Caccini and Handel
Caccini and Handel
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16. Consistency
15. My heart is increasingly with the east
14. As they do of course
13. IYE and DAD
12. Something vaguely incestuous about all this
https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2025/04/no-comment.html
https://scroblene-webley-bullock.blogspot.com/2025/04/et-tu-brutalist.html
(0900) Morning all, tavern patrons and occasionals … Gates bleah cloud out there, gloomy. (0902)
11. Dismantle the criminal EU mafia now
10. Stephen Miller (sshot, not clip)
9. A couple more reposts from Hello Karma
8. Would be expensive women, spivvy males and those “luxury” labels
7. A few of our lot
… have reported on that Katie Perry thing, supposedly astronauting … ta for those reports … we’re of course seriously underwhelmed by it all.
In my early rounds this Tuesday morning, I went to Gab to see Julia mainly and there was a notice: UK visitor detected. Whaaaa?
The ephemeral nature of the net just now
Then the screed from Andrew Torba … entire text reproduced below:
ACCESS RESTRICTED BY PROVIDER
After receiving yet another demand from the UK’s speech police, Ofcom, Gab has made the decision to block the entire United Kingdom from accessing our website.
This latest email from Ofcom ordered us to disclose information about our users and operations. We know where this leads: compelled censorship and British citizens thrown in jail for “hate speech.” We refuse to comply with this tyranny.
Gab is an American company with zero presence in the UK. Ofcom’s demands have no legal force here. To enforce anything in the United States, they’d need to go through a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty request or letters rogatory. No U.S. court is going to enforce a foreign censorship regime. The First Amendment forbids it.
Ofcom will likely try to make an example of us anyway. That’s because the UK’s Online Safety Act isn’t about protecting children. It’s about suppressing dissent.
They’re welcome to try. The idea that a British regulator can pressure a U.S. company that’s IP-blocking the entire UK is as farcical as it is futile. If anything, it proves our point: censorship doesn’t work. It only reveals the truth about the censors.
We proudly join platforms like Bitchute in boycotting the United Kingdom. American companies should follow suit. The power of the UK’s parliament ends where the First Amendment begins.
The only way to vote against the tyranny of the UK’s present regime is to walk away from it, refuse to comply, and take refuge under the impervious shelter of the First Amendment.
The UK’s rulers want their people kept in the dark. Let them see how long the public tolerates it as their Internet vanishes, one website at a time.
I’ve posted this at Unherdables now plus at OoL but shall continue below with details about our sites within the nourishing-unherdable range.
NOWP
This is our grandaddy site … after the now stolen N.O., the 2006 original, this is next oldest … and it is the most stable in terms of longevity … there are other sites running off behind the scenes, it has the original Akismet, plus API code, which is pretty important for more than casual blogging. It’s a vital site and has a fair bit of disk space left.
Orphans
Though this runs off my ggl account, the boss is Julia and together, we bring in a slightly different readership in some ways … mid-to-low traffic but not negligible … and most know it’s the second blog for both of us. Julia and I are also connected on Gab (were) and on X. Orphans is US and runs by ggl rules.
Jstack
Once you know how substack works … basically a platform dedicated to bloggers increasing traffic, plus controlled by Substack HQ, neither which I appreciate, nor do our more unherdable reader commenters, plus there’s its quite amateurish and primitive composing system … you’ll understand why I hardly use it … it’s our second failsafe after NOWP.
UHC
Actually part of the newly restricted free WordPress stable, therefore highly restricted in both disk space and blogging freedom, I had thoughts that it might be more … it’s really only for overflow posts now and then … or commemorative. It would be no use as a full-on HQ and I do not count it as a fallback, failsafe site at this moment.
HQ
More fully Nourishing Unherdables HQ, it’s a fabulous site from a daily working point of view, apart from its primitive theme … for example, it takes seven clicks just to colour one paragraph, rinse and repeat for any other paragraph you want repeated. Indented quote? Forgeddit.
On the other hand, it’s by far the most stable site by a long distance, technically, it works like a dream due to my techie mate but its downside is that though it has massive diskspace in terms of terabytes, plus all sorts of failsafes, backend to frontend, it is (cough) geographically dependent, rather than net dependent. In short, it only works as long as our personal circumstances are idyllic, which they are right now … but in the summer, that changes for me and HQ might disappear just like that. Might.
The upside in one way is that if HQ is snuffed out, ends, so do all the others, as they’re also personal circumstances dependent … sorry to be so cryptic. Whereas anything ggl will go on and on in ghostly form, as will WP. HQ won’t … it physically needs us working it.
DAD’s special request
Some time back, our eldest member asked if he could be posted elsewhere. Er … where? The realistic choice is whether to be the first or uppermost item in each new post, as he has been for the last few posts … or else he opens a new post, as is the case today.
UHC would not be possible because of DAD’s subject matter … he’d be quickly blocked by The Man … the only other place is Jstack and they seem quite censorious too.
I’m thinking that … not just with DAD but with everyone at the tavern … you all must make your own decision where best to post … for example, Macronian EU France comes into the equation for those two boys … our Americans must also decide … Toodles can access Gab, we can’t. I think IYE can’t access Rumble or was that us? Things ain’t easy now, tavern denizens. …/END.
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5. If you glance at Beware in Other in navbar
… you’ll see various names on the “watch” or anathema list for us. None of those are there spuriously but only if they have form and are pursuing very iffy things … we could add Rand Paul to that now. One name there is Robert Malone.
While he says the right things now and then in some ways, he’s quite suspect in a Napolitano or Thomas Massie way in our humble opinion. Thus, should Hearts of Oak plan to interview him, sorry … shan’t be running that at HQ today.
