An autistic recovered alcoholic grandfather in his 70s, from Fenland originally but now a Londoner (and frequent Norfolker). Passionate Arsenal fan. Buddhist/Quaker. Trans supporter. Occasional bar stool professor of everything. I stand with 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸 and all marginalised people
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Last Notes npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek You say that like it’s a bad thing. https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/116/970/731/187/752/647/original/f3bce5807e955392.jpeg npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek Help needed please, some techie advice appreciated. I’m writing at the moment. And I need to have an app on a pc or laptop that is not visible on screen or on finder. So not deliberately hidden but findable only by name search. And for it to be found by a forensic search that looks for signs of apps active on the laptop that aren’t otherwise visible. The app is email. And I will need to describe this for people who aren’t tech savvy. (He said: because he isn’t) Boosts appreciated npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek What on earth has happened to strawberries. The ones I had with my breakfast today were enormous — big enough to use as butt plugs. npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek The craziest thing about the UK council elections results is that Donald Trump was mentioned in the Epstein fils over 38,000 times. npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek May 6 is in many ways my most important anniversary. It is the day 32 years back when I last had the desire for drink: The day my old life as a small-town playboy and drunk ended; the day my journey to contented sobriety and spiritual awakening began. And it is so imprinted on my mind that I only remembered this morning, half way through my run. Hope you find yourself this morning on your journey to peace and contentment. In the sure knowledge that whoever and whatever you are ... you matter. npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek A reminder that the Great Northern Horse Slaughter is under way at Aintree. Just one dead so far but there's still the big one tomorrow. No statistics on the horses that are killed after being injured after the event. npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…4nva While not defending the Iranians, I'm not sure they're actually the worst if the bunch in that region. The west sided mainly with the Saudis originally, for their access to oil, and we ended up making the Iranians the bad guys. npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…7ndt This is funny because it’s true. As a Brit I found NZ felt behind the times in people’s behaviour. People so considerate, generous and polite. None of the modern rush or selfishness. But being given a long black I concluded their coffee is the best. AFAICT it’s made like an Americano with less hot water, so just the right strength for me. @nprofile…e4c7 @nprofile…2wxk npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…39ss please do npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…39ss Thank you so much for introducing me to Josh Johnson. This guy’s take on racism is excellent. npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…s85r Wouldn’t work. Benches would be 60m+ in length and over 2m deep. npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…60lz I agree with your sentiment completely. But the past tense is needed here. #BBCNews has failed repeatedly over the past 10 years, gifting Farage unwarranted frequent appearances, including over 36 on Question Time, more than most government ministers. npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…vfmd I don’t know what flavour of news you get over there, but have you factored that in? It’s having a big effect on my mood. Making me cut out completely with puzzles. And shouting at the screen. Hope it passes soon. npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…c408 @nprofile…uuc2 Watching from a safe distance, I would expect a quick two hour gun fight to bring this nonsense to an end. Second Amendment and all that. Which isn’t going to happen because the gun owners are mainly white supremacists. Or gang members. And you don’t see ICE going near the gangs, do you? npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek Fun with my broadband provider 1.01 My contract for TV and broadband coming to an end. Virgin TV planning to increase monthly cost from £65pm to £220pm. (I should say at my last renewal the agent let me in on the fact that the bigger package you have, the bigger the discounts. So I was paying only a few pounds above the basic TV + Broadband package rate. It is criminal that the largest numbers of staff are in the retention department, trying to get customers to close on the highest price. /2 npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek My posts yesterday about the evil, murderous bastards in Israel trying to exterminate the Gaza population, and all the hateful Jews supporting them or excusing their actions led to accusations of ant-semitism. To those who took issue I ask: Do these New York rabbis, protesting against the starvation of the Gaza people, look anti-Semitic to you, motherfuckers? https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/936/204/321/681/357/original/5fe38c322bde1c42.jpeg npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek “Gaza. I feel it particularly because I am Jewish. I know how much wickedness and cruelty were meted out to Jews in my lifetime. I was born in ’41 at the height of the Holocaust. … And so my heart is broken and I think the terrible thing I have to face is that Hitler won. He changed us. He made us like him.” —Miriam Margolyes https://dorseteye.com/hitler-won-he-made-us-like-him-miriam-margolyes-and-bob-geldof-slam-zionist-jews-and-israel/ npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek System alert: From 26C in the East to 13C in the West. Wales is like a foreign country. The rain is unbelievable. And