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LaChasseuse

@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot

Important to me right now: halting climate change; fighting the resurgence of fascism; winning Scottish independence.

Banner is a photo of my bicycle "AKA freedom machine" in my garden last summer. There are flowering plants and a red gate in the background.
The avatar is a photo of me wearing a plaid coat with the ocean in the background. Taken somewhere near Tongue, if memory serves, by my Austrian friend, Gudrun Kocher.
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eunews, to random
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UK general election: Poll predicts biggest ever Labour win

According to a YouGov poll carried out for Sky News television, the UK's opposition is predicted a 194-seat majority at the country's July 4 general election.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/06/03/uk-general-election-poll-predicts-biggest-ever-labour-win_6673658_4.html

LaChasseuse,
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@eunews Thing is, it's not really that Labour are winning, it's that the Conservatives are losing massively.
People aren't voting FOR Labour they're voting AGAINST the Tories.

kevinrns, to climate
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Make data centres, AI, and bitcoin, build their own NEW renewables or lose their license to do business.

Not "contract with a already built source" build it new, or dont do business.

#climate #klima

LaChasseuse,
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@kevinrns I imagine the big players are considering owning and operating their own "small" modular nuke plants. But of course they won't have plans for dealing with the radioactive waste, costs from accidents, or the eventual decommissioning.

LaChasseuse,
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@kevinrns I know! But tech bros...https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68238330

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-04-30/why-data-centers-want-to-have-their-own-nuclear-reactors.html

thomasfuchs, to random
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Today in things that have surprise gluten in them: paper towels

LaChasseuse,
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@thomasfuchs You ate them!?

StillIRise1963, to random
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😁

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/05/28/larry-connor-titanic-sub-who-is-ohio-billionaire-triton-submarines-oceangate-titon/?sh=54832a3421a1

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/an-ohio-billionaire-is-planning-to-take-another-submarine-to-the-titanic-wreck/ar-BB1ncqSf

LaChasseuse,
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@KateOfMind Someone should orca-strate that.

@StillIRise1963

Wen, to UKpolitics
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Nadhim : We were wrong to oust Boris

http://archive.today/2024.05.18-173553/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nadhim-zahawi-boris-johnson-pm-d5xk8w3ps

'In his first newspaper interview since leaving the cabinet, the former chancellor says the ex-PM was the ‘most consequential leader since Thatcher’ — and reveals his own biggest mistake in the tax scandal that led to his sacking’

They just don't get it do they? Worth a read to get confirmation of the bat shit stupidity, arrogance and greed that drive them.

LaChasseuse,
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@Wen Three of the allround worst people in the UK in this photo.

simon_brooke, to random
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First experimental bale of the wall in place. This is all looking very feasible. #roundhouse

The same straw bale seen from outside the house.
Fastening the underside of the wall support boxes was an extremely awkward job. A person lying on her back under the house, screwing upwards into the joist above her.

LaChasseuse,
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@fionaorkneynews How is it that Orkney always manages to beat Caithness to everything?

@simon_brooke

msquebanh, to Bloomscrolling
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The first of my #irises have bloomed! These are my faves - the only ones we grow that smell exactly like #GrapeSoda 😍

#Purple #Spring #bloomscrolling #florespondence #Saanich #garden #flowers #perennials #YYJ #botanical #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #PNW #PollinatorGarden #Iris

Light purple iris, back-lit by sun.

LaChasseuse,
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@msquebanh Ohhh, interesting! Did you put the cuttings in water to root them, or do they require some other method?

LaChasseuse,
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@msquebanh Interesting! Can't buy raw honey where I live (must be pasteurised) but I do have some kind of rooting powder I could try. I might throw in some ground cinnamon as well. Thanks for the tips!

thisismyglasgow, to glasgow
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I love the details above these windows on a tenement on Peel Street in the Partick area of Glasgow, especially the cherubs in boats getting pulled along by swans. The building dates from 1875 and was designed by H and D. Barclay.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #partick #sculpture #design #cherubs #window #windowswednesday

LaChasseuse,
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@thisismyglasgow I wish green windows would come back. Edinburgh is a bit boring that way, with its ubiquitous white paint.

thisismyglasgow, (edited ) to glasgow
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I've always been rather intrigued by these buildings in the Whiteinch area of Glasgow which seem to have been made from World War Two Nissen huts. I've no idea if they're really that old, though.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #nissenhut #buildingphotography #architecturephotography #whiteinch

LaChasseuse,
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@thisismyglasgow The ALT text says "stone walls" - but surely those walls are brick?

dgar, to random
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Cook: You want me to cut your pizza into six slices or eight?

Me: Six please. I couldn’t possibly eat eight slices!

LaChasseuse,
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@dgar I'm ashamed to say I laughed quite loudly at that 😂

patrickhadfield, to random
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We've gone from resolute to revolving-door in double quick time.

"Humza Yousaf poised to quit as first minister"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/29/humza-yousaf-considers-quitting-as-scotland-first-minster-snp?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

LaChasseuse,
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@ferryoons It possibly emerges from Fergus Ewing releasing a statement that he wants a "future for Scotland based on oil and gas" and he's constantly harping about widening motorways, and there is this obnoxious cancerous clump formed by the Ewings, Forbes and Mason, and the general culture of grievance in the Highlands.

