Onslow Poly

Shut up, you Janus-faced arsehole. The entire business model was designed like this. You don't get to weep for the "punks", when the entire 'investment' strategy was a gouge; a promise of magic money, no dividend, and a party in Aberdeen.

Fuck your face-saving. I hope you get fucking leathered by someone you swindled. You have got it coming.

If you feel that badly, hand your personal wealth pro rata back to the punks, then go an live in a box.

Yeah, thought not.

Prick.

https://news.stv.tv/scotland/brewdog-founder-james-watt-i-am-heartbroken-for-hundreds-of-staff-losing-jobs

"Water cremation introduced in Scotland in UK first
The process, known as hydrolysis, offers an environmentally friendly alternative to cremation or burial."

I am all in favour of the arbitrariness of the sign, but the phrase "water cremation" making headlines recently is a linguistic impossibility.

The word cremation originates from the Latin cremare, which strictly means to burn or consume by fire. Therefore, combining a water based process with a fire exclusive verb is at least an oxymoron, at most a non sequitur.

The media and funeral industry are relying on semantic shift, but we already have perfectly accurate and linguistically sound alternatives. The scientific term is alkaline hydrolysis, whilst commercial terms like aquamation or resomation are far better suited to public discourse.

Alkaline hydrolysis is a method of final disposition that mimics the natural decomposition of a body but accelerates the timeline from years down to a matter of hours.

The procedure involves placing the remains into a pressurised stainless steel chamber. Operators then fill the vessel with a solution containing approximately 95 percent water and 5 percent alkali, typically potassium hydroxide. They heat this mixture to around 160°C. The high pressure prevents the water from boiling, which allows the chemical reaction to break down the organic material efficiently.

The alkaline solution reduces the tissues to their basic chemical building blocks, such as amino acids, sugars, and salts. These dissolve entirely into the sterile liquid. The only things left behind are the skeletal remains, which consist mostly of calcium phosphate. Facilities then dry these bones and pulverise them into a fine white powder, returning them to the family in exactly the same manner as the ashes from a traditional fire based cremation.

This process is considered environmentally friendly because it uses significantly less energy than incineration and produces no direct emissions of greenhouse gases.

I am sure that is not a bomboclat.

Trump posting a message to the Iranian people on Truth Social is for the average US pleb's benefit.

"Rats caught swinging from Glasgow Morrisons supermarket cage by sickened shopper."

Stop kink shaming rats.

Yesterday, I saw criticism of the term granny farm and its variations as being insensitive. While acknowledging that the phrase may seem to deny dignity, I firmly believe that sanitising this nomenclature neutralises its profound historical weight. Such linguistic softening elides rather than illustrates the grim reality of structural exploitation, a socio economic violence acutely documented by Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine in their 1989 release Sheriff Fatman. The titular character synthesises genuine rogue landlords Khosrow Sherafatmand and Nicholas van Hoogstraten, chronicling a lineage of extraction that transitioned from illicit enterprise into established civic policy.

This trajectory of British property exploitation originates with Peter Rachman exploiting the Rent Act 1957. Rachman weaponised legislative loopholes, removing rent controls for new tenancies whilst statutory tenants remained legally protected. His accumulation strategy necessitated the forced displacement of established residents. Through constructive eviction, extreme intimidation and the strategic introduction of disruptive elements, Rachman commodified desperation. He subsequently populated these subdivided squalid dwellings with marginalised migrants excluded from the formal housing market, shielding his operations behind labyrinthine corporate structures.

This model of aggressive displacement was escalated by figures like Hoogstraten, who utilised overt hostility and physical violence to clear properties for speculative yields. As legislative reforms gradually restricted traditional slum operations, unscrupulous capital innovated, birthing the phenomenon uncompromisingly termed granny farming. Repurposing decaying Victorian infrastructure into private residential care, former slum landlords targeted the extraction of guaranteed uncapped state benefits. By warehousing the elderly in understaffed environments, they engineered maximum state subsidy extraction with minimal expenditure, setting a direct precedent for contemporary abuses within the unregulated exempt accommodation sector.

The most disturbing evolution of this historical continuum is the absorption of these predatory methodologies into orthodox municipal policy. The rent control flips and forced evictions pioneered by rogue operators have been sanitised and scaled up by contemporary property developers operating in tandem with the state. This transition is glaringly documented in the accelerated gentrification and aggressive regeneration strategies defining post 2012 London.

The systematic decanting of established working class communities from brutalist council estates facilitates lucrative private development, representing the absolute institutionalisation of displacement. Local authorities regularly deploy administrative mechanisms such as compulsory purchase orders and managed decline to force residents out, enabling the redevelopment of vacated civic land into high yield assets for international investors. Consequently, the predatory practices catalogued by Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine are seamlessly integrated into the foundational mechanics of contemporary urban planning. Late twentieth century rogue actors merely served as the unregulated vanguard, ruthlessly testing the ethical boundaries that modern institutional policy has since perfected.

Such terms, crude as they may be, point to a particular time in history and the continuation of such ideologies, masked within contemporary political doctrine. To erase the term needlessly is to erase the lineage of history.

https://youtu.be/iQXRsshaZk8

I am not in the mood to comment on the latest concoction of the rotten tangelo, and a concoction it is, but I am old enough to remember when the BBC knew the difference between "raise" and "raze".

'He says the US is going to raise Iran's missile industry to the ground and "annihilate" its Navy'.

"An announcement will be made to employees early next week. However, the German side of the company will not be included in the sale and will therefore be liquidated."

Brewdog Germany is dead.

Likely sale to Anheuser-Busch InBev.

Sometimes, I think the *best* thing Iran could do is decimate the region's oil supply. I don't just mean its own. I mean its own and everything in the region.

Anthrax the fucking well-heads.

They will be seen as pariahs, and there will be much decrying of 'war crimes', but explain how you broke the global economy, Donny.

It's a game of chicken now, and will continue to be. The US is hoping that the Iranian people will do the *actual* dirty work, while Israel slings missiles in provocation, hoping for a "Gulf of Tonkin". The assumption is Iran may attack Israel. Then, big daddy poopy-pants can get his priapism on.

Imagine if Iran just ground assaulted the wells. No attempt to take them.

UAE, Qatar, Saudi, Iraq. Off

When the Hart Senate Office Building building received an anthrax filled letter, the facility took approximately three months to decontaminate and reopen.

Similarly, the Brentwood Postal Facility (Washington D.C.). This is a 130,000-square-foot sorting centre. It took over two years and cost $130 million to fully decontaminate and clear for re-entry.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202512289252

Given the escalating issues in Iran, a quick from then to now is required, because I am fucking sick of "Epstein" being the go to with Trump.

The Roots of the Crisis: Evaluating the Timeline of Iranian Nuclear Compliance
The current geopolitical discourse often frames Iranian nuclear aggression as a spontaneous and protracted phenomenon. However, a rigorous chronological analysis reveals that the present crisis is largely an American confection, catalysed by the unilateral abrogation of established diplomatic frameworks.

1. The Treaty Foundation (1970 to Present)
Iran possesses long standing legal commitments to nuclear diplomacy.

1970: Iran ratified the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty.

1974: Iran concluded a Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement. Under Article III, Iran is legally bound to accept safeguards from the International Atomic Energy Agency to verify that nuclear energy is not diverted to weapons.

2. The Period of Infraction (2002 to 2015)
The assertion of a constant two decade violation frequently cited in diplomatic circles requires precise contextualisation.

2002 Revelations: Clandestine facilities at Natanz and Arak were revealed.

2005 Finding: The International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors formally found Iran in breach of its Safeguards Agreement due to a deliberate effort to conceal activities dating back to the late 1980s.

The Result: This triggered years of United Nations Security Council sanctions between 2006 and 2010.

3. The Crucial Window of Adherence (2003 to 2019)
To argue for systemic violation ignores the most defensible period of compliance regarding weapons development.

The 2003 Halt: Both United States Intelligence (the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate) and the final 2015 assessment by the International Atomic Energy Agency concluded that Iran possessed a coordinated nuclear weapons programme (the Amad Plan) but decisively halted it in late 2003.

The Agreement Compliance (2015 to 2019): For four consecutive years, the International Atomic Energy Agency issued 15 successive reports confirming Iran was in absolute compliance with the most intrusive inspection regime ever devised.

4. The Anatomy of American Withdrawal (The Trump Administration)
The catalyst for the current uranium enrichment crisis was not a proactive Iranian violation, but a sequential dismantling of the treaty by the United States.

May 2018: President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the United States from the agreement, violating United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231.

August 2018: The United States reinstated the first wave of unilateral sanctions, targeting Iranian trade in gold, precious metals, and the automotive sector.

November 2018: The Maximum Pressure campaign commenced, levying severe secondary sanctions against Iranian oil exports and central banking operations.

May 2019: The United States revoked crucial waivers that previously allowed Iran to export excess heavy water and low enriched uranium. This calculated move physically prevented Iran from remaining within the stockpile limits mandated by the treaty.

The Causality: Only in May 2019, precisely one year after the initial American withdrawal and facing an untenable economic blockade, did Iran begin its phased reduction of commitments, eventually leading to the current 60 percent enrichment levels.

By constantly FUCKING shouting "Epstein", you distract from the above.

Wait until people learn that they too are stochastic parrots.

God sake, Morton. Two red cards and beaten 3-1 at the potato dome.

It's amazing how many Christians never made it to the Beatitudes. Are you sure you are even Christian?

The New Testament? Never heard of her.

@mudge@mastodon.scot

Marry Peter Hook, get what you deserve.

Big New Order fan me.

@mudge@mastodon.scot
You do you. It's not where I would spend my cash, but a long time ago my preference ceased to be playing in favour for creation.

Different workflows. I know the controller I want and why, and I know the phases I need to get from A to B.

If you want the joy of playing, find what sparks that. Maybe the Go Keys 5 is totally what you want. It is ZenCore powered and is some of the patches from the Fantom and Jupiter-X. But it is not a synth.

@mudge@mastodon.scot
Then if that is what you actually want, you do that.

Though, if that Go Keys is available local, go and play it. It seems it is clicky as fuck and the keystroke is short than Trump's wang

@mudge@mastodon.scot
That's my question. If you want it to behave more like a piano, it's a different controller. Heavier action, weighted and graded. I know what I am looking for there. But sometimes you can get away with an old digital piano with midi out. It likely won't have aftertouch (synth utility), but it will feel closer to a piano.

On a digital piano from the 90s you don't give a shit about the sounds, you will use your laptop for that. You care about the feel. Issue is pickup

@mudge@mastodon.scot
So many cheats tools now. I'd suggest any half decent class compliant USB controller keyboard. There are tons of them. None of them have sounds, you have Ableton, so it is the controllers you really need—knobs, faders, pads, keys.

Sounds come from elsewhere.