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• Post #4482025

  Can we all please agree on a “that’ll do” point for everything? I don’t need a new phone with a 128 megapixel camera, monolith sized screen and enough storage to keep a copy of the British library. I want the thing to fit in my bag or pocket and just…work. I don’t need constant improvements to software, I just want it to work and not spy on me. I don’t need a car that will pretend to drive itself, I need a car with low or no emissions and good public transport or cycling routes. We all k...

• Post #4274853

  Okie dokie vegans. How do you make lasagne? My partner made the best lasagne (not Biased) but of course it’s meat based. We have a vegan sauce for the white sauce but can’t do the layers for the bolognese type bit. We have a tomato based sauce butI can’t eat aubergines, courgettes and most nightshades so it’s lacking in texture somewhat. #vegan

• Post #4222403

  I find it extraordinary how people out themselves in a single sentence. Passing conversation with a neighbour and they unjokingly say they’re glad it’s sunny again. To which I said I could do with some rain. Oh no, I prefer it dry is their reply. And with that they put themselves as contextually unaware. Really? Dry? Yeah, rain all the time means flooding, waterlogged fields, and other difficulties. You can’t harvest wet grain, you can’t cultivate a wet field. But a wet field can’t...

• Post #4222402

  This is interesting. It’s so dry here that you can see the extent of a trees main root system. Under the shade of the tree, but not under the canopy, the grass is long, quite lush and green. It is getting dried out and it is failing slowly with the drought. Closer to the tree and under the canopy, the grass is shorter, drier and dying off faster . Note that is hasn’t rained for months so this isn’t a rain shelter thing and it hasn’t been grazed oddly. The whole field was harrowed and ferti...

• Post #3931249

  Gilgamensch - a person who goes on a journey but being honourable chooses not to cut down the tree or kill the bull.

• Post #2371264

  Your problem isn’t immigrants, or AI or transfolx or any other target. But you already knew that. It’s the sharks in sharp suits or football shirts who circle round and don’t want you to see the truth. That it’s always been the man behind the curtain you need to watch, not the puppets on the strings, it’s the bloke next door, or down the street, the politician, CEO not cleaner. They’re the ones who cast looks lascivious, or blame their wives or fire staff when profits drop then beat the re...

• Post #2371263

  Today I am at an athletics competition. Loads of young people being awesome. And it’s a positive reinforcement that in spite of the so called adults absolutely screwing it all up for everyone, there is still hope in the youth. We need to support youth activities, and help those who will eventually have to help us.

• Post #2371262

  When I listen to people ranting about socialist plots and far left loonies, I wonder if they actually remember the past? The miners standing up to thatcher, the strikes, the madness of the Cold War, the guys and girls in donkey jackets flogging socialist worker and morning star, the power the unions had and the changes that they made. Yeah, sometimes the union leaders weren’t great people but we have so much to thank real socialists for.

• Post #2296547

  Bugger the lot of them. Happiness is a hot forge, and I can’t be doing with the news at the moment and in spite of the arm/neck issues I needed to pick up a hammer. Made a couple of door hooks, fixed a garden half moon edger someone had decided to use as a spade and make myself a weed yeeter. Also known as a weed slasher, it’s a long flat bar with a blade at the end. Add a wooden handle and it looks rather splendid. The wood is preserved with a dressing bar made of linseed oil, beeswax and lan...

• Post #2054068

  This is not a flaw. This system is working as intended. And it will be copied. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/04/kenya-ai-healthcare-reforms-driving-up-costs-for-poor Article on the guardian website describing how a computer algorithm in Kenya is making access to health care more expensive for the poor compared to the rich.

• Post #2054067

  I recognise and accept that a lot of people use spoons as a metaphor for levels of fatigue and energy. I have started using forks instead. The same shape of metaphor but when I say I’m out of forks to give it at least makes me chuckle.