samueljohnson

jon, 1 day ago to random

They have a handy map of where I’m going tomorrow 🙂

andymckay, 2 days ago to random

I gave Jira AI a try. So I typed this into AI to see what would happen. Was not disappointed. Well alright I was. Haven't found it give a useful or correct answer yet.

samueljohnson, 1 year ago to random

The endless tedium of Brexiters wanting not just cake, but a discount

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-weighs-value-for-money-of-returning-to-eu-science-after-brexit-hiatus/

samueljohnson, 1 year ago to random

Sammy Wilson, the man who publicly advocated ethnic cleansing of Irish people from NI, is having a fit of the vapours because Joe Biden said he visited NI to make sure "the Brits didn't screw around" (ie, to ensure they upheld their commitments, which they had already repeatedly broken, and have been breaking in Ireland since the Treaty of Limerick in 1691).

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/12/unionists-angry-as-joe-biden-says-he-visited-northern-ireland-to-make-sure-the-brits-didnt-screw-around

Show some respect he demands, red faced (fury is his default setting).

It's a two-way street Sam. Always was.

samueljohnson, 4 months ago to random

A new Brexit disbenefit: more Scabies

https://www.wired.com/story/scabies-outbreak-uk-europe-treatment-shortages-drug-resistance-permethrin-ivermectin

samueljohnson, 2 months ago to random

Started watching thinking @ottocrat should see this, he's got a got a Doppelganger who even sounds a bit like him

https://youtu.be/1VxzZha2h1M

Then realised it was a slightly greyer original 😂👏

We're a step behind. One EV and no batteries yet, but on the same journey. 💪

If we don't who will?

Good to see those responsible for 🇪🇺 social policy 👣👣 the 🗣️, helping save 🌍. Contrast with the "Common Sense" Tories or climate change denying 🤡🤡 in the Reform limited company.🤦‍♂️

dajb, 1 day ago to random

Well, after having leased an Polestar 2 for eight months, this will be the first night I get to charge it at 7.5p/kWh

This car has cost me a fortune so far. Hopefully, I'll manage to recoup some of that, and the £1k EV charger installation cost over the remaining 16 months of the lease.

(It's super fun to drive though, so that makes up for some of it)

samueljohnson, 1 year ago to random

Excellent Observer editorial on the creek the UK has found itself in with no hope of a paddle this side of an election

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/13/the-observer-view-on-brexit-tories-are-paying-the-price-for-their-dishonesty

Meanwhile, the Conservatives continue to implode

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/13/tory-anarchy-breaks-out-as-revolt-looms-on-brexit-laws

The centre will not hold.

samueljohnson, 1 month ago to random

Brexit: More irreparable damage - to the London stock market, and with it to the economy & tax revenues. 🤦

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/04/17/brexit-ruined-the-stock-market-and-not-even-rejoining-the-eu-will-fix-it/

Note: Many Americans who worked in the City of London did so on Irish passports. Quite a few have gone to Frankfurt, Paris & Dublin, cities in which employers can recruit from the entire EU (and in Ireland's case the UK as well).

samueljohnson, 3 months ago to random

Puzzled by the Guardian/Observer headline asserting that Trump "soundly defeated" Nikki Haley in South Carolina. A 60/40 win is not a sound defeat. Biden's margin in the last Democrat primary in SC was about 90%. THAT is a sound defeat for the losers.

Trump's inability to do better with registered Republicans suggests he doesn't really have much of a hope with the electorate as a whole.

White supremacy is on the way out with Donald Trump and America and the world will be better for it.

samueljohnson, 10 hours ago to random

Donald Trump verdict: guilty on all 34 counts. 👌👏

samueljohnson, 1 month ago to random

https://terikanefield.com/sex-lies-and-falsified-documents/

An American counterpart, of sorts, to David Allen Green, albeit with a very different style. Worth reading every week.

samueljohnson, 6 months ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/04/plans-to-redefine-extremism-would-include-undermining-uk-values

Dear oh dear. Anyone favouring Irish reunification is now an extremist.

Privacymatters, 1 day ago to random

The first social media babies are adults now. Some are pushing for laws to protect kids from their parents’ oversharing

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/29/us/social-media-children-influencers-cec/index.html?

samueljohnson, 1 year ago to random

This is a superb article by a disillusioned British unionist whose journey exactly matches that of Scottish friends of mine in Ireland, all of whom voted No to independence in 2014, and every one of whom is now strongly in favour of ending the union. Most, and most of their children, now have Irish citizenship.

https://bylines.scot/democracy/the-challenge-for-labour-in-scotland/

samueljohnson, 3 months ago to random

How to alienate neighbours

The right wing London "think tank" Policy Exchange has published a paper "Closing the Back Door" accusing Ireland of being a threat to the UK's security*, bc weak on defence, allegedly. And of suffering from Anglophobia.**

GB closed the "back door" of the open British border in Ireland w passport controls during WW2 and they persisted until 1953. Pending the obvious solution this option remains available.

*https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

**ie, a dislike of imperialism

samueljohnson, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/10/23/the-future-of-ghosts/

@lisagrimm CO poisoning 👻

Edit: Your future as a ghost

https://spectrum.ieee.org/datafication-and-digital-reanimation

samueljohnson, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

As the Tories conduct an auction among themselves for how many EU derived regulations will be gone by year end*, spare a thought for the people of NI listening to plans for further divergence from GB & a bigger sea border.

Clearly, as has always been the case, the union has never been anything but camouflage for the tyranny of an entitled English establishment.

*One wonders which ones adversely affected their lives:

https://twitter.com/mac_puck/status/1087360379691380736?t=Zo0ALFHW-yj3P2RuHSAnsw&s=19

samueljohnson, 6 months ago to random

#SamBankmanFried I'm looking forward to Michael Lewis' book on this lunacy. It should be funny.

Meanwhile, the swindler's sidekick Ms Ellison seems to have been (is?) quite a piece of work (a racist bigot among other things)

https://www.businessinsider.com/caroline-ellison-alameda-ftx-sbf-controversial-online-quotes-2022-11

stevelord, 20 hours ago to random

New blog post from me about making active decisions about what's important to me around the software I use: What I Want From Technology

https://thedorkweb.bearblog.dev/what-i-want-from-technology/

samueljohnson, 9 months ago to random

👇
https://macaw.social/@yoyoel/110969824773409796

dajb, 1 day ago to random

I think everyone can relate to this systems archetype!
https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2024/05/29/tb871-archetype-1-fixes-that-fail/

#SystemsThinking

samueljohnson, 1 day ago to random

A case of the mail being in the Czech

https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2024/may/29/royal-mail-takeover-daniel-kretinsky-ofwat-fines-water-companies-business-live

samueljohnson, 1 day ago to random

https://mastodon.green/@davidallengreen/112523959168869114

Droll story about a desire to finish toast* in this characteristic piece from DAG.

*reminds me somehow of the sad tale of one of Sultan Mehmed's brothers who asked to be allowed to finish his chestnuts before being strangled with a bowstring (recounted in Constantinople - City of the World's Desire by Philip Mansel), even if revolution isn't necessarily a death sentence.