Born following the unholy union of a duck and a cardboard box, Roberto von Archimboldi entered the world as a broken, diseased disaster. He has been searching for joy ever since.
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Last Notes npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi sure, but teachers are employees. I fully accept that their renumeration should take into account the additional expense and limitation of their holidays being fixed. Indeed it should take into account the job they do. They are hopelessly underpaid. They are not in the same position as their students. If the kids think that they will get more out of time off, then that is, or should be, the kids choice npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi no idea, sorry npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I think that sounds right. It relates to both 1 and 2. Once upon a time revolutionaries moved freely between the third world and the first and second worlds. now you are much more likely to be a refugee. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi je ne connais pas cette affaire. Moi, je suis anglais. Mais tu as raison. Tout le temps on attaque les cibles faibles entre nos camarades, surtout en ligne, parce que c'est beaucoup plus facile que porter le combat à le vrai connards avec le pouvoir npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that is no doubt true. I guess that I have this sense that we often create a story about sexual predators and abusers that monsters them and others them to exonerate ourselves. The paedophile ring, the grooming gang, the Epstein class... but when I walk down the highstreet, the women in the photos in the shop windows modeling underwear or bikinis look like teenage girls to me npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I am sure that there are interconnections between the perpetrators. I also think that it is too convenient to think that it is a number of weirdo men over there, colluding with each other and egging each other on. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I love your commitment to food poisoning npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that too, yes. No taxation without representation and all that. I was trying to explain to the dinosaur why, even if you restrict the electorate, you can be comfortable with some non-voters voting npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I don't care if some non-citizens vote in elections, no. See my lots of words. Do you care? If you do, you're wrong. See my lots of words. They were written to justify my position npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi There are a lot of things going on here. Perhaps they boil down to the sacred and the mundane. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi You hate data centres? Good, now understand that they are being built to feed the war machine. It is time to hate empire. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that is very true npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I am sorry npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi probably? There can be no doubt. Sobers must be the greatest all rounder who ever played. Jaques Kallis is the only one behind daylight. Sobers was a more than competent front line bowler and one of the greatest batters to have graced the game. Imran Khan, Kapil Dev and even Botham (much as it pains me to say it) were great players, but none of them come close to Sir Gary npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi true that npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi With the death of Sir Garfield Sobers, I have reflecting on the different responses to the great West Indian teams of the 60s, 70s and 80s. The team of Sobers, Walcott, Weekes, Worrell, Hall, Kanhai must have been a truly brilliant team. It did not receive the hatred (and posthumous adulation) of Clive Lloyds and Viv Richard's teams. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi it is one reason why it is so hard to raise money for people in Gaza. We used to understand that it was part of solidarity. Now we somehow expect that the same people who are destroying Palestine will fund 'aid' npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I am becoming old (and starting to shout at clouds). Thinking about what has changed politically in my time, I think that it is the collapse of internationalism. I am talking about the left here. This is odd because leftists spend a lot more time thinking about racism now. In many ways young leftists, white and 'of colour' have a much more sophisticated understanding than we did when we were young. So what has gone wrong? A few guesses: npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that looks wonderful npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi thank you. That was really helpful npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I guess that 'passions of the people' is code for 'pesky things that the ruling class don't like'. Equally though any system does need a conservative drag for stability npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Red_Schoolbook npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/16/atmosphere-lhs-1140b-exoplanet-could-water-scientists npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I am sorry to hear that. Get well soon npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I think that from a legal perspective there are two big things going on. It is possible that the democrats are not adverse to either one of them. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi in many ways England and Wales at least have a much more democratic structure than now. Government is weak, Parliament is supreme and administration is done at a local level by the citizens. Of course the glaring problem is that the citizens are restricted to landowners. It is interesting that as the franchise is extended so the democratic character of the state recedes. The Whigs give way to Benthamites, administration become professionalised and centralised. Government expands and Parliament recedes. It is almost as if the price you pay for the franchise is a reduction in what you can do with it npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I agree about the fascinating insights from knowledgable people. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi pulling together some of the things that you said elsewhere on the thread, the system of appointment by nomination may have ended many moons ago, but the senate remains a representation of the interests of the states and not 'the people'. That strikes me as a deliberately conservative role and a check on popular democracy. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi there are even more reasons not to let some individual appoint a senator. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I think that, being an outsider, I am not grasping the constitutional nuances. This is really helpful. Thank you npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that is true of all systems, I think npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that is really interesting. So 'election' is interpreted broadly enough not to require voting? The state can decide that the governor or, presumably, just the third person to buy an ice cream on the last Thursday in May can elect the senator? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi there is that aspect. Someone else in thread pointed out that the whole senate used to be by appointment of the state governors. I didn't know that. It does feel a little aristocracy by the back door npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi interesting. Do people not find it an odd way of appointing people to congress? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi fair enough. I'm surprised that people don't seem to find it problematic npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I was intrigued because from here, the UK, the US seems to have a much more democratic character. The citizens seem much more engaged in civic life are expected to vote for and participate in far more areas of the state, schools, police, prosecution, local government more generally. That seems to come across in people taking part in meetings, campaigns, parties etc. Although we have this almost entirely unelected second house in Parliament (and the only people who can stand or vote in the tiny elected bit are heredity peers of the realm ie Lords, Dukes, Ladies etc), the idea that an elected member of parliament could be replaced by someone a big wig chose would be really extraordinary. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi thank you. That is really interesting. Is there an argument that the senate was designed as a check on popular democracy? Perhaps it still is in many ways given the cost of running a campaign for election npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi right, but leaving it vacant seems the better option. It could be the best part of 6 years with the Governor's appointee in place if the death was early in the term. Here we had a minor scandal about a few councils not holding elections because they are going to be dissolved early next year and councils are pretty toothless, unlike senators. I'm still surprised those are the rules npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I guess that falls under 'states' rights' npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi seems an odd rule to me. Why not leave the seat vacant if democracy is trop cher? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Can someone explain how this works? A senator dies and the governor can just appoint any person she likes to replace her? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi please don't die. That would be horror npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi definitely sexy npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi this is so well put. Exile is double punishment. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi you, my friend, are a miracle npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I will say, ' I didn't know the guy but he was quite funny on the internet' npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that is very true. I like that thought. It is tricky to work out where you stand your ground and where you compromise. It is particularly difficult given the multiple directions from which particularly nasty social harms come at us. I guess different people quite legitimately draw the line in different places npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that is probably right about the Queen. It is certainly more charitable than my reading. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi he he, yes. I think that your joke goes to the nub of things. We often demand that our fellow travellers adopt pretty anti-social or perhaps contra-social behaviour: don't fly, reject any software with any LLM generated code, avoid any data mining software... npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Yes indeed. I do also think that, unlike Marie Antoinette, my man was trying to help. Perhaps we should refuse to accept systems that impose Microsoft on us? It is no more outrageous a position than shunning anyone who uses OpenAI npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I liked the guy. He was trying to help. My use of 'friend' was not meant to be ironic. He probably wasn't 100% serious, but really didn't like Microsoft. He is probably right. It is easy for me because I am a. A man, b. Respected in my own field and c. I don't have any computer skills, so you can't patronise me and I am not looking for respect. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I got mastodoned the other day. It made me smile. I was asking for help setting up grapheneos to minimise Google invasive behaviour. I made a throwaway comment about my first love, lineage. A kindly fellow, enquired why I had switched operating system. I explained that my school was enforcing use of outlook and Microsoft's authenticator. My new friend suggested that I change school. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi an opportunity sorely missed npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi amazing npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi it is not that KP should or should not have been ditched. He shouldn't have been in my view. You pick your best players and you manage them. It is also not the case that anyone from Compton through to Rory Burns set the world on fire. The problem was that their opening partner was shot. That ramps up the pressure no end. They may have been pants regardless, of course. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi it is, but I need MS authenticator. I preferred the grapheneos sandbox to micro G, but this could have been a mistake npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I installed GrapheneOS on my new to me pixel 8a phone. Does anyone want to explain to me how the sandbox for google services works? I tried reading the docs but they were too much for my tiny mind. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi this is commitment but to what cause I know not npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi to be fair, the deeper question is why are there plans for a state run cryptocurrency? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi thank you and seeing as I arguably met the rule, I sent you £5 npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I do hope that you are right. I'm frustrated because I grew up in the autonomous left, anti-CJA, free party, Reclaim the Streets, Jubilee 2000, People's Global Action sort of thing. I saw that whole mutual aid and solidarity movement through itself behind Corbyn and get mangled. I think that it is just replicating the mistake with the Greens when we need to be building an internationalist anti neo-colonial movement. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Why are there so many different programming languages? Don't they all do the same thing in the end? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi right, in this country, the UK, we had the ruling class falling over themselves to condemn Huawei installing the 5g network, yet GCHQ intercept and store all of our internet traffic npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi 'ants a bit annoying'. This is heresy. We might need to block the whole freeradical server if they let this post stay up npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi عيد مبارك Happy Eid npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I'm glad that my words were not wildly off beam. It is important that we try to see each other. Things will only improve when we start from there. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi the best resources for you are https://www.asaproject.org/ npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Wu who? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I guess, though I haven't followed either very closely, that the scandals are different. Clinton was unlawfully conducting government business from her private server. She then compounded it by deleting some (or all?) of the emails. Patel was stupid and got his private emails hacked. He has done nothing unlawful. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi that is true, but those places are rightly blocked by the majority of instances because they exist to let people attack and harass other users. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi maybe that is all I am saying. If so, like you say, it is not particularly deep. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I have been finding the 'war on Iran is a distraction from the Epstein files' hot take annoying. I think that this is why: npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Calling all Brighton people with a soul. Thousand 4 1000, a community housing project for forced migrants, has an event on 21st February. Poetry, prose, food and music. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi You people are clever. Can you help? I recently set up a debian server on hetzner. I think that I made an error in creating the partitions because I appear to have run out of space on my home directory. npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi Somehow Mastodon doesn't seem the sort of place that will pay much attention to Stoppard's death, but he was a brilliant playwright. If you haven't seen it, Professional Foul is an absolute joy: npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi they are all great pieces, but I cry without fail at the Gorecki. Do you know the Venetian Snares take on the Elgar? npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t Roberto von Archimboldi I agree with all of 1 to 3. James would add:
