mastodon 4.7.3-stable+ff1Webmonkey with an very old and rusty Environmental Science degree that makes me furious about the state of the world and where we are going.
Avowed anarchist. Hates all hierarchies. You are no better than me and I am no better than you.
Avatar is the Anprim Patrick Starfish meme. Header picture is Neolithic cave art of a hunter with a bow and arrow and some deer as his target.
Also #gardening #archery #beekeeping #rowing #kettlebells #fitness #exercise and a few more
The Irish are boycotting Eurovision in protest of Israel being allowed to enter. Good.
Now they have announced that RTE will not be showing the final. Even better.
They also announced that instead of showing the final they will show the Eurovision episode of Father Ted. Fucking brilliant.
I have a cunning plan....
The UN should announce that it is going to award #Trump a special peace prize for graciously not obliterating #Iran. The prize is a 20 meter tall solid gold statue of Trump himself that will be worth 100s of millions of dollars just in the weight of the gold. They can throw in a few million or billion of his preferred #bribe #cryptocurrency too, why not. He is worth it after all.
There is one teeny tiny catch... The award ceremony will be held in #TheHague and Trump has to attend in person unless he doesn't get the prize.
He won't be able to resist and he will drag along all his minions too. A sort of try one get 500 free deal for #fascists and #terrorists
The #IDF recently tweeted gloating over how they have murdered the 2 year old grandson of the leader of #Hamas They had a photo of the boy in their tweet.
The only words I have to describe these people are #obscenities .Only #obscene language can describe people who celebrate the murderers of children.
The alternative to obscene language is to become like the #Zionists and treat some humans as more important than others. History has repeatedly show us that never ends well for millions of people.
God Only Knows by the Beach Boys is the best song in the world ever. I accept no arguments.
Picked up a set of weights for free today.
A farmer must have hit these flints with a plough and then chucked them in the hedge by the side of the road. The biggest weighs around 30kg and the smallest weighs around 10kg. It's nothing like lifting the Dinnie Stones but it's a start. It will make lifting more interesting at least
"AI will solve the climate crisis"
All it wants humans to do is build more data centers.
Humanity does not matter in its future. Not even billionaires.
The LLM based AI we have built is as thick as shit and always will be. So who or what is demanding more and more of it at the expense of everything else on earth. Who or **WHAT** wants to burn down civilization and humanity in order to turn the earth into a red hot hell.
Wasn't Nigel Fartage complaining about being "debanked" around the same time as he received in 5 million pound "gift" from a Thailand based crypto billionaire?
I wonder what would happen if you tried making cookies with all the bits of cookie dough in ice cream
Applied for a job months ago. Never heard a word from the company, not even a rejection email. All normal so far.
Today I received an email from them saying they liked my application. They liked it so much they are "offering me the opportunity to contribute to our new open source project".
In other words you are good enough to work for us but not good enough to get paid. Fuck them.
The #ToyStory5 trailer is magnificent. This is what the world needs. Put the fucking screens down.
I am at the "I can't be bothered to do up my fly after taking a piss" stage of the weekend.
#Trump is just a mobster.
#Iran is running an extortion racket in the Straights of Hormuz. Ships have to pay the Iranian regime not to be blown up.
Now #Trump is muscling in on the Iranian racket. Now ships transiting the Straights will have to pay his "tolls". If they don't he orders the US Navy to blow them "to hell".
Sooner or later, probably sooner, Trump will demand every person on earth pays him "tribute". If he doesn't make enough money then he presses the big red nuke the world button. All payments will be in his preferred cryptocurrency obvs.
He really is no different to the big muscly guys hanging around small shops saying things like "This places looks like it would burn to the ground really quickly."
When you look at his behaviour like this it all makes sense. Of course he was a property developer in New York and therefore has a great deal of experience with the mob and personal knowledge of their "business practices".
Its a start. Humans need to do a lot better next time
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/10/sam-altman-home-molotov-cocktail
Shamelessly stolen from a reddit post that stole it from somewhere else... repeat ad infinitum and ad nauseam too.
Its all about getting those sweet, sweet imaginary internet points kids. Nothing else matters in the modern world.
