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Last Notes npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat Reform is paid for by the very rich. The 1%. The people who cause all of the problems we have seen in the financial world. The Greens are paid for by me, and people like me. That is - at heart - the difference. That I have a small say, and so do many others. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…la7y I would go further - there is no substance. There is only social media posts. They could be generated by AI, except that there is no I involved. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat So, just for clarity, Reform has pretty well unlimited money (funded from overseas mostly, shady donations, vastly wealthy bribers), has much of the media spouting their message whatever it is, and has their own TV station GBeebies), as well as the BBC promoting them and their ideas through out their "news" services. And they still lost a by-election to the Greens. Who are incredibly impoverished by political party standards. Maybe, they should be dismissed as a minor trivial party that they are. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…la7y It is socialist. I just think it is more than that as well. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…la7y So the Greens - who are basically socialist in essence (although more than that) are labeled extremist, but Reform, who are fascist, are not. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat Just a comment - the Turnip has tried to throw out all regulations for car manufacturers in the US. Like the stupid prick he is. So we should not buy any US made cars. They are very common, of course, and we have had them because Mrs likes them as parts are readily available. But Japanese made cars are normally better. And UK made cars - if you want something special - are very good. And there are plenty of non-US manufacturers of cars. So I would love to see the US car market really feel some pressure. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…la7y But they came from somewhere. Even if long long before they came from Africa. Although that does explain a lot about Kent people..... npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…la7y I mean, we have been. The Vikings, the Angles, the Saxons, the French. Then people from all the countries we occupied - after telling them they were now all part of Britain. We are all a mixture of people from elsewhere. And that is an amazing thing. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…gfcd I think - reading all sorts of things that you have written that you are right (I mean, you usually are). There are rings - not hierarchies. It is not someone in charge, but people doing various activities. So Epstein was running the sex ring for everyone. Others were running other rings of finance manipulation, of political politicalling. And - as you are really clear - this is not nations. This is the Davos super group as a nation, as a transnational organisation. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…5uqu @nprofile…9pr4 It is a hard one to find a single book. So I will have to go with my favourite book, which is Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Why? Because it introduced me to imagination, to fantasy, to the idea that there was something else other than this world. It told me that there could still be wonder in the world. Also, it is a whole lot of fun. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat Just putting this out there - if anyone needs to rent a one bedroom place in Scotland - Newmilns, south of Glasgow - I have one that will be available shortly. Do let me know. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…la7y But most soldiers - or rather people who might sign up - see themselves as fighting not for the UK, but for the politicians who run it. And, as we have seen over a decade and more, they are not worth fighting for. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…35ec Underfunding the NHS will destroy it (it will). npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…35ec Oh, wow. Racist shit. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…35ec Don't remember it. Which means nothing as I have the memory of a goldfish with dementia. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…35ec But he is a blagger. He is trying his best to minimise his previous acts and words. He is trying to pretend that it was all trivial and in the past. It was never trivial, and it is clearly not all in the past. He is still a racist shit. But he will try to blag his way out of this. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…ayk9 I think you are right - mine would often be more about relationships and romance if it was Stephanie writing it. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…7ppx Oh that is rude. Sorry for you. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…xujg Everybody hates my hero. He is a prick. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…35ec I think it is a big commitment. And one you should consider carefully. Not least, because it will be there forever. I would tend to avoid people - you never know how your relationship might sour. I mean, hopefully not, but you never know. Mine are all personal to me. Alice, Schroedingers Cat and a semi-colon design. They are all expressions of me, not of my-and-others. So I am confident that I will always be happy with them. Your skin should be your expression. Who are you, what do you want to say to the world? npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…35ec Thank you. Yes they are. A very talented tattoo artist I have. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…35ec Is Johnson included in those who cannot speak it properly? npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…35ec You youngsters. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…rh2x Patel is actually the one being antisemitic, by equating the actions of Israel with all Jews. That is a word of hatred. #FuckIsrael - but that does not mean Jews. It means the Sovereign Nation of Israel. I thought these fascist scum were all into sovereign nations, and knew all about them. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…vvjp @nprofile…lwgl IME - it is "Can we have a word now." That is the worst. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…gk57 Interesting - mine was very much establishing the usual norms. Mainly because that was the established society I was in. But also, accepting of people as they are. It means that I have had to learn so much - about what accepting people as they are really means. But my lesson today is - it is entirely possible to relearn your understanding. Especially if you start from an acceptance of people as they are. And don't get blinded by their class or their money. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…lwgl "We need to talk" are the words that can make any male partner freeze from the inside. Also - for men - if she says "Have you thought about us buying a toaster" it means "We are going to buy a toaster, and you are paying for it." npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…rh2x I was thinking they could turn it into a protest about police violence, given that one of the victims was killed by the police. But I doubt that would have been treated better. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat To all refugees form #BlueSky - welcome. This is a place of oddity, peculiarity, and lovely people. It can take a little longer to find your place here, but you will, if you try. So welcome, and say hello. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…jd85 @nprofile…rh2x I mean, without evidence, but there is a good chance that, maybe, one person who attends is a violent person with strong anti-semitic views. But then, not the ones being arrested. And, of course, there were violent anti-semites as teh Farage demo the other week, and that was not an issue for her. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat "Margaret Thatcher slept for 4 hours a night, and I think it showed". Leena Norms - explaining that those people who sleep very little and are ever so active are not generally good people to follow. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat So I have just finished reading this : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Listen-Land-Speak-Journey-beneath/dp/0717192598 At the end he talks about the Potato Famine - from an Irish perspective. As someone who has survivors guilt because his family survived it. But it wasn't famine. It was genoslaughter (as he terms it). The ENGLISH land owners sold the food because they could make more money than by feeding people. 1000s died. Whole families, communities were destroyed. Bodied were in mass graves. Because of English greed. An entire nation traumatised. And this was less than 200 years ago - still within the cultural memory. No wonder we want to pretend it was the potatoes fault. 1/2 npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat I think it needs to be said here: This Labour government has enacted some decent legislation. Some good laws, They have done positive things that the Tories would not have done. Mostly minor, and getting hardly any notes. I think it is important to give them credit for this. It does not take away from the fact that they are not the party of the workers, they have abandoned their core base, embracing fascism and stupidly supporting Israel over Palestine. And their leadership is blindingly weak and incompetent. I think they are better than the Tories. In small ways. But only just. And they should be so much more. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…g7mr I still think this is the thing he is trying to hide - that Trump himself was heavily involved not just in rape and abuse but in the trafficking. And that Epstein and Trump are at the heart of the pedophile ring that encompasses most of the senior donors and members of the Republicans. The GOP was - and still is - a human trafficking rink for young girls. I think that is what he is desperately trying to hide. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…60lz Yes, and I don't specifically disagree with targetting it. It is not about cultural "understanding" - I am not saying it is acceptable because it is culturally based. It is that to target this, is to target certain cultures. It is to make "honour killing" something special, and something different from other cultures ways of forcing conformity. Killing is already illegal. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…60lz I heard about that this morning, and - while I do think honour killing is terrible and needs to be stopped - it feels very - racist. Unless it will also be applied to "Christian" families who abuse their gay members. Cut them off. OK, they rarely kill them as such. They usually pick on other gay people to beat up. But the principle is the same. It is all religious bigotry. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…60lz I think the idea of helping people who have been in social housing for a long time to buy a property is good - and the properly often has to be the one the person has lived in. But - and I think this is important - the way it was implemented was utterly wrong. It should have been done so the government pays the whole property price to the council, which should have been required to be spent on new social housing. It was actually done deliberately to destroy the social housing provision. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…lwgl I think the term "British Values" sucks. Because it means whatever people want it to. I think in this case, it mean fairness for all and to all. And there are cultures where this is not a primary value - where personal advantage trumps fairness. But also, I don't think for one moment the British nation value fairness. We values getting whatever we can for ourselves at the moment. Part of why the term is so exclusivist, arrogant, dismissive of others.We think we are better than people because we believe in "fairness" and they don't. But we actually don't and they probably do. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…c8nq I mean, I would agree that ideas are not the problem - I have these. I think I also find that good ideas ruminate and distract me from the work I am trying to finish. I have taken to writing them down - opening new documents with these names. I was just wondering on other responses. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat #Writers - to anyone else - what do you do with your upcoming ideas? At the moment, i have 3 pieces of writing I am working on - this is generally a good thing for me, because I am in different stages with each one, and they are quite different. But I also have another 4 pieces I know I want to write. And the last think I want to do it have 7 pieces at once - I am only a part time writer, having a 4-days a week job. So what do I do with these? Or rather- how do other people cope with things they know they want to write (or create or whatever), but may be years before they have a chance to start on some of them. #ScribesAndMakers npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat I think - and I offer no empirical evidence for this - that most people in the UK loathe and hate Trump and JD. And all that they stand for. The reason Faridge has - apparently - voting numbers is that the entire political system is so broken. People don't bother to vote because their vote make no fucking difference to which fascist is in charge. And if they do vote - yes, they want to vote for a party who promises to sort it all out. I totally get it. But at the heart of the problem is that the political class need to just fuck right off into the sun. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat So today is VJ day. I don't celebrate these indicators for a few reasons. They have been so overtaken by jingoism, but people saying "never again" and supporting the same again. The victory of one side is a loss for another side. And they are people too. It is not something to celebrate - a peace maybe, but not a victory. VJ Day in particular - I am reminded of exactly how that part of the conflict was brought to an end. Not a glorious victory - a monstrous destruction of people. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat Just watching something on the Lost Gardens of Helligan. Someone who was early in finding the hiddne gardens says they found a greenhouse with scissors hanging on a nail - untouched for 50 years. And there were so many others around once he knew to look for them. The gardeners had mostly gone off to the war in 1941. And most did not return. A really poignant reminder of what is lost in war. Of what is destroyed by the greed of nations. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat I grew up in the midlands, the industrial heartlands. My dad was an engineer - skilled manual work. And what companies did around there in the 1970s-80s was deskill a lot of jobs (eventually including my dads). They got machines that could do them and cheap labour to help the machines. They designed away the skilled work. And so people took the work there was for significantly lower wages. This included immigrants, who were always prepared to work for semi-slave wages. Then they sent the work overseas. The reason there are no jobs is simple: capitalism. Not immigrants. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…gk57 I do think that age expectations are ridiculous. Obviously not all age restrictions and rules, but the idea that you cannot do x at your age is ridiculous. I am frustrated that I realised this late. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…yk3h That is the problem with fiction - it needs to make sense. Reality has no such restriction. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat Question for #Cat people - where would you go to adopt a cat? I have enquired at a pretty well known charity organisation - mainly because I want some confidence that the cat has been looked after etc. But they are terrible at helping. They only have a few cats, and their site is horrible to use. So I want another place if possible. Suggestions welcome. UK, home counties based. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat Canals are amazing works of engineering. And they are 150+ years old. Locks are wonders. The ability to leg through the tunnels (never mind build them). And all of which has to be level. And they were the absolute basis of the UKs industrial revolution. We lost them for many years, and I am so glad that we have them back these days. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…rh2x I mean, good that it is on the plan. But why wait - is there not enough reason already? France has recognised Palestine immediately - why the delay? It is not as if the UK doesn't want to be the first. If they do have a ceasefire, so they are no longer in conflict* why would they then not recognise the state? *Being genocidally attacked npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…l5w8 We had a new TV a while back - with internet connectivity, of course, because it has to be. I did connect it up, because it should be easier than using the digibox. But I recently took that connection off, because the main impact seemed to be stopping the TV starting up when the internet was slow or unavailable (far too often). npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…60lz So - and I get this - those protesting immigrants have legitimate concerns about the way this country is being run. All that you say is legitimate. And yet Palestine Action do not have legitimate concerns about the treatment of Palestinians? Are they not legitimate too? npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…rh2x @nprofile…ccnn Oh - good reference. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…ccnn @nprofile…rh2x This is the problem when people who do good stuff get power, sometimes they do a lot more good stuff. Sometimes, as with Starmer, the power turns them. One reason I think he has no backbone. He knows what he should do in so many situations. But he utterly fails to do it, because someone pays him or tells him not to. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…rh2x But there is no money to pay Doctors more, of course. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…mgmp @nprofile…rh2x I hope they do well. They are up against the media as well, who will seek to destroy them. But I think they have a good chance of making a real difference. Because people like Corbyn. Also the quote that "people have voted on a Corbyn led party" - well, sorry, but the party was part of colluding against him. And he still came very close. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…qwx8 @nprofile…r0eh @nprofile…9vtz Don't. And yes I have. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat You know, there is an interesting sense of etiquette here in the fedi. And it can make it easier to handle people. When someone with 0 followers and 0 following (but thousands of posts) finds a toot of mine from ages ago and then just tells me it is wrong, then they are getting muted at least. The fedi is about interaction, networks, working with other people. Listening and then hearing. It is what makes it really nice to be here. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…epsn Nothing wrong with that. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat On the chaise longue, on the chaise longue, on the chaise longue.... https://media.metalhead.club/media_attachments/files/114/807/937/817/883/640/original/77bad32d8458232a.jpeg npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat This meeting could have been a meeting but not involving me. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…s0t0 That is true - and one reason why I like to finish and publish my writing. We did have someone in our writing group who wrote great stuff, but could never finish anything. And it was a pity because it meant she never did that final piece to make it great, and so never got anything published. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat I would say - I am in the UK, not the US. But I would support the #NoKings protests today. I don't want a king in the UK. So absolutely support the rejection of a pseudo-king-wannabe in the US. Also - Trump is a first class piece of shit. Even if you had a king, you would want someone with half a brain cell. Not that fucking loser. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat #WritersCoffeeClub 11. Who sees your WIP before it’s done? Nobody. In fairness, not a lot of people see it after it is done either. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…f0eu Completely agree - and I have posted about this before. Luddites were not just anti-tech. They were anti- abuse-of-people-with-tech. They were anti-tech-bros. They were not anti AI, they were anti-LLM-hype. I am totally a Luddite. I work in IT, so people find this strange. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat One thing this Musk/Trump is showing us is how ridiculous the utopia from Atlas Shrugged is. This is how it would actually be - all the entitled fuckwits constantly falling out and arguing and bitching. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…3sf2 Yes -s sorry, bad choice of words - I meant populist? Popular with those in power? Cool? So yes, it is popular among people. I misspoke. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…3sf2 It is important to know the companies who gave tokenised support to Pride, and pull it when it gets difficult. And also note those companies who are still prepared to support it even when it is not popular. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…3sf2 Totally - I choose not to publish on Kindle, but then I don't depend on sales to live. I have the immense luxury of being able to say no to Amazon. But in my work - where I do have to earn a living through it, I have a lo more moral compromises in play. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…4asf @nprofile…9vf2 I presume it is Putins fault that Trump cannot make peace in Ukraine. If it wasn't for Putin having changed, he would have managed it. Pointless tangerine. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat So Amazon have cancelled Wheel of Time. Because it was good and enjoyable, but people were not throwing money at Bezos in the streets, so they have canned it. My son - who has had the Prime subscription in our household for years (mainly to watch things like this) has now cancelled his account. I hope many others do the same. Stupid decision. when it is all about money, creativity is destroyed. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…60lz I think the divisions, the stranger-ness that people do see - and you see this played on by Reform especially, but other parties as well - is actually this divide from the establishment. So the establishment has to re-focus it elsewhere. (and I wasn't trying to dismiss what you were saying, just building on it, and trying to understand where this comes form.) npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…60lz I think we are becoming an island ruled by strangers. That the real strangers are those in power, those in charge. But most people not in power are not strangers - maybe not all friends, but all together. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…ednp I studied concepts like hypernormalisation and hyperreality in my research work, because they had real relevance to the computer interaction that I was focussing on. To see this all expand to encompass everything is really disconcerting. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…60lz Thing is, he is weak against other people who are either strong or at least shouty. It was Chamberlains problems of appeasement. And it didn't work. Not that it is purely Starmer - we haven't had a proper strong PM for many many years. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…637k I can already describe my ideal job. But nobody would pay me to do that. It is another example of trying to find a use for this useless technology for something that nobody needed. If you cannot describe your perfect job by yourself*, I might question whether you can do this perfect job. *Not meaning to be ableist here - describe in any form, type using help to spell, or say the aspects of your job. What is means, of course, is find the right keywords to trigger the AI on the other end. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat #WritersCoffeeClub 4/27. What does a session of writing look like for you? Sit at my computer, having plugged everything in. Load up social media. Have to check all of that. Decide which piece I am going to work on. Open it up and get to the last place. Remember something I needed to look up for it. So look that up. Oh, recheck social media in case there has been something new in the last 5 minutes. take the information I have looked up and try to make it fit into whatever I needed it for. Realise that it still doesn't work. Find out how to rephrase that idea. Eventually, write a paragraph. Realise it is lunchtime. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…sjmw Yes - I do this. It used to be the case that some people would look in person for things they wanted, try on etc, and then go and buy on Amazon because it was cheaper. Turning this on its head feels like a really good idea. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…fynq We did this for one night on our stay last year. In the US, it makes a lot of sense - the distances are large, and sometimes you have to make some decisions over where you will stop. And for a stay of this length, it seems perfectly reasonable in any country. That is xenophobic paranoia. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…3r43 Is this any use: https://www.implasticfree.com/plastic-free-electric-kettles/ I know that most do contain plastic, and good on you trying to find one that doesn't. I suspect that glass is a better option, if you can find these. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…x38x Because, in a world mad with capitalism, the life of a CEO is far more valuable than the life of someone else. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat I think my first day of setting up the Signal groups for the US government has gone pretty well. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat #WordWeavers Mar 24: Share the worldbuilding fact you’re most proud of. I think the fact the magic town and the real world are not in sync with each other, meaning there is no way of understanding them. I leaves me free to do all sorts of things in the magic world that make no sense. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat I had a conversation with my youngest son. I reminded him that, when I originally said that I would no longer buy a Tesla, because Musk had been abusing his staff, he defended Musk, claiming his was just a standard techbro. He had forgotten this. It was, in fairness, 10 years ago or so. But he accepts that I was right even then. So people who claim to have bought Teslas before Elon showed his colours that are not at least 10 years old are lying. He showed who he was very early. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat Are we not way beyond expecting this corrupt, fascist, lawless dictatorship to actually obey the rules and laws? So often I see "Oh, they have ignored a court" again and again. Of course they have. They do not respect the rule of law. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat Are you gonna #JumpToTheBeat for today's #TuneTuesday ? OK, House of Pain and Jump Around? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhzpxjuwZy0 npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat #WritersCoffeeClub 27. Post an image which reflects the tone of your WIP. This is the best I can do. https://media.metalhead.club/media_attachments/files/114/076/534/306/353/961/original/08e6cce6d311061f.png npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat My son is in the process of trying to become a barrister. He is applying for DEI grants, because DEI in this profession includes: Went to state school Didn't go to Oxbridge Doesn't have the 16K fees available. (Totally serious here. This is why the English Establishment has to go) npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat When life hands you lemons, please stop electing them to high office. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat #WritersCoffeeClub 14: Is failing as a writer a worry? Is failure an option? Another failure in life, I guess. But I will never really fail in writing, because I keep doing it, and some people enjoy it, so I cannot "fail". Failing to sell more than half a dozen copies? Failing to make it a viable income source? These are all possible, as with every other possible income source. But then I am fortunate not to have to rely on it for that. Also, please buy my books (see pinned posts) npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat #WritersCoffeeClub 13 Feb - How do you organize your writing projects? What is this "organise" you speak of? npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat Thoughts with everyone here in the path of storm Eowyn. Look after yourselves. Hope you are all OK, and if and when you can, let us know you are safe. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat #WritersCoffeeClub Dec 28: Have any resources improved your storytelling skills? A writers groups was invaluable - providing feedback and insight. But mostly, just doing it - writing, all sorts of things, in all sorts of styles and forms. in the end, this is what made my writing better. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @nprofile…d6h6 Interesting - in the UK, it was a fairly common thing for families to do, so for us, it may just be a more traditional family. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @npub1g0t…tvm4 One fascinating thing I found in my research work was a study showing clearly something we all know: If you set a metric for a teams ofr group or whatever, they will seek to ensure that metric is showing things positively. Irrespective of what the truth is. If the metrics are not a good proxy for the reality, then they will probably be easier to fudge, and they will be. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @npub1g0t…tvm4 Oh I think it is possible to provide it at the current scale. I think it was more that the way it was increased was about money, not improving the overall education. And it is too much about "Having a degree" not "Being educated". npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @npub1g0t…tvm4 But I think there is also a problem that the universities have been forced to be focussed on money, not providing good quality education. When I went, it was 5% who went to uni, and I think the education was better, because the students were better. Of course, we never appreciated this. But we started better and came out better, IMO. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @npub1g0t…tvm4 I think you are far too generous. It is a blatent lie, and he knows it. Because Sunak is a lying turd. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @npub15zu…s7lx But apparently, we can''t afford to go green. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat @npub1e2u…gz5y I think I prefer writing characters who are likeable and who are trying to do the right thing. People who are deliberately trying to do the wrong things - and so are unlikeable - I struggle with because I cannot get into their mindset so much. SOrry, that sounds like I am saying you must be an unlikeable person! Not so - and I definitely prefer characters who are complex. WHo have multiple aspects and layers. Bland characters are boring. npub13fhghn9w9s93n6zg32v0wzeynsc2ywaswksuru8nzneakmf3rnxspxsygt Schroedingers_Cat Saw this in a bookshop. I was going to complain that all books are beautiful. But then, these are pretty as well as beautiful. https://media.metalhead.club/media_attachments/files/111/189/043/474/401/968/original/a0b98e1dace6f9ad.jpg