Account now mainly dormant, but feel free to PM if you need to contact me. Definitely better than the devil sites, but dear gods you people need to learn how to be silly: yes, it’s all terrible - but have some grace under fire. This performative seriousness won’t sustain you. He/Him:
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Last Notes npub1207u4ss8y060flwucukywnhv7lmanhzvgr6lzkupy6zguml6aa4qn646jq Badgardener Good morning! Off to work at the garden demolition site: order of the day, attack everything with leaves on. #Chickens #Gardening #JoinIn https://files-cdn.mountains.social/media_attachments/files/115/569/767/036/503/432/original/5b14c502e0de9dfa.jpg npub1207u4ss8y060flwucukywnhv7lmanhzvgr6lzkupy6zguml6aa4qn646jq Badgardener Oh, bless. If this is what you think tough looks like, no wonder you're toeing the line for fascism. Crawl back under your rock and hope everybody else here sorts it for you, sweetie. npub1207u4ss8y060flwucukywnhv7lmanhzvgr6lzkupy6zguml6aa4qn646jq Badgardener I'm not sure I'm articulating it well, but Labour just seem to be putting huge amounts of effort - and destroying political goodwill - into chasing a small number of voters who have actually found their spiritual, racist home in the far-right. When they could just go back to some basic socialist principles - infrastructure, general decency, fairer distribution of wealth - and have voters piling in. Our government is adopting strategies required for proportional representation (and doing it badly and in the wrong directions), when we're still a First Past The Post system. Let the 30% go, Kier - focus on the 70%. Some of those 30% will probably come back anyway. npub1207u4ss8y060flwucukywnhv7lmanhzvgr6lzkupy6zguml6aa4qn646jq Badgardener It's a symptom of the current state of politics that a party for which 70% of the electorate would NOT vote is the runaway leader in popularity polls. But rather than looking to unite that 70% with - I dunno - moderate, socially responsible, non-genocide enabling policies - the current government is instead trying to win back a few of the 30% by mimicking Farage, and in the process alienating ALL of the former group. They're literally turning their backs on 70% of voters to try to get hold of 5%, who aren't ever going to be their friends. It's not that Farage is cruising to victory, it's that most of us can't see a coherent strategy emerging to sideline him. Fortunately, even with Starmer in charge doing nothing, Trump-association will do for Farage in the next couple of years - but as with Brexit, he'll have left his skidmark on the fabric of society. npub1207u4ss8y060flwucukywnhv7lmanhzvgr6lzkupy6zguml6aa4qn646jq Badgardener Objective, evidence-based conclusions are, almost by definition, slow to reach. To be fair, their rapporteurs and teams on the ground have been using the label genocide for quite some time, and the UN as an organisation hasn't been resistant to this. Thousands of people have spent thousands of hours verifying and nailing down every single atrocity to get to this point - otherwise, the one incident which they failed to properly evidence would be seized upon by the Israelis to discredit the entire process. For us as humans, it looks obvious because it *is* obvious. But to lay the foundations for what has to come next, and to destroy the hiding places for enablers like Starmer, everything has to be rock-solid. Nobody can now claim that the conditions for genocide are not being met, and still remain on the right side of history. npub1207u4ss8y060flwucukywnhv7lmanhzvgr6lzkupy6zguml6aa4qn646jq Badgardener @npub13ak…y8hj put up a post yesterday about green roofs and, of course, I had to go big myself up about how easy they were to make. So I thought I’d better put up some proof… This one’s in my own garden. It’s a small lean-to type, built on the side of a larger shed. The photo’s a bit old, mainly because I’m not going out there right now, but it’s still going strong and is around ten years old. Construction was off a frame of 3” and 4” posts, and the roof is laid on slightly curved plywood (for extra strength, although it would probably have been ok anyway). ‘Soil’ (50% compost, 50% vermiculite) depth is about four inches, and it all drains into the pot on the stand at left, which is connected to a pipe running under the patio and across to an IBC container on the other side of the garden. The water from the larger shed roof drains onto this one, which is important - it gets about 2.5 times the water it would get otherwise. I threw some grass seed up at the start, but have never touched it since. It *might* get watered a couple of times in the summer (although not this year), whatever grows is left alone and I don’t clear it - the elder leaves drop on it as well. It’s never been fed otherwise. No complicated layers - just plastic sheet in a bathtub arrangement, growing medium and plants. So long as it slopes and the water has an exit, that’s all you need! #Gardening #GreenRoof #SolarPunk https://files-cdn.mountains.social/media_attachments/files/115/207/431/776/935/712/original/c4d175c436675a76.jpeg https://files-cdn.mountains.social/media_attachments/files/115/207/431/778/203/598/original/5f1e4a9fa287dcbe.jpeg npub1207u4ss8y060flwucukywnhv7lmanhzvgr6lzkupy6zguml6aa4qn646jq Badgardener So I’m currently landscaping the front garden of a friend (whose husband is ‘problematic’). It’s a MASSIVE job for a one-man band, and