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BashStKid

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“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done”

Various permutations of rugby, music, history, farming, rare breeds, food. With a bit of earth sciences, physics, and energy.

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ChrisMayLA6, to conspiracy
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Hmmm.... its like a scene from a conspiracy thriller:

Whisteblower takes his own life during a lawsuit against large corporation.

In the film, the initially presumed suicide would be revealed to have been staged & carried out the day before he was to give explosive new evidence about his erstwhile employer.

But this isn't a film its really life & no-one can imagine a large US firm employing people to rid them of a 'turbulent' witness, can they?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68534703

BashStKid,
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@ChrisMayLA6 I’m not one for the tinfoil hat. But US companies will do a lot for $50b, including aggressively making life as difficult as possible for whistleblowers.

I suspect a number of airlines are generally relieved that they now have a cast-iron excuse to not do business with Boeing, and can tear up existing contracts under force majeure / misrepresentation clauses. (or being the US, they’ll probably start suing Boeing for concomitant losses as well)

fkamiah17, to random
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WEEK 30: Students at Cardiff University chased Jacob Rees-Mogg off campus yesterday, after he'd been invited by the University Conservative Association to give a speech.
One protester shouted "Tory cunt" as the car eventually got past the crowd 😂

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 As I said to someone else, it’s the taxonomically correct Linnaean binomial for this species of parasites. Accurate, legal, and official.

Ruth_Mottram, to climate
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My research focuses on ice sheets and sea level rise which are often thought to be long-term and distant problems (they're actually not but that's another topic), but this is the kind of disruption that's harder to adapt to in some.ways. What happens to our food supply when Spain runs out of water?
We're (probably) not going to starve, but other people might and we're certainly going to be spending more in food

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/15/spain-water-barcelona-farmers-tourism-catalonia-drought

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@Ruth_Mottram
For all those of us getting fruit & veg from Spain, here are the Almeria greenhouses, easily visible from space. Agriculture is, in a sense, a big water export.

BashStKid, to random
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Small nations have an easier time reinventing themselves for the future than sclerotic overcentralised traditionalists.

Free lunches, brain breaks and happy teachers: why Estonia has the best schools in Europe https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/27/free-lunches-brain-breaks-and-happy-teachers-why-estonia-has-the-best-schools-in-europe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

cstross, to random
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UK government adviser on disruptive protest accused of conflict of interest:

John Woodcock, whose review proposes bans for protest groups, has lobbying links to firms in arms and fossil fuel sectors (and is recommending bans on protests against both those industries)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/government-adviser-on-disruptive-protest-accused-of-conflict-of-interest

BashStKid,
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@HighlandLawyer @glitzersachen @cstross
Yes, theoretically, the Lords could introduce their own bill for cleaning out the last five or six years of corrupt elevations. But they won’t, so they’ll all have to go.

BashStKid, to random
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Quite a fun Inside Science this week - why it’s important to conserve things that aren’t furry and cuddly, and bugsplat testing whether insects are declining in Penarth.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001yqq4?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

ChrisMayLA6, to legal
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Things at are about to get ugly.

TW formed a shell company to raise money & avoid tapping shareholders.

But that shell co. borrowed the money (we now know) & needs (internal) dividends to to service the debt.

But, is not allowing TW to pay dividends due to TW's financial & regulatory crisis....

so, TW now wants to raise charges, pay dividends & pay only reduced fines.

So in the end it may be cheaper to 'nationalise' TW.

Shareholders & others are ringing their !

BashStKid,
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@ChrisMayLA6 I think we need to add a new layer on the trophic pyramid of crime:

Small criminals rob banks

Big criminals found banks

Sociopathic criminals run water companies, rob everyone, and make them eat 💩.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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Philip Davies (r) has also just been knighted for "services to public life".

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 “The gravy train is shortly coming to the end of the line, please make sure you take everything you can carry with you”

BashStKid, to random
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And farmers wonder why there’s not much public support for the many problems in farming:

Farmers’ union lobbied to increase pesticide limit in UK drinking water https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/10/farmers-union-lobbied-to-increase-pesticide-limit-in-uk-drinking-water?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

BashStKid, to random
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Welsh nans are famously resilient, but few have their own artwork.

Viral TikTok shop shutter woman ‘immortalised’ in mural https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/16/viral-tiktok-shop-shutter-woman-immortalised-in-mural?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

BashStKid, to random
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My encounter with a octopus https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/04/the-finger-touch-sent-shivers-down-my-spine-my-encounter-with-a-common-octopus?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

BashStKid, to random
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I’m not planning to repost the entire Guardian, it just looks like that.

33,000 hours of seabed trawling revealed in protected UK waters https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/20/hoovered-up-from-the-deep-33000-hours-of-seabed-trawling-revealed-in-protected-uk-waters?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

BashStKid, to random
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Absolutely nothing to do with spring, but still worth a listen.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001wq9h?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

BashStKid, to random
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These articles never mention it, but these save money if you’re living there - smaller water bill - and help the broader infrastructure problems of fast water runoff overwhelming sewers.

