Good evening Fediversistas! Sunny day, always a joy. We went ambling. Bit sunburnt now. Any aurorae about tonight? Have an amble pic, animation in a bit. #Hiking#Ambling#Rambling
Good evening Fediversistas! Busy day. A pleasant evening amble included a quick stop where I got some brand new shoes in exchange for some old boots from which the soles had detached from the upper. They should do for damp spring outings. M’colleague got some free bikkits. #Hiking#Ambling#Rambling
I would love hiking / walking shoes that don't get wet, don't get holes in, and last more than a year. I treat mine well, clean them, spray them with the special spray to keep them water tight, and yet..
Chikorita157’s Anime Blog Finally Turns 15 Years Old!
Another year went by so quickly. It has been yesterday since I wrote my 14th-anniversary post back in 2023. Today is Chikorita157’s Anime Blog’s 15th anniversary. Yes, my blog is basically a teenager now. It has gone a long way since I started the blog 15 years ago when I just started college.
With that, I will share my thoughts on the last […]
Had a dream I was running a 1980s set fantasy game that was basically the A-Team but with fantasy ancestries and magic.
I remember a little about the world. Sometime during the 50s an island appeared off the coast of California. It brought fantasy ancestries and a return of magic. By the 60s the people from the island were us citizens and had started living among humans. #rambling#fantasy
Good evening Fediversistas! Rugby was good wasn’t it? Like a close one. Here’s today’s amble in full. Didn’t need a coat again today. #Hiking#Ambling#Rambling
First, the #categorization of #political views along a single left-right #axis is almost #useless. This has long been known, and alternatives exist that present a much more accurate picture, but the traditional #media is #addicted to "#left this" and "#right that" and is lazy, so they'll probably never get better.
Dans ce message cité et ses suivants je vous ai fait un fil de différentes réflexions sur l'inflation alimentaire, comment j'essaie de m'organiser pour les courses en tant que personne handicapée qui ne sort pas beaucoup
(quoi commander sur combien de semaines, comment économiser sur certains trucs, un avis sur les produits éco plus etc).
Regular morning/evening walks are clearly doing well for me. Good for mood, decent for fitness…Plus, 7 months unti the year and I’m still waiy ahead of my personal goals as far as the number of walks and the total distance - didn’t expect I’d be able to keep that up
I find that the giants of sci-fi are an interesting clash of angsty, pseudo-virginal misogyny with really forward-thinking, norm-busting feminist and gender ideas. I wonder how much of it was the (young, male) audience they were writing for and how much was the authors' personalities.
I think the 'anthropological' sci-fi writing style of the 50s and 60s treated women as a separate species in a lot of ways 😆
I'm rethinking my approach to Twitter. Instead of not using it (and feeling like I'm supporting bigotry every time I do), I should embrace the fact that it is has self-selected for credulous assholes.
Let's play a game: "How much money can I make off Elon/Trump followers?"
Then I'll play another game: "Hire/buy from fellow indie creators."
Last Friday I walked to Purton Ships Graveyard on the River Severn, where old vessels have been deliberately beached and allowed to silt up, to help fight shore erosion.
What's your reason for paying a huge premium for a high end device...cell phone, Laptop, a tablet...or anything? Since last few years I am buying a used phone of previous generation, flashing a private and secure OS and using as my daily driver. This gives me a lot of peace of mind and I don't miss a single feature of a top end device. And of course I save a lot many bucks. #technology#techtips#rambling
Anniversary of the 1932 Kinder Scout mass trespass on Sunday 23 April so here's Commoners Choir with From Below. If you want more related folk songs then there's Manchester Rambler by Ewan MacColl, and the rearranged version by John Tams, and Trespassers by the Young'uns (on their album Tiny Notes on Bandcamp). And there's a short, song filled, documentary about the Kinder Scout trespass by the Young'uns with Boff Whalley on youtube. If you can't find links for any of these let me know and I'll post them.
For every footprint on the land,
For all the banners and the banned,
Should we keep to the landlord’s plans? Hell no!
‘Cos real change comes from below.
The 1932 Kinder Scout mass trespass wasn't the first, although its ripples were significant. There were trespasses involving over ten thousand people up Winter Hill in Lancashire in 1896: “Will yo' come o' Sunday morning, for a walk o'er Winter Hill? Ten thousand went last Sunday, But there's room for thousands still! Oh the moors are rare and bonny, And the heather's sweet and fine, And the roads across the hilltops are the people's - yours and mine!”
Other historical mass trespasses include the 17th century Diggers who attempted to reclaim common land in Surrey, Kent, Northamptonshire, and Buckinghamshire (and they claimed in at least six further counties), where they were met with murderous violence from land-lords and the state. Their presence was erased so thoroughly that historians are unable to trace exactly where Diggers lived. Today St George's Hill is a 4 square km (965 acre) private gated community with some of the most expensive housing in the UK - in 2014 at least 72 properties, £282+ million of assets, were registered offshore in tax havens.
Before the Diggers squatted St George's Hill it was probably "Crown land" acquired by the monarchy through invasion, conquest, confiscation, English "clearances", the Harrying of the North, and evictions from newly enclosed "Crown land" such as "royal hunting forests". Which brings us back around to the 1932 Kinder Scout mass trespass on land kept exclusively by the ruling classes for hunting and intensive farming of birds for shooting. /end thread
In 1649, to St. George's Hill,
A ragged band they called the Diggers came to show the people's will.
They defied the landlords. They defied the laws.
They were the dispossessed reclaiming what was theirs.
"We come in peace," they said, "to dig and sow.
We come to work the land in common, and to make the waste land grow.
This Earth divided we will make whole so it will be a common treasury for all."
Nancy Kerr sings The World Turned Upside Down, by Leon Rosselson