Just attending a #GreenParty introductory meeting for #SouthRibble. Quite a good turnout, oldies (like me) and youngies with families!
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Reform are fully behind the war. They don’t care about the cost of living.
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I have downloaded Tromjaro, but I cannot use the keyboard or the touchpad.
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As age-verification bullshit becomes more common, I am determined to simply not participate in any service or video game that requires it. The day I see the prompt, I simply leave.
Maybe the government’s hope is that I stop participating in society, but I assure you that I will not. I’ll find or build alternatives, and refuse to comply with bad law.
I hope you will, too.
And as a silver lining, maybe the weird internet we end up creating as a result will suck less than the current one.
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It may be inadvisable to put this in writing, but I’m serious about this: if I am ever required to put up an age-gate, I intend to defy that law.
You’re going to have to break into my house and physically remove the server, when it comes down to it.
And it’s not that I doubt they can. I don’t have the same kind of resources that the state does. It’s more that I intend to make them do so publicly, in the sunlight.
I solemnly swear to be the biggest pain in the ass for fascists possible.
At this point, I believe there’s more value in being loud and public about resistance.
The legal system already does not function, specifically for me. I have no reason to believe that the Constitution will protect me, or that plausible deniability will keep me out of jail. At this point, if the fash wants to put me there, they will reverse engineer a reason to do so, or even do so illegally.
But if others see me making noise, they might decide to push back, too. Corporations certainly aren’t!
All I know is that the internet is absolutely the most important thing humanity has ever created, and is maybe the only tool that we have today which is capable of equalizing the absolutely insane wealth, information, and power inequalities in my country.
Our ability to communicate freely, to exchange ideas, and to organize terrifies all of the right people. Good. It should.
I will not participate in destroying my own home— and yes, I do consider the Internet my home. I’m corny like that.
I understand that my own corner of the internet is not particularly important, but I only have to be one brick in the wall.
And I can even become a *couple* of bricks by extending those principles to the other sites and tools that I use, and refusing to participate in ones that cave to pressure to erode our civil rights.
No one will notice that I’m not using Floop or Glorm or whatever. It’s true that I won’t cause the owners to change their behavior. But neither will I help them build power.
So yeah, bottom line: I will not tolerate this identity verification bullshit on any platform.
I will not allow my absence from said platforms to dictate my ability to participate in public life.
I will build spaces that respect and empower my neighbors.
It’s going to be inconvenient, but it’s also punk as hell, and the right thing to do.
Finally, to the authoritarian pricks trying to destroy my home, online and off; fuck you, I hope you choke.
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I'm from the Internet, too.
I see them trying to enclose the digital commons, which will have as devastating effect on humanity as enclosing the land did.
The future is being stolen from us, and we have to stop them.
@violetmadder well, I’m happy to be in community with you then.
Let’s do our best.
@su_liam
Exactly.
The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine.
(and the "tragedy of the commons" is a heavily propagandized lie)
Admittedly the absolutely insane wealth, information and power inequalities in the world only skyrocketed once the Internet was created. But is it correlation, causation or coincidence? The Internet enabled Google, Amazon, Facebook, but really those guys were using the same techniques that worked to screw up brick and mortar business in the 1800's. We just had laws to prevent it, and for some reason people started lying that didn't apply when you couldn't walk into the store. And got away with it, every time. Plus wealth monstrosities created by SpaceX, and indeed "brick and mortar" superstores weren't aided by the Internet. And the vast majority of rich fucks these days come from two scams: rental properties (especially hotels) and private equity. Internet doesn't help either of those schemes.
(I'd add speculation to the schemes, but that money doesn't exist; people are just lying that it does.)
So I'd say the Internet is... probably... a good thing. But its timing is terrible, coinciding with the constant, total failure of anyone opposing rich fucks and the unstoppable enslavement of every man, woman and child while the planet burns. Sometimes I just wish I could talk to my neighbors, and do something to protect ourselves against this global wave of tyranny.
@cy Expensive technologies benefit the rich.
A previous generation of rich people hated the crossbow because a man who could devote himself to training with it could kill an armored rich landowner.
The Samurai really didn't like muskets for the same reason. Now an uppity peasant hiding at a turn in the road could kill them.
All tech since the steam engine has empowered the rich. At least the Internet does occasionally threaten them. Encryption and copying capability, for example.
