And not the password that Bluesky gives you.
(Testing to see if the Bluesky app on Friendica works on my instance.)
I pray to The Pond Gods that the UK never goes to war with Russia because if the driving standards are anything to go by with a smidge of snow we've had where I live, we'll lose within forty-eight hours! It's taken me fifty-five minutes to travel seven miles on an extremely busy road.
๐๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐'๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ป๐ผ๐, ๐๐ข๐ก'๐ง ๐๐จ๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฉ๐!
The missus and I came home after a trip to Wickes, and the kitchen fitters had slung the extractor fan out with the cooker. I lept out of the car to retrieve it quickly, and a guy in a van on the main road shouted: "I'm fooking having that!" I replied, "No, you're fooking not!" and took it in the house.
The next thing I know, the bloke had walked up my drive, through my side gate, appeared at my kitchen back door, and said to the kitchen fitter, "Your mates just took my metal." I went out and said, "It's my metal mate, and this is my house, so fook off!"
Cheeky caaant then says, "Are you ripping out the boiler?" Mate, fuck off!
Thank The Pond Gods, I've booked the next five days off!
One of the presenters made a good point on the BBC coverage of the US elections this morning. 40% of the voters in Georgia are black or Hispanic. Playing the race card didn't work, and as was pointed out, Hispanics who can vote are legally American; they are not illegal immigrantsโa distinction a lot of people should take on board.
So tonight, Britain, as usual, gets it wrong and celebrates the capture and death of Guido Fawkes in 1605. Robert Catesby and his co-conspirators were the ones who planned to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament on 5 November. They employed Guido (Guy) Fawkes, a mercenary expert in gunpowder, to do the deed, so in my book, Catesby is more the villain. I suppose "Robert Catesby Night" doesn't sound as good. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
#politics
I finished watching Gangs of London on Netflix this morning.
Sean Wallace is a ruthless caaant!
Talking of rebooting things and being afraid:
So, last night, I upgraded the firmware of my router and access point. (No, it didn't help.)
The router all went fine, but when I upgraded the firmware on the Vigor 903, the login page wouldn't appear. "Oh Fook!" of course, it was at this point Channel 4 decided to play up, right in the middle of Bake Off. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?" Bellowed the wife.
Oh, I tried everything: ping, checking the DHCP tables, and even trying to access the 903 from the router management screen. "It doesn't affect the TV! Catchup is via the TV aerial," I said. The wife was not convinced as I hammered away at the keyboard, desperate for a solution.
Yeah, it helps if you do Ctrl+F5, Pete, you know, clear the browser cache. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Ken Fallon of ๐๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฃ๐๐ฏ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ผ interviews Gary Williams about rebooting the OggCamp event.
hpr4197:: hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr4โฆ
I would have said it's a free country, but now that Starmer has told Mark Rowley to go after anyone, be they rioters or people posting on Facebook, it's not as free as it once was.
The laws have been in place since 2012, and while a few convictions have resulted from them over the years, they have not been enforced as severely as they are currently being implemented.
To be clear, every rioter deserves all they get, although I'm not sure a 12-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl deserve the full force of the law. Youthful exuberance springs to mind. What next? Shipment off to a re-education camp?
I'm not overly keen on a custodial sentence for something written on social media. I remember seeing the phrases Ubuntu and Rape being used in a post a few years back. Should the author get 18 Months for that? It seems to me sections of society want to pick and choose. There's a reason Lady Justice has a blindfold: the justice she dispenses is fair and equal to all.
Remember, children, you voted this man in. Judging by his behaviour over the last few days I think you might regret it.
members.parliament.uk/member/4โฆ
#politics #anarchy
BBC Weather this morning.
"There is a severe weather warning in place until Saturday"
That'll be just for today, then, won't it? ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
"HAPPY TREASON DAY."
#politics #GE2024 #vote
It's not all quail eggs and salmon for breakfast.
I wonder if he's humming:
โซ โช "I wanna live like common people
I wanna do whatever common people do
Wanna sleep with common people
I wanna sleep with common people like you."
Well,โ what else could I do?
I said "I'll... I'll see what I can do" โฌ โฉ
Before people start throwing their toys out of their pram, both the Tories and Labour have been guilty of racism! Labour still has a problem with antisemitism, and the Conservatives have had to deal with Islamaphobia.
If there is such a thing as "Tactical voting", that must mean your votes count!
Remember, you might be stuck with someone for five years, or less, and then you can vote in someone else once the dust has settled.
#politics #Thursday #vote
"It's never over til the fat lady sings!"
-- Jimmy Carr
#politics
Here's an idea.
You don't like Farage's idea of net zero migration?
Disgusted at Sunak's Rwanda idea?
Wondering why you've worked hard to get ahead only to be taxed because you apparently have broader shoulders?
๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฝ
Everyone who feels, quote: "Let 'em all in." can pay a fee per week or month (Depending on how you're paid) and pick an immigrant to sponsor, a bit like those "Adopt a Giraffe" schemes. That way, nobody is unfairly taxed, and nobody can complain. ๐ ๐
