that most conversations about race never touch: what the myth of white supremacy actually stole from you.

Not from Black people. From you.

You were taught that joy has to be earned. That play is for children. That pleasure requires justification.

Oh dear. Because now things get more complicated. We have to start creating definitions of behaviours and characteristics of the rulers and the ruled so that we can both justify their oppression and our power over them. If we say we have to rule them -because they are feckless and childlike and require guidance like a parent- that means that we have to become constantly serious and grown-up. Joy is sucked out of our lives as the price of taking it away from other people. Also, we've now defined our family lives as a mirror of colonial rule- parents now rule over children, as colonisers over the colonised. Sending infants to British boarding schools is intentionally designed like a miniature colonial posting, teaching subjegation of difference as much as conjugation of verbs. Or conjuration of potions. Now the Empire is drawing borders inside families. Inside homes.

What if we define those colonised as being weak, of needing protection, even from themselves? If they are too emotional to govern themselves, while we are defined as rational? We go to work. They would lie about all day if left to their own devices. What if they are womanly and we are therefore manly? It looks like we've constructed models of oppression based on strict versions of gender behaviour between men and women. The Empire is drawing borders inside our heads now. Real men and women must behave in a particular way, because we have said that if either gender is not behaving in that way it becomes like the colonised- the lesser races. Most importantly, men (because they rule) must not be womanly (it undermines that rule).

This is a fantastic thread on the terrible effects of imperialism on they oppressors.

I wrote about something v similar a while back. (A fairly mainstream Irish explanation of colonialism’s effect on the colonisers)

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...

The Strange Death of Orbánism Franz Pokorny

Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...

🎶 Put a shack out the back Jack
Or a bed in a shed Fred
Don't need any standards
And the rent is tax free 🎶

Man Charged in Lego Theft Scheme of Replacing Pieces With Pasta, Police Say

So much work for such marginal gains.

1) Buy expensive LEGO kits in shops.
2) replace the bags of LEGO with little bags of pasta
3) bring them back to the shops, to get a refund
4) sell box-less Lego online

IF YOU BUILD A BIKE LANE THAT DOESN'T CONNECT TO ANOTHER BIKE LANE THEN YOU DIDN'T BUILD A BIKE LANE

Online abuse of politicians is a profitable business Senator Eileen Flynn's comments on far-right use of the tricolour have made her a lightning rod for online abuse — because viral hatred is highly profitable

Really need to remember to share a link to the piece

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

In the week of Privacy Symposium in Venice, #EDPS Wojciech Wiewiorowski met with Sirpa Rautio, Director of the @fra.europa.eu. The meeting was an opportunity to discuss shared topics and reaffirm the strong cooperation between the two institutions on the protection of fundamental rights.

I remember cahill in hysterics claiming greyhound racing was a rural tradition etc, despite it only happening in towns and cities in a few counties. Rural is such a politically powerful term that's deployed to defend anything, regardless of the impact it has on people living in the countryside

A hundred years ago, the U.S. had a nationwide network of short-line railroads that connected most urban and rural communities. By the 1940s, most of it had been dismantled ... by the barons of the auto and oil industries. 😑

But I think it's a sharper divide than that. The interests of certain groups in rural areas are given more importance than anything else. Just last yr the government prioritized International commodity exports over clean drinking water for the majority

# On This Day — 20 April *213 items across 8 years* ## 2025 ### [[2025-04-20-simon-mcgarr-tupp-edmastodonie|Simon McGarr (@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie)]] *(bookmark · 23:18)* > I’ll wrap it up with the bit about Bloom and the Cyclopes episode in Ulysses and why it explains why SF are so hot for Ireland to follow British example on trans oppression. ## 2024 ### [[2024-04-20-simon-mcgarr-tupp-edmastodonie|Simon McGarr (@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie)]] *(bookmark · 18:18)* > > We should always hold sympathy for the people on Normal Island. ### [[2024-04-20-stardust-manager-eamon-butterly-for-many-families-last-year-|Stardust manager Eamon Butterly: For many families, last year was the first time]] *(bookmark · 14:38)* > > For more than 40 years, Eamon Butterly kept a low profile, shunning all media requests. ## 2023 ### [[2023-04-20-simon-mcgarr-tupp-edmastodonie|Simon McGarr (@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie)]] *(bookmark · 23:19)* > > Finally, a Conclusion. This can be just a few paragraphs. Because you nip back and write the Executive Summary now, and that’s got the real conclusion. In general these sorts of things are aim…

A relational map of all my content in the archive, with green dots as subject tags, yellow dots as images and attachments and then black dots as posts, tweets, gists etc. There are literally tens of thousands of them, with links between them.