@Cy
Hardly any rich people operated a steam engine at all!
Just nitpicking, but technically the reason every technology since the steam engine has benefited only the rich is purely political. As in, it's legal for them to benefit, and not legal for anyone else. That's all that's causing it: people, police, laws. It's that way because people have decided to make and keep it that way.
@cy It's also true that steam engines (and power plants are steam engines; this has not changed) have major economies of scale. If you wanted to generate your own electricity you had to hire someone to shovel the coal.
Liberating technologies are those that allow large numbers of ordinary people to defeat small numbers of rich people.
The crossbow, the musket with bayonet, the stirrup for horses, gunpowder for siege warfare.
There haven't been any of those lately.
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Steam engines at scale require large numbers of ordinary people to operate. If those large numbers of people give the middle finger to the small numbers of rich people, what are they going to do? Pay with the money that isn't worth anything, since they can't gatekeep access to the machines?
The answer is they get the military to go kill you all, until you submit to slavery. That really is all that it is. The day the large numbers of ordinary people in the military give the rich the middle finger is the day that the rich lose absolutely everything.
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They won't have to break into your house, they'll just have your ISP block your access. Considering most people are using one of only a handful of megacorp ISPs in the US, I'm surprised they haven't already started to try and shut down critics at the ISP level.
Be Ungovernable!!
exactly.
I also close my account the second a company uses AI as their customer service.
@kimlockhartga yeah, get that shit out of here.
Latest run in with it is Overtone. Really liked it but it if I can’t get a human I’m not using it again.
@cwebber Yes. 1,000,000% yes.
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i haven't been on #bluesky in awhile
i just won't do it
i could use a fake date
but i just resent it
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When you have absolutely no choice but to enter a date, enter July 4th, 1776. Everyone!
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@benroyce wow I hate so many things about the way they’ve phrased that.
1. Age appropriate according to whom? What are you, my mom?
2. Just give us this data real quick, it’ll be so easy. Don’t think about it too much, definitely do it without thinking please. Also we’re holding your account hostage
3. It’s private, trust us.™️
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I recently received 3 emails from organizations wishing me a Happy Birthday. My bank, my physical therapist, and my dentist. 🤔
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i get those emails too
....on my fake birthday i've been entering into sites when i have to since forever
@benroyce @Bobblegagger That makes me think it might be fun to give them all a different one and make a spreadsheet, to figure out who sells it first.
@Bobblegagger @benroyce Hm. On the bright side, those do seem mostly like services that would know it directly from you as opposed to having bought it from someone.
I’d still prefer not getting the email, but it’s something.
@benroyce @Bobblegagger only as far as I can throw them
(I’m not particularly strong)
EVHaste is quantifying their arm strength: write that down! put it on their data broker profile! 🤭
@benroyce @Bobblegagger nooooo two more bits for fingerprinting, what have I done
(A friend taught me that phrase this morning)
i am sure the data scrapers have come for mastodon
AI training, etc
but it's nice to know there's no backdoor connection to our real lives
and i've seen lively discussions on here about how to trap web spiders that ignore robots.txt
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It's a flag that says cease participation with such rubbish.
Also a flag that it's time to get back to more community and land based work for those who can.
Also a flag that it's time to get back to more community and land based work for those who can.
I feel like mesh networking (Reticulum, MeshCore, Meshtastic, LoRa, HaLow, etc.) is going to provide us with the replacement of the Internet in the long run. Since it has no infrastructure requirements beyond electricity, corporations can be easily locked out. :3
Well, it probably will if all the twats are stuck in the panslopticon.
@freequaybuoy I’ve never heard that term and now I really like it
This is my plan as well.
I used to be one of those techy people that liked trying new platforms and so created a bunch of accounts (of which are all closed now). But took a page from partner. They would move on from any site that required an account, just wasn't worth it for them.
@Ox1de I got annoyed just yesterday cause labcorp tried to make you make an account to pay your bill now, depending on which button you click.
I’m like, no, if you want your money you’ll give me the old flow and we’ll part ways, thank you.
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Make that two, please.
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They say wrestling is fake
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Looks Totally Real to me.
Now where'd they get THAT idea??
@Eetschrijver excess carbs pulverize the spleen one way or another
Instantaneously, if need be.
