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@thatguyoverthere @Blackgendermoderate No, Masters Of Chant. They were/are great!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-j5vib8obek

@Blackgendermoderate I still have one of their albums somewhere. I would have said 2000s, though, not 90s.

@thatguyoverthere Can you make a wire mesh cage to put the plants in, so that they can “prune” any bits that get too big but otherwise not get to it?

@thatguyoverthere Are you actively trying to learn how to do it “properly”? Because if not, just use shrink wrap.

@thatguyoverthere @IreTiger @TinyHouse4Life It’s not any straight-up variety of broccoli that I know of, usually the tender stem types have bigger leaves.

@thatguyoverthere @IreTiger @TinyHouse4Life It was probably me, I think brassicas are fascinating!

Given you have a lot of them self seeding, it could be some weird cross.

After I, a month ago, used the line “I know I said I wasn’t in a rush to get it done, but I said that last July…”, the dry stone wall man has finally turned up.

Today was mostly about pulling stuff down. His parting line before he left (early, to get ready for lambing) was “Don’t move that shovel. It’s holding that big stone in place.”

Eep.

@thatguyoverthere I dare say that that used to be what was done, but it got unwieldy for complex jobs so someone came up with the bright idea of creating a standardised piece of paper that one could use as a proxy.

https://unherd.com/thepost/the-violent-rhetoric-of-trans-activists-has-to-stop/

The truth is that the subculture that has grown up around trans identities too often excuses, legitimises, and even glorifies violence. That includes violence directed at the self — where self-harm and suicide demonstrate sincerity and commitment to trans identity in the face of adversity — and violence directed outward at perceived enemies. This goes hand-in-hand with a toxic dynamic called phobia indoctrination: the attempt to instil irrational fears in members of a high-control group in order to manipulate them.

There’s no clearer example of how phobia indoctrination operates within trans communities than the invention and propagation of ‘trans genocide’ narratives.

https://archive.is/IxQUf

You’ve not had a photo of the view lately, have you? Well, you’re not getting one today, either.

@thatguyoverthere @Humpleupagus Looks like it’s Audrey-now-Aiden.

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-police-say-female-nashville-school-shooter-identified-as-transgender

@TheWitchBitch If so then why he/him pronouns on LinkedIn?

I think it’s still too early to say either way.

@thatguyoverthere @Humpleupagus Wants a login.

@thatguyoverthere @Humpleupagus I’m kinda leaning male, but how woke will the police etc be there?

@thatguyoverthere @Humpleupagus https://twitter.com/karol/status/1640441066565558273

Reply hazy.

@thatguyoverthere @Humpleupagus Looks like it might be a woman, possibly taking testosterone and calling herself a man.

@thatguyoverthere I fear that any collapse will be a lot slower and more painful than a couple of generations.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/26/the-cult-of-the-climate-apocalypse/

At the forefront of the arms race in catastrophic prophecies is Extinction Rebellion. Every page on its website itemises the scale of the climate crisis, and the dire impact that human development supposedly has on life on Earth. The extinction referred to in the movement’s title does not just include wildlife, but humanity itself. Activists claim that our extinction is just a generation away.

Here is a literally hopeless creed. XR and its apocalyptic ilk do not seem interested in climate change as a practical challenge – as something that can be addressed with technological and material development, as environmental problems have been mitigated in the past. Instead, they see climate change as a form of necessary punishment. As XR co-founder Roger Hallam puts it in one blog post, XR members must ‘understand that redemption only comes through suffering and the only honourable life is to move into that suffering in an act of faith that there will be another side to come out of, into a state of grace’.

@thor No, I don’t think so. You can “lay it all out”, ie tell the whole story, but it’s not something you do to yourself, it’s something you do to the facts.

@thor Ah, ok, yes: the English would be “prostrate”, but that more implies supplication / throwing yourself on someone’s mercy, than truthfulness.

So: Boris could have prostrated himself before the committee, but instead he chose to be defiant and act as though he would be cleared.