Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
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Joined Oct 2022
I figured he was going to refer to Liz Truss' appearance at a far-right conference, and her fascist comments, but seems not.
Nope, here comes the "critical race theory" dig, straight after we're "most successful multicultural nation in the world." I notice "patriotism" was the first quality that he claimed for Britain.
Ooh, our Prime Minister is worried about threats to democracy and is going to make a statement. Hopefully going to rescind voter ID requirement, stop his ministers circumventing UK and international law, clamp down on dodgy foreign donors. Right? Right?
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I had a professor/mentor in college that frequently gave a speech pretty similar to this, but for art:
- It's about two way communication with another human,
- Tools (brushes, pencils &c.) and media are the paths to this connection,
- Art for art sake is bullshit, enrich your life and the life of the consumer,
- Otherwise, you will be very bad at this and,
- If you're in this class to become a rich and famous artist get the fuck out.
Surly old Irish man. I loved Sean.
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Re this important thread from @grimalkina:
https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/111972810596703896
I just gave a little soapbox to my Software Design and Development students that I give every time I teach the class, and I’ll give it here on Mastodon.
Software development is an intensely social discipline.
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What you can’t be is misanthropic. When you write software, you are in relationship with other people. And if you don’t care about people, if you just •hate• people, if you can’t care about healthy relationships, if you cannot be bothered to communicate or to listen or to just give a ground-level shit about other people, DO NOT get into software. You’ll crash and burn — and you’ll cause terrible harm as you go down. Find some other discipline to go torment.
The rest of you…come on in.
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So it's no wonder we have people going round chopping down Ulez cameras willy nilly. It may well be that the short-term and longer term impact on society and environment is unbalanced, but that's a policy discussion. All they're achieving now is costing me as a tax-payer, and conflating several loosely related measures.
But this is exactly the kind of thing that happens when you cause damage to law and justice.
Lead here is about people disobeying the law... as if the Tories haven't spent the last few years trying to make the law and justice irrelevant. They're quite happy to invoke "The Will Of The People" when it suits their ends, or to bend the interpretation of rules, even if it damages the rule of law and other critial civic institutions.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/29/why-does-rishi-sunak-want-to-clamp-down-on-protests
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An envelope that contained a white powder was sent to Judge Arthur #Engoron who imposed a $454M judgment against #Trump, causing a brief #security scare Wed at a #NY courthouse.
…the business-sized envelope was addressed to Engoron but never reached him. The powder was quickly determined to be harmless in preliminary testing. Further testing is being done.
#law #RightWingExtremism #StochasticTerrorism #MAGA #Republicans #StateSponsoredTerrorism #MobTactics
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-judge-white-powder-arthur-engoron-new-york/
Pleased to see that one of my favourite #comic artists, @WinstonRowntree, is on fedi, although seems only to have dipped a toe. Beautifully crafted mini stories of angst, anomie and self-discovery.
Archive at: https://viruscomix.com/subnormality.html
Spotted an almost unrecognisable Jarvis Cocker in Wes Anderson's Asteroid City.
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So you want a quote for a thing, say a storage space, and the website is making you put in a phone number before they tell you how much the thing costs? Is the website validation preventing you from typing in a completely random number?
Worry not. Ireland has valid mobile and landline phone numbers reserved for use in TV and movies and absolutely nobody is validating for that.
Pick one from the range and be uncallable:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_telephone_number
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland#Special_numbers
Hmm, this new #BBC sci-fi drama "Ministry of Time" sounds similar to the Spanish series "Ministerio del Tempo". Must be coincidence.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/ministry-of-time-bbc-commission-newsupdate/
I'm not the first to note this remarkable similarity. (Spanish article) https://www.lavanguardia.com/series/20240223/9526794/the-ministry-of-time-bbc-plagia-el-ministerio-del-tiempo.html
Blimey, we all new Liz Truss was a bit unhinged but I never expected her to go full-on right-wing nutjob.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/21/liz-truss-deep-state-cpac-far-right
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"Those who will mourn Navalny have fled abroad. They will sigh sadly from their permanent exile, secretly glad all the same that it was he and not them that paid the price.
Some may think about protesting or holding public vigils in major Russian cities. It is a dangerous idea, and so most mourners will dismiss it out of hand. They will go back to their families, huddle together, grateful that they can at least think freely, even if they no longer can freely say what they think. "
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"But for the vast, tired, apathetic, silent majority, Navalny’s death will barely register. ‘Who? Navalny? He knew what he was getting himself into.’ He knew."
Above quotes from Sergey Radchenko's opinion piece in the Spectator:
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'Judging by Reeves’s recent performance, they seem to care more about the fiscal hawks in their midst and in the Tory press. So much so that, to prove their mettle as bona fide austerians, they adopt the most pernicious allegory to have disgraced economic thinking.'
Why is Labour still using the self-defeating, discredited ‘maxed out credit card’ analogy? | Yanis Varoufakis | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/15/labour-credit-card-analogy-mendacious-tory
@lowqualityfacts Before Netflix and fast broadband, the only way you could watch movies online was via Terminal. Someone has recreated that experience for posterity.
https://ascii.theater/
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> DR. FRANKENSTEIN: I'm just saying, it's a very misleading flyer
> BODY BUILDING COMPETITION JUDGE: again, we can only apologise
From @openDemocracy, a counter to Khordokovsky's vision, which is only touched on briefly in the above article:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/khodorkovsky-book-kill-dragon-putin-revolution-russia/
"There is literally nothing in the book about the work of opposition politicians with the apolitical majority of Russian citizens." Which is he key problem regardless of who the opposition figure is, or if they're martyred.
- Location
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
