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Dear people in #Gaza, I know that your situation is dreadful and that there are many of you in urgent need. I am a poor man and I am already supporting as many as I can. If you appeal to me I will pass your appeal on to others who may be able to help you, but I cannot support you directly myself.

It's not that our politicians don't know what's needed to slow #ClimateChange. It's that they don't care.
Their two priorities are
1. winning the next election, under the UK's absurdly dysfunctional, archaic and undemocratic system;
2. pleasing the big donors, who include the

We surveyed British MPs – most don’t know how urgent climate action is
New study finds both MPs and the public underestimate how quickly global emissions must be cut.

"But maybe the more complex reasoning for why #Starmer is such a vacant leader is that only such a man could have been elected as prime minister. Only a man characterised by the ability to identify who he must ingratiate himself with could have won the electoral race, placated powerful business interests and fended off the rightwing press"
Insightful from Nesrine Malik

Federal court upholds Oklahoma law banning gender-affirming care for minors (Brooke Migdon/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5441969-oklahoma-gender-affirming-care-ban/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p145#a250807p145

I'm trying to write a general purpose Inspector UI object for #Clojure
so you have a function
`(inspect o)`
which, when evaluated, throws up a window showing in a sensible form the value of `o`.
Obviously, though, if `o` is lazy, you don't want the inspector to explore it all.
LazySeq implements an interface IPending, which isn't documented. Are all lazy …

clojure/src/jvm/clojure/lang/IPending.java at master · clojure/clojure
The Clojure programming language. Contribute to clojure/clojure development by creating an account on GitHub.

"To date, research shows that only a small fraction — under 10 percent — of all the plastic ever produced has actually been recycled and only 1 percent has been recycled twice. "
#Ecocide

‘Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows
Exclusive finding by DeSmog shows high-level industry awareness that recycling plastic ‘not feasible’ as companies face lawsuits over alleged public deception campaign.

"#Permaculture: how do we live in place, sustainably, in time?"
Yes, actually, that IS my project: what I'm doing with my life, right now. Building community with the people around me, to build resilience in the face of #ClimateEmergency
Planet: Critical: Resilien…

Sick should work on farms to avoid losing Medicaid: Trump's agriculture secretary - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/brooke-rollins-2673859928/

Biden didn't want intel disseminated showing Ukrainian concerns over family's 'corrupt' business ties: records (Brooke Singman/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-blocked-dissemination-intel-showing-ukrainian-officials-concerns-familys-corrupt-business-ties
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p38#a251007p38

Centrally concentrated star formation in young clusters
Adilkhan Assilkhan, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, Brooke Polak, Ernazar Abdikamalov, Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier, Sean C. Lewis, Mukhagali Kalambay, Aigerim Otebay, Bekdaulet Shukirgaliyev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05016

Centrally concentrated star formation in young clusters
The study of star cluster evolution necessitates modeling how their density profiles develop from their natal gas distribution. Observational evidence indicates that many star clusters follow a Plummer density profile. However, most studies have focused on the phase after gas ejection, neglecting the influence of gas on early dynamical evolution. We investigate the development of star clusters forming within gas clouds, particularly those with a centrally concentrated gas profile. Simulations w…

The first actual physical part for my #Tricycle project has arrived today. This is an axle — actually a Cannondale Lefty axle — and it's nominally the front axle, although it doesn't really matter which axle it ends up being because they will all be identical.
#BikeTooter

"Sir Keir’s reshuffle looks less like renewal than a coup by Labour’s “modernising” clique. Ian Murray’s sacking severs a bridge to Anas Sarwar’s Scottish Labour, which had been tacking leftwards, just as the Holyrood election looms, while Lucy Powell’s removal sidelines one of the few cabinet allies of Ed Miliband, the soft left’s champion" -- in other words, Labour is tacking even more violently towards the dark side.

Having designed a good-enough CAD model of the subframe for my #tricycle as a welded aluminium structure, I'm now thinking that it might be better constructed as carbon fibre laid up over an XPS polystyrene armature.
The benefits are that I can do composites myself, whereas I can't weld aluminium; and that the composite would probably be both stronger and lighter. The downside is th…

A free two-generated left distributive algebra of elementary embeddings
Andrew D. Brooke-Taylor, Scott Cramer, Sheila K. Miller Edwards
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02244 https://…

A free two-generated left distributive algebra of elementary embeddings
The set-theoretic large cardinal axiom known as I3 posits the existence of a non-trivial rank-to-rank embedding from an initial segment of the universe of sets into itself. Laver showed that the algebra generated by a single such embedding under the operation of application is in fact the free left distributive (LD) algebra on one generator. This and associated theorems using the set-theoretic structure of the embeddings yielded numerous results about general LD algebras under the assumption of…

CAD model of the #tricycle subframe. The chain ring is very nearly as big as the front wheel (80 teeth!). It drives an epicyclic gearbox mounted in the nose of the vehicle, which also has a disc brake. The epicyclic will drive a secondary chain via a sprocket mounted to the left hand spoke flange, but this is not yet shown. There will be no ratchet on the secondary chain, so the disk brake on the…

The second edition of my mother's book is finally out! If you're interested in the history of Galloway, you need this.
Get it here: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/wild-men-and-holy…

If anyone's been following my progress on the #tricycle project, I'm currently drooling over the very adjustable recumbent ergonomic rig shown in this video. I'm wondering whether I can make myself something even nearly this adjustable!
#BikeTooter

Two more blog posts on the #Tricycle project over the last few days: firstly, I have found a CAD tool that works for me:
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/20…

The squirrel is eating from the squirrel feeder at the front of the house!
#RedSquirrel

@… I saw this by another Gaza poet, and thought it might interest you. It's powerful!
https://mastodon.social/@appassionato/1153098541…

earthling (@appassionato@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image In order for me to write poetry that isn't political, I must listen to the birds and in order to hear the birds the warplanes must be silent Marwan Makhoul via holyfigtree #poetry #Palestine

I've been raking through my technology drawer looking for an old fairphone that wasn't there. But I found several things I'd completely forgotten, including these!

Dear Dumfries & Galloway Council, it is NOT OK to cancel buses at short notice because of wind. People still have to get home! If public transport isn't reliable, how can anyone rely on it?

“When a military makes life unsustainable via bombing, forced starvation, demolition, disease, drone attacks, and endless terror, emigration cannot be ‘voluntary’ by definition"
#GazaGenocide
#EthnicCleansingOfPalestine

Leaked documents detail Trump’s ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza
A leaked document details the Trump administration’s plan to forcibly relocate the population of Gaza. Included in a “relocation package” would be $5,000, four years of rent subsidies, and a year of food subsidies.

Fuck it, Rory the Tory Stewart is now advertising Nestlé. He is a seriously bad human being.
The Rest Is Politics: 432. Trump, Starmer, and Gaza: Is The Tide Turning Against Israel?
Episode webpage: http://therestispolitics.com/
Media file:

The Rest Is Politics | Home

Quite the storm tonight. The wind is strong, but the rain is astonishing.

Lovely photo of the #roundhouse from yesterday. In other news we've finished the interior render, so the roundhouse is now habitable.

"Their inaction, their neutrality, their “pragmatic” accommodation—every golden plaque presented to Trump, every settlement paid to avoid retaliation, every silent acquiescence to constitutional destruction—all of this is discrediting capitalism in the eyes of ordinary Americans in ways that no socialist organizer could achieve. They are acting like the cartoon villains Marxists make them out to be"

How America’s Business Elite Became Their Own Marxist Caricature
There is a moment in every authoritarian takeover when the business elite must choose between principle and profit, between defending the system that made their wealth possible and accommodating th…

I woild be very interested to see analysis of what the Uniform Penny Post contributed to the UK economy. Is a postal system which makes a profit an asset to an evonomy, or, on the contrary, a huge liability?

Today I had to go to the dentist, to have a filling replaced. My dentist is a small young woman from Glasgow, very competent, who chats cheerily through the whole procedure.
But I was thinking of @… , a poet from #Gaza who wants to be a dentist, and wh…

Urgent help for Ahmed's family
"I’m tired, Mama. I’m thinking of the hours that I'll spend tomorrow in the water line." – says 9 year old Ahmed to his mother before going to sleep.

#PhantastikPrompts 02.08.2025: What were your favorite stories as a child?
Many. But high on the list (in order of age suitability) were
A. A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh and sequels;
James Thurber's The Thirteen Clocks;
John Masefield's Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights;
Alan Garner's Weirdstone of Brisingamen and sequels;
anything by…

#ScribesAndMakers 02/08: Do you have artwork on your walls? If so, describe one of the pieces.
I do have artwork on my walls, most pieces given to me by their makers; but what I'll post here is a sonnet written by a friend which describes an image I made myself:
#1/3

I'm having a bad mental health day -- really struggling to sustain either any consistent train of thought or any degree of mood stability.
It's *probably* just a virus infection and will *probably* pass, but it's very frightening and upsetting while it's happening.
Being mad just isn't fun.

