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bencourtice

@bencourtice@aus.social

bush regeneration. botany. banjo. beer. books. bolshevik. Bacchus Marshian. boy (he/him/hey you).

Occasional blog:
https://astherivergoesby.wordpress.com

Sometimes I review books:
https://www.goodreads.com/bencc

In a previous life I wrote for Green Left Weekly:
https://www.greenleft.org.au/taxonomy/term/482/about

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DrALJONES, (edited ) to random
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Analysis

"The NYPD’s New Sizzle Reels Aren’t Just Dumb. They’re Dangerous"

This is police propaganda "to justify crackdowns..on dissent while allowing police to portray themselves as heroic."

NYC Mayor Eric Adams repeatedly referred to "professional outside agitators", as police pointed to protestors' supplies: "We got water..supplies..cups..this is very, very organized... There is definitely a mastermind behind this.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/nypd-sizzle-reel-student-protests/?utm_source=mj-newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter-05-08-2024

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bencourtice,
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@DrALJONES "We got water..cups..supplies..this is very, very organized... There is definitely a mastermind behind this.”
Thankyou, Mayor Quimby

bencourtice, to Palestine
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Sticker seen at shopping centre carpark in Deer Park. Without more context it could be interpreted as anti-semitic, although the website doesn't otherwise appear to be. Does anyone know the specific context of this meme?

jpm, to random
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Tonight I’m cooking with one of the most expensive ingredients in the world

bencourtice,
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@jpm ambergris?

decryption, to random
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    bencourtice,
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    @decryption Caltex schmaltex. The BP at the other end of town has the best toasties and salad rolls. Not changing.

    bencourtice,
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    @decryption yeah I am just near there too. Salad rolls with ham, corn beef, salami etc are excellent, made fresh on the day, plenty of salad. Chicken not so good, probably it's out of a can. Maybe the toasties aren't amazing but reasonably good. Don't bother if you're vegetarian though!

    jpm, (edited ) to random
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    Avocado:

    bencourtice,
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    @jpm I quite like a (tree-ripened) avocado - cut in half, eat with a spoon. If its properly ripened, the flavour is mild and subtle but excellent. Fuerte variety is my favourite. Supermarket bought avocados rarely match up - usually Hass variety, picked too early and stored too long.

    flawed, to Palestine
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    What would you call a society this genocidal whose blood thirst is still at this, after massacring 30,000 Palestinians & still continue to massacre them?

    Most protests we hear about removing Nethanyahu are largely about internal power struggle, but not against genocide itself.

    https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/over-2-3-of-jewish-israelis-oppose-humanitarian-aid-to-palestinians-starving-in-gaza

    @palestine

    bencourtice,
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    @flawed @palestine As we remember Rhodesia, so shall the world remember Israel

    bencourtice, to random
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    Maybe that's why they call it a Tree Violet? Has been living here (not growing much) for a few years now.

    with a garnish on it!

    DrALJONES, to random
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    bencourtice,
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    @DrALJONES previously, psychopaths had to go to prison or private schools to network!

    bencourtice, to random
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    O noes! Tha landscape has been iNdUsTrIaLiZeD!!!!
    /1

    bencourtice,
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    This landscape has also been industrialised. Just sayin'.
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    bencourtice,
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    There's still people complaining about wind farms, for an odd grab-bag of mostly incomprehensible or spurious reasons.
    /3

    Sign on fence. Red cloth with yellow writing "Wind turbines are a 150 mt high health hazard"
    Row of wind turbines in background. Fence in foreground, on roadside, has professionally printed metal sign reading "Private property no photos to be taken of turbines". "Wanted neighbours..." sign is also nearby.

    bencourtice,
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    (I can't tell from driving past if the reasons suggested, noise and shadow flicker are 1. genuine, 2. exaggerated, or 3. purely spurious. But in my long observation of these things it's 2 or 3 in the vast majority of cases. If 3, usually either ideologically opposed, or hoping for a payout)
    /4

    bencourtice,
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    Elsewhere I see roadside signs opposing solar farms (!) and in the Kiewa Valley, opposing a big grid-connected battery.
    /5

    bencourtice,
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    This is on the north-western outskirts of Melbourne. I don't know what project it is responding to or the arguments behind it, but anti-solar farm campains are mostly either suffering from terminal NIMBYism or ideologically driven. Often both.
    /6

    RickiTarr, to random
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    HE FLIPPED THE SCRIPT!

    bencourtice,
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    @passenger @AdrianRiskin @BernardSheppard @MacropodCare @michaelgemar @RickiTarr that's en passant. Pedant is the vocalisation used when singing the Pink Panther theme music.

    historyofpunkrock, to punk
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    44 years ago today
    Mick Jones and Paul Simonon with The Clash at Friars Aylesbury, January 05, 1980.

    Photo by Marc Jordan

    It was the first gig on their tour, and the band were supported by Ian Drury and the Blockheads

    image/jpeg

    bencourtice,
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    @historyofpunkrock love that hand drawn poster! a lost art form.

    SwiftOnSecurity, to random

    You think automotive engineers ever go “good thing im an automotive engineer because it would be a fucking nightmare to drive this thing if I wasn’t” anyway that’s what working in IT is like

    bencourtice,
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    @kentindell @SwiftOnSecurity There used to be a joke about this. Bill Gates tells some automotive exec that cars would be so much cheaper if Microsoftmade them. Response was: maybe, but they'd also occasionally stop for no apparent reason in the middle of the highway and then lock you out until you did some complex manoevre involving simultaneously lifting the driver door handle and boot while jiggling the aerial.

    Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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    We hear about thousands--tens of thousands--of people being killed daily and we just carry on. That's gotta be conditioning. Gotta be.

    bencourtice,
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    @SrRochardBunson @Adam_Cadmon1 the billionaires are unsustainable, far more so than the billions

    Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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    I shouldn't have to condemn Hamas every time I say that the IDF is engaging In ethnic cleansing and genocide. But whatever.

    Hamas needs to neutralized and the IDF is committing genocide.

    bencourtice,
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    @Okanogen @ekknappenberger let me get out my tiniest violin

    bencourtice, to random
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    Whose uglier, me or Phlebopus marginatus?

    bencourtice, to random
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    bencourtice, to Bloomscrolling
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    It's that time of year!

    bencourtice, to random
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    The two wars on . Or, as the saying goes, in war the first casualty is truth.
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-10/israel-gaza-media-watching-a-sanitised-war/103206528
    The young Israelis who go travelling after their military service are going to be surprised as they increasingly find themselves shunned and unwelcome around the world.

    MusiqueNow, to music
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPpug5FUQsc

    bencourtice,
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    @Jyoti @MusiqueNow @signalthirteen Lucky for me I never liked most of those artists anyway! But I think in most cases their art itself is just art, nothing wrong with putting your old Radiohead or Clapton CD on if that's your thing, it's their current racism we want to censure by not giving them any more money now. (well we've known about Clapton since before CDs, so make that vintage LP)

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