elmussol

Paul Taylor

elmussol@elsmussols.net

Location:: in the mountains near
Xerta, Catalunya Spain

Gender:: Mostly Male

Status:: Happy

hard-earned €

elmussol

Xerta, Sun, 26 Jan 2020 23:16:55 +0100

Not keen on days that involve 800km of driving, but it's cash. Same trip again on Wednesday. For those interested: Xerta > Gandesa (pick up) > Torrevieja (drop off) > Xerta.

life

ghostdancer

Sun, 26 Jan 2020 23:42:51 +0100 from ActivityPub

@elmussol How are the roads after this week. Have they cleaned them up?

elmussol

Sun, 26 Jan 2020 23:52:11 +0100 last edited: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 23:52:49 +0100

Not bad at all. It obvious where there have been mudslides cleared etc. I deliberately didn't do the coast road as trafico says there are still problems. The inland road through Castellò, València and Alacant provinces is so much nicer anyway. Seen a lot of snow.

ghostdancer

Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:01:37 +0100 from ActivityPub

@elmussol Good to know you didn't have problems.

not one dud

elmussol

Xerta, Sat, 18 Jan 2020 20:14:01 +0100

!Music !Music Box Chapeau to Mr Larry Grogan. This week marked the 500th edition of the Funky 16 Corners Radio Show. This is a monumental achievement in and of itself, but the hour I'm about to propose surpasses Larry's already high standards. Not unexpectedly, he takes the opportunity to only play tunes from the special section of the top drawer. Every tune is a stormer -- not a single dud.

Download it, attach your device to the best music system you have available, have a double dose of your relaxant of choice and press play.

#funky16corners #containsfunk #containshammond

music

Fedilab/GNUSocial

elmussol

Xerta, Fri, 10 Jan 2020 14:45:40 +0100

@Fedilab Am running 2.82.2 from F-droid with a GNUSocial account on indy.im. It is now not working: I launch and get a "500 - Oops! An error occurred!" message which the close icon doesn't work on.

I can still access the account via AndStatus, so it's still there. Has Fedilab dropped GNUSocial support?

elmussol

Thu, 09 Jan 2020 17:26:12 +0100

elmussol is now connected with muesli

rouge Pepper & Carrot

elmussol

Tue, 07 Jan 2020 15:57:03 +0100

So borked image. Anyone else getting this (I know there are other P&C fans here)?

elmussol posted a new photo to /

elmussol

Tue, 07 Jan 2020 16:35:58 +0100

Rogue not rouge, idiot.

Alexandre Hannud Abdo

Tue, 07 Jan 2020 19:27:17 +0100

Alexandre Hannud Abdo

Tue, 07 Jan 2020 19:28:54 +0100

Félicitations, Pepper !!

elmussol

Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:39:31 +0100

elmussol is now connected with ale

elmussol

Thu, 02 Jan 2020 00:22:24 +0100

elmussol is now connected with les bradigatis

TFFT

elmussol

Xerta, Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:03:28 +0100

Happy 2020 peoples. Glad 2019 is out of the way TBH.

life

Manuel

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 16:37:02 +0100

Mmm... A leap year!

elmussol

Tue, 31 Dec 2019 13:42:56 +0100

elmussol is now connected with semibot

elmussol

Tue, 31 Dec 2019 13:37:04 +0100

elmussol is now connected with Sebastien Huss

elmussol

Fri, 27 Dec 2019 15:02:26 +0100

elmussol is now connected with Alex ⚡

not #tzag but #sag

elmussol

Xerta, Wed, 25 Dec 2019 12:57:18 +0100

Seasonally appropriate greetings to you all.

#tzag #sag

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 13:06:55 +0100

Thank you, best wishes to all at Els Mussols!

Jake Moomaw

Wed, 25 Dec 2019 13:41:46 +0100

Happy solstice adjacent holidays to you as well, @elmussol! May you find it filled with family, joy, and hope.

baker's dozen

elmussol

Xerta, Sun, 22 Dec 2019 10:27:20 +0100

@els Mussols Thirteen years ago today, we left Sheffield to start our Catalan adventure.

life

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Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Sun, 22 Dec 2019 13:59:08 +0100

Viva Els Mussols!

I learned something else today - why is a baker's dozen 13?

Click to open/close

whistlewright (zap)

Sun, 22 Dec 2019 18:31:42 +0100

Congratulations!

Adam Robertson

Sun, 22 Dec 2019 20:15:43 +0100

Amazing! I was married shortly afterwards 13 years ago. It sounds like we both had some big life changes at around the same time.

you don't have to believe to enjoy

elmussol

Xerta, Mon, 16 Dec 2019 20:45:13 +0100

!Music In my earlier life I did a lot of choral and group harmony singing. I did it for long enough that I started soprano and ended up baritone (where I am now). So I have sung this (and the larger work from which it comes) in a concert hall as a soprano, an alto, a tenor and a bass. This rendition is #a-word.

Silent Monks Sing the Hallelujah Chorus
by ProudSKParent on YouTube

#gfhandel

music

Adam Robertson

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 04:25:15 +0100

Silent Monks sing...

UK election

elmussol

Xerta, Fri, 13 Dec 2019 00:03:27 +0100

#wtf

politics

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elmussol

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 15:55:31 +0100

Oh I don't, but it does reveal some of a population's mindset. You don't have to participate to draw conclusions.

ivan zlax

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 16:26:17 +0100

@elmussol

Oh I don't, but it does reveal some of a population's mindset. You don't have to participate to draw conclusions.

