punksnotdead

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[–] punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 7 points 8 hours ago

I wanted to know the same thing so this is what my searching has brought up, specifically for Scots Gaelic as that's what I've been learning.

Speak Gaelic - Gaelic only, government funded, free

IndyLan - for endangered European languages, made by Heriot-Watt University and EU funded, free

Mango Languages - appears to be the closest to a Duolingo replacement. Many languages, subscription.

Glossika - another Duo replacement however that URL doesn't fill me with confidence that they're not going down the same route... Subscription for most languages, endangered ones are free.

Apart from the first Mango lesson for free and a few IndyLan lessons I've not tried any of these so can't speak for their quality but thought a list might still be handy.

[–] punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago

Nancy Birtwhistle has some great books that can help a bit with the cost of living. They include recipes for your own cleaning products and toiletries. It's only a few £s here and there but they start to add up into some real savings, plus you get the benefit of knowing exactly what's in your products, peace of mind from potential health effects, as it's all vinegars, citric acids, and alcohols instead of (to the layman) mystery chemicals.

And to save even more money they are available on the high seas, although she's put considerable care and attention into them so I've purchased the real things. But for getting started, they are available is all I'm saying.

Obviously that doesn't help with buying a house or anything as they're crazy prices everywhere but it'll save you on your shopping bills each week at least.

[–] punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 32 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Just grab them as low to the ground as you can and pull them out, taking as much root with it as you can. The plant will focus its nutrients and efforts on the sections not being torn out. Any time you see another escapee, grab it and pull. They will become less frequent as the main body fleshes out and grows.

Nature doesn't like bare empty spaces so consider filling in that large empty barked area with some more crops and raspberry escapees will have some competition and become less likely as well.

 

21 years of minimum wage
Got no problems with manual labour

You stepped up in the 90s, wanna show me how
Well, I don't need no fuckin' favour

I am the working class!
All day
So I don't have to
See your face.

I am the working class!
Discipline
The daybreak is when
I begin

I am the working class!
Each day
I bust my bones to
Get paid

I am the working class!
Damn straight
The daily grind is
My fate

Through 7 seas of alcohol
And a jail of dank depression
Well, I turned my back and where are you now?
...and I've bucked up for that recession

[–] punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago

But... But... The BBC said the hot weather was a good thing!

https://feddit.uk/post/28195888

[–] punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

What I find interesting is all the blame appears to be getting laid at Toby's feet. They're not tree experts, why are the people that felled it not also under fire?

They of everyone involved should have known best to say "fuck no, I ain't cutting that down". But they were paid to cut down a tree so they took the money and cut down the tree.

That's not to say the carvery shouldn't be under fire, I just think the tree experts should be mostly held accountable rather than a pub manager.

[–] punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/QaBMyyrzhzA

No dig gardening is a method that can help you get rid of your grass without the effort of digging or renting equipment.

[–] punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They had a choice. They chose money over principles.

[–] punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Will he ever leave office?

Also, Trump isn't the only reason all of this shit is going down. It's the entire Republican party. It's every ICE agent, it's the Supreme Court deciding a president is above the law, America is rotten to the core.

Richest country on the planet with plenty of land, many climates allowing a diverse range of crops, and various resources like oil and ores. And they've fucked it, just to get their hands on more and more dollars, to what purpose? Greedy fucks.

[–] punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

On the sixth day of Hate Week, after the processions, the speeches, the shouting, the singing, the banners, the posters, the films, the waxworks, the rolling of drums and squealing of trumpets, the tramp of marching feet, the grinding of the caterpillars of tanks, the roar of massed planes, the booming of guns—after six days of this, when the great orgasm was quivering to its climax and the general hatred of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium that if the crowd could have got their hands on the 2,000 Eurasian war-criminals who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of the proceedings, they would unquestionably have torn them to pieces—at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally.

There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place. Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy.

  • 1984, George Orwell

In my eyes a mandatory read for anybody opposed to authoritarianism.

Available here: https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html

[–] punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

All they've got is Diamonds And Rust

 

Food banks, poll tax, mass unemployment,
And you wanna buy into more lies?
Privatisation of public assets,
I want the lies stopped.

Fuck the union!
Revolution!

Austerity and inequality,
Ruled by the unelected,
Minimal wages, child poverty,
It's time for the new order.

Fuck the union!
Revolution!

 

OI POLLOI - Terra-Ist from the Fuaim Catha album

They've poisoned and clear-felled and strip-mined this earth
Made a cess pit of the paradise that was ours by birth
They've raped and they've burned and they've plundered our world
Our banner of resistance will now be unfurled
We're nailing our colours right up to the mast
The sands of time are running out fast
To stop the nutters destroying our home
Kidnapped from our children from whom it's on loan
Enough is enough is enough of their greed
Mass eco-defence is what the earth needs
Terra-ist action all over the land
To stop the lunacy the rich have got planned
E.L.F. strike in the dead of night
See the bulldozers are burning bright
Construction area totally trashed
Earth-rape machinery utterly smashed
Some might say that we're too "extreme"
But all we want is air and water that's clean
And a green earth not a desert is what we need
Don't let them sacrifice it on their altar of greed
Rise up and conquer your fear
They can be stopped like Jose-Maria
Our world a toxic slag-heap they will make
So take whatever action you feel it's right to take
It's up to you it's up to me to make a stand
Our generation holds it's future in it's hands
Time to fight back let them do their worst
Green anarchy in action - put the earth first!

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