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HornedLivestock

@HornedLivestock@mastodon.scot

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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HornedLivestock, to random
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Ahh, the great Labour bullshit about what it can do for Scotland begins. Only Labour can bring these jobs to Scotland. Of course, for as long as is important, Scotland has been an energy exporter. These jobs are not to provide power for Scotland per se, but London.

Frankly, Scotland could nationalise it's energy market, give free energy to its citizens, and still probably profit on exports to the South.

This is literally a nothingburger.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrre16k21no

HornedLivestock, to random
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Spontaneous synchronization.

https://youtu.be/5v5eBf2KwF8

HornedLivestock, to random
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Boards Of Canada
1969

https://youtu.be/-6th_CqdjXc

HornedLivestock, to random
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"National service could help tackle loneliness - Ross"

Does anyone know where Douglas Ross gets the supply of pure stupidity that he is so evidently snorting?

Apparently, we are playing the random statement game.
My turn -

"Fellating doorknobs could be a cure for toxoplasmosis".

"Grit baths could increase sexual potency by 150%"

"Tory spin doctors could be announcing any old shit that might appeal to their geriatric base".

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I don't often literally LOL these days but I've been unable to stop cackling and wheezing for about 5 minutes when this popped up on my tl.

thanks for boosting it, Dan.

https://mastodon.green/@davidallengreen/112489422858237601

HornedLivestock,
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@botvolution @mxtthxw

I really think he will, though he will try and couch it in more "touchy-feely" language, but this whole nonsense was effectively started under Blair, including formal contact with Tanzania for offshore processing, which is to follow what Australia does.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67827016

HornedLivestock, to random
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With an Octobuddy, you, too, can add to the sea of microplastics, by sticking your phone to other people's possession for the sake of your vanity and a modicum of clout.

Get in the fucking sea, humanity.

https://www.elle.com/fashion/shopping/a60826526/octobuddy-phone-tripod-viral-trend-explained/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-gb

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I am a fair bit irritated by way too many news outlets and their insistence, either directly or by talking head, on framing the water issues in England and associated regulation as being a "UK" problem.

Gonna say it loud for the thickos:

THIS IS AN ENGLAND AND WALES PROBLEM. OFWAT DOESN'T REGULATE IN SCOTLAND. SCOTTISH WATER ISN'T A PRIVATE COMPANY.

Maybe try and stop shitting in the sea, then drinking it.

HornedLivestock,
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@HighlandLawyer That was pretty much my thought last night.

Just more talking head "experts" that are unknowledgeable or hired to obfuscate.

https://mastodon.scot/@HornedLivestock/112458083256249495

HornedLivestock, to random
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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

HornedLivestock, to random
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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.

HornedLivestock, to random
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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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@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.

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