Notices by Just Tom... (tompearce49@mastodon.scot)

@Infoseepage - I see the place regularly as I travel south and always think that, like its counterpart Glenelg Barracks, it must have been a horribly bleak place in winter (and not much better in the summer).

@Infoseepage Enjoy it. The weather still holding this afternoon!

@Infoseepage - I had been in for an appointment and was heading home (to Nairn via Culloden) - I hope that you enjoy the visit!

@Infoseepage
Ah, so it was you in front of me this morning...!

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Jiddu Krishnamurti

@Geri
I despair of this government who, much like their predecessors, are prioritising the interests of the wealthy before those of the needy. Cuts, cuts and more cuts, before even daring to contemplate taking from those who can best afford. If governments should mean anything at all, then they need to stand for caring for the most disadvantaged in this world, people living on the margins. The wealthy will be just fine, they have always been more than capable of looking after their own interests

A reminder to the current leader of the Labour Party from one of the former leaders. In case he might have forgotten what the party stands for

...and Ireland understands "flegs":

" it is more important than ever to celebrate the struggle for independence and equality that took place on this island and make sure the invasive weed of English-style nationalism can’t grow over our songs, stories and symbols."

English "Nationalism" is a pernicious perversion of an honest and realistic sense of pride in one's "home"

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/08/10/if-we-surrender-the-tricolour-to-the-racists-it-will-be-hard-to-get-it-back/

Note to the USA. This is how an orderly transfer of power is done. No threats, no armed invasions, no drawn-out foundationless disputes about vote tallies.

The Kibble Palace in Glasgow Botanical Gardens looking for all the world as though it is a starship that has put down gently in the middle of the city. OP by hawkaye.com on FB

I took this cue from @FiveSeventeen - I can't claim any credit:

In the year I was born the atmospheric CO2 concentration was 310.99ppm. This year it is 423.6ppm. That's a rise of over 30% in one lifetime. I am horrified. It can't go on - and yet I see no government anywhere that takes the gravity of what we face seriously.

"“Is society healthy, that an individual should return to it? Has not society itself helped to make the individual unhealthy? Of course, the unhealthy must be made healthy, that goes without saying; but why should the individual adjust himself to an unhealthy society? If he is healthy, he will not be a part of it. Without first questioning the health of society, what is the good of helping misfits to conform to society?”

Krishnamurti, "Commentaries on Living, Series 3” (1960)

@sciloqi @tbaldauf - The last great auks were killed by those supplying museums and collectors of dead birds precisely because they were becoming rarer and rarer. Now the Great Auk is extinct. I see the same mindset at play here.

Reasons not to vote for Starmer's "Labour Party" #1 - the party that can't accommodate leftwingers like Jeremy Corbyn but has no problem with this woman...

The other Keir (Hardie) must be turning in his grave!

I received my copy of "Nature" this morning and couldn't resist the front cover photo:

When I was young, in the immediate aftermath of WWII, I was brought up to believe that we had defeated Fascism. Now I am old, I realise that those battles have to be fought over and over again. Never in my lifetime have I felt so despondent about the future.

@goatsarah @RichardJMurphy @JohnDal @grayface_ghost

"The United Kingdom is not a serious country." True. When @pluralistic speaks of the enshittification of internet commerce, I think that the term applies to pretty much the whole of the UK. And it isn't going to change (in a positive direction) any time soon.