4. Mary’s doing good work
3. Steve at 1020
……
*Out and out fraud in Arizona
**Oh no … not again … does he learn nothing at all?
***Thiel … o-oh!
****Habib, that name … French is it? See Tue 1 theme.
*****Pollies under whose influence? See Tue 1 theme again.
******This thing directly affects me … it’s vile … how to stop it?
2. DAD at 1021
a) Nantes in the news – again. Nantes’ “White Flight”: Residents of the Big City Flee Insecurity for Angers, which is considered safer.
b) In the Bocage Bressuirais region of Deux Sevres, [just to the North of me] Pascal Gabily, a passionate traveling distiller, is the only one to perpetuate the tradition of artisanal distillation, a sector that has faced numerous difficulties in recent years.
c) Is Civil War coming to Europe? Many ordinary Europeans are starting to admit what their leaders won’t: civil unrest may be closer than anyone dares to say.
d) The former head of MI6 has suggested Britain may need to introduce a form of conscription in the face of new international threats.
1. Undue influence of identifiable groups
There are many from other lands having influence and that truism applies to any country, even Russia in Napoleon’s time … every influence or pressure group will try it on … the Donald is doing that now, TBL (the beloved leader) is doing it in the Chagos Islands … and so on.
The jaw most certainly does not drop over that … that groups will try to influence one way or another … the question is who’s calling the shots at the top of any particular nation … is it an ethnic national going way back in history? Or someone else?
There are comments by AKH, IYE and Steve right now in the sidebar, plus Toodles has sent this report … and there are obvious questions … both in the clip represent outside groups and things characterising those two groups are firstly high intelligence compared to, say, western Wokerati, secondly silent operation, insidious in a way, and third, backed by big money … fourthly that they’re not too particular in their methods.
Those groups are what they are. In the massive influence stakes, another is the group wishing to take over every western country, openly and violently, already controlling prisons. One cannot forget the satanic families backing the WEF and similar, but that’s getting into another dimension now. Add to that annunaki, the space lot.
Now look at the common people in each and every western country … if daring to demonstrate, disarmed already, riot squads pile in to beat up the more vulnerable of the legit people of the land. I saw yesterday someone saying that the bottom of the heap is the indigenous western male, reduced to anything but what used to be called a Man. Actually, below that is the Christian, whom no one from any other group treats with respect.
By the way … the moment I used the Chr word just now, a notice appeared above, saying “updating failed”.
(1822) Evening all.
20. Treason
19. We’re from the gummint
… and we’re here to help.
18. He’s our Beloved Leader
(1347) Surprisingly busy day, could not run regular slots. (1508)
17. This one’s a bit tricky to explain
Now, the thing was that he had nine thumbnail clips up, left talking heads and ALL of them were saying the same phrase. Total coincidence, yeah? I did not want to run their faces, so did not post them.
16. Are there any words left?
15. She should be behind bars
14. IYE presents
(1108) Happy elevenses. (1345)
13. Congrats to Rory
Grand Slam after tribulation,re-finding himself etc. Ex gf congratulates him:
H/T Toodles who told me. Wasn’t that much of a dig from C Woz. MSM.
12. Beautiful Bristol
11. Brummieland Caliphate
10. Ode to an evil beech (tree)
9. This one’s for posting at X
The most dismaying part of what Farage, Tice and Yusef did to about a third of the Reform membership is they caused us to fall out … no skin off the noses of those three themselves … that was the plan … to always keep Reformers, Kippers etc., the anti-Uniparty in other words, down to protest group levels, never as a govt in itself.
Look very carefully at Farage’s history every single time there seemed an effective opposition forming … I understand former good friends who’ve now blocked me, why they did it … they’re dismayed that we who were attacked by the party brass “can’t let it all blow over” in the interests of a Reform surge. Well yes, it was surging and we were very much part of it … then Yusef and Farage decided they did not want us. Just like that. With Tice and Oakeshott from Qatar.
Why? Because we were preventing Reform sliding towards where so many don’t understand it is sliding towards now … towards just another Uniparty third branch with some, but not too many, grievances. A rival for Ed Davies but still within that safe, Unicompliant, approved debate area. Good chaps on all sides dontchknow.
So I’ve lost so many former colleagues … good chaps and chapesses, lovely people … why? Through my intransigence? Or through machinations of the brass who knew full well they had to split Reform … it was becoming a monster. My attitude to May 1st? Good luck, no issues … it’s not the rank and file who are the issue.
8. This at TDS today
… is fairly obvious, as are the reasons for it.
“Recent polls also bear witness to the unwillingness of our nation’s youth not only to fight for their country, but to defend it from invasion. According to an UnHerd poll to mark 80 years since D-Day, published last year, only 29% of 18-24 year-olds said they would defend Britain in the event of an invasion. In addition, just 21% of parents would want their children to fight in such circumstances – 67% would urge them not to get involved. Moreover, in a YouGov and Public First survey for the Times, published in February this year, only 11% of Generation Z, aged 18-27, said they would fight for Britain; 41% said there were no circumstances in which they would take up arms for their country.
[…]
The reasons are myriad and complex, but not impossible to discern. For example, our young people do not want to defend what they despise. In the same survey cited above, half of Generation Z believe Britain is racist and only four in 10 say they are proud to be British. This shows that the age group most likely to provide new recruits is predominantly unpatriotic and, with patriotism being a precondition for anyone’s decision to sign up, its members are therefore unwilling to fight for King and Country.”
Maybe it could be summarised thus … the brainless brainwashed, esp. young girls … are always going to blame the racist far right, as per instruction by everyone they meet, everything they see. Those on the other hand with a functioning brain look ar Chas III down to every Woke official they meet, inc. many TV washed parents … and say no way, chum.