@Henrysbridge@toot.wales
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

Henrysbridge

@Henrysbridge@toot.wales

Reincarnated immigrant to the Land of Hywel Dda west of Offa's Dyke.

Physicist, rationalist and humanist.

Here just for humour and to learn Welsh. No drama please, especially since I'm far from perfect.

Diolch everybody for making me feel at home.

Jam is still always first!

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

fkamiah17, to cymru
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

WTF??!?? Jacob Res Mogg is speaking at Cardiff University on Friday.
🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬
Of course there's a protest being organised. CSL, Park Place, Cardiff at 5.30pm

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@fkamiah17 Quick! Add "Search for top-hats" to the instructions for the Severn Bridges checkpoints!

I hope the protest is as big and loud as possible.

Maybe this too, which feels a very Welsh thing to do...

https://hopenothate.org.uk/2023/03/29/how-a-town-in-south-wales-said-no-to-fascism-and-yes-to-welsh-cakes/

glynmoody, to random
@glynmoody@mastodon.social avatar

New Zealand plans to put big developments before the environment. That’s dangerous - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/new-zealand-plans-to-put-big-developments-before-the-environment-thats-dangerous "Proposed ‘fast-track’ law could see conservation concerns ignored and projects once rejected for environmental reasons given the green light" amazing how quickly has gone downhill...

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@glynmoody

A fickle electorate is one of the prices we pay for democracy.

I'm sure there were problems, but throwing away the reputation built by Jacinda Ahern (at least, as seen from this side of the planet) doesn't seem to be a solution.

It'd be good to hear a NZ perspective here (I do note the authors are from University of Otago)

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@fkamiah17 @glynmoody And good reputations established...

fkamiah17, to random
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

Sorry, but this shit is just too ridiculously funny not to post it.

A full English breakfast in the shape of the St George Cross. Bacon rashers form the cross, with fried tomatoes at each point. Mushrooms, fried eggs and beans are in each corner.

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@fkamiah17 This just illustrates how much work the good people of England need to do to take back their symbols from the nut-jobs and, as a modification of the legend of St George, slay the triple-headed monster* of wilful stupidity, bigotry and hate.

The problem is, so many don't seem to care.

(mind you - that breakfast looks good, but lacks sausages and black pudding and lose the tomatoes)

*As someone adopting Welshness, the idea of dragon-slaying loses its appeal.

dgar, to random
@dgar@aus.social avatar

If, at first, you don’t succeed, destroy the evidence that you tried.

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@OrangeR @dgar

Ah! I loved The Shadoks! Especially their science of strainers:
http://www.lesshadoks.com/index2.php?page=11

fkamiah17, to random
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

😬 😂 🕷️

Henrysbridge, (edited )
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@fkamiah17 ???

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@fkamiah17 Ah! Should I flag the picture "sensitive" so as not to freak arachnophobes?

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@fkamiah17 Done. Don't want to disturb people's Sunday (or any day!)

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

Fuck sake. He's gone full gammon.

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@fkamiah17 @ScepticalScot1 ...in a pig...

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

Totally
Normal
Island

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@fkamiah17

But it's so simple!

"Stick your head between your knees and kiss your *rse goodbye"

eclectech, to art
@eclectech@things.uk avatar

Chicken with a Pearl Earring

giggles

(with appropriate apologies to Vermeer, obvs)

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@eclectech

My mind is now conjuring images of @sheepnick 's chickens in classical paintings...

Leonardo's Mona Poulet etc...?

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@eclectech

The second could be "Lady with a chicken"? (perhaps that was one of Leonardo's original ideas?)

fkamiah17, to random
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

The people who dish out the dressing up clothes at Labour HQ obviously still think it's April 1st 🤣

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@fkamiah17

That'll be "Call me Dave's" speciality...

fkamiah17, to random
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

This episode of Everyday Misogyny is brought to you by academia.
Needless to say there's nothing remotely surprising or decent about his "proposal". 🤬
"How do you expect me to concentrate on what a respected academic is saying when she's got her hair down?"
"Impossible to tell whether she's Irish or Chinese because of course it's impossible that she could be both."
Every last word of this article is revolting.

"Like being chained to a lunatic". That's how a man feels in relation to his libido. And the lunatic latches on to anything, irrationally, and without warning. In Cambridge recently I dropped into Downing College for a lecture given by a beautiful historian, Lea Ypi, from Albania, whose discourse included this observation about revolutionaries: "Once they attain power they lose all interest in revolution." Good point. Her blonde hair spilling over her shoulders absorbed far more of my attention than her political reflections and I was desperate to speak to her afterwards, but I had no way to orchestrate a meeting.
Instead I headed for the rougher end of Cambridge, near the railway terminus, where the misfits and outcasts gather. I'd already arranged a social rendezvous at a private business location. Here's how it works. You hand over a roll of banknotes to a concierge at a desk who ushers you into a softly lit room where your companion awaits you. Mine was petite, black-haired and buxom. "Shea," she called herself. She looked Chinese rather than Irish but you never know these days so I asked her which part of Ireland she came from. "Shanghai," she told me. I lay naked on the couch and she rubbed hot wax into my shoulders (a ritual that gives these assignations an air of medical respectability). A moment later she ordered me to flip onto my back as she dimmed the lights and raised an eyebrow at me suggestively. This was the cue for negotiations. The money at the desk stays at the desk and Shea makes a separate deal with the client. Extract ends.

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@fkamiah17 Huh? This looks like an extremely bad piece of Nadine-Dorries-style "literature". Is it supposedly masquerading as a serious article? If so, how on Earth did it get past the editor? (Checks first image - Oh, it's "The Spectator" - explains everything...)

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@fkamiah17 I think the editor of Razzle would have rejected that!
(not that I'm at all familiar with that particular "journal", I hasten to add...)

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@fkamiah17 😆 🤪

fkamiah17, to ukteachers
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

So the president of Columbia University is being questioned by Congress today about pro-Palestine protests and "antisemitism on campus". This is the calibre of questions she's being asked 🙄

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@fkamiah17 I'm more disturbed by the response of the university president. I think the namesake of the first university president (Samuel Johnson - it looks like they came in 6-packs) would have had a better answer...

eg, since the USA is clearly now a theocracy: "God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson_(American_educator)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@fkamiah17 Agreed. It'd be interesting to see the rest of the "conversation". I also know that it's really difficult to give a good reply quickly when asked a question which is so contrary to the basic principles of Reason.

My answers to the three questions posed:
No.
No.
The idea of "curses" belongs to a pre-Reason age of darkness and superstition. So, don't care.

Oh, and re. Congress (and indeed our own "illustrious" House), another Dr Johnson quote...
plus ça change?

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@fkamiah17 @Nicovel0

Full-fat feudalism

fkamiah17, to random
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

I think what Nige means is "big thanks to the lefty human rights lawyers who went to an elitist court to uphold my right to free association under the ECHR".

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@fkamiah17 In reference to the court, you could include "foreign" (though of course, this is untrue)...

lowqualityfacts, to random
@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar

Wow, that's crazy.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@fkamiah17 @lowqualityfacts

There's a difference between the two?

fkamiah17, to random
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

Right in the middle of Farridge's speech, too 😂

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-police-order-shut-down-32598446

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@fkamiah17 @BashStKid

He just went to wave his little flag and sneer.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

Absolute honking state of it.

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@fkamiah17 I normally try to find something nice to say about anybody, but in this case, I really struggle.

Truss has one of those looks at all times which suggest that there's "nobody at home" and I'm not even convinced the lights are on.

fkamiah17, to random
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

in 1958, chemist and crystallographer Rosalind Franklin died aged 37.

Famous Cambridge joke:

Q: What did James Watson and Francis Crick discover?

A: Rosalind Franklin’s notes.

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

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@fkamiah17

The tragedy is not only her death at a young age, but that Nobel Prizes aren't awarded posthumously (though this was more a "tradition" rather than a "rule" in 1962)

She was a cautious and thorough scientist, and was not entirely in favour of the modelling of Crick and Watson preferring a rigorous analysis of her data. Of course, the two approaches are complimentary.

A wonderful scientist and a tragic loss.

See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin_(rover)

fkamiah17, to Life
@fkamiah17@toot.wales avatar

Oooh, hailstones 🙄

Henrysbridge,
@Henrysbridge@toot.wales avatar

@fkamiah17 @BashStKid

A nice day (if a bit windy) near Carmarthen. Still, got the washing dry. Pity it's now all on its way to you...

Cat holding on to a tree in high wind

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • JUstTest
  • khanakhh
  • kavyap
  • thenastyranch
  • everett
  • tacticalgear
  • rosin
  • Durango
  • DreamBathrooms
  • mdbf
  • magazineikmin
  • InstantRegret
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • anitta
  • ethstaker
  • ngwrru68w68
  • cisconetworking
  • modclub
  • normalnudes
  • osvaldo12
  • cubers
  • GTA5RPClips
  • Leos
  • tester
  • megavids
  • provamag3
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •