Notices by Probably Paul (barrenplanet@calckey.social)

@goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org I don't even bother with sunscreen because I tan so quickly, but the ex was your typical Anglo-Saxon lobster in the sun! I forget the brand, but there is a particular high-SPF cream she swore by that binds to the skin, so even going swimming won't wash it off.

Quite expensive stuff, as I remember, but worth it because you don't have to keep reapplying it. She spent a month in Goa during a heatwave, and returned looking like she'd spent a weekend in Cornwall. 😆

I'm sick of seeing people in my general area of the political spectrum thinking decent humans - even their innocent kids - who have a bit more money than average, are acceptable collateral damage in a proxy class war against billionaires led by endangered marine mammals.

I know I've been banging on about this a lot recently, but it really does reflect badly on us. It shows a lack of concern for both human and marine life. It's Olympic competition-level assholery.

Most yachts in the region are second-hand, cost "only" a few tens of thousands of Euros (some only a few hundred, if they've been purchased in awful shape and reconditioned by hobbyists) and aren't skippered by billionaires.

Among the Devil's greatest tricks was to pit the poorest against the moderately well-off.

#NotTeamOrca

I'm sick of seeing people in my general area of the political spectrum thinking decent humans - even their innocent kids - who have a bit more money than average, are acceptable collateral damage in a proxy class war against billionaires led by endangered marine mammals.

I know I've been banging on about this a lot recently, but it really does reflect badly on us. It shows a lack of concern for both human and marine life. It's Olympic competition-level assholery.

Most yachts in the region are second-hand, cost "only" a few tens of thousands of Euros (some only a few hundred, if they've been purchased in awful shape and reconditioned by hobbyists) and aren't skippered by billionaires.

Among the Devil's greatest tricks was to pit the poorest against the moderately well-off.

#NotTeamOrca

We don't have an inflation problem, we have a greedflation (price-gouging) problem. Here in the UK the Bank of England plans to tackle this problem by deliberately creating a deep recession, in an already depressed economy, forcing millions more people into hardship and potential destitution.

RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/users/MarkHoltom/statuses/110620577026453422

@goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org
@Ponygirl@mastodon.social Yeah. I've been waiting for someone to say, "What seriously, your pops got a whole fishing boat for free? Yeah right!" which is something else that needs addressing in this context. Rural and coastal communities often have barter cultures, and while my dad is skint, he's also built many of the dry-stone walls (a dying skill) in his part of Wales, and odd-jobs for people without even thinking of charging. You got a swarm of bees? Call dad, he keeps them and farms them for honey. What goes around, comes around.

It's all just a lot more complicated than The Discourse (as you put it) allows for. We should be advocating for deterants to stop an endangered species from attacking boats, not egging them on! Because at this rate people will start harpooning orcas on sight...and then it won't be "the rich" who suffer.

@goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org
@Ponygirl@mastodon.social There are complex and longstanding boating and fishing cultures in these European coastal villages and towns! The fact they have a largish boat doesn't mean they're rich or even moderately wealthy; that boat is a family asset. We also have GRT communities in the UK with huge, hundred-thousand pound mobile homes...but again, that's the main family asset in many cases. They don't have much else of value. Without it they'd be destitute.

The waterways of the UK have thousands of long boats and barges that cost upwards of £20k - perhaps considerably more - but again, many in those communities live on their boats and could only afford them because the mooring is only a few grand a year, so in the long run it's way cheaper than buying even a small terraced house. And we don't call people who live in those rich, do we? 🙄

@Ponygirl@mastodon.social @goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org You can get these old fibreglass boats for less than a second-hand car, and some of these fishermen inherited their boats, and barely make enough from their hauls to cover maintenance and feed their families. Those people are, by anyone's standards, barely scraping a living.

Oh and I'm not rich either. I have minus (-) £8 in my current account and no savings. My dad also isn't rich, but has a motorboat which he uses for fishing. He got it for free because it was too bust-up to charge anything for, and renovated it himself.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al Apparently I've missed some news. What's this rumour of which you speak?

@inthehands@hachyderm.io Former housing officer here. The Housing First model isn't simply giving people houses, it's housing them as the immediate priority, then directing homelessness support services to helping them maintain those tenancies.

Depending on their specific needs, this could be light and temporary support, anywhere up to complex packages of long-term care involving multiple health and other professionals.

“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

-- John Ehrlichman, senior aide to President Richard Nixon and co-conspirator in the Watergate scandal

@kainoa
@jcrabapple@screengeeks.club Oh I just need to jump to the web app, okay, sorry. I use Milktea for Android most of the time just because it's generally faster (not that your web app isn't super-slick).

Which phone app would you recommend that's closest to the web app?

@kainoa
@jcrabapple@screengeeks.club Weird that we have just about every other feature the Masto crowd are arguing about, but still can't edit posts. 🤔

@kainoa
@sataa@stop.voring.me Thanks for the tip...and thanks for Calckey! Loving it so far, it's so thoughtfully designed. Mostly using it via Milktea on Android, which works great - and you can jump straight from the phone app to the web app if there's something the phone app can't do...like if it's a confusingly busy discussion and you need to see it in reverse-threaded format.

@kainoa
@sataa@stop.voring.me Do you know off-hand what the minimum specs would be for that? I was considering running my own server on a Raspberry Pi, but someone told me that might be more hassle than it's worth! (Although I have seen a couple of single-user Masto instances claiming to run off a Pi).

@kainoa
@sataa@stop.voring.me Hi Kainoa. Do you know off-hand what the minimum system specs would be, for that?