Madeleine Morris

@stux@mstdn.social Boy, does this ever reflect how little these people know about actual humans. The skill of memorisation is one that we use our entire lives, and develops a brain with more capacity and better recall. What you're actually memorising doesn't matter. It's the skill of doing it that matters.

The fallout from the eviction of a 87 year old woman, Maricarmen, from her life-long flat in Madrid has really shaken things up here. I'm so glad to see it. One woman interviewed from the huge protest said: "Why is it that our governments and our laws give more rights to a tiny few to make profits, but no rights for the majority to have a roof over their heads?Our taxes fund the existence of these governments and legal systems. Something needs to change! We can't keep paying to get fucked."

I want to be extremely clear on this matter:

1. This private message was unsolicited.
2. I AM a Jew. And calling out the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is an ethical act that everyone who calls themself a Jew should be supportive of.
3. These fuckers who portray everything as a zero sum game are psychopaths.
4. Ensuring a safe and decent life for Palestinians does NOT preclude Israelis from having one too. To falsely paint it as a zero sum game is to promote genocide.

@acdha@thepit.social Or to torture Groucho Marx: I would never want to be part of a club that wouldn't want someone like me as a member. So I don't worry about not being accepted by a certain segment of diaspora Jews who've been brainwashed to defend the Israeli state no matter what it does. I'm frankly super happy NOT to be a member of that club.

@acdha@thepit.social I agree. But ultimately we are each of us a singular human who is ethically answerable to ourselves. Being of one group or another doesn't excuse us from the obligation to act and speak ethically. Right? I am not my 'tribe'. I am me.

Today is one of those rare and lovely fall days in Malaga with the lightest of rains. I found an art store very near me that stocks clay… and hake brushes! I’m having the coffee I deserve! #pottery #ceramics #malaga

So, I have a warning for anyone who depends on #AI for advice or technical information for anything. This story is going to take a bit, but I want to relate it completely because it shows a pattern of supplying fundamentally false information on a topic where, in technical circles, the information is solidly documented and the technique is entirely reproducible. 1/

I'm really glad to see that it seems that most of Spain is disgusted by the eviction of an 87 year old woman from her flat in Madrid because they new owners of the building panned to turn it into holiday let flats. #maricarmenhttps://elpais.com/espana/madrid/2026-09-24/maricarmen-de-87-anos-pasa-su-primera-noche-sin-casa-en-el-hospital-acompanada-de-su-primo-vicente-y-con-un-cuadro-de-agotamiento-severo.html

I have a soft spot for dragonflies #pottery #ceramics

I'm about half-way through Quinn Slobodian's "Hayek's Bastards: the Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right" and it is outstanding. Beautifully written. Excellently researched. Elegantly argued. It is eminently readable. I highly recommend. #books

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@xenontechs/117320618492134388 Trying to get into the headspace of whoever decided that hating trains was a godly thing.

Want some good news? https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/26/shingles-vaccine-lower-risk-heart-attack-stroke-study

@pheonix@hachyderm.io I just want to see the answers. Imagine not having the imagination or the memory to ask that question?

It makes me laugh reading posts by people who supported Argentina because Spain was a colonizer. Meanwhile, Argentina much more recently disappeared tens of thousands of democracy activists. And now they have a president to wields chainsaws on stage. So yeah, please, by all means, get historic.

@kimlockhartga@beige.party They don't give a fuck about a massive interruption of OUR access to data. In fact, I'm quite sure they are banking on it. It will hike the price of access. We are much more manipulatable and gullible without all that 'culture' stuff. Remember how much easier it was to manage illiterate peasants? What they can't conceive of is a massive erasure of data. Because they cannot conceive it might ever happen to them. Which is emblematic of their psychopathy. @overholt@glammr.us

Well, I guess I won't be getting much sleep. There are fireworks going off all over the city, and my entire barrio has erupted in unmitigated joy. #España

RE: https://flipboard.com/@cnn/world-news-4kh9bmbmz/-/a-6wY_1s_ZQw6Q3QIIZ1ZT2g%3Aa%3A132361178-%2F0 It's not that I have a problem in principle with banning children from social media. My problem is that it is a fucking LAZY ASSED response that doesn't lay the responsibility where it belongs and demand the accountability necessary to address the problems of social media. Governments need to hold social media companies accountable for the harm they cause in publishing harmful content on their platform - criminally. Period. THAT would address the actual problem.

I just did a rather loud happy dance in the courtyard and Don brought me a vermouth to toast. My glaze came out fantabulous. They may not look terribly shiny from the front - but the back, with two light coats, are glossy as a teenager's lipgloss. Fuck yeah!!!! #pottery #ceramics #glazes

Dora and the clay cutter #cats #CatsOfMasrodon

So, this is my very first go at making a glaze at home. The base is supposed to be an shiny opaque white. It all came out a little more satin than super glossy, but I'm very pleased. The plum coloured second tile is the base + 5% red stain and 0.8% cobalt carbonate. The third is the base + 2% rutile. The last is 2% rutile and 0.2% red iron oxide. The second pic are the variations on white and dark grey engobes. Something funky happened on the far right. haha. what's new? #pottery #ceramics

Nicked from @keef23.bsky.social

Whether it is white supremacists denying the evils of slavery, Holocaust deniers, Russians whitewashing Stalin or those trying to downplay the murderous waves of Mao's policies, I find the sin of rewriting history to serve ideology is maybe the worst intellectual sin of all time. Mostly because it unforgivably ignores the testimony of lived experience. That, to me, is beyond contempt.

Maybe countries that refuse to participate in genocide and in unprovoked wars, and don't kiss up to Trump, and acknowledge that they need and appreciate immigrants will start winning again. One can only hope.

This morning I’m decorating my little katacuchis. It’s a very useful shape that can be used for pouring sauces, sake, dipping vessels or just as a bowl. They can be all sorts of sizes. #Ceramics #pottery

So, I get it, right now very few people have the bandwidth to get upset that some asshole is denying the extent of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia 50 years ago, but it is the same fucking mindset as the people questioning the number of dead in Gaza right now. It is a despicable practice that simply leads to more killing.

I was trying like hell to get a good photograph of the plum coloured glaze, but last night my lighting was defeating me. However, in daylight, in my courtyard, you can see... it's more subtle than it was showing on the earlier pic. #pottery #ceramics

Dora the roof explorer #cats #CatsOfMastodon

I am sure this lovely lady didn't mean it this way but, for those of us who have lived in poor places, the fetishising of handwashing comes off as obscene privilege. There are women - yes, they're always women - all over the world who either don't have electricity or can't afford a washing machine. And they routinely spend a day a week handwashing a family's laundry. I must say, I find poverty cosplay deeply disturbing https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dax_h52KmRj/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Not surprising. I am constantly coming across people who conflate Jews and Israelis. The fantasy that Labour could be entirely free of the disease of racism is ridiculous. But the expectation that it should be, when other UK parties are rife with it - is to refuse to understand that racism is a disease that no organisation is immune to. The monumental stupidity of outlawing Palestine Action is self-harming to Labour. But it's a knee jerk reaction to historic accusations of anti-semitism. 3/

That lead, laughably, to the accusation that the entire Labour Party was anti-semitic. Especially laughable because it was an accusation levelled by the Conservative Party which hosts rampant racism of all kinds and has done forever. Labour's over-response to this accusation was emblematic of a lot of things, including its puzzling insecurity with its own legitimacy. But it was also revealing that it also couldn't seem to distinguish between opposition to Israeli policy and anti-semitism. 2/

Should it ever manage to find its roots again, as a party of workers (the name is a dead giveaway), I will gladly rejoin it despite all its neurotic faults. Because historically there has been no other party in the UK that has represented workers as passionately. No other party has lifted so many out of poverty by their policies. As to them being both anti-semitic and pro-zionist at the same time? There is no other party that doesn't suffer from the same disease - racism is incoherence.

@pheonix@hachyderm.io That's a great phrase. Perfectly descriptive!

What Labour doesn't understand - because it is quite broadly representative of UK society as a whole - is that outlawing Palestinian Action in response to accusations of anti-semitism is, in itself, anti-semitic. Since it shows an inability to distinguish between legitimate protest against genocidal Israeli policy and anti-semitism. It is still conflating Jews with Israelis. As does most of UK society. This is not why I left the Labour party. I left it because it stopped being left-wing. 4/

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social @Eetschrijver@mastodon.social I love this so much

Also... please don't come the raw Corbyn with me. Because while failing singularly as an actual politician, he managed, in his own clever way, to give many Labour voters (although by no means a majority) permission to vote themselves out of the EU. And that is masochism I will not ever forget.

@SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to I don't think I'm taking lectures in scripture from someone called 'Nightvibes' either.

@Richard_Littler@mastodon.social I think this might have inadvertently highlighted the central problem: a complete inability to distinguish fact from fiction.

@Bumblefish@mastodon.scot I don't think she was attempting to glorify suffering. I don't think she's suffering at all. But she's romanticising a particular chore that has been the bane of women's existence from time immemorial. And I'm sure she's found some meditative escape in it. But the decadent privilege implicit in it is... well, obscene to me.

@exlibrarykris@cloudisland.nz the colours are just straight up oxides to see how the glaze behaves with a colourant.

YESSSSSSSS Ole!

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116959074622157576 This requires reframing- and I exclude the few Americans who are still actively working against this, of course- America turns a blind eye to the forcible ‘disappearing’ of hundreds of thousands.

I oscillate between believing Dora to be the sweetest cat in existence and wondering if I’m hosting a demonic imp. Both the application stage and the polishing stage of the #terrasigillata process requires her way too close supervision. Especially when the plastic bag rustles as I polish

@stux@mstdn.social good day!

@stux@mstdn.social Stay snoozy!