Slightly obsessed by my new Obsidian Vault, collecting up my online writing all in a searchable archive, going back to 2001.

It even shows me an On-this-day of things I was saying in the past.

“All meals will be cheese toasties by 2027. Eat the toasties now or lose out on eating forever.”
-Cheese Toasties Inc CEO

Karoline Leavitt @PressSec Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump is Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness

we've noticed and i'm glad he's getting help

they should summon the Irish regulators of X while they're at it. negligent isn't the word

Just a stunningly impressive act of mischief

Graph showing unpopulararity of PMs since Callaghan.

I mean, he is the least popular PM.

Farmer growing 70% of Irish broccoli says solar farms threaten food security Plan for 140MW solar farm on 338 acres in Kildare is sited on ‘some of the most fertile and productive agricultural land in Ireland’

A more accurate headline might read: 'Broccoli farmer has his facts wrong on solar energy & land use'.

For Ireland to hit its target of 8GW of solar power would require 0.25% of farmland.

Somehow the remaining 99.75% isn't adequate to maintain food supply...?

www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

https://www.theonion.info/

Then I connected it to Raindrop, where I keep my bookmarks, I exported my Apple Notes and Evernote to it as well, using community plugins.

I got Claude to write python scripts to convert tuppenceworth’s posts into markdown from just reading them online. I used GhostPro’s export service to get all of those as a JSON and then injected that, and I got Claude to write a parser and converter to inject the twitter archive I downloaded.

About 60,000 records, with links and subjects so far.

I am mega-basic. I am just using it as an archive but other pople live inside it.

# On This Day — 20 April *213 items across 8 years* ## 2025 ### [[2025-04-20-simon-mcgarr-tupp-edmastodonie|Simon McGarr (@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie)]] *(bookmark · 23:18)* > I’ll wrap it up with the bit about Bloom and the Cyclopes episode in Ulysses and why it explains why SF are so hot for Ireland to follow British example on trans oppression. ## 2024 ### [[2024-04-20-simon-mcgarr-tupp-edmastodonie|Simon McGarr (@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie)]] *(bookmark · 18:18)* > > We should always hold sympathy for the people on Normal Island. ### [[2024-04-20-stardust-manager-eamon-butterly-for-many-families-last-year-|Stardust manager Eamon Butterly: For many families, last year was the first time]] *(bookmark · 14:38)* > > For more than 40 years, Eamon Butterly kept a low profile, shunning all media requests. ## 2023 ### [[2023-04-20-simon-mcgarr-tupp-edmastodonie|Simon McGarr (@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie)]] *(bookmark · 23:19)* > > Finally, a Conclusion. This can be just a few paragraphs. Because you nip back and write the Executive Summary now, and that’s got the real conclusion. In general these sorts of things are aim…

A relational map of all my content in the archive, with green dots as subject tags, yellow dots as images and attachments and then black dots as posts, tweets, gists etc. There are literally tens of thousands of them, with links between them.

Slightly obsessed by my new Obsidian Vault, collecting up my online writing all in a searchable archive, going back to 2001.

It even shows me an On-this-day of things I was saying in the past.

Screenshot from the NY Times. A photograph of a bunch of bananas hanging on a hook on top of a stone counter. Today How Can I Make My Bananas Last Longer?

Chew slower.

Listen, the scourge of the smooth-talking, silver tongued silverback, charming honest folk out of their hard-earned bananas is one we all agree must be stopped.

And yet, when officialdom tries to move against the Con-gorilla menace, everyone suddenly remembers how good they made them feel.

Don't give them away to scamming gorillas.

Screenshot from the NY Times. A photograph of a bunch of bananas hanging on a hook on top of a stone counter. Today How Can I Make My Bananas Last Longer?

Chew slower.

Amazing Mixed Berry Normandy Tart

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