?

Better to grow below: equal people is a better recipe to ‘no egos land’!

2026-04-24 R. Man

MINISTRO DOS AFINS

(Em princípio!)  Há, faz anos, um ministro competente. Pena nunca ter sido empossado. (Enfim!)

2026-04-24

THE TRUTH, THE VIRTUAL TRUTH & NOT THE TRUTH

(nothing to do with The good, The Bad & The Ugly!) 

The kids play with toys,

The adults play whatever,

And the ‘some’ with the fire.

The kids do it to discover

And for fun,

The adults, for many reasons,

And the ‘some’, to burn…

Or to catch fire.

The kids will be adults,

The adults will be rich,

Or poor,

And the ‘some’, hopefully,

Will be gone.

 

2026-04-21 R. Man

OS ESTADISTAS QUASE EXTINTOS E OS POVOS A SOFRER AINDA MAIS

O mundo político já andava, há muito, de pernas para o ar; tamanhas as piruetas que faziam os políticos do nosso tempo mais recente. Aos poucos, na medida em que os últimos grandes estadistas se recolhiam, uns a casa, outros ao cemitério, os pseudopolíticos, consultores de cartilhas que mais parecem cartomantes a ler as cartas do tarot, tomaram governos de assalto começando, assim, o Grande Desgoverno. Sempre munidos de Muita Lábia, e o Fato e Gravata impecáveis, adocicaram-nos de tal maneira que de assaltantes passaram a governantes, embora só se governassem:

com fartura e com gordura. Nós, nem reclamação, nem nação.

E a coisa lá foi andando... até chegar-mos aqui, ao Agora e ao Hoje: tudo, e nós, está de tal maneira fragilizado que serão precisos, novamente, Estadistas e Pensadores formados em Democracia, com doutoramento em Diálogos Honestos, e um pós-doc em Fazer e Bem.

Será um longo e penoso processo, mas que vale a pena se queremos continuar a jornada humana neste planeta Terra; tão bonito e útil, e que nos tem tratado bem a troco de ser maltratado. 

‘Ask not what your country can do for you -ask what you can do for your country.’ JFK 20/01/1960

Não perguntes o que é que o mundo pode fazer por ti -pergunta o que é que tu podes fazer pelo mundo.

 

2026-04-17 R. X.

LOBBY LOBBYING LOBBIED HOBBY NOT

Lobbying equals money equals corrupting: he who does not have money can’t lobby!

Now, in democracy we elect a select of people to run a country on people’s behalf and best interests; why, then, allow some particular interests get a particular attention that will be detrimental to the people? Does not make any sense but to the few who will profit from it. Not for the ALL!

BUSY LAZY MODE

We move on through life’s challenges in a strange mood that does not make sense: busy, very busy, filling someone’s pockets, and lazy, very lazy, on our social obligations and interactions.

The economic model does not explain, though it’s a tough/rough bone to chew properly, why we let go our most precious emotion of taking care for one another, while pretending the sun shines all year round while we are sunbathing at a wonderful eco-beach.

Being busy, working our neurons to a pulp for a meagre compensation, while getting older and sicker, on the prospect of a late life full of ailments consuming our wisdom and happiness, it’s not what one can say it’s a win-win situation.

Being lazy on a certain number of duties that could improve everybody’s wellbeing, and a de facto leveled society, it’s either a win-win situation too.

And then there’s the evil so many entities do to us all, and to nature as well, because the dumb, or in their payroll, legislators don’t care or know better.

This is not, again, any sort of win-win situation. More of a we win-you pay situation.

At last, the worst case scenario came to be with the birth, the boom and the bam of the tech zenith: an event like a small big bang. But very profitable for so few, with theirs’s unstoppable disclaimer policy taking us back to the wild west wilder times, rather than to a more social and equal society. Though it has been sold on that mantra alone, not really on benefits, nor merits. It’s mentors are still baffled as why nobody stopped them yet, before it’s too late. Meanwhile, theirs’s bonanza, with no obligations nor responsibilities, keeps on track to take them from billionaires to trillionaires, with enough cashflow to buy the world and take it private, again. Who have thought it possible, ever?

There’s a sense we ought to be nice to each other because it’s healthier, it makes everybody happier, this could well be the only way to counter capitalism’s toxicity, and lack of emotional empathy, with a proper antidote. That would be the truly win-win situation!

