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Last Notes npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener #SilentSunday npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Yeah, but she knows it. The camera loves her, but I think she loves it more back. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener This week, I will mostly be feeling... npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener As someone who spent decades working in and around farming, this is all par for the course: the default setting in the UK is anti-farm, so it’s rich pickings for conspiracies and populism. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Both! npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Yours looks like somewhat better weather! npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener #SilentSunday npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Not going to lie, 'Just a gigolo' popped into my head first. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener MAGAs are only miserable right now because there’s nothing to be angry about. It’s when they’re happy again that you need to be worrying. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener I AM A GOD AMONGST TRADESPEOPLE! npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Ok, we'll stop there. Thank you. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Why is your dependence less worthy than mine? What makes you so special that you get to suffer needlessly, while my life is easier? npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener They did all that on principle, because that's how they live: it was the absence of money which made the effort worthwhile for its own sake. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener It would look FANTASTIC. But 'work' probably wouldn't be appropriate at any useful level. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener After several decades of academically expanding my brain, my imagination would probably fit into a postage-stamp sized corner of the average five year-old's imagination. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener An entire universe of imagination could -and probably has - fit in there. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener The train example isn't a good one: we recently had a situation where a very famous disabled athlete and activist, who is also a peer, had to crawl off a train because *there was nobody to help*. Fully accessible platforms would have prevented this, and if accommodations are implemented during construction, they're cheap as a proportion of overall cost. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Having read the thread, I'm not sure this is the post to which they're referring, as they're not involved in it (it's possible that you've blocked them, in which case they might not see your post here either). npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Those aren't breaks, just work being inconvenient! I have whole week's go by where I just can't settle to an ongoing book; if it goes past a fortnight, it's a lost cause. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener There's a definite sweet spot, though - if you wait *too* long, it drifts away and feels like too much effort to pick back up. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener My plastering and rendering skills are so poor that henceforth I will only buy old properties which require a 'rustic' finish. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener On Mastodon? Had they got lost on their way to Twitter? npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener As a society, we pride ourselves on rooting for the plucky underdog. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener I’m awkward in these situations, as I feel it impossible not to speak up when people’s rights are being infringed: I’ve ‘persuaded’ quite a few store managers to issue refunds to people who are clearly under the protection of the Consumer Rights Act. They tend to look at me with confusion, then annoyance, then resignation. And possibly hate. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener It's a comfort food kind of day - and nothing hits the spot like a warm bowl of rice and peas. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener We have a system: the next village in from the sea now has our bins, and *their* next village has theirs. Every so often, the council goes to the village at the centre, rounds up the excess bins and redistributes them to the coastal villages. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener YES! YES, IT HAS! IT’S APPARENTLY STAYING IN THE AIRBNB ON MY STREET! AND IT SEEMS ANGRY ABOUT THE POOR STATE OF THE ACCOMMODATION! npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener I had one question: npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Those who follow far-right parties are more fired up about it than the ones who essentially vote for slightly different versions of the status quo. Given that both Labour and the SNP have/are self-destructing through endless unforced errors, people have disengaged from mainstream voting. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Again, for effect. The IHT measure affects ALL farmers, because it demonstrates an approach by the new government which is the polar opposite of what was promised in meetings up and down the country. Farmers know now that no help is coming. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener So instead of doing something about that, or announcing proper reform and stabilisation of farm gate prices, Labour did this instead. Can you see why *all* farmers are angry, not just the supposedly rich ones? npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener They’re hocked up to the eyeballs, and their return on assets is around 1-2% - in a good year. There aren’t many of those. If they sell those assets to actually get some money - after the bank has been paid off, of course, and all the stakeholders get their share - who then grows your food? npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener No, they aren't. Please, take some time to understand how the last thirty years of farming policy and practice have led us to this point. Speak to a farmer, perhaps. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Three things: npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener I used to service the farms in your exact area, from Preston to Kirby Lonsdale. Trust me when I say, the majority of farmers local to you are not rich, and their profit margins are generally obscenely low, zero or negative. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Are they? Are you *quite* certain which diesel they topped up with to go into town? npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Really? This is quite poor, Chris. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener I think the second half of my post covered that: imposition of risks usually associated with self-employment, onto employees, is inherently unfair. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener For those who are pushed from the other direction - as employees rather than self-employed - the risks they face broadly parallel those for self-employed contractors, but with few of the financial benefits, given that most positions are minimum wage. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener When I left my former profession, I set up a representative body for the freelancers within it (I left before it really came to fruition, but felt it important to get the ball rolling). npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Do you even remember the thing you forgot to remember, which reminded you to post this? npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Myopic? Their goal of completely cutting us off from the rest of the world has succeeded magnificently. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener A visit to the Lost Gardens of Heligan tonight, to see the Night Garden. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener My personal take on this is how brave you are for coming on Mastodon and admitting to owning a CAR. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Much of the stress on food production in this country comes from ruthless supermarket buying practices, and the lack of accountability for their behaviour. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener An economy built around national food security and food as a driver for health - both of which would be economically advantageous - would mean that it cost more to the consumer; wages would need to rise, which would be, er, economically advantageous. It starts with regulating a lot of processed ‘food’ out of existence. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener The idea of cheap food so that nobody starves is laudable, but we’re seeing the effects of two, more ulterior, strategies: suppression of wages and facilitation of rampant capitalisation, both through political will. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Food production is axiomatically a political football - given that it’s the literal bread to go with the circuses. Modern political policies have been about making ‘food’ as cheap as possible to the customer *at the point of sale*, and this is effected with grower subsidies, overly-powerful buyers and importation on a vast scale. Large food processing and retail outfits are also allowed a seat at the table which is denied to food producers. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Yup. Still worked. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener They cardboarded and put a layer of bark down, but in truth there's not much which stops Mare's Tail. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener I'm currently doing some work for a friend's mum, whose back garden I completely made over last year, thankfully with the firm initial agreement that I was only able to do the hard landscaping, NOT the gardening. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Is there an easier, more trouble-free plant to grow than Lychnis Coronaria? npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener It may, as you say, vary with the institution: I worked at two extremes - one, a fancy place with more money than God, and the other a mixed FE/HE local institution which was destroyed by a Surgeon (as per the Harvard Business Review) through mindless cost-cutting. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener I've also spent a few years teaching in HE... npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener With universities, though, the users are the ones who are paying to support the infrastructure (yes, there's a whole thing about exploited workers doing the same), and the wide and varied landscape of services means that buildings can easily be repurposed or rented out, within the system. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener They *can* divest their buildings, but commercial property prices (not my area of expertise, admittedly) appears to have been in the toilet recently, and any large-scale increase in supply will create crashes which literally bankrupt swathes of firms. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener I think, though, that we’re in danger of thinking WFH is the norm, simply because for the glittering literati of progressive social media, it’s their lived experience. There’s a much larger section of the population for whom the workplace is necessary, and who like it that way. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener These hens are definitely not for cuddling: believe me, I’ve tried. If I pull up a deckchair in the garden, they’ll come running, hop on my lap and sit there for an hour - but if I so much as try to stroke one, they’re off, fierce and noble weirdos that they are. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener EVERYBODY should keep chickens*. Rubbish supermarket eggs are depressing to eat. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Fortunately, our leaders are sufficiently quick and agile to segue seamlessly into a pro-European mindset, and we didn’t burn too many bridges with Brexit and the last government, npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener The people who vote are the ones who expect to gain something from it; as recent events show, governments are not generally bothered about helping the poorest or most vulnerable in society, so what would be the point for them? npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Going back through summer pictures of the garden. I take very few, which is deeply frustrating in the winter when I'm trying to do what I laughably call 'planning'. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener I tend to use plywood strips, glued and screwed, as they give a fairly uniform curve and don't need steaming - but that's something I keep meaning to try, so will be interesting to see how you get on! npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener I’ve done something similar a number of times, to make curved roof beams and the occasional circular doorframe for sheds. Building the form is always great fun. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Starmer didn’t meet Harris because she didn’t want to; he’d aimed to see both, probably sensibly, but Donny was the only one to agree. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener This may turn out to be more useful than the result of the election. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener No, I probably didn't articulate that well. I doubt the leadership will change direction, just that they'll pick up a lot of people from the left. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener The Tories barely have the resources to fight on one front, but they've chosen further right in an attempt to, er, win back the centre ground voters who found them too right-wing last time out. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Already is. If you can say a word and everybody knows *exactly* what you're talking about, totally legit. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener #SilentSunday #Beach #Cornwall npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Yup. Friend of mine is an OOH GP in a largish city; just been informed that they're going to be making redundancies and cutting back hours. They already don't have enough docs to run the service properly. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener It's indicative of the way in which big bosses are paid: headline, basic salary - which to the rest of us seems sizeable - is a way of implying equitability within the corporation's pay structure. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Crappy wood creations, as per extravagant claims in profile. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Broth is an excellent full moon word. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Cheese flavour? I was hoping for something more witchy, like minestrone. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener What kind of soup? npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener "Take this home and inject yourself with it. When you reach our arbitrarily-determined target BMI, we'll put you to work in the grindingly awful job of our choosing." npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener There are a few, thankfully only a few, which I wish I'd never tried... npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Back when the UK was still in the EU, our county (Cornwall) was recognised as relatively impoverished and businesses were able to apply for EU Objective One funding: essentially, a grant which didn't need paying back in most circumstances. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Good human. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener What on earth did they do to that poor bun? npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener The only ways to return to limited-option voting would be to suppress small party participation - price them out of the contest; fiddle with registration rules - or to somehow shut down the information superhighway. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener We can’t be trusted on binary choices, but we, paradoxically, can be trusted to elevate the minority fringes in these times of micro-campaigning and dog whistles. And given that the Tories ceded the centre ground to battle entirely on their right flank - and lost heavily - they now know the only way to cover the whole spectrum is with multiple parties. Too much divergence for one party to successfully contain. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener The box is open on PR, and it’s no surprise that Farage is at the heart of it again. Were it not for the fact that he’s an odious, self-serving, racist, he might actually lay claim to being the most successful politician in modern history (unfortunately, rabble-rousing isn’t politics). npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener I don’t think many people *are* listening - even the Express is sticking with what it believes to be the more sane, rational story of how we should all hide under the beds, as the Argentinians are coming for the Falklands. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Don't you realise we had an EMPIRE? npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener This is the absolute state of the PLP right now: pretty much all those who abstained last time out were against Starmer's plans. If they'd had a spine, what was he going to do, suspend them all? There'd have been enough pissed-off indies that Labour's majority started to look wobbly. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener #SilentSunday npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener ‘Lessons have been learned’ is a weasel phrase, for which a custodial sentence should be lumped on any public official who utters it, where there is evidence that *they already knew this would happen* (example: Grenfell). npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener It’s almost like there’s an entire group of people with limited rights and no apparent power who have to deal with stupid, entitled predatory males every day of their lives, and who have honed that shit to a fine art. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Absolutely: there is literally no upside to intervening. Whichever one(s) you upset, they'll remember, particularly around the time you inevitably drop a clanger and need support. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Monday's training: Attack Chicken. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener I’ve always found Centre for Cities problematic: its ideologies tend towards ‘how to make employees better faceless cogs in the large machine’ and emphasise productivity over well-being. This conclusion from a recent report (possibly the one to which you’re referring) is a good example: npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener The issue is further compounded by those of us who have decided to release funds to offspring (ie, early inheritance) in order to reduce their debts on the other side of university - or, indeed, to get a headstart on the housing market should they choose not to go npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener We, as a global population, are in a transitory phase: most of us grew up on the printed word, which in itself implied a degree of moderation. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Sunrise from the north ridge of Jebel Toubkal, in the High Atlas of Morocco. npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener ‘United’ States of America? npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Apparently, it’s #internationaldogday npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener #MountainMonday npub1aa5c3g8v0cjtuzu2wk2z3vgwkc7szpzprqryug3m5scd9nld99csudarmv Bad Gardener Don’t forget also our refusal to allow them to bring their loved ones - a not-so-subtle hammering home of the point that whilst their skills are important to us, we have literally zero interest in their well-being as human individuals. None at all.
