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2024-09-17 23:14:10

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I still think he was too little reward for the cost of blowing the operation, especially if you go with the presumption that they were also bugging the rigged pagers. It’s very odd.

2024-09-17 22:48:50

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Hezbollah pager explosions.

2024-09-17 21:23:41

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/17/can-a-dachshund-be-genderfluid/
> Sixty-two-year-old Elizabeth Pitt was employed as a social worker by Cambridgeshire County Council. In January 2023, Pitt, who is a lesbian, attended a meeting of the council’s LGBT employee group. A colleague piped up to say that his dog is ‘genderfluid’. This means that its gender identity supposedly fluctuates depending on the day, time or situation. One day, Fido is cocking *his* leg up over the fire hydrant, the next *she* is complaining that the term ‘sausage dog’ is outdated and cisheteronormative.
Somehow, this Dachshund with a brain the size of a walnut was able to not only understand and define its own ‘gender identity’, but also convey that to its owner. Given that dogs can barely get their heads around object permanence, I’m not convinced they’re capable of experiencing gender dysphoria or even ‘identifying’ as anything.

2024-09-17 18:51:12

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Oh, I fully believe it’s possible. Two thousand times without anyone noticing, though…. That’s serious long-term planning, of the “set up a legit company and run it for years before doing this special order” type. That is entirely within Mossad’s capabilities, but why — ahem — blow the operation now exactly?

2024-09-17 18:42:24

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That makes it even weirder, imo.

2024-09-17 14:28:29

At my garage, having them check the new car. Provisional reaction having lifted it up for a look underneath (which the internet tells me is the risky part): “Very tidy, very nice, it’s been looked after.”
And a mechanic from a different place just stuck his head around the door to ask if they had anything a client could buy for a few hundred to use as a runabout for six months. They didn’t, so I followed them out and sidled over to ask if he wanted my old car: he’ll have a look at the records on it and give me a call.

2024-09-17 12:45:38

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Oh, god, it sounds like you’ve really been through the wringer the last few days, you poor thing.
It’s so difficult, but if she won’t take her meds then keeping your distance might be the best thing to do. I know you want to be there for your son and the child, but you’ll be no help if you make yourself ill over it.
If he’s four, will he be starting school later this year or not until next September? When he does start, at least that will get more eyes on him and hopefully he’ll get support.

2024-09-16 13:15:04

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/09/15/the-world-must-condemn-brazils-ban-on-x/
> While the temptation for those in power to silence speech is nothing new, the roots of this current trend stretch back to at least 2016, when the West’s political and media class was shaken by the unexpected votes for Brexit and Trump.
> Amid a newfound fear that the ‘barbarians were at the gates’, those concerned with the maintenance of the status quo quickly sought to restrict speech, especially in digital spaces. The response in Europe was for governments and bureaucrats to usher in a series of censorship measures to counter the perceived threat. A slew of draconian new laws came into effect, such as the EU Code of Conduct against ‘illegal online hate speech’ in 2016, the German Network Enforcement Act in 2017 and, most potently, the DSA in 2022.
> The populations of Western countries are increasingly dissatisfied with the policy choices of their governing elites. Rather than addressing this, the elites have responded by censoring criticism. But, as is plainly observable in Brazil, censorship never ameliorates discontent. In fact, it only brings societal tensions to a boiling point.

2024-08-03 08:47:50

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I feel sorry for those kids, they must be so frightened and bewildered.

2024-08-01 14:53:28

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Not sure if these are directed at me, but in case they are and I’ve correctly understood your meaning: he does walk to heel, as long as he doesn’t see another dog. If he *does* see another dog, chicken / liver / anything else I’ve tried is completely irrelevant.
And it doesn’t piss him off, he quite happily pokes his nose into it to put it on.

2024-08-01 14:37:10

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I personally dislike Haltis, because of the sideways pressure on the neck. I think this style is better, biomechanically, because the lead attachment is behind the head.
https://www.k9bridle.com/

2024-08-01 14:34:27

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No indeed. Bad enough in any sport, but worse in ones that are contact.

2024-08-01 14:09:11

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Two of them, one in this fight, both previously disqualified from the world championships after chromosome tests, but the IOC chose to ignore that and say it was ok because they have passports that say “female”.

2024-08-01 14:05:00

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Has been lifted.
> We can now report that the 17-year-old charged with three counts of murder is Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, born 7 August 2006.

2024-08-01 14:03:18

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Because he’s a minor and because the investigation is ongoing.
He’s in Crown Court very soon, which is when the press will be able to petition to have his anonymity lifted.

2024-08-01 11:21:15

A sighting of the eggs of the rare “square sided” tractor! Good to see that it’s breeding up here this year.
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2024-07-31 12:57:20

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Making doesn’t mean what it sounds like.
If you look at CP and a copy is in your browser cache, for example, that counts as “making”. Or if someone texts it to you.
Actually taking the original picture is a different, more serious offence.
https://www.olliers.com/news/what-constitutes-making-indecent-images/

2024-07-31 00:04:57

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Wait, you sekritly got a job without saying?
Otherwise I thoroughly approve!

2024-07-30 23:53:42

Good to remember:
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/07/30/in-praise-of-southports-heroes/
> Leanne Lucas, who organised the dance class, and her colleague, dance teacher Heidi Barlow, both 35, are reported to have saved the lives of 16 children by barricading them in a toilet when the knifeman was running amok. Lucas was stabbed and is currently in a critical condition, while Barlow sustained injuries that were not life-threatening.
> Then there was Jonathan Hayes, who works in an office in the same building as the dance studio. After he heard screams, he ran towards the unfolding carnage and tried to tackle the attacker and take his knife off him. The 63-year-old Hayes was stabbed in the leg amid the melee.
> Joel Verite, a 25-year-old window cleaner, was driving past the dance studio but stopped when he saw an injured woman on the floor. She told him there was ‘a fella stabbing kids up there’, and he immediately ran in to help. Along with two police officers, he tackled the knifeman to the ground.

2024-07-30 23:34:28

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Agree in principle but I’ve seen him maybe five times in the last twenty years: he’s lived in Aus my whole life, we have very little contact.

2024-07-30 22:47:47

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Thank you, that was my reading of it.
It’s my uncle, who’s a smart cookie, so I have no doubts that he’s completely on top of it from his end, but I was worried he was sugarcoating it for my mother

2024-07-30 22:25:30

Can anyone decode this? I think it means “cancer but it’s not spread (beyond the prostrate and seminal vesticles) so easily operable”.
> My MRI pathology report says I have a lesion on the outside of the prostate (presumably spreading from the inside) and it's "invaded" (their word) the seminal vesicles, which provide fluid for semen via the prostate. So, whatever it is, it's spread. The word cancer is not mentioned in the report.
> The lesion is listed in the report as "T3b NO", which meant nothing to my GP, who has referred me for an "urgent" biopsy.
> My research shows that "T3b" means a "locally extensive cancer" but "NO" fortunately means it's not yet evident in the lymph nodes.

2024-07-29 23:35:42

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You are really acing it!

2024-07-29 22:57:57

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/29/southport-major-incident-stabbing-police/
> The youth, who cannot be named for legal reasons and is originally from Cardiff, moved to the Southport area with his Rwandan parents when he was aged six.

2024-07-29 22:18:15

How many plants did you eat today?
https://zoe.com/learn/30-plants-per-week
Spices and herbs count: it’s range, not quantity. Different colours of the same plant also count (eg, bell peppers, cabbage). Seeds and dried pulses count, as do preserved vegetables.

2024-07-29 22:11:41

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Twitter is saying Syrian refugee who was on an MI5 watch-list….

2024-07-29 10:52:05

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https://stealthward.xyz/ maybe?

2024-07-28 23:38:53

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Not sheep *dog* trials, *sheep* trials. Picture a bunch of Young Farmers coaxing sheep through a dog agility course….!
Though sheep dog trials with small children does sound hilarious!

2024-07-28 23:30:55

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You are right to be jealous, they are pretty hilarious and only eclipsed imho by the sheep trials I once saw!

2024-07-28 22:41:06

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I’ve seen screenshots of (purportedly) his followers drilling in a mosque car park.

2024-07-28 11:29:23

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2024-07-28 08:50:48

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Basically, yes. They’re called “The Red Barrows”.

2024-07-27 15:25:30

District show day!
Nice to see poultry back after the last few years.
For those who’ve seen previous conversations on the topic, that’s an oatcake that I had for lunch (with sausage and cheese).
I guess the cabbage category wasn’t very popular this year.
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2024-07-26 22:05:29

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Umm.
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2024-07-25 21:27:14

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Same, same. I knew there were still pockets of it, but….
I wonder if that’s the problem: maybe these kids don’t know what (eg) the blood libel is, so they really don’t realise what they’re saying / supporting?

2024-07-25 21:06:43

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/07/25/a-fascist-rally-in-washington-dc/
> What would you call a gathering of angry people marching behind a giant, grotesque effigy of a horned Jew with blood dripping from his mouth? A gathering at which one attendee held up a placard calling for a ‘Final Solution’ for ‘the Zionists’? A gathering at which people giddily waved the flag of a movement that is devoted to the murder of Jews? A gathering at which there were banners and speedily daubed graffiti on public monuments singing the praises of this Jew-killing outfit? I would call it a fascist rally. And yet, bizarrely, when just such a rally took place in Washington, DC yesterday, the liberal media called it an ‘anti-war protest’. Were they watching something else?

2024-07-25 11:52:45

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/07/25/how-schools-are-sexualising-childhood/
> This is reinforced by UNESCO, the WHO and other promoters of CSE [“comprehensive sexuality education”] referring to ‘young people’ rather than children. That some countries have an age of consent to sex that demarcates between children and adults is ignored. By the same token, the need for ‘age-appropriate’ lessons morph into arguments for ‘developmentally appropriate’ instruction, while the need to teach ‘preventatively’ suggests ‘pre-empting’ sexual development. In other words, children supposedly need to be taught about sexuality before they need or want such knowledge. In any case, it is surely the role of adults to protect children from abuse, not for children to have to protect themselves. This lack of respect for age-of-consent laws shows how international organisations are prepared to ride roughshod over national sovereignty and regional customs in their rush to promote CSE.
> Alongside this, CSE undermines families. It should be for parents to pass on to children values around sex and relationships, not teachers or NGOs. It also degrades education. Schools are being exploited as the place where children comprise a captive audience. Ironically, as my report shows, CSE can leave children knowing little about sex. Classes focus little on the basic science of sexual reproduction and concentrate instead on broader themes such as sexuality and intimate relationships. The aim is to change children’s attitudes and behaviours and, in this way, implement broader social change. As such, the global imposition of CSE involves unwitting children in an explicitly political project.

2024-07-25 11:48:14

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/24/nhs-equality-training-staff-wrong-pronouns-trans-suicide/
> An NHS pronoun Q&A claims there is research to show that every context where a “trans youth’s chosen name is used, their risk of suicidal behaviour is reduced by more than half”, and that those who have their pronouns respected “attempted suicide at half the rate of those who did not have their pronouns respected”.
> But the only source given for the data is a 2022 survey by the United States LGBT+ suicide charity Trevor Project.
> An NHS source said the “poorly evidenced claims” were “statistically unfounded and emotionally disgraceful”.
> “This narrative is repeated everywhere. It is like a religion being forced upon staff,” they said.
> “We have a duty to ensure we are not inadvertently spreading health misinformation.”
https://archive.ph/Bxk5n
“Inadvertently”.

2024-07-25 11:39:56

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Thanks for posting: I’d been curious to see it.
Why does he randomly pull his wig off, I wonder?

2024-07-25 11:33:51

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At least it’s not actually raining.
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2024-07-25 11:33:26

Can’t help but feel that the single-icon summary of today’s weather constitutes some sort of false advertising…
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2024-07-25 10:30:50

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Well, that’s terrifying.

2024-07-25 09:04:22

https://freespeechunion.org/gender-critical-barrister-loses-appeal-against-stonewall/
> The barrister Allison Bailey has lost her Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) case against LGBTQ+ lobby group Stonewall, having argued that the charity tried to silence her for tweeting about her gender-critical beliefs and her view that Stonewall was driving a “dangerous” agenda around gender self-identification. […]
> In his written judgment, Mr Justice Bourne agreed with the original ET ruling, that Bailey had fallen “well short of showing that if Stonewall either induced or attempted to induce GCC to inflict a detriment on her, the inducement was to inflict the detriment on grounds of her protected belief rather than because of an allegedly objectional manifestation of her belief”.
> Reacting to the ruling, Bailey said Judge Bourne’s view would “shock” legal commentators, “many of whom believe that Stonewall was lucky to escape legal liability in the first place.”

2024-07-24 21:55:35

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Same!
I would quite like one that beeps when I’m reversing, but otoh I understand it’s really annoying when you drive on country lanes a lot, so maybe not.

2024-07-24 21:49:28

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Look at you with the fancy car that tells you stuff like that!

2024-07-24 20:09:29

Gosh: BBCR4 twansphwobic twice in five minutes shocker!
The six-thirty comedy included a line about how someone’s “thirteen year old they/them is now a communist,” and then the continuity announcer said “And next week he’ll be talking about men’s reactions to pregnancy. Someone else’s, presumably.”

2024-07-24 11:46:03

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https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/gbw/gardens-wildlife/garden-birds/disease/warts#

2024-07-24 10:39:55

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That’s a terribly tricky one to search online!
I can’t think why paint (or indeed some sort of infection) on his feet would stop him from flying.

2024-07-23 21:19:43

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My dog is very flexible, and empties his own.
If you think you have smelled bad dog breath, I have news for you.

2024-07-23 20:30:58

At sewing today, we got to talking about dogs’ anal glands (as you do) and someone said her vet had told her to give the dog half a Weetabix every day.
Looking online, this seems to be a not-uncommon suggestion, but I’d never heard it before: might give it a try!

2024-07-23 13:37:19

Wonder if they’ll have time to ripen…?
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2024-07-20 20:22:06

Lettuce soup.
A bit lacking in umami. Might have been better made with stock. Or bacon.
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2024-07-19 21:27:35

@[email protected] can you re-translate this chinglish? Curious what “step on thunder” should be!
> By The Way, High Quality, Comfortable To Wear, Soft To Touch, Fashionable And Practical Trousers As A Festival Or Birthday Gift Will Never Step On Thunder.

2024-07-18 16:43:48

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new job opportunity for you!

2024-07-16 13:36:41

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More detail, but I get an error trying to view the original CNN story (may be geoblocked?): https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/local-cop-trump-shooter-rooftop-retreated-b2580106.html
> Law enforcement was dispatched to check out the reports when one of the officers spotted the gunman, who the FBI identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Croooks, on a nearby roof. One officer reportedly hoisted another onto the ledge, which prompted the shooter to turn around and point a gun at him.
> The officer saw the gun pointed at him and dropped off the ledge, fearing he'd be shot.
> That is reportedly when the gunman turned and fired at Trump.

2024-07-16 13:21:56

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I’ve just seen this, which I’d not heard about previously. Aren’t all your police armed?
> A local cop did finally confront the shooter but reportedly retreated when Crooks threatened him with a gun, allowing him to take his shot.

2024-07-15 23:56:15

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/07/15/wes-streeting-is-right-to-ban-puberty-blockers/
> What’s more, Streeting will, by continuing this ban, protect a good many gay kids. We know that the vast majority of children who identify as trans grow up to be same-sex attracted. Often gender-confused children are struggling with their sexuality – a source of distress which is usually alleviated by puberty. A ban on puberty blockers, then, is precisely in the interests of struggling gay youth. The alternative is to push them down a medical pathway – to ‘fix’ them and turn them into heterosexuals. Which hardly sounds progressive.
> A ban on puberty blockers will not ‘kill’ gender-confused children. It is not an attempt by Labour or Wes Streeting to victimise kids. It is an attempt to keep them out of harm’s way. The trans activists attacking Labour care more about clinging to their own fanatical ideology than they do the safety of vulnerable young people.

2024-07-15 13:36:16

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cql8e90gggno
> Police say Jomaisi Khalisia, 33, confessed to having killed 42 women since 2022, including his own wife.
> The suspect was arrested at a bar early on Monday morning as he was watching the Euro final.
> There has been shock and outrage in Kenya since the first of the dismembered bodies were found on Friday at the Mukuru quarry in the capital, Nairobi.
> “[He] confessed to have lured, killed and disposed of 42 female bodies at the dumping site, all murdered between 2022 and as recent as Thursday," said Mohamed Amin, head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).

2024-07-11 11:23:39

Thinking about ditching my fancy expensive factor 50 face cream and just buying some of that stuff designed for kids to wear in the swimming pool. That way, it might last a whole dog walk if I’m lucky,

2024-07-04 21:50:09

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Who’s the guy in the middle? Surely not Reagan?

2024-07-02 20:24:48

This meal is called “Flick’s laughably inauthentic enchiladas”. It’s tasty, though. Could have done with a minute less under the grill.
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2024-06-28 11:54:47

How long am I going to be on hold with HMRC?

2024-06-19 22:35:40

Is there such a thing as a fridge freezer where the freezer part is bigger than the fridge part, or is 50/50 as good as it gets?

2024-06-19 09:12:38

I’d missed this:
https://freespeechunion.org/feminist-campaigner-accuses-police-of-bullying-her-over-tweet-about-trans-doctor/
> Maya Forstater, the director of gender critical campaign group Sex Matters, told the Times that the Metropolitan Police is examining a post on X, formerly Twitter from June 2023 in which she said Dr Kamilla Kamaruddin “enjoys intimately examining female patients without their consent”.
> The alleged offence is punishable by up to two years in prison. […]
> Forstater believes she is the victim of “bullying and harassment” because of her views and has not ruled out legal action against the police.
> “I think the investigation shouldn’t have even got as far as questioning me,” she told the Times. “My tweet isn’t even something that would get deleted by Twitter, let alone for it to be a crime. Being threatened with arrest and then having a police investigation hanging over my head for almost a year now has been very stressful.”

2024-06-18 12:08:14

New British Social Attitudes survey dropped, and oh look:
https://natcen.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2024-06/BSA%2041%20Five%20years%20of%20unprecedented%20challenges.pdf
> In 2019, over half of people (53%) thought that transgender people should be able to change the sex registered on their birth certificate if they wished to do so, while around one in five either disagreed with this proposition or indicated they were ambivalent towards it. Today, however, the balance of opinion looks markedly different. Just over one quarter (26%) agree that a transgender person should be able to change the sex on their birth certificate and a half (50%) now disagree. […]
> In 2021, attitudes towards the extent of efforts to safeguard the rights of transgender people were evenly split, with around a third believing that attempts to secure equal opportunities for transgender people had gone too far (33%) and a similar proportion stating that such endeavours had not gone far enough (32%) or had been pitched at about the right level (32%). The most recent data, however, indicate that the proportion who feel that equal rights for transgender people have not gone far enough has slipped to just over one in five (22%), while the number who believe that attempts to ensure equal opportunities for this group have gone too far has reached almost a half (47%).
> Taken together, these data suggest that the intense political debate regarding gender self-identification coincided with, and perhaps contributed to, substantial changes in attitudes towards transgender people. Notably, this development appears to contrast sharply with the more widespread movement of society in a more liberal direction (Clery, 2023). Should the discussion around gender self-identification be maintained into the lifetime of the next Parliament, the incoming administration may therefore be faced with an ongoing tension between an increasingly open and accepting society on the one hand and an apparent resistance to the advancement of transgender rights on the other.
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2024-06-17 11:30:53

https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/wildlife-nature/article/jeremy-clarkson-we-need-our-young-people-in-labs-not-superglued-to-roads-qvqxsk8gl
> Ever since I bought my farm back in 2008 we have used weedkillers to keep the weeds at bay. But weedkiller is now extremely expensive and possibly not that good for us, so this year we ploughed some of the fields. This old-fashioned system means the soil is turned over, so the weeds are buried and, owing to a lack of sunshine, die.
> That sounds rustic and bucolic and lovely, but I did some maths the other day and worked out that when it was pulling an eight-farrow plough, my tractor was using a gallon of diesel to cover 100 yards. You read that right. A gallon for 100 yards. That’s a lot of carbon. Plus, the soil is a huge carbon sink and when I turn it over some of that carbon escapes. […]
> So let’s get back to the food security issue. Because this country signed up to an international agreement to achieve net zero at some point in the future — point located just after the last person who signed it has died — I’ve been told that I can have government subsidies only if I do environmental work. There are pages and pages and pages of rules and regulations on this, and I’ll be honest I haven’t read many (any) of them because that’s Cheerful Charlie’s job. But what I do know is that this year the biggest field on the farm is being used to grow a herbal ley called GS4. And all you need to know about this is: you can’t eat it. […]
> All this means that perhaps 20 per cent of my farm is not producing any food this year. I know of other farmers who’ve put 60 per cent into environmental schemes. And all of this is tremendous if you are a global warming enthusiast. It frees you up to go on more marches. But what if you want a sandwich?
https://archive.ph/Ebg8L

2024-06-17 10:57:24

It’s the solstice in a few days. I really should not be able to see my breath at 10am.

2024-06-12 22:57:43

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/06/12/time-to-retire-the-far-right-slur/
> The labels ‘right’ and ‘left’ do not help us understand what drives politics today. In the past, far-right views were firmly associated with anti-Semitism. But in an age of Queers for Palestine, when boycotting Israel is an obsession of the campus left, and when activists throw paint at banks thought to have links to the world’s only Jewish state, it is now perceived as right-wing to defend Israel’s right to exist. Or take Net Zero. Once the left argued for raising the living standards of the working class. Now, the green consensus on the left demands that people are priced out of owning cars, heating their homes and foreign travel. The same inversion has happened in relation to cultural issues. Those who argue for protecting women’s sex-based rights, or a colourblind approach to racial equality, soon find themselves being labelled right wing or even far right. When all popular opposition to the status quo is branded ‘far right’, the phrase no longer carries much meaning.

2024-06-09 21:16:55

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It depends on the fruit you’re using.
https://media.spinster.xyz/1ab5bc6268ef3f24937aef7b71297bd38535404c8a260eb70a86229b94d3639a.jpg

2024-06-01 18:04:16

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I don’t know for sure, but that may actually be being flagged for the use of “cis” rather than the sentiment expressed.