Tomorrow I am filling out my UK Government Security Clearance forms. I have to get clearance for my new job.
I may well lose my mind.
If you work for a living why do you kill yourself working.
#HarryHarrison wrote a very funny book called Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers in 1973. Some of the aliens in the book turned their home solar system into a gigantic #RingWorld and drove around in "70 yard long cars"
I think #car manufacturers read that joke and thought it was something to aim at. Especially #SUV and #pickup manufacturers. What the ever loving fuck was wrong with a 1990s Ford Escort or equivalent? Why do we all have to drive 3 ton monstrosities?
We shouldn't even need to own personal cars by now. Instead we should all be taking free, electric #PublicTransport, #cycling or #walking. Everyone but the most blinkered and confused right winger can see this is the right thing to do.
It seems that we get the future #SciFi writers come up with. The problem is sci-fi writers love a good #dystopia.
As always I approve of the Dropkick Murphys message. Right now they are the best resistance to all the christo-fascists, MAGA and the rest of the corrupt pedophiles running the former USA..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A0Zx8xMMqw
#DropkickMurphys #OnlyTheStrong #Resist #USA #ChristoFascism #MAGA
I would like to propose a new rule for life.
"Each item of flat pack furniture that an individual assembles is more badly designed, needlessly complicated and more difficult to assemble than the previous item the assembled."
I spent most of the morning assembling 2 garden chairs. The actual process involved dropping every single screw, nut, bolt and washer at least 3 times, cutting myself, discovering I had assembled a subsection back to front then taking it apart then putting it back together back to front all over again TWICE, hitting things out of frustration and lots and lots of swearing.
Two separate sub-section on each chair I was assembling this morning required me to align a "nut", a bracket, a washer, a piece of wood with a hole drilled in it, another washer, another part of the bracket, and a "bolt". The "bolt" didn't go all the way through the whole assembly as the "nut" was one of those fasteners that look like a bolt but have an internal female thread to accept the male bolts thread. That meant I had to align the "nut" plus its washer and the "bolt" plus washer independently only to discover that the threads were not engaging when I turned the fucking allen key a few times. I would run out of fingers trying to keep things aligned before doing up the whole sorry mess. I seriously thought about holding the long end of the fucking allen key in my teeth more than once.
I fucking hate allen keys with a passion. There is no reason for their existence. What is so wrong with conventional nuts and bolts anyway? Oh yes... allen keys are cheaper to make than spanners.
I bet the people who design this shite give themselves a little pat on the back when they create a way of assembling something that is almost impossible for anyone to achieve. These bastards probably get a little sexual thrill when they put "requires minimal assembly" on the instructions that you have to download as the fuckers are too cheap to print 5 sheets of A4 themselves.
There is no court in the land that would convict me of the crimes I would commit if I ever meet one of these sadistic motherfuckers. My defense would be to open a big card board box of flat pack furniture, hold up a fucking allen key and the piece of paper with a QR code on it that says download instructions.
#FlatPackFurniture #SelfAssembly #ShittyDesign #FuckAllenKeys
Just ignore him and he will go away
Starmer is the equivalent of the pace maker who wins the race by accident.
#DexysMidnightRunners were brilliant but often they were derided by the arbiters of "cool" because they refused to confirm to what alternative pop was meant to sound like and look like.
Yes Kevin Rowland is "difficult" but he does have manic depression. For years he said that the record company reworked the Too-Rye-Ai album after they finished recording it and ruined it. Now he has released "his" version and to my ear it doesn't sound drastically different. It was always a fucking great album.
https://open.spotify.com/album/6JvOKlgjSQmr5BJnXSpI6h
The 3rd "CD" of Kevin's Too-Rye-Ai is a live gig and it's wonderful. I wish I had been there. That's how you sound great, put on a great show and really innovate without breaking what you already have.
Dexys were always good at false endings and building a song up to a crescendo and there are some great examples from that gig and not just Come On Eileen.
It takes balls to do a version of Respect too. I love Kevin's change to the lyrics to. "Are you going to fuck me when I get home" 😝 I am not sure if Aretha would have approve of the new words but I reckon Otis would have wrote something very similar originally.
Those might have been my last Hot Cross Buns of the year 😩