mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Julian Bond
Chief Entertainment Officer
UK. EU Maximalist. Born: 2.7b, 310ppm.
Vax-Air-Space-Mask-Test-Isolate-Wash. Ok, so far.
#Cocktail #Collapse #Climate #Cyberpunk #Motorcycle #Music #fedi22 https://linktr.ee/jbond23
KopyLeft - All rights reversed - Feel free to re-purpose any of my burbling.
We need 100,000 signatures to win a parliamentary debate about the ownership of the water industry. Currently 85,000.
Internet. Do your thing!
La farce continue.
PA given right to appeal to the Supreme Court over the proscription. Due in Sept.
Existing cases put on hold till then
More people arrested outside the court on terrorism charges of supporting a proscribed organisation
Including Jonathan Porritt. Again.
Heathy life years dropping in UK sheds light on deteriorating health.
based on
Scotland is an outlier where healthy life years was already dropping. But it's pretty clear that elsewhere it was stable till 2020 and then dropped off a cliff.
Coincidence, right, and nothing to do with a pandemic.
I was given a new coffee drip machine for a birthday.
It makes great coffee. Huzzah!
It's internet connected. With very old firmware out of the box. The app took several tries and a hard reset of the machine to connect to their servers via wifi. But you just have to wait for the firmware update. Gah! Why can't I just click a button on the app, download it and install it?
Why does IoT universally suck?
A reply re LASIT.
Please keep in mind that Robin Simcox, the UK's "Commissioner For Countering Extremism", is actually a Heritage Foundation Fellow and specifically worked for the American Christian right wing, not just generic "think tanks."
FT reports on Estonia complaining that Russia is hiring UK and EU's underclass for cash, to commit acts of arson, terrorism and general mayhem. Specific sabotage as well as just raising the background chaos levels.
I'm sure no Middle Eastern country on the Med would ever do such a thing.
Good discussion on long term collapse.
https://collapse2050.substack.com/p/malthus-was-right
Malthus, like Ehrlich after him, was working with very primitive models. It inspires discussion but should not be taken as predictive models. Two key points :-
1) Population size and food production are just two variables in an extremely complicated and interdependent system. The Limits to Growth models in the mid 70s were an attempt to quantify this. Our models now are more sophisticated again.
The local Rightists seem to really hate Palestine. And especially councils that support the BDS movement against Israel. Their inherent Islamophobia, Anti-Islam and Anti-Iran hatred overrides any inherent Antisemitism.
So do your bit by boycotting Apartheid Sabra Houmous and Jaffa fruit! Though that can get tricky when Tesco's Finest Easy-Peelers are sometimes from Spain and sometimes from Israel.
https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/bdssupermarket
I have this sneaking suspicion that Starmer has by accident, played a blinder. The party and challengers are so useless that we'll look back at Conference in the autumn and Starmer will still be there. While all his challengers will have fallen in disgrace to the backbenches.
Is that good or bad for the country? I have no idea.
#Cocktail - Spagett
Bottle Miller HiLife, One swig, refill top with Aperol, Squeezed lemon wedge
If you don't live in the USA, and don't have easy access to the "Champagne of beers" (tastes great less filling), just put 25ml Aperol and a big lime/lemon squeeze in a collins glass, and add whatever stubby you have to hand.
Thoughts from an anonymous Labour MP on Labour's leadership troubles.
> “We have to face up to the fact every single one of them is fucking useless. Andy’s strategy has been a disaster. Angela bottled it. Ed clearly a hiding to nothing. Wes AWOL. God knows what Catherine West is doing. Not quite sure how we ended up here.”
#climate April-26 was a hot one. Not a record but close.
- Joint 3rd Air Temp. 1.43°C above pre-industrial
- Close 2nd Sea Surface Temp. Heading towards El Nino.
- 2nd lowest Arctic Ice Extent
#Cocktail - Honeybee
60ml Light Rum, 25ml Lime, 15ml honey syrup, dash Lemon
Honey syrup is always a bit vague. You may have to adjust the lime and honey up and down for this Honey-Daiquiri. And then ring the changes, Goslings, Aged, Gold, White rum, 1/2 Rum and Bourbon, gin, cognac, and so on. Lime, honey and spirit is all good.
Honey syrup: 3 honey, 1 hot water, cool.
#Cocktail - The Wall Streeter:
60ml Rye, 20ml Cointreau, 7.5ml Grenadine, 15ml Egg White
I can't be doing with egg whites so that's optional. Reminds me of El Presidente with too much Grenadine. There should be named versions of that with the rum swapped for all the other spirits. Eg 60ml rye/gin/cognac/tequila/vodka, 20ml dry vermouth, 5ml curacao, 5ml grenadine.
Sylvain Guintoli ran the London Marathon in full motorcycle race leathers, breaking a record at 3 hours and 47 minutes. Currently, £120k raised for a children's cancer charity
https://2026tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/sylvain-guintoli
If you know.
