DigitalTaoist

ThyckHyde, 3 months ago to random

#ScottishLabour
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/scottish-labour-conference-lobbying-press-banned/?utm_source=SEGMENT%20-%20Newsletter%3A%20oD%20weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Men%E2%80%99s%20Catholic%20order%20gave%20%C2%A310.8m%20to%20anti-abortion%20centres&_kx=ROq-GXvdZmb-3Hj1JURK0Cxgkmxxxw7wpN_48ngwzbc.YjCYwm

miss_s_b, 3 months ago to animals

They tell you before you get one that sighthounds are "really lazy," but I don't think you really grok it till you have one (or more) in the family. Like "they sleep 16-18 hours a day" is a fact that doesn't prepare you for the reality. "They really like blankets" actually means an exponential increase in the numbers of duvets and therefore duvet covers that need washing in the house.

This post brought to you by Ridley once more refusing to get out of bed, and clutching my legs so I can't get out of bed either.

#DogsOfMastodon #MastoDogs #Lurcher

DigitalTaoist, 3 months ago to random

I wonder what that protester-murdering big man, Kyle Rittenhouse, thinks about the Texas 'megachurch' mass(?) shooting... oh no, hang on - I couldn't care less what Rittenhouse thinks. No one needs a semi-automatic war weapon for hunting.

And the location? You'd be hard pressed to find a more 'right wing' venue for yet another example of horrific American gun violence.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/crime/2024/02/11/477140/lakewood-church-houston-shooting-reported-sunday-joel-osteen-pastor/

DigitalTaoist, 3 months ago to random

This is what it looks like when your water company doesn't bother doing their jobs-in any way shape or form.

I will follow up with photos of the algae shortly - that seems to be the only thing thriving in the harbour anymore.

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/traffic-and-travel/reopening-of-eastern-road-in-portsmouth-delayed-4511406

DigitalTaoist, 3 months ago to random

Well Sunak seems to have really put his transphobic foot in has mouth at PMQs. #FinalStraw yet?

DigitalTaoist, 3 months ago to random

Cancer's a torturous (and all too often not a tortuous one) burden for anyone, and if Charlie's diagnosis helps to raise awareness of the need for cancer cures/management meds-then great. It doesn't make the #monarchy any less of an #anachronism though. I was frankly offended by the fawning BBC bollocks earlier - lordy lord such and whatever tf wants to disinfect his mouth.

thetyee, 3 months ago to random

Zombie deer disease is here — and it’s as bad as it sounds. 🦌🧟

Here’s why experts call the arrival of chronic wasting disease “terrible news for British Columbians.”

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/02/06/Zombie-Deer-Disease-Bad-As-Sounds/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

MnemosyneSinger, 3 months ago to random

Yeah, I'm AMAB (All Mondays are Bastards)

ajsadauskas, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to tech

My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.

There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.

So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?

#tech #technology #Google #enshittification #youtube #video @technology #capitalism #film #television #cinema #art #arts #SocialMedia #business #economics

DigitalTaoist, 3 months ago to random

Well the Met still seems to be the biggest gang in London, just change the face at the top from time to time, and the Morgan family have still not seen anything even vaguely resembling justice. I realise this isn't new 'news' but I was just thinking about corrupt-Brexit bankrupt Britain, and it brought to mind the Daniel Morgan case.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/15/daniel-morgan-report-six-key-findings-in-focus

The Tories ought to be ashamed that they've brought Britain to new lows.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/30/uk-perceived-as-more-corrupt-lowest-score-global-index-transparency-international

DigitalTaoist, 3 months ago to random

Lol omfg Trump has apparently already defamed E Jean Carroll again during the (now concluded) civil trial. I suspect the jury took this into account when calculating the $83 million in damages.

I won't ever visit 'Truth' social but I'd love to know if he's done it again already - his kids really ought to get a court order for power of attornmp aey (on the basis of Trump's lack of mental capacity) or they'll be bankrupt. Trump's a narcissistic pos who is clearly incapable of shutting tfu.

