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peterbrown

@peterbrown@mastodon.scot

Volunteer director of community wind company and new community distillery. Locally owned businesses are the drivers of development in the Hebrides. También soy guía turístico en Escocia desde hace muchos años.

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Silversnapples, to random

Holy shit. Circulars for potential rest homers out there. Have at it.
I know it's sideways and I'm too stunned to worry

Just a glamorous brochure of unaffordable retirement living featuring graceful older woman in a yoga pose

peterbrown,
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@Silversnapples there would have to be a lot of extras on offer.

You could get a decent hotel for that price

Free_Press, to mastodon
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I took a dive in "Threads" and found it wholly lacking.

While it may be a good app for those wanting to show off vacation pictures, it's sorely lacking compared to Twitter.

Meanwhile, in my opinion, Mastodon is still the best app for the serious person looking to connect to like minded, intelligent people.

Jack Dorsey took aim at Meta's Threads and accused it of ripping off Twitter: 'We wanted flying cars, instead we got 7 Twitter clones'

https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-criticises-metas-threads-we-got-7-twitter-clones-2023-7

peterbrown,
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@Free_Press and Mastadon will not sell your data 😊

mastodonmigration, to threads
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So, quick question. It's only Day 1 of .

Anyone changed their opinion on whether they plan to federate with these guys or not?

peterbrown,
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@mastodonmigration the fact that European law prevents its rollout in the EU is extremely evocative. Sounds like a minefield.

DrTCombs, to random
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They grow up so fast.

peterbrown,
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@DrTCombs  I was driving a Volvo SUV recently, and was pleasantly pleased to discover there is no worse view of the road than in other vehicles.

What a difference you legislation makes!

UndisScot, to Scotland
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The fragmentary but intriguing ruins of Saddell Abbey, on the east coast of the Kintyre peninsula north of Campbeltown. It was founded in 1140 and is home to a truly remarkable collection of late medieval grave slabs and effigies. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/carradale/saddellabbey/index.html

peterbrown,
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@EricBranse @UndisScot also reputed to be where the Templars taught Joan of Arc the art of war.

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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I love this mural by Smug on an orphaned gable end down an otherwise rather grim section of Mitchell Street in Glasgow. It brings a much needed splash of colour and interest to it.

peterbrown, (edited )
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@thisismyglasgow a splash of colour it certainly is, but that orphaned gable is the result of a desire to demolish buildings to create car parking.

The sooner we can get rid of the car parking and put the building back in its rightful place, the better

Free_Press, to Ukraine
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MONEY TALKS!

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in an interview with the German newspaper Bild that he does not consider Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal and thinks that Ukraine can no longer be considered a sovereign state.

I wonder who, or rather what, inspired Mr. Orban to draw such conclusions?

Perhaps the record gas discounts that Russia is now offering its allies?

Your ideas?
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peterbrown,
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@Free_Press has it not occurred to him that after Putin has Alex Ukraine, Hungary might be next?

jon, (edited ) to random
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As someone not born in Germany, who learnt German in the Mittelrheintal, has spent a lot of time recently in forgotten places in Brandenburg and Sachsen, and is happy to call Berlin home… I find all this increasingly shrill east-west argument in Germany annoying.

I’m not of one side or the other, Ossie or Wessie. I’m just mighty frustrated by what I see, what I hear, the lack of understanding and tolerance on both sides.

You don’t get far by turning up the rhetoric of blame.

peterbrown,
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@jon wouldn’t it be convenient for Putin if German opinion was split.

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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1840s former bonded warehouse on Oswald Street in Glasgow. One of the few bonded warehouses from this era which is still left in its original form in this part of central Glasgow. It is considered at risk of being lost and at least one application has been submitted to demolish it and replace it with a modern building. Although empty and derelict, this is a building which has huge potential, even in its current state.

peterbrown,
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@thisismyglasgow there are a few new independent distilleries, who could be interested in using it for its original purpose

peterbrown,
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@thisismyglasgow probably not

aimeemaroux, to histodons

"Archaeologists determine that the warrior and this phallus were 'just friends'" via @FlintDibble on Twitter (I sadly didn't find this post on Mastodon).

https://www.iflscience.com/stone-penis-found-in-ruins-of-spanish-castle-was-a-warriors-best-friend-69349

@histodons @medievodons

peterbrown,
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@aimeemaroux @FlintDibble @histodons @medievodons  I wonder if any consideration has been given to the phallic significance of the old man of high in Orkney, and the old man of store in Skye?

peterbrown, to random
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We have spent the last 50 years making the front of cars safer if they hit pedestrians.

We are now feeding increasing numbers of bikes, e-bikes, cargo bikes, cargo e-bikes & scooters into pedestrian areas, all with horrendous protrusions which would badly injure or kill a pedestrian on impact.

