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HornedLivestock

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Wonky-headed contrarian who has been deposited at the supposed end of history to watch the overly prolonged but hilarious death throes of hyper-capitalism. I can be best described using meaningless epithets. If I do stuff, which is unlikely, it will involve words, or noise, or squiggles, some combination of such, or absolutely nothing other than pointless babble.

Fairly useless letters after my name in sociolinguistics and education.

Chronic pain.
Chronic pain in the arse.
Absurdist.
Arsehole.

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The Young Ones, series one, episode 3, Boring.

Original airdate: 9pm 23 Nov 1982

Headline in the (faked) Guardian:

"US tells Israel carnage must end."

The carnage at that time was the Sabra and Shatila massacre, in Beirut, Lebanon.

Deaths: 700 to 3,500 (number disputed)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre

HornedLivestock, to random
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And now I think that Rubber Bandits are engaged in illegal forestry.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-69011665

HornedLivestock, to random
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This BBC story on spotting misinformation is some demented bullshit.

Let me just state, that for those of us who have done both corpora and line by line analyses of stories in "legitimate" news media, many of those would fail the sift.

"A source close to x said..."
"We are hearing reports of..."
and so on.

Often, those lexical constructs may eventually clarify the sources, and we find that it is a P.R. company pushing some political, business, or charitable agenda.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240509-the-sift-strategy-a-four-step-method-for-spotting-misinformation

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This is not a news story:

No victim named.
No information about the surgeon involved.
No information about the company providing the service.
No information of the location the purported surgery took place, other than "a hotel".
Stock image.

The sole source seems to be Ruairi Kelly.

Vague, vague, vague.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24316914.woman-hospital-brazilian-butt-lift-glasgow-hotel/

HornedLivestock, to random
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This reboot of Love Story is a bit shit. Now with added coprophilia.

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But remember, because "we" can find no direct evidence that U.S. or U.K. weapons were used in atrocities like this, then it is totally fine to keep providing Israel with arms.

That was the line from Cameron and the U.S. State Dept. today.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/4652018-reports-mount-of-mass-graves-at-gaza-hospitals-some-without-heads/

HornedLivestock, to random
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"du, du, du, another one bites the dust".

We wish Sergei Shoigu well with his upcoming car accident/mysterious illness/fall from a great height.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-69000698

HornedLivestock, to random
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There is a person in that giant dog costume, and we have no idea where they are being rubbed.

Image of Barkley, an oversized, puppet of an orange and white dog being vigorously rubbed.

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HornedLivestock,
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@GothAndy @Jyoti "can I offer you this porcelain espresso cup as a light snack?"

HornedLivestock, to random
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I am reminded of the things my grandfather may have seen lurking in those murky waters, though, the diving bell barge was before his time.

https://mastodon.scot/@thisismyglasgow/112383488147273872

HornedLivestock, to random
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The role of a university is to turn out the managerial classes, the "entrepreneurs", the bankers, lawyers, and politicians which will continue to promulgate the status quo, while ordering the serfdom.

"Never can our kids query that!"

I would contend that "outside agitators" is a means to save face from the university, while potentially threatening the students with expulsion.

Recant and remain, while the university will promulgate that it was not the student body leading the protests.

HornedLivestock,
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What is particularly telling is that the students have been infantilized. They are "children". They are not young adults who have potentially taken on tens of thousands of dollars to "get" and education. Nor are they graduates or near-graduates, readying themselves to enter the career space.

They are disobedient children.
Spanky spanky.

HornedLivestock, to random
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"But Hebrew is lovely, and Israel is lovely, and everybody who doesn't think so is an antisemite, and the university protesters are pro Hamas, and everything that doesn't agree with me is Hamas, and Hebrew is lovely".

Block.
Block domain.

HornedLivestock,
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Obviously, that makes me an antisemite, and not someone who is sick of the duplicity of the Israeli state, sick of the genocide being perpetrated by Israel, sick of the gaming of the system by Israel and the West so that the only political outline left is Hamas, especially after Rabin and Arafat died. Although, it wasn't as if Mossad didn't try and kill Arafat, and happily planned to shoot down commercial airliners to do so.

HornedLivestock,
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@JackTheCat New York Times Magazine: Bergman, Ronen (23 January 2018). "How Arafat Eluded Israel's Assassination Machine". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 January 2019.

HornedLivestock,
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@JackTheCat "You can't call Israel a terrorist state".

Hmmm, given the actions of "Irgun when they bombed the British administrative headquarters for Palestine, killing 91", it can easily be argued that is what Israel is.

The reason that Israel decries terrorism is that it works.

HornedLivestock,
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@JackTheCat Same here. The Balfour declaration reeks of Zionism, reeks of the politics of the period, and precedes the Holocaust. The intention was always to "make Palestine as Jewish as England is English."

Any good faith garnered after the atrocities committed by the Nazis has long since eroded, as the pattern is not only set, but repeats.

And that is without going into Dimona and the development of nuclear arms, the type of pariah state move that would otherwise make you Iran or North Korea

HornedLivestock,
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@JackTheCat That's the reason that I harp on about the IHRA definition of antisemitism, as it has an obvious effect to chill dissent, as outlined by Ken Stern, who wrote the goddam definition.

By working to that definition, the acceptance of Zionism becomes the de facto position, as the definition chills dissent, including among non-Zionistic Jews, of which there are plenty.

Thus, it becomes antisemitic to say that some Jews don't believe in Zionism.

HornedLivestock, to random
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"You've got chaos in the Scottish parliament, you've got chaos in the Westminster parliament"

And what Starmer failed to say is, we've had total chaos in the Labour party since Miliband failed to successfully chomp down a bacon butty.

Starmer is a shitehawk, rummaging in bins for the merest morsel to sustain him.

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/video-news/snp-is-in-absolute-chaos-as-yousaf-resigns-sir-keir-starmer/a335447753.html

HornedLivestock, to random
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This satire irritates me. While Hannibal Lecter committed numerous egregious acts, it should be remembered that until being pursued by law enforcement, he was a psychotherapist who was committed to his patient's mental health and a valuable member of the community. His own black beast was merely his intolerance for rudeness.

That, for me, makes him eminently more relatable and likeable than any Tory. He would've gladly prepared Rees-Mogg as an entrée.

Eat the rude.

https://mastodon.online/@newsthump/112325260698785834

HornedLivestock, to random
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"Labour is now the true party of English patriotism".

Labour, formerly the U.K. iteration of the socialist movement, is not only now not part of the global workers' movement, but it is the true representative of parochial, English nationalism. There is no separation between patriotism and nationalism in this sense, and either definition here nullifies any notions of "pan-national" workers' movements.

That statement is a proud affirmation of insular, Conservative politics, but in red.

HornedLivestock, to random
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We thank Keir Starmer for his Sterling work assisting Scottish and Welsh nationalism.

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"Liz Truss thought ‘why me, why now?’ after Queen’s death, new memoir reveals."

Because everything that existed and everything that ceased to have exist, all the matter in the universe and the obscured dark matter, the fullnessness of the space time continuum, including every conceivable and inconceivable dimension knew you to be entirely gormless and decided to have a laugh.

The universe is still laughing.

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Yes, libraries are a vital part of the community.

HornedLivestock, to random
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I am not making any music at the moment, but I have decided that this will be my controller of choice.

https://www.8bitdo.com/arcade-stick/

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