baggins
@baggins@beehaw.org
Music (mainly prog rock) and veggie loving, geeky cat butler living in Hertfordshire UK. A lover of all things LOTR (since I first read it over 50 years ago) scifi and what have you. Ex soldier (Royal Artillery) and other trades ;-)
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 2 weeks ago:
Surprised nobody mentioned this earlier.
- Comment on Tommy Robinson charged with harassment 1 month ago:
I thought he was inside?
No doubt the suckers that support him will be bleating about the unfairness of it all.
Talk about snowflakes.
- Comment on Israel is keeping up its blockade of aid as kids starve to death 1 month ago:
This is disgusting, and i’m ashamed of my general friendliness to Israel in the past. They deserve none.
Same here. I used to think they were the good guys. Just shows what a diet of selected (and directed) media does. Any sympathy I had for them is long gone.
- Comment on UK | Commissioner calls for ban on apps that make deepfake nude images of children 2 months ago:
No, there isn’t.
- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 2 months ago:
Yeah I get that, it’s why I don’t use FB anymore. I keep WhatsApp for close family though. They’re is no other option. And dont tell me to use text. Doesn’t cut it.
- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 2 months ago:
This. The average user doesn’t want to know about the workings and ‘All that technical stuff’, and why should they?
They want to click an icon and have everything and everyone there. They shouldn’t have to swap instances or what have you.
I put Mastodon on a back burner as it’s just too clunky (for me at least) and am currently interacting with people from all over on BlueSky. Half the time on Mastodon (various apps/instances, web, or browser) I couldn’t even log on.
BlueSky will probably go the way of others. Yes, there is a troll problem, and you need to be wary. But I had the same to a lesser extent on Mastodon.
In the end, I’ve had to accept my relatives, work, and old Army colleagues will never be on there, I’ve become resigned to that and keep a WhatsApp account for that reason.
- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 2 months ago:
Right, so we just trade in our relatives for some new ones.
That’s the attitude that puts people off.
- Comment on Val Kilmer, Actor Renowned for Receding Into His Roles, Dies at 65 2 months ago:
I thought he was a lot older.
RIP Iceman.
- Comment on ‘Adolescence’ Available to Stream in All U.K. Secondary Schools in Initiative Backed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer: We Must ‘Tackle the Issues This Groundbreaking Show Raises’ 3 months ago:
And some will use it as a training plan.
- Comment on Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue 3 months ago:
Lloyd Bridges clip from Airplane springs to mind.
- Comment on Woke furry hijacks social media of right-wing group that published 'DEI Watch List' 4 months ago:
They don’t like it up 'em, do they?
Can’t accept it when it happens to them.
- Comment on Britain will not recognise Trump’s new name for Gulf of Mexico 5 months ago:
What sort of person makes almost his first task something so petty? And in front of a crowd of
supporterscultists. I notice he signs with a big sharpie instead of a pen like a normal president. That’ll be so it’s bigger than other signatures and everyone can see it. - Comment on Driver stopped in Tesla Cybertruck banned in UK 5 months ago:
There was one in Hertford (near Ginger Indian restaurant) around Christmas, think it had French plates. Remember having a laugh as it was pissing down and they were having trouble turning round in our small streets. Everyone else manages though, even the dustman ;-)
- Comment on The $125 million Roy mansion from Succession, once the priciest home in Pacific Palisades, reduced to ashes in devastating wildfires. - Luxurylaunches 5 months ago:
Jay Z and Beyoncé have installed bullet-proof windows in their $88 million Bel-Air mansion – Spread across 33,000 sq.ft their sprawling mansion has 8 bedrooms, a spa and 4 swimming pools.
One of the sub headings in the article - is this pair also claiming no water was available at some of the hydrants?
- Comment on Meta to End Fact-Checking Program on Facebook Ahead of Trump Term: Live Updates 5 months ago:
So, even more lies, bollocks and conspiracy theories will flood it. It’ll turn into the firehouse of shite that Twitter (know known as X) has become.
And the gullible muppets will soak it all up because there will be nobody to stop it.
European (and I’m including us here in UK) governments need to get off of their fat arses and bin FB and it’s brethren.
And fund Ukraine whilst they are at it. We need to distance ourselves from USA as it’s turned into a bigoted, fascist shithole.
- Comment on F.B.I. Says It Found Largest Cache of Homemade Explosives in Its History at Va. Farm 5 months ago:
I got it, and until you mentioned Gabbard thought it was true.
- Comment on Jimmy Carter Dies at 100: News and Reactions 6 months ago:
😿
- Comment on Has Russia’s Shadow Fleet, Built to Evade Sanctions, Added Sabotage to Its List? 6 months ago:
Not sure it has added sabotage. Just moved it up the list.
- Comment on Greyhound racing to be banned in New Zealand 6 months ago:
And UK.
- Comment on New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi. 7 months ago:
Good point. Not everyone swears like a trooper. I’m ex British army so can live with it. But I wouldn’t swear in mixed company or in front of my daughter, even if they she is over 21.
- Comment on Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X 7 months ago:
Overdue - more national media needs to take this step.
- Comment on pump up the jamz 8 months ago:
Well played. I’d forgotten all about that :-)
- Comment on Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight 8 months ago:
They’re not even hiding are they?
They may as well just superimpose a swastika on their logo and have done with it.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 8 months ago:
No, we shouldn’t be doing that either.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 8 months ago:
It’s disgraceful that we grow food to deliberately throw away.
- Comment on Trump Rally Opens With Insults Aimed at Latino, Black, Jewish and Arab American Voters 8 months ago:
Nearly all the boxes ticked there.
- Comment on Eat lead 8 months ago:
You could just ask the mice.
- Comment on 'Utter rubbish': Putin dismisses MI5 claims Russia trying to create mayhem in UK and Europe 8 months ago:
He’s correct though, they’re not trying. They’re doing.
- Comment on Diego Garcia: What is on the secretive UK-US island in the Indian Ocean? 9 months ago:
Why not both?
- Comment on Space debris: U.S. command chief says dialogue with China is too often a one-way street - "We all should operate with due regard and in a professional manner" 9 months ago:
China doesn’t give a flying friar about anyone else. The fact that this could make launches difficult for them is neither here nor there.
They really don’t care.