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Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash… and I’m delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever!

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It's a noble sentiment that I'd love to support but historically if you look at countries like Chile, fascists will round up masses of people. I've always not understood why anti-fascists don't plan for contingencies like having to go underground - especially as we can see the way things are travelling in places like the UK.

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In terms of saving art you find, take a look at sef-hosting Pinry. I've run it for 4+ years. There are plugins for Firefox and other browsers.

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This has been a repeated acusatiom on the left for many years: that the Frankfurt School was a means of undermining Marxism and actual revolutionary groups. It probably wasn't needed as Stalin and his gang were doing pretty well in doing that on their own.

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What a weird response. Glad you read more into my comment that I did.

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It rains in the UK. When the Romans invaded they noticed how cloudy and rainy the place is. Still is.

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Shocked Pikachu face: British political system is corrupt? It wasn't that long ago that rich people had more than one vote if they had houses in different constituencies and would travel across the country to vote many times. Or that graduated from Oxford or Cambridge had two votes. Or not long before that that candidates could round up voters take them to the pub and buy them drinks and then to cast their votes. And that's before all the cash for honours scandals...

Surely people don't believe that there was ever a time when parliamentary politics was ever honest.

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It's noticeable how many right-wing grifters have found Jesus over the last few years. Top of the list is James Delingpole (who at least has the sense to so obviously satirise his whole Christ-believing-comspiracy-theorist send-up).

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Oxbridge graduates double votes only ended in 1950. 2021 for the last major cash for honours scandal. Not so long ago really.

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Yes, you are correct. And I'm also not being accurate in that the second vote was for the University's constituency rather than two in the home constituency.

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Former English teacher here. My self-hosting origin is that I had 20 years or so of teaching materials I'd collected in OneNote over that time and simply wanted to have offline copies so that I could feel that if ever something went wrong with Microsoft like getting permanently locked out of my account, then I had a means of restoring everything. Microsoft makes it practically impossible to export to a working backup.

After spending a LONG time trying everything to get back ownership of my materials, I understood the need to move my digital stuff away from big tech. I bought a Synology NAS, learned how to use Docker and then took more steps. About the same time I started using Fediverse apps and learned a great deal from the discussions and links there. My greatest "learn" has been keeping notes in plaintext files (and not getting seduced by nice shiny new apps that are actually horrors that want lure you into a future subscription).

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I did make the jump... into unemployment. But still much happier. I love teaching and would join an authentic, child-centred school at the drop of a hat - but not willing to be complicit in the toxic horror show that's current UK education.

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That's one of the other big issues. I have the same worries about how digital-only gaming has become. My kids seem to prefer digital downloads and really don't believe me when I warn them that they have absolutely no control over what they "buy". But they look at me like one of those crazy old-timers who just doesn't understand the modern world.

I started with Logseq and then quickly moved to Obsidian (which I think is great). Over the last couple of months I've started using Emacs with Org (partly for the challenge and partly because it seems to be able to do pretty much everything).

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Have the courts come to an actual definition of what (animal) milk actually is? Last I read, neither EU or UK could define it. Milk's content differs so much from brand to brand and there's no set standard. Presumably other than it comes from an animal of some kind.

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Thank you. That was actually weirdly interesting in terms of the specificity (while also being quite broad). I can't imagine how many hours and meetings and people were involved in that.

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Supposedly each episode of Disney's Doctor Who cost about £10 million!

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Has no one noticed how many Americans have always worked around Westminster in the think-tanks, in the lobby groups and even in the civil service. Did anyone actually think that the UK government was actually running things?

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We're a couple of years out but the Labour left, Your Party and the Greens need to establish some sort of electoral alliance to stand against what is an increasingly dangerous Right. Who am I kidding? Most of these parties exist to split the vote and let the Right maintain their rightful hegemony.

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This sort of stuff - which indicates organised international political operations by the far-right - will get drowned out by the rabble-rousing "pedo" noise.

tenebrisnox ,
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Benzion Freshwater.

