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frandroid ([personal profile] frandroid) wrote2025-08-13 03:07 pm
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Okara cheese update

I was also looking to add quinoa to my rejuv' but couldn't find it. Eventually I found it last night while looking for a spice mix to add to my late night snack... Anyway this culture is doing well so far. I've since remixed the contents and transferred it to a new container.

— frandroid - Mahmoud Khalil is free!! (@frandroid.bsky.social) August 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Humph ([personal profile] spiralsheep) wrote2025-08-13 05:51 pm

In which our heroine reads and refuses

- Reading: 81 books to 13 Aug 2025.

DNFs: 5/86. I've had a higher percentage of dnfs than usual this year. Can't decide if my sense of personal mortality and the easy availability of other reading material is causing me to be pickier or whether I'm finally inside a demographic targeted for enough marketing guff to negatively effect my choices. Woe is me - the algorithms fail again &c. An especially surprising dnf was a book about trains and train travel that the author had mysteriously managed to make dull!

Current reading: 81. Perspectives by Laurent Binet, a library reservation with a waiting list, which was recommended by a discerning friend and is a good read so far (approximately 30% in).

Finished reading: 80. The Rings of Saturn, by WG Sebald, (translated by Michael Hulse), 1995 (1999), a patchwork of fictionalised (?) autobiographical essays and historical fact-tion and I-refuse-to-call-this-a-novel, 3/5. As I previously mentioned, I read this meditation on death and destruction while in similar settings to the framing story of a walk along the East Anglian coastline, and with the addition of extreme and bizarre weather this occasionally became a near-hallucinatory experience. I didn't find it engaging, however, nor as depressing as reading too much poetry by Thomas Hardy. Although I admit I over-identify with the habit of living like a refugee in your own life, as I'm sure many people exiled traumatically from their roots would. This is a better review of Rings of Saturn than I could ever write, lol (and, yes, three stars):
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/221843487

- Holiday history, enslavement: there was a debate about whether I'd visit Castell Penrhyn while I was in the area (I'm a NT member so get in free). I'll note here that I have a permanent bee in my bonnet about the way enslavers such as the Pennants are described and especially the following normative wording (not this author, whose book I enjoyed, but the whole normative framing):

"the Pennants [family], received £14,683 17s. 2d. (around 1.3 million today) for the freeing of 764 enslaved people in Jamaica"*

Because what actually happened was that the British people collectively through the British state bought people enslaved legally under British law, and the British people chose to free those enslaved people after changing British law to make owning people as chattel slaves illegal (although that didn't end other forms of "slave" labour, as the continued use of "indentured labour" and the need for a Modern Slavery Act in 2015 demonstrates). Owners of enslaved people in the British Empire could have legally "freed" those people any time but they didn't want to do so. The act of the British state buying and freeing enslaved people is framed as "compensation" for the owners "freeing" slaves, but the owners were forced by law to allow their slaves to nominally go free, and I for one refuse to accept any framing that credits the enslavers and not the people who made them stop (and British taxpayers continued paying for that from 1833 until 2015). This belated, and expensive, partial justice isn't worthy of any praise or pride but we should at least be honest about who did what, and what exactly they did. Reminder: the abolition of chattel slavery only became a popular cause after successful revolts by enslaved people, and the British "sugar strike" that hit enslavers' profits (the boycott was mostly participated in by working and middle class British women), and William Wilberforce et alia wanted to slow down the freeing of enslaved people.

* Note: the ex-slaves received no compensation, obv.
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loganberrybunny ([personal profile] loganberrybunny) wrote2025-08-13 01:43 pm
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A few thoughts on AI. Mostly a memo to self...

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...for whenever I get the time to write in more detail. But I might as well put it here. "AI should go away" (narrator from the future: AI did not go away) is not only unrealistic, it's also simplistic. For a start, LLMs (eg ChatGPT) are a subset of AI, not the whole thing. For another thing, chatting to an AI bot does not have to be worthless, as long as you understand what you're doing and why. And for another, some of the arguments being deployed against it are wildly broad, eg "stop machines doing human jobs". Without qualification? The printing press in the 15th century put humans (calligraphers) out of a job, and I'm assuming most people don't really want to live in 1450.

