elmussol

Paul Taylor

elmussol@elsmussols.net

Location:: in the mountains near
Xerta, Catalunya Spain

Gender:: Mostly Male

Status:: Happy

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

music

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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.

Project Harvest Stat Rep 4

elmussol

Xerta, Thu, 21 Nov 2019 20:57:44 +0100

@els Mussols Day four and first harvest completed. We did a half day today. I drove the olives to the mill this afternoon and will collect our oil tomorrow afternoon.

The crew: me, Ben, Ceilidh and Sarah full time, with additional contributions from Steve, Natalie and some random Norwegian we found wandering round. Thanks to all.

Our target was 500kg and we got:

Image/photo

#olive

life

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el veciet

Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:31:32 +0100

wow..very good

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Fri, 22 Nov 2019 18:35:33 +0100

Marvelous!

Michael

Fri, 22 Nov 2019 23:19:40 +0100

Glad to hear it.

Project Harvest Stat Rep 3

elmussol

Xerta, Wed, 20 Nov 2019 23:25:57 +0100 last edited: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 23:26:41 +0100

@els Mussols Good but not good enough day. Cooler again, but not windy and dry.

We've done some good trees today and the olives are excellent, but the not generally a good year thing is kicking our arses. In real terms this means less fruiting trees and less fruit per tree, so more moving from tree to tree, and more trees to harvest.

So there will be a day four and despite my statement on day one, we may do a second harvest in a couple of weeks.

#olive

life

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Manuel

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 07:42:25 +0100

How do you pick them up, by hand or with a stick?

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 08:03:18 +0100

I know this one, Maestro.

At Els Mussols they use nets around the trees, then prune the branches of the olive tree to keep it low and easier to harvest, then pull off the olives by hand into the nets, remove the branches and twigs, and then collect the nets carefully and pours the collected olives into crates, and repeat - 700+ times...

elmussol

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 10:15:38 +0100

@Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum) Our cockerel is called Ivar the Boneless.

Project Harvest Stat Rep 2

elmussol

Xerta, Tue, 19 Nov 2019 19:34:54 +0100 last edited: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 04:43:19 +0100

@els Mussols
Day two was much better. Little or no wind and much warmer. We had an extra person for the whole day. We not only harvested more but also got lots of pruning done.

We also had extra help in the afternoon.

Image/photo

#olive

life

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Michael

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 22:42:43 +0100

This is great!

Alexandre Hannud Abdo

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 23:54:14 +0100

Wow... what a heart warming moment! Thanks for sharing this wonderful pic (:

Manuel

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 11:48:59 +0100

elmussol

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 19:17:03 +0100

elmussol is now connected with Johnny Null

elmussol

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 19:16:54 +0100

elmussol is now connected with Kevie

elmussol

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 19:16:50 +0100

elmussol is now connected with Luke

elmussol

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 19:16:33 +0100

elmussol is now connected with Dvd Mrsdn

Project Harvest Stat Rep 1

elmussol

Xerta, Mon, 18 Nov 2019 19:12:50 +0100

@els Mussols Day one of harvest done. Cold and windy, but dry -- hard work. We are also down on people due to misfortune and family crises. Additionally it's not been a good year for olives.

That being said, the four of us did well. We will have an extra person tomorrow and potentially a special guest star picker. Stay tuned for Stat Rep 2 tomorrow.

Also worth noting we are doing only one harvest this year due to circumstances and stuff (cf last year -- three harvests).

#olive

life

Mike Macgirvin

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 23:14:22 +0100

My new ambition in life is to be a celebrity olive picker.

Alexandre Hannud Abdo

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 08:23:28 +0100

Can't wait for stat rep 2!

you don't always know what you think you know

elmussol

Xerta, Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:35:50 +0100

Disappointment can smack you on the back of the head sometimes. Besides Hubzilla I have also been reasonably active on Identica/StatusNet/GNUSocial for years. As it is in its slow death spiral now, I thought I'd connect to a few ActivityPub-using folks via Hubzilla.

I found someone (who shall remain nameless) whose podcast output I have admired (mostly Linux/free software howtos and the like). Could be interesting I thought.

I was not expecting scores of Breibart, second amendment hectoring, anti-immigrant and Islam stuff and essentially lazy Twitter retweets.

Colour me surprised.

hubzilla activitypub

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Mike Macgirvin

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 20:15:13 +0100

Some of my own real life friends started pushing conservative American rhetoric a few years ago and I've felt the same. These are the values that "the algorithm" has decided pushes their buttons and makes them buy stuff, so it continues to feed them into their personal echo chamber where they are amplified and regurgitated.

Bob Mottram

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 00:57:52 +0100

@elmussol @Mike Macgirvin I've encountered things like this in the last couple of years. People whose FOSS content I once engaged with on some level I no longer have any interest in. It's now painfully apparent to me that not everyone in the Free Software world is great, and there seem to be too many who are pushing the hate agenda.

I should also say that not everyone in the AP fediverse world is a Breitbart-spewing chud. Encounters with Actual Fascists were also a motivating factor in my writing an AP server so that I could have some level of confidence about the content I'm hosting.

Andy C

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 10:41:03 +0100 from ActivityPub

@elmussol Well I don't use Twitter and can only apologise for the other stuff.

Welcome back. I was missing the olive harvest updates.

