Notices by HighlandLawyer (highlandlawyer@mastodon.social)

@ChrisMayLA6
What if the Chancellor simply refuses to appoint him to the Chiltern Hundreds or Manor of Northstead until the conclusion of the PSC investigation?

@SusiArnott @ChrisMayLA6
MPs cannot resign, there is no legal provision to do so. BUT they can become ineligible to hold the position by accepting "an office or place of profit under the Crown" such as getting a job in the Civil Service, joining the regular armed forces, etc. There are also 2 special positions "Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds" & "Steward of the Manor of Northstead" which are nominally Crown positions, but don't actually pay anything.

@jargoggles @Orb2069 @SecondUniverse @KatyElphinstone
"I'm not a Nazi, I just do their work for them"

The banality of evil.

@mycrowgirl @skinnylatte
That's a posh version, the usual accoutrement would be "a wee dod o broon sauce".

@NormanDunbar @selzero @ravenbait
Or Dlù
https://youtu.be/dO1-iElRqFM
Or Balach
https://youtu.be/yCKBktKtIuw
Or Gun Ghaol
https://youtu.be/1-QiHvNZE-o

@selzero
Or one in the language specifically created to assist communication between all peoples
https://youtu.be/gWiH8BlpU0U

@selzero
Next time that they say "people coming here should learn the language..."

https://youtu.be/GY7q1DjmsiE

The Coventry Carol, a haunting song commemorating the infamous evil of a ruler of Israel ordering the massacre of children in Palestine
https://youtu.be/Wit-jGD4wCw

@Infoseepage @cstross
It's a good introduction for those who haven't read the Discworld books too

It's time of year to re-read "The Dark is Rising" by Susan Cooper; "Hogfather" by Terry Pratchett; and the short story "Overtime" by @cstross which is finally out on dead tree, but for years has been available for free at https://reactormag.com/overtime//

@publicdomainrev Volapük and Esperanto respectively demonstrate the difference between proprietary versus open source. Schleyer insisted he owned the language, and that it would develop how and when he said; Zamenhof created rules on how the language can be developed to ensure backwards compatibility, then handed it over to its users.

@riggbeck @dgar

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@gbargoud @moira @maria
Including him raising several court actions about it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Furie

@LillyHerself @Geri
"La loi, dans un grand souci d'égalité, interdit aux riches comme aux pauvres de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain."
~Anatole France

@Geri
Law is not morality. Historically there are 2 views on unjust laws: one is "lex injusta non esta lex" (An unjust law is no law at all); the other is the law is whatever the state says is the law, but one has a moral duty to oppose unjust laws. Both theories lead to a similar outcome- one should oppose unjust laws however ones morality permits or requires.
Civil disobedience means deliberately breaking a unjust law while accepting the legal consequences of doing so & is a highly moral act.

@Unixbigot @futzle
Sokath, his eyes uncovered.