star - magician - sun

‘this share goes against our community standards on nudity or sexual activity’ - facebook

well not this note no - unless they intend to remove the rider-waite tarot pack from facebook (though think about it - the cards mentioned feature a naked woman, a naked child, water, rocks, a wall, a tower, a horse, two dogs, a lobster, a bird (all naked), various sunflowers, a path leading off into the mountains). in this it resembles not at all the cover of houses of the holy by led zeppelin (which features two naked children clambering around on some rocks - at the giant’s causeway in fact while covered in silver paint).

the album was released in 1973, it's led zeppelin so it probably sold a few copies - The photo shoot featured two children, stefan and samantha gates. as an adult, in february 2010, stefan gates was featured on a BBC radio 4 documentary about the cover. He said there was something sinister about the image, though his sister disagreed, their mum just replied that it was the 70ies and people did that sort of thing. he also admitted never having heard the album. the programme ended with gates returning to giant's causeway and listening to the album on a portable player and finding it cheerful and happy and inspiring (not normally words horsemouth associates with led zep).

frankly the world is a terrible place full of wars, pestilence, famine death racism, homophobia and capitalism - there are many terrible images one would not wish to encounter before breakfast, yemeni kids killed by US made bombs for example - so a bit of nudity is not the real problem - isn't the real problem the targeted advertising and content of facebook and the like, the activities of the likes of cambridge analytica just revealing the process, revealing the opportunities for surveillance and control.

after much tooing and froing facebook decided that the cover of houses of the holy does violate their community standards - horsemouth could accept the decision or he could complain about it to improve their service at a future date but their decision still stood. he complained about their decision so as to improve their service at a future date.

of course all this does is remove the file with that particular name - the same image with a different name will not be removed.

presumably all over the world people are having their summer holiday photos of their children at the beach banned. facebook will of course be a better place when all this has been removed.

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horsemouth had a tarot reading - an all major arcana 3 spread - it went star - magician - sun. the tarot pack was not rider-waite but tarot de marseille so the sun (naked child on horseback sunflowers in the background) had been replaced by twins (the ibeji).

at first horsemouth could not recognise the magician (he thought it was the page of wands - but the meaning is similar).

there is of course something about the sun, sea and rocks - and we experience it each summer holiday when we go to the seaside - a clearing out, a simplification.

horsemouth the magician is assembling his tools preparing to do things, but he’s still thinking about the past, dredging up material from his subconscious (star), but he’s preparing to move forward once again entering solar regions (the sun).

yesterday he babysat. earlier he wandered through the maze of streets by the canal. howard has been busy - he's done a jazz compilation.