There's a nonzero chance climate change could interrupt their supply lines and relief missions, to be fair!
The Fair Emilye (Emily Wilding Davison) principle.
Fundamentally, there is no form of protest "They" will accept. No form of "our needs and our priorities matter!", no process of taking the future into our own hands. So direct action without both tangible results and community defense is papier-mache politics. 5/5
Even with the transition underway, the inspirational Nike style slogans are still saying "your household income doesn't matter" and "your customers don't matter". I'm on board with protesting government & corporate inaction, and I don't want people to be "polite" about it. 4/N
Nobody's going to read about a JSO operation and go "goodness, people care enough to do THAT?" They're going to go "look, this is complicated, simplistic messaging won't help", even if they don't put it that way. I live in Aberdeenshire - we're practically made of oil. 3/N
These are suffragette-era tactics, a mixture of awareness-raising and "we won't go away till you fix the problem". But it's not the same kind of problem they were addressing, with a clear historic injustice and a clear remedy. And these days, we're all aware! 2/N
This is reminding me irresistibly of Owen Hatherley's take on Poundbury: jacobin.com/2022/09/king...
For many years, Charles Windsor has foisted his opinions about urban design on the British public. The bizarre projects that the new monarch has sponsored, from Dorset to Transylvania, speak volumes a...
I was issued software and a shotgun mic to do just this for my Disabled Student package, to save typing notes. It does not feel good to use, and the idea of sharing it gives me a whole body shudder.
I use Overcast Blue from Vinta (a gorgeous gold-sheened slate blue) in my everyday Safari, and Diamine Borealis in the ONLINE pen that doubles as a tablet stylus. I did have Golden Ivy in that, but it was too scratchy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl3x... Dives & Lazarus, featuring That One Tune you know from nearly everywhere. (The Unquiet Grave, Star of the County Down, Kingsfold, The Fighting 69th...)
YouTube video by ParkRecords