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 Take your VSA and Gendarmes back home and return our public spaces.  While you’re at it, return our public broadcaster to produce anything but a homage to Visa and LVMH 24 / 7 
 Maybe Kate Middleton had dirt on Boeing too 
 @f3257070 what if she is Boeing 😲 
 Ah fuck, it's Cheltenham Festival, which means Bristol Temple Meads is full of assholes in suits ... 
 @6910b0ad god speed 
 Guess who can’t sleep because reasons 
 Uninstalling was a mistake, as is the absolute saturation of my connection right now as a result

https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/111/190/895/911/066/240/original/413af764b7b84b94.png 
 I’ve done a fair bit of work on the Taste of Poverty website by bringing across all the recipes, taking more photos as I create new disasters, and starting to get a vibe.  So anyways, that’s how I accidentally became a food blogger https://tasteofpoverty.kevin.paris/ 
 I've kind of set up the new Taste of Poverty website, there is still stuff I need to get done there.

I think i'm not going to repost the links one by one on this feed, and instead I applied for a botsin.space account for that.

Also on Bluesky because I have like a thousand invites https://bsky.app/profile/tasteofpoverty.kevin.paris 
 Medieval-Inspired ‘Fridge Raid’ Salad: A Rustic Delight for Modern Times: https://en.journal.kevin.paris/2023/10/05/medieval-inspired-fridge-raid-salad-a-rustic-delight-for-modern-times/ 
 I stumbled across this randomly https://fingerprint.garden/ 
 One of the cats let out the most rancid turd that they’re both in the litter trying to hide it as a team 
 nostr:npub1vfa3fqylseewdgv0235wwvshtvxfuvejmrj4c2n37xdw9gf7fl5seypg2d this situation is literally... 
 @2b63efd8 @627b1480 I hate to say this - if he had the brain capacity to take in anything that isn't a Tweet, he'd probably do the same after reading the comic 
 it's amazing the number of people who think that, because they are on a bike or electric moped, t... 
 @bc80eaf5 a lot of people have selectively forgot the section about pedestrian crossings in la code de la route 
 In other news I’m riding TfgM’s newly reinstated Mediacity to Sportscity line. Yay! I have 6 ... 
 @b3e93af6 it is moments like this I realise how good we have it here.  Every 6 minutes is Sunday service 😅 
 Bump for the #MutualAidRequest, I’m down to my last 10€ now that needs to stretch for a little over a month.  Yesterday I made a collection round from Too Good To Go and Phenix so I at least have a week or so worth of food for paying almost nothing https://ko-fi.com/kevinpointparis 
 I’ve got a paranoid feeling that I have bed bugs. The truth is I have something worse, cat litter in my sheets, lots and lots of bits of tracked in cat litter from the two boys 
 Calling out again for #MutualAidRequest for October, I didn’t make the Sept target and now I’m down to 40€ for the entire month.  Nothing is paid except the rent and the final installment of the rental insurance - https://ko-fi.com/kevinpointparis #mutualaid #mutualaid2023 
 On Return to Monkey Island we had a lot of Zoom and Slack calls. Other than one team meeting none... 
 @de22920b back in the day when I had a job, I noticed I got a lot more done while on audio calls. Even the ones where I was just wandering around the flat.

Having to be sat in one place staring down a little camera takes a more effort than it should 
 I have so much cool stuff from a decade ago, I used to write about any old shit.  Why don’t I do that as much now ?  I guess that was rhetorical since I kind of do through micro blogging but it isn’t really the same 
 Going on the Bristol Pound rabbit hole, I’ve found a few entries back in the archives.  A couple good ones to start off with, Launch Day and Evening Discussion https://redacted.id/LCdPq 
 #LiveJournal reminded me of a post I made in 2012 when living in #Bristol.  I should do a post about that time, but here is the quick and dirty edition 

https://en.journal.kevin.paris/b/2S 
 Earlier I was researching a potential employer on the down low. That was until I triggered an onboarding call where she noted how long I had an account with them and had to double check I accidentally didn’t trigger a duplicate payment from 2016 🥲 
 Side note I wasn’t intending to go outside today but since Too Good To Go finally had some packages from the large supermarket for dirt cheap with a great rating so I guess it’s a 10km roundtrip on foot for me 
 nostr:npub1xm947t6redwsgzahq8pqljv9e4gcx5352r6z2m207jgza7ct266qzn26zl no I love a 3.5in. It’s t... 
 @68b5ac26 but you don't get the same satisfaction, sure they're fun sized but they're not fun 
 Ah la date du 30 novembre et la mise en place de la tarification des mails chez #gandi approche. ... 
 @82f0a706 @48caaf90 est très flexible pour l'email ils ont aussi Nextcloud dès 2,50€/mois (3,50€/mois si vous n'êtes pas membre de la coopérative) pour 5Go

https://nubo.coop/fr 
 Usual monthly post for assistance - I’m trying to figure out how to pay the electric, my phone, internet, food, you name it I’m already beyond the red since I was short of last months target.  Bounced the tax bill too, so yeah concequences https://ko-fi.com/kevinpointparis 
 For the electric I’m praying they’ll be appeased by a token payment and not shut me off before the trêve hivernale where they’re stuck with me until April 2024 and legally can’t.