I received my new national identity card today. The process of getting it was very easy. I went to the library last week, said I'd lost my id card, the librarian looked me up on the database, checked that my face matched the photo in the database, confirmed that my address hadn't changed. Then she ordered me a new card (no cost).
I really don't understand why the English think this is so threatening.

Andy Burnham here talking very positively about #LandValueTax and #WealthTax.
Politics Weekly UK: Andy Burnham live in conversation
Episode webpage:

This morning, for the first time ever, I asked an #LLM to translate a snippet of code for me, from #Javascript to #ClojureScript. It got it wrong, but it got enough of it right that it saved me some time…

"Airdrops would usually be ordered as a last resort to feed people in emergency situations where hostile armed forces or geography make road deliveries impossible. In Gaza the only obstacles to driving aid across the border are restrictions imposed by Israel, an ally of many western nations including Britain, and armed with British and US weapons"
#GazaGenocide

"In the first 21 months of war, 104 flights supplied the equivalent of just four days of food for Gaza, Israeli data shows, for a cost running to tens of millions of dollars. Spent on trucks, the same budget would deliver much more food"
#GazaGenocide
#GazaStarvation …

“Our analysis of the food packages supplied by the [Gaza Humanitarian Foundation] shows that their distribution plan would lead to mass starvation, even if it was able to function without the appalling levels of violence that have been reported”
#GazaGenocide
#GazaStarvation

"data compiled and published by Israel’s own government makes clear that it has been starving Gaza. Between March and June, Israel allowed just 56,000 tonnes of food to enter the territory, Cogat records show, less than a quarter of Gaza’s minimum needs for that period"
#GazaGenocide
#GazaStarvation

This is actually a superb, forensic report by Special Rappoteur Frencesca Albanese on the contribution of global #capitalism to the #GazaGenocide, which I'd encourage everyone to read.
Every paragraph is worth quoting.

"The complicity exposed by this report is just the tip of the iceberg; ending it will not happen without holding the private sector accountable, including its executives. International law recognizes varying degrees of responsibility – each requiring scrutiny and accountability, particularly in this case, where a people’s self-determination and very existence are at stake. This is a necessary step to end the #genocide

"This report investigates the corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory. While political leaders and governments shirk their obligations, far too many corporate entities have profited from Israel’s economy of illegal occupation, #apartheid and now,

I've written a wee letter to My MP, John Cooper (Conservative, Galloway and Dumfries) on #Gaza.
I'm sharing it in case you're thinking of doing the same, to link you to the sources I've used. Please do not simply copy my text, since multiple copies of the same letter have much less effect than multiple original letters.

Absolutely forensic speech here by Jeremy #Corbyn in the Commons last month on the #GazaGenocide that I completely missed (found it today while searching Hansard for details of the RAF surveillance flights).
Was this completely ignored by public media, or was I just not paying attention?

"Today's #AI bubble has absorbed more of the country's wealth and represents more of its economic activity than historic nation-shattering bubbles, like the 19th century UK rail bubble. A much-discussed MIT paper found that 95% of companies that had tried AI had either nothing to show for it, or experienced a loss" -- @…

I can't help feeling that any 'peace deal' for #Gaza supported by Cooper and Trump, and making Tony #Blair interim governor, will be a permanent stain on the conscience of the world.
#Palestine…

"The [Wall Street Journal] writers compare the #AI bubble to other bubbles, like Worldcom's fraud-soaked fiber optic bonanza (which saw the company's CEO sent to prison, where he eventually died), and conclude that the AI bubble is vastly larger than any other bubble in recent history" -- @pluralistic
#LLMs

"I firmly believe the (economic) #AI apocalypse is coming. These companies are not profitable. They can't be profitable. They keep the lights on by soaking up hundreds of billions of dollars in other people's money and then lighting it on fire. Eventually those other people are going to want to see a return on their investment" -- @pluralistic
They won't get to see that retu…

"the #AI bubble is driven by monopolists who've conquered their markets and have no more growth potential, who are desperate to convince investors that they can continue to grow by moving into some other sector...
when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone&q…

"Nigel Farage joins a disturbingly long list of UK politicians who are trying to win votes with promises of stripping other people of their human rights. If they win, nothing stops them taking away your rights too." -- @… is completely right about this, as #Trump

We are all human, or none of us are. — Common Weal
Nigel Farage joins a disturbingly long list of UK politicians who are trying to win votes with promises of stripping other people of their human rights. If they win, nothing stops them taking away your rights too.

Well, it's not precisely *working*, as such. But it definitely isn't not working!
Tittle: Turtles in #Clojure #Scittle, with gratitude to @… !

I know that in principle it's possible to compute the sine of an angle from first principles, because I'm pretty sure I could do it at school when I was twelve.
I know that in principle it's possible to compute the sine of an angle from first principles, because some clever bugger did it in 6502 assembly code fifty years ago.
Can I do it now in #Clojure

@… with a profile name like that, I just have to follow you!
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2025-07-02-flying-ou…

Flying out the hayloft
Ever since I built the cattle shed, and added the derrick to the front of it to allow bales to be hoisted up, I've thought that would make a very cool place to do a suspension. Now, at last, I've done it.

#FantasticPromptsEnglish 27.08.2025
Choose a scene that has stuck in your mind & rewrite it from memory.
I did once steal a scene outline from someone else's short story which I thought was really badly written, and built a whole novel around it which I'm on the whole pretty pleased with; but it's a novel I'll never share with anyone and definite…

Hi @…
The server on which my liberaforms instance runs is not configured to send outgoing email (because I haven't got round to doing that). When I try to create a new user, the page at `/admin/invites/new` just hangs (which is reasonable because it can't send email) and no record is created in the `invites` table. The form at `/site/new-user…

Having not written anything about my #tricycle project in months, I've now written two posts in two days. Here's the first:
#BikeTooter
Rethinking the tricycle drive train

Rethinking the tricycle drive train
I've been rereading my posts on design of a tricycle, and especially this one; and I've been looking again at this picture, of Seventy Seven's removable front subframe which carries its front wheel, steering, and transmission systems; and I've been thinking. This will be a short post documenting my thoughts.

I've written my first little #Scittle app today, and I'm impressed. To be able to write in-browser code in #Clojure is so much nicer than #Javascript. I have some issues to fix and some enhancement…

Today has been mainly about stripping down my favourite mountain bike for repainting and renovation.
#BikeTooter

"We shouldn’t be surprised, because capturing communities with false promises only to sell us out is business as usual in the corporate internet. The founders handled the transition horribly, even by tech industry standards, and the pain and disruption it creates in our lives is real. Yet capital is constantly pulling the rug on online communities... For corporations, it’s always profits over people"

When We Get Komooted
Following the sale of Komoot to private equity, Josh Meissner explores the broken relationship between corporate capital and our communities...

"by April of 2024 Gaza had already suffered more than 70,000 tonnes of bombing. To put that in perspective, that is more than the combined bomb tonnage dropped on Dresden, Hamburg, and London in World War II. Now more than a year later, that bombing has only increased. It is no surprise, therefore, that UN Humanitarian Chief Martin Griffiths declared Gaza “uninhabitable” due to the bombing, destruction, blockades, and subsequent famines"

NYT Whitewashes Genocide, Again
In an OpEd, Columnist Bret Stephens takes a sledgehammer to truth & humanity to justify a live streamed genocide—we rebuke his propaganda in full

I'm still learning #OpenSCAD. This part, the lower knuckle for the four-bar linkage of the #Tricycle, isn't as smooth and aerodynamic as I'd like. But it's good enough, certainly for now.
The blue colour is just to make it easier to work with; the finished part will probably be c…

It's a glorious day, and I have no end of urgent outdoor jobs that need done. But I'm still so wabbit that I cannot summon the energy to tackle them. So frustrating!
It's almost three months since I got ill. Post viral syndrome, if that's what it is, is a bitch.

Nicola #Sturgeon on the two stooges this morning, being very solid on #trans rights.
The Rest Is Politics: Leading: 150. Nicola Sturgeon: What Really Happened In The Scottish Referendum (Part 2)
Episode webpage:

The Rest Is Politics | Home

"School solar is such an obvious win for everyone"
#Renewables
#Solar
#ClimateEmergency
Volts: Ann Arbor's experiment with a new kind of utility
Starting fro…

"“Look, I’m not trying to get the world’s tiniest violin out to say, ‘poor MPs’,” [Chris Hinchliff MP] said. “But I will say there seems to be a certain set of people who behave in here more like a private schoolboy drinking club than serious professional people thinking about how to improve the country.”
Yes, this is the #Labour party he's talking about. Meet the new government, jus…