There are good arguments for being cautious and even cynical about quite a lot of aspects of AI. There are very serious questions about its effect on society, the economy and even our emotional wellbeing. Say that and I'll agree as I'm of that opinion myself, and again I'll try to expand on this on here at some point. But if you want recruits for the army of "AI is all slop, full stop" then I'm afraid I'm not going to enlist.
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sabotabby ([personal profile] sabotabby) wrote2025-08-13 08:22 am
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Reading Wednesday

Just finished: Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age by Ada Palmer. I went to art school semi-on-purpose. Which is to say I always loved art, loved drawing, but was it my passion? Who knows what a 13-year-old's passion is? I was nerdier about other things. But I was bullied in grade school and wanted only to get away from my tormentors when I finally graduated, and so I auditioned for the art school as an escape. I was good at drawing, good enough that they plucked me out of my boring town and away from everyone I hated. There I had teachers who truly were passionate about art, and art history, and I fell in love with not just the paintings and sculpture and architecture but the stories and personalities behind them. We scrimped and saved so that I could go on the school trip to Italy and there I got to see the art, and fall in love with Florence in particular, and walk in the footsteps of Michelangelo and Leonardo and Machiavelli and Lorenzo the Magnificent and it was the most incredible thing to happen to me in my life thus far.

So anyway reading this book was like reliving that, only—as Ada Palmer says throughout the book—"Ever-So-Much-But-More-So." Because there is more history than I knew, or learned since, more stories, more people, about 100 pages of footnotes, and it's contested history, histories complicated by someone who loves this era even more than I do. Despite the book's heft, it's a very fast read. Also I cried a l'il. Fight me. But read it.

Currently reading: Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. This is a re-read of my favourite SM-G book For Reasons and my God, Meche is even worse than I remembered. I love her. Ahaha. What a nightmare child.
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frandroid ([personal profile] frandroid) wrote2025-08-13 12:40 am
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rejuvelac, okara, drinkmate

I had started a rejuvelac culture with older whole rye berries that F had bought years ago, and they just spoiled. I chucked that, bought some new whole wheat berries, and started a new culture with these and brown rice grains as well. The rice had visible sprouting earlier than the wheat. After they germinated, you soak the grains in water for three days. At the end you filter everything out, chuck out the grains in the compost. The filtered liquid that's left, which smells like feet, is your rejuvelac. Eww. Apparently you can DRINK this?? I mean I will obviously try it because I am me.

F has a soymilk maker with which she makes her soymilk. At the end of the operation, you're left with soybean fiber and still lots of protein matter to be cast off. You can't make tofu from it, since tofu is made from precipitating soymilk anyway. It's sometimes used at cattle feed, but because it's so wet, it has a very short shelf like, so much of it is just disposed of. So F had made soymilk and had left her usual 2 cups of okara or so on the counter for me, because I had been looking at using a tempeh starter to make okara tempeh. People have done it, and it's not as good as tempeh, but apparently it's edible. I think if one was to mix in extra broken soybean chunks in the okara, like there is in tempeh, it could come closer to the experience. I thought I had bought tempeh starter, but I can't find it. It's probably deep in the freezer an I can't be bothered to empty the freezer to find it, so I thought that I'll just buy a new culture later. However this newest batch of okara has been sitting on the counter for three days now, it's fermenting a bit but it'll spoil if it stays there any longer, so I should just chuck it.

Meanwhile I'm looking at my cookbook which starts a lot of these vegan cheese recipes with pulverized cashews. And I had this okara in front of me. So the obvious thing to do is to try to start a cheese culture with the okara and the rejuvelac. It required more rejuvelac to get a smooth spin in the blender, possibly because my blender is not one of the ninja style machines, it's an old, classic Osterizer. But eventually I got a smooth spin going on, and it looks like the okara further pulverized itself, turning to a creamy texture.

So we'll see what I get! I could get a spoiled culture on account of the okara being left to rest on the counter for a while, I could have a vegan cheese, or maybe I could have some sort of disgusting natto paste. If I get a spoiled culture, I'll just try again with fresh okara in a week.

