elmussol

Sat, 19 Oct 2019 22:36:58 +0200

elmussol is now connected with $аѵїѳя Täḟ

giggling for ages

elmussol

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 20:05:58 +0200

When I think I've stopped laughing at this, I start again.

elmussol posted a new photo to memes

elmussol

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 20:06:47 +0200

h/t @Birch Wind.

NullSpaceOddity

Fri, 18 Oct 2019 00:00:42 +0200

"Wizard chicken" Great, now Im going to say that every time I see one.

Jake Moomaw

Fri, 18 Oct 2019 13:25:34 +0200

My late mother-in-law, upon seeing a gull and forgetting what it was called, declared it to be a "Gucci pigeon". They have been called such in our family ever since. I love "Wizard Chicken", too!

Xerta

elmussol

Xerta, Mon, 14 Oct 2019 00:22:51 +0200

Playing with OpenStreetMap. My nearest village:

Xerta, Spain

#xerta

OSM

elmussol

Mon, 14 Oct 2019 00:29:47 +0200

Interestingly Facebork doesn't admit the existence of Xerta. During Franco's time (and the banning of the Catalan language) the village was known as Cherta -- the defunct railway station still has Cherta signage. FB insists on the Francoist spelling (reason 45,189 FB sucks).

Mike Macgirvin

Mon, 14 Oct 2019 02:23:08 +0200 last edited: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 02:24:37 +0200

view/css/mod_admin.css - comment out or remove the 'pre code' and 'code' declarations so it will use the theme default. Hopefully this will be seen by somebody who can apply the change to the git. I'm in the middle of some hairy testing.

[oops wrong thread.]

display problem with dark

elmussol

Xerta, Mon, 14 Oct 2019 00:02:06 +0200 last edited: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 00:09:05 +0200

!Hubzilla Support Forum Somebody mentioned the dark theme which I haven't used for ages, so I thought I'd turn it on for a bit. I've encountered a display bug I think. Please see following screenshot (OpenStreetMap addon info page):

Image/photo

I can read the text in the white if I select it.

hubzilla

elmussol

Mon, 14 Oct 2019 00:06:57 +0200

[code][/code] displays with a black background, which is my expected behaviour for what it's worth.

elmussol

Mon, 14 Oct 2019 02:38:49 +0200

Mike wrote:

14 minutes ago
view/css/mod_admin.css - comment out or remove the 'pre code' and 'code' declarations so it will use the theme default. Hopefully this will be seen by somebody who can apply the change to the git. I'm in the middle of some hairy testing.

[oops wrong thread.]

ravers of a certain age

elmussol

Xerta, Tue, 08 Oct 2019 23:59:34 +0200

!Music Listening to Polyvinyl Craftsmen (Transmission 310) this afternoon -- pretty much electronica of various strains. Pushed a few buttons for me and well worth a listen. One of the highlights -- suddenly I was in The Arches nightclub in Sheffield freaking out to this. Fact: The Arches had the best mugs of tea I've ever had in a nightclub anywhere.

Stakker Humanoid (Original 12" Version / 1988)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RsUplPD8c7A

And like any era looking back, how the music looks depends on where you were, who you were with, how chemically altered you were and what else was going on in your life. I look back at that time with great warmth and this tune did a Proust on me.

#stakker #polyvinylcraftsmen

music

Oliver

Wed, 09 Oct 2019 08:33:47 +0200

And like any era looking back, how the music looks depends on where you were, who you were with, how chemically altered you were and what else was going on in your life.

Well said.

Manuel

Wed, 09 Oct 2019 08:38:38 +0200

And like any era looking back, how the music looks depends on where you were, who you were with, how chemically altered you were and what else was going on in your life. I look back at that time with great warmth and this tune did a Proust on me.

You can't say it more precisely...

my day is made

elmussol

Xerta, Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:30:25 +0200

I just found out that The Peanut Butter Conspiracy is a real band name.

