Notices by MostlyTato (mostlytato@mstdn.social)

@selzero
Torpenhow wins the Tautology naming 😀 there's also Pendle Hill (hill hill hill) and the River Avon (river river)

@jeffowski
I'll not bitch, I won't share if its not alt texted and its not my place to do someone else's alt text. However, its entirely my prerogative and no-one else's to determine what I will or will not share, and to state my reasons for doing so if I so wish.

@jeffowski
Hahaha laugh of the day I'm so glad I could boost it for being alt texted

@lowqualityfacts
We are all just clever potatoes really 😏

@dalias
Setting a foundation is by its nature a slow and methodical process, and we all know how essential a good foundation is for building anything.
Too many things are done without doing the slow, boring, core necessities.
I've never really understood that.
If you get it right from the start, everything takes less effort and becomes orders of magnitude easier.
But I guess people want to zap to the interesting stuff.
I wonder how that is going...

@jargoggles @bmacDonald94

Under-rated post here.
Only those already convinced listen.
The realisation will come, as will most things human, way beyond the point when it is too late.
Everything has its time.

#climate #ClimateChange #apocalypse

I like to post something like this every now and again to remind me how far I have come.
In 2019 my old life ended, nearly literally. In Spring 2020, it began again, much to my surprise.
My little yard very much reflects how my mind works: it is built from broken, discarded things, but is ordered, growing and full of unusual delight.
Pictures: the back yard of the house I moved in to in 2020, back then, and now. Every item, the pots, containers, compost & plants has been scavenged.
#gardening

"Reality cannot be ignored except at a price,
and the longer the ignorance is persisted in,
the higher and more terrible
becomes the price that must be paid."

~ 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley.

#quotes

@lowqualityfacts
The kebab van outside my University main entrance was found b y the food science department to have meat with 'a significant proportion of seagull' in it. At least that's the story. Got to admit, it was very tasty.

@lowqualityfacts
This is why I always wink and tip my hat.

@molly0xfff @kim_harding
It depends. Its not actually the idea itself I have an issue with, its that in my experience, I've only encountered those who posted to twitter first then cross posted here just for a presence but ignored any response. That pisses me off. But if people actually engage, I have no problem with the mechanism they use to post.

@kim_harding @molly0xfff
I block all cross-posted material as best I can. Whilst I get the idea of owning your own material, I'm not willing to engage with anyone who can't take the time to be present on a platform. I got properly fed up with references to twitter on Mastodon as 'this site' from people who were just posting here to adopt a presence but were unwilling to engage. Same with all bridged accounts etc. Not interested.

@augieray
It could be centuries, in some form. But I believe we are guaranteed to see a collapse of society within the next two generations. Whatever the timescale, in the broad scale of things, overshoot is happening now.
I don't believe at all that means we shouldn't do anything about it; trying to arrest the rate of change is always worth the effort. But I think it's wise to be realistic before you can be genuinely optimistic about the adaptability and survivability of our species.

@CloudyMrs
England, the United Kingdom, Great Britain and Britain, all different things that many seem to think are synonymous.

Seeing UK news stories about banning "zombie-style knives and machetes."
I think this is bad reporting. It implies that all machetes are being banned, which is not true, only zombie-style ones.
Its should read "zombie-style knives and zombie-style machetes."
Which is how it is described on the gov.uk website, along with a link to a document with a flow chart that tells you if your knife is banned or not.
Picky? I think not, as it changes the meaning.
#uknews #news

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/compensation-scheme-for-zombie-knives-and-machetes

"The politicians who tell us they don’t agree with the rioters, but think they have 'legitimate concerns' are the same politicians who say they don’t agree with Israel’s genocide, but supplied weapons for ten months anyway."

#UKRiots #ukpolitics #farageriots

https://mastodon.social/@Skembear/112933567641303106

@essjayjay @fkamiah17
As societies begin to collapse, government will invariably tend towards fascism over time as a method of control. Thus the Overton window shifts as it is doing. It seems to me to be a broad and inexorable pattern.
The new government may seem like a last huzzah, a nod to socialism in name only, witht the same masters as their predecessors.
I do fear for what comes after them. It won't be another Labour government.

@me
That is a brilliant interaction, where everyone benefited. Also, I'm glad I read that little story, thank you.

@me
That's cool. My neighbours dog used to bring all his toys around to play with me, one by one. At the end if the day I'd take them back so that he could bring them around again the next day.

@feditips
I'd definitely emphasise the unlisted thing. I see so many threads that fill my entire timeline because people don't know this. I want to read the entire thread anyway but I don't want it to block out everything else on my timeline.