Representative democracy in any case deprives the population of the opportunity to participate in decision-making. Voters (especially in Anglican bipartisan systems) are excluded from participating in decision-making. The role of voters is to legitimize the decisions of representatives.
In my opinion, it is better not to participate in this at all, to avoid communication and promotion of the agendas set by politicians, as they do in Zomia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Not_Being_Governed
In my opinion, it's the perfect option to strive for.
Of course, the majority of Westerners benefit from the participation and legitimization of politicians' decisions, so they are so selflessly involved in promoting "representative democracy" around the world.

Also, i'm increasingly convinced that I'm not reporting any "revelations". As far as i understand, most Westerners understand it all perfectly:

Mostly, the fact is not always that the ‘population in the West is brainwashed’. That would really be quite a good scenario: and something relatively easy to correct.

The problem is much greater: The inhabitants of the West do not want to know, because deep inside, they do not want the system to change. They don’t want the world order to be modified.

They intuitively feel that if what is being proposed by Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran and other countries were implemented, their personal privileges would vanish. Their countries would become equal to all other countries on earth; they would have to obey international laws, and their people would be forced to work hard for their living. Plundering the planet would be banned. Privileges would stop.

Therefore, it is better ‘not to know’, not to understand. This way, the ‘pie’, or call it ‘carrot’, would not be lost.

The ‘ignorance’in the West, I believe, is subconsciously ‘self-inflicted’. With knowledge, comes responsibility. With responsibility, an obligation to act (because not to act would be clearly immoral). All this could only lead to the loss of privileges.

The propagandists of the West are very well aware of the situation. I was told by some leading psychologists, that both psychiatrists and psychologists are employed and used in the process of ‘shaping the public opinion’, therefore, working for propaganda-makers. They study and analyze the ‘mood of the public’. They know public’s desires and aspirations.

All this is not as easy as it appears, is it?

Sadly, there is a silent (unpronounced and unsigned) agreement between the Western public and its establishment, as well as the corporate world, that the status quo should be maintained at all cost (paid for by “the others”); the West should be controlling the planet, and at least some part of the booty has to be shared among the (Western) masses.

What they are fighting over on the streets of Paris and other European cities is ‘how big the part of the pie that goes to the pockets of the common European people’ should be. There is absolutely no struggle to end the plunder of the world by the West.

I think this is the reason for the continuing democrazy agitation of Westerners for all this elections, although the most privileged of them still live in feudal realms.

elmussol

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 18:30:12 +0100

Thanks Pete.

Pete Cogle's Podcast Factory: PCP#629… Please Do Not Sit On The Fence….

mp3 download

elmussol

Wed, 04 Dec 2019 16:43:21 +0100

elmussol is now connected with Adam Robertson

funky 16 times with a side order of funk

elmussol

Xerta, Tue, 03 Dec 2019 19:08:45 +0100

!Music Box !Music Long-term connections will be fully aware of my love of all things funky. A major source of my diet of funk is the always rewarding Larry Grogan -- his weekly Funky16Corners Radio Show is required listening in our house.
This week's show popped up and got to the top of the queue while I was cooking. I was delighted to find that Larry has decided to up the funk quotient this week.

So give yourself a funky hour. It will do you good.

mp3 download

#funky16corners #containsfunk

ping: @jəˈrunˈprɑːt

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Mike Macgirvin

Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:10:54 +0100

#funky

ghostdancer

Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:44:21 +0100 from ActivityPub

@elmussol I have to carefully choose the music when I cook. Depending on the music recipes can vary a lot.

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Wed, 04 Dec 2019 06:59:54 +0100

Yummy!

first giggle of the morning

elmussol

Xerta, Tue, 03 Dec 2019 10:07:02 +0100

Kevie wrote the following post Tue, 03 Dec 2019 08:00:10 +0100

🤣🤣🤣

h/t @Kevie

meme

Mike Macgirvin

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 19:43:11 +0100

...and takes the dog.

elmussol

Fri, 29 Nov 2019 18:06:43 +0100

elmussol is now connected with escherichia

better things to do at three in the morning

elmussol

Xerta, Fri, 29 Nov 2019 04:42:22 +0100

@els Mussols It's been a while since it happened, but tonight was donkey breakout night -- Jote got out, Ketta didn't, so we heard lots of "end of the world" braying. She's back in now, but they have completely trashed (in association with big wind and termite action) one side of the corral. It's a big job.

#donkey

life

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Fri, 29 Nov 2019 06:07:30 +0100 last edited: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 17:57:55 +0100

@elmussol I did not notice any Prison Break tattoos on the donkeys. This brings up a lot of questions, like
1) who shaved the donkey to bring out the tattoo?
2) what interrupted the shaving of the second donkey?
3) why escape in November with two shaved donkeys?

I vote for Ivar the Boneless. There is a photo.

Image/photo

However, he must have had help. This implicates the immediate family, due to the German influence. You must be very proud.

elmussol

Fri, 29 Nov 2019 19:05:12 +0100

Today was largely to do with building a less lethal version of those "keep out the walkers" constructions from The Walking Dead down one side of their area. This project is in the "very low/no expenditure" category (which is distressing full, but I digress). So metal poles have been/will be scavenged.

The side that has gone down of a piece had topped pine trees as its vertical elements. The time for the roots of such a tree to rot sufficiently to blow over in nasty winds is about eight years evidentally.