Notices by d a t green (davidallengreen@mastodon.green)

A neighbourhood has three cafes: Threads cafe, BlueSky cafe and Mastodon cafe.

Some people prefer one, while others go from one to another to say hello.

A few like all three.

All good: no reason for there just to be one.

But we all avoid the once-popular place that went bad under new management.

“…the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was ‘Oh no, not again’.”

NEW

A postcard from the day after an election

Capturing a further political-constitutional moment

By me

Substack
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/a-postcard-from-the-day-after-an

Personal Blog
https://davidallengreen.com/2024/11/a-postcard-from-the-day-after-an-election-capturing-a-further-political-constitutional-moment/

As there is nothing we in UK can do to affect the outcome, and as polls are unreliable, may be sensible to avoid looking at US news until the election.

“The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Elon Musk of Greenbridge, South Africa, in the destruction of the planet Earth.”

A wonderful piece of prose.

Look carefully at how long she waits before starting a sentence with “I”. And then wham.

@BethanyBlack

Which decent app is that?

@BethanyBlack Delighted to see you back on here. You have been missed.

Supporting Donald Trump is too much for Richard Cheney

The significance of the illiberal former Vice President now opposing the undemocratic former President

A new post by me

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/supporting-donald-trump-is-too-much (Substack)

https://davidallengreen.com/2024/09/supporting-donald-trump-is-too-much-for-richard-cheney/ (personal blog)

@goatsarah Future tense, quilt?

Yes, local newspapers are essential in so many ways.

But it is getting so that life is too short to ever click onto a local news website.

Avoiding the onslaught of adverts is like playing Space Invaders. And working out where the next paragraph of a news item is like Where's Wally.

There must be a more balanced way of supporting local news sites.

The sheer un-usability of so many of the sites now means that the advertisers cannot be benefitting, and so the journalists cannot be benefitting.

Remember when the courts had no idea about social media.

Now:

Should I turn "Fediverse sharing" on over at Threads?

Good-tempered replies welcome.

Musk and X threatening all-out war with the European Union merely means that they will end up being stuffed with their own equivalent of the Northern Irish protocol.

Anyone active on social media with a very high following will tend to go mad and/or radicalise, unless they make a determined effort not to do so.

It is not possible to process so many relationships on a constant 24/7 basis. And to try to do try to do so means you will either lose sense or perspective.

I once had far too many followers and I just had to shove the brakes on, locking my account and so on.

There is such an absolute disconnect between the actual facts of the Southport killings (alleged killer is British-born, Christian) and the riots, it is almost as if any trigger would have done.

Had it not been Southport they would have fixed on some other pretext.

This is not spontaneous. This is contrived.

If your 'legitimate concern' is a view you hold regardless of the evidence, and which you use to justify any hateful thing you do or say, it is neither a 'concern' nor 'legitimate'.

It is an excuse, cloaking something very different.

“…but what about Republican legal challenges?”

Democrats are still before their Convention. With decent lawyering and deft formal choreography there is nothing the Republicans can do to stop a new nominee.

US Democrats are fretting in July about getting a candidate for a November election in respect of taking office in January.

We would have had five Conservative Prime Ministers in the same time period.

"My name is Liz Truss, former PM;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains.
Round the decay of an iceberg lettuce, boundless and bare,
the lone and level Norfolk Broads stretch far away.”