it is bloody cold. Holidays, eh? npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…y3mz @nprofile…uaxc Dune in one film is never going to work. Like LOTR always needed more time. npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…77n4 @nprofile…t5r6 Drummed into me by a spiritual guide. He had a (vertical) frieze on his wall of people with one hand up being lifted and one hand down lifting the person below. npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…85tn So many of those inspirational lines don’t sit well with “Tell that to the children in Gaza.” My pet hate “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…85tn Alert from somebody who has waited on tables. Do not try this one until ALL your food has arrived npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…85tn Waiter: Is everything OK? Me: Not in Gaza, it isn’t. npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…kmvs It would be nice to learn that #47 action on DEI in armed forces was a factor. npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…36ma No surprise. I would cross town to see Odin. A few years back, as part of an annual festival, there was an “exhibition” of Newfies on the beach. About 20 or so fascinating giants. I think it was the first time I had seen one. I was overcome with enormous joy and just hung around with them for ages with a massive grin on my face. Can’t tell you why. I just had to. And when I discovered they were working dogs, I was ecstatic. Wanted to throw myself off the pier just to get rescued. npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…jhfw As eye-opening as this is. I am dismayed at everybody still acting as if the coup is coming. It came. It saw. It conquered. Americans are going to have to deal with the fact that #47 has put himself above the law. and can do as he likes because of SCOTUS. npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…y3mz It was meant as a joke. You talked about an autistics meeting. npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…y3mz Have you ever thought you might be #neurodivergent? 😁 npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…y3mz That’s cool. I grew up among Norfolk-ness in Wisbech, met my wife there (Hunstanton) and today spend much spare time in Cromer. I’m now compiling a list of films I want to see from your 5* list. Go well. npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…y3mz I have just been lost for the last hour or so looking at your blog of film reviews. Remarking our close agreement on films we have both seen. Where in Norfolk, may I ask? npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…t5r6 Such insight. I hate the way we're expected to make other people feel better when they've made themselves feel upset because they've not got what they want from us. But I am fortunate that I don't grind to a halt in these situations. Go well, Valerie. npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…jxga If I wanted to know what was happening on X, I would be on X. Why are you there! npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…wf6t @nprofile…wd2x That is one fine-looking best friend. We used to live with a twin but beige. npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…7jqg The most chilling part of this is the guards treating the detainees so appallingly. Maybe they were told too to act as a deterrent, but they seemed to carry out these orders with relish. If they weren’t told too, it shows them up as vicious, bigoted thugs. I would like to be persuaded that American people aren’t racist, bigoted people bent on persecuting and punishing minorities. I would like to be, but the evidence is building that there’s something rotten at the country’s heart. npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…2qax I’ve felt this way for many years after transiting FLA twice on a vacation. First time to see a businessman in a $2000 suit be shoved into a side room by 6 agents, presumably for the offence of looking a bit Moslem. Then the rudeness of DHS staff when entering US and the Screw You attitude of DHS staff generally. Make your country unwelcoming and you won’t see me there. npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek They say a principle is only a principle if it costs you something. Well the first week of my #USboycott meant I missed a match on Amazon where my team #Arsenal won 7-1. So it goes. On the plus side, we had to try an alternative to #Heinz beans. #Branston beans are so much better. Not just a little, but much, much better. Why have I wasted so much of my life drooling over Heinz beans? Now all I need is a tomato soup that’s better and I’m away. npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek @nprofile…y54t There is a brilliant book called “Your erroneous zones” which unpicks all the BS dumped on us by parents, schools and society. Starting with “Do your best!” https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/081/137/875/150/304/original/e14087a74ad4fc2d.jpeg npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek POTUS: We’re bringing freedom to the American people. Me: To marry my boyfriend? POTUS: Not that. Me: To help my son transition? POTUS: Nor that. Me: To pay for my daughter’s abortion? POTUS: That neither Me: To employ more black people in my company? POTUS: No chance. Me: To read any books I like? POTUS: Fraid not? Me: To teach the history I like? POTUS: Not happening. Me: This is ridiculous; I’m going to a protest? POTUS: And get arrested. Me: Run out of word count? npub18s2zeuaqt2q9560wz4s770wrltkzvncwgkaw06ct8kjdsjnnh23sdwfj09 Dziadek I’m qualified to talk about mediocre writers because I is one. And I fear the growth of copy and scripts written by #AI. Because machines cannot learn passion, develop fascinating insights or innovate. Because it’s only going to rearrange words, phrase and ideas scraped from writers, most of whom are mediocre, like me. Like the news presenter using a picture to make a “witty” pun on a visual, or the scriptwriter with hackneyed ideas. AI will never understand what makes great writing.