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Oh yeah, I had bought a Drinkmate, the BDS-safe bubbly water machine, (don't buy SodaStream) but in typical ADHD fashion the box had just been sitting there, unopened for a few weeks. The goal being to add more bubbly beverages to my rotation to drink less beer or something. So I finally opened and unpacked it. Even just carbonated plain water is nice. What this machine has that's better than the SodaStream is that you can carbonate other beverages too... So if I find the rejuvelac edible, I'm going to see about carbonating it too. :P But more seriously, I'm looking forward to make bubbly cold chai, and bubbly amaro type things.
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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2025-08-15 02:30 am

Caged Bird by Maya Angelou

A free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wing
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.

The free bird thinks of another breeze
and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn
and he names the sky his own.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.


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Link
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cornerofmadness ([personal profile] cornerofmadness) wrote2025-08-12 09:39 pm
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Now that's what I'm talking about

So the only thing on deck today other than driving home was going to Hershey World. A) yes it's a giant tourist trap b) yes it's mostly for kids c) yes it's kinda hokey.

BUT I have wanted to do the 'factory' tour since I was a kid and never got to. I took myself. I got there early-ish lucky me (because there was no line and they have the queue line all dolled up with history to read while you sit around waiting. (I also was now on the clock. It was free to park for 3 hours, after that you were getting hit with a 35-60$ bill)

There is plenty of things to do at Hershey World as you can see. Most of it of course is geared to kids. I wasn't interested in that. One thing I thought SHOULD be on that web page is their no stroller policy. You can park them in the food court but with this level of people streaming in you couldn't just park it and level. I get why this is a rule. I saw the size of those strollers. You wouldn't be able to move inside but you should give people warning. Maybe I'm NOT taking my 1 and 3 year old if I have to carry them thru the whole thing and come back in a couple years...

I did not get through the gift shop unscathed (I'm talking POUNDAGE of chocolate here). This is where all the exclusive flavors were. I got me so many (good choice there, diabetic, good choice) cafe espresso and caramel macchiato and pumpkin spice latte nuggets, brownie and hazelnut kisses, a crystal kiss dish for mom for the holidays, peppermint patty chips for cookie making, whacky exclusive bars (some of which will be going into deep freeze for later gift giving), some expensive exclusive caramel chocolate and receese's cups with chocolate lava centers because peanut butter cups are MY favorite. I also found ancient ones I haven't seen if years like zagnuts.

I learned that krackle (another one I liked) dates to the 20s. Cool (so working on that Spider family as kids story. It's gonna happen) Another woman with a cane saw my purple sparkly one (I needed it at this point) and wanted to know where I got it as she has a boring black one (Amazon). Me and that cane nearly died getting onto the chocolate lab ride because it's a rotating floor and holy hell that's difficult to navigate when you can't feel your feet.


Yes I over spent. I did get out while parking was free. I tried that damn chocolate avenue grill again because it was 11:30 and it only opened at 11. Nope, full up. Went to Houlihan's a PA chain I haven't seen in years, had the best buffalo chicken sandwich I've had in a LONG time (the sauce had a bit of salt. I liked that also ranch dressing with blue cheese crumbles which I laughed because last night I had Beat Bobby Flay on as background noise and the judges reamed Bobby for mixing the two. Shows what they know)

Drove home. Too many 18 wheelers. SO many 18 wheelers but I'm home. My knee is done. It looks like a pumpkin.

Can't believe I'll be going back to work within two weeks.

I SHOULD get caught up on comments tomorrow. Thanks for coming along on vacation with me. I probably won't have the pictures up for a day or two because I have to get my syllabi done AND my loan repayment paperwork which the government just made infinitely harder to do (basically returned it to what it was 20 years ago)
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loganberrybunny ([personal profile] loganberrybunny) wrote2025-08-12 11:41 pm
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Here we go again...

