Friday, October 10 2025:
Donald T. does not win the Nobel Peace Prize.
I like the fact that he has basically ended a massive conflict because he wants to win a shiny trophy.
Which is exactly what it was intended to do.
Cue him telling everyone he wasnât arsed about it anyway because theyâre all a load of losers.
Or cue the end to the ceasfire.
Declares war on Norway
Not sure Iâd like to be the one waking him up this morningâŚ
Isreal have already breached the ceasefire. And arguably will just go back to killing Palestinians less frequently 
âŚâŚor any morning!
Poor Donald
Get Likud and Hamas as far to to fuck as possible, preferably jail. A two state solution is dead in the water with those in power. That is the only possible, peaceful reality I can see.
My mum wants a one state solution. Total fantasy.
And the Palestinians have been used (and kept in refugee status and are used as political pawns in some places, and often treated as bad).
I tend to avoid the subject these days as itâs pointless. Iâve been called a stooge for Western/European colonialism (Iâm certainly not, but itâs the usual crap spouted by people who know very little, if any of the actual history). I get abuse from the other side for things like the crazy idea that Israel is just openly ethnically cleansing Gaza (and the West Bank) - ideas that were brushed away at the beginning as just the ramblings of a few extremists.
Both sides need, good leadership most importantly, and to accept the reality that Israel exists and isnât going anywhere, and the Palestinians have the right to their own state, with the return of stollen/occupied land and property. They would have a state of their own (and far bigger than anything now) if they had accepted the state of Israel. The ordinary citizins were used as pawns by both the Soviet Union and the other Arab states. Even the fact that which side you support is closely aligned and politicised with Left and Right.
I am still involved in a Friends of Palestine group up here. I have seen a much deeper slide into Narratives and extremist views. If there is an âah butâ about raping women, or killing innocent immigrant workers, or ethnic cleansing and genocide, Iâm out. And in any of the many horrific things going on. Zero critical thinking and the moral depth of Star Wars.
The guy from Secret Soul Society used to be in Neon Heights. Big in postmilennial chillout circles!
My wifeâs query about the start of Prometheus which she observed me easing into on a Sunday evening pretty much sums up all Science Fiction movies ever made
âIs this years later and did she find a fossil?â
In the 1960s, a kid playing with a toy whistle from a Capân Crunch cereal made an odd discovery. The whistle produced a 2600-hertz tone, the same sound used by AT&T to control its phone network. That unlocked a loophole in the system, allowing them to hack into AT&T and get free long distance calls.
When pranksters and tech-savvy youth discovered this, they learned they could mimic the signal, tricking the network into granting free international calls. These early experimenters, dubbed âphone phreaks,â laid the groundwork for what would later become modern hacking culture.
The most famous of them, John Draper (nicknamed âCaptain Crunchâ) built electronic devices called âblue boxesâ that reproduced the whistleâs tone with precision. Even a young Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were captivated by the trick, selling their own blue boxes at college before founding Apple. What began as childlike curiosity revealed the fragility of the worldâs largest communications system and marked the dawn of digital rebellion.
Added Fact: The 2600 Hz tone became so iconic that a hacker magazine, 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, was later named in its honor.
The drummer in Dr & the Medics later co-founded Cordruoy
A little fact for you about the Americanisation of culture in the UK.
In 1996 Tesco stocked 200 pumpkins for Halloween. For the whole country.
Last year they sold 2 million.
Grown & thrown in the bin