Surely that's a made-up name? Do you have to have a name like that to be a billionaire?

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Palantir is literally the Eye of Sauron watching. These ghouls aren't hiding what they're doing.

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I don't blame him. Choice of one stable and expanding authoritarian regime and one unstable and expanding authoritarian regime. Do the Chinese police hold nurses down in the street and shoot them?

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In the last 5-10 years our residential road has gone from having normal family cars parked outside houses to pretty much these types of monstrosities and - worse - transit vans. Our Yaris looks like a toy car in comparison to these behemoths! What's worse is the ones who have drives can't fit them so they park in the street.

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Why aren't the vans parked in commercial car parks or premises? And why do their owners insist on parking them wherever they like (but not their own drives!) without any thought for pedestrians? At the same time, after about 7pm it becomes almost impossible to find a parking space largely because of the sheer number of vans. I'm not talking about the little white vans but the big ones. Commercial vans and pickups have no place being parked in residential streets. Or, charge them higher rates of parking permit fees for commercial vehicles. No one is driving a big van as their family vehicle - unless they're Steptoe & Son or Trotters Trading.

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Why doesn't your company provide parking? Why should other people not be able to park because people with business vehicles hog residential parking?

I live in a road that's nearly 150+ years old. Not sure that the planners foresaw vans and monster-cars. They were probably more concerned with horses and carts. I doubt trademen parked their carts and hitched their horses outside of other people's houses in the street.

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Are these "talent liason" outposts what used to be called spies? And doesn't the UK have "talent liason" people in China? Excuse me if I'm not really shocked about this. Surely, rather than moan about it, the UK security services need to use some James Bond-types to investigate (using some futuristic gadgets like chewing gum that blows up etc) and sort it out. Usually these "talent liason" outposts are inside volcanoes or deep sea bases. Should be easy to spot in UK.

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In other news: rabid dog bites gurning man.

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Welcome to the UK... country that once had aspirations to be a center of digital tech... now just wants a Victorian factory education for its kids. Soon pen and paper will be too radical and chalkboard slates will be reintroduced. You can hear the "teach from the front"-types salivating already. "The Empire was built on rote and chalk, Mr Gradgrind!"

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Palantir = truly evil Skynet.

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Mild is an understatement. It's likely beyond the ability of most people to set up. To the extent it's exclusionary.

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Yes, I was referring to the technical hurdles you have to jump to be able to participate in Gemini. Surely we want stuff like this to be participatory rather than passive read-only?

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Why is it "sus"? Isn't it basically a bootloader for isos?

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Teachers not able to have board pens unless they pay for them out of their own pockets... meanwhile the CEO of the academy chain near us earns £350k a year and has a car with a chauffeur. Some CEOs are earning more that that. There are a lot of "senior leaders" - heads, deputies, assistant heads - earning big money, too. UK education has been utterly ruined since 1988.

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Is Journiv still having issues with export? I couldn't get it to work (tried following all the stuff I could find about the export issues and folder permissions) - so I gave up. A shame because I like the app.

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Thanks. I took another look at your documentation and decided to re-install everything. You're right, I'd used the simple "test" compose script from your site. After a little trial and error, I got everything working properly with this:

services:
  redis:
    image: redis:7-alpine
    container_name: journiv-redis
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - /mnt/dietpi_userdata/docker-data/journiv/redis-data:/data
    command: redis-server --appendonly yes

  journiv:
    image: swalabtech/journiv-app:latest
    container_name: journiv
    ports:
      - "8111:8000"
    environment:
      - SECRET_KEY=XXX
      - DOMAIN_NAME=XXX
      - CELERY_BROKER_URL=redis://redis:6379/0
      - CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND=redis://redis:6379/0
      - REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379/0
    volumes:
      - /mnt/dietpi_userdata/docker-data/journiv/data:/data
    restart: unless-stopped
    depends_on:
      - redis

