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melanie

@melanie@bv.umbrellix.org

fucking die!

english without an england to go home to.

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notsle, to random
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melanie,
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@notsle Sale and leasebacks should create a rebuttable presumption of unfair favouring of a creditor in bankruptcy court.

compost, to random
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This little video from the channel Primitive Technology, one of my favorites, is an amazing reminder of why we should not use too much ash on clay-dominant soil.

Clay plus ahs is the recipe for cement. It will compact your soil if you put too much of it.

Demonstration... I am so glad someone decided to make a video about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaCfKda82nA

melanie,
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@compost If you need cement for whatever reason (e.g. rice basin), it’s perfect.

cstross, to random
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UK government adviser on disruptive protest accused of conflict of interest:

John Woodcock, whose review proposes bans for protest groups, has lobbying links to firms in arms and fossil fuel sectors (and is recommending bans on protests against both those industries)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/government-adviser-on-disruptive-protest-accused-of-conflict-of-interest

melanie,
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@HighlandLawyer @glitzersachen @BashStKid @simon_brooke @cstross Yes, it’s just like whatever clogged mess is going on on the Thames.

That’s a silly place to put a parliament, as well, isn’t it? What if the river decides it isn’t very happy with that?

melanie,
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@glitzersachen @BashStKid @simon_brooke @HighlandLawyer @cstross The tangled mass of treaties making it up can be argued to be the constitution you seek.

melanie,
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@HighlandLawyer @simon_brooke @BashStKid @glitzersachen @cstross my understanding is the EU is slightly older, but even so, that’s one more than Simon demanded

I will say though that I think second chambers might be wasteful if they’re just as democratically elected as the first chamber

ScottishGreens, to random
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"It is regrettable that it has ended this way, it didn’t need to. We draw no satisfaction or pleasure from this." - Patrick Harvie MSP

Now is the time to return to some stability. It's time to put people and planet first.

✊🌍

melanie,
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@MacNaBracha @ScottishGreens A boffin down in England claims the coalition collapsed because it is impossible for a devolved government to deliver what it wanted. Not sure what I think of this, but for your perusal: https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/26/scotlands-political-problem/

bampot, to random
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Ma erm an pish ur headin up tae visit the phlebotomist
The day is a big wan so ma vampiristic buddie will sook oot near a hale ermfae eh vital bodily fluids thit en head fur the Quackentstein Lab far away high up oan the hill.
Whit astonishes me is thit Igor drains ma erm here ,sends these vials miles oor the watter tae the Quack Lab an by 6 o'clock the night ah will huv 2 pages eh highly specialised results oan ma computer screen.
Gaunny say somehin bad aboot NHS Scotland ..Gaun..ah dare ye!

melanie,
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@bampot My understanding is that W’minster can still walk all over devolution if they’d like.

But I won’t belabour that point, except to say that it puts credence behind my theory of Scotland as an occupied country (although it doesn’t look like a military occupation because it has been fully institutionalized).

melanie, to random
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@amythegay :blobfoxrage:

RE: https://estrogen.network/notes/9ssn0kn8v89l4idq

melanie, to random
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To save the British economy, blow up the Union.

melanie,
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Unilaterally (from the W’minster side) put Scotland (as a kingdom), Wales (as a principality), Mann (as a lordship), insular Normandy (as a duchy) and Ulster (as a Free State) on an equal footing with 1932 Canada, except that they have the right to make constitutional legislation by means of referendum, including stripping Westminster’s right to legislate on constitutional matters. Referendums in the colonies (yes there still are some) must be used to dispose of them, according to the options of condominium with all the independent states, or subjection to just one, or secession (only Bermuda would realistically have a chance).

This way, England gets to have the national reckoning it really needs relating to resource availability and feeding itself, and the other countries (except Wales with Llyn Celyn - Liverpool could be annexed to Wales, instead) get to continue or break ties with England as needed.

melanie, to random
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… you can just say IDF. We don’t call the 40s Wehrmacht the Scheissmacht, although maybe we should. We shaln’t invent names for the IDF either.

RE: https://toot.wales/users/fkamiah17/statuses/112376968274791201

melanie, to random
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Don’t you fucking kent on my state

fkamiah17, to random
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Morning.

melanie,
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@fkamiah17 what in the raving spaghetti fuck are the torygraph on now

rameshgupta, to random
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is too stupid to realize that NOT voting for is a vote FOR , and that her boycott of could be her last — She might not get another opportunity to vote EVER.

Via @SteveThompson

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/cardi-b-wont-vote-joe-biden-or-donald-trump_uk_66477644e4b0cba40889b45b?utm_source=press.coop

melanie,
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@SteveThompson @donray @rameshgupta @RunRichRun @GottaLaff @joeinwynnewood @Eetschrijver So, you support genocide.

melanie, to random
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An educated proletariat is a useful thing. It means that if all the leadership somehow gets snuffed, the society has backups.

When leadership hoards the means of leading, society doesn’t have backups.

anniezaidi, to random
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"they curtly informed my sister and me that our names weren't on the voter list so we couldn't cast our votes.
We insisted this couldn't be right since we had double-checked the Election Commission of India (ECI) website... After adamantly demanding to see the voter lists ourselves, they begrudgingly showed us one, seemingly concealing the other... we didn't back down and persisted until they finally revealed the second list. Our names were right there"

https://article-14.com/post/a-muslim-voter-s-first-person-account-of-how-she-fought-to-cast-her-vote-in-the-2024-election-664abb5c73502?s=09

melanie,
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@crmsnbleyd @anniezaidi I weep for India.

Wen, to environment
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Bird flu outbreaks in cattle will not affect supply, Americans told

http://archive.today/2024.05.02-184845/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bird-flu-outbreak-us-virus-spread-cattle-cows-mgbnwwn9f

(cached)

Scientist and animal/human health workers are worried, but the public is told ‘nothing to see, nothing to worry about, move on’.

The massive power of agribusiness is threatening the world we live in and also (for those who don't really care), our health by incubating new and dangerous illnesses.

melanie,
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@Wen We’re so screwed, and confinement operators don’t even have the care for their stock to introduce filtered air to confinements.

perkinsy, to melbourne
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This morning our gardening group gave away a lot of cuttings to a family nearby. We had been nurturing the plants over summer. We also gave away plants that my mother no longer wants.

Gardening can be an incredibly cheap hobby if you know a bit about plants. Many gardeners have piles of black plastic pots they no longer want and some plants like pelargoniums (geraniums) are easy to grow from cuttings. I pick up cheap potting soil from a supermarket as the easy to grow plants don't really care about what they grow in.

melanie,
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@perkinsy Aye. It also requires some boldness to be able to keep alive what shouldn’t be

ai6yr, to politics

AP: Biden administration releasing 1 million barrels of gasoline from reserve in bid to lower prices https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-administration-releasing-1-million-barrels-of-gasoline-from-reserve-in-bid-to-lower-prices

melanie,
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@ai6yr you and I also both know that oil companies will use this to further cut pumping and raise prices

melanie,
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@ai6yr except that a chicken in every pot is more likely to be sustainable than cheap petrol

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Anyone else struggling to see any prospects for turning things around? I will keep on trying to do what I can. Of course. But 2024 is challenging.

Last year did a post about how I wasn’t motivated by hope but by . I now realise i got that wrong. Hope isn’t just fluffy “things will be alright”. Hope is some flicker of belief that you and others can change things; I did, actually, have “hope”. Less now, but will keep going.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/13/banks-almost-7tn-fossil-fuel-firms-paris-deal-report

melanie,
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@pvonhellermannn Things are going the same way they have been, and I doubt they will change. The tropics and subtropics are trending less and less habitable, although in the main, the biological productivity (rice, and other arrangements for multiple-per-year cropping) required to sustain the highest population densities in the world remains (although that is also under threat). Temperate and warm-temperate cropping systems are going completely haywire due to unpredictable moisture and temperature régimes.

It’s bleak and getting bleaker. Even among the wreckage, someone is going to scrape together an existence, but that itself will be bleak.

alanferrier, to random
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Green Party representation in Holyrood relies heavily on list votes from, predominantly, SNP supporters who won't look kindly on them for, as they see it, sabotaging the BHA. This means there's little likelihood of a pro-independence majority at the next election.

melanie,
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@simon_brooke @Alternatecelt @alanferrier @iaruffell @sfscotland Yup. Exactly.

melanie, to random
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@simon_brooke hey did you know that you write good and you have done for 11 years?

melanie,
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@Tallish_Tom @simon_brooke I don’t think farms should be that large unless you’re in a desert and using the excess land to harvest rain. Not even in BC, where spaces are, relatively speaking, wide-open.

djm_black, to random
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The UK has failed.

Failed to reform itself.
Failed to remain in the EU.
Failed to retain its reputation.
Failed to respect international law.
Failed to regard the poor and vulnerable.

melanie,
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@HistoPol @hesgen @djm_black There was never an article for secession in any union documents.

Wales was incorporated into England as a titular principality fairly early on, and the Acts of Union for Scotland didn’t include an article for secession.

ai6yr, (edited ) to random

Ah, so far so good. Stihl FSA57 trimmer (battery powered) works very well.. VERY quiet. Cuts the mustard (which my corded trimmer does not). Extremely lightweight, compared to every gasoline one I've used before. It was a project to order it, though. I'll probably be ordering a second because a spare battery plus charger is almost the same cost, and that will include another head, too. 🤔

Did half of the weeds on my hillside to try it out, in almost no time. That usually is a long project for me due to hassling with line, power cord and/or gasoline. Really good build quality. This model is light duty/homeowner (but we are just using it for bee yard clearing).

melanie,
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@ai6yr @meganL IS THAT WHAT THAT PHRASE MEANS

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