#SexualPredators #Epstein #Pell #HouseOfWindsor et al

seriously draining to see so many photos of sex creeps with young women where the women’s faces are all that is blacked out

predatory behaviour is undoubtedly “normal” by the standards of ruling classes, but FFS what is commonly acceptable is not necessarily “right”

devastating to see the number of posts from press outlets who don’t understand /care the whole mindset is offensive and disgusting. there is no way token attempts to protect the women by covering their faces makes the photos okay. the predators and complicit hangers on still look obscenely smug, secure, and self satisfied.

women (/ other minorities) are generally dehumanised, and keeping victims faceless and invisible is part of that system.

you (the media) may revel in the downfall of people famous only for being famous — people YOU selected for fame — but if you will not also give those women a voice or speak up on their behalf, or push for prosecutions, you should just phuk off

we do not need the flipping photos to be aware of the criminal activity, they are just click-porn.

this sort of “yellow journalism” has rendered mainstream media almost useless to ordinary decent people, and i take heart in the knowledge so many fortunes invested in controlling information and opinions are struggling to remain viable.
… and i look forward to the day “capitalist democracy” disappears up its own clacker.
can’t happen soon enough

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Building A Pell

One of the simplest training tools for practicing strikes in Renaissance martial arts was the pell. The pell was an ancient training device for practicing swordplay and training soldiers in arms. It typically served as a practice target for striking with a shield and a wooden sword. A pell is something like the Medieval equivalent of a boxer’s punching bag. It consists of an ordinary wooden post or tree trunk planted firmly in the ground. A pell might be man-height and roughly six to twelve inches in diameter.J. Clements, On The Pell

This article got me started with pell works. While a pell does not replace a proper sparring partner some techniques can be trained on a pell. More on this topic can be read on Essential Training: The Pell by Stewart Feil.

I’ve a lot of material around and decided to make some use of old wooden beams that fell pray to woodworm and weather. The beams are roughly 9.5 cm per side and can not be used for supporting constructions any more.

First a beam was selected and reduced with a pit saw to almost human size without further measurement. The remains were simply split in two for supports and supplemented with two more pieces of the same beam type.

Now I needed some struts for the supports. For that I used roof battens that remained from the new roof for our shed last year. I simply bevelled one side with the pit saw. Still no dimensions since I just used my eye and my thumb, sorry.

This is how everything looks slapped together. I used at least two 180mm long sunk screws for the beams and some smaller ones for the struts resulting in a pretty stable base. The pell is really heavy now but can still be moved around by one person.

Updated 2025: Initially I did wrap an old camping mat around it. An old rug may be used as well but I didn’t have that around. It didn’t survive very long though and I never added another mat or rug. Also I stopped using wooden wasters with this. They broke way too often.

This set-up is working nicely for many years now and I only have to replace the beam occasionally.

That’s it. Happy pell work 🙂

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https://beko.famkos.net/2016/10/23/building-a-pell/

#hema #pell

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I'm unsure how effective sending form letters to Congress is. But at this point, we need to leverage all our voices at every opportunity.

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My heart goes out to all the men & women who after being abused as children by #Pell & other priests, have lived all their lives disbelieved, gaslighted & shamed. So many have died too young & unheard. I feel gratitude toward everyone who has worked to make survivors’ experiences visible & support them in healing. Especially @Milliganreports

This is not just a story about abuse perpetrated by individual men. In every institution, family & social setting, the cultures (& legal frameworks!) that enable sexualised abuse of vulnerable people must be named, held to account & changed. That’s up to each of us. #WeSeeYou

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