2026-04-15 R. Man

OUR EARTH

We belong here, having arrived from there, (like) a miniscule grain of dust that’s, still, ethereal.

I don’t want to go anywhere else -maybe someone will, in the distant future… but may never, ever, return home…

We means YOU, ME, THEM, EVERYBODY, and a sense of fraternity and humanity.

 

‘THEIR’S’ EARTH

 

We own almost (oxymoron, no?) everything and there’s nothing you can do about it. Or about anything else, really: suck it up and work hard. You might own, at least, some pride in being part of our journey -though not for free.

2026-04-14 R. Man

A VIDA A DORES

A passarada anda toda animada com a chegada da primavera, e das primeiras flores, enquanto as árvores se enchem de folhas de um verde majestoso -ora em tons mais claros, ora mais escuros.

A natureza é sublime, e depois da estação mais fria e chuvosa, que nos traz tanta desolação visual: árvores despidas de folhas; campos sem flores; menos vegetais na horta: anuncia a sua bondosa alegria a todos os que a querem ouvir, ver, cheirar e provar.

Os dias mais longos, o sol mais quente e feliz, os luares sem nuvens, e as flores que se começam a pintar nas suas cores favoritas. Oh, terra querida, como são bonitas as tuas progênitas!

A erva boa, que perdura, e alimenta, o ano todo, começa a crescer mais depressa e viçosa por ter mais luz e calor. E a erva daninha, que incomoda muita gente porque compete com os vegetais e outros tais, torna-se ainda mais teimosa, e cresce mais rápido do que tudo o resto que brota da terra: como se tivesse mais direitos e mais utilidade pública.

Tudo isto ocorre enquanto a humanidade atravessa uma das suas piores crises existenciais -graças à conjugação de várias lideranças que nos são extremamente prejudiciais - não há como nega-lo! Tão pouco doura-lo!

De um lado estão homens maus, do outro estão mulheres mães. Uns destroem vidas a seu bel-prazer; elas geram vidas, a custo mas com gosto; eles não acreditam em nada mas na sua sabedoria; elas acreditam, ainda, na humanidade -dores de parto, dores de mãe!

2026-04-13 R.X.

SOBRE VIVÊNCIA

Aos poucos, vamos perdendo a inteligência, a vontade de ler, de escrever, de conviver, em suma, de viver!

Mas não se preocupem, já estamos ‘ligados às máquinas’, e a vida segue. E como os donos das máquinas nadam em dinheiro, que nós nos viciamos em dar-lhes a troco do nada das borlas -não confundir com as bolas de Berlim- eles estão, cada vez mais, à nossa frente -quase nem os vemos. E à frente das políticas; à frente das leis; à frente dos bois; à frente da responsabilidade.

Enfim, somos todos uma cambada -deixamos de poder dizer que somos uma sociedade, porque, facto, já não somos!- de ignorantes, mas muito likes. Que não é o mesmo que muito felizes. Embora pareça. Padeça!

HORÁRIO NOBRE VERSUS HORÁRIO POBRE

O povo zapa que se farta numa procura, incessante, de tudo o que possa alimentar a sua insaciável fome de fartura!

DESCENT

by Richard Man

DECENT

All I want is a decent world. Not a capitalist one! Not a communist one!

A peaceful and decent world!

2026-03-23

 

SORROW

When all of the resources of a planet go to waste… I pity the people who made that decision for there are no real profit!

2026-03-20

 

GREEN OR GREED?

Is this the zenith of greed?

Will we go green, back to the origin?

Not long after the Big Bang this would have been easier to answer. But, now, there are so many thinking heads, and the noise, and the profits, and the contradictions, and the lies, and, above all, the Big Mess -another type of Big Bang but social- it leaves us in the depths of the capital punishments -entanglements we’ve embraced in good faith!

2026-03-20

 

MEN(IPULATORS)

I’ve never seen people well versed in the arts of telling such wise verbiage about a flat planet that exists, solely, on their precious, if hidden, treasure maps of yester.

But all of this entertaining verbiage is happening today, and spreading like wildfires: with the same outcome for an healthy society as 3^rd degree burns. Again, it ain’t scaring people who love treasure hunting and wildfires: for fun and for excitement such dull lives.