#peanutbutterconspiracy

music

more sadness

elmussol

Xerta, Sun, 29 Sep 2019 12:02:45 +0200

Can this week get any better? Done guests breakfast -- all good. Start to feed the animals and am just sorting the chickens out. I hear unfamiliar barking, running about and general commotion and start to run back to the house.

I see a pack of six or eight stray dogs running from behind our house and past it, our dogs doing their best but they were outnumbered. One kitten was snatched and killed, the other was missing for a while but I saw her up a tree. I climbed to get her down but she scampered down and off, who knows where. I will just have to be patient and hope she comes back.

RIP Tippy.

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Manuel

Sun, 29 Sep 2019 12:12:52 +0200

elmussol

Sun, 29 Sep 2019 12:15:23 +0200

There are a lot of abandoned dogs in the campo.

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Sun, 29 Sep 2019 12:23:35 +0200

I am sorry to hear about both your chicken and your kitten.

Manuel

Sun, 29 Sep 2019 12:27:45 +0200

Oh, I accidentally deleted the comment. In Spain it is very common the abandonment and mistreatment of animals. It is still frequent the hanging of dogs. Many hunters kill them when they lose their sense of smell...

elmussol

Sun, 29 Sep 2019 12:37:46 +0200

I am fully aware that death is part of life and all that. But enough for this week, thank you.

ivan zlax

Sun, 29 Sep 2019 14:17:31 +0200

I'm sorry for your loss. During your previous loss, an owl or ferret take two of my caesars (Domestic guineafowl). I didn't even have feathers left, i didn't see how it happen.

Sophie

Sun, 29 Sep 2019 17:07:21 +0200

elmussol

Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:26:14 +0200

Hedwig is back. I have no idea where she's been for the last twelve hours and is completely freaked. But she's back and that's the main thing.

no no no no no no

elmussol

Xerta, Fri, 27 Sep 2019 19:16:46 +0200

I love having chickens. I love my chickens. They have a wonderful, largely care-free existence. They have a group of dogs who take on responsibility for guarding them.

Today I did a terrible thing. I accidentally killed one. Shutting up the shed after last #egg check of the day, I swung the heavy wooden door shut just as one of the girls stuck her head out -- crushed her skull.

Instantaneous, nothing I could do. Still wept for half an hour. Thank you lovely for your contribution -- hope you had a good life -- I'm sorry.

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el veciet

Fri, 27 Sep 2019 21:52:04 +0200

my aunt years ago did something similar with the cat puppy she had ...
unfortunately sometimes accidents happen.

Mike Macgirvin

Fri, 27 Sep 2019 22:06:07 +0200

Related: My least favourite responsibility as a land steward is dealing with mortally wounded and obviously suffering animals; which has been thrust on me a number of times now. Whether it is a chook. a wild rabbit, or a rat makes no difference.

JRandal

Sun, 29 Sep 2019 23:01:29 +0200

I have no love for pigeons. But one day as I headed down the street in my car, one didn't get out of the way and I ran over it. I could hear the little bones crunch. I felt badly, for it too was one of God's creatures.

oil

elmussol

Xerta, Thu, 26 Sep 2019 19:46:06 +0200

That annual thing is coming up again soon -- the olive harvest. November and early December is looking the likely time. So two things:

1: Does anyone want to come and help us? We have free accommodation, hard work (in 3-4 day blocks), lots of fun, a feeling of accomplishment (and some oil).

2: Who wants some oil? It is relatively cost efficient to ship in Europe in quantities of 5l. The cost efficiency kicks up again at 25l.

So @els Mussols 2019 vintage is on its way. Any questions? Just ask.

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ivan zlax

Thu, 26 Sep 2019 20:53:20 +0200

@elmussol

2: Who wants some oil? It is relatively cost efficient to ship in Europe in quantities of 5l. The cost efficiency kicks up again at 25l.