Let those who have never been hit by spinning, flying pizza dough cast the first stone.
*cast the first gluten
Gluten Hadouken
It sure garners a following!
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great, now #tRump will want to weaponize the bakeries
😂 😆 😂
😂 😆 😂
Me watching on a loop 5 times
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It was BRUTAL!
BRUTALLY HILARIOUS!
calm down, i think you're getting too many carbs 🤭
when I have too many carbs at lunch
i remember having an argument with my wife about switching from white rice to brown rice
that brown rice is a gradual rise in blood sugar while white rice is a spike, it's punching your spleen
she agreed
one of the few arguments i've won with my wife
dramatic visualization is good rhetoric
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he sold that pretty well.
he knows what it's like being hit by too many carbs
Oh they can. I am living proof. 😆
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Fake 'n' Bake?
😂
you missed a career in naming wrestling moves
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I mean, it's never too late? What's the pay like?
Also:
Pie Driver
"Did somebody order takedown with extra cheese?"
"Did somebody order takedown with extra CHEEEEEESE?"
@darth_hideout Did they practice this martial art at a dough-jo?
Thats how to get a pizza the action.
excess carbs can kill! 😳
In the immortal words of Ricky Knight (Nick Frost) in Fighting With My Family: “Fixed! Not Fake. “
Also remembering I need to get wrestling tickets for later this month.
most realistic wrestling move I've seen
It's like having to decide between eating pizza or doing sports; pizza always wins.
I believe they call that move a 'Pepperami Pummel'
someone else said "hadoughken" 😂
I don’t know, I think I would be bowled over if some rando in a leotard hurled pizza dough at me.
That was a fast pizza delivery!
Hope that guy in black has health insurance because that looked near fatal.
Still less fake than Dems “fighting for” the vulnerable (including the increasingly-teetering 99%) and against being barbaric warlord monsters, though. 😉
the dems suck but not targeting the GOP on those measures means you're a lying troll
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I didn't mention the Reps because they're the "heel" in the script, and their role is that they don't pretend to care. They're both employed by the same sociopathic war-and-climate-disaster-profiteering billionaires, and letting either color of corporate media tell you one is Evil while the other is Good but keeps getting "fooled" or "thwarted"… completely misses the reality of the situation.
and if midwits like yourself continue attacking dems while the GOP literally drives us to fascism, you're only helping MAGA and too much of a moron to understand how
Keep on believing the Dems will do the right thing if only they win the next election, no matter how many times they utterly refuse to do so while in power. Someone has to.
Me, I'm sick of the fact I've been watching them pull this same shtick for decades on end and things ONLY GET WORSE.
the dems fucking suck. it would require many iterations to vaguely improve from our current state
the point of voting dem currently is to escape fascism
if you don't understand that is the most pressing concern, you are, as i said, a fucking moron
or rather, you are a MAGA troll using a "BoTh SiDeS tHe SaMe" angle to help trump
which is of course fucking stupid, so a moron troll then
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It must be nice, living in a simple world where one side is Good but willfully inept, and the other side is the only true source of Evil. I prefer the world where we can't count on either of them, no matter how many childish insults are heaped on me for doing so.
As long as the billionaires keep us divided, we're going to keep careening toward disaster. Our only chance will be when the 99%ers of good will turn off their color-coded hate cults and work together, like our ancestors did.
And if you can't see that you're in a hate cult too, not just the Evils who you so despise and imagine to be lurking in even the slightest criticism of your Holy Democrats… well, you're not alone. The Reds feel the exact same way.
so... just a heads up, oh wise politics professor:
the GOP is marching us to fascism
just a teensy tiny problem you might want to take into consideration in your galaxy brain midwit enlightenment
😂
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Heads up, oh wise We Must Vote For Dems No Matter How Many Times They Deliberately Fail To Stop Reps (Or Even Actively Help Them)… the Dems are doing nothing meaningful to stop them, and they never will.
i've said it twice. i'll say it again. i'm sure with your level of intelligence i might need to say it 3 or 4 more times:
the dems fucking suck
but they aren't fascism
take some time. i know it's difficult for you. i believe in you deep thinker!
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That has 2B the most power, power move since "The Daddy splash"
Death Stranding 2
If you know you know.