At the forefront are the men with expensive suits, and pretending they have adorable wives whom they treat with utmost respect… when they are dressed in suit!

 

I love tie-breaks!

2026-03-19

 

ALL THAT MATTERS

In the end , all that matters is food and shelter. If that is our main focus then health, good health and happy lives will blossom.

 

(We’ve seen how ownership let us down!)

2026-03-18

 

SELF-RIGHTEOUS RULERS

Who make rules for others but them! 

And forget to be kind, to show empathy, to be human!

2026-03-17

 

MEMORY OF REALITY

I have been but I’m not anymore: the past was erased in the ‘cloud’, where my memories laid for a penny a month.

It’s so hard to live virtually, especially without any virtue of a pre-historic human -the creatures that lived here before the MACHINE- trough a thin memory that keeps popping on the screen: Please! Please!

2026-03-17

 

THE FOIL INDUSTRY

Sucking the riches of the earth and leaving destruction behind, the foil industry goes on feeding male egos and companionships -it’s hard to be alone, and even the rich have basic needs, masked as orders, commanding orders.

To be obeyed!

2026-03-11

 

MADE IN MEN

The noises obscure the senses and the punches fly all over. But no one gives in. (Men who don’t cry, that’s what it is!)

Some muscles In better shape than others, nevertheless, not necessary to send in the troops, at will, to fight their reasoning.

And many days, and many nights, after, the death toll is incredible. But not a bother: he who signs off the war, usually signs off the peace: funny enough, peace is, always, the last!

2026-03-11

 

WHAT IS THE POINT?

Mutual destruction is an alibi. Not for you, not for me, but for the insecure to show strength.

No one is that mad to press the ‘delete’ button, but with proliferation it comes the very real, and serious, risk of an ‘ups’ moment… and nobody will be left to record the ‘moment’ on the history books. Nor to complain.

So, my point is about -being us humans the most intelligent  animal ever, as it goes the myth: why do we do it? Why do we bother with arming ourselves to that point of a possible no return?

Yeah! Dissuasion! But wouldn’t be cheaper to just agree not to do it? Oh! Trust? Yes, that’s why we are not, really, the most intelligent animal on earth. Actually, all of the others are much more. And much more in unison with nature, their nature and mother nature!

-This is the.

 

P.S. it’s the suspicion, stupid!

2026-03-11

 

PROFIT AS FAST AS (IM)POSSIBLE

In a world where danger loom on every corner we, the human race, have the ability to believe it won’t strike us anytime, any day. But, deep down in some brains, the threat is very real and believable. Amidst a new arms race, and arm twisting, the tension is rising in every European capital and beyond. The situation is very fragile (if futile) with the least democratic countries (to say the least) in the world trying, very hard, to bring on board as many countries as possible, in the sense of undermining and, forcibly, change the world (for worse, for sure) order into their dictatorial ways. I hope they will not succeed!

 

P.S. that’s what happens when democracies do business with dictatorships hopping (we should have known better) to bring them into the democratic world.

 

P.P.S. under the guise of respectable politicians caring for their people (immigrants and others excluded) but on the, shameful, payroll of the likes of Putin, we have a surge of traitors amongst us like never seen, not even at the peak of the cold war, doing the dirty work on behalf of dictators. Unbelievable!

2026-03-10

 

THE WORLD’S ROCK(ING) ECONOMY

It’s like a boat being stormed at high seas!

 

P.S. leaving people economy sick. Constantly!

2026-03-9

 

THE WAR HEROES THAT DON’T FIGHT

I’ve never been to any war, fortunately. For that lucky reason I am very thankful. But I know a lot about wars and what they do to humans caught up without any guilt, just bad luck.

But there are people , we can call them heroes though I believe they are just being, simply, humans who do care.

On the other hand, the war criminals that don’t fight too… guess who they are!

2026-03-5

 

LAUNDERING EVERYTHING

The profits hanging in the clothesline are disappearing fast and the police can’t be there on time to apprehend it. All they can do is to leave empty handed and commiserate themselves. The government don’t really care, but pretend they do: this offshore thing is very useful for many. Meanwhile, some nasty criminals amass fortunes in the billions and can provide their henchmen with weapons for war against the police with weapons for crimes. Forget about it, the issue here is the collaborative nature of some masters of disasters, because the solution is in plain sight!

