Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫ / is on Nostr

SF writer and software engineer.
#Languages, #science, #writing. he or they (shrug)
Glasgow Writers Group and Glasgow SF Writers' Circle.

website: https://torn-and-crumpled.page
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2024-09-02 18:08:41

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The entrances wouldn't be blocked for bicycles, so it's only a temporary inconvenience while the tow truck is on its way.

2024-09-02 18:01:53

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At the entrance to all residential streets there should be a spike strip under a metal grill that is depressed to expose the spikes by anything over 1.5 tonne going over it.

2024-06-24 07:05:42

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Debate is useless. Worse than useless. Debate is a losing game for human rights, because as soon as you concede that human rights have to be successfully debated to achieve progress, you've conceded that they are negotiable and therefore not rights.

2024-05-29 06:33:44

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Yeah. I think that's because the original left/right distinction was poorly defined, so the compass was needed as another view of things.
Then on looking closer, those who want to tell you what to do generally want to preserve economic inequality in their favour, so pro-oligarch policy lines up with unity-is-strength-do-as-you're-told.
Another reason centrism is vacuous, as if the "right amount" of coplicking or child poverty was ever non-zero.

2024-05-28 11:40:59

https://media.mastodon.scot/media_attachments/files/112/518/519/780/537/555/original/ac70835711db83d9.jpg

2024-05-16 11:00:36

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We should adopt this approach to the enforcement of any law or policy we voted against.
Government with consent or ungovernability.

2024-05-16 09:48:47

A *fresh* hell? In *this* economy?

2024-05-13 20:44:03

It occurs to me what might be the reason why western authorities are reacting so brutally to protests against genocide in Gaza.
I doubt it's specifically some strategic need to keep Israel as an ally.
I think they're UNEASY that significant popular opinion suddenly objects to tens of thousands of brown people dying far away, if only in this one case.
They weren't expecting that to happen.
Their climate change strategy kind of hinges on us not caring about that.

2024-04-27 07:29:37

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Even if I was unpolitical to an unbelievable extent, and thought these student protests were silly or naive, I don't think there's anything that would radicalise me quite like knowing the cops brought in to suppress the protest were looking at my kid's face through a gun sight.