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Bewdley Auto Services, 12th August 2025
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It reached 32 °C here today. In terms of daily maximum temperatures, this summer looks likely to come close to the all-time record, set in the legendary summer of 1976, given the forecast for the next couple of weeks. It won't be as dry as summer 1976, but the heat is on, so to speak. My photo was taken while on a walk just out of town to get an ice cream at a local farm shop. This garage has been around for many years, using an old farm building as its workshop. It's an MOT Test centre, hence the blue and white sign out front. The banner on the side is advertising Bewdley Beer Festival, which happens over August Bank Holiday weekend later this month.
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Humph ([personal profile] spiralsheep) wrote2025-08-12 04:49 pm

In which there is flanage inside Conwy's medieval town walls

Conwy is a town in North Wales, beside the estuary of the River Conwy and currently in the county of Conwy. The medieval town walls were built between 1283-7 to exclude local people of the Kingdom of Gwynedd (aka Cymry / Welsh) from a town of English colonial settlers planted by successful invader Edward I of England.

As the area within the walls is small and the streets are mostly gridded I decided to try a walk using the pattern first left then second right then first left &c. My starting point was the highest gate through the walls, which is conveniently called Upper Gate and provides staircase access up to the wall walk along the battlements (also currently accessible during Castle opening hours from Rose Hill St, and from Conwy Railway Station although the access here isn't obvious).

Cut for your scrolling pleasure )

Spiralsheep's Quick Guide to Conwy

- Quirkiest feature: educational bilingual wall-plaques on Chapel St at the top of York Place.

- Best building: Tudor townhouse Plas Mawr (fabulous - best in show - but 3 to 4 storeys of spiral stairs + a ladder to the viewing tower). Plas Mawr on wikipedia.

- Best views of the estuary: currently from the wall walk of Conwy Castle (steep slopes, spiral stairs, and trip hazards), but the flattish walk along the estuary from the northwest corner of town also has glorious views. Example view on geograph.

- Must do freebie: town walls (ascend to the wall walk if you can - the highest watchtower, Tŵr Gwylio, has one of the best views of the town - or at ground level where the walls are best seen from outside and at the gates).

- Also known for: two of the three bridges, especially Telford's historic suspension bridge. Conwy suspension bridge on wikipedia.
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disneydream06 ([personal profile] disneydream06) wrote2025-08-12 03:33 am
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ritalovett ([personal profile] ritalovett) wrote2025-08-12 02:58 am
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Magneto had a point.

I just finished watching the X-Men trilogy. Look, I know Magneto's actions are reprehensible; like, putting an innocent teenage girl in a machine he knew would kill her, attempting to genocide all of humanity, and abandoning Mystique when she saved him from being "cured" (that scene literally made me cry).

But like I still found myself wanting him to win. Because he had a point.

Also, he was a GILF, and despite all of his war crimes, he looked hot doing it. So... it's okay. :)

There's also the feeling of being a Jewish person watching this and being so used to people expecting us to lay down and let others kick us without fighting back. And seeing a Jewish Holocaust survivor mutant be like “lol no” and wreak havoc on his oppressors in the most brutal ways...it's cathartic. Even if his methods are morally wrong because he also targets innocent people. He's such a complex villain.
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disneydream06 ([personal profile] disneydream06) wrote2025-08-11 10:37 pm

Political Rant.....

W.T.F. NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Trump Takes Over D.C. Police and Deploys National Guard in Nation's Capital in Unprecedented Power Grab

The president has been insisting that Washington has too much homelessness and crime, despite crime rates dropping substantially since 2023

By Kyler Alvord



https://people.com/donald-trump-takes-over-dc-government-deploys-national-guard-11788370?hid=7f1109a25d2362f31854399df255b82ba78f015e&did=18977911-20250811&utm_source=ppl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ppl-news_newsletter&utm_content=081125&lctg=7f1109a25d2362f31854399df255b82ba78f015e&lr_input=758ad690760192cf49795c3f52223721cac5324e3e862e41c5d4db73a4d43f32&utm_term=midday
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cornerofmadness ([personal profile] cornerofmadness) wrote2025-08-11 09:43 pm
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Chocolatey



I made it to Hershey in spite of construction and the fact that half of Hershey is 'road closed' I went to the Hershey Story Museum. Now, I admit it, this is a biased museum of course but probably easily fact checked. If it's all true, Milton Hershey was a good millionaire. He gave like 60 Million dollars to an orphanage, started schools for his workers children, gave them decent wages (mostly), made a community for them including golf courses (and one for the kids) theaters etc. It was a nice museum.