2026-03-5  

 

LEVEL DOWN

I wish i could comprehend why some humans hurt others in the name of their mutual god, their wisdom or their own! But I won’t, it’s wrong and shouldn’t happen: what is the sense of education if in the end it’s the military and the capital might that dictates the do’s and don’ts , life and death, success and survival? And then…

I wish I could fly up in the sky and harvest the clouds into an haven for each one of you/us, so we could live above and free; above and happy; above and free. And every time someone would dare to hurt willingly, his cloud would rain down and tear him to the ground, with the choice to be a river or a tear, and after a spell of good deeds, maybe turn into a cloud, again, in the future.

2026-03-3

 

AI TO THE HUMAN RESCUE

Our brain’s will, at last, have a rest and disappear. Our heads, brainless at last, will need no more hair and will shrink to the size of a matchstick’s head. Brainless and with its small heads not commanding a thing, our hearts will fell in love much easily, and the chances of heart diseases will decrease for sure.

Estranged by this all the body will have much more energy to go on without sleep because, really, only the brain needs it. It’s going to be a hell of a party!

2026-02-27

 

DESERT AND OASIS

I´ve been thinking about it for a long while and no conclusions, therefore I need to keep on going deeper into the depths of my soul.

Meanwhile, I doubled down on my quest to become a permanent member of a tiny dynasty called The Intended. It’s a long shot, but many before me made it. I don’t intend to fail, but as so often happens, I might have to do it all over again.

Good night!

 

GLOBALIZATION BUT THE GLOBE

The steaks are high, not as high as the dividends. The competition is fierce, as fierce as in a war; the power men are sinister, and the prospects are gloomy; the monopolies are very profitable, so much so they are losing… their mind; and the people are too busy, so busy staring at the glaring: and the people are too busy, so busy scrambling something to eat; the cold war is back hotter than before, but no one knows it will boil over; the possibility of losing freedom and democracy isn’t a study case, anymore, when people are willing to forgo it for the lack of will and courage to stand up for their ‘own’ children; in the end, progress has, finally, outpaced fertility and humanity: there’s only hope… but coming from dope. (Not for me, thanks!)

2026-02-26

 

WARPATHY

There’s no inequality amongst equals! Usually, it’s more iniquity. And they adore trendy expensive fashion; a bit like war clothing this days:

Usually, old and vain men (the order isn’t important) and with families to take care of -though it don’t bother them a thing other’s families. A contradiction? Yes, they know and foster it, and still vain, old, men and with families.

Men shouldn’t torture men, nor women, nor democracy; not to impair greatly children’s future, let alone their miserable present. The past is just a lesson (though some like to flourish it, or make up….): I still remember most lessons from the past, even the distant one.

2026-02-25

 

US A

The US of Alone!

2026-02-20

 

LIKE CHILDREN

Like children, many adults (too many) need to be taken care of!

2026-02-16

 

DEAR WORLD,

First of all i am sorry for the way we have been mistreating you for so long. I deeply am!

Now, today, it still happens and I can’t find any excuses no more.

Why are still people treating you so bad, with such evil and so many deaths? Why? Other than sheer lack of empathy, of care for each other, for the children and for the future. But nothing seems to deter some people from doing harm rather than good. (And they have families, too!)

2026-02-6

 

BOARD OF PEACE ISN’T BROAD (OF) PEACE

(Though…)

 

I’ve never seen anything like it.

I could not even imagine it, though I’m creative enough!

 

P.S, some people (mainly men, not manly) are just beyond…

 

THE PERCEPTION (IS OFF)

That it is possible we all are discovering it the hard way. That it is selfish and damaging, too. That they don’t care we all can see it clearly. But that there are, among us, believers that still believe -or pretend to- it’s baffling. Or else, their loneliness is so profound they hold on to it like dear life.

How did we get here? Well, most probably it’s the cycle of things!

Once upon a time it happens, it hurts, it destroys and, hopefully, it will get better again; for a while.

2026-02-5

 

AI! THE NEW FRONTIER

Artificially intelligent is a friend o’mine, stacking castle upon castle to reach the moon, and I don’t think it will be anytime soon. He’s so clever they even call him Johnny Cleverest.

Besides that, what can we expect?

