Brad Macpherson

Happy to have been able to get a COVID vaccination yesterday - for free! - despite feeling the effects today. Beats the ever-loving shit out of getting COVID itself, let me tell ya. Interested to see how the kids are this morning as they had the 'flu vaccine yesterday as well as the COVID one. I think it will be a quiet weekend 🙂

@ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk That's been observable for most of my life, at least. The exceptions - Paul Keating setting up superannuation, for example, or the Norwegian Oil Fund - are notable for their rare medium-to-long-term thinking (not to be confused with the "longtermism" cult of course).

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org It's the perfect statement of their priorities, if nothing else 😂

@SteveClough@metalhead.club We definitely had a lot of insects on the windscreen in the 80s in Western Australia. That dropped right off by the end of the 90s. Pretty sure it's industrial farming to blame.

@MikeImBack@disabled.social @briankrebs@infosec.exchange A (pre-emptive in the U.S., no doubt) response to much-needed legislation forcing manufacturers to stop being utter shitbirds with their effective monopolies.

@Colman@mastodon.ie Not here - I've not had the news on at all, been busy in the shed after finishing work relatively on time for once. Still none the wiser since this and music is about the limit for my internet usage so far this weekend. Sweet lord Beelzebub, it's been great 😁

@Nickiquote@mstdn.social @afewbugs@social.coop @Lilysea@aus.social 😂 Always! Except in the sun of course - slip, slop, slap 😉 https://youtu.be/b7nocIenCYg

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange May their toes never be unstubbed. May their final minutes be filled with terror and pain. May their chooks turn into emus and kick their dunnies over.

@psneeze@mastodon.ie Are the two sides of the uni party having an identity crisis?

@afewbugs@social.coop @Nickiquote@mstdn.social @Lilysea@aus.social No, no uniforms required, unless you want them. I will be a benevolent god, the *best* kind of dictator or god.

@phire@phire.place I did wonder what unions had to do with ionisation - for the want of a hyphen, eh? 😂 Also a Turing Machine being a homogeneous device is just sublime.

All hail the bastard (operators from hell) 🤣 https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2024/06/14/bofh-an-ai-pc-for-an-acutely-ignorant-user/1451688

@rysiek@mstdn.social Shame, pity it wasn't permanent.

@afewbugs@social.coop @Nickiquote@mstdn.social @Lilysea@aus.social The grudging compromise for a while has been, I'll hoe the weeds on the road if they leave the grass on the verges alone. It only takes one other neighbour to get all zealous and Tidy Towns-y on *their* verge to fuck that all up, though. Le Sigh.

@dbattistella@mstdn.ca That just begs the question - how do we slurp their imaging data and print new copies of everything? I will not be thwarted by these motherfuckers in my lemons-to-lemonade quest.

@afewbugs@social.coop @Nickiquote@mstdn.social @Lilysea@aus.social As soon as I ascend to the ranks of the gods, I will personally craft a special hell for people like that. (The only way to avoid it is if they were making space for a more useful and beautiful tree or trees - but only if they actually followed through.)

@mwichary@mastodon.online Surely, for the love of all that's good and wholesome (or foul and corrupt, in my case) you're running this in a VM? You're not going bareback, surely?!

@Sempf@infosec.exchange Ah well then - I hope your chihuahua is left in peace 😂

@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social So is this only within the U.S., or are other countries having these problems too? 🤭

@centaureacyanus@mastodon.social @quixoticgeek@social.v.st Well in that case - they'd better get working on the sunshade, what with the heatwaves and so on 😬 Maybe a tree or two if they don't mind going natural high-tech 😉

@liamvhogan@aus.social That's a hell of a semi-trailer 😂

This story has been breaking for a while, but it's time to turn up the flame on it - the Irish right-/far-right government are despicable in their complicity and profiteering from so many multinational corporations fucking over normal people, but in few ways as nakedly evil as in the fuckery with Aughinish Alumina. https://youtu.be/5bTxEeywVUA

@haaretzcom@mastox.eu "'Twas ever thus"

@parismarx@mastodon.online I hope some enterprising architects are thinking about how to repurpose the datacentre buildings once this madness draws to a close - weatherproof and pest-free hydroponic farms, growing meat in vats instead of raising animals for slaughter, climate-controlled towns for people who hate nature - there must be some way we can turn them into a benefit that allows us to return land to the wild.

@mmm_kay@kolektiva.social @evacide@hachyderm.io @trebach@functional.cafe Yeah Fix It Again, Tony was definitely slagging FIAT lovers 🙂 It was mostly between Ford and Holden for us - FoMoCo became FoNoGo and so on, Holden was ... well, Holden were the best so there was nothing the rattletrap crew could say 😂

@FeloniousPunk@beige.party 😂 Now THAT's comedy!