I hit Wendy's for lunch for the first time in like 15 years. You all can guess why. I wanted the Meal of Misfortune. It was a surprising number of chicken nuggets like 8 of them (I don't like nuggets) but there was no cartilage in them and it was tolerable with the dips (a spicy blackish/dark purple one and one obviously raspberry base) and my sundae needed more goo but it was good.

From there I went to the Hershey Gardens, a tiny bit pricey for a small garden (but I know how much it is to take care of a place like this) They had a butterfly collection, you the know the type. Lots a blue morphos floating around but there were ones I've never seen before like a dead leaf butterfly (which looked just like a dead leaf) and had some other insects and reptiles, including the bird poop frog (well named) and a white tree frog who had SUCH a face.

There were all kinds of beautiful roses which would have looked even better about 6 weeks ago. Also would have been nicer if it wasn't 1001 degrees out there. Pretty sure the sun is cooler. I loved that there is a Milton Hershey rose (bred for him in the 20s or 30s) and later they renamed one Catherine Hershey. Milton's was nearly extinct but it's back and they were selling it and if I had a place for it....

From there I saw there was 2 hours before everything closed so I went to the car museum. I wanted to break a bunch of collection cabinets and steal me scads of hood ornaments (I love them so) they had american, french and british. There was a deluxe edition steudabaker one that was a full devil with tail and a pitchfork (from the 20s-30s) and pierce arrow had one with a naked mercury on it (well he had his fig leaf) from 1926.

It was three floors of cars and motorcycles. Oddly enough there weren't many trucks. The ground floor was a lot of dirt bikes (not my thing) and big cars/buses. The first floor had the most cars, lots of station wagons for some reason and a really nice Tucker collection (fantastic cars, ahead of their time, he was run out of the business by the big boys in Detroit) Top floor were more motorcycles (one from the 40s called the whizzer....) and all my hood ornaments. (now I see me doing a human Arackniss and Angel story just to work in those hood ornaments and sending them to Hershey Park.

On the way from here to the hotel, my GPS takes one last gasp at killing me. I should have been in the left lane but nope it says go right....RIGHT into hershey park (hey it was only 35$ but I'm not sure if that's park entrance or just the parking) I tell the guy what happened because it's a one way. I couldn't turn around. He laughed and waved me in and said just keep going. It'll circle back out for you.

Dinner was a huge disappointment and a bit scary. I wanted to go to the chocolate avenue grill (nope, totally packed) so I hit another biggie around here Troeg's Brewery. I ended up with a 20$ sandwich and fries and the world's most overpriced beer. I didn't realize the prices were on the sign across the big bar space. So when I was choosing between the Jovial dupple ale and the freaky peach sour ale I could have gotten two of the Jovial. Didn't see that and paid 14$ for ONE freaking sour ale which was stored in a bourbon barrel so all I could really taste was bourbon. It was good but it wasn't worth the price of a six pack.

The scary part wasn't the price (that was the disappointment). When I went to pay for it, I realized my gym wallet wasn't in my purse. I know I had it at the hotel when I dumped the purse out looking for the insulin but it is GONE now. While I have money/credit in my main wallet, the gym wallet has my id and my main credit card. It wasn't outside the restaurant or in the Bronco. Fantastic. I have no idea where my driver's license is. I just drank a large sour ale that is 9% alcohol in a strange town in a car that isn't mine. Whee. Made it back to the hotel. Still can't find my wallet. I was getting ready to go tear up the Bronco and/or ask the front desk to see if it was turned in but then I saw that the bed spread had a cuff on it. Did the wallet slide under there? Thankfully yes. Geez.

The tub here is weird. High. Deep. Narrow, like it's hard to have your feet side by side. And boy do I miss my handicapped room from the Wyndham with it's high toilet. This one is about 2 inches off the ground. Thank god I can pull up on the vanity.

And I am wake enough to do music monday (but probably NOT to answer anyone's responses yet) I Feel free to share with us. We're doing the alphabet and we're up to T. I'm only sharing the last 5 years but you can share whatever T song you'd like.