HelenG, 4 months ago to random

In light of the recent reappearance of the useless gobshite Johnson, it's instructive to rewatch this interview from 2013 as a reminder of the extent of his gobshitery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTAClNQUUeE

DigitalTaoist, 4 months ago to random

Trump 2 Desks 😂
"George Washington was even more corrupt than me!"

https://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-george-washington-bad-history

DigitalTaoist, 4 months ago to random

I don't get where the UK government 'discovered' the mandate to bomb Yemen. Surely this requires an act of Parliament? And once again they're attacking a group which doesn't represent the national government (as was the case with Afghan.). If that group, the Houthis, has been attacking commercial tankers-then according to international law there's no right to 'self defense' inside Yemen's territory-since it wasn't the sovereign state of Yemen that attacked the tankers.

DigitalTaoist, 4 months ago to random

"All I know about magnets is you drop them in a glass of water-and no more magnets!"
Perhaps he was thinking about pennies in a can of coke? Which isn't actually true anyway... And yet this person is the leading Republican nominee.

https://youtu.be/GZXsQwAzn5M?si=futeyg-sznJzo3s3

GottaLaff, 4 months ago to random

I see it's time to share these again. It saves me time if you read the posts re: The Big Move to Canada. 😊🇨🇦

https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/227001410/posts/22

https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/227001410/posts/26

DigitalTaoist, 4 months ago to random

“.. when people think of Israel in the past they thought of it as a refuge for the victims of the Holocaust… now they will think of it as the home of perpetrators of genocide. When they think of Israel, they will think of burned buildings and dead babies. it strips Israel of its protection by charges of antisemitism against anyone who is critical of Israel because to be critical of people who are carrying out gen. cannot be antisemitism, it cannt be considered immoral.”

https://skwawkbox.org/2024/01/08/video-former-us-assistant-secdef-agrees-kibbutz-rave-deaths-caused-by-idf/

fkamiah17, 4 months ago to UKpolitics

There's been an "evolution of approach", apparently. From corrupt and incompetent to corrupt, incompetent and fascist?
Answers on a postcard.
#UKPolitics
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-08/rishi-sunak-alters-uk-conservative-election-strategy-to-continuity-from-change?srnd=undefined&leadSource=uverify%20wall

TonyStark, 4 months ago to random

So here’s a question to ponder:

If Trump knew ahead of time that the FBI was planning a false flag operation to look like Republicans were trying to stop the counting of electoral votes…then why did he order all of the people at his rally —knowing that most of them were carrying weapons of some sort — to head over to the Capitol, to fulfill the FBI’s scheme?

Pence says he believes the FBI didn't contribute to Jan. 6 riot -
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/07/pence-the-fbi-did-not-play-role-jan-6-riot-00134186

DigitalTaoist, 4 months ago to random

Another loony Tory (and no I'm not discriminating against those suffering MH-wise, I mean this quite literally). When are we going to start testing for personality disorders, at least for PM and ministers at the very least.

Has he been putting political funds in his own bank account since 2010? This may well be the straw that broke the camel's back. If so it wouldn't be a moment too soon. #ToryThieves

MaJ1, 4 months ago to weirdfolks

#MorningAll & #TZAG

G’day Squirrel Fans, hope I find you bright eyed & bushy tailed!

Ok so I’m dyin agin, ‘Man Flu 2024, the revenge of da microbe !’

I wonder if this is why I have felt so off it lately?
Ok I’m coffin n sneezin, I’m cold (not a good sign) & have headache & am generally fairly pathetic. If I die I leave everything to . . .

Have a great Sunday #Today & remember #RuleNo1: Don’t let ‘em Cash-ew!
😊🫶🐿️🖖
@weirdfolks
#WeirdFolks #SquirrelsOfMastodon #TheMammutMoves

simon_brooke, 4 months ago to Israel

This interview with a #Palestinian activist arguing for a one state solution in #Israel/ #Palestine with full religious tolerance and equal citizenship, is well worth listening to. This would be a real, positive path to peace.

#Gaza

Upstream: Palestine Pt. 6: One State with Ghada Karmi

Episode webpage: https://sites.libsyn.com/435210/palestine-pt-6-one-state-with-ghada-karmi

Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bb336368-b933-4b06-88b6-e51256ac6d81/Upstream-Ghada_Karmi.mp3?dest-id=3632352

Swede1952, 1 year ago to photography

Boat-tailed Grackle.
Yesterday, my wife and I took a day trip to the Sabine National Wildlife Refuge - it was awesome! Lots of birds. This grackle is the first bird I photographed; he has lunch. I don't know what kind of bug that is, but it might be a wasp of some sort.
#photography #photo #photographer #birds #bird #grackle

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