What is being done to make them safer for pedestrians?

Free_Press, to news
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Texas’s grid manager is warning homeowners and businesses that surging heat of up to 120 degrees will push electricity demand to unprecedented levels for at least three consecutive days.

https://news.yahoo.com/texas-grid-braces-record-power-184944017.html

peterbrown,
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@Free_Press if they built houses of porous materials like stone or Apple Pay, which would reduce the requirement for mechanical Aircon

Sheril, to random
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The wealthiest 10% are responsible for 1/2 of global CO2 emissions. https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/cop21-richest-10-per-cent-produce-half-the-world-s-co2-emissions-a6756511.html

peterbrown,
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@Sheril bear in mind that we in the west are that 10%

atomicpoet, to reddit
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Android Authority doesn’t get it.

Compared to , sucks. And so does . We all know that.

The isn’t about any app being better than Reddit. It’s about a company that’s grown on the backs of volunteer labour now claiming ownership of that labour.

Reddit didn’t write those posts, draw those illustrations, make those videos. We did.

And Reddit sure as hell didn’t create those communities, nurture them, and moderate them. We did.

I agree with tech writers who say that the average person just “wants their memes”. But Reddit never made those memes. We did.

Content might be king. But who makes content? We do.

I have no doubt that the average person just wants content. But while we might be providing content for free, we’re not dancing monkeys. Who decides why content is made, how it’s made, and where it exists? We do.

The Fediverse doesn’t exist merely as an engine for content. It exists so that people can share what they love.

Why are people coming to the Fediverse specifically? Because we rightfully see ActivityPub as insurance for our content – which, again, is made by and for us.

Not Reddit. Not Big Social. Us.

If I’m giving my content away for free, then so long as it is federated, no one company can own it – putting up gates, demanding payment for my work. Instead, my work is out there, living on 24,000 nodes that presently exist.

Android Authority might dismiss this as “suffering the same fate” – what fate they perceive, I don’t know. But to me, the true “suffering” is when a company like Reddit claims ownership of my work, locking 3rd party developers out from API access.

For this reason, I’m locking Reddit out from my work.

Perhaps the author of this post, Dhruv Bhutani, doesn’t consider that he’s writing for a, well, blog. And that this blog exists on its own domain, with its own design, as its own property. He could have written this entire post on Reddit, but he didn’t.

Why? I suspect it’s because he believes his work has value, and Reddit simply doesn’t give him what he believes is his worth.

Same deal with me. I’m not looking to get paid for my work on Reddit. I do it for fun – always have. But if I’m doing something for fun, it’s still going to be on my terms.

Not all of us creatives are willing to be a cog in Big Social’s machine. That’s why I’m here on the Fediverse right now. I don’t give a damn whether the average person just wants memes. I create for me.

So yeah, Lemmy and Kbin suck. I can live with that – they will both improve. And I have no doubt that, with time, they might prove to be better than Reddit.

But this isn’t about how good Lemmy or Kbin are. Nor is this about the insatiable appetite for memes.

This is about my need to create on my terms – and I’m not alone here.

Decentralization is the killer feature here.

https://www.androidauthority.com/reddit-alternatives-lemmy-3335429/

@fediversenews

peterbrown,
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@Alexx9811 @TerryHancock @atomicpoet @fediversenews I think of the many hours I spent building my Twitter account, and I’m happy to know that the many hours I spend on Mastodon cannot be hijacked by a billionaire

DrHannahGraham, to politics

Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested and is in Police custody.

⚠️ The Contempt of Court Act applies – it's important to be very careful if discussing this case.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65871857?at_bbc_team=editorial&at_format=link&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_medium=social&at_link_type=web_link&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_link_origin=BBCScotlandNews&at_link_id=01C7BAE0-085D-11EE-B1E8-EBC7D89D5CC3&at_campaign_type=owned

peterbrown,
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@DrHannahGraham arrested and in police custody? My understanding was that she had voluntarily presented herself at a police station for interview?

augieray, to random
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India now has more than 101 million people living with diabetes, compared to 70 million people in 2019. That's a 44% increase in just four years. I mean, what happened in 2019 that could cause such a sudden increase? It's a mystery! This article doesn't even mention , despite the fact many studies have found a significant increase in diabetes among people infected.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/100857896.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

peterbrown,
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@augieray has anybody looked at homogenisation of food, stuffs as a possible course?

mrgawrjuhs, to random
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Great to see the Victorian underground cable-winding mechanism from Edinburgh’s original tram network up close this morning.

The permanent display at Iona Street, near to where they were originally found, is a beautiful new feature for Leith.