Teeing up )
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Amphobet ([personal profile] amphobet) wrote2025-08-11 07:22 pm

Wreck-It Ralph's Origins Revealed?

So, since I'm sure that everyone here is curious, here's my Wreck-It Ralph headcanon.

We know from established lore that Ralph's backstory is that he was minding his own business and living in a tree stump, and then the Nicelanders basically showed up and did a colonialism. I mean it seems weird that he's the bad guy, right? They literally bulldozed his home and built an apartment building on top of it.

But consider: he's the villain of "Fix-it Felix, Jr."

But what if he was the HERO of the original arcade game, Fix-It Felix?

This would follow the pattern of the Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. arcade games. In the original, Jumpman/Mario is the hero and DK the villain. But in Jr, Mario is the bad guy and DK jr is the hero.

So I would argue that in the original Fix-It Felix arcade game, you likely played as Ralph, and the bad guy was Fix-It Felix, Sr.
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loganberrybunny ([personal profile] loganberrybunny) wrote2025-08-11 11:40 pm
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Pile 'em high and sell 'em cheap(ish)

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Cheap & Cheerful, Bewdley, 11th August 2025
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A mildly unpleasant day's weather today, with a very warm feel but not a great deal of sunshine, so it felt muggy and close. Even some light rain in the evening, although not enough to do the garden much good. Today's photo is of Bewdley's only real discount shop, Cheap & Cheerful. It's as piled high with stuff inside as it is outside, so despite being a fairly small place it does stock a lot of things! Ironically, it's not that cheap -- in some cases it's better value to go into Kidderminster and visit one of its much larger discount stores or even a supermarket. It's certainly convenient, though, as long as you've remembered your physical money as it's still a cash only shop. The bunting above the sign is in Bewdley Rowing Club colours and is left over from the regatta a couple of weeks ago.
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Humph ([personal profile] spiralsheep) wrote2025-08-11 06:01 pm

In which the British government continue to support genocides

Amnesty International, amongst many other local and international human rights organisations, have yet again warned the British government of Keith Starmer about its disturbing overreach in outlawing peaceful protest and enforcing the arrest and criminal charging of ordinary British subjects as "terrorists" for sitting quietly while holding anti-genocide cardboard signs in public places (such as below statues of Gandhi and Millicent Fawcett). According to my tally over 720+ politically-motivated arrests of peaceful protestors have been committed within the last few weeks. The 521 arrests in London on Saturday 9 August 2025 were the most in a single police action for at least a decade according to the Met. I will be thinking of Jeremy Shippam, 71, and Judit Murray, 71, and Fiona Maclean, 53, on 16 September when they become the first of these political prisoners to be tried for the "terrorism" of peacefully sitting where they could be seen silently expressing anti-genocide sentiments in public.

Amnesty International's statement on their website.

It horrifies me that I live in a nation state in which people peacefully protesting against genocide are targeted for the utter destruction of their lives through misuse of the legal system, although it's unsurprising that abuse of the legal system is Keith Starmer's choice of weapon and England does have recent historical form for destroying people who stand up against genocide by foreign powers (if that genocide is perceived as profitable for UK PLC). /the ghost of Roger Casement and every Brit who campaigned against genocide in the Belgian Congo stares over my shoulder... amongst many others....

The nation state of Israel continues its genocide of Palestinians in Palestine. The UK continues to export arms to Israel for use in this genocide. The UK continues to supply arms used in several ongoing genocides (and the UK taxpayer subsidises this).
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The Scorpions "Winds of Change" was most recently used in the movie "The Fall Guy".....


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disneydream06 ([personal profile] disneydream06) wrote2025-08-11 09:16 am

Monday At The Movies.....

This Week's Movie Quote...

D.: You know what an older women does for me?
I.: Changes your diapers?
D.: Touché.


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Last Week's Movie Quote...

Sheik Amar: Tch, secret government killing activity! That's why I don't pay taxes!

It comes from the 2010 action movie, "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time".
It starred Jake Gyllenhaal and was based on a video game.
Sadly, it was a dud at the box office and there weren't any sequels to come.
Which is a shame because Jake was HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hehehe.......



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