I want. I could exchange on something. Are you interested in an natural exchange? Or only interested in selling for money?
I have something to offer.

elmussol

Thu, 26 Sep 2019 21:02:53 +0200

@ivan zlax PM me your offer.

Beni Grind

Thu, 26 Sep 2019 21:14:03 +0200

Sadly we already arranged our November holiday in Slovenia.. but our 25 Liters are all gone. We’re definitely interested but I can’t yet say in how much.

elmussol

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 09:27:21 +0200

elmussol is now connected with Bernora

one day I'm going to tell a story

elmussol

Xerta, Mon, 23 Sep 2019 22:05:25 +0200

Still on my own, no end in sight. I've been alluding to bits of this story, but I can't go into details at this point, but a few observations (about the UK mainly).

Anyone who bangs on about benefit scroungers and about how easy people have it on disability: fuck you.

Anyone who thinks that homeless people get the same access to the health service that the rest of the population: fuck off.

Anyone who thinks that people with disabilities have any hope in hell of negotiating the labyrinthine, Kafka-inspired assault course that is their "support" without getting a "go back to the begining and by the way we've shredded all your documents" card: fuck off.

And don't get me started on social worker support, housing support, banking and the, it seems universal, hostility towards anyone who is perceived in anyway difficult.

I was never nationalistic about being British (part of the anarchism), but there were a few things I thought "we" did reasonably well, like health, housing, supporting vulnerable people. No more. The UK has turned into a neoliberal hellhole -- competitive, permanently angry at something, making giant leaps backward in terms of racism and xenophobia.

Can we just get Brexit over with one way or another so I can get on with getting another different passport? I have rarely been so angry and disgusted in my five and a half decades.

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elmussol

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 23:09:28 +0200

And at the (sort of) suggestion of @JamJarChris I am now going to be working #neoliberalhellhole into my vocabulary.

Michael

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 15:29:26 +0200

I'm sorry you are having to go through this, Paul. Hoping things get better soon.

ivan zlax

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 19:17:26 +0200

Passport recognition is recognition of citizenship. Recognition of citizenship is recognition of nationalism. There is no any anarchism in this.
Why call yourself an anarchist when you pay taxes and support the bureaucratic system of any states?

elmussol

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 21:25:24 +0200 last edited: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 21:26:26 +0200

Do I think nation states should exist? Not in my ideal world. Do nation states actually exist? Yes they do. It is hard to be born anywhere in the world and not be a citizen of some nation state. I happened to be born in the UK. I am a UK citizen. I hold a UK passport.

I am not a Spanish citizen, although I have lived here for years. If I didn't have a passport I would be liable to deportation. Projecting forward from where we are with relation to Brexit, it would probably be in my best interests to have Spanish citizenship rather than UK citizenship. I want to live here and have no intention of moving back to the UK.

So, if I'm anarchist I shouldn't take out a passport and should stay in my accidental nation for the whole of my life?

I also dispute that it is necessary to drop out of all state apparatuses to define oneself an anarchist. My working definition has always been about dismantling/smashing the state rather than divorcing oneself from it.

Your solutions work for you. Good. Your solutions are not necessarily appropriate for everyone.

ivan zlax

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 22:00:28 +0200

@elmussol

Do I think nation states should exist? Not in my ideal world.

But not in my real world. Enough.

Do nation states actually exist? Yes they do.

No. States exists only in your mind (and minds of other supporters of states)

It is hard to be born anywhere in the world and not be a citizen of some nation state.

No. It is hard to be born anywhere in the world and BE a citizen of some nation state. It usually takes 10 years of preparation by the Prussian education system, from call to call. It is very hard to carry out it.

I happened to be born in the UK. I am a UK citizen. I hold a UK passport.

With this passport you can easily go almost anywhere in the world legally. UK passport could open colonial borders. For example, the passport of the Russian Federation, on the contrary, restricts legal movement - people usually want to get rid of it in order to leave this raw materials colony.

So, if I'm anarchist I shouldn't take out a passport and should stay in my accidental nation for the whole of my life?