Oh -- and -- @…'s front page today is epic!
#Trump
#PresidentBawbag

"The #Greenpeace climbers abseiled from beneath the [Forth Road] bridge’s service walkway, unfurling six giant banners stating: "Plastics Treaty Now".
They intend to remain suspended 25 metres above the main shipping lane of the River Forth, preventing the tanker from reaching port.
They are supported by a rescue crew on the bridge and a boat team in the river below.&…

"Renewable energy technologies have experienced spectacular cost declines since 2010. This has been driven
by improvements in technology, competitive supply chains and economies of scale"
#RenewableEnergy
#Solar

Do you need to go to a hospital? How about this one?
#GazaGenocide
https://maps.app.goo.gl/JVXUAtMZsm9Edp4G9

Good for Mhairi Black!
“To be honest, I’m looking around thinking, ‘There are better organisations that I could be giving a membership to than this one that I don’t feel has been making the right decisions for quite some time.’”
Her reasons for leaving the #SNP now (Trans rights, Palestine) are at least as good as mine were (the Monarchy) in 2008. She's still a person who I'd vote…

“So they’re coming out with all this guff about: ‘If it’s in print, it’s fine. But if you carry it on the demo [it’s illegal].’ That sounds to me like the police making up the law.”
#GazaGenocide
#Complicity

"'What really concerns me is the whole atmosphere of intimidation.'
Farley, who had attended a number of peaceful demonstrations in the past, pointed out on the day he was arrested, 32 Palestinians were shot by the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza while queuing for aid, a subject referenced on his placard."
#GazaGenocide

"Gotta say, “earnings inflection strategy” as a term for squeezing your customers — basically, #enshittification — is a euphemism to be savoured" – Paul Krugman
https://paulkrugman.…

The General Theory of Enshittification
It isn’t a new phenomenon, but it seems to matter more

I've six gate posts, each twelve years old, that are rotted through at ground level and need replaced. I could replace them with posts from my wood, which would be free, but would rot very quickly; or with commercial wooden gate posts like the ones I'm replacing, which would cost about £20 each. But for either of these, I'd have to hire in a mechanical post knocker, and that I can't afford.
I'm trying galvanised posts which I'm told you can put in by hand. Maybe…

I've written a brief -- and very preliminary -- note on what I've learned playing with #Friendica so far.
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-outpu…

Initial thoughts on Friendica
If you've been browsing through your Mastodon feed, and you come upon a post with nice formatting — perhaps words emboldened or italicised, perhaps with an embedded link — and you've wondered how that post was written, the answer may be Friendica.

"I have been teaching classes on #genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.
This is not just my conclusion. A growing number of experts in genocide studies and international law have concluded that Israel’s actions in #Gaza can only be defined as genocide. So has …

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
A professor of Holocaust and genocide studies comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza.

“If the universities – or in this case a university press – are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?” – Thea Abu El-Haj
#Palestine
#Censorship

"This week Britain has been dragged into a baffling display of pomp and pageantry, a celebration of military might and unimaginable wealth, staged in honour of the most heinous and half-witted leader in the Western world since the Second World War"
https://www.then…

"while the pen might be mightier than the sword, the wallet is mightier than the pen." — @georgemonbiot@bsky.brid.gy
Ain't that the truth.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/20/journalist-40-years-forces-pr…

I'm going to introduce a new to me concept: #enfascisisation, to rhyme, rather bitterly, with @…'s #enshittification.
Enfascisisation is the…

Friends, if you're seeing follow requests from @… , that is me.
I'm exploring #Friendica, to see whether it's a good platform for more mainstream users who find

We're continuing with rendering the outside of the #roundhouse walls; the new render is sheltered by damp Hessian curtains to protect it from direct sun, to prevent it drying before the lime is fully cured. This is all hard physical work and we've at least six days more of it, but it's going well.

Sawmilling in the rain.
#Crofting
#TheJoyOfCrofting

"Everybody that I know that wants the continuation of complex life on Earth... would be very happy to join something that has the functionality of #Facebook and didn't feel like it was feeding directly into #Fascism" — that something is the

Bus services in Galloway have been catastrophically cut. This is because local government is broke, which is in turn because #SNP #ScotGov lacks the courage to reform local taxation.
I hadn't appreciated how bad the situation is because I've been ill since July and consequently haven't lef…

So, #BikeTooter. My Cannondale Slate runs 650b wheels, with the rear on a 12mm through axle. I think the wheel is actually a Mavic, although it's Cannondale branded. It currently has a SRAM 1x11 groupset.
I'd like to put a Campagnolo Ekar groupset on it, but the problem with that is it needs an N3W freehub. I have an old Campag Eurus rear wheel, but it's 700c and has the Camp…