Why does this make me think of @HailsandAles ?
brutal, nothing like a well-served hadoughken
basically i'm saying
FINISH HIM
with red pepper and grated mozzarella
MARINARA SMASH
This is the best emulation of a #hadouken I have seen.
@Graham_LRR , please forward to Adam.
bearing in mind that the pizza dough will rise, will the guy in black do so also?
His fighting name is The Great Insulin so yes (/s)
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be a real shame if that dude’s name isn’t The Moon
And he walks on to That’s Amore
Luigi Primo is a legend. He make-a the best-a pizza.
is he? Oh, that sucks to hear. I really enjoyed how committed to the bit he is.
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🦛 Wall Hippo — Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦
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💤 Deep Sleep — Jack Lack in Grenoble, France 🇫🇷
Nothing projects calm quite like a sleeping cat. Jack Lack painted this gigantic feline resting peacefully across an entire apartment building. Looking up at this massive, cozy beast on your way to work has to lower your blood pressure.
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🐱 Lamp Post Cats — Woskerski in Larne, Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
Two ginger cats. One street lamp. Instant chaos. Their paws line up with the real pole so well it feels like the wall is mid-pounce. Street meets mural — clean, funny, and impossible to ignore.
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A crack in the pavement becomes a tiny stage. Out pops a little character, arms up like it just won something. That’s David Zinn’s superpower: turning boring sidewalk damage into a quick laugh.
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Alex Chinneck is a master of architectural illusions. He took a historic stone building in Milan and attached a giant zipper to it, making it look like the facade was being casually unzipped to reveal glowing light inside. Pure genius.
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This storm drain got promoted to creature feature. Big eyes up top, then red tentacles spilling out of the grate like it’s trying to escape the curb. Low effort to spot. High reward.
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Natalia Rak created a piece so perfect it looks like a scene from a fairy tale. A massive, brightly painted girl uses a watering can to nourish an actual, physical tree growing on the sidewalk below. The interaction with the real world is flawless.
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Antonino Perrotta captures the absolute joy of a warm summer evening with this beautiful mural. A child on a swing is painted perfectly against the stone wall, blending the artwork with the real environment. It is a piece that instantly brings back memories of carefree days.
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🐊 Sidewalk Gator Ride — David Zinn in Michigan, USA 🇺🇸
David Zinn spotted a crack in the pavement and turned it into a little green gator… complete with a tiny rider hanging on for dear life. It’s the kind of blink-and-you-miss-it street magic that makes walking feel like a treasure hunt.
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🌳 1. Nature as a Paintbrush — By Semi Ok in Istanbul, Turkey 🇹🇷
This is classic object-interaction done right. Semi Ok paints the hand and brush, then lets the real tree finish the idea as the bristles — a signature street-art move where the city itself becomes part of the artwork. If you like this style, jump to more reality-bending street art.More: Having Fun With Reality (10 Photos)
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Two ginger cats chasing a real street lamp is exactly the kind of visual joke people remember. Woskerski is especially good at making murals feel site-specific, so the wall and street furniture work as one scene. It also fits perfectly with our Made You Smile format: quick joy, strong composition, zero fluff.More: Made You Smile (12 Photos)
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Sagie nails that split-second “wait… is that real?” reaction. By placing the cat at the roof edge, the piece turns perspective into the punchline and gives the whole building a mischievous personality.More: How Clever (10 Photos)
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David Zinn has built a cult following by turning sidewalk cracks and utility seams into tiny stories. This little character has that classic Zinn energy: handmade, fleeting, and weirdly uplifting. On his official artist page, his recurring characters (like Sluggo and Philomena) are documented in detail, which helps explain why his chalk universe feels so recognizable.🔗 Follow David Zinn on Instagram | External context: About the artist (official)
🎺 6. Street Jazz Moment — By Tom Bob in New York, USA 🇺🇸
Tom Bob has made a name for transforming pipes, poles, and utility boxes into characters. This trombone player is peak Tom Bob: playful, cleanly executed, and impossible to unsee once you spot it. Multiple artist profiles describe this exact method — converting everyday urban furniture into visual punchlines.More: TROMBONE PLAYER by Tom Bob in New York, USA
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🐙 7. Little Octopus, Big Smile — By Sandrine Boulet in Marles-les-Mines, France 🇫🇷
Sometimes the smallest interventions hit the hardest. Sandrine Boulet’s tiny octopus proves that scale isn’t everything — a compact piece with a clear silhouette can still stop people in their tracks. The Les Petits Bonheurs festival context is also relevant here: several editions explicitly focused on joy-centered public art in the Béthune-Bruay area.More: I see you Little Octopus – by Sandrine Boulet
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🎭 8. Old-School Charm — By DECYCLE in Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪
This 2012 DECYCLE piece carries that early-2010s street-art charm: bold character design, playful tone, and zero overthinking. It adds a nice historical layer to the set and shows how well humor ages on the street. Later artist profiles describe DECYCLE as Berlin-based and closely associated with paste-up culture, which matches the era and feel of this work.More: Street Art by DECYCLE – In Berlin, Germany
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Was surprised earlier to see this bird on one if the local nature reserve ponds!