I can't answer that question because i don't understand why you concider yourself as anarchist. Please explain it for me. Anarchism is the rejection of any form of authorities (from greek ἀν – without и ἄρχή – authorities).

I also dispute that it is necessary to drop out of all state apparatuses to define oneself an anarchist. My working definition has always been about dismantling/smashing the state rather than divorcing oneself from it.

How can you dismantle/smashing what you're a part and supporter of?
If you ignore bureaucratic workers without paying taxes or using their documents, you are an anarchist. If you take from the banks and don't repay them, you're an anarchist. If you put bombs in police stations, you are an anarchist. But if you follow the laws of the authorities and sponsor and legitimize their activities, there is nothing anarchic about it.

Your solutions work for you. Good. Your solutions are not necessarily appropriate for everyone.

A completely agree. I just wish i could figure out the concepts. I very often observe how notions are replaced in the West (i can give vivid examples, if you are interested). In this case, it seems to me that the concept of "anarchism" is also gradually changing. Please explain what exactly you consider anarchism and on what basis.

elmussol

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 22:22:30 +0200

Thank you @Michael. Unfortunately the material conditions for those at the bottom of society are getting harder and harder. Battling through is proving very difficult -- being 1,500km away is hard.

elmussol

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 23:23:58 +0200

@ivan zlax Ever tried to cross a national border with that particular philosophical argument and no passport?

I am aware of the advantages of my accidental passport compared to those issued by other "in my head" nations.

I am not willing take to take the time today to write an essay of self-justification. I have material things to do improve the situation of my loved ones in difficulty. A real state oppressing real working-class, vulnerable, oppressed people (which is a great deal more anarchist (cf Mutual Aid) than divorcing oneself from the state in a personal condition of ideological purity).

ivan zlax

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 23:35:45 +0200

@elmussol

Ever tried to cross a national border with that particular philosophical argument and no passport?

Yes. It was RF and Abkhazia (Georgia) border. I was also near the Mongolian and Chinese borders - i could cross it, but i didn't need it. The main thing in this case is to rely on your two (legs). If you want to be transported comfortably through a checkpoint on an airplane or train, you may have problems with that.

I am not willing take to take the time today to write an essay of self-justification. I have material things to do improve the situation of my loved ones in difficulty. A real state oppressing real working-class, vulnerable, oppressed people (which is a great deal more anarchist (cf Mutual Aid) than divorcing oneself from the state in a personal condition of ideological purity).

Please do not write an essay of self-justification. I do not ask you about that. I just ask to explain why you consider yourself as anarchist.
It is important for me. It seems that now in the West this word has a very different meaning than it was originally. I want to understand what you mean by "anarchism". Thank you in advance.

elmussol

Sat, 21 Sep 2019 11:10:27 +0200

elmussol is now connected with Hans Sandmeier

dancing and maximum lungs

elmussol

Xerta, Wed, 18 Sep 2019 20:42:47 +0200

!Music I've been at els Mussols on my own for a couple of weeks now. CraftyBen is back in the UK at the moment looking after our son (long, long story which makes me flip between anger, frustration and despair). Her absence is still of indeterminate duration.

One byproduct of this enforced solitude is that I get to listen to exactly what I want. Ben and I share a lot of music but my tastes are more catholic (and noisy and dissonant).

One of the things I've been catching up on is my Larry Grogan backlog. Up today was

Funky16Corners Radio Show Episode #476 – Airdate 07/15/19
by funky16corners on Funky16Corners Radio Show
" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" >Funky16Corners Radio Show Episode #476 – Airdate 07/15/19.

Excellent as always, but I particularly draw your attention to 29m12s to 41m54s. The tracklist is as follows:

Sugarpie DeSanto – Go Go Power (Checker)
Sugarpie DeSanto – Good Timin’ (Checker)
Sugarpie DeSanto – Slip-in Mules (No High Heel Sneakers) (Checker)
Etta James and Sugarpie DeSanto – In the Basement (Cadet)

What follows is joyous, danceable, funny, assertive and exactly what needed after feeling a bit overwhelmed earlier.