Well, it's not quite 11:00 and we've already completed the section of rendering we planned for today. That feels good.
Not going to do any more today because it's extremely hard physical work, but tomorrow's shift should complete the first coat on the outside of the building.
#roundhouse

"Nearly a quarter of MPs and half of the House of Lords were privately educated, and that was also true of half of newspaper columnists – up 7 percentage points since 2019 – 47% of political commentators and 45% of podcasters"
https://www.theguar…

The UK is (still) going backwards.
"Since 2019, the number of privately educated elites has barely changed and in some fields is growing, the report found. The social mobility charity said it was a “disgrace” that most of the country’s top jobs were still dominated by privileged people"
But of course we must tax the poor to subsidise the rich.
#UKPol

OK, a sidequest on the #tricycle project: I'm going to have to do data capture, storage and display. I need to log speed, cadence, battery voltage, and some indicator of power consumption. I need to display at least speed, cadence, and projected range. I can do speed and cadence off hall effect sensors. I want to use #Lisp

"The minimum scientifically plausible number of deaths attributable to the genocide overall is more than 460,000"
This is an area whose population, before the #October7Attack, was 2,226,544. Which is to say, at least one in every five people IN THE WHOLE OF #GAZA has now been killed …

The Real Gaza Death Toll is Impossible to Know Today, But the Minimum Isn’t
The problem with leaving this sentiment at “we have no idea how many people have been killed” is that we do have a very clear idea of the minimum, based on the most rigorous, detailed analyses that statisticians, epidemiologists, and experts on urban warfare, working together under stringent peer review in the world’s leading research forums, agree on. And that minimum number is indeed much higher than the Ministry’s count. That minimum scientifically plausible number of traumatic death…

Well, I've stayed up until 04:00 writing an essay on terrorism and genocide, and why I expect to be arrested this afternoon.
So now I can't chicken out.
I'd better get some sleep.
#GazaGenocide
#PalestineAction

Peter Mandelson is a man with a very long history of doing dodgy deals with the rich and infamous. He 'borrowed' £373,000 from someone he was supposed to be investigating for wrongdoing in 1996. He tried to fix a British passport for an Indian #billionaire in 2001. He hung out passim with Jeffrey Epstein.
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So, at last I have a rendering of the #Tricycle which includes a (so far fairly crude) model of the hull. This makes the whole thing much easier to visualise. Progress is being made.
I'd like to get the CAD model a little more complete, but actually this is enough to move onto an ergonomic prototype.
I'm about to start buying actual parts for this damn thing. It may actually h…

I've been reading up on Pytheas of Marseilles, a Greek-speaking merchant who wrote around 330 BCE, recording voyages he had made personally to what is now Norway and what is now Ukraine, and making careful navigational observations along his route...
And what has just occurred to me is that he appears to have encountered no hostile people at all in all that distance. The law of hospitality, in pre-Roman Europe, was universal.

Scotland, it seems, does not like the #OnlineSafetyAct. I've long been interested in opinion maps on which the England/Scotland border is clearly defined, but this one surprises even me.
#ScotPol

In 2020, Scotland generated 32TWh of electricity from wind alone.
https://www.scottishrenewables.com/our-industry/statistics
In 2023, Scotland consumed 21.8TWh of electricity in total.

Renewable Energy Facts & Statistics | Scottish Renewables
Scotland's renewable energy sector in numbers. Scotland’s renewable energy sector is growing and developing year-on-year. Discover facts, statistics and figures from Scotland's renewable energy sector.

"Democracy may not exist, but we'll miss it when it's gone" – quoted by @…
Accidental Gods: People's Charter for People Power - with Katy Rubin and Oli Whittington of Our House
Episode webpage: https://

"Trump is furious with the WSJ owner, Rupert Murdoch, and threatening to “sue his ass off”. Oh please don’t, Mr President! His ass is 94 years old and incredibly wrinkled. Also, half of Britain’s political class still lives up it"
One shouldn't read Marina Hyde. It's a bad habit. But she is sometimes witty.

Some things I don't know and would like to know:
1. What is the life expectancy of current generation photovoltaic #solarpower panels?
2. What is the physical process which causes degradation?
3. At the end of economic life, could they be refurbished for reuse, and if not, why not?
4. If they cannot be refurbished, what proportion of the components can be recycled?