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 Driver stopped in Tesla Cybertruck banned in UK 4 days 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 6 days 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
I got it, and until you mentioned Gabbard thought it was true.
- Comment on Jimmy Carter Dies at 100: News and Reactions 3 weeks ago:
😿
- Comment on Has Russia’s Shadow Fleet, Built to Evade Sanctions, Added Sabotage to Its List? 3 weeks ago:
Not sure it has added sabotage. Just moved it up the list.
- Comment on Greyhound racing to be banned in New Zealand 1 month ago:
And UK.
- Comment on New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi. 1 month 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 2 months ago:
Overdue - more national media needs to take this step.
- Comment on pump up the jamz 2 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 2 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! 2 months ago:
No, we shouldn’t be doing that either.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 2 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 2 months ago:
Nearly all the boxes ticked there.
- Comment on Eat lead 2 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 2 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? 3 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" 4 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.
- Comment on Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement 4 months ago:
Same with the Hitchhikers stunt.
- Comment on Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement 4 months ago:
I can’t make the lyrics fit the tune ☹️
- Comment on Please stop making Alien movies 4 months ago:
And Avatar, we don’t need anymore thank you.
- Comment on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Endorses Trump and Suspends His Independent Bid for President 4 months ago:
He’s a tool.
- Comment on Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. 4 months ago:
The ancient Greeks used Duck Duck Go.
- Comment on Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. 4 months ago:
photoshopped before computer in Darkrooms. >
I hope you mean edited. And I hope you realise the tools used in Photoshop are named after their original darkroom processes.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s misinformation machine made the horrors of Southport, a small town in the UK, much worse 5 months ago:
Ah, right. Thanks.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s misinformation machine made the horrors of Southport, a small town in the UK, much worse 5 months ago:
actually heard a story where someone made an allegation
Reposting things like this doesn’t help - people will pick up this as fact. Unless you can prove it, don’t post it.
- Comment on Who Are the Far-Right Groups Behind the U.K. Riots 5 months ago:
even if it was clearly manufactured disinformation causing those concerns.There you go. You answered your own question.
- Comment on Huw Edwards charged with making indecent images of children 5 months ago:
There was a post on here recently that listed BBC presenters pay, and it mentioned him getting a pay rise.
- Comment on Huw Edwards charged with making indecent images of children 5 months ago:
He just got a bloody pay rise as well!
- Comment on Proton Now Has a Bitcoin Wallet 5 months ago:
I want to be able to print my calendar!