I’ve given her a low daily rate, no profit margin on materials and ten-hour days, and am frankly performing miracles for about half what it should cost, whilst destroying my knees. So anyway, said husband collared me yesterday and, amongst other gems, told me that if he ‘felt’ that I was too expensive, he’d get someone else in to finish the job, or do it himself (this is a man who’d take three goes to work out which end to hold a hammer). By strange coincidence, his wife - my friend - went away on a break yesterday, so he obviously felt emboldened. So I did what everybody should do when faced with a narcissist: totalled the bill up to date and informed him that he’d need to pay in full before anything else got done, took some time off to spend with my family, shut down his subsequent gaslighting (apparently, and I quote, it was “a throwaway comment that I have since forgotten” and he’s offended by my reaction to it)… And told on him to his wife. Ooh, she’s livid. He’s gonna get it when she comes home. In the meantime, he’s got seven tonnes of grit blocking his driveway and thirty tonnes of soil piled up in front of his house. Which will still be there when she gets back, because I’m spending some time with my family instead. So, a lovely day off with my wife to go see our new campervan. We may even stop off for lunch somewhere pleasant and tonight, for once my knees won’t keep me awake. Photo of a planter (and pretty-much everything else in the photo) I made for an elderly client. She was delighted, and hardly threatened me at all. #Gardening #Landscaping #Narcissist #JoinIn https://files-cdn.mountains.social/media_attachments/files/114/992/056/282/150/365/original/ef1ecfffbb5a959a.jpeg npub1207u4ss8y060flwucukywnhv7lmanhzvgr6lzkupy6zguml6aa4qn646jq Badgardener Oof. Sorry you've had to go through that. Better days ahead. npub1207u4ss8y060flwucukywnhv7lmanhzvgr6lzkupy6zguml6aa4qn646jq Badgardener The workshop I built for my wife after the first lockdown, mainly to stop her from taking over mine(!) I’d always been intrigued by the idea of stitching a shed and greenhouse together, so knocked this up. The idea is that the greenhouse captures solar heat in the winter to help heat the workshop - it seems to work, and the shed is very heavily insulated with polystyrene collected off the local beach over a summer and put through a garden shredder. With a small radiator, the temperature gets up to about 22C very quickly, even with outside temperatures around zero. When they’re about 8-10C and upwards, no heating required. Built mainly out of free stuff (greenhouse, roof tiles, much of the frame, insulation, copper ridge, windows, door). Please ignore the oil tank. We inherited it and can’t afford to change systems. #shed #greenhouse #woodworking #workshop #gardening #maker #JoinIn #crafts https://files-cdn.mountains.social/media_attachments/files/114/007/006/826/400/957/original/e2eb2187c2334236.jpeg https://files-cdn.mountains.social/media_attachments/files/114/007/006/877/152/278/original/03168b0d9e351f7c.jpeg https://files-cdn.mountains.social/media_attachments/files/114/007/006/880/373/819/original/79b5a77a2e93827f.jpeg npub1207u4ss8y060flwucukywnhv7lmanhzvgr6lzkupy6zguml6aa4qn646jq Badgardener #SilentSunday #Iceland #Hiking #LandscapePhotography https://files-cdn.mountains.social/media_attachments/files/113/973/337/097/744/306/original/e9422c02dc07bb54.jpg npub1207u4ss8y060flwucukywnhv7lmanhzvgr6lzkupy6zguml6aa4qn646jq Badgardener In truth, it's not the *greatest* test. A lot of medics won't use it for routine screening, but there *may* be some use in tracking PSA levels over time, for picking up asymptomatic cancer patients like the one featured in the story. As there are some familial issues in my lot, screening probably is a good idea for me. It's not that I mind seeing a doctor - my frustration really is that it seems to have slipped through the cracks at my local GP surgery - can't pre-book, can only book same day but not urgent enough to be seen the same day. Practice nurse (who is brilliant) not allowed to get involved. So people don't engage UNTIL they're symptomatic. It's the opposite of a screening program. npub1207u4ss8y060flwucukywnhv7lmanhzvgr6lzkupy6zguml6aa4qn646jq Badgardener All joking aside, I'm working on the Don't Encourage Them principle of invisibility. Plus, no hablo Espanol. Pequeno. All that jazz. npub1207u4ss8y060flwucukywnhv7lmanhzvgr6lzkupy6zguml6aa4qn646jq Badgardener As a vet, working with farmers and watching our national food security - and the population's interest in where our food comes from - decline, I spent decades shouting about this. We have dismantled farming, and given it kicking after kicking. And I don't think I've seen a more anti-farming platform than Mastodon - people have their heads up their bums about farmers here and they absolutely are not willing to actually learn. They get brittle and angry about their right to demonstrate absolute ignorance. The classic diatribes seem to be that ALL farmers voted for Brexit (they didn't, and the industry was sold a vision of increasing food security and stable income which was then deliberately pulled from them) and that they're wrong to protest against IHT (they're not, and if you actually listen, it's a small part of what they're trying to say). We are fast approaching a collapse of our farming sector, and even then the farmers will be blamed first. People WILL find out.