@HighlandLawyer

719 Followers
237 Following
10.4K Posts
Law, IT, & other stuff. Lingvemulo rather than polyglot.
North Scotland.
Twitter (inactive)@HighlandLawyer

I've come to the conclusion there are only two core political philosophies: 'Might is Right' and 'Be a Good Neighbor'. Everything else is arguing over the details.

Like all philosophies, these contain apparent contradictions and hypocrisies, which are easily resolved by observing behavior. For example, most 'Good Neighbors' do not rule out the use of force to achieve a just end; rather they find violence (including emotional violence) only justifiable when they see no other valid path.

[contd]

The vast majority of people who will be impacted by trans bans in sports will be little girls with short hair or arms that are "too muscular."

It will also mean that when a woman is good at her sport the disgusting grumbling and whispering about "may she is he" gets taken more seriously.

This happened with Paula Radcliffe for running marathons too fast. If it helps you to think of a white cis woman being the victim of this.

Of course little black girls will take the brunt of this. As ever.

Qesser Zurah was arrested today for putting this post on her Instagram Account. I advise you by distributing it, boosting it, you may be equally guilty of breaking section 44 of the Serious Crimes Act 2007

You can see how very little it says.

#PalestineAction

Here's a list (of which we know) of Highland Council chargers that are currently out of action.
Lairg
Lochinver
Gairloch
Torridon
Kyleakin
Broadford
Portree
Old man of Storr
Uig
The Lochinver charger has been broken for over 5 months. Through our Councillor, we got the latest assurance from the HC e-charge team that EZO, their contractor would absolutely have it working by last week. It's still broken.
This is critical rural infrastructure gifted to the Council, who clearly don't care.
Buying a Curta from a math dealer in a car park outside the train station while wearing "Virtual Light" style heads up display was a very @GreatDismal cyberpunk moment. I should have made a payphone call.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/116311624371729823

We REALLY need to reintroduce the Roman custom of Damnatio Memoriae—"damnation of memory", excision of a name and person from the written record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae

RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@slowe/116289390757597782

I don't think UKGov should be allowed to require commercial software for the submission of data and information to government.

They should be required to use open standards and allow open source tools. Or provide one.

I love etymology.

#Trump #TrumpIsAPedo

Find of the morning at B&Q - the AI disabling device. Available in other colours to suit other tastes.

#AI #DisableAI #ThisIsTrustworthy

Perhaps I am some kind of dangerous computer radical these days, thinking that one should be able to buy or make a computer, install one's choice of OSs and software, create a local user account, and get on with one's affairs, privately and without interference.

Quiet enjoyment of one's computer.

* No age or ID verification

* No jumping through hoops to install software, or third parties restricting the software that one can run

* No third party accounts