Computers motorized, called computerized, and a hip at the moment because they gonna change every landscape; so much so we will not have a chance to escape. But rather than a prison they promise us a bonanza: ‘work no more, leisure 4ever and, together, we will be single without the mingle. Don’t you worry, artificial evolution is the new kid in the world; it will evolve by itself and… me and yourself will become dinosaurs. This period will be known as the ‘Menosaurs’ eXit’.

2026-02-04 

 

CONSEQUENTIAL HARM

That’s what I call to someone’s harm before their’s death!

 

P.S. how can we teach kids good manners and behaviour?

2026-01-26

OTHER TRUTH (NOT SO SOCIAL)

 US of Alone!

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

When the ‘rich and the bad mix with the pigs’  it ends, always, badly for the people!

TEMPESTADES NO HORIZONTE

O mundo, o nosso mundo, continua ensombrado por pessoas más, que de uma maneira ou outra fazem das nossas vidas um inferno. Tudo por ganhos egoístas, por pura maldade, e até mesmo por falta de empatia com outros seres humanos; como se lhe fossem inferiores.

Alguns deles são doentes, outros narcisistas, muitos são mesmo maldosos.

Só a educação e a fraternidade os podem derrotar.

AINDA A DEMOCRACIA

As eleições presidenciais, em Portugal, vão à segunda volta, e à decisão final de quem será o próximo presidente da república. O meu voto irá, outra vez, para António José Seguro. Pela pessoa e, também, pela saúde da democracia. 

TREFOILS

MY BEAUTIFUL WORLD (like in the song of Nick Cave) 

The world is being pressure-cooked by a bunch of casual chefs, every single of them with their own recipe. But don’t expect a banquet, like the ones from and for the royalty. Instead, you gonna be squeezed for the ‘juices’ because their favourite spice is ‘human suffering’.

 

2026-01-21

 

DO YOU REALLY WANT TO HURT ME? (like in the song of Boy George)

 

The world is being torn apart by a bunch of nobel prize winners in wait: “winner takes it all!” it’s their motto. (Mine, by the way, is: ´Love thy neighbour!’ or even better: Love to love!)

 

2026-01-21

OLD NEW WORLD (like in Business as casual)

 

The states have the newest and most potent bomb in the world, capable of destroying everything but the enemy. Once dropped it can wipe out everything even in the far corners of the world. Only three countries have an effective defence: wait, laugh and profit -a sort of iron(y) dome made with the rarest of the brightest deceivers.

The thing it’s called Trumclear bomb, made of deadly societal decay. It’s ultrasonic propulsion comes from verbose, which makes it impossible to know, accurately, from which direction it comes, or if it comes at all, rendering any defense impossible. I’ve heard some scientists are, in a hurry, tinkering with a possible defense: late night educational courses. There’s only a catch, the boomerang effect: this means the thrower will, almost for sure, get back what it throws.

 

2026-01-22 

Richard Man

BOOK FACE

De todos os bilionários o único que tenho a certeza que lê livros é Bill Gates. Isso diz muito sobre o que podemos esperar dos outros.

 

2025-12-9 - R. MAN

CICLANDO

A má qualidade vai, rapidamente, parar ao lixo... aumentando a poluição, o lucro, a procura, o prejuízo, e duplicando... triplicando... quadruplicando...

R. Man

MONO(LOGS)

There are no talking heads talking melodies anymore. Instead, they´re talking about the great, amazing, things they do, they do but nobody else sees.

The precious oxygen and the much needed water are less valuable than the rare earths, mostly needed for useless gadgetry & diplomatic rows.

Spinning the wheel of fortune we are, happily losing over and over like winning; something I don’t understand. Spinning the wheel, how do you do that? 

There’s a summit going on with deaf ears on a fancy spa called Paradise, but so far not a tune nor a melody has been agreed, I mean composed; they all want to be the conductor, no one the composer.

Finally, after a lot of warmongering, one wise talking head said while the others stood with their index finger in the air -like in a classroom: ‘Dear all, I told them and now I’m telling you too, my song is a hit, and with it I will hit everyone to the floor if they do not agree with me. I am tremendous!’

 

R. Man

MAN OF THE MEN 2025/2026

In a ‘Good Lord’ survey, conducted under the cover of the cover-up, the man of the men 2025/2026 is Vladimir Xi Donald. The runner up was Benjamin Viktor Nicolás. The rest is a long list of inter pares, word very similar to the Portuguese word Intempérie.