Here’s hoping the youngsters respect this piece of history. But I suspect Scemo and his fellow spray-painters will be out vanity-tagging and bringing the place down, as per usual.

Colour photo in a square format, taken in Iona Street and looking diagonally across to the tenement buildings that line the road in the background background. In the foreground is a newly paved concourse. Four concrete plinths support two parallel beams of metal, which in turn support two large metal wheels with six spokes, that was part of the underground cable-winding mechanism from the original Victorian Edinburgh Tram system. This photo is similar to the first, but taken from the other side of the exhibit.

peterbrown,
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@mrgawrjuhs unfortunately they don’t see it as bringing the place down.

They seem to want to live in a slum.

There is no graffiti in Inverness, and I’m told by one of the “artists” that this is due to the council removing it as soon as it had been painted. Therefore they soon give up and stop painting.

And come here instead

mlevie, to languagelovers

Hot take: the focus on exotic features of other languages is orientalizing. Nobody writes dissertations on “the complex politness conventions of tu/vous languages” or “the complex cultural considerations in Western cultures that determine whether to greet someone with a hug, nod, simple handshake, secret handshake, bow, curtsy, or fist bump“ #langtoot @languagelovers

peterbrown,
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@mlevie @languagelovers I used to think English was the only language to have ditched tu in favour of vous, but Colombian Spanish seems to be heading the same way

peterbrown, to random
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 I can understand why pressures from other parts of the network have reduced carrying capacity due to deploying smaller vessels on the Oban - Craignure run, but it would seem incomprehensible that extra sailings are not being operated to take up the slack.

 And being bumped off a long-standing commercial booking at 17.30 yesterday evening leaves no time for alternative arrangements to be made. Calmac customer communications too little, too late, especially as this was foreseeable days ago.

bocadelperro, to histodons

@histodons the in is, as far as I know, the only basilica.

peterbrown,
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@twobiscuits @Peternimmo @bocadelperro @histodons generally speaking a completely false narrative, as when you drill down to what actually happened it seems statuary and saints were removed, but the building was generally either left unmaintained to gradually deteriorate or repurposed as a parish church.

 If there had been any active attempt at demolition or destruction, do you seriously think there would be anything left after 500 years?

jon, to random
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Welcome to Day 14

The final day of the Germany borders project

Today I’m off to Guben, Żary and Forst (Lausitz)

Here’s todays intro video https://urbanists.video/w/5JESqCiQPYnJPqPCV2NB5d

peterbrown,
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@jon @aufsmaulsuppe you wouldn’t have been allowed to drink alcohol on Scotrail trains either

Alternatecelt, to random
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EA Hornel was the Kirkcudbright Artist who began inspiring other Artists to come and visit, paint and live in Kirkcudbright, creating it's status as an Artist's Town. Steadfast in his refusal to go to the big city to ply his trade, he lived most of his life in the town, up to his death

https://youtu.be/1ZLgBaAusL4

peterbrown,
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@DarkGalloway @Alternatecelt nope.

A Dead Mole by Andrew Young.

Strong-shouldered mole,
That so much lived below the ground,
Dug, fought and loved, hunted and fed,
For you to raise a mound
Was as for us to make a hole;
What wonder now that being dead
Your body lies here stout and square
Buried within the blue vault of the air?

breadandcircuses, to climate

It can be argued that electric vehicles are an improvement when replacing ICE vehicles.

But that misses a much bigger point — which is that the very best car is not an electric car. The very best car is no car at all!

Building electric cars requires massive use of fossil fuels, including petrochemicals for the manufacture of plastics. In addition, mining of lithium for batteries as well as trawling for other minerals in the deep ocean is environmentally disastrous, killing biodiversity while polluting our water, soil, and air.

LITHIUM EXTRACTION — https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/02/01/south-america-s-lithium-fields-reveal-the-dark-side-of-our-electric-future

DEEP-SEA MINING — https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/109814016209990908

The kind of “Green Growth” championed by capitalists and politicians, which features more electric cars, a bit of solar, and a few wind farms — along with continued use of fossil fuels — is not a good answer. It does not solve any of our problems, and in fact only makes them worse.

Say NO to more cars, of any kind. Push instead for active transportation and for improved public transit.

Continued economic growth is unsustainable. Period. The only logical choice for us and for the biosphere is de-growth.

peterbrown,
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@breadandcircuses it’s not entirely untrue, but it’s also an area where the biggest drop in carbon emissions can’t be almost instantaneous.

Wifiwits, to random

This is a really good video about the problems with What3words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqK0ciE0rto

peterbrown,
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@Wifiwits @revk  furthermore, the basic assumption that everybody will be able to read words written in English and that they will be able to be understood by the listener is a flawed assumption.

Numbers are a far more logical solution and far more global as they can be used in any language

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