@Sempf@infosec.exchange Corporate policies? Goddamn corporates. Same. I have offered to rebuild my work Microslop laptop, partly to eke another 4 or 5 years out of it, with Debian - I think I'd have had a better reaction if I'd offered to rest my balls on the CSO's pet chihuahua's muzzle.

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Someone tell Ireland - we're busy cutting the trees down for urban sprawl, instead of redeveloping brownfield sites or repairing existing buildings.

And we still haven't started hanging* landlords.

• or taxing them back to humanity, I'm easy with either approach.

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I really hope they fuck him and his odious employers up - https://torontosun.com/news/world/kevin-oleary-sued-after-claiming-data-centre-opponents-foreign-agents

@mos_8502@studio8502.ca For me it's the wasted resources, and the utterly fucking insane levels of internet traffic that are driving us to Balkanise the web; cutting off access to the outside world just to reduce the din to a roar.

@afewbugs@social.coop @Nickiquote@mstdn.social @Lilysea@aus.social Good luck (genuinely) with convincing people - the hum of mowers *in the middle of a heatwave, and when the carists won't stop bitching about the price of fuel* is driving me slightly batty. The work I've put in previously to convince neighbours not to decimate the nature strips all the time seems to be insufficient or at least extremely temporary. I wonder about their cop-on, when the bloody grass dries out and goes yellow within a day - yet they persist.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@ukrdef/116975147225144093 IRONY (Gr. εἰρωνεία, from εἴρων, one who says less than he means, εἴρειν, to speak), a form of speech in which the real meaning is concealed or contradicted by the words used; it is particularly employed for the purpose of ridicule, mockery or contempt, frequently taking the form of sarcastic phrase. The word is frequently used figuratively, especially in such phrases as “the irony of fate,” of an issue or result that seems to contradict the previous state or condition. (from Wikisource)

Likely http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/all-right

@spytfyre@mastodon.scot @Nickiquote@mstdn.social He seemed extremely believable in "Scorched", alright.

@psneeze@mastodon.ie Well, one of them was bound to. Time maybe for the parties of humanity to form an electoral coalition and work together to get elected instead of letting the main two and SF carve it up between them again.

@Colman@mastodon.ie Is there something in the news that kicked that thought off?

@kerfuffle@mastodon.online @wishy@tooter.wishy.co.uk @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social And honest with it. "No." Now that's the kind of frankness I can grudgingly respect in a politician.

@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green You underestimate Gina's influence and the stupidity of pollies. Plus, everyone's still buying the lie that fiat spending is limited by anything other than rules set by those who decide what to spend the "limited" money on. Instead of taxing the existence out of coal mining and establishing a fully comprehensive recycling industry for *all* "waste", the ALP are trying to appease mining unions while doing little to develop our ability to live within our planet's means.

@ratcatcher@beige.party @Ciarancuffe@mastodon.ie It's worse - the "no evidence" is around the alumina being used by weapons manufacturers in Russia. They state in the article that it goes to Russia for smelting, with the aluminium then exported.

Two questions present themselves to me.

1. What the fuck do these megaminds think Russia does with the cash raised from these exports, assuming that's what's happening (I have a bridge they may be interested in buying...)?

2. How do they say this shit with a straight face?

@ccferrie@mastodon.ie His head has a massive hole that sadly keeps flapping.

@quixoticgeek@social.v.st As something useful, completely agree. If they were serious they'd be shading a good deal of that plaza. As a PR exercise - I can see where the logic took them, even if I disagree with it. Normalising PV needed doing a few years ago but maybe the permits and bureaucracy are only just catching up to where we needed to be?

@patc@pdx.social I'm amazed Adobe is still going every time I hear about their latest nonsense. Mind you, Microslop are still going as well despite my best efforts to make their heads explode using the power of my mind, so what the fuck do I know 😂

How about it, Irish government bodies? https://openpublicinfo.ie/

@LJ@sunny.garden I did name one of my cars - my 1970 LC Torana, "Elsie". No, I am not creative 😂

A slightly unexpected sociological presentation from the always-excellent Tawny Platis - https://youtu.be/QYSu9B56oWc

@blogdiva@mastodon.social Steady on, I'm not even 50 yet and I comfortably got all 20 😂

@kat@is.burntout.org Suez - the end of empire made painfully obvious even to the British.

@GreenPlanet_nrg@mastodon.green @ZDF@zdf.social Short-sighted wankers, same in parliaments all over.