Note: Etta James has what my secondary school music teacher called "maximum lungs". Prepare to be blasted.

mp3 download

#funky16corners #larrygrogan #sugarpiedesanto #ettajames

music life

Sophie

Thu, 19 Sep 2019 09:29:34 +0200

Very cool

elmussol

Thu, 19 Sep 2019 09:32:46 +0200

I do cool.

Sophie

Thu, 19 Sep 2019 09:35:38 +0200

I deleted my double post... though the music is twice as cool.

Sorry to hear you are on your own at the moment.

fake weather for the "Florida Man"?

elmussol

Xerta, Wed, 18 Sep 2019 17:04:07 +0200

Would be interested to know how this fits in with your real life experience @Marshall Sutherland and @Michael:

Hurricane Dorian: Testing Public Response to Emergency?

Marshall Sutherland

Wed, 18 Sep 2019 19:04:56 +0200

I don't think I watched any MSM reporting about Dorian, so I can't say anything about what they were reporting. I watch the NHC and the Weather Underground republishing of the same data (I like their WunderMap).

I will point out that there was a while when the center line of the path was projected to go up through the center of the state, and, until things got pretty far along, the eastern side of the state was still in the "cone of death". So, if the authors are ignoring the cone and just looking at the center line, I think they are misrepresenting the risk. I posted an article before Dorian swept past called something like "Those maps don't mean what you think they mean" that talked about that.

If your situation is such that riding out the storm is a bad option for you, waiting until you are certain it is going to hit you means you waited until it is too late, particularly in South Florida. There are a lot of people down there and only so many ways to escape. Had Dorian taken the path up the center of the state, you would have to go hundreds of miles before you could get out of its path. It is about 500 miles from Miami to Tallahassee. Dorian may have been slow moving, but if you cram enough cars onto the highways, they will go even slower.

Michael

Fri, 20 Sep 2019 23:09:05 +0200

I typically rely on the NHC as well, but the MSM hype is sometimes hard to ignore.

not for some time

elmussol

Xerta, Mon, 16 Sep 2019 19:24:15 +0200

music

elmussol

Mon, 16 Sep 2019 19:38:13 +0200 last edited: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 19:39:29 +0200

Hot damn, later in the same Transmission:

That Petrol Emotion -- Creeping To The Cross

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EKLsfD4a9yI

#thatpetrolemotion

relaxing Sunday

elmussol

Xerta, Sun, 15 Sep 2019 16:00:54 +0200

So I've had a "do nothing" day today so far. All I've done is feed the chickens, feed the donkeys, feed the dogs, feed the cats (multiple times), given the dogs their meds, cooked a vegan gluten-free breakfast for the guests, watered the garden, done the washing up, emptied the litter tray and got the dry washing in.

#farmlife

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elmussol

Sun, 15 Sep 2019 17:07:15 +0200

Everything else

Manuel

Sun, 15 Sep 2019 17:21:44 +0200

@elmussol ¿No cavarás también los pies (= limpiar la base, alrededor del tronco) de los olivos, no? Porque si es así, te llevo a hombros hasta Tarragona

elmussol

Sun, 15 Sep 2019 17:35:02 +0200

Mañana hombre.

elmussol

Sat, 14 Sep 2019 18:26:12 +0200

elmussol is now connected with Einer von Vielen

Hedwig

elmussol

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 23:54:06 +0200

Hedwig is the more timid of the pair.

elmussol posted a new photo to /

Tippy

elmussol

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 23:52:19 +0200

Best shot I can manage of Tippy.

elmussol posted a new photo to /

old friend

elmussol

Xerta, Thu, 12 Sep 2019 19:00:43 +0200

Excellent but bizzare experience to spend the afternoon chatting with someone you've known for forty years, but not seen for thirty. Thanks for the visit Marcus!

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