Andy C

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 10:43:06 +0100 from ActivityPub

@elmussol You had me and @dvdmrsdn going for a minute there with 'whose podcast output I have admired' but no 🙂

Andy C

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 10:49:38 +0100 from ActivityPub

@elmussol Get @rpcutts @dvdmrsdn @dick_turpin @theru@theru.xyz and @Luke onto your timeline and cheer yourself up man !

dick_turpin

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 10:58:45 +0100 from ActivityPub

@andyc @elmussol @rpcutts @dvdmrsdn @Luke

Did someone say they need my special brand of compassion, understanding and Empathy?

Andy C

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 11:03:06 +0100 from ActivityPub

@elmussol There's a small but perfectly formed rump of identi.ca folk here including @mnw @kevie @jwildeboer

We have also welcomed @fitheach into our heaving bosom to keep us honest. He combines fantastic photography from Scotland with thought provoking insights into UK politics

Why, we even talk to a Brit who moved to the fabulous Oslo and works for Microsoft!

Also, the Aussies are still out there, not making podcasts, watching Dr Who, drinking wine and dodging bushfires @tregeagle@microblog.mjd.id.au and @mjd@microblog.mjd.id.au

Andy C

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 11:03:57 +0100 from ActivityPub

@dick_turpin @elmussol @rpcutts @dvdmrsdn @Luke Well Prince Andrew speaks very highly of your self-help courses !

Fitheach

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 11:19:40 +0100 from ActivityPub

@andyc
I love perfectly formed rumps, and heaving bosoms aren't easily dismissed.

Thanks for those kind words. Now, what was it you wanted?

@elmussol @mnw @kevie @jwildeboer

Andy C

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 11:23:04 +0100 from ActivityPub

@elmussol

'Why, we even talk to a Brit who moved to the fabulous Oslo and works for Microsoft !'

As trawling through the entire Federation might take a while, this individual is actually....

@matt

Works for Microsoft, lives in Oslo, runs (well rents) his own Mastodon host. Go figure.

Dvd Mrsdn

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 11:45:35 +0100 from ActivityPub

@andyc are you actually having a conversation with @elmussol or just exhorting him to participate? All I can see of him is:

Andy C

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 11:50:33 +0100 from ActivityPub

@dvdmrsdn @elmussol Umm - well neither really. I see 63 Toots whereas you only see 60 which is weird. He was bemoaning the qualify of his ActivityPub stream so I was merely trying to improve his S/N ratio.

https://tinyurl.com/t72xdhz

He's probably out picking, watering, cuddling or planting his olives. And with a metal bucket on your head, that can take a little longer.

Andy C

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 11:52:15 +0100 from ActivityPub

@dvdmrsdn @elmussol

'Slow but arrived'

Oh how true ! 🙂

Andy C

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 11:53:32 +0100 from ActivityPub

@dvdmrsdn @elmussol

Or maybe it's just a rather posh, understated, post-coital exclamation.

dick_turpin

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:13:09 +0100 from ActivityPub

@andyc @elmussol @rpcutts @dvdmrsdn @Luke

Man's a dick. Should have taken a leaf out of the Queens book: "Never complain, never explain."

All this baying for his blood is pointless and a waste of energy if you ask me. He's going to be crucified now not that at the end of the day much will change for him.

Johnny Null

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:34:23 +0100 from ActivityPub

@andyc @elmussol @mnw @kevie @jwildeboer @fitheach I, of course, am chopped liver and should be completely overlooked.

Andy C

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:41:20 +0100 from ActivityPub

@johnnynull See also @pla No offence intended.

ivan zlax

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:21:05 +0100

@Bob Mottram

It's now painfully apparent to me that not everyone in the Free Software world is great, and there seem to be too many who are pushing the hate agenda.

You're the one who's irresponsibly pushing the Western hypocrisy ideas of hatred. There the example of your pushing the common Western agenda:

Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ wrote the following post Thu, 28 Mar 2019 10:47:39 +0100

"People must sell their time and energy to the owning class in order to buy back a fraction of what they produce. This is a deeply rooted system that shapes our values and relationships and defies most attempts to abolish it. The socialist revolutions in the USSR and China did not go deep enough: as they never fully abolished capitalism, it reemerged, stronger than before."

http://anarchy.works

There example of your irresponsibility and censorship:
https://pleroma.site/notice/9gzbPZHAbp4X6H5bOq
You used censorship for the glory of irresponsibility of using quotes of my fellow countrymen. Quotes was used for your privileged Western self-PR.

Encounters with Actual Fascists were also a motivating factor in my writing an AP server so that I could have some level of confidence about the content I'm hosting.

My grandfather was deadly wounded by Fascists. Fascists killed many of my relatives. Fascists killed 27 millions of Soviet people. For me, Bob, you are Actual Fascists, who try to use irresponsibility and censorship for his Crypto-Fascist agenda. Like many of your fellow countryman, for example - Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere.
Irresponsibility and censorship are the means by which you promote your feudal realm for empower your modern colonies.

elmussol

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:09:46 +0100

I am harvesting olives. I will be back online later...

whistlewright (zap)

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 22:58:21 +0100

@elmussol @Mike Macgirvin @Bob Mottram @Andy C @Johnny Null
Johnny Null wrote:

I, of course, am chopped liver and should be completely overlooked.

Not exactly what I was thinking...

elmussol

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 23:12:42 +0100

Project Harvest Stat Rep 2 posted. Glad to see a few familiar names reappear. I expect we will be hearing of footie and the like. I am now officially knacked and day 3 awaits.