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melanie

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fucking die!

english without an england to go home to.

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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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@simon_brooke Land reform things

lain, to random
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This solar storm was the strongest ever recorded. If you still think that the climate crisis can be ignored, this should be your wake-up call.

melanie,
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@lain the two things are not connected

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.

BrodieOnLinux, to linux
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Who should be software packaging is a tough problem, I can see the value in distros pushing for better changes downstream, encouraging upstream to change (double click in ) but then I see cases like KeepassXC where the Debian package is now by default broken, actively damaging the reputation of upstream but then I remember where upstream was left unchecked and hid bad code in plain sight and I go back around in a circle.

melanie,
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@BrodieOnLinux Software is bad

appassionato, to KindActions
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No fuel. No food. No water.
No exit or entry for people.
Almost 300 thousand over the last five days.

The UN and partners are facing a completely preventable humanitarian stoppage [read: disaster] in days.

The aid must flow if humanity is to prevail in .

Four bakeries (out of 12) that are still operating have reduced capacity and will be out of that stock by Monday.

https://twitter.com/GeorgiosPetrop2/status/1789372493586633120

Georgios Petropoulous

@palestine

melanie,
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@appassionato @palestine picture is a map from the OCHA describing access constraints to the gaza strip. it shows that every possible entry is either closed, or only open for preapproved goods

poligraf, to Palestine
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« … the fact of the matter is that some 67% of Americans according to recent polls support the United States calling for a ceasefire and 60% opposed sending more weapons to Israel… »

🔗 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLrduonT37w

@palestine

🕊️ 🇵🇸 🍉 🙏🏻 ✌️ ☮️ 🇺🇸

melanie,
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@poligraf @PChoate the US is a hostage situation, not a democracy

actually it’s two hostage situations, at least: the one regarding the disparate native peoples, and the one the current ruling classes have on the settler population

ai6yr, to random

Seeing secondhand reports of aurora being visible in South Florida (Miami). Anyone out there able to confirm?

melanie,
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@ai6yr Negative report from a friend in Florida (not sure where) who isn’t on here.

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 I’m just hoping my third year tree cutting will strike.

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

MLE_online, to random
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I just found out about a local plant shop whose owners have become completely deranged with fears about the Chinese Communist Party, and several yelp reviews of their store tell sales of being thrown out because the owners became suspicious that they were spies.

I want to make up shirts that say "C.C.P. -- California Commission on Plants" and go in there with a friend and start measuring their plants with calipers and taking notes in a notebook

melanie,
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@MLE_online CCP(M) — California Committee for Plants (Measurement)

melanie,
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@MLE_online doesn’t exist in the other ccp, means measurement in the one i suggest. meant to speak of microfractures in western communist parties, which i am sure she is aware of if she has researched the subject

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 only thing bad I can say about it is that if the horrible oiks wanted, Westminster could issue a stop-work order on it tomorrow

also I bet none of them are wearing FFP3s like they should when dealing with folk who are possibly contagious with airborne pathogens

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).

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to climate
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8 min

Before aught else, they must drink. It’s not like it will last. The midwest will stop only when they can’t draw water.

https://youtu.be/DdNtraY6HhQ

melanie,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell This makes me wonder why irrigation was allowed to fester and become such a big thing as it has. It should have been nipped in the bud for broadacre crops early on, and only allowed for subsistence cropping (i.e. backyards and “”homesteads””) in the desert states (which if I’m not mistaken is CA, NV, AZ, NM, CO, WY, OK, and TX). The crop failures due to dry years should’ve been a thing planned for early on.

melanie,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell This is about the Ogalalla basin, isn’t it?

ai6yr, to random

My neighbor (who hates bees, rabbits, coyotes, and all insects in her yard -- and has replaced their lawn with plastic) has a "Welcome Spring" sign up. 🤔

melanie,
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@ai6yr @mjausson He should’ve left the grass a little higher so the buns could’ve mowed it nice.

Also, I think a self-filling bird bath could be useful so the desert forest dog didn’t need to chew on the irrigation pipelines.

melanie,
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@ai6yr @mjausson Can i put on a coyote fursuit and bite your neighbour until he is convinced to do nature-first landscaping?

fkamiah17, to random
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I see one of the contestants at Eurovision got told off for wearing a keffiyeh wrapped round his wrist.
Flying the Zionist flag is cool though, because ...

melanie,
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@fkamiah17 i think the policy here is that the Israel flag is permitted because Israel is a member of the EBU

ai6yr, to EPCOT

What does it mean when most of the plants featured at Epcot's "The Land" are in my backyard? (most being grown in hydroponics) 🤔

(I don't think I can get a floating water ride back there, though).

melanie,
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@ai6yr Your yard has coffee bushes?

melanie,
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@ai6yr It sounds like I should get one, and keep it indoors (since the climate here is so cold pretty much only annuals from that region could ever grow, and that’s if they’re particularly ephemeral)

FloydyStu, to random
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I'm seeing a few posts blaming France for the deportation of Doctor Ghassan Abu Sittah from this country yesterday.

This isn't strictly true.

Germany, in April, issued a Schengen wide ban on the good doctor which, unfortunately, means that France, and ALL other Schengen countries are legally obliged to follow.

The conversation needs to be had with Germany about overturning this law, not with France.

melanie,
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@FloydyStu It’s effectively Germany interfering with another country’s politics.

RickiTarr, to random
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This 1947 Anti-Facist short is so simple and so effective, you realize how stupid all the arguments to the contrary are. You can say a lot in 2 minutes.

https://youtu.be/BCVK7LdI4ao?si=CUhuXZAfQEy6E9vY

melanie,
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@RickiTarr the ?si= cruft at the end of the link is a tracking cookie from YouTube. Delete it if you want it to be less likely for YouTube to link you back to your connexions here.

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

melanie, to random
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fUCK OFF ICEWOLF

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