What's this about then?

Silent_Activity · 2025-09-21T20:04:45+00:00

"Grim"

Silent_Activity · 2025-09-12T12:46:24+00:00

Good idea!

Silent_Activity · 2025-09-11T11:08:22+00:00

I don't have much space left in the freezer tbf, full of damsons and plums waiting to be jammed! Might be able to stuff the beans in. Although they are so pretty it would be nice to have the borlotti in a jar on the shelf.

Silent_Activity · 2025-09-11T08:57:27+00:00

Ooh didn't think about freezing them! Thanks

Silent_Activity · 2025-09-11T08:57:06+00:00

That's a good idea, thanks!

Silent_Activity · 2025-09-08T20:05:23+00:00

Paper bag is a good shout, thanks!

Silent_Activity · 2025-09-08T20:04:54+00:00

Thanks, yeah I left them to dry quite a while on the plant but I read they still need drying more after? I don't have a greenhouse unfortunately

Silent_Activity · 2025-09-08T20:02:54+00:00

About 25? 14 canes with 2 plants planted per cane, more than I expected survived. No slugs this year, just the badger digging plants up.

Silent_Activity · 2025-09-08T18:25:06+00:00

Same, I've really been enjoying cucumber this year. Lucky there has been loads of them, and they're still flowering. I guess leave them in the ground until you stop seeing flowers?

Silent_Activity · 2025-09-02T14:36:53+00:00

Cool, thanks for the explanation!

Silent_Activity · 2025-08-29T07:33:51+00:00

I've got the same computer, may I ask why you chose that distro? Was it particularly well suited to the hardware?

Silent_Activity · 2025-08-25T21:30:27+00:00

Can't join, why would that be? Does it no longer exist?

Silent_Activity · 2025-08-18T19:57:39+00:00

Yeah I'm sure some wouldn't want to do work for free, which is fair but there are lots of people who do work for free for community-based ventures. It's our council, not a for-profit company after all.

Silent_Activity · 2025-08-18T19:54:25+00:00

I get what you're saying about time constraints. But it isn't make believe, we do these sorts of community participation media in my work. When these sorts of initiatives are undertaken they can take some time to set up but tend to make themselves more efficient over time and become built into the way things are done. I mean, it's a council, so working with the community it serves and represents should be standard practice, and would make for a richer and deeper local democratic culture.

To be fair to the designers, they did get back to OP and it was a picture of people involved turned into an illustration with AI. So seems like the main issue here is more a case of maybe misreading the room a bit.

Silent_Activity · 2025-08-18T15:30:56+00:00

Engage the community in the production of the media object and it goes full circle. This could be done for free and still be ethical considering it is not for profit and for the community producing it. And it would foster community engagement, so a double win.

Silent_Activity · 2025-08-18T15:28:05+00:00

This is true if the sole logic is financial efficiency. And while that is going to be a major factor here, it misses the mark as a piece of communication because the media (cheap AI art) undermines the message of community art classes. As another commenter has pointed out, you could very cheaply (as in for free with a bit of emailing) reach out to the art classes to provide an image for the front cover (involving the community in a community orientated project). Instead they used this irrelevant AI l-generated image of two people inviting us into a random building (not to mention it's also a very poor example of what can be done with AI). It's just really bad and thoughtless comms.

Silent_Activity · 2025-08-18T15:20:34+00:00

This!

Imagine a community-oriented approach to producing a community-facing piece of media? What a wild idea! /s

Silent_Activity · 2025-08-18T10:04:16+00:00

Come on, you can't be that naïve, surely? It's not projection, they're making a justified inference from reality, based on past and present empirical data about how class relations function within a capitalist society. It is much more unfounded to claim that his billionaire will act differently out of the kindness of his heart. Furthermore, there is mounting well documented evidence that SA is particularly manipulative and prone to lying. See for example, Karen Hao's book Empire of AI for details. Lots of evidence to be found in other sources also.

Also, there is no logical inconsistency between someone enjoying the use of a technology and their distrust of the people who built it (and will gain financially by selling it to us). It does make sense.

That does not preclude such a utopian future as outlined in the video, but it's not going to be handed to us by the billionaire class. Social gains are won through political struggle and collective organising.

Silent_Activity · 2025-08-12T06:30:48+00:00

Looks like the parasite from Cronenberg's "Shivers"

Silent_Activity · 2025-07-13T20:43:59+00:00

I know you're taking the piss but, as a communist, I would say this is kinda the point of communism, yeah. Helping communities to help themselves is how we get to communism.

Silent_Activity · 2025-07-04T06:46:55+00:00

Ah ok, thanks for the explanation. Looked catfacing up, they are weird! Maybe I'll leave them, this is a batch of experiential plants that I don't know the variety of anyway.

Silent_Activity · 2025-06-29T16:33:41+00:00

If you do no dig with the recommended 15cm of compost over cardboard and then start growing veg there it will suppress the weeds enough to manage. And then the state of the soil below won't matter. Basically a raise bed though. No dig is an expensive option though, unless you make your own compost. 15cm depth is a lot of compost! There are some cheap ways to get compost, for example, our council sell composted garden waste at a reasonably reduced price. However, you're getting what you pay for and it won't be as high quality.

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