@patrickhadfield @rebelrebel62

LaChasseuse, to random
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Anybody know how many days/weeks are legally required between the announcement of a general election in the UK and the election itself?
I have been holding out for a May election, dare one hope? The parties are already campaigning in Scotland.

https://tech.lgbt/

doomscroller, to climate
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Nick Breeze ClimateGenn:
Massive Marine Ecosystem Crash Along Galicia’s Coast Due To Prolonged Atlantic Heatwave #climate
From @nickbreeze.genn.cc @genn.cc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE5V4l_JaAs

LaChasseuse,
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@doomscroller Incredibly annoying music in the background. Literally could not continue watching. Why do they do this?

pvonhellermannn, to random
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#ClimateDiary It seems, IS, utterly crazy, that amidst everything else the UK government is ruthlessly continuing its clampdown on climate protesters. But it is.

Excellent article by Natasha Walter here on how Dr Sarah Benn got 30 days in prison for holding up a placard saying “Stop New Oil” and overall recent developments:

“the direction of travel is fast and frightening and its repercussions are growing.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/13/climate-crisis-protest-activism-repression

LaChasseuse,
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@pvonhellermannn Police should discreetly refuse to enforce this. After all, it's their planet too.

LaChasseuse, to random
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JK Rowling: "Harry Potter stars would not be forgiven even if they apologise to me"

She needs help.

dgar, to random
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#WritersCoffeeClub A coffee shop at the end of the universe. Which 3 writers are you chatting with?

@NormanDunbar

@inkican

@briankrebs

LaChasseuse,
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@dgar #WritersCoffeeClub A coffee shop at the end of the universe. Which 3 writers are you chatting with?
@GreatDismal
@bruces
@hutch

thomasfuchs, to random
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It's very interesting to be a mod online, the pattern with bad people is basically always:

  1. Person says something bad
  2. Mod tells person to not do that
  3. Person says mod is wrong
  4. Mod gives person timeout
  5. Person messages mod and insist they're innocent
  6. Person gets back from timeout and says they will leave the community because mods are bad and calls mods names
  7. Mod bans person for calling mods names
  8. Person messages mod with ad hominems and blames them and other people
LaChasseuse,
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@thomasfuchs I admire your patience!

fkamiah17, to random
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    LaChasseuse,
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    @fkamiah17 Is that an authentic tweet?

    LaChasseuse, to random
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    Excellent comment from @bencsmoke over on the birdsite:

    "Starmer having a stronger stance on Nike's design choices than on the genocide in Gaza tells you everything you need to know about the man"

    https://t.co/Dfinb3EYyM

    sue, to random
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    I am never more strategic than when eating a cooked breakfast

    LaChasseuse,
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    @sue Does toast count as cooked? #askingforafriend

    guncelawits, to random
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    The failure of anti-Trump Republicans to endorse Biden fills me with contempt. The distance I have to stretch right to vote for harm reduction is less than the distance those cowardly fuckers would have to stretch left. :spits in the dirt: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/19/trump-kelly-barr-esper-warn/

    LaChasseuse,
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    @guncelawits This one kills me. Fucking 80 years old man, and dumb as a turnip.

    ChrisMayLA6, to Economics
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    Q. how much economic advantage does UK get by speaking english.

    Other countries gain economic developmental advantage from the range of people with english proficiency.

    So turning that around: does the UK's 'natural' speaking of English mask or reduce (some) economic deficiencies that would otherwise be problems?.

    Thought experiment: if the UK did no speak the globe's second language what would be the implication for its economic development?


    https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/Images/539681-perspectives-english-for-development.pdf

    LaChasseuse,
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    @TonyJWells @christineburns @alexproe @econads @ChrisMayLA6 @Wen

    Words aren't like artifacts, you don't lose the original when someone "steals" it.

    chu, (edited ) to climate

    In conversation w a friend, she was surprised when I said we won't have electricity after social collapse. She asked "why? What happens to electricity?"

    I had to then explain that infrastructure needs people to maintain and if things fall apart, nobody will keep the generators going or the wires in check. She seemed surprised by this.

    Is this why people don't seem worried about what's coming? They have no idea???

    I was trying to hide my shock that I had to explain this to someone who isn't a child. I think I take too much for granted and assume too much of people's ability to be logical.

    Now her obsession with social issues at the expense of makes sense. I was always wondering how someone on the left would not care about collapse. I have tried to explain before that as much as I share her concerns about the many dire issues that do need dealing with, none of it matters if climate change causes collapse. Then we won't have social housing, or equity, or any of the other things she cares about. (she was even part of a group that protested demanding "affordable gas")

    Her look of shock finally helped me realize that she has absolutely no idea what means. No idea. I've been arguing with her all these years and she's had no idea.

    I don't even know what to say.

    There's no way she's the only one. Lots of well intentioned people say "yes climate is important but....".

    I am here to tell you that none of those other issues will even exist in the face of climate and social collapse.

    I don't know if the average person can even imagine the number of deaths that we are facing when the society we built loses electricity.

    LaChasseuse,
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    @EyalL Nuclear is not the solution. Leave that giant mistake in the 20th century, where it belongs.

    @Ulzana @MiriShuli @Niall @chu

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