How sponge cities could change the way we handle rain https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/may/02/on-every-roof-something-is-possible-how-sponge-cities-could-change-the-way-we-handle-rain?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

BashStKid, to random
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Michael Sheen as Nye Bevan is a call to arms at the NHS’s moment of maximum peril https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/14/michael-sheen-nye-aneurin-bevan-nhs-welsh-actor-national-theatre?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

BashStKid, to random
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Victimise people who raise a voice in Britain? Then destroy their families? Not in my name https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/19/victimise-people-protest-britain-destroy-families-not-in-my-name?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

BashStKid, to random
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Bread as a metaphor for what do we want from farming?

Britain’s bitter bread battle: what a £5 sourdough loaf tells us about health, wealth and class https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/mar/20/britains-bitter-bread-battle-what-a-5-sourdough-loaf-tells-us-about-health-wealth-and-class?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

BashStKid, to random
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I think I’ll go with my original thought that the Home Office is simply evil.

Home Office refuses Afghan youth orchestra visas days before London gig https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/04/afghan-youth-orchestra-refused-visas-for-tour-of-england-days-before-first-gig?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

BashStKid, to random
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@jon This is being more widely reported now …

Four teenagers investigated over attack on MEP https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/four-teenagers-investigated-over-attack-on-german-mep-matthias-ecke?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

BashStKid, to random
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From a time when there was more politically interesting drama than Mr Bates & the Post Office

Trevor Griffiths obituary https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/apr/02/trevor-griffiths-obituary?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

junesim63, to environment
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"Livestock farming ranks with the fossil fuel industry as one of the two most destructive industries on Earth. But because of those farmyard tales, reinforced by stories we’re told as adults in endless books & films celebrating the pastoral, we apply entirely different standards to it. Parts of this film could be clipped & used as advertisements for the most damaging of all livestock products: beef."

George Monbiot on 'Six Inches of Soil'


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/15/beef-farm-eco-friendly-film-documentary-livestock

BashStKid,
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@junesim63
I’ve boosted this despite farming cows and pigs myself. We’re not going to make lasting environmental progress or improve land management if we can’t have a serious and truthful discussion about farming and its place in wider ecological and social issues.
George always comes off as grumpy, but usually with good reason.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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Dining clubs?!?

"Since Rishi Sunak became prime minister, anonymous dining clubs and special interest groups, set up as ‘unincorporated associations’, have funnelled millions into political parties. But who’s splashing the cash?"

https://goodlawproject.org/carlton-club-unincorporated-associations-5m-into-politics-tory-labour/

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 That goes back ten years to Ben Elliot, Camilla’s nephew, turning his super-rich concierge and PR service into a bunch of meet-and-schmooze-and-write cheques dinner parties designed to get around the political contributions limits.

With a nasty overlap into the honours and patronage public appointments.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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I'm finding this whole "Wragg was a victim" line that's being taken rather troubling. He's a 35yo man who willingly and independently went on a dating app and gave the contact details of 12 members of Parliament to someone he didn't know. How is he not a massive security risk and why hasn't he had his Parliamentary pass revoked immediately?

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17
He should be kicked off any select committees, and have any security clearances revoked. At which point he can’t function as an MP, so bye bye.

How typically Tory to give your mates to a blackmailer and not even warn them.

Remarkable how Wragg is not being treated like Huw Edwards.

Old joke update, if you want the latest parliamentary proceedings info, you now need to call Grindr.

fkamiah17, to random
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The future president of the Republic of Wales ✊ :baner:

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

BashStKid,
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@fkamiah17 @Wen @commonst There's no reason it couldn't be in the same as church tax in Denmark - opt out if you wish, anyone who wants to support the church can pay the tax, which is income-linked. A substantial number of people choose to stay in, so it's hardly revolutionary disestablishment.
Crown Estate rights on the seabed etc can definitely get stuffed.

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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Is the solution to the rural housing crisis to convince land owners to sell land at discounted prices for affordable housing?

One mechanism would be to fix the price of rural 'exception' sites & then getting owners to accept that price as being outside the 'normal' planning (and pricing) process.

Round here (the Lune Valley) my guess there are some concerned land owners who would take a lower price if affordable housing for locals was the result!


https://theconversation.com/englands-rural-housing-crisis-could-be-solved-by-fixing-land-prices-and-bringing-land-into-public-ownership-224114

BashStKid,
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@ChrisMayLA6
To quote Jason Hickel,
“Imagine having an economic system where ecologically urgent and socially necessary things (renewable energy, public transit, affordable housing) are not produced simply because rich people cannot make enough profits doing so. Irrational barely begins to describe it”

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