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A Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) with partial leucism, we reckon:
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Thanks for the reply, that is what Merlin Bird app said, but it showed a normal Great Cormorant.
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Before we get too self-congratulatory about two high profile arrests linked to the Epstein Files (in contrast to the lack of action in the USA) we might reflect on the hopelessness of the 'investigation' into the accusations (and evidence) of both sexual abuse & trafficking that have been directed at the late Mohamed Al Fayed.
Like Epstein in the wake of his death there have been revelations & documentaries but little action against his collaborators.
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We do seem to have a weird thing in this country of “don’t go after him, he’s dead … have some respect” …
If the man actually was a rapist and a people trafficker, we should be forming orderly queues to urinate on his grave, not leave him to everlasting peace.
we might reflect not on "the hopelessnes of the investigation". We must start to asking question "WTF why there were NO investigations". Because what we see were no investigations, just evidence gathering for keeping victims silent and papers were meant to go to the deepest cellar.
All we see in tip of the TrumpFiles, released by the single person: MTG, tells us that once "theory" about deep conspiracy of the pervert elites now has irrefutable proof. Now the smoke screens erected on both sidesof the aisle lead crowds to the cliff. They go there chanting "impeachment", 25th.
What I want is to see every FBI director since the first report indicted. Then every field office brass too. Then every politician who was silent. Then. Were they not complicit, we would still have a democracy.
PS. In my dusty memory of the ancient paper press I can find a similar murderous pedophile ring, just boys oriented, protected by the Henry Kissinger. IIRC it was Chicago, late sixties/early seventies. (I Need to dig for it while I can recall the scraps).
See also: Hillsborough, Post Office. Decades to get acknowledgment and still zero accountability. The PPE fraud...
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For those of you would like to read Hannah Spencer's *entire* address to the Press Conference after her win in the Gorton & Denton by-election (rather than badly recorded edited high-lights as seen on the news), here is the transcript.
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Wow! This is one hell of a victory speech! Hannah Spence is going to be a real star.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf7wVpDEvh…
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Admirably plain language speech, with a clear message about everyday life.
that is a superb speech!
@tamsin If we solve the billionaire problem the climate problem will be mostly solved as a side-effect.
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Polanski is already the most adept and quick-thinking speaker in politics today.
If this speech is mostly hers, Spencer may be joining him.
It would be nice to bury the self-satisfaction of the Oxford Union blowhards and bores …
indeed it would....
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My wife passed me her phone asking me to put in on charge.
I replied, taking the phone and plugging it in, that she would have to learn to do it for herself, as I can't keep doing everything for her!
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Morning Paul 👋😃.
I should have added, being * booped* by a playful sheep is so much better than being * scolded* by coffee 😄.
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same to you both.
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@Soldusty Why Thank you! 🙏
May the light of Om shime upon you & may you always land feet first! 😁
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What the wise squerl said.
What the wise squerl said.
@Soldusty What wise squerl, where?
Is there someone trying to movin in on my nuts?
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Master squerl, calm yourself. Find a mirror & write the word WISE across the top... Now, look into the mirror.
And if this works... you will either see yourself or the squerl rival.
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And if this works... you will either see yourself or the squerl rival.
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😆 - looks like an advert for a piece of software - “SqwerlWise” when other AIs let you down! 😜
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The links thumbnail image though, "it's not Squerl's. It's mine!"
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@Soldusty I tried that all I saw was a nut job with ESIW written across their forehead!
