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Wednesday [6 to 10]

(0846) Morning all … sunny but had an unfortunate experience. Slightly burnt the toast, extractor fan on, window open. Within minutes … coughing like crazy, lump in throat … never just toast … it was the air out there, no question. Windows closed, liquid, bed … fine in fifteen minutes. (1001)

 

10. Moo corner


9. Carney trying to ban X


8. Reminds me of a dead chef in the water


7. UK businesses … EU rules


6. I need to tweak the X profile blurb

In NW England, my politics are trad Triune Christendom, for the ordinary people of each home nation, plus nice people around the outside world, mainly the west … for restoring sanity into politics, utterly agin all Wokery, for good men plus good women working together with affection. Though my own flag might be the cross of St George, anthem Jerusalem, I greatly respect and honour your national flag and history too. No DMs please, except from known, established online friends.

Isilme and signs of spring

 

Signs of spring are beginning to appear, despite the daily grey cloud cover. Although, as I write this, a little sunlight has broken through. The bulbs are springing to life. Lots of grape hyacinths, a few mini daffodils, the odd primula.

Mini-daffs

We also have two small clumps of heather and they are blooming brightly – the colour is so intense they almost look artificial.

Heather

Then there’s the purple sprouting broccoli. Yum! We had forgotten some had turned up in the front garden. We seem to have three plants and I’m sure we only planted one, maybe two. Anyway, they have furnished us with plenty to eat.

Purple sprouting broccoli

We had some with our salmon the other day. And then some with our chicken pasta dish. And still more is on the way. And then we’ll return to consuming more of the leaves.

Wild garlic

The wild garlic underneath the apple tree is also now coming forth. We’ll have to find a way to curb its growth a bit perhaps, but it’s the only thing that will grow under that tree.

And since it took up residence some years back we’ve enjoyed the leaves in soup (wild garlic soup is yummy), in sandwiches, and in salads. I hear you can make pesto from it too, but I haven’t tried that yet.

Cuban mojo pasts … before adding pasta

Wild garlic grows in the woods near the river also, so having it in the garden gives a handy indication of when we can expect to go and do a bit of foraging should we need to. We haven’t bothered for the last couple of years as the garden garlic has been enough.

Well, that’s the latest garden report. Not a lot else is happening garden-wise.

Wednesday [1 to 5]

(0516) Dark out there. (0544)

 

5. Aristotle Aristotle was a bggr for the bottle


4. Steve at 1318

  • Iranian TV Says Khamenei’s Son Mojtaba, Elected New Supreme Leader, Has Been Wounded by US-Israel Strikes
  • Unhinged Iranian IRGC Says Any Nation Who Expels US and Israeli Ambassadors Will Be ‘Allowed’ to Navigate the Vital Shipping Route of the Strait of Hormuz
  • Putin Throws Energy Lifeline to Europe Amid Iran War — Says Russia Is Ready for Long-Term Oil and Gas Deals if Politics Are Removed
  • Despite Trump Threats, Iran Began Mining Strait Of Hormuz
  • Today in Amsterdam Gates & Bourla Are Being Held to Account in Court (JH: Whitewash?)
  • UK’s energy policy: We are on the road to poverty and serfdom
  • How can women trust the system if gang rapists can’t be deported?’ — Meloni slams Italian judges for blocking expulsion of dangerous foreign criminals
  • Much more.

3. Torquaymada reminder

Some uncomfortable reading coming down the track:

https://restoremag.com/15-part-series-the-autopsy-of-ruinous-managerialism

Will try and remember to provide links as each article appears.

2. DAD at 1318

a) Villepinte Prison (93): Fake police officers, fake arrest warrants, the shocking escape of Ilyas Kherbouch, known as “Ganito”; The prison administration took 2 days to realize it…

b) A violent fire completely destroyed the Carrefour Market supermarket located in the town center of Hourtin (Gironde, population 4,000) on Sunday evening.

c) Marseille (13): The DZ Mafia deploys thermal drones and GNSS [Géolocalisation et Navigation par un Système de Satellites] jamming to protect its drug convoys in the northern districts.

1. When govt interferes in any way

… whether federal, Westminster or local … it goes wrong, turns into a mess:

“Scientists have pumped 65,000 litres of chemicals into the ocean off America in a controversial geoengineering experiment designed to “stop global warming”. The Mail has more. 

Last August, 65,000 litres of bright red chemicals were pumped into the Gulf of Maine – yet this wasn’t an enormous industrial disaster.

Instead, it was a controversial geoengineering experiment that scientists claim could help to slow down global warming.

The oceans already hold around 38,000 billion tonnes of CO2, trapped as dissolved sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda.

The geoengineering method known as Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) aims to speed up this natural process by resetting the ocean’s pH.”

That’s at TDS today (url in blogrolls, middle column).

Tuesday [16 to 20]

(1430) Afternoon all. Have to head off for awhile. (1708)

 

20. Gab editorial just now

“The modern internet is no longer a neutral space where people exchange information and argue about reality. It is an immense network of algorithms deciding what billions of people see, what they don’t see, and what they will believe happened.

How is it that in 2026 when we have billions of devices with cameras and high speed internet all over the world we aren’t seeing any footage of what is going on in Iran or Israel? We saw more back in the early 2000’s with the war in in Iraq than we do now. 

The reason for this is because platforms like X, Facebook, TikTok and others rely heavily on automated moderation systems and AI-driven tools that scan the entire network in real time. Content can be flagged, limited, or removed within seconds, long before the public ever has a chance to see it let alone debate it.

Censorship is only half the story. The other half is narrative warfare.”

19. Moo corner

Older posting by Moosh:


18. BBC at their usual standard


17. A host of golden daffodils


16. Three pieces of bad news

There are conflicting statements about the remainder of the Persian girls squad. The timestamp said it was an hour or so ago. One shot saw the remaing girls holding on to each other’s arms in a line, heading for the plane.


One report said that some of the girls, far from trying to escape, were dragging others onto the plane.

A different report said Albanese failed to stop the flight. We’ll just have to wait.

Second is Starmer, introducing legislation that you are far-right if you are for the attack on Iran, plus some other creepy law they’ve reintroduced … more later.


Found the other reintroduced legislation … scapping jury trials.

Tue Mat

 

Having replied to Lord T this morning about attribution, suddenly here comes an older post with a film. Not only is it not YT but it’s no other I recognise, plus there is nothing written anywhere.

HERE

Not only that but not sure I should run a review of the film this time from IMDb. Mysterious. If it does not appear for you there, then sorry but it does not appear.

Progressive and krautrock days

 

Whether this song below was redolent of Tull or Tull were redolent of Krautrock band Mythos (with Mythoett below) … jury is still out. The Germans certainly listened to English speaking bands and did their own thing, incorporating ideas from elsewhere.

About five years after this, I had my weekly radio show … we prerecorded it on reel to reel which the studio considered good enough to run as was. Bands ranged from Hawkwind to Tangerine Dream to Ducks Deluxe, not so much ELP, Floyd etc. Amon Duul were big at that time.

|https://youtu.be/MQvtwd05_10?si=AUd3hb9BZqOZT2Gu

|https://youtu.be/CFXiR3_laKk?si=Oq3u7UlYMLzVtyFk

In gathering for this post, this appeared, concerning Robert Plant’s disdain for Tull:

Tuesday [6 to 10]

(0822)(1017)

 

10. Moo corner


9. Something very wrong with Erika Kirk


8. The cloven hoof of the Woke feminazi


7. Housekeeping note for laymen-intel-droppers

Storage space at blogs is measured in bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes. NOWP has a total of 3Gb available to me … it’s already 19 years old, the site. UHC-WP has 1Gb total available. HQ has around 2Tb or so.

YouTube is irrelevant in the calculation as I’m using their own storage, ditto with Rum***. All those X clips are on X’s storage. However, if you load an MP4 or similar in comments, and I upload that, then that cuts a fair way into the HQ space. If on the other two sites, it just about kills them off.

Steve has put a link to an MP4 in comments … fine, it’s accessible, but it must remain where it is. In a similar way, I cannot upload or download a film, game, podcast, unless it is with a recognised host whose space it uses. Example is Internet Archive.

The average post item here, with screenshots, is around 250Kb, compressed, not a lot at HQ, negligible in fact. At UHC-WP though, it’s a killer. At NOWP, it’s straining remaining space.

A text “drop” at NOWP uses around 80-100Kb all up … negligible even there, esp. in comments. So, dear reader, that’s the rationale on what we can load, what we can’t.

6. Fairey Delta 2