£ https://bunq.me/kcostelloeuk $ https://bunq.me/kcostelloeuk Liberapay https://liberapay.com/ohmg/ 
 Taxes, I’m going to get fucked by that one hard which is something I don’t need right now.  I honestly don’t see a way I can afford to exist if I can’t get a job that doesn’t pay the minimum wage before the end of the month https://en.kevin.paris/donate/ 
 I’m hearing back about two jobs over the next two weeks and I hope that at least one of these will pan out, the last one was dead in the water https://en.journal.kevin.paris/b/1Y 
 I'm losing count on how many spammy account do I have to block from the Mastodon flagship instance. 
 Cheesy 80s film and not leave bed ? Obvs https://youtu.be/Yoq43kPEgCw?si=L_0fKXktmFTbkZNQ 
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Climate Apocalypse manifest... 
 @f9bad7c9 that mozzie I took out last night was pretty big to be honest 
 J’ai apporté une petite modification à wordpress, peut-être que cela fonctionnera 
 @kevin mais non 🥰 
 HOW THE ABSOLUTE FUCK ARE THERE STILL MOSQUITOS ALIVE IN OCTOBER 
 I made a grave error.  I lifted Samy up to see what’s on the other side of the fence and now he’s absolutely lost his brain there is more of this world he hasn’t yet sniffed.  I’ve got a black fluff ball zipping around trying to comprehend this magic 
 Also I did the import from en.journal.kevin.paris over to blog.sus.fr now that I’ve been able to get the internet back on.  Anyways, not sure how the electric is getting paid this month but one drama per day 
 nostr:npub1rqts2hluyat6qwwxhg4aec6xnfuzfcya49av0le83fj4xmzup32suf64m4 C'est le projet! 
 @bc83c3fa @1817055f C'est notre projet, pas le vôtre

A l'exception de la partie où vous payez 🤑 

-Le gouvernement de la France SAS 
 nostr:npub1xm947t6redwsgzahq8pqljv9e4gcx5352r6z2m207jgza7ct266qzn26zl the free market is definite... 
 @57ccb1d2 hit them where it hurts

Send them quotes from Ayn Rand's book 
 JFC, Samy (the mostly black cat) just scared the shit out of me when I went to the toilet. Just saw a shadow gliding around when I just left him in bed. Best part, he makes no noise, so the effect is more haunting 
 You know what the most unrealistic part is to most movies - a protagonist will often experience r... 
 @a2c7ab12 "bad things come in threes 😘"

No, they come in no less than 8s. Show 👏 me 👏 that 👏 film 👏 
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Thanks. Didn't know about... 
 @02d1b5f0 it's been going on for a while, just getting peak crazy right now.  A journalist was arrested by the terror police for exposing that french intelligence was used to target civilians in Egypt

https://www.france24.com/en/france/20230920-french-journalist-released-after-two-day-arrest-for-reporting-on-egypt-spy-operation 
 Based on the number of SMS messages I get from various GOP/republicans begging for money, I am gu... 
 @57ccb1d2 they should really be pulling up their bootstraps and manage their money better then. Free market or something bla bla bla 
 One of the things that drives me nuts about the modern Web is that you could write a plain text f... 
 @e0d204e8 perhaps now that search engines are lost with AI brain fog the old ways will come back

Related - neocities.org 
 @a300d285 Je me souviens que lors de la mise en place du RGPD, j'ai reçu des centaines de notifications concernant des changements (tellement paniqués à la dernière minute) de politique de confidentialité 😂 

Puis à nouveau en 2020 en raison de tous les changements juridiques dus au Brexit 🇬🇧 🙃 👍 

Bonne courage, ça passera (peut être) 😅 
 I thought Phony Stark didn’t like people mentioning the bird name 🤷‍♂️ 
 @b9a64e49 you're going to own that box until it falls apart, and when it falls apart he'll stil love it (but you'll still need to locate a new one to appease the sad face)

Signed,

Somebody with a cat who has a box obsession and an apartment with a huge fire risk 
 This was going to be a status update, then I had a rant https://en.journal.kevin.paris/2023/09/27/the-audacity/ 
 Any particular reason a bunch of big name companies are sending me privacy policy updates ?  Is there some kind of AI shit I need to know about ? 
 lol worse, its ads and brexit because of course 
 nostr:npub1xm947t6redwsgzahq8pqljv9e4gcx5352r6z2m207jgza7ct266qzn26zl nostr:npub1wghkf239prxvny40... 
 @702e47be @722f64aa most of the time their own party or opposition parties will actively put an end to it, not for the public good but for their own benefit.

One way to start is bringing in more independents but yeah as you said the commerical media outlets (fucking Murdoch specifically) will go full destruction on their chances.  

I don't have all the answers on this one but at a push I could find a molotov and the address of a few servers 
 nostr:npub1wghkf239prxvny40pd5t8v5ad9239fpd5v2d8zhd6r2p0rc8mqgqg70xff I think that taxing them wi... 
 @702e47be @722f64aa we also need to be ejecting millionaires from Government.  Make it unprofitable for the power to suck up to the billionaire class 
 nostr:npub120zh308gs69j3vwgvvrzgglv58vsk3q0vef43uajyu0lc3mtldsq2p33r2 Could a queue system work? ... 
 @00e87a18 @53c578bc I'm not sure if there is a GDPR effect on this, as there is no legitimate purpose to process (other than transactional logs / IP addresses / etc for their maximum period defined by the local law) or hold data once the objection (eg deletion) has been requested.

A lot of these account retentions you see are either illegal (Twitter) or dependant on an exemption such financial accounting 
 @2e9a5e4c I would honestly sign a contract to rent that space as soon as I found out.  I don't know how I'd pay and I don't care 😂 
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 @663e5b60 I love this particular line "Rucci maintains that Hirschhorn is taking advantage of the system."

So when the small people game the same system that allows somebody with money to throw up an illegal rental and make bank off of it, that is a bad thing and I'm supposed to feel bad about that 🤔 
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 @02d1b5f0 true yes, but it's more of a seething take at the French state's attack on journalism 😅

Although King Manu is pretty chummy with old Elon so it tracks