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@Soldusty I know where tonights quote is coming from now 😁
i think sir pratchett would have liked it here
Pratchett’s 33rd Discworld novel, Going Postal, tells of the creation of an internet-like system of communication towers called “the clacks”. When John Dearheart, the son of its inventor, is murdered, a piece of code is written called “GNU John Dearheart” to echo his name up and down the lines. “G” means that the message must be passed on, “N” means “not logged”, and “U” means the message should be turned around at the end of a line. (This was also a realworld tech joke: GNU is a free operating system, and its name stands, with recursive geek humour, for “GNU’s not Unix”.) The code causes Dearheart’s name to be repeated indefinitely throughout the system, because: “A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.”
What better way to remember the beloved inventor of this fictional system, then, than “GNU Terry Pratchett”?
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Does anyone here know of good *UK/English* resources to share with middle aged/class white English men about racism towards Gypsy, Traveller, Roma communities for them to 'educate themselves'.
Including what that racism looks like, why it's wrong and how to consider if a thing is GRT-racism...
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How far back in time can you understand English?
It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post.
"... as his post goes on, his language gets older. A hundred years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words, and his attitude gets older too, as the blogger’s voice is replaced by that of a Georgian diarist, an Elizabethan pamphleteer, a medieval chronicler."
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Read that yesterday, it's wild how we've had and lost a letter for "th" on two separate occasions.
That's fantastic.
I got as far as 1200.
Great!
From 1200 onwards, my knowledge of Frisian and Dutch helped me a bit. But even so, I quickly got lost...
From 1200 onwards, my knowledge of Frisian and Dutch helped me a bit. But even so, I quickly got lost...
That's fascinating. Thanks for posting. 1200 was where I really started to struggle.
@CppGuy I found it pretty easy to read until 1300. The 1200 section I can understand about as well as (modern) Dutch. After that, I'm completely lost.
even early modern english will be a problem for most speakers, everything else is unintelligible.
this is a lot of fun. I can follow the thread of things back to 1200 but after that… nope
Nope. Didn't even get to the first unfamiliar word before I got stopped by "sign up for our mailing list" garbage.
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Hard test! I'm reminded of this idea to warn people in 10,000 years, when our language has been lost, where we dumped nuclear waste.
“They proposed we genetically engineer a species of cat that changes color in the presence of radiation. We release it into the wild to act as living Geiger counters. Then we create folklore and write songs and tell stories about these 'ray cats', the moral being that when you see these cats change colors, run far, far away.”
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Mittelhochdeutsch for the win. ;)
Neat! Until 1500 it was alright, but no idea what to make of the weirder letters earlier on.
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What is that, 5 seconds?
1200. Seems I lost the meagre Old English I learned in university.
English is a pidgin confounded by and comprised of the languages of the many peoples that occupied that fertile green and pleasant land and many pedant scholars that tried to "improve" it.
Once you get that it all, sort of, makes sense.
Once you get that it all, sort of, makes sense.
Really amusing. I can experience the same with Italian, since it forked off from ancient Latin, and it has remained incomprehensible in the tens of dialects spoken today, unless you're a native speaker of one of them, that is.
As English is not my first language I'm proud that I made it as far as 1200.
Interestingly, as a German, I can understand quite a lot of the very old texts. But my mother had a PHD in English and French and knew a lot about old Germanic sagas and medieval German literature. So, that is nothing foreign to me.
If you read anything from Walther von der Vogelweide, you will clearly see the similarities to the oldest texts. Words and grammar are recognizable, and if you can read one, you can read the other.
But even in Shakespeare's time, you will find a lot of those common roots of our languages, and if you get used to the different spelling, the sound of it rings familiar. And as late as in Jane Austen's times, even the number format was still the same as in German, for instance, four-and-twenty and not twenty-four.
After all, with all the lost grammar and words, modern English is just a watered-down version of old German.
This was fun! I got through 1300 and just...gave up at 1200. I caught the inflections, the issue was vocab for me!
probably got a bit further than most, but only because I also speak Dutch 😅 Amazing how they converge.
I am German, English is my third foreign language (after Latin).
In the 1800s, I had two words that seemed unusual to me or that I had to deduce from the context. In the 1600s, there were three. From 1500 onwards, it became a little more difficult, with one word unusual and three unknown: ‘prees’, 'avys' and ‘thyder’.
I had real difficulties with the 1400s.
