Posts by krozruch@eupublic.social
(DIR) Post #9pvaPEopKIa0sHKpZA by krozruch@eupublic.social
2019-12-13T15:07:58Z
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@sean No more than in real life :)
(DIR) Post #9pyKNhg9C0koknKwzY by krozruch@eupublic.social
2019-12-15T00:20:33Z
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@fitheach If you come up with any links on this I could use them. I am not a fraction surprised. I do not know too much about the links between the far right here in the V4 and Britain, though Robinson has met and been supported by one prominant far right politician over here, there's the Russia Today thing, etc. etc., but the tories have helped the illiberal democratic types here plenty...
(DIR) Post #9pyLMhPwmKzfbkqPoW by krozruch@eupublic.social
2019-12-15T00:31:36Z
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@fitheach And a habit of recording video and putting it on your server means a further step from hosted to virtual server rental to having a physical server with some hardcore raid setup I don't understand. I administer servers now (mostly rental, one a community favour), but video storage is impractical on all of them.@strypey @alcinnz
(DIR) Post #9pz2Irdh82BmBGgzTs by krozruch@eupublic.social
2019-12-15T08:31:51Z
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@sir Was it in any particular convincing? (Genuine question. I used to see SwiftOnSecurity post defences of Windows from the perspective of the average user and the Linux ecosystem has changed a lot itself but I haven't used Windows for years now and don't consider myself informed.)
(DIR) Post #9pzc5jJoLlyExZQczY by krozruch@eupublic.social
2019-12-15T00:23:26Z
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@fitheach and as with both Bush (Salmon Rushdie made the argument, for example) and Trump, if what had happened and is still happening with Brexit happened in a country anywhere else in the world than the anglosphere (more or less literally exclusively that, I think), people would be using strong, conceptually tight language to describe it. Fascism, authoritarian, racist. We're still in the mode of British exceptionalism and we need out.
(DIR) Post #9pzqArvTArZMSfO5NA by krozruch@eupublic.social
2019-12-15T17:51:25Z
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@fitheach Wow! Appalling, but yes, unsurprising in equal measure.
(DIR) Post #9q044FNKzRB4WI9vma by krozruch@eupublic.social
2019-12-15T20:27:06Z
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@fitheach Don't you just love England!
(DIR) Post #9q04fUSpqyXi1zUQQC by krozruch@eupublic.social
2019-12-15T20:33:54Z
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@fitheach Yes. That's everywhere, but the failing up into the Lords (or the EU depending on the bureaucracy) is something the has defined the English ruling classes for years. Sorry though, I guess the above is essentially a kind of Freudian slip not particularly apt here but representative of one thread of my thinking on what's going on right now and what Britain is heading towards.
(DIR) Post #9q05GLrIoKoy3ZVjIO by krozruch@eupublic.social
2019-12-15T20:40:27Z
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@fitheach Yes, and by now I'm sure I could think of countless examples from my knowledge of Czech politics.
(DIR) Post #9q05IjyA8gFPPhrIXI by krozruch@eupublic.social
2019-12-15T20:37:14Z
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@fitheach It was funny there though, it felt unforced but I grew up in England so many would assume that I define myself as English. I didn't when I first came here to the Czech Republic, though I do absolutely identify as coming from the West Midlands. I used to say "I am English" in Czech. It seemed to flow better. But I have changed that of late, sometimes to "I am British", but usually some series of qualified modifying phrases relating to having Irish parents etc Also sometimes: half-Czech.
(DIR) Post #9q05IoJvxg2UuO4k1g by krozruch@eupublic.social
2019-12-15T20:39:20Z
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@fitheach I am careful now, that is, never to say I am Irish and tend to correct people who say it about me, differently than I corrected them when they used to call me Welsh, after where I last lived in Britain. I have never lived in Ireland, so I often explain what a Plastic Paddy is. All very rum, but I don't like to be thought English. No offence to those who do (though the above was admittedly a diss of the "English ruling classes") but that's not now where I'm at.
(DIR) Post #9q06MEgWUo73Uzq3Lk by krozruch@eupublic.social
2019-12-15T20:52:44Z
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@fitheach I have a pronounced accent. Increasingly I am taken to be Czech, but partly in account of the fact I can be reticent in Czech company - I don't like to force people to switch to English and say only what I believe I can say most clearly. In longer conversations I am sometimes taken to be a Pražák or Praguer by people in, say Moravia. With them I speak a colloquial idiom I'm most comfortable with. Sometimes, people think me Slovakian.
(DIR) Post #9q07Gn3RtfegJNWrq4 by krozruch@eupublic.social
2019-12-15T21:02:17Z
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@sir Strong from the off but that last paragraph's a kicker :D With Brexit I have been glad of paper subscriptions. There is one decent newspaper here too. I have no smart phone and read a magazine or paper on the tram regularly and I'm gradually cutting down my in-browser Guardian reading to near zero.
(DIR) Post #9r1s3jewkAX9B7Vrt2 by krozruch@eupublic.social
2020-01-15T14:21:27Z
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@kemonine Feature request: spoiled ballot :D
(DIR) Post #9xv3zVbzORHdsPED0i by krozruch@eupublic.social
2020-08-08T16:36:53Z
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@Jeff Sounds like hell - good luck. Very different area, journey (and temperament etc., I suspect), but there's a guy called Vinay Gupta (@leashless on Twitter) making an analogous transition from humanitarian work to some weird blockchain startup. Some overlap in terms of culture clash, perhaps.
(DIR) Post #9xv47kJYc3APnDXCj2 by krozruch@eupublic.social
2020-08-08T17:30:28Z
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@Jeff "Good trouble". It's work that wants doing. Keep it up!
(DIR) Post #9zqPbvzaNMN6qx3Gm8 by krozruch@eupublic.social
2020-10-05T07:22:18Z
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>> (Does this rant sound coherent?)It sounds familiar, though in the Czech context I feel as frustrated with those who continue to buy into the utopia of deregulated free markets & British and American exceptionalism as those who buy into subreddit-style conspiracy (in my circles in Prague I tend to meet more of the former than the latter). Either way, critical thinking, a habit of interrogating one's own position, & some care over one's sources is troublingly rare.@strypey
(DIR) Post #9zr3R1OPx8TUaF1AEC by krozruch@eupublic.social
2020-10-05T09:14:26Z
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"The rock houses of England’s last cave people: Kinver Edge, Staffordshire" - these are down the road from my town in Britain. Know them well. I camped near there as a kid with the scouts and we used to ride their on our "mountain" bikes. https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/oct/02/kinver-edge-black-country-to-tea-englands-last-cave-people
(DIR) Post #A07fmpcjzGzHTJ0Jcm by krozruch@eupublic.social
2020-10-05T14:55:29Z
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@vegos Damn, is Twister still going? Had an account years ago. (I think I lost the key or something.) It was fringe as hell. How's it looking over there?
(DIR) Post #A3SxBIpbNQEfmJpu5I by krozruch@eupublic.social
2021-01-20T13:40:42Z
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Yes @briar @tails