  celery-worker:
    image: swalabtech/journiv-app:latest
    container_name: journiv-celery-worker
    entrypoint: []
    command: ["celery", "-A", "app.core.celery_app", "worker", "--loglevel=info"]
    environment:
      - SECRET_KEY=XXX
      - DOMAIN_NAME=XXX
      - CELERY_BROKER_URL=redis://redis:6379/0
      - CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND=redis://redis:6379/0
      - REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379/0
    volumes:
      - /mnt/dietpi_userdata/docker-data/journiv/data:/data
    restart: unless-stopped
    depends_on:
      - redis
      - journiv

Exports are working!

tenebrisnox ,
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Give him time. Already published this week in the Spectator giving his views about how great Trump is etc. Next week he'll be back on the evening dinner circuit, the week after back in Westminster. By Spring he'll be in the cabinet as Foreign Sectetary.

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I'm starting to see this. Over on Mastodon I'm starting to get devisive pro-Reform stuff in my feed. Often it's someone boosting (though not sure why) a video from a pro-Farage account and making a silly comment about it. The local instance I'm in is nice and friendly - and I don't want the arrival of people who just want to stir up things. We do politics there and seems left-leaning but it's courteous. Occasionally a tone deaf elephant will thunder through and then move instances when they realise we don't like the being nasty stuff.

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Trump and Trumpette.

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Skynet.

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Yes, a "Left-leaning" and "independent" think tank that used to be led by the Tory MP David Willets and now run by Ruth Curtice who was Director of fiscal policy to the Treasury for the Tories for 15 years. Of course I'll believe what they opine. Just like I would have listened to the charities in the 18th and 19th century who warned about how ending child labour as chimney sweeps would destroy the British economy and everyday life while arguing that the children should have the opportunity to learn the Scripture.

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Disappointed as I thought this was something to do with Richard Shaver. Never enough stuff about the Shaver Mysteries these days.

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Yes. He seems to forget that "officially" the top 10% hold around 43-45% of all wealth, while the bottom 50% hold only about 9-10% of total wealth in the UK. And that doesn't account for all the wealth they have hidden away offshore etc.

There is a LOT that can be squeezed out of a not-so-tiny elite. Or, to be better phrased, redistributed justly.

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I actually enjoy Mastodon because the "followers" you get or the ones you follow are few and it's all manageable. I don't understand the appeal
of following so many that you can't possibly keep up with what they write about or who they are.

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I guess it's punishment and redemption. The idea of "doing time" and then going back to your life is strong in British culture.

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Bear in mind about 50% of Greens are moderate or middle-right and only backing Polanski as long as he looks like he can extend the party. Greens are the sort you can make temporary alliances with but not for lasting change. We do need a left-wing alliance, however, and Your Party isn't it sadly.

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Going to be hard for Your Party to recover from this. It's either a popular front which means an activist alliance of left parties and greens - or an actual small parliamentary-orientated party. At this point in the game Sultana is probably right in principle but woefully wrong in tactics.

Rich People Are Becoming Less Willing to Help With the World’s Problems ( novaramedia.com )

In the UK, only 28% of high-income households surveyed in 2025 said they agree their taxes should go towards solving global problems – a huge drop from 41% in 2024. Low-income UK households (earning £14,999 per year or less) polled in the opposite direction and were actually more likely to agree than last year, while those on ...

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They've won the propaganda war convincing the majority that low tax = freedom and prosperity. However, the period of post-World War 2 social improvement was characterised by VERY high taxes for the rich.

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This is the same MP who voted against the 10 Minute Rule Bill to ban marriages between first cousins and against decrimilisation of abortion. I fear he was never going to be at home in a socialist party.

Regardless, Your Party is DoA.

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The idea that attendance at the founding conference is going to be done by "sortition" (lottery) - except, of course, for the select self-chosen important people - is another sign that Your Party is not the organisation the left are looking for.