1200 was pretty much a brick wall for me
if it starts with lingo that teens and twenty somethings use now, I won’t make it very far.
I got to the 11th century. Could not read the tenth.
that was fun!
I understood what was going on as far as 1300, got most of 1200, got the gist of 1100 but definitely missed some of it, and was fully guessing at what was going on in 1000 (it turned out i guessed at least a bit of it right so there was a shadow of comprehension).
Lost me at 1600 "thouing". First word I had to understand from the context.
1200 still understood half.
Thought I lost meaning completely at 1100 until I imagined it was a play being performed, then got an eighth of it.
1000 could only glean some meaning from the spacing of the words, might as well be a completely different language to me.
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Fun, but I have a some comments and criticisms.
1900: I wish the author had leaned less obviously on Clement Clarke Moore and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. They spoke (or wrote) a stylized English consciously, and our traveller would not.
1700: The letter "ſ", the "long s", is typographical, not linguistic. Readers at the time would read "congress" as readily as "congreſs".
1600: Again, this is mostly typographical variation. Spoken, one would understand it easily. The weird "thouing" want seen until some fifty years later.
1500: Spoken, this would present no trouble to a modern listener.
1400: Typographical again, wiþ only minor variations in þe ſpelling used. Nat harde to reade, alþouȝ again the letter ſubstitution can be rouȝ.
1300: I don't see "ſchaltou" that far back, bit I didn't dig hard. I imagine spoken, one would realize it's two words mashed together. A Germanic "en" seems to show up randomly. "Rewþe" made me smile.
1200 and earlier: I feel like the vocabulary is starting to change here to the point where my unfamiliarity with the typographical anachronisms becomes an impediment. Hearing it spoken would help, and I'm interested enough to want to substitute modern characters for the archaic to see if that gets me further.
Thanks for posting this.
as old as 1300.
I did read a lot of Medieval & Arthurian literature as a kid.
I did read a lot of Medieval & Arthurian literature as a kid.
I got back to 1200 but it got much harder after that
would love to hear someone read this aloud
Very Interesting.. thanks for sharing. 👍🏾
Thank you for introducing me to this fascinating blog!
I could read 1200 with difficulty, but nothing older.
Started losing me in 1500 & totally lost me in 1400 but I didn't try to get any father than that. 🤷♂️
Loved that. I hit a wall at the 1200 section.
This is the kind of exercise any pedant needs to go through. There is no "pure" English to preserve. It's a living language.
It's a great short story, as well. And, like many others who only speak English, 1100 ended my journey.
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It was pretty understandable to me until (including) 1300, but 1200 threw me off completely.
I managed to get as far as 1300 without too much difficulty, luckily I'm aware of the existence and usage of letters like thorn, eth, and wynn ( I'm a big fan of thorn, and would like to bring it back. I just wish the keyboard on my phone had it!), and managed to figure out the usage of that runic character without too many problems.
Parts of 1200 were just about readable, as were small bits of 1100, but anything beyond that was pretty much incomprehensible.
I think a lot of British people might find an audio version easier, as it would probably sound more like certain dialects that are still common today.
Parts of 1200 were just about readable, as were small bits of 1100, but anything beyond that was pretty much incomprehensible.
I think a lot of British people might find an audio version easier, as it would probably sound more like certain dialects that are still common today.
About 1100 then it becomes an exercise in decoding. Surprisingly can pull some meaning from it though. Though difficult to follow what is actually happening from those fragments.
"Þe sayde Maiſter, what that hee apperid bifore me, was verely a Deuill, or so me þouȝte"
the said maister, what that he appeared before me, was verely a devil, or so me thought
so far im finding it really cool how much of this change is like spelling. like one could translate it literally and not feel like much meaning is lost
At 1200 I understood about half. Less than that in 1100 and 1000, but more than zero. It also helped when I realized the p was a w.
Being Danish did help. "sloȝ hem and fælde hem to þe grunde" is not too far from modern Danish.
I had to proof read some Chaucer. very tricky
being aware of things like the v sound being represented by the letter u, as well as the letter þ helped, though I mostly lost track of what was happening by around 1500.
I am lost as 1200. I can't understand 1:10 words
I made it back to 1300 before having to stop... wow...
You lost me around 1300. I could pick out bits and pieces of 1300-1400, but anything beyond that is nonsense to me. This is a really interesting post.
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