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HighlandLawyer

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Law, IT, & other stuff.
North Scotland

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bullivant, (edited ) to random

Apparently, this is the Telegraph's breaking news logo. This is not a parody.

#Telegraph #Fascism

HighlandLawyer,
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@bullivant Reminiscing about their old Hitlerjugend days I see.

dgar, to random
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Never thought I’d get over my Phil Collins obsession.

But take a look at me now.

HighlandLawyer,
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@dgar Yes, you've become a Stereophonics fan; I don't know...

Richard_Littler, to jazz
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I just tried listening to a band that mixes and and, quite frankly, I don't know whether to wear a beret and grow a goatee, or don a grotesque face mask and sacrifice a goat.

HighlandLawyer,
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@Richard_Littler Wear a beret & sacrifice the goatee

JorisMeys, to random
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I am about to kick some journalists in the nuts real hard.

YOU failed to report on the dire warnings of scientists the past checks the 6 IPCC reports 33 years with your bloody "both-sideism" and now it's our fault?

Fuck you, the Hill. Fuck you very very much.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4057045-catch-22-scientific-communication-failures-linked-to-faster-rising-seas/

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@JorisMeys
"Scientists failed for decades to communicate the coming risks of rapid sea-level rise to people who stuck their fingers in their ears and said 'la la la, I can't hear you', a new study has found."

ryanhoulihan, to random
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Elon Musk seems very committed to the growth of the Fediverse 💖

HighlandLawyer,
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@ryanhoulihan I hear that he's in-cis-ting on it.

HighlandLawyer, to random
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Does anyone know if there is a financial benefit to (Scottish) local authorities in refusing Small Business Bonus Scheme applications?
Specific case: property under renovation, council refuses SBBS because property "unoccupied"; subsequent years, used as workshop as well as being renovated, refused as "unoccupied, only use as X would be occupation", appealed; following year property opens as X, SBBS refused, no reason given except "we will not discuss this, include it in the existing appeals"

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"Billionaires now hold so much of the world’s wealth, their apologists argue, there’s no choice but to rely on them for philanthropy. But we can’t take our eyes off the ball: We need to tax the ultrarich out of existence."

In an age of massive global inequality & billionaires supporting authoritarian politicians & doing precious little about climate disruption, it's time for global wealth tax

https://jacobin.com/2021/11/elon-musk-wealth-tax-inequality-poverty-philanthropy

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@Lylamehta

simonvarwell, to random Esperanto
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I went for a run through a livestock show, and achieved a personal beast.

HighlandLawyer,
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@simonvarwell The semmit of your achievements

vagina_museum, to random
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OLD THREAD REPOST

The earliest reference to what was probably an internal ("female") condom comes from a legend about King Minos related by Antonius Liberalis in about 150CE. Settle down, kids, here's a story about the worst STI you can imagine, two unhappy marriages (and some bonus cross-dressing)

HighlandLawyer,
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@vagina_museum This is where the ambiguity of the English language becomes apparent, as without context "ejaculate scorpions" could mean (a) that on ejaculation, scorpions are emitted, or (b) cause scorpions to ejaculate.

IamHappyToast, to random
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It's the 50th anniversary of Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show

HighlandLawyer,
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@IamHappyToast It's astounding, time is fleeting...

tosbourn, to random
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I’m learning Irish at a wee place in East Belfast called Turas.

Last night we had an awards thing; folk got badges for various levels of Irish. I got the very first level you can get (https://mastodon.ie/@tosbourn/110552700091751570)

The award was handed to me by the leader of the UUP, and one of my classmates is the ex-leader of the PUP.

If you’d asked me 15 years ago if that situation could ever unfold in Belfast; I’d have laughed.

Things are getting better.

HighlandLawyer,
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@tosbourn Nice, you'll being getting a fáinne before you know it. And brilliant that folk are learning that what language(s) you speak doesn't have to be synonymous with your politics.

_thegeoff, to random
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Timelapse shots are always disappointing unless you give them a few hours, but here's a pretty 30 minutes of sunset over the bay.

A sunset over a bay, mountains on the horizon, a boat in the foreground, shot from the beach at near water level. Not a cloud in the sky, just some haze.

HighlandLawyer,
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@_thegeoff So can we have your liver then?

dgar, to random
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@dgar 77345

futurebird, to random
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In a few SF stories I’ve encountered the concept of augmented reality real time instruction systems. Basically, suppose you need to repair a printer. You put on the goggles and see ghost hands showing you what to do step by step— I think this kind of content could be huge. But, to flourish we’d need some kind of universal (open) markup language to create augmented tutorials. Basically hypertext VR. Ain’t nobody got time to write that content for multiple platforms.

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @michaelgemar @futurebird Try getting engineers to travel 300 miles each way to repair commercial equipment, & £3500 for a gadget which would let you do all of it yourself might well be an attractive cheaper option for some businesses.

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @michaelgemar @futurebird
<Laughs in Scottish Highlands>

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @michaelgemar @futurebird Oh I completely agree that the tech as it stands is totally over-hyped, & commercial factors will push it in a completely different direction*, but there is a definite use case for the SF version of it, & a price of £3500 for that would not be uncompetative in various places.

*eg How long before the first AR app which displays a naked body image over the bodies of anyone one looks at? Much sooner than an instructional on how to repair a machine.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Things were a lot simpler back then.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

HighlandLawyer,
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@lowqualityfacts Nowadays they call it "adblue"

lowqualityfacts, to random
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No more, no less.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

HighlandLawyer,
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@lowqualityfacts An inside, an outside, and a beside.

dgar, to random
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Anyone got some seaweed?

I’m seeking kelp.

HighlandLawyer,
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@dgar We can't ig-nori your dulse-t call for kelp

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    HighlandLawyer,
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    @ryanhoulihan Depends where you are: in Glasgow it's punctuation.

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    HighlandLawyer,
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    @neil The comment below the article about Legal Aid is also exactly on target.

    ChrisMayLA6, to random
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    Another instance of one law for us & another one for you:

    You'll recall each time the are given new powers, or new types of are rolled out, the tell us (often in these very words) 'of course, the innocent have nothing to fear'...

    this logic now seems somewhat lacking from the Govt.s attempts to block the 's access to related material(s) from the office....

    Surely, if they've done other wrong....

    Oh. wait a minute...

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    @ChrisMayLA6
    "Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'." ~ Terry Pratchett, Snuff

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    The $500 billion ‘Office real estate apocalypse’: Researchers find remote work’s effect even worse than expected | Fortune

    Why there insane pressure to declare COVID overt? As usual, it's about the money. Simple as that! https://fortune.com/2023/05/25/office-space-crash-harder-than-expected-remote-work-economy-cre-crash/

    HighlandLawyer,
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    @cstross 18% of Westminster MPs, & 27% of govt ministers are landlords. That's even before getting into interests in property companies, etc.
    https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/quarter-tory-mps-are-private-landlords/

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    @krisnelson @cstross It used to be commonplace even for professionals to work/practice from part of the property they lived in. The first two law firms I worked in, the top floor offices were originally the Victorian founders' apartments.

    atomicpoet, to random

    Over the past year, the Fediverse’s Overton window has shifted drastically.

    A year ago, my Ricardian socialist sensibilities were considered too “right wing” for many. I’m not anti-corporation. I just think most of them should be converted to co-ops.

    Flash forward to now. Some folks are practically thirsting for a “benevolent” billionaire to set up shop on the Fediverse.

    HighlandLawyer,
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    @ramsey @atomicpoet
    "It seemed to be a chronic disease. It was as if even the most intelligent person had this little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: "Kings. What a good idea." Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees."
    ~Feet of Clay, Terry Pratchett

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