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| 10-Jun-26 20:10 | |
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How many Israel products or products from companies that support Israel can you find in the supermarket? #BDS Don't buy them. Sabra Hummus, Jaffa fruit, CocaCola group products. Others? Replacement product labels for supermarket shelves. Be sneaky. | |
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The cognitive dissonance last night of watching Tip Toe and BBC1 News back to back last night was very disturbing. | |
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> The distinctions between the human and the content, the grief and the grift, have long since dissolved into one and the same thing. | |
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> I see Reform as a party of millionaires working for billionaires. | |
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World Cup. We all said there would be Visa, ICE, DHS, Immigration Security, ticket problems with the US Football World Cup this year. So it's hardly surprising, that's exactly what's happening. It's just really embarrassing for FIFA and the USA, even if they can't admit it. | |
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#Climate https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-second-highest-surface-air-and-sea-surface-temperatures-may-globally-exceptional In the records for May :- - 2nd warmest global 2m air temp - Sea Surface Temp. 60°S–60°N, 2nd highest at 20.90°C, behind May 2024 (20.93°C). - Arctic Sea ice extent 4% below avg, 4th lowest | |
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A song for our time 00:00 to 05:25 | |
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Motorcycle Question When did we start having dual pipes into the final silencer section of the exhaust pipe, and why? | |
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Hey, Copernicus. Where's the press release on May-26 climate? | |
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https://secure.declassifieduk.org/page/189081/petition/1 If you're a Dual National and hold two passports. And you then go and fight for the second nation. You should lose citizenship, in the first, right? So UK citizens that also hold an Israel passport and then fight for the IDF, should lose their British Passport, right? | |
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Here we are now. Entertain us. If you want a picture of the future, imagine [the sound of] a boot stamping on a human face— forever. | |
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> affordable spaces of convivial exchange Many new artistic works and especially music have been driven by social support that keeps you alive. Decayed spaces that are temporarily free and can be exploited. Fast / cheap / free word of mouth promotion and self-organisation. And boredom. We've got most of those in place again. But it's not happening. Is simple survival too hard, so there's no boredom space to work with? Where is the punk-youth revolution of today? Especially in China. | |
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I remember the birth of industrial noise music and heavy metal. It was very much based on steam powered, heavy engineering factories. I've long wondered what the music would be for modern industrial environments when the biggest noise is the random whir of small electric motors spinning up and down in all the robots. So what is the sound and music of collapse? What is the sound and music of modern drone warfare? As one wag put it, "Very LOUD. And then very silent". | |
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I still feel now like we haven't yet fully explored the 5-dimensional space of The Groove, The One, Complexity, Randomness and Bass Weight. Even if AI can generate vast quantities of "Over-Compressed Techno track #23". And yet. The drug-addled religion of the Techno-House Saturday All-Nighter is nearly 40 years old. It was the late 80s when MDMA changed music forever. Can we really not find something new to say beyond "take a little pill with me"? | |
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https://old.reddit.com/r/MarkFisher/comments/1u0g8q4/what_does_the_collapse_of_society_sound_like/ This prompted a rant. Both Kurt Cobain and Mark Fisher suffered under the crushing weight of the past and past musical influences. The existential dread of a post-modernist feeling that there was no space left in which to create something new. Arguably that drove both of them to suicide. And yet, after they were gone, new musics appeared. | |
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No Spoilers. Waiting in anticipation and a certain amount of dread for tonight's final episode of Tip Toe. I wonder what Russel T. Davies thinks about the current plans to restrict social media use for under 16s. If you're not watching Tip Toe, you must. | |
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Brexit - UK 10 days till the National Rejoin March on Sat 20-Jun. A couple of weeks till Brexit Referendum 10 year Memorial Day on Tue 23-Jun. I live right next to one of the highest Brexit voting districts in England. Trying to avoid the urge to ask them all "how's it going" on the local social forums. | |
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Whatever happened to President Maduro of Venezuela? Is he still languishing in some dungeon in the USA? When's the trial? | |
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Makerfield by-election 18-June-26 https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/makerfield https://stopreformuk.vote/parl/makerfield | |
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Sunday Aperitif in front of MotoGP. Cocchi Rosa (50ml) and Tonic (150ml Schweppes) | |
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Mind is computable Quantum Non-Locality breakthrough MS Biome | |
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Physics FTW! Biology FTW! | |
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100 days of War. | |
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That headline/lede though reads like an Adam Curtis opening in one of his documentaries. And is ripe for Betteridge's Law. | |
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Spell it out. Trump zero for three on Peace Deals. | |
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Whisky Tango Foxtrot. Well, that's a good official story. That does make a kind of sense. | |
| 09-Jun-26 22:40 | |
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Into the 15th week of the Israel-US-Iran war. Ceasefire! What ceasefire? Look at the World Cup instead. Because the stalemate has dropped out of the news cycle. Israel bombs, destroys and kills in Gaza, Lebanon and West Bank. The Straits are still closed. There are brief exchanges of missiles. Get Your War On! | |
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The Roman Empire never ended. It started with pyramid command structures and alcohol. It co-opted coffee and coca. It added debt based money. Now it runs the world. Uppers, downers and debt. It's a killer combination. | |
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- Some simple method of brewing straight into any old carafe/mug/container/thermos. instead of home made mat made from old fridge magnets. | |
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- All machine settings visible and adjustable in the app. Hardware - Larger, square window on to the display. | |
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A Fellow-Aiden coffee machine Wishlist In no particular order :- Software | |
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For anyone with a Fellow Aiden coffee machine, Highly recommend https://aidenator.coffee/ Uses AI to turn a photo of your coffee beans/grounds into a profile recipe on the machine for bloom, temps, pulses and water/grounds ratio. Coffee nerds, eh? | |
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An attempt at a Pina Colada didn't go right at all. So here's a #Cocktail - Satan: 60ml Bourbon, 30ml Red Vermouth, dash Peychaud's, dash Absinthe, cherry. Need to work on my Tiki game. Too much dilution, not enough creamy and froth. Not enough thick fruit. And I'm out of umbrellas. | |
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I know the content providers need the revenue. But if a page is worth sharing, it's worth sharing without the paywall with archive.is or archive.ph | |
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Reminds me of the Ecomodernist Manifesto. Seems to be "by 2100" again. What about 2101? One key goal is to keep climate warming below 2C. m'kay. They criticise the IPCC for not paying enough attention to social issues. Good that they're adding more variables to their model. Presumably they've read Limits to Growth. So how do they intend to cope with the Resource and Pollution Constraints? I haven't yet found any reference to Global Population numbers or the UN Demographics group. | |
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https://globaljusticeproject.wid.world/ We can survive the collapse and create a utopia, if we can just ... - Decarbonise energy systems - Shift away from overconsumption towards “sufficiency”. - Reduce labour hours and the use of raw materials, consumption patterns, food habits, land use and forest cover. - Reduce inequality of income, wealth and power. So that's all good then. | |
| 08-Jun-26 12:10 | |
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Brutal Tuesday cartoon in the Grauniad | |
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#Cocktail - Cooperstown 60ml Gin, 15ml Dry Vermouth, Mint sprig, Lemon twist Yet another damp Martini with a different garnish and it's own name. "Damp"? Well at 4:1 it's neither Wet nor Dry, right? | |
| 07-Jun-26 11:55 | |
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> Reform supporters are more likely to have voted for Brexit and be older, male and with fewer qualifications, it found, while just 9% of graduates back the party, against 40% of those with qualifications below A-level standard. > People who were both authoritarian and dissatisfied were particularly likely to back Reform, with support for the party among this “interaction group” rising to 46%. | |
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Imagine for a moment that there's a sweet spot for SMR Nuclear power plants around 250-400MW. Tried and tested PWR tech that's simplified and productionised so they can be built (relatively) fast and cheap. In, say, 10 years. The biggest non-experimental wind turbines are around 12MW now. Grid scale BESS is up around 500MW installations. So that's 20-40 turbines and associated batteries for each SMR. Can't we do both? Shouldn't we do both? | |
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Hottest decade. So far. Hot temperatures. Hot wars. Hot pandemics. Hot politics. Hot prices. Hot memes. Hot AI. | |
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> Exchange of fire as peace negotiations continue > The US said it struck Iranian military sites at the weekend and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said on Monday it had targeted a US base in response, Get your war on. | |
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We've just had summer in the UK. So this must be the first day of Meteorological Spring. Oh. Wait. Happy Meteorological Summer Day as we start Flaming June. With some welcome rain. | |
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- 60% of Gaza is not enough. We want 70%. And so on. | |
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Malthus used a very simplistic model to make a point and because that was all he had. Limits to Growth was a much better model with many more interdependent variables. But that was the early 70s. We should be much better at this now. If people criticise limits to growth as Malthusian, ask them what model they are using and how that model handles resource and pollution constraints. | |
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Now starting the 14th week of the Israel-US-Iran war. All the ceasefires are being broken. In small and large ways. Israel continues to take over more and more of Gaza, Lebanon and West Bank. Trump continues to claim a deal with Iran is near but he Strait is still closed. Get Your War On! | |
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Building a bunker in Argentina. Putting your crypto data centre underwater in international waters. | |
| 06-Jun-26 17:55 | |
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334-ish Long, Long Covid Mechanism List | |
| 05-Jun-26 07:10 | |
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It's like : Others? | |
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#Cocktail - H.G. Wells 60ml Bourbon, 30ml Dry Vermouth, dash Angostura, dash Absinthe, lemon twist. Don't overdo the Angostura. Works with Peychauds as well. | |