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History and Legends of the Scottish Thistle

The most commonly heard legend about the Scottish thistle occurred during the 13th century. The soldiers of the Norse king, Haakon, are said to have planned a surprise invasion at Largs in Western Scotland. The Viking force had planned to creep up on the Scottish clansmen and highlanders whilst they slept and use stealth to overcome them. Part of their plan to make as little noise as possible on their approach was ultimately their undoing- they went barefoot!

Unfortunately for the invaders, one of the soldiers had the misfortune of standing down- hard!- on a thistle. His resulting cry of shock and of pain was enough to rouse the sleeping Scotsmen and alert them to the impending attack. The Scots leapt to their feet, charged into battle and were ultimately victorious, and all thanks to the Scottish thistle. If this story is in fact true, it’s no wonder they immediately chose the plant as the Scottish emblem.

(Many believe that this specific incident happened at the 1263 Battle of Largs, which marked the beginning of the departure of King Haakon IV of Norway who, having control of the Northern Isles and Hebrides, had harried the coast of the Kingdom of Scotland for some years. But there are also other versions of a similar story in circulation, from alleged different dates and different locations. Such is the beauty and mystery of legends as they are told and retold from generation to generation I suppose!)

Another legendary tale tells of the Romans, during their conquering of the British Isles. Apparently when on the way up north, they decided to stop two thirds of the way through their original planned route and built Hadrian’s wall. They declared anything north of it to be inhospitable and undesirable and left Scotland untouched. Apparently the fact that they wore sandals to battle had a lot to do with it, and rather than marching on fields full of thistle, they decided to hold back on their plans.

https://www.visitingscotland.com/discover/things-to-look-out-for/the-scottish-thistle

A symbol of resistance for hundreds of years!

That’s the thing, it’s never seen! Mainstream media never shows it and corporate social media removes it for being violent content.

You have to go actively looking or be a member of obscure sites (e.g. this one) to see anything like it.

It’s horrific to see, of course, but should also be seen to understand the atrocities that are happening. Many MAGAts, Tories, manospherers etc would likely gain some empathy and change their views if exposed to reality, so they’re sheltered and fed shite instead and can’t truly comprehend what they support.

What took place then?

I looked at their website and there’s many things going on, none of which correlated with this exact date.

Memes like this are stupid if they’re not backed up with information or sources.

Possibly the 12th January one?

I’ve got a big piece of land, it is all fenced with a decently high fencing

As far as nature is concerned, no you don’t. There is just land. Animals don’t know nor care about property laws.

An electric fence won’t stop animals from digging underneath. It works with domesticated animals, but not so well with wild animals.

I reckon your best bet is to focus on the area of land where you wish to keep animals in rather than trying to keep animals out of the entirety of the land.

Repairing fencing is also just a chore of farming that you need to get used to. To reduce the chore, and aid nature at the same time, consider making hedges instead of fences. There’s many tutorial videos on various styles of English hedging if you want to give it a try.

And finally, despite capitalist agrochemical farming’s insistence, farming is about working with nature, not against it. Good luck!

I think this post could go in NotTheOnion!

High speed rail to travel at low speed…

Slovenian liberal I would assume…

Twenty Lessons For Fighting Tyranny

1. Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.

https://www.carnegie.org/our-work/article/twenty-lessons-fighting-tyranny/

Depends entirely on the type of tree and type of vines.

A local tree surgeon, hippy, or naturalist (not to be confused with a naturist!) will likely be of more help than randoms on the global net. They can look at it up close and see what we can’t.

Generally though, nature is best left to do its thing. If the trees aren’t showing any signs of suffering because of the vines then just leave nature to do its thing.

Airstrip One, for instance, had not been so called in those days: it had been called England, or Britain, though London, he felt fairly certain, had always been called London.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_geography_of_Nineteen_Eighty-Four

If we’re being obtuse asses then it’s:

War crimes.

Don’t hide sex crimes.

As if they’re pro war crimes and wish for sex crimes to be in the open. But we all know that is not what this sign is saying.

For the curious:

The second incident occurred in 44 BC. One day in January, the tribunes Gaius Epidius Marullus and Lucius Caesetius Flavus discovered a diadem on the head of the statue of Caesar on the Rostra in the Roman Forum.[5] According to Suetonius, the tribunes ordered the wreath be removed as it was a symbol of Jupiter and royalty.[7] Nobody knew who had placed the diadem, but Caesar suspected that the tribunes had arranged for it to appear so that they could have the honour of removing it.[5] Matters escalated shortly after on the 26th, when Caesar was riding on horseback to Rome on the Appian Way.[8] A few members of the crowd greeted him as rex (“king”), to which Caesar replied, “I am not Rex, but Caesar” (“Non sum Rex, sed Caesar”).[9] This was wordplay; Rex was a Latin title meaning ‘king’. Marullus and Flavus, the aforementioned tribunes, were not amused, and ordered the man who first cried “rex” arrested. In a later Senate meeting, Caesar accused the tribunes of attempting to create opposition to him, and had them removed from office and membership in the Senate.[8] The Roman plebs took their tribunes seriously as the representatives of the common people; Caesar’s actions against the tribunes put him on the wrong side of public opinion.[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Julius_Caesar

Yes and no. They were tasked with fixing a particular problem or threat, and had absolute authority only in the scope of fixing that problem. They were then meant to step down once the problem was fixed.

The full extent of the dictatorial power was considerable, but not unlimited. It was circumscribed by the conditions of a dictator’s appointment, as well as by the evolving traditions of Roman law, and to a considerable degree depended on the dictator’s ability to work together with other magistrates. The precise limitations of this power were not sharply defined, but subject to debate, contention, and speculation throughout Roman history.[46]

In the pursuit of his causa, the dictator’s authority was nearly absolute; however, as a rule he could not exceed the mandate for which he was appointed; a dictator nominated to hold the comitia could not then take up a military command against the wishes of the Senate.[f][g] Dictators could carry out functions which fell outside the scope of their initial appointments, but only at the direction of the Senate; this included the drawing of funds from the public treasury, which a dictator could only do with the Senate’s authorisation.[29]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dictator

The important part, despite BBC’s childish questions about being PM:

Asked whether he could see himself as prime minister, Polanski - who is also a London Assembly member - initially dismissed the idea outright, saying “that really isn’t the target right now”, before adding that he was asked about it a lot.

He said: “It’s definitely on my mind because I get asked about it all the time, but my burning ambition really is to have a wealth tax, action on climate change, and proportional representation.”

Pressed further, he said whilst it was tempting to be drawn into thinking about occupying No 10, he was focusing on the next step, which was "to win a lot more MPs and potentially hold the balance of power in a hung parliament after the next general election.

“Then I think that’s really interesting, because then you’re having conversations about proportional representation, a wealth tax, climate action, and various other policies to reduce the cost of living and make life better for everyone in the country.”

Sounds like a good reason to wean ourselves off of oil then, doesn’t it?

If the apocalypse climate change won’t change people’s minds perhaps being controlled by a warmongering foreign state will.

Your employer owes you a phone if they want you to use software that they specify.

Hills near me (northern Scotland) were once magma chambers underneath volcanoes! That’s how worn down they are. Wild to think about, and makes some lovely granite.

8. Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as